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POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic FC vs Morecambe FC | Saturday 22nd April 2023 KO 3:00PM

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  • Another poor performance. When I saw Henry getting a start I was happy as Fraser has been running through treacle lately. How wrong could I have been? I'd have subbed Henry at half time in all honesty. This was a Fraser type game and he showed it too so that's down to the manager. 

    Leaburn and Jes, well out of sorts as was Sessegnon. Kanu looked lively but probably needs to bulk up a bit. 

    Positives? Only two more games to endure and I can get a proper nights sleep on Saturdays/Sunday again. 
  • edited April 2023
    Rak Sakyi's goal saved the players from being booed off at half time.
    But I must admit I was expecting the crowd to turn hostile when we went 3-1 down.
    I was surprised how subdued  the atmosphere was and I couldn't work out whether it was because it was a meaningless (to us) end of season game or whether we have become so conditioned to being let down that all the passion has drained out of us.
    Screw the game we were shit, but I found the air of resignation and demoralisation quite worrying.
    Try not giving a shit, like the people you referred to. Works wonders on the worry factor.  B)
  • Sounds like another fantastic game from all of you that went.
  • Rak Sakyi's goal saved the players from being booed off at half time.
    But I must admit I was expecting the crowd to turn hostile when we went 3-1 down.
    I was surprised how subdued  the atmosphere was and I couldn't work out whether it was because it was a meaningless (to us) end of season game or whether we have become so conditioned to being let down that all the passion has drained out of us.
    Screw the game we were shit, but I found the air of resignation and demoralisation quite worrying.
    After we scored our second my son and I remained seated - possibly for the first time in living memory.  (This was us turning hostile :#

    I guess we shared that mutual gut feeling that it wouldn't be enough - it would be a consolation goal only. 

    Gut feelings are not always right, but they are in the vast majority of cases.   
  • I forgot we were playing at home yesterday, only found out because I had an appointment at kwikfit to deal with a tyre issue on the car. While they were looking at ripping off the lease co, I popped down the road to the anchor & hope for a quick pint and they were clearing up after the crowd had left to go to the valley.
     
    Even then, I wasn't tempted to go back to the house, pick up the season ticket and the decorator and expose him to Charlton (he's a Rasta spurs fan, lives closer to arsenal).can't get tickets for Spurs. Definitely a convert to Charlton in the making, apart from the fact that we are so unreliable 6-0 win and then a 6-0 loss on the road did not fill me with confidence, and so we didn't go....
     
    thank god for small mercies. 
  • The other thing about just needing a few decent players argument, is that we are losing Rak Saki who be extremely difficult to replace.  As it stands, his replacement is CBT or Campbell, if we play a similar style next season.  Campbell may go on to be okay, but we’ve had CBT for almost 2 years now, and we know neither him nor Campbell are anywhere as good as Rak Saki.  

    The truth is, that we don’t know if AMB, Ness and other youngsters have got what it takes, so as promising as some of them have started, we can’t know or have the confidence they perform part of a promotion team.  After that you have that layer of who I don’t consider good enough like Fraser and Payne for example, then after that the out of contracts like Morgan, Clare, Inniss and so on.  You can only assume the ones that got shipped out on loan and who are still under contract, did so because they weren’t wanted.  I’m not sure how when you take all that into account, we just need 5 or 6 good players, and we’ll be competing 
  • £15 for a home shirt was the highlight for me.
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  • £15 for a home shirt was the highlight for me.
    You probably could have bought a whole player for that kind of money.
  • SOTF said:
    You learn in meaningless games who the players are that will give you a 7 or 8 out of 10 performance week in, week out. Sadly, I don’t think we have any of them.
    We do but sadly our best player is a palace player that wont be here next season.
  • Before our premiership run we use to watch us in the lower divisions & had our fair share of bad runs but at least we use to give it our best shot which still hurt but made it watchable 
    But watching us over the last few seasons 
    It's a totally different ball game it feels like some of these players don't give a monkeys 

    It's knocking the enjoyment & passion out of us  no wonder our gates are down I have renewed my ST am I looking forward to next season as it stands now no something needs to change big time as another season like the last few will definitely be my last never ever thought I would feel like this & not want to go 
  • Henry had a rough time yesterday, but so did some far more experienced players. Just a reminder that he’s 19 and has had two League starts in his career. It might be a bit premature to decide he has no future?
    I would agree with that, but how well he plays may be a factor in the size and length of his next contract. Are there many other clubs sniffing around? But too early to write him off.
  • Good points: Tyreece improved us.Henry can place a ball, Fraser is better than Henry. Bad points; passing was terrible, Henry is not ready just yet. shooting was terrible.. Albie Morgan is all fluff and bluster. Leaburn is not as good as we think. We have no talisman. Salute all the academy players including Henry but they are not ready, and we need some experienced players of quality.
  • You tell em son!
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  • The Valley was soulless on and off the pitch yesterday. Morecambe won the toss and turned us round from our usual preference of attacking the covered end second half but I really don't think it would have made a blind bit of difference. 

    Quickly behind to a clinical opportunistic effort from Stockton after a poor Henry we touch, we were wasteful and pedestrian in possession for much of the half until an undeserved equaliser from Rak-Sak and crack just before half time. Thereafter, for the first time we actually looked in control of the ball for the remaining minutes of the half.  So having been waiting so long for that whistle for a much needed release from the dross I had witnessed, I actually ended up thinking that half time came at a bad time for us.

    But second half we came out with continued momentum until Morecambe scored with their first venture of note into our half. That really knocked what little stuffing we had out of us and Morecambe were able to add a simple 3rd. 3 subs of Campbell, Kanu and Fraser livened us up a tad with the latter reducing the arrears, but aside from a couple of goal mouth scrambles at 3-2 we never really recovered and the shrimps ran out worthy winners.

    The stat by an earlier poster around our inability to turn losing positions into winning ones says it all about this latest bunch of gutless wonders wearing our proud badge with such dishonour. I was just glad that Bonne was nowhere near it as it shows that Holden is at least trying to stay true to his no dickheads policy. I suspect it could be quite a clear out in the summer if he gets his way.
  • I have no problem  with playing the ball around the back , but it has to be done quickly. If you move the ball quickly the oppo are always having to move around to cover both flanks which then creates hole for you to
    play through. . We move it so slowly they can virtually walk into their defensive formation. 
  • Some not so good goalkeeping unfortunately. For all 3 goals in fact. 
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    Henry had a rough time yesterday, but so did some far more experienced players. Just a reminder that he’s 19 and has had two League starts in his career. It might be a bit premature to decide he has no future?
    Garner said Henry is refusing to sign a new contract because he wants to play, but if he starts and plays like that, maybe he needs to wake up to the reality that he's not ready.
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    The Henry selection was puzzling. 
    I don't think so. Holden wants to look at him to see if he is worth keeping.
    I know it's said quite often of current players, but he truly is one of the worst players we've ever had play for us.
    I seriously don't think he's even good enough for the National League based on the dozen non performances I've seen him make.
  • clive said:
    Defending so poor on all of those goals, comically bad. 
  • Rak Sakyi's goal saved the players from being booed off at half time.
    But I must admit I was expecting the crowd to turn hostile when we went 3-1 down.
    I was surprised how subdued  the atmosphere was and I couldn't work out whether it was because it was a meaningless (to us) end of season game or whether we have become so conditioned to being let down that all the passion has drained out of us.
    Screw the game we were shit, but I found the air of resignation and demoralisation quite worrying.
    After we scored our second my son and I remained seated - possibly for the first time in living memory.  (This was us turning hostile :#

    I guess we shared that mutual gut feeling that it wouldn't be enough - it would be a consolation goal only. 

    Gut feelings are not always right, but they are in the vast majority of cases.   

    In our home games against the current bottom 6 we have 4 points out of 18
    I couldn’t even be bothered to cheer the goals. Blatantly obvious to me we were going through the motions as a team. 
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