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POST-MATCH THREAD: Portsmouth vs Charlton Athletic - Monday 29th December 2025 - 7:45pm Kick-Off

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  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 11,285
    Commentators said Bell was limping at the end as well.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 25,039
    The Red Robin said:
    AndyG said:
    Fortunately the points we managed to get at the start of the season means we still have a gap but we really need NJ to sort this out. I think he will and we will be fine but I really hope he isn’t too stubborn to try a different plan. 
    The concern is, it needs a drastic change. Will he do it?
    No . He’s far to set in his ways . 
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,569
    edited December 2025
    Off_it said:
    sammy391 said:
    Can’t be bothered to analyse it anymore!

    No tactical nouse, bugger all leadership and absolutely nothing creative spark.
    Stark deficiencies have stuck around for months, with no change - 1-1 would have covered over cracks.

    Relegation form, and losing to Relegation scrap competition only leads to …RELEGATION 

    Time for NJ to go 
    That's the spirit sammy lad, WE WILL FIGHT THEM ON THE BEACHES!
    We were just down by the fucking beach and we lost ffs!

    No I'm kidding.

    Uh, said it on the other thread, a real gut punch. Happy that there are a lot on here like @RodneyCharltonTrotta who still have fight in them. The next few months won't be for the feint of heart, so please get your annual exams done.

    I'm going to try to find some positives. We were better today, there's no way around it. Our set pieces were better and Burke was better and we almost scored through him. And we did score in the 96th minute when Connor Coventry finally showed a bit of composure around the box, we won a free kick, Rapter put in the best ball of the evening, we won a corner, we won the seconds and scored. That should have been that. It wasn't.

    Another upside: I think we found our midfield, at least our midfield two. Where has JRC been all season? I'm not sure he's the permanent answer, but he's the right now answer for me. Won a lot and showed composure on the ball and ran around a lot which, despite not quite having Anderson's athleticism, is the best parts of Anderson and Doc plus composure on the ball.

    Downsides: We looked fucking anxious in the final third. We have a duck on our back and we know it. The only one who looks composed as per usual is Kelman, but he's not the type to do it himself. Miles won a lot but he's better at pulling defenders around and can't win his own knockdowns. Berry showed some ability and composure sure, but he's more a scorer than a creator. Our two most composed players around the box today were JRC and Coventry, and we just can't win that way. 

    Another downside: We can't concede from corners. Simple as. We need to be one of the best set piece teams in the division at both ends. Shaughnessey (sp?) getting in front of his man can't happen. And with Kaminski rooted to his line we put a lot of pressure on our defenders (not at fault for the goal, but it's a known issue that he stays on his line).

    Play to the whistle. If we'd done that, it'd be a very different feeling. 

    Thursday is a free hit, expecting nothing and that's fine, just get it over with. The real test, as it always was going to be, is Blackburn away.

    I suspect we'll be in the black kits again for that. 

    At the risk of rambling, there's 20 something games to go, we're getting players back fit (Burke, Bell who both looked class today, and Kelman) and we've seen some squad players emerge in JRC and Berry. We just, we need a fucking LWB to free TC up. It's going to continue to be an issue until we either sign someone or Edwards comes back. Bell will hopefully be fit to start there Thursday but he's desperately needed at LCB. TC puts in a shift but he's so isolated and has two players in front of him whenever he gets the ball. For me, it all comes back to LWB. 
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,994
    Need to go in the January window and remove all sentiment and loyalty to the old guard. We need quality that a lot of the squad we've brought up just aren't adding. 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,803
    DamoNorthStand said:
    Commentators said Bell was limping at the end as well.
    His body is going to ache like shit... So hopefully its just that
    Try going out and running 10km at full pace when you've not put the strain on your body for a few weeks / months.
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 11,285
    I would go 4-2-3-1

    Ramsay
    Jones
    Burke
    Bell

    Coventry
    JRC

    Carey
    Knibbs
    Apter

    Kelman

    Fuck it - got to try something.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,650
    ct_addick said:
    Don’t trust Kaminski….Mannion better keeper IMO….
    Not sure either gets to that shot TBF. 
  • TomCAFC
    TomCAFC Posts: 20
    That’ll take some getting over. Too many passengers in this side at the moment! It’s time for the likes of Coventry, Kelman and Apter to stand up or fuck off. 
  • siblers
    siblers Posts: 2,084
    MarcusH26 said:
    Chippycafc said:
    ct_addick said:
    MrBurns said:
    I had a feeling we will beat Coventry and after today I'm very confident we will. We are Charlton and don't do things the easy way
    No way…4-1 Coventry
    Agreed they lost tonight at home so will be wanting to remedy that. Cant see where the next point is coming from.
    Blackburn after that on Sunday is absolutely enormous. Think they're in the relegation mini League for sure too. 
    Blackburn have improved quite a lot. I'd be very surprised if we got anything from there

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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,650
    DamoNorthStand said:
    Commentators said Bell was limping at the end as well.
    Didn't seem to be. 
  • CharltonE18
    CharltonE18 Posts: 33
    Norwich & Oxford lost at home which is the only positive & both have difficult away games on New Years Day and in the circumstances a point would have been a great result which is even more frustrating!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,366
    Bedsaddick said:
    At least when we got relegated from the a Championship last time we tried to play some football. Nearly every game we play is turgid and now we are losing to teams like Norwich and Portsmouth and it’s not good enough . You can’t blame injuries anymore. It’s this awful hoofball that’s going to kill us . 
    The truly awful thing about our 'style' of play, is that it's so ugly on the eye. It gets forgiven when we're winning, but when we lose it just shines through how horrible it is (if shining isn't a contradiction in terms). Is it really too much to hope for a team that is competitive at this level and entertaining to watch? If those things are mutually incompatible, it makes me wonder why we put ourselves through this. 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 13,868
    I'm not as negative about Coventry as others. For the first 30 mins against them we were great, then Bell came off. Their form has slipped a little too
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 96,803
    edited December 2025
    Said it before the match, but it comes back to the fact that we just need to focus on winning the home games, and not losing the away games... We came so frustratingly close to achieving the latter... Whilst even I said you can't focus on what has happened in the past to much on the Match Thread, but despite all our bad form, we've still only lost three games at the Valley this season.
    Thank god we've still got a match in hand, and if we play remotely like we did tonight for large periods, albeit with the Valley behind us when we host Portsmouth, I'll be semi-confident of us getting three points.
    Hopefully this first defeat in 20-years at Fratton Park, means our own dismal record at Millwall is about to end.
    Okay... Now I'm really chatting shit.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,762
    Leuth said:
    TomCAFC said:
    That’ll take some getting over. Too many passengers in this side at the moment! It’s time for the likes of Coventry, Kelman and Apter to stand up or fuck off. 
    Coventry and Kelman? The guy who covers every blade of grass and was our players' player of the season in a promotion campaign, and the guy who provides our best pressing and threat up front? You're just pulling names out of your arse 
    Add in a player from the bench that didn't even have time to do anything good or bad, and it's a hat-trick of horseshit!
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,698
    Stig said:
    Being an optimist, I thought I'd compile a list of positives:
     👉 We nearly held out for 70 minutes
     👉 We showed the spirit to get back into it
     👉 We're still above Portsmouth and outside the relegation zone
     👉 Coventry next, three points for the taking
     👉 I haven't got a VPN so I saved a tenner on the stream
     👉 Err, that's it
     👉 My parking ticket victory 
  • CL_Phantom
    CL_Phantom Posts: 5,766
    edited December 2025
    The best we looked going forward for a while, Costello putting in a a really good performance, Pompey there for the taking.... Aaaaaand then that happens...

    We were the better team for the most part, don't misunderstand me here - I'm not saying we were amazing and playing peak football - but compared to late, that had the hopes up, but.. still we just couldn't find the killer instinct the final ball and the back of the net....and that's... concerning ( no I'm not saying we're already relegated) but this needs addressing big time, we can't put a relegation rival, a team we have a voodoo curse over to bed when getting served up on a platter.

    Inexcusable at the end, to concede like that, from kick off.

    Jones... Should have brought apter and Carey on sooner IMO, You love your 60 minute subs, the one time the ONE TIME we're crying out for some fresh attacking legs on and... No, this time you let it play out. 

    FFS.

    Big shout out to JRC, hardly used, barely seen a minute and looked a cut above our other midfielders. Saying that, that's probably why he hasn't featured, too.."footbally" and not blood and guts enough

    Ah well. 
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,716
    SDAddick said:

    Another upside: I think we found our midfield, at least our midfield two. Where has JRC been all season? I'm not sure he's the permanent answer, but he's the right now answer for me. Won a lot and showed composure on the ball and ran around a lot which, despite not quite having Anderson's athleticism, is the best parts of Anderson and Doc plus composure on the ball.


    Jones will pay no attention to that and just try random combinations again

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  • TomCAFC
    TomCAFC Posts: 20
    Leuth said:
    TomCAFC said:
    That’ll take some getting over. Too many passengers in this side at the moment! It’s time for the likes of Coventry, Kelman and Apter to stand up or fuck off. 
    Coventry and Kelman? The guy who covers every blade of grass and was our players' player of the season in a promotion campaign, and the guy who provides our best pressing and threat up front? You're just pulling names out of your arse 
    Covers every blade of grass and does what with the ball!? I think he’s been absolute dross in the championship. 
  • AdTheAddicK
    AdTheAddicK Posts: 3,459
    TomCAFC said:
    That’ll take some getting over. Too many passengers in this side at the moment! It’s time for the likes of Coventry, Kelman and Apter to stand up or fuck off. 
    I thought Coventry was class again tonight 
  • AS1987
    AS1987 Posts: 92
    For the first ten minutes, I thought we had this in the bag. We were the better team over the 90 minutes and played the best football we have done in a while, but lost. On another day, I feel we would have won this one, but I have gone away from the game thinking for the first time this season that we could be going down.

    The way I see it, the remaining two relegation spots are between us, Oxford United and Portsmouth. As others have said, we need to do a lot in the January transfer window.

    It doesn't help matters that I am on a train packed with Pompey fans, one of which has spent the past 20 minutes continuously goading me, without a single Charlton fan in sight.
  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 3,144
    Bedsaddick said:
    At least when we got relegated from the a Championship last time we tried to play some football. Nearly every game we play is turgid and now we are losing to teams like Norwich and Portsmouth and it’s not good enough . You can’t blame injuries anymore. It’s this awful hoofball that’s going to kill us . 
    we have to play hoof ball because we do not have players who can keep the ball, so they have to get rid of it as soon as possible, usually backwards, they do this a few times then under pressure hoof it forward.


  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,569
    sam3110 said:
    Leuth said:
    TomCAFC said:
    That’ll take some getting over. Too many passengers in this side at the moment! It’s time for the likes of Coventry, Kelman and Apter to stand up or fuck off. 
    Coventry and Kelman? The guy who covers every blade of grass and was our players' player of the season in a promotion campaign, and the guy who provides our best pressing and threat up front? You're just pulling names out of your arse 
    Add in a player from the bench that didn't even have time to do anything good or bad, and it's a hat-trick of horseshit!
    You mean the one who put in two great dead balls which 1) helped win the corner for the goal, and 2) led to the goal? That player?

    Yeah, Coventry and Kelman aren't the problem. Two of our most composed players in the final third. The problem is that Kelman is a poacher and Coventry is a defensive midfielder and you need your more composed players further forward and capable of taking a man on or picking a crucial pass.
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,259
    If only we’d brought the best versions of ourselves to the game, we probably would’ve nicked it…
    Someone should mention this to the players
  • SheedyCAFC
    SheedyCAFC Posts: 1,285
    Between the 69th and 84th minutes of not making any subs ok we had a couple of corners but surely we should have reacted with our subs immediately? If I was an attacking player on the bench for us I wouldn’t be happy not coming on in that game.
  • DaisyEdwards
    DaisyEdwards Posts: 131
    eastterrace6168 said:
    Pig sick at the moment, and pissed off at having to watch professional players refereed by less than Sunday league refs
    I am also pig sick of watching this bunch of unprofessional players who can't make a simple pass to each other, hoof it like a Sunday league team and can't see out a match. The ref will know more about the laws of the game than anyone on here. I can't recall any ref scoring against us. 
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,716
    Fumbluff said:
    If only we’d brought the best versions of ourselves to the game, we probably would’ve nicked it…
    Someone should mention this to the players
    hope you're enjoying our journey

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