Covered End Support

It’ll help Charlton if it helps get Adkins the boot!

Demographics. 

Interesting that there were no boos at the end. Not that I could hear anyway. There were at HT so the crowd appreciated the 2nd half effort. 

From the first Wigan goal going in and the resulting chants to present day, the supporters in the Covered End are disappointing me.

jonseventyfive said:

I'm probably wrong, but is the CE amplified by any chance, there does appear to be one or two microphones in the roof. 

No probably cause there is twice the number of home support behind the goal than the half full East and West Stands

It pains me when I hear the  covered end turn so early like today.  Clare's rousing goal celebration was telling for me, he spent most of the first half warming up so  must have heard all the negative vibes.

The covered end choir is the 12th man. We have to be unified to get through this.

I thought the atmosphere was great yesterday. However to ‘boo’ when the other team score early with their first shot (and it was a pretty decent strike), is pure pantomime I’m afraid. Booing when the other team score has never been a thing and is embarrassing 

billysboots said:

It almost seems as if we can’t wait for something to go wrong. 

Let’s get behind the players durning the game. 

Support the team not the regime.

It's where we are, little connection to the team/players, expectation that we're going to roll over and have our tummy's tickled every game. A manager who seems woefully out of his depth. We're losing most games before the whistle is blown due to the team selection, formation and sticking to what Adkins believes is the way to play regardless of the personnel available.

All of that leads to negativity pretty quickly.

For instance Adkins said we changed formation after 15 minutes (not sure I readily saw that) - but the question there is why would you need to change after 15 minutes and need to take a central midfielder off after 45, one reason and one reason only, he got the tactics, formation and players completely wrong, again.

Not like Portsmouth suddenly started fighting south paw to fool us....... don't forget Portsmouth themselves hadn't won since 17th August. They had four straight defeats then a draw before us, the draw was only because they scored in 90+5.

Bolton were unlucky not to get something at Sunderland yesterday, if we continue as we have been, they'll whip us on Tuesday. They'll play a version of 451 so expect our midfield to get overrun when we play a version of 4 0.5 1 2 2.5 or whatever masterplan Adkins comes up with next to only need to change it after 10 minutes when we go a goal down.

jonseventyfive said:

I'm probably wrong, but is the CE amplified by any chance, there does appear to be one or two microphones in the roof. 

The first time I noticed them was sometime when we were in the Premiership, so probably around 2000. I'm not sure that there's a connection but I always though it was because somebody did a report on comparative noise levels in the stands at premiership grounds (it was probably a promotional gimmick by some company or another). Again, don't quote me on this, but if I remember correctly The Covered End was second on a per-head basis to Leicester.  

cafc999 said:

Part of the problem is that we are to slow going forward. As soon as we get going the ball goes backwards

Partly true. Pearce yesterday had 3 plays in his locker. Back to the GK, punt upfield in the general direction of Stockley or get caught in possession and fall over. I get people are frustrated, beer is flowing pre game and everyones expectation is we are in the Top 6. However, booing mid game is really not the answer. A team depleted of confidence Booed by their own fans is never gonna turn out well. Yesterday, they rallied themselves for the 2nd half but I put that down to Adkins team talk formation change and subs rather than the boo boys in the stadium.