See you down at The Valley on Boxing Day? Jones the Moan and his bunch of football imposters ruin my Saturdays and the occasional Tuesday night, they are not spoiling my Christmas too. Jokers.
Charlton in poor form under pressure for a positive result and Mansfield having lost four of their last five meant this was always likely to be a dud at The Valley. Both sides struggled throughout to make anything out of their numerous chances, but it was the Charlton side that had the better of the second half and will feel more aggrieved as they should have had a penalty when Marcus Leaburn was wrestled down in the box.
We’re not good enough to beat Mansfield Town, nor more than half of the League One clubs we’re up against. Sad.
Another awful performance bar a decent 15 minute spell at the start of the second half. If Mansfield could finish, they would have been out if sight at HT. Ref was poor but they all are at this level.
Empty ground, I had fans near me arguing about Jones. It just feels like a bad place to be at the moment.
What iis also concerning is how much our youngsters seem to be regressing. We thought the likes of TC and Leaburn, and to a lesser extent Anderson, were destined for better things early on this season, but on current form I don't even think a top 6 team in our league would start them.
Worth the 10 pounds just to see Coventry's lovely pass inside their fullback that put Small? away. First time all season I've seen us play a ball like that. Marvelous.
could and should have been 2 or 3 down by HT, which would have made the marginal 2nd half “improvement” irrelevant. But it was an improvement…….against a very, very low bar.
Worth the 10 pounds just to see Coventry's lovely pass inside their fullback that put Small? away. First time all season I've seen us play a ball like that. Marvelous.
Much better today cause we tired to play football … and if Anderson and Leaburn take their chances and the ref gives us the cert pen on Leaburn things would look a lot better .. but second half we were only team looking to win and very positive from Jones who really could not do anymore today as manager
Ball control is a pre-requisite of any player. At least three times today Anderson’s ball control let him down. One of those was when he was through on goal but his second touch was too heavy. Anderson wasn’t the only one either.
That 90 minutes was ideal for mulling over a list of domestic chores I've got to get around to doing. I've now prioritised everything, happy with that.
We definitely tried to play it forward more. Feels like we're trying to do the attacking work that should have been done in pre season but pre season was all about the defensive side. I think this season is probably done and that's not good enough but I can see the second half of the season being better than the first
Much better today cause we tired to play football … and if Anderson and Leaburn take their chances and the ref gives us the cert pen on Leaburn things would look a lot better .. but second half we were only team looking to win and very positive from Jones who really could not do anymore today as manager
Brilliant. Comedy gold. Was waiting for you to turn up and blame the ref.
Charlton in poor form under pressure for a positive result and Mansfield having lost four of their last five meant this was always likely to be a dud at The Valley. Both sides struggled throughout to make anything out of their numerous chances, but it was the Charlton side that had the better of the second half and will feel more aggrieved as they should have had a penalty when Marcus Leaburn was wrestled down in the box.
We’re not good enough to beat Mansfield Town, nor more than half of the League One clubs we’re up against. Sad.
NJ: "Us and Birmingham are the best two pressers in the league so we are front-footed and going after teams. We're just not taking chances at the minute. I'm sure that will change. We're not capitalising on the clean sheets at the minute."
Worth the 10 pounds just to see Coventry's lovely pass inside their fullback that put Small? away. First time all season I've seen us play a ball like that. Marvelous.
OK, so I know that this will be a minority view, but I thought that the performance was better.
The players were clearly told to pass the ball and not hoof it bypassing the midfield, I welcome that change.
The ref was dreadful, he should have booked several Mansfield players for professional shithousery in the first half alone. Just perhaps this may have made a difference, but tbh the finishing from both sides was not very good.
I'm not totally hacked off post match for a long time because I believe that Jones has realised that Hoofball isn't working for us.
Got that spot on in the prediction league, which is pretty much the highlight of the afternoon. First half we looked like a poor pub team. Second half was better, but that is a really low bar, and there were shill players out there who really don't look like professional footballers at all.
NJ: "Us and Birmingham are the best two pressers in the league so we are front-footed and going after teams. We're just not taking chances at the minute. I'm sure that will change. We're not capitalising on the clean sheets at the minute."
Watched the first half which started brightly but turned pretty dire by the end. We actually tried to play but shot ourselves in the foot a couple of times by trying to play through the midfield at the wrong times and that led to a couple of Mansfield chances.
Reading comments about the second half it seems we could’ve had a Leaburn brace and a penalty on another day.
Much better today cause we tired to play football … and if Anderson and Leaburn take their chances and the ref gives us the cert pen on Leaburn things would look a lot better .. but second half we were only team looking to win and very positive from Jones who really could not do anymore today as manager
Only 54 long balls (passes of 35 yards or longer) attempted in the match which is our lowest number since the opening day of the season against Wigan (52).
Charlton in poor form under pressure for a positive result and Mansfield having lost four of their last five meant this was always likely to be a dud at The Valley. Both sides struggled throughout to make anything out of their numerous chances, but it was the Charlton side that had the better of the second half and will feel more aggrieved as they should have had a penalty when Marcus Leaburn was wrestled down in the box.
We’re not good enough to beat Mansfield Town, nor more than half of the League One clubs we’re up against. Sad.
Charlton Athletic 0 Mansfield Town 0
Over to you.
Who's Marcus Leaburn?
I think he means Marcus Bent
Ahh I see. Didn't realise he was still with us. Cheers.
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Empty ground, I had fans near me arguing about Jones. It just feels like a bad place to be at the moment.
What iis also concerning is how much our youngsters seem to be regressing. We thought the likes of TC and Leaburn, and to a lesser extent Anderson, were destined for better things early on this season, but on current form I don't even think a top 6 team in our league would start them.
Charlton have a long term sickness, that somehow gets worse and worse. Struggling to see anyway out of this malaise.
Just this week, Jones said that we could be in the top 6 by the new year.
First time all season I've seen us play a ball like that.
Marvelous.
Well it just has happened again so let’s see how he gets out of that one
Muppet.
First time in the 10yrs since I moved.
Can’t believe it.
We just can’t keep hold of the ball, can’t have two decent halves and Jones just talks the same nonsense every week.
Depressed of Baltimore 😞
The players were clearly told to pass the ball and not hoof it bypassing the midfield, I welcome that change.
The ref was dreadful, he should have booked several Mansfield players for professional shithousery in the first half alone. Just perhaps this may have made a difference, but tbh the finishing from both sides was not very good.
I'm not totally hacked off post match for a long time because I believe that Jones has realised that Hoofball isn't working for us.
First half we looked like a poor pub team. Second half was better, but that is a really low bar, and there were shill players out there who really don't look like professional footballers at all.
Reading comments about the second half it seems we could’ve had a Leaburn brace and a penalty on another day.