We've locked horns on 70 previous occasions winning 25, the Pirates 26 and the remaining 19 encounters ending all square, so pretty even I would say, our last trip to the Memorial Stadium resulted in a 2-1 win for the hosts thanks to Chris Martin's brace, however he is reported as not available tonight.
We'll be wearing the yellow away kit again tonight..
Here we go again...
Miles Leaburn returns to the Charlton squad for tonight's game against Bristol and is named amongst the Addicks' substitutes, for the first time since suffering a hamstring injury against Cheltenham Town last November.
Nathan Jones makes four changes to his starting line-up from Saturday with Macaulay Gillesphey, Tennai Watson, Luke Berry and Gassan Ahadme all starting.
If the Addicks line-up in a 3-5-2 formation then Alex Mitchell, captain Lloyd Jones and Gillesphey will make up a back three in front of goalkeeper Will Mannion.
Watson and Josh Edwards will operate as wing-backs with Berry joining birthday boy Karoy Anderson and Conor Coventry in a midfield trio.
The returning Ahadme, who missed last weekend's trip to Stevenage with a fractured nose, is likely to play up front alongside Tyreece Campbell.
Leaburn is joined on the bench by Ashley Maynard-Brewer, Kayne Ramsay, Allan Campbell, Greg Docherty, Chuks Aneke and Matty Godden.
Charlton: Mannion; A.Mitchell, Jones (c), Gillesphey; Watson, Coventry, Anderson, Berry, Edwards; Ahadme, T.Campbell
Subs: Maynard-Brewer, Ramsay, A.Campbell, Docherty, Leaburn, Aneke, Godden
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Stuff like this is bloody depressing from the off. How can we have lost more than we've won against these sorts of teams over the years, but we have.
Would love to know how many clubs we've actually got the better of on head to head records over the years. Oldham is probably one, because I'm pretty sure we've never lost to them at home and have won at least one away!
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Ramsay Coventry Taylor Edwards
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Godden Ahadme
Maynard-Brewer, Potts, Watson, Docherty, T.Campbell, Aneke, Leaburn
But I have no doubt we'll line up completely differently to that.
Also I know it seems harsh on Anderson and Kanu being left out completely but they're young and will have plenty more opportunities to shine, however they haven't set the world alight so far this season and I think a rest and reset can help them a lot
Back to the front two of Ahadme and Tyreece Campbell at least
Good to see Leaburn back, but really don’t understand how Anderson continues to start games.
Expect to bring on the strikers when we are 1-0 down & the game is lost.
Mad that for fitness/tactical reasons we can't find a place for any of Ramsay, Aneke, Godden or Leaburn in the 11.
1) Trying to find some more attacking impetus down that side. I didn't expect to say this at the start of the season, but now Ramsay has had a run of games (and I think he's been one of our two or three best players) I think there's an argument he is the better defender, but Watson gets forward and delivers into the box a bit more.
2) Ramsay was one of the biggest offenders on Saturday for giving away cheap free kicks that allowed Stevenage to get back into a game we were controlling for 20 to 30 mins at the start, and we know if you don't follow your instructions NJ will take a very dim view of that.