I’m going to log on to CL 25 minutes into the Cambridge game and at that point I will know how the rest of our season is going to play out. It will be either:
1. ‘2-0 down against f**king Cambridge! So sick of these f**king players. No consistency, no desire, no quality. Jones out. I’m done with this joke of a club.’
or
2. Just dozens of consecutive ‘HMS piss the league’ pictures.
Reluctantly drove the troops to Northampton, boffin and little shit had ratted by Friday afternoon and Peter Kay was only in cos my nephew wanted to go , petrol head is always gonna want to go ….mrs said she’d drive if I didn’t but I took the reins meaning she could sort Christmas shit out . Boffin was on the piss Friday and his mate (Charlton fan ) said he’d jump in our fun bus and that persuaded little shit to join and make us the magnificent 7 for our journey to Northampton. quick beer for pisspetrol head and in to our seats and a proper graft standing for the duration holding seat down for little shit to stand on and hold the Cnut up but we were truly rewarded for our efforts . my highest away win in 40+ years of following The Addicks . players I’ve always liked who have been pony Luke Berry a front footed player in a sea of crabs , Docherty just for his Jock accent and Tyreece for being positive . Dochertys celebration felt a bit 🥩y with the pointing at the captains armband and attitude but you can feel the frustration turning to relief for fans and players alike cos we have been utter shit and we’re hopefully turning a corner . Great atmosphere which is the only way it can be with early goals and a 0-5 win
I mentioned weeks back that a lowball number of points might sneak someone in to the playoffs this year , well it’s a dogshit league so why not us …. Win ten on the bounce and I’ll believe !
0% Top two 20% 3rd-6th (I’m drunk with tiredness, been hitting the chocolate (hard) so lots of late night 💩💩💩ing (soft) 60% 7th-12th 20% 13th-20th 0% Relegation
Celebrated @guinnessaddick’s 60th birthday with an unreal performance. The frustration though of wondering where that team has been all season. Docherty finally finding that captain and midfielder display that I’d been expecting since we signed him. Some cracking football across the team and some excellently taken goals.
Unbelievable that we are still so close to 6th place after the results we’ve had so far. This team just can’t waste the opportunity of the league kindly waiting for us to wake up and compete.
Northampton fell apart after our first goal and we turned the screw. It won’t be that comfortable against other teams. Tyreece should not have to do defensive duties on the right in the future. Nathan Jones is sensitive to the previous perfectly justified criticism, but he shouldn’t believe this one result changes everything, we need the proverbial run of something like nine more successive league wins and he should focus on that, not focus on whatever level of criticism he gets.
Genuinely thought Docherty was outstanding today and looked a cut above.
Noticed watching the highlights just now he did the 'baby' celebration after one of his goals. I know nothing but sometimes these things can be stressful so got me wondering if maybe his form was affected. Anyway, the celebration means all is well so please crack on Doc.
A good day all round. Think Jones made the right call in not being the cheerleader and leaving it to the players. Clearly this now needs to become the norm in terms of effort etc. against all oppo. Let’s hope this isn’t another false dawn. Charlie was asked pre-match about any January action “we’ll see” was the not unexpected response.
A week or two back we were saying the team were playing the worst football we’d seen in forty years, or even fifty years, so I think we need to keep our feet on the ground. Northampton are very low down the form league table, don’t have a manager, and seem totally demoralised.
Here’s hoping we continue to play better football, but I’m preparing for a Boxing Day disappointment (as I’m bringing both sons and one of their friends) because we’re Charlton, and these things happen to us so often.
Seen Cambridge twice this season. A very tall side. Very quick midfield who like to attack in waves. Very fit team. It will be a challenge
I mean they are pretty serious relegation candidates, the worst team away from home in the league, are third bottom (below Northampton even), 16th in the form table and have one of the worst defensive records in the division.
There are no easy games in League One, apart from Cambridge at home.
I really do hope yesterday was the turning point of our season and NJ finally listening to the penny drop. Get the ball down and play when possible. He can sulk about the fans all he wants, he ain’t my mate, I just want him to win games for our football club.
Seen Cambridge twice this season. A very tall side. Very quick midfield who like to attack in waves. Very fit team. It will be a challenge
I mean they are pretty serious relegation candidates, the worst team away from home in the league, are third bottom (below Northampton even), 16th in the form table and have one of the worst defensive records in the division.
There are no easy games in League One, apart from Cambridge at home.
Just saying what I've seen. They lost both [away] games that we watched but were really unlucky and deserved to have won both.
Where did that performance come from ? 18 goals in 19 previous games and we then go nap. Without derogating from a fine team performance, we were aided and abetted by a desperately poor Northampton side. The two early goals knocked the stuffing out of them, their heads went down and they made no real attempt to retrieve the ball once they had lost it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team so passive out of possession. All that said, you can only beat what’s in front of you and we gave them a real thumping.
The balance of the side looked good, especially in midfield, where I thought that Berry and Docherty had their best games for us, whilst Coventry was very effective in breaking up play and moving the ball on. Small had a good game on the right, we had genuine width on both sides and there was plenty of movement and pace up front. Northampton afforded us a huge amount of time and space to play and we utilised it well.
For me, a lack of control and creativity in midfield, including a lack of width in attacking areas, has been the big problem with the team this season - that and the long ball tactics deployed by the manager. We’ve seen less route one and more passing in the last few games and we have to hope that the midfield trio we played yesterday can begin to dominate games against more able and physical opponents - particularly Luke Berry, who can offer goals and creativity if only he can get into games and show a bit of athleticism and physicality.
If you’ll excuse the vernacular, it made sense for Jones to pull off half the team in the second half, with the hectic fixture festive schedule now upon us. We could also, for once, relax and enjoy the amusing contributions of the inept Allan Campbell and our specialist in free kicks (sometimes won, but mainly conceded), Danny Hylton. His goal really was the ultimate indignity for Northampton and their supporters - two seasons there without a goal and then he pops up in injury time to rub salt in their wounds.
Much tougher tests await - notably Wycombe - and we now need to follow up this result with a good points haul from the next three games, including those against struggling Cambridge and Crawley. We certainly owe Crawley one after they outplayed us at The Valley last month.
A week or two back we were saying the team were playing the worst football we’d seen in forty years, or even fifty years, so I think we need to keep our feet on the ground. Northampton are very low down the form league table, don’t have a manager, and seem totally demoralised.
Here’s hoping we continue to play better football, but I’m preparing for a Boxing Day disappointment (as I’m bringing both sons and one of their friends) because we’re Charlton, and these things happen to us so often.
I agree realism is needed but the reality could also be that a lot of work has gone into changing the playing style and, combined with players returning, yesterday was the result of that work
My overall view is that we won that because we tried to score more than the opposition rather than just stopping them scoring. Nothing to do with playing well (although we did!).
I hope Nathan continues this "weird" experiment in future games but fear that he will consider the Cambridge game too important and revert to looking for a nice clean sheet and a precious point!
He definitely weren’t digging out the fans, Greg said on commentary he met with him and he spoke about how disappointed he was in his own performances. That pointing to the armband said to me he’s knows he’s the caption and this is what he should be doing.
Great day out yesterday. Can’t fault the team. All did their best and really gelled. Good atmosphere in our bit.
Highlights -
the result. Full stop you can only beat what’s in front of you but we haven’t been able to do that recently
Docs angrily pointing at his badge and captain armband. I loved him saying fuck you to us.
The singing of original songs, goodbye horse and yippie I a coming out. All topped with a round of “we got the basics right”😂
the easy train journey less than 2 hours door to door.
NJs post match. I felt for him a bit and he turned me a bit. COYR
lowlights.
Let’s face it the only reason we kept the ball down was the wind. Let’s keep it up.
The walk to and from the ground. Yes. I’m lazy
the shit service in the Thomas becket. 2 useless birds staring at you.
That isn't how I interpreted the celebrations, but if it was a fuck you to the fans, why would you love that?
I feel like I'm going totally mad just because I don't feel like hammering relegation fodder excuses the shit we've seen so far this season.
Maybe not a fuck you then. But in my head he has had a lot of criticism and Ive thought he’s been next to useless quite rightly. And sometimes you assume the players read every word on here I suppose 😂😂
GD seems a good bloke to me and i agree that he was trying to say, look, i'm captain, i'm charlton (i'm not trying to escape / move) and i'm trying my bollox off to start doing what i'm capable of. Same team as today and a victory against cambridge and i'd like to think a rendition of 'We're the best version of ourselves' to the tune of kumbyah my lord will be in order.
I know a couple of cobblers fans, and they sickeningly have had the upper hand seeing as the last time we played them we were so awful another manager got binned.
First off and I must point this out, Northampton were awful, really bad, I was expecting the sort of new/caretaker manager bounce that always befalls us but Cobblers did what they said on their tin, they were truly shite. And we have had a run against shite team where we have managed to look just as bad. So the track was set nice and flat for us and we bullied them on it.
We played well, flat track bully style, it was easy and am delighted we dipped our bread as we should when playing against shit teams. Having wide players makes such a difference coupled with a few of the midfielders showing a desire to get in the box.
This next bit sounds insane but I'm not getting carried away with a 5 nought away from home victory, we absolutely must follow that up with a real 90 minute performance v Cambridge or else all it did was square up our goal difference.
Over the moon for Docherty, he is hiding a really good player in there and we saw some of it yesterday.
Posting without reading but it’s fantastic to have such an important win at this time of year. For too long we suffer more around Christmas and it fully kills our season off.
This instead was the best we have played throughout 90 minutes for a long time, the best under the current regime.
The thing that I am also so pleased about is the scorers. Docherty needed that kind of performance, and bloody hell that was a real performance, the second goal was excellent right out the top drawer. TC got his first in the league, as did Leaburn, and that’s huge for them and their confidence. And Hylton came on and done something that would absolutely have happened to us if it was the other way around. Each of them needed their goals for different reasons and that’s huge going forward.
Defensively to have kept the amount of clean sheets we have this season when we were so poor last season is a big improvement and credit does need to be given for that.
I don’t like how NJ has mentioned the criticism etc because it’s been fully deserved and this one result doesn’t hide or paper over how poor it has been. Instead of talking about that criticism, speak of how pleased you are that it’s come together today and that this level of performance needs to be the catalyst for the rest of the season. His management of criticism is not healthy but that’s one moan out the way. Let’s hope he doesn’t need to face criticism in future and this is now the start of something positive.
4 points outside the play-offs with game in hand at the 20 game mark of the season, after the run we had been on, is not bad at all. A win on Boxing Day and we could be a couple of points away. It is achievable, but only with a level of consistency.
Time to really kick on now, but also let’s enjoy these moments because they’re not often. So well done to the team and the fans, I think we deserved that.
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I think we need some official percentages
20% 3rd-6th (I’m drunk with tiredness, been hitting the chocolate (hard) so lots of late night 💩💩💩ing (soft)
60% 7th-12th
20% 13th-20th
0% Relegation
It won’t be that comfortable against other teams.
Tyreece should not have to do defensive duties on the right in the future.
Nathan Jones is sensitive to the previous perfectly justified criticism, but he shouldn’t believe this one result changes everything, we need the proverbial run of something like nine more successive league wins and he should focus on that, not focus on whatever level of criticism he gets.
Remember him scoring a worldie for QPR at The Valley in the League Cup , same game that Aaron Henry scored in injury time.
Really talented player but has never settled anywhere and is constantly injured.
Clearly this now needs to become the norm in terms of effort etc. against all oppo.
Let’s hope this isn’t another false dawn.
Charlie was asked pre-match about any January action “we’ll see” was the not unexpected response.
the result. Full stop you can only beat what’s in front of you but we haven’t been able to do that recently
Docs angrily pointing at his badge and captain armband. I loved him saying fuck you to us.
the easy train journey less than 2 hours door to door.
lowlights.
the shit service in the Thomas becket. 2 useless birds staring at you.
Only 6 out of 7?
A very tall side.
Very quick midfield who like to attack in waves.
Very fit team.
It will be a challenge
They lost both [away] games that we watched but were really unlucky and deserved to have won both.
Where did that performance come from ? 18 goals in 19 previous games and we then go nap. Without derogating from a fine team performance, we were aided and abetted by a desperately poor Northampton side. The two early goals knocked the stuffing out of them, their heads went down and they made no real attempt to retrieve the ball once they had lost it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team so passive out of possession. All that said, you can only beat what’s in front of you and we gave them a real thumping.
The balance of the side looked good, especially in midfield, where I thought that Berry and Docherty had their best games for us, whilst Coventry was very effective in breaking up play and moving the ball on. Small had a good game on the right, we had genuine width on both sides and there was plenty of movement and pace up front. Northampton afforded us a huge amount of time and space to play and we utilised it well.
For me, a lack of control and creativity in midfield, including a lack of width in attacking areas, has been the big problem with the team this season - that and the long ball tactics deployed by the manager. We’ve seen less route one and more passing in the last few games and we have to hope that the midfield trio we played yesterday can begin to dominate games against more able and physical opponents - particularly Luke Berry, who can offer goals and creativity if only he can get into games and show a bit of athleticism and physicality.
If you’ll excuse the vernacular, it made sense for Jones to pull off half the team in the second half, with the hectic fixture festive schedule now upon us. We could also, for once, relax and enjoy the amusing contributions of the inept Allan Campbell and our specialist in free kicks (sometimes won, but mainly conceded), Danny Hylton. His goal really was the ultimate indignity for Northampton and their supporters - two seasons there without a goal and then he pops up in injury time to rub salt in their wounds.
Much tougher tests await - notably Wycombe - and we now need to follow up this result with a good points haul from the next three games, including those against struggling Cambridge and Crawley. We certainly owe Crawley one after they outplayed us at The Valley last month.
Roll on Boxing Day.
I hope Nathan continues this "weird" experiment in future games but fear that he will consider the Cambridge game too important and revert to looking for a nice clean sheet and a precious point!
I feel like I'm going totally mad just because I don't feel like hammering relegation fodder excuses the shit we've seen so far this season.
First off and I must point this out, Northampton were awful, really bad, I was expecting the sort of new/caretaker manager bounce that always befalls us but Cobblers did what they said on their tin, they were truly shite. And we have had a run against shite team where we have managed to look just as bad. So the track was set nice and flat for us and we bullied them on it.
We played well, flat track bully style, it was easy and am delighted we dipped our bread as we should when playing against shit teams. Having wide players makes such a difference coupled with a few of the midfielders showing a desire to get in the box.
This next bit sounds insane but I'm not getting carried away with a 5 nought away from home victory, we absolutely must follow that up with a real 90 minute performance v Cambridge or else all it did was square up our goal difference.
Over the moon for Docherty, he is hiding a really good player in there and we saw some of it yesterday.
Come on you reds
This instead was the best we have played throughout 90 minutes for a long time, the best under the current regime.
The thing that I am also so pleased about is the scorers. Docherty needed that kind of performance, and bloody hell that was a real performance, the second goal was excellent right out the top drawer. TC got his first in the league, as did Leaburn, and that’s huge for them and their confidence. And Hylton came on and done something that would absolutely have happened to us if it was the other way around. Each of them needed their goals for different reasons and that’s huge going forward.
Defensively to have kept the amount of clean sheets we have this season when we were so poor last season is a big improvement and credit does need to be given for that.
I don’t like how NJ has mentioned the criticism etc because it’s been fully deserved and this one result doesn’t hide or paper over how poor it has been. Instead of talking about that criticism, speak of how pleased you are that it’s come together today and that this level of performance needs to be the catalyst for the rest of the season. His management of criticism is not healthy but that’s one moan out the way. Let’s hope he doesn’t need to face criticism in future and this is now the start of something positive.
4 points outside the play-offs with game in hand at the 20 game mark of the season, after the run we had been on, is not bad at all. A win on Boxing Day and we could be a couple of points away. It is achievable, but only with a level of consistency.
Time to really kick on now, but also let’s enjoy these moments because they’re not often. So well done to the team and the fans, I think we deserved that.