POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic v Wrexham: Saturday 28th February 2026: KO 15:00

Tutt-Tutt said:

JamesSeed said:

Highlights showed two great blocks by Kayne and Collins.
But how did we not score after those chances for Berry, Clarke, Campbell and Carey?! I was at the game, but they looked even worse misses on the highlights. I'll excuse Carey from criticism though, because he struck the ball well and their keeper pulled of one helluva save. Berry could have swept the ball into the net withought taking that heavy touch. Clarke... aaagh! And Tupac had a pretty simple header.
Hopefully they'll learn from the improved performance though.

I was at that end of the West Stand. Berry froze. No composure. 

EastbourneAddick said:

The one where it was crossed low into the box and he put over the bar. 

Jeez, tough crowd.

That was a fantastic effort from Miles, a good first-time shot on a tight angle from a driven cross. He had to put some elevation on the strike to get it past the defender and make it more difficult for the keeper to stop it.

I put no blame on Miles for that attempt; if it goes in it's a speccy, if it doesn't it's understandable because it's so difficult.

Bailey said:

Sword65pf said:

As much as some don’t want to read this, like chuks, it’s not Reece Burkes fault he’s made of glass, but the club (NJ) for giving the contract, Burke is a good guy and will no doubt be as frustrated as us, but he shouldn’t be getting any stick, it’s just unfortunate. 

Who was giving Reece Burke stick then ? Who said it was his fault that he's made of glass ? You seem to be making up statements from a post by giving your interpretation of that post. Let me reiterate for you, it's clear that Reece Burke cannot be relied on to compete at this level, the club, who you and I agree, are the ones who took a chance on his fitness, and its not down to Reece Burke or his agent that they found a club willing to gamble on his fitness. The fact is that the club have taken on a player at the princely sum of £11000 a week, he has a two year contract, with an option of another year, nobody is suggesting that Reece Burke is doing anything wrong by seeing his contract out, but as I have pointed out, the club are now saddled with that wage for very little if any return on their investment with regards to his availability. His contract also has an indirect effect on what we may be able to bring in and whoever made the decision to sign needs, in my opinion, to have a serious look at themselves.   

Briston_Addick said:

EastbourneAddick said:

The one where it was crossed low into the box and he put over the bar. 

Jeez, tough crowd.

That was a fantastic effort from Miles, a good first-time shot on a tight angle from a driven cross. He had to put some elevation on the strike to get it past the defender and make it more difficult for the keeper to stop it.

I put no blame on Miles for that attempt; if it goes in it's a speccy, if it doesn't it's understandable because it's so difficult.

A lot of words to just say 'he missed' 

charltonbob said:

shine166 said:

charltonbob said:

shine166 said:

charltonbob said:

shine166 said:

Chunes said:

Bumped into their fans at London Bridge. What an odd and awful lot. Not a Welsh accent among them. A bunch of dribble-mouthed crusty jugglers. 

They were insufferable. Never had grief from any other fans after a game, did today though while on a train on my own. 

Were you dressed as a sheep ?

 No, but apparently calling one a sheep shsgging prick is racist, personally if of said ot was xenophobic, but didn't want to confuse.

 "No, but apparently calling one a sheep shsgging prick is racist" I didn't but how is that racist ???

"personally if of said ot was xenophobic, but didn't want to confuse." Erm ...... you just have   

Im on heavy duty medication atm for depression, thought id just delete my post. 

Thought the game was good, but had a very rough day mentally, when I probably should have just stayed at home with my family grieving. Ill try again in a few weeks.

Sorry to hear that mate & apologies if I've added to any distress    Wasn't my intention to upset you. I hope that you're soon in a much better place. Best Wishes.

Nah you're fine mate, I don't really even remember posting it. I did read people on reddit advising to stay off of sm after taking it lol. 

No offence taken here. Hoping il be in a better place for Norwich.

DamoNorthStand said:

Let’s look at the data in front of us. We have won 4 out of the last 22 league games (take Chelsea out as its obviously an anomaly). That’s a decent sample size - an 18pc win rate. 

So how many of those 22 did we draw? 6 - so 22pc.

We had some injuries in some of that and also some luck with things like sendings off but overall I think it all levels out.

lets say we need a max of 9 points to be safe (may be more but unlikely).

Presuming some draws - we need to win 2 games.

Thats 2 from 11. An 18pc win rate. Bang on what we achieved over the last 22.

And the 3 draws? That’s 27pc of remaining games if we keep up our win ratio and get two wins. 

Thats where things get tight, as we only got 22pc draws over the last 22.

So we are gonna need to step up and win 3 or dig in and convert a couple of defeats to draws.

When you park emotion and your natural pessimism / optimism (delete as appropriate) it’s gonna be bloody tight and I still maintain we are going to need to improve to stay up. 

That’s the thing. Within your sample we have improved. Because unless I’m wrong, the sample starts with the five game losing streak.

We have 9 points from our last 7 games, 12 from our last 10 and 14 from our last 12.

We need 9 from 11 to get to 50. If we have another five game losing streak we’re in big trouble. If we continue at the pace we’ve been going since Christmas we’ll land in the 52-55 range and be fine.

Lincsaddick said:

Only followed the game on the occasional skysports updates .. their pundit's comment (I paraphrase) that Charlton spent long periods well on top except for abysmal finishing seemed to sum up our season.  It seems we gave Wrexham a very hard time BUT still lost. To state the obvious, the search for and the signing of a consistent striker or two MUST be our priority over the summer, as must a total halt to the frequent signing of injury prone players, e.g. Burke  .. who decided to sign this injury prone waste of space ? .. not all his fault, but he has been a total waste of money .. Stop it !

It's not true though, that it sums up our season.

It was true on Saturday, but in most recent games we've not been on top, but have managed to nick a goal. We've not been a team that creates loads of chances, but misses them, we're a team which creates relatively little, but relies on clean sheets to get wins. Hence 9 of our 10 wins have been "clean sheet wins".

Crispywood said:

PeaksAndValleys said:

EastbourneAddick said:

Think we will just about stay up but......
All of our current strikers need to be replaced as soon as the season is over.
People keep saying that they are not getting Service from midfield - yesterday proved that even when they do they still don't score.

Am I missing something here? So many comments saying yesterday shows we need to replace our strikers. I don't think any of the good chances fell to them did they?

Miles had a half chance at the near post which would have been an outrageous finish. TC (who is a hybrid striker/winger anyway and so I'd say in a different category that isn't just about finishing) had a half chance where he didn't connect but might have been blocked anyway plus a header he should absolutely have scored but again he's not an aerial player.

The other two clear cut chances fell to our RWB and CM. Think it was just bad luck who got into the positions yesterday and what they did with it - if it's TC crossing for Dykes to head instead of vice versa we score, if it's anyone but Clarke we score, if its Carey or a striker instead of Berry I think we score. 

None of our forwards besides Godden have the footballing IQ to have good quality movement off the ball and ideal positioning to receive those chances. 

Berry horribly messed up for his chance and I reckon all our other forwards score that but I’d argue would any of them have been in that position in the first place where they have escaped their defender. 

TC is a winger, Leaburn tries to play as a winger, Dykes is not that typical goal scoring number 9 he plays as a more supporting forward, Kelman can only score when he’s spoonfed everything. 

Godden is our only natural finisher that has the ability to create for himself and knowing where to be and how to move. 

We don’t set up to have a striker who can bag 15-20 but we have definitely done more than enough for our forwards to have more than a combined 11 goals in 35 games 

Yeah I agree to an extent but a lot of that movement comes not just from IQ but from relationships and experience working together. No one seems to get any kind of run in the side to forge those and although he's not had huge game time, Godden hasn't been able to get a goal, or even really a decent chance that I can remember, which I put down partly to that relationship point and partly to how we set up, which I just think favours a box crashing 10 to score rather than forwards a lot of the time.

Get the impression I'm increasingly in a minority on here but I also think that's harsh on Kelman. The goals he's scored for us haven't been spoonfed, the Oxford one springs to mind which he created out of nothing. I think he flourishes in a system where he gets decent service, which he got last year and scored all kinds of goals based on clever movement in the box and being in the right place at the right time, as well as being very clinical.