Filling in for
@LoOkOuT today, as he's off on his travels.
Christmas is a time for hangovers and being absolutely stuffed, and I went into the game hoping that would only apply to the fans in the stands and not the players on the pitch.The first half was generally scrappy with a couple of good chances in quick succession from Chem Campbell and Fraser around the 20 minute mark, a fairly tenuous penalty shout, and a couple of scares in our area. There were a few delays due to Edun having to go off with a bloodied shirt, and Chem Campbell getting Pratleyed.
Second half, Orient started more brightly and had some good chances from corners and free kicks. Our play was quite well stifled by Orient, occasionally at the expense of a booking. The ref wasn't especially impressive either, possibly peaking with looking like he indicated a free kick to Orient on the half way line, then penalising the Orient player for kicking the ball away when he tried to take it quickly. Orient scored after we could have done better clearing the ball, and we only really had a couple of chances. One was where the keeper saved from CBT, and one where May flashed the ball wide of the post from a free kick that Kanu won on the left hand edge of the area.Towards the end Dobbo got booked for complaining to the ref after he didn't get a penalty for getting his shirt pulled in the 6 yard box
Final score: Orient 1 - Charlton 0 - not absolutely stuffed, but definitely a hangover style performance
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I’ve always said managers really earn their stripes when a team is losing and out of form/confidence. It was what made Curbs so good, he could turn slide around and did it multiple times. I don’t have huge faith, but time now for Appleton to show he deserves his job and he can’t just hide behind needing signings because he’s made significant bad calls himself recently and our team organization has not improved at all.
Brownie talking a lot of sense post match about standards not being high enough and a lack of accountability for poor performances. There should probably be 6 or 7 changes for the next match, but Appleton probably doesn’t have the players available to do that at the moment.
Doughty scores for Luton🤗
“You either need bucket loads of money or bucket loads of time [to fix this team]”
I genuinely hate every single one of them.
A disgracefully clueless, spineless and tactically inept performance. Quite why Appleton thought it would be a good idea to go long ball with our personnel and their big central defenders defies all reason. The man looks to have run out of ideas and he totally failed to get a reaction out of the side in the second half, unlike his opposite number.
The outing to Gillingham was dire but at least they played some football against us. This lot didn’t need to - they had a couple of players in Beckles and Pratley with the football intelligence and nous that we lacked and knew that our defensive ineptitude would give them a chance.
Desperate times.
We are only going one way. The man has no clue. Playing players out of position with no idea of how to change things.
Fast forward to having attended two consecutive home games we threw away in injury time and now the dross on show today and I feel pretty much nothing. Took me a while to get there but I'm completely numb to it all
Quality
He has appointed Appleton as manager.
A manager that decides to play Kanu on the wing.
Before that May on the wing.
Before that Leaburn on the wing.
Appleton hasn't got the best group of players to work with but he appears Clueless most of the time.
Now with a transfer window about to open he has little choice but to support him as best he can.
If we continue to struggle then it is going to be problematic come the summer.
Does Scott then decide to sack Appleton or do our new owners get rid of both Appleton and Scott and start again.
We are a joke as things.
1. A new manager that is both experienced and proven.
2. 5-7 seasoned players in the mold of Alfie May Hungry, excel in their natural position and willing to work.
This is gonna cost at least £3-5 million to get players and a manager that are worth it.
Hopefully our US Based billionaires can find it in them to commit like Wrexham did to getting a job done, being aware of the cost to them this season, but that it may take until end of next season to make it.
So I guess the new game is who is the right manager and who are the players that will make us promotion worthy?
Once again, pathetic performances in November-December against opposition we should be beating every time on paper has reduced the season to another pointless tedious formality, and there’s still 5 months left.
I have put more effort into my day than all our players did in that game. Combined. Shite. No more words.