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POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic v Lincoln City : Saturday 5th April 2025 : KO 15:00

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  • Bye bye 2nd place. Nevermind.

    A vision came to me today:
    Charlton v Stockport on penalties.  

    You heard it here first.
    Oh god i hope not. Can you imagine Chuks missing his and then Dixon scoring only for Ahadme to step up for the decider? 
    To be fair to Ahadme he's taken 7 senior career penalties. Scored 5 missed 2. Though one he scored was against us so maybe that doesn't count..
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    Jones has to take the blame for playing Anderson in an unsuitable position and the credit for fixing it at half time.  Chuks made a big difference and showed again that he has a role to play for the rest of the season. We always have a chance with Godden on the pitch and I still can't believe their keeper saved his header.

    The defence looked shaky today and showed how much we do miss Jones when he's out. After a promising game against Mansfield, McIntyre was disappointing and got brushed off far too easily for their second goal.

    Love how we rallied after their second goal and we could easily have won it. I thought the ref had a stinker, hopefully we don't get him in the play-offs (yes, we are definitely going to make those).

    Lincoln played well, especially in the first half where they targeted Coventry to stop our attacks from formulating. They were hanging on for most of the second half with lots of frustrating timewasting that we would have lapped up in the same position.
  • Disappointing to drop 2 points at home but we probably would have taken a draw and a win from Mansfield and Lincoln given our current injuries to attacking players. Just happened the other way round to expected.
  • Poor management today. The starting XI was ok but the formation was never going to work. If we were going with that XI, it had to be 3-5--1-1.

    Anderson was a 2/10 but a lot of that wasn't his fault. Poor sod....completely sold down the river.

    On the plus side....well done for coming back and nearly nicking it.

    Downside....just shows how much we miss Jones and Campbell. The squad feels thin. 
  • Lincoln did what Lincoln do, no surprises there. We were off it, a disjointed performance. But after hearing NJ's post-match comments he's said he ballsed up and I can live with that. Could turn out to be an important point gained.
  • I was watching Karoy during the warm up........ you know, the bit where they're in 2 teams and trying to pass quickly to each other......... I have to say he really impressed me, his control was good, was quick, turned his man a few times and laying it off well...... I was really quite impressed.  
    Now I know it wasn't for real and all that but I do think there's a player in there and one who's much better than we saw in the first half. 
    Driving home I was thinking that these tremendous runs of form like the one we've been on haven't come round too many times in the years I've been a Charlton supporter so I'm going to enjoy it for what it is and hope things can carry on pretty much the way they've been until the end of the season and to the end of the playoffs!
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  • I don’t think not having TC or Jones today was the problem - it was the formation / line up at the start - NJ quite simply got it completely wrong, particularly where he played Anderson - we were Lambs to the slaughter first half, against a pretty limited oppo

    He changed it at half time, and also during 2nd half, and we were by far the better side 2nd half, who had numerous chances - other than our 2 goals - to win it handsomely, but for some very good saves by their keeper 

    Lincoln time wasting was not punished sufficiently by an awful Ref

    Chalk it down as a bad day at the office, but not a disaster

    Was 2nd place ‘a thing’ for us - well I dreamed for a bit - but when you stand back and factor in that terrible run we had late last year, then to be where we are is pretty amazing

    Let’s put Cambridge to the sword next Saturday, and today can be consigned to tomorrows fish and chip paper  
    Blimey when was the last time you went to the chippie ?  :D
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    Shout out to the that infront of me in Row A of the West Lower who kept standing up so I couldn't see. I asked him to sit down and he told me to stand up too, then when I showed him my crutches and told him I couldn't, he got mouthy and told me I wasn't a Charlton fan as I wasn't standing up. What weird and sad behaviour 
    Sorry to hear you are on crutches mate but, what is a "that"...🙄
  • Probably meant ‘twat’
  • A silly thing but the very last thing in the game was a long Edwards throw.  I was sat saying to the person next to me " he cannot throw it that far" as our players all were in the middle of the 6 yard box. He threw it, our players were no where near and it was headed clear.
    It happens every game.  When it is your team mate taking the throw, you should be able to stand in the very spot he throws it to.  It's bizarre in professional football how often our players get that wrong. 
  • Probably meant ‘twat’
    I did, blame autocorrect on my phone!

    I was tempted to ask him if he's been to Leeds, Port Vale, Morecambe and Doncaster on a Tuesday night but I didn't wanna embarrass him.
  • A silly thing but the very last thing in the game was a long Edwards throw.  I was sat saying to the person next to me " he cannot throw it that far" as our players all were in the middle of the 6 yard box. He threw it, our players were no where near and it was headed clear.
    It happens every game.  When it is your team mate taking the throw, you should be able to stand in the very spot he throws it to.  It's bizarre in professional football how often our players get that wrong. 
    Agreed. Edwards has a longish throw....not a long throw. Normally a nice free header for a savvy defender standing 6 yards ahead of our nearest man.

    Their geezer today had a better throw.

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  • Was looking forward to a win today, but at 0-2 with 30 minutes to go we turned up and won a point.  cant argue with that. We had lost the 3 on the hour, 1 point rescued, could have nicked it.  Not many of us were realistically talking play-offs last year, we didn’t lose and on to the next one. COYR 
  • A point closer to third place than we started today, but frustrating - felt like that winner was coming but we ran out of time.
  • I find it a bit baffling sometimes with how we play Thierry Small. Today was probably a good time to let him swap wings, even for a short time, getting him back on his natural left foot may have opened them up in the first half, and if you did that from the start and have Watson play as the other wing back, nobody is played out of their natural position. Instead we play Anderson in a position totally alien to him, poor bugger. 
  • hermann said:

    Ball hoofed into the upper West

    A rate occurrence, but has the ball ever reached the upper Covered End?
  • I'm not saying I feel sorry for Tom McIntyre - that "tackle" would have made Scott Fraser blush - but bloody hell. You sit on the bench since January, and then get thrown in at Mansfield to replace our best defender, you win plaudits from Brownie and MOMs from a lot of fans, your manager says you were "outstanding" , and you respond with an interview praising him to the heavens, and saying you'd run through a brick wall for him. Then in your second game, where your midfield has gone missing in action, you mess up, leading to a crucial second goal, and your manager very publicly holds you responsible by subbing you in favour of a player whose underperformances were the reason you were brought in in January. And the same fans who made you MOM on Tuesday now say you are "not up to it".

    I mean, was he that bad in the first half? And what are we going to do if LJ doesn't recover as quickly as we hope?

    It was the sort of error that gets you hung out to dry
  • Fair result IMO we were not at it today…last week we came storming out of the box …much tamer today 
  • A silly thing but the very last thing in the game was a long Edwards throw.  I was sat saying to the person next to me " he cannot throw it that far" as our players all were in the middle of the 6 yard box. He threw it, our players were no where near and it was headed clear.
    It happens every game.  When it is your team mate taking the throw, you should be able to stand in the very spot he throws it to.  It's bizarre in professional football how often our players get that wrong. 
    He clearly stepped over the line…every long throw today did…they don’t blow for it it seems
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