Alfie May - signed for Birmingham (p68 - Now Huddersfield )

Chunes said:

SporadicAddick said:

Chunes said:

The food at the training ground looks like a Butlins buffet

I was quite impressed that the poached eggs were still soft and runny despite clearly not being made to order.

If they have such things as poached eggs on a Butlin's buffet, I would wager that they would be harder and drier than something that's typically hard and dry.

The staff are no doubt capable and just working with the resources and budget they are given. Personally I would not be happy eating that food every day and was quite surprised by the look of it. 

In fairness there was quite a lot of variety:-

Toast, beans and egg
Egg beans and toast
Beans toast and egg
egg on toast
beans on toast
toast
Yoghurt
fruit
fruit and yoghurt
etc etc

In fact I think you could probably go a whole season without eating the same combination twice.

next year when we are in the championship, no doubt the menu will expand to include perhaps a variety of breads with which to create toast, such as brown, white, wholemeal, pumpernickel, tiger etc etc.

SporadicAddick said:

Chunes said:

SporadicAddick said:

Chunes said:

The food at the training ground looks like a Butlins buffet

I was quite impressed that the poached eggs were still soft and runny despite clearly not being made to order.

If they have such things as poached eggs on a Butlin's buffet, I would wager that they would be harder and drier than something that's typically hard and dry.

The staff are no doubt capable and just working with the resources and budget they are given. Personally I would not be happy eating that food every day and was quite surprised by the look of it. 

In fairness there was quite a lot of variety:-

Toast, beans and egg
Egg beans and toast
Beans toast and egg
egg on toast
beans on toast
toast
Yoghurt
fruit
fruit and yoghurt
etc etc

In fact I think you could probably go a whole season without eating the same combination twice.

next year when we are in the championship, no doubt the menu will expand to include perhaps a variety of breads with which to create toast, such as brown, white, wholemeal, pumpernickel, tiger etc etc.

We ran out of nice breads when Southall and his mates ate them all.

Mendonca In Asdas said:

Gotta love Alfie, needs to get himself the Costa app though, 1 free drink when you get to 10 drinks, could save himself a fortune!

And a reusable cup. I recommend Contigo no spill 

SporadicAddick said:

Chunes said:

SporadicAddick said:

Chunes said:

The food at the training ground looks like a Butlins buffet

I was quite impressed that the poached eggs were still soft and runny despite clearly not being made to order.

If they have such things as poached eggs on a Butlin's buffet, I would wager that they would be harder and drier than something that's typically hard and dry.

The staff are no doubt capable and just working with the resources and budget they are given. Personally I would not be happy eating that food every day and was quite surprised by the look of it. 

In fairness there was quite a lot of variety:-

Toast, beans and egg
Egg beans and toast
Beans toast and egg
egg on toast
beans on toast
toast
Yoghurt
fruit
fruit and yoghurt
etc etc

In fact I think you could probably go a whole season without the same combination twice.

next year when we are in the championship, no doubt the menu will expand to include perhaps a variety of breads with which to create toast, such as brown, white, wholemeal, pumpernickel, tiger etc etc.

Sounds like our centre backs last season.

FYI the circus Alfie went to is just a cheap and cheerful travelling circus that sticks around down here for a couple of months per year and it's definitely aimed at kids.  It's about £8 a ticket and an inexpensive night out with the family.  I'm going next week actually :-)

Love the bloke 

Callumcafc said:

Callumcafc said:

Callumcafc said:

Now joint 4th top scorer after last night’s brace

- Devante Cole (Barnsley): 9
- Jamie Reid (Stevenage): 8
- Dion Charles (Bolton): 7
- Alfie May: 6

Bishop (Pompey), Waghorn (Derby) and Wyke (Wigan) also on 6.

After today…

Cole 9
Bishop 8
Reid 8
Charles 7
May 7

Rhodes, Waghorn and Wyke all on 6.

October 21 update:

Cole 9
Bishop 8
Reid 8
Charles 8
May 8
Rhodes 8

I’m quite surprised Devante Cole didn’t get a move last summer .  Not a natural goal scorer but I’d have thought a good enough footballer to impact the championship 

Best signing for a fee we've had in more years than I can remember. 

Pavoren007 said:

He is a gem of a player and is becoming a real fans’ favourite. To be playing out of position and still knocking them in says all you need to know. Hard work, positive attitude, outgoing and always using his strongest attributes to our advantage. Love the guy and hope he gets a go at Championship level with us.

I wouldn't even say he's playing out of position, he's dropping dee  rather than playing as the striker furthest forward but looks equally comfortable in either role.

He's not playing as a 10 in the way Fraser would if we played him there. Watching the stream yesterday I thought he looked more like he was alongside Aneke rather than as the most attacking player in a midfield three.

Scoham said:

Pavoren007 said:

He is a gem of a player and is becoming a real fans’ favourite. To be playing out of position and still knocking them in says all you need to know. Hard work, positive attitude, outgoing and always using his strongest attributes to our advantage. Love the guy and hope he gets a go at Championship level with us.

I wouldn't even say he's playing out of position, he's dropping dee  rather than playing as the striker furthest forward but looks equally comfortable in either role.

He's not playing as a 10 in the way Fraser would if we played him there. Watching the stream yesterday I thought he looked more like he was alongside Aneke rather than as the most attacking player in a midfield three.

I see it as a 4231/442, playing through the middle May tends to drop deeper, when the balls out wide, pushing up more alongside the strike partner. 

He gets the coffee's in but doesn't have the Costa app for the loyalty pts!

Form is a funny thing and how it affects fans' perspective. Ask any Cheltenham fan on May's signing by us and they would have told us that we had bought an absolute gem of a footballer and goalscorer. But, after four games, he was in danger of becoming Charltonised when he failed to convert the limited opportunities he had but if he missed a sitter now then I'm sure most would accept that this was one of those things that happens to all strikers. Yet nothing whatsoever had changed so far as the level he has been playing at for the last three seasons or his work rate or his ability to bang in goals. It seems that he had to do it for us before some actually believed he is the player he is even though, unlike say a defender, everything that May had achieved was so easily quantifiable. 

So, perhaps we have been so traumatised and cynical given a lot of the somewhat unsuccessful transfers we have made that the immediate reaction is to consign a player to the "bin of dud signings". And perhaps, for that reason, we should give some players a bit more of a chance before we write them off especially as it does take many a little while before they start to show their true potential. We might have become Charltonised by all the goings on in the last decade or so but we probably could do better than take the players with us to that dark place. 

Addick Addict said:

Who was the last player, before May, to score 8 goals in 8 League games for us? I'm going for Andy Hunt purely because I recall him scoring two hat-tricks in consecutive matches

Andy Hunt 10 league goals in 10 games - January to March 2000

shirty5 said:

Addick Addict said:

Who was the last player, before May, to score 8 goals in 8 League games for us? I'm going for Andy Hunt purely because I recall him scoring two hat-tricks in consecutive matches

Derek Hales 16 league goals in his first 13 league games of the 1976/1977 season before he was then sold to Derby after 3 more league games in December 

That being the case, then May must have had the best start any Charlton player has had in the last 46 years. We were looking for a 20 goal a season man but if he stays fit, avoids suspension and retains his form, he could hit 30. He has 9 in 12 and needs 21 in 33 to achieve that. Tall order but if he can get 23 and 20 in the last two seasons for a side that, in total, have scored 4 goals this season, then, perhaps, that isn't out of the question (especially as I don't believe many of his there were penalties there).