Those of you who were not bothered about the Swiss Tony cup because it was crap, and now not bothered about the League Cup because we won’t win it, will presumably want us eliminated from the FA cup at the first possible opportunity as we won’t win that? Are you convinced that without that “unnecessary” interference we will get promoted to the Premier League? Or is the entire ambition you hold for the Addicks is to finish 17th in the Championship? And if we do get promoted to the EPL, will you be disappointed as we might get humped 6-0 by Arsenal?
Tonight you saw AMB without the benefit of a solid back 3 in front of him, he really shouldn't play for us again. Knibbs, JRC, Anderson, Gillesphey, Mitchell all terrible,. hopefully just a bad day at the office. Kelman and Olaofe had some moments but Leaburn and TC start on Saturday for sure. Only Fullah advanced his cause today.
On the plus side, had tickets for the match but van has started playing up and had a work meeting later than expected so watched at home instead. Not now driving back from cambridge so have saved at least 1hr 45 of being pissed off at a poorly structured first half performance, expected better of Knibbs and rankin-costello in particular, poor defensively from Mitchell and not much from Tanto....
slightly better second half but still overall pretty poor.
I don't think it's unreasonable for people to be disappointed that they've wasted an evening and shelled out decent money for what could have been an u23 line up.
If you're just turning the channel over and making yourself a cup of tea at the FT whistle, you're far less likely to be arsed.
Most disappointing thing for me was how poor the senior players looked. No one staked a claim to be included from the off on Saturday.
I dunno, if you're being thrown into a game with some youngsters and given no motivation to actually win the game I imagine it's more about fitness for some of them.
The majority of the goals conceded were down to the kids at the back anyway.
I don't think it's unreasonable for people to be disappointed that they've wasted an evening and shelled out decent money for what could have been an u23 line up.
If you're just turning the channel over and making yourself a cup of tea at the FT whistle, you're far less likely to be arsed.
Most disappointing thing for me was how poor the senior players looked. No one staked a claim to be included from the off on Saturday.
Sorry to labour the point but who should have played then ?
The prize was a potential money spinning 3rd round draw.
Money spinning? lol!
Slim chance of getting a top team, who'd play their own kids, might get a fuller stadium as a result, but still little revenue from that, whilst winning tonight would have given us a whopping: £7k
As one of the few countries in Europe with multiple Domestic Tournaments across the Professional Leagues, its a competition that is barely worth its existence now, the prize of playing in Europe (which was obsolete anyway, because Newcastle got in the Champions League), is basically it.
Those of you who were not bothered about the Swiss Tony cup because it was crap, and now not bothered about the League Cup because we won’t win it, will presumably want us eliminated from the FA cup at the first possible opportunity as we won’t win that? Are you convinced that without that “unnecessary” interference we will get promoted to the Premier League? Or is the entire ambition you hold for the Addicks is to finish 17th in the Championship? And if we do get promoted to the EPL, will you be disappointed as we might get humped 6-0 by Arsenal?
I don't think it's unreasonable for people to be disappointed that they've wasted an evening and shelled out decent money for what could have been an u23 line up.
If you're just turning the channel over and making yourself a cup of tea at the FT whistle, you're far less likely to be arsed.
Most disappointing thing for me was how poor the senior players looked. No one staked a claim to be included from the off on Saturday.
Sorry to labour the point but who should have played then ?
No issue with the starting 11 but I think we should have had some experience on the bench. Maybe Leaburn and Doc/Coventry.
No real problems with the starting line up but that subs bench was a disgrace. Picking 2 kids who had played for the U21s earlier in the day is a complete piss take.
And what has come out of this charade? Kelman has gone another game without a goal and Olaofe and Knibbs gained nothing from playing tonight.
And as for the kids? Let's be honest, apart from Fullah none of them should be anywhere near our Championship first team. And Mitchell looks hopelessly overrated.
A rubbish evening all round and Jones needs to have a good look at himself in the mirror tonight.
About what you'd expect with that amount of youth players in the side. NJ clearly wanted out, although he will likely say otherwise.
Most disappointed with the senior players who were, almost to a man, passive and lifeless.
I couldn't give a crap about drawing a prem team, so I'm not too bothered about this competition, but I'd be angry if I travelled to watch that.
Chunes, if I were to have made that journey, I don't think I would expect to see too many first team players in the line up, please tell me who would you have put in that team ?
I didn't mean I expected more first-team players. I meant that with that many kids in the side, the result/performance is about what you'd expect.
I know a lot of youngsters in the team but with Knibbs, Olaofe, Kelman etc & fees paid for Gillesphey & Rankin-Costello etc, must have been £6-7 million+ out there tonight, still would have expected a better performance at least!
Those of you who were not bothered about the Swiss Tony cup because it was crap, and now not bothered about the League Cup because we won’t win it, will presumably want us eliminated from the FA cup at the first possible opportunity as we won’t win that? Are you convinced that without that “unnecessary” interference we will get promoted to the Premier League? Or is the entire ambition you hold for the Addicks is to finish 17th in the Championship? And if we do get promoted to the EPL, will you be disappointed as we might get humped 6-0 by Arsenal?
Would you be happy with a Third Round tie, getting dicked 6-0 by Arsenal, and relegation from the Championship, because of the extra games that we've had to play? - Which competition out of all those that we have to play in, is the priority this season?
Championship survival is all that matters, all those with their opinion about tonight's defeat will be the first to voice their opinion about being back in a League that we all bloody well hate, and clearly isn't easy to get out of.
Cards stay in the competition they are received in.
Good job we aren't going through to the next round.
“red cards transcend England's domestic competitions. If a player were to receive a ban for a red card shown in a Carabao Cup clash, they would miss their team's next game, whatever domestic competition that may be”
Those of you who were not bothered about the Swiss Tony cup because it was crap, and now not bothered about the League Cup because we won’t win it, will presumably want us eliminated from the FA cup at the first possible opportunity as we won’t win that? Are you convinced that without that “unnecessary” interference we will get promoted to the Premier League? Or is the entire ambition you hold for the Addicks is to finish 17th in the Championship? And if we do get promoted to the EPL, will you be disappointed as we might get humped 6-0 by Arsenal?
Would you be happy with a Third Round tie, getting dicked 6-0 by Arsenal, and relegation from the Championship, because of the extra games that we've had to play?
Does a third round match guarantee relegation? Must have missed that addition to the rules.
I'm just looking forward to QPR now. Seeing as we will have 11 rested players we should hammer them....yes ?
You can’t honestly be that dense can you? Seriously?
You wouldn't recognise sarcasm if it ran up your leg & tweaked your nose.
that’s not sarcasm though? It makes no sense? What are you being sarcastic about?
No one said resting the players guaranteed a win on Saturday? No one
Paging Mr Pot… Mr Pot… a call on line four from a Mr Kettle for you… 😉😂
Genuinely understand I’m not everyone’s cup of tea, just a bit confused about Golfie being sarcastic about something no one actually said in the first place.
Those of you who were not bothered about the Swiss Tony cup because it was crap, and now not bothered about the League Cup because we won’t win it, will presumably want us eliminated from the FA cup at the first possible opportunity as we won’t win that? Are you convinced that without that “unnecessary” interference we will get promoted to the Premier League? Or is the entire ambition you hold for the Addicks is to finish 17th in the Championship? And if we do get promoted to the EPL, will you be disappointed as we might get humped 6-0 by Arsenal?
Would you be happy with a Third Round tie, getting dicked 6-0 by Arsenal, and relegation from the Championship, because of the extra games that we've had to play?
Does a third round match guarantee relegation? Must have missed that addition to the rules.
Come on, don't be pedantic, you know what I mean!! - The longer the season goes on, the more and more running they'll have to do, to keep up with the fitness of the Championship will take effort out of the players.
Already we're pointing out how knackered the likes of Campbell looks come FT in League games
If we can play the minimum of 49-games this season, and finish 21st, its a success.
No one upset about tonight will truly give a rats arse about this defeat.
Those of you who were not bothered about the Swiss Tony cup because it was crap, and now not bothered about the League Cup because we won’t win it, will presumably want us eliminated from the FA cup at the first possible opportunity as we won’t win that? Are you convinced that without that “unnecessary” interference we will get promoted to the Premier League? Or is the entire ambition you hold for the Addicks is to finish 17th in the Championship? And if we do get promoted to the EPL, will you be disappointed as we might get humped 6-0 by Arsenal?
Would you be happy with a Third Round tie, getting dicked 6-0 by Arsenal, and relegation from the Championship, because of the extra games that we've had to play?
Does a third round match guarantee relegation? Must have missed that addition to the rules.
Come on, don't be pedantic, you know what I mean!! - The longer the season goes on, the more and more running they'll have to do, to keep up with the fitness of the Championship will take effort out of the players
If we can play the minimum of 49-games this season, and finish 21st, its a success.
No one upset about tonight will truly give a rats arse about this defeat.
Win on Saturday and I will have forgotten all about today. Just winds me up that plenty of other teams manage to compete in multiple competitions each season while we fold at pretty much the first opportunity every time.
Ah well. Not a massively different team to the Stevenage game but the difference was two youngsters in the backline who had poor games. Gillesphey didn't show a lot of leadership along that line which is disappointing and it was too big an ask for Mitchell for play that central role without experience either side of him. JRC didn't exactly bring calm to the middle either, got caught on the ball too much and Knibbs was a bit of a passenger. Kelman did ok but Olaofe was pretty poor, if anyone wondered why TC has started every league game think about how much he gets on the ball and how positive he is and how ineffective Tanto was tonight. I didn't think Rylah was great against Stevenage but he offered more than Hobden who was out of his depth. AMB is poor and I don't see the point in playing your third choice keeper in the cup. Fullah is fun though!
Cambridge were strong today and our young lads got bundled off the ball a lot. So much of our game is not letting that happen and being strong and aggressive so the more kids we brought on the worse it got. It's nothing to really be worried about because a lot of terrible things will have to happen for the likes of Hobden and Gough to start but it's a disappointing result. All tonight really told us is Jones has been getting his league selections right so far, which on balance is a positive thing
Those of you who were not bothered about the Swiss Tony cup because it was crap, and now not bothered about the League Cup because we won’t win it, will presumably want us eliminated from the FA cup at the first possible opportunity as we won’t win that? Are you convinced that without that “unnecessary” interference we will get promoted to the Premier League? Or is the entire ambition you hold for the Addicks is to finish 17th in the Championship? And if we do get promoted to the EPL, will you be disappointed as we might get humped 6-0 by Arsenal?
Would you be happy with a Third Round tie, getting dicked 6-0 by Arsenal, and relegation from the Championship, because of the extra games that we've had to play? - Which competition out of all those that we have to play in, is the priority this season?
Championship survival is all that matters, all those with their opinion about tonight's defeat will be the first to voice their opinion about being back in a League that we all bloody well hate, and clearly isn't easy to get out of.
You and I pretty much normally sing from the same hymn sheet, tonight is an exception FA. We can agree to disagree on this one.
Those of you who were not bothered about the Swiss Tony cup because it was crap, and now not bothered about the League Cup because we won’t win it, will presumably want us eliminated from the FA cup at the first possible opportunity as we won’t win that? Are you convinced that without that “unnecessary” interference we will get promoted to the Premier League? Or is the entire ambition you hold for the Addicks is to finish 17th in the Championship? And if we do get promoted to the EPL, will you be disappointed as we might get humped 6-0 by Arsenal?
Would you be happy with a Third Round tie, getting dicked 6-0 by Arsenal, and relegation from the Championship, because of the extra games that we've had to play?
Does a third round match guarantee relegation? Must have missed that addition to the rules.
Come on, don't be pedantic, you know what I mean!! - The longer the season goes on, the more and more running they'll have to do, to keep up with the fitness of the Championship will take effort out of the players
If we can play the minimum of 49-games this season, and finish 21st, its a success.
No one upset about tonight will truly give a rats arse about this defeat.
Win on Saturday and I will have forgotten all about today. Just winds me up that plenty of other teams manage to compete in multiple competitions each season while we fold at pretty much the first opportunity every time.
Dont even care if we win on Saturday or not... Its the season as a whole, that needs to be looked at, not just the one game - We'll go into Saturday with about eleven players who have had the week off from match action, QPR will go into Saturday not having played at all this midweek.
If QPR win, does it mean that we shouldnt even have bothered against Stevenage?
About what you'd expect with that amount of youth players in the side. NJ clearly wanted out, although he will likely say otherwise.
Most disappointed with the senior players who were, almost to a man, passive and lifeless.
I couldn't give a crap about drawing a prem team, so I'm not too bothered about this competition, but I'd be angry if I travelled to watch that.
Chunes, if I were to have made that journey, I don't think I would expect to see too many first team players in the line up, please tell me who would you have put in that team ?
I didn't mean I expected more first-team players. I meant that with that many kids in the side, the result/performance is about what you'd expect.
I probably agree with that but I would suggest that the experience was invaluable to the kids, so it's probably a long term benefit, maybe.
Those of you who were not bothered about the Swiss Tony cup because it was crap, and now not bothered about the League Cup because we won’t win it, will presumably want us eliminated from the FA cup at the first possible opportunity as we won’t win that? Are you convinced that without that “unnecessary” interference we will get promoted to the Premier League? Or is the entire ambition you hold for the Addicks is to finish 17th in the Championship? And if we do get promoted to the EPL, will you be disappointed as we might get humped 6-0 by Arsenal?
Would you be happy with a Third Round tie, getting dicked 6-0 by Arsenal, and relegation from the Championship, because of the extra games that we've had to play?
Does a third round match guarantee relegation? Must have missed that addition to the rules.
Come on, don't be pedantic, you know what I mean!! - The longer the season goes on, the more and more running they'll have to do, to keep up with the fitness of the Championship will take effort out of the players
If we can play the minimum of 49-games this season, and finish 21st, its a success.
No one upset about tonight will truly give a rats arse about this defeat.
Win on Saturday and I will have forgotten all about today. Just winds me up that plenty of other teams manage to compete in multiple competitions each season while we fold at pretty much the first opportunity every time.
Dont even care if we win on Saturday or not... Its the season as a whole, that needs to be looked at, not just the one game - We'll go into Saturday with about eleven players who have had the week off from match action, QPR will go into Saturday not having played at all this midweek.
If QPR win, does it mean that we shouldnt even have bothered against Stevenage?
I think the point that you make about it being a long season is what I’ve been (badly) trying to get at all night.
come feb when there’s knocks in the squad and we’re trying to secure a nice comfortable mid table spot, I reckon we’ll all appreciate a few less games that need to be played
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slightly better second half but still overall pretty poor.
The majority of the goals conceded were down to the kids at the back anyway.
Slim chance of getting a top team, who'd play their own kids, might get a fuller stadium as a result, but still little revenue from that, whilst winning tonight would have given us a whopping: £7k
As one of the few countries in Europe with multiple Domestic Tournaments across the Professional Leagues, its a competition that is barely worth its existence now, the prize of playing in Europe (which was obsolete anyway, because Newcastle got in the Champions League), is basically it.
No real problems with the starting line up but that subs bench was a disgrace. Picking 2 kids who had played for the U21s earlier in the day is a complete piss take.
And what has come out of this charade? Kelman has gone another game without a goal and Olaofe and Knibbs gained nothing from playing tonight.
And as for the kids? Let's be honest, apart from Fullah none of them should be anywhere near our Championship first team. And Mitchell looks hopelessly overrated.
A rubbish evening all round and Jones needs to have a good look at himself in the mirror tonight.
have been £6-7 million+ out there tonight, still would have expected a better performance at least!
Championship survival is all that matters, all those with their opinion about tonight's defeat will be the first to voice their opinion about being back in a League that we all bloody well hate, and clearly isn't easy to get out of.
Already we're pointing out how knackered the likes of Campbell looks come FT in League games
If we can play the minimum of 49-games this season, and finish 21st, its a success.
No one upset about tonight will truly give a rats arse about this defeat.
If QPR win, does it mean that we shouldnt even have bothered against Stevenage?
come feb when there’s knocks in the squad and we’re trying to secure a nice comfortable mid table spot, I reckon we’ll all appreciate a few less games that need to be played