Charlton can fuck off, weâre a joke of a club from top to bottom. So glad I donât waste any of my hard earned money (or time) watching the spineless c***s any more.
In his interview Appleton says the fans won't be hurting as much as he is after that. Really? Mr Appleton as a here today gone tomorrow jobbing lower league manager you might want to re think that statement.
The expectations of this club have fallen off a cliff. Too many going through the motions. We wonât achieve anything while that exists. The size and pedigree of this club, there is no way we should be accepting being this shit. Bumbling around in the third division year on year and giving spineless performances in the FA Cup (twice this season)Â Appleton needs to make that abundantly clear.Â
I agree but disagree. The first thing to do is accept that we are shit then go about improving year by year to be less shit. The first way to go about this is to stop changing managers every season and do the business early in the summer transfer window.
Gillingham clearly wanted it more than us. Fought for every ball. Not too down. What we need to do is stay in range and then replace some of the weak players we have in January (I don'y just mean physically but mentally too). Also some young players needs loan. Ness is so mistake ridden it cannot be ignored.
Problem is I don't trust Scott to replace them with anyone better and for Appleton to then get them playing as a team.Â
Christ, weâre not going to start calling for yet another manager sacking are we?? Is that what people want?
Embarrassing. No positives, not even a man of the match. I can promise I put in more effort at parkrun this morning - and these guys earn ÂŁ1k+ per week.
The problem a lot of the youngsters have is that a) they get blooded too early because of the lack of quality we have and seemingly, budget to bring better players in, and b) itâs that same lack of quality that hampers their progression.
I donât think other than Leaburn we have anyone thatâs come through in recent years who may go on to better things (I say may because itâs still a bit early to tell). But when youâve got Ness coming through and playing alongside liabilities like Hector, Inniss etc and Anderson seeing flakes like Fraser, theyâre not going to develop their game.
Donât get me wrong, none of our recent youth additions look like theyâre destined to have a career in anything other than league and league two, but they all get too much football too soon.
In an ideal world, weâd have Tyreece, Anderson, Ness all out on loan and their places would be be filled with better players. The next ones in line look like Mbick.
Even Leaburn has had the weight of expectation on his shoulders far too much. Grim times
I won't swear but the type of player required in January begins with C. Yes they need to be able to kick a ball but they also need to be a C. One needed in midfield, One needed up front and one needed in central defence. Then see where that gets us. In December we have to pick up enough points to stay in touch.
Thought we have enough C*&ÂŁ# as it is đ but yeah I agree.
As others have observed, Steel might be a better word but we have soft experienced players and youngsters who may have to learn to be hard. The experienced ones we need to ship out. I also cringe when I see Ness on the teamsheet and that change to the side didn't help. Don't want to blame a young lad when others deserve blame also but he is a good prospect as we saw last year who needs a loan and to be nowhere near the team at this time.
Weâve got a squad of internationals remember. They get picked for Absurdistan, Genovia, Westoros and Zamunda and think theyâve made it.Â
First principles of football is you go out there and compete. Get outplayed, done by individual skill, or bad luck, no worries it happens. But you compete and we didnât do that today all over the pitch.
The expectations of this club have fallen off a cliff. Too many going through the motions. We wonât achieve anything while that exists. The size and pedigree of this club, there is no way we should be accepting being this shit. Bumbling around in the third division year on year and giving spineless performances in the FA Cup (twice this season)Â Appleton needs to make that abundantly clear.Â
I agree but disagree. The first thing to do is accept that we are shit then go about improving year by year to be less shit. The first way to go about this is to stop changing managers every season and do the business early in the summer transfer window.
I love this analogy.  As we become less shit, or perhaps a no shit side, we will inevitably go through phases of being a shart side, and onwards and upwards to a skid mark team through the fart stages (both wet and dry), rumbling guts and finallyâŠâŠto the promised land of no shit.  My only concern is how long does that actually take?
Until we get an owner willing to put their hand in their pocket and invest heavily in this team, a complete overhaul like Ipswich did last couple of years and Pompey are doing now, we will be stuck in this mediocre dog shit league and continue to be rolled over by lower league teams.Â
Iâm sick of hearing Andy Scott come up with his actions speak louder crap, his loan signings have been a shambles and we are currently relying on our academy kids to fill gaps as those signings arenât deemed good enough to even make the bench!!! Big January coming up, same old mediocre nothing more like. Same shit, different owner.Â
I blame it on this bloody Black kit, they can't see each other in the gloom...
First thing they shiukd do is to back to playing in Red when there is no clash of colours.
Pricks.
Boring!! You suffer from night blindness. Just accept that others suffer from colour blindness.Â
The colour blindness has never been put as a reason by the club. Its more likely to have been the deal the club put together with Castore/Sponsors that the other 2 kits have to be worn a certain number of times a season.Â
An atrocious performance from start to finish. Having done their homework, Gillingham pressed us high from the start and, despite this being a hardly innovative tactic, we completely failed to deal with it. Even when under no pressure, our players were incapable of making a simple 6 yard pass, giving up cheap possession with alarming regularity. In contrast, when Gillingham were in possession, they had ample time on the ball to pick a pass, completely untroubled by Charlton players, who were completely off the pace. Moreover, when the ball broke for a 50/50, I can scarcely remember us winning one, which is a telling indictment of this abject performance.
Jones, Dobbo and Maynard-Brewer kept their end up (and the score down) but Asiimwe, Ness, Edun, Watson, Campbell and Tedic were lamentable.Â
Iâm not sure what the foreign viewers made of it all but, sad to say, they could be forgiven for thinking that 4th tier Gillingham were dispatching a non-league team in a comfortable win, which could easily have been 4 or 5-0.
Following this capitulation and the news of Leaburnâs absence for the rest of the season, some serious questions are going to be asked of the owners and their ambition - or lack thereof - for the club. The prospect of watching the petulant Tedic falling over and waving his arms about for the rest of the season really doesnât bear thinking about.Â
Even I did a little boooooo in my kitchen. We need signings in January, it just takes a couple of injuries and we are fuckedÂ
If anybody is expecting quality signings in January I think they are going to be very disappointed. Even if that was the owners intention (& I very much doubt it) would anybody trust Andy "on the grass" Scott to find those players. Says all the right things & we end up with dross like Tedic or a youngster like Abankwah who clearly isn't ready for first team football so why sign him.
Even I did a little boooooo in my kitchen. We need signings in January, it just takes a couple of injuries and we are fuckedÂ
If anybody is expecting quality signings in January I think they are going to be very disappointed. Even if that was the owners intention (& I very much doubt it) would anybody trust Andy "on the grass" Scott to find those players. Says all the right things & we end up with dross like Tedic or a youngster like Abankwah who clearly isn't ready for first team football so why sign him.
I think Scott has been found out, tbh. Just another bullshitter.
Unless Gillingham draw one of the big five in which case we should force them to read out loud in one sitting Tender is The Night by F Scott Fitzgerald.
I blame it on this bloody Black kit, they can't see each other in the gloom...
First thing they shiukd do is to back to playing in Red when there is no clash of colours.
Pricks.
Boring!! You suffer from night blindness. Just accept that others suffer from colour blindness.Â
The colour blindness has never been put as a reason by the club. Its more likely to have been the deal the club put together with Castore/Sponsors that the other 2 kits have to be worn a certain number of times a season.Â
Finally home & getting warm, pathetic display, no ability but worse of all no desire, absolute bottle job by our team, cowards other then Dobson, May & Jones who had poor games but at least put in the effort.
It was humiliating being there today.
Congratulations to Tedic for taking Kirks top spot as the worst performance by any Charlton player this season, would have been more effective to have had a mannequin on wheels then him up top.Â
I am a mug though, as will still be there Saturday cheering on this team of weaklings.Â
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Game of hangman anyone?
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Really?
Mr Appleton as a here today gone tomorrow jobbing lower league manager you might want to re think that statement.
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That was very Colchester away under Fraeye
Embarrassing. No positives, not even a man of the match. I can promise I put in more effort at parkrun this morning - and these guys earn ÂŁ1k+ per week.
Was bloody cold as well đ
If anyone there today was also at that Watford game, interested to know which they thought was worse.
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who we going to loan them out to
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Never change GillinghamÂ
Whatever the reason its shit we keeping changingÂ
An atrocious performance from start to finish. Having done their homework, Gillingham pressed us high from the start and, despite this being a hardly innovative tactic, we completely failed to deal with it. Even when under no pressure, our players were incapable of making a simple 6 yard pass, giving up cheap possession with alarming regularity. In contrast, when Gillingham were in possession, they had ample time on the ball to pick a pass, completely untroubled by Charlton players, who were completely off the pace. Moreover, when the ball broke for a 50/50, I can scarcely remember us winning one, which is a telling indictment of this abject performance.
Jones, Dobbo and Maynard-Brewer kept their end up (and the score down) but Asiimwe, Ness, Edun, Watson, Campbell and Tedic were lamentable.Â
Iâm not sure what the foreign viewers made of it all but, sad to say, they could be forgiven for thinking that 4th tier Gillingham were dispatching a non-league team in a comfortable win, which could easily have been 4 or 5-0.
Following this capitulation and the news of Leaburnâs absence for the rest of the season, some serious questions are going to be asked of the owners and their ambition - or lack thereof - for the club. The prospect of watching the petulant Tedic falling over and waving his arms about for the rest of the season really doesnât bear thinking about.Â
Unless Gillingham draw one of the big five in which case we should force them to read out loud in one sitting Tender is The Night by F Scott Fitzgerald.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/may/19/research.science1
It was humiliating being there today.
Congratulations to Tedic for taking Kirks top spot as the worst performance by any Charlton player this season, would have been more effective to have had a mannequin on wheels then him up top.Â
I am a mug though, as will still be there Saturday cheering on this team of weaklings.Â