POST-MATCH THREAD: Cheltenham Town vs Charlton Athletic: Tuesday 5th March 2024 KO 19:45

AppyAddick said:

A great evening, great atmosphere and even a rendition of Goodbye Horse at halftime 

That was quite random. As I was having a piss at the time, had wondered what triggered it!

killerandflash said:

AppyAddick said:

A great evening, great atmosphere and even a rendition of Goodbye Horse at halftime 

That was quite random. As I was having a piss at the time, had wondered what triggered it!

They had the racing gold Cup going round in advance of next week with someone in a horse costume if I remember right

JamesSeed said:

hezzla said:

Relief last night at FT.  Tinge of sadness this morning.  What a wasted season this has been... 9 points from the last 5 games against some really good sides, all brought about by... being energetic and doing the basics well.  Even accounting for injuries, it's a scandal that this group of players have ever been flirting with the drop.  We should have walked into the playoffs this year. 

Excited to see what Jones can do with a few extra faces and a proper pre-season in them. 

Coventry, Gillesphey, Edmonds-Green, Small, Ramsay and Bakinson weren’t here earlier in the season, and they’ve made a big difference. 

Despite all the stick Scott got in January and February it appears to have been a pretty good window. 

 
January was a good window considering you are only getting players who's career's have stagnated for various reasons or are young who needs games.

Many showing with games they are decent now match fit.

I personally never criticised Andy Scott for the January window as many of the players had good pedigrees BUT he was the main man who thought Michael Appleton was the right fit for a club on the slide.

He was 100% wrong and that was a poor judgement call.

JamesSeed said:

hezzla said:

Relief last night at FT.  Tinge of sadness this morning.  What a wasted season this has been... 9 points from the last 5 games against some really good sides, all brought about by... being energetic and doing the basics well.  Even accounting for injuries, it's a scandal that this group of players have ever been flirting with the drop.  We should have walked into the playoffs this year. 

Excited to see what Jones can do with a few extra faces and a proper pre-season in them. 

Coventry, Gillesphey, Edmonds-Green, Small, Ramsay and Bakinson weren’t here earlier in the season, and they’ve made a big difference. 

Despite all the stick Scott got in January and February it appears to have been a pretty good window. 

I don't disagree to be honest, I think it's looking like a good window.  Think they've all been terrific and Small in particular looks like a steal.  But look at Anderson, Thomas, Kanu, Watson etc, and compare performances pre- and post-Jones.  It's night and day.  Even with the squad we had in December, coached properly we should have been more than capable of competing up the top end of this division imo. 

soapboxsam said:

JamesSeed said:

hezzla said:

Relief last night at FT.  Tinge of sadness this morning.  What a wasted season this has been... 9 points from the last 5 games against some really good sides, all brought about by... being energetic and doing the basics well.  Even accounting for injuries, it's a scandal that this group of players have ever been flirting with the drop.  We should have walked into the playoffs this year. 

Excited to see what Jones can do with a few extra faces and a proper pre-season in them. 

Coventry, Gillesphey, Edmonds-Green, Small, Ramsay and Bakinson weren’t here earlier in the season, and they’ve made a big difference. 

Despite all the stick Scott got in January and February it appears to have been a pretty good window. 

 
January was a good window considering you are only getting players who's career's have stagnated for various reasons or are young who needs games.

Many showing with games they are decent now match fit.

I personally never criticised Andy Scott for the January window as many of the players had good pedigrees BUT he was the main man who thought Michael Appleton was the right fit for a club on the slide.

He was 100% wrong and that was a poor judgement call.

Clearly 👍

Appleton was always going to be a disaster 99% of the supporters knew that. I honestly don’t think even he wanted to be here and was just taking a wage. The bloke has a losing mentality especially when you consider he actually thought draws or narrow losses were a good result against “top top teams” like Lincoln etc this squad has always under performed this season and should be easily in the playoff positions a totally wasted season imo but onwards and upwards next season NJ will romp this league 

oohaahmortimer said:

I was sat in the Criterion theatre falling asleep watching some wanky (I’m not educated enough for this shit ) version of Merchant of Venice, wear that Shakespeare you West Country mug, no 

West county mug, lol

Bollox did he write that one anyway - con artist who mugged everyone off. Never even went to Italy.

A pretty poor game of football but the result is all and an absolutely vital win which puts us 7 points clear of the bottom 4. But for the late error on Saturday, we'd have won 3 away games on the bounce, which is a hell of a turnaround, given that we'd only managed 1 out of the previous 15. That tells you something about a manager who has got the players going full throttle.

After 15 minutes of unadulterated hoof ball, we settled down and Dobson, Coventry and Watson combined exceptionally well for Kanu to finish with aplomb. After that, we missed a succession of chances - principally Alfie May but also Thierry Small's header at the far post - and somehow went in only 1-0 up. Most of us were probably thinking that, in the typical Charlton manner, we'd come to rue those misses. Sure enough, Cheltenham came out and gave it a real go in the second half, as we retreated into our shell and started to look leggy as the game wore on. We looked nervous at the back for most of the evening and after conceding a poor equaliser, I'd have been happy with a point, given what was at stake in this game. Happily, we managed to put the game to bed in the last 5 or 10 minutes, which came as an enormous relief.

The result sets us up beautifully for the Carlisle game on Saturday. Without taking anything for granted, another win will push us towards the calmer waters of mid table and provide some further optimism that the team is moving in the right direction. We can also stop nervously checking the results of teams like Port Vale, Cheltenham and Shrewsbury, which is not quite what I envisaged I'd be doing last August.

ShootersHillGuru said:

soapboxsam said:

JamesSeed said:

hezzla said:

Relief last night at FT.  Tinge of sadness this morning.  What a wasted season this has been... 9 points from the last 5 games against some really good sides, all brought about by... being energetic and doing the basics well.  Even accounting for injuries, it's a scandal that this group of players have ever been flirting with the drop.  We should have walked into the playoffs this year. 

Excited to see what Jones can do with a few extra faces and a proper pre-season in them. 

Coventry, Gillesphey, Edmonds-Green, Small, Ramsay and Bakinson weren’t here earlier in the season, and they’ve made a big difference. 

Despite all the stick Scott got in January and February it appears to have been a pretty good window. 

 
January was a good window considering you are only getting players who's career's have stagnated for various reasons or are young who needs games.

Many showing with games they are decent now match fit.

I personally never criticised Andy Scott for the January window as many of the players had good pedigrees BUT he was the main man who thought Michael Appleton was the right fit for a club on the slide.

He was 100% wrong and that was a poor judgement call.

I get the impression that Appleton was chosen because the SMT thought he was a safe pair of hands and kept the budget low. When it became obvious that things were going spectacularly wrong I think the owners took advice outside of the SMT and decided to get hands on. I suspect Scott is under more scrutiny than he previously was. 

100%

Hopefully we have the foundations now to get out of the relegation mire.

However, my concern is still with the SMT and Andy Scott. 

Setting aside the vague messaging to fans, then a power point presentation that your 14 year old could produce better, ticket prices, clubs shop etc. All need an overhaul. 

Then you come to the recruitment which has been the worst I've ever seen in 50 years. 

Not only did we manage to bring in a few injured players, we also bought in a few ex injured and soon to be injured but to top that our Board said yes to bringing in some players that had less time on the pitch in 2 seasons than the blokes taking the Crossbar Challenge!

Nathan Jones has already shown what's he capable of and hopefully we will finish well but that should not allow the SMT/Scott to get a free pass. 

There has to be consequences for ending up in this position in the first place and I hope Nathan gets far more control of player recruitment if we are to progress. 

If nothing else the Owners must have realised by now that you cannot do League 1 football on the cheap. 

peterreeves said:

Hopefully we have the foundations now to get out of the relegation mire.

However, my concern is still with the SMT and Andy Scott. 

Setting aside the vague messaging to fans, then a power point presentation that your 14 year old could produce better, ticket prices, clubs shop etc. All need an overhaul. 

Then you come to the recruitment which has been the worst I've ever seen in 50 years. 

Not only did we manage to bring in a few injured players, we also bought in a few ex injured and soon to be injured but to top that our Board said yes to bringing in some players that had less time on the pitch in 2 seasons than the blokes taking the Crossbar Challenge!

Nathan Jones has already shown what's he capable of and hopefully we will finish well but that should not allow the SMT/Scott to get a free pass. 

There has to be consequences for ending up in this position in the first place and I hope Nathan gets far more control of player recruitment if we are to progress. 

If nothing else the Owners must have realised by now that you cannot do League 1 football on the cheap. 

I believe that Jones will get the say on who comes in and who goes. If Scott is still here then his job would be to approach and negotiate fees and wages paid, but as in the case of Ramsey and Small, if Jones wants them then the club will set the wheels in motion. It's also interesting to see the players not used by Nathan Jones since his arrival, Edun has been benched, Taylor and Louie Watson, have either not featured or slipped down the order and Fiorini has never been anywhere near a first team place. I don't expect Taylor or Edun to be here in August and the loanee's certainly won't, with the players out of contract, the current 29 man squad will be reduced to 17 by the pre season.   

Kinsella87 said:

Fuck Appleton

I’ll pass but unquestionably he managed to get the squad prior to the transfer window to do that to him. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

When we got the ball down our passing game was too much for them. Should have been three up by half time. League position much improved; however, as Brownie said post-match, we have to maintain the work rate shown in the last few games against Carlisle, or the excellent results will count for nothing.