At 2-0 you were cruising and hardly looked out of second gear. Both goals were well fashioned and your number 11 presumably doubles as a giraffe when needed. Southend were playing to the limits of their ability and then a penalty happened and 1-2, not so cruising now. H/T and we were out of the blocks quickly and, the joy of the FA Cup, Oli Coker put us level, 2-2 so game on. Obviously you then went on to spoil our script by nicking a third, but our equaliser in injury time sent the West Stand into heavenly orbit. I have to say I really thought it would go to pens, but not to be. Your 4th goal broke our hearts but not our spirit. I had hoped that Macauley Bonne would choose today to break his duck, unfortunately he chose to imitate a duck rather than break one. So, good luck in the draw on Monday, I wish you a money earner and we will get stuck in to getting out of the shite hole that is the National League. One final thing, the ref today was first class in everything he did, I'd forgotten what a good ref looks like compared with the standard of sloth we normally experience.
At 2-0 you were cruising and hardly looked out of second gear. Both goals were well fashioned and your number 11 presumably doubles as a giraffe when needed. Southend were playing to the limits of their ability and then a penalty happened and 1-2, not so cruising now. H/T and we were out of the blocks quickly and, the joy of the FA Cup, Oli Coker put us level, 2-2 so game on. Obviously you then went on to spoil our script by nicking a third, but our equaliser in injury time sent the West Stand into heavenly orbit. I have to say I really thought it would go to pens, but not to be. Your 4th goal broke our hearts but not our spirit. I had hoped that Macauley Bonne would choose today to break his duck, unfortunately he chose to imitate a duck rather than break one. So, good luck in the draw on Monday, I wish you a money earner and we will get stuck in to getting out of the shite hole that is the National League. One final thing, the ref today was first class in everything he did, I'd forgotten what a good ref looks like compared with the standard of sloth we normally experience.
Thats the thing about Macca B. No matter how low your expectations he's always somehow even worse.
Interesting to read some of the reactions to Mannion today. That first deflection he has no chance and the second is so close to him it's hard to do anything other than move his arms as his momentum takes him the other way, which has the added bonus of making him look a bit daft. Realistically a keeper's not saving any of those and he made one absolutely incredible save today but he's seems to be the target on here at the moment. Ahadme scoring as well probably hasn't helped in the scapegoatgrief stakes for Mannion but I do think we were so collectively blegh today it was hard to pick out anyone in particular making the keeper the easy target.
Not really followed the game but so pleased for Gas. He’s had some unfair criticism and that was a quality finish today. Hopefully he kicks on from here.
*he has been subject to deserved criticism to date. Hopefully he kicks on from here
I think the point is some of the criticism has been unfair/over the top, not all of it.
I would disagree, I think he’s been the poorest performer of our new signings and considering the hefty price tag I don’t see any of the criticism as being over the top. On the other hand, if he regularly finishes like that against L1 opposition we will all be delighted!
Really good bits of play in all 4 of our goals. Think the ones in open play against us are slightly unlucky but do point to a big weakness we have. We’ve focussed so much on not letting teams into our box that when they make it in we don’t quite know what to do. Most of the time that hard work pays off because the chances don’t come but when they do we’re like headless chickens
Couldn't watch it of course due to the world-class fuckwits at the FA, but that Tweet of the Gas goal courtesy of @Bedsaddick has made my evening. Like most people on here, I'd given up on any idea that he had a goal like that in his locker, and I duly apologise, Gas. To produce it in those circs, and in front of your own fans packed behind the goal, whom you save from the indignity of a penalty shootout with an NL side, I imagine you're feeling a bit good tonight.
Well we all know strikers need goals, and that's a great goal to build on. But I'm also wondering about his injury, and whether in fact it was something he arrived with? As I recall he was signed with an injury, which may have been different but as we know if we spend 10 minutes talking to a physio, it's all related. Anyway, if he kicks on from this, that could be a game-changer.
@Rootshallbloke Our number 11 is Miles Leaburn, who's only 20, and is just coming back from a major hamstring injury. His dad also played for us, although he was slightly less tall, and also scored a header against you at Roots Hall 30 years ago:
Couldn't watch it of course due to the world-class fuckwits at the FA, but that Tweet of the Gas goal courtesy of @Bedsaddick has made my evening. Like most people on here, I'd given up on any idea that he had a goal like that in his locker, and I duly apologise, Gas. To produce it in those circs, and in front of your own fans packed behind the goal, whom you save from the indignity of a penalty shootout with an NL side, I imagine you're feeling a bit good tonight.
Well we all know strikers need goals, and that's a great goal to build on. But I'm also wondering about his injury, and whether in fact it was something he arrived with? As I recall he was signed with an injury, which may have been different but as we know if we spend 10 minutes talking to a physio, it's all related. Anyway, if he kicks on from this, that could be a game-changer.
Think the injury he came with was knee related and this recent absence has been chest related which is part of why we’ve been very cautious bringing him back
This club has never made things easy for itself. Never.
No one should be surprised by what happened today. Frustrated by it, yes, but I can’t, personally, get outraged because, if anything, the thing I probably find most surprising, with three and a half decades of Charlton related disappointments under my belt, is that we actually found a way to win today rather than totally screw it up and lose the game which would be far more in character.
I actually take that as progress over the last few seasons.
I wouldn’t draw too many sweeping conclusions from today and we all knew before kickoff that this side has lots of things it needs to improve on so I’m not sure we’ve learnt anything today.
“I’ll take full responsibility for this result,” he said. “I got the team wrong – tactically I didn’t get it right today.” - Nathan Jones, literally one month ago.
@Rootshallbloke Our number 11 is Miles Leaburn, who's only 20, and is just coming back from a major hamstring injury. His dad also played for us, although he was slightly less tall, and also scored a header against you at Roots Hall 30 years ago:
And that was a monstrous game, featuring a refereeing performance of epic incompetence from the legendary Kelvin Morton. I was in the Press area for that, since Mark Mansfield and I had just persuaded RTM to let Mark do live commentaries on Charlton games, as well as a Sunday night chat show. We used one of those new-fangled mobile phone bricks, and for some reason I had it with me, and had set off earlier than Mark; he got stuck on the A127, but how stuck, I had no idea, because I was clutching the only mobile phone in Essex.Nobody actually called it. As KO drew near and he still hadn't turned up, I contemplated with mounting horror the idea that I might have to do the match commentary with this brick. I mean, I knew my place when it came to "public speaking" events and this wasn't it. Fortunately at 2 mins before KO he appeared, leaving me to "enjoy" the game. By the time Morton had sent Curbs from the dugout, I had completely lost it, and was politely asked to either shut the fuck up, or move away from the press area. I chose the latter, natch.
As Brownie and Curbs said on this month's show, when they showed clips from that game, Carlo (possibly only 21-22 himself then) absolutely terrorised them the whole game. Isn't it great then that his son scored with an equally imperious header. I love that.
Cracking day out, albeit the football was as we have come to expect over the years from our team, especially in the FA Cup. Miles obviously inspired by @Tracey being in the away end and he had a great game. TT gives us positivity in midfield which hasn’t been seen before. We have to make more of his creativity. Small had a good game too and got forward well. Still can’t see what Campbell adds & Hylton didn’t really add anything late on. Good luck to Southend. Had a good chat with a few of their young fans on the train after and they were a great bunch. Like us, they’ve had a nightmare with owner(s) and just looking to get back in the league. I hope they get there.
This club has never made things easy for itself. Never.
No one should be surprised by what happened today. Frustrated by it, yes, but I can’t, personally, get outraged because, if anything, the thing I probably find most surprising, with three and a half decades of Charlton related disappointments under my belt, is that we actually found a way to win today rather than totally screw it up and lose the game which would be far more in character.
I actually take that as progress over the last few seasons.
I wouldn’t draw too many sweeping conclusions from today and we all knew before kickoff that this side has lots of things it needs to improve on so I’m just sure we’ve learnt anything today.
This is true. We usually (going back years) find a way to lose a game like this. It felt that we were, as usual, trying to do that today too but failed. You could say there was bad luck involved in Southend's goals and you would have a point but you also have to look at the lead up to the goals. A bit like Wrexham's first last week. The goal was unlucky but there were two instances were a bit of composure would have prevented the free kick that led to it. You could say Wrexham's second was unlucky too as the ball could have gone anywhere but fell to their player but we are being unlucky too often to claim it is just that.
In the end we won and we have to take that and hope that we can improve the small details. Of course, we are missing some key players which contribute but we have to learn to play without them as they are not going to be back imminently. Leaburn seems to be well on his way back which is a big positive and the last two games have been helpful in terms of his rehavilitation into what he was before his injury.
As for Mannion, deflections are a killer and he has had more of those to deal with than he would want but we can't blame him for them. I think AMB has better reactions but Mannion is more commanding. It is a genuine choice and not an easy one. Mannion has the shirt and hasn't done enough to lose it IMO but AMB had a great game on Tuesday.
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Well we all know strikers need goals, and that's a great goal to build on. But I'm also wondering about his injury, and whether in fact it was something he arrived with? As I recall he was signed with an injury, which may have been different but as we know if we spend 10 minutes talking to a physio, it's all related. Anyway, if he kicks on from this, that could be a game-changer.
No one should be surprised by what happened today. Frustrated by it, yes, but I can’t, personally, get outraged because, if anything, the thing I probably find most surprising, with three and a half decades of Charlton related disappointments under my belt, is that we actually found a way to win today rather than totally screw it up and lose the game which would be far more in character.
I actually take that as progress over the last few seasons.
As Brownie and Curbs said on this month's show, when they showed clips from that game, Carlo (possibly only 21-22 himself then) absolutely terrorised them the whole game. Isn't it great then that his son scored with an equally imperious header. I love that.
In the end we won and we have to take that and hope that we can improve the small details. Of course, we are missing some key players which contribute but we have to learn to play without them as they are not going to be back imminently. Leaburn seems to be well on his way back which is a big positive and the last two games have been helpful in terms of his rehavilitation into what he was before his injury.
As for Mannion, deflections are a killer and he has had more of those to deal with than he would want but we can't blame him for them. I think AMB has better reactions but Mannion is more commanding. It is a genuine choice and not an easy one. Mannion has the shirt and hasn't done enough to lose it IMO but AMB had a great game on Tuesday.