POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic v Sheffield United: Saturday 17th January 2026: KO 15:00
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We need to strengthen now mate. How many teams have been all over us especially at home this season we cant keep riding our luck.blackpool72 said:Horrible game to watch i have to agree.
But the target at the start of the season was survival and nothing has changed.
50 points should guarantee we stay up so 18 more points needed from 20 games.
Just stay up and strengthen in the summer.
My worry is we dont have the board who will furnish a fist of it going forward so the drop will be inevitable, i do hope i am wrong.4 -
He did at at least 3 decent crosses into dangerous areas behind their defence in the the 1st half that none of our players read properly…ok couple of not so good moments near our own by line,but Kaminski put him in that bother with 2 awful passes,2nd half most of the team were all over the place & Ramsay didn’t help putting the ball to his feet rather than something he could run onto…think he is a good addition & just what we need right now…Watameire said:Clarke to me was no good, his crossing was absolutely awful. I see others felt he did well / very well however.What am I not seeing?9 -
Clarke also put in a superb low cross in the second half that Dykes was inches away from converting.NorthheathAddick said:
He did at at least 3 decent crosses into dangerous areas behind their defence in the the 1st half that none of our players read properly…ok couple of not so good moments near our own by line,but Kaminski put him in that bother with 2 awful passes,2nd half most of the team were all over the place & Ramsay didn’t help putting the ball to his feet rather than something he could run onto…think he is a good addition & just what we need right now…Watameire said:Clarke to me was no good, his crossing was absolutely awful. I see others felt he did well / very well however.What am I not seeing?9 -
I’d actually said to my lot & those around,I’d take a point now when they went down to 9…not quite believing it,but a little mistake from a nervy & deep Charlton 11 throughout last 15mims & it so coulda gone that way…I’m sooo glad I was wrong…covered_end_junior said:That first half was dreadful, almost as bad as Southampton. The only reason we were still in the game was because they didn’t take their chances and Kaminski pulled off some unbelievable saves. Jones, Kaminski and maybe Ramsay were the only players who had a decent first half.
Even after their first red card, I still thought we’d lose. The midfield was completely non-existent and I never want to see Anderson and Costello in there together again.
When they went down to nine men, my initial reaction was that we might nick a point (only half joking)
After calming down at half-time, I thought surely TC and Coventry would come on and we’d go on to win it. TC did come on, along with Dykes, and we got the early goal. From there I felt we should have gone for a second, not throwing everyone forward but 1-0 and knocking it around slowly as we were felt risky.
Thankfully we saw it out and we’ve really got away with one today. Taking Leaburn off late on when we could have done with his height to defend the corner seemed odd, unless he genuinely couldn’t continue. Bringing Godden on felt like a sentimental sub.
Absolutely behind NJ and think he’s the right man for the job, but we’re crying out for another central midfielder with real quality on the ball, on top of the other obvious areas that need strengthening.
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Not going to quote all of Prague's post but that Sheffield United story about them having £70k a week to spend a CM just shows how big the gap is even within the league , on the bench they had Prem veteran experience in Tom Davies , Ben Mee and Danny Ings along with Gus Hamer who is probably one of the best CMs in the league + £3.5m worth of LWB in Harrison Burrows who they signed from Posh.
IF we stay up it's going need possibly double what we spent last summer to keep us competitive and that's a truly scary thought.10 -
We need all the points we can get 👍Croydon said:.5 -
We were discussing this at HT and a friend asked me would i take a point now. I did pause for a second on this question till i said no. I said we must get at least 4 point from the next two home games.NorthheathAddick said:
I’d actually said to my lot & those around,I’d take a point now when they went down to 9…not quite believing it,but a little mistake from a nervy & deep Charlton 11 throughout last 15mims & it so coulda gone that way…I’m sooo glad I was wrong…covered_end_junior said:That first half was dreadful, almost as bad as Southampton. The only reason we were still in the game was because they didn’t take their chances and Kaminski pulled off some unbelievable saves. Jones, Kaminski and maybe Ramsay were the only players who had a decent first half.
Even after their first red card, I still thought we’d lose. The midfield was completely non-existent and I never want to see Anderson and Costello in there together again.
When they went down to nine men, my initial reaction was that we might nick a point (only half joking)
After calming down at half-time, I thought surely TC and Coventry would come on and we’d go on to win it. TC did come on, along with Dykes, and we got the early goal. From there I felt we should have gone for a second, not throwing everyone forward but 1-0 and knocking it around slowly as we were felt risky.
Thankfully we saw it out and we’ve really got away with one today. Taking Leaburn off late on when we could have done with his height to defend the corner seemed odd, unless he genuinely couldn’t continue. Bringing Godden on felt like a sentimental sub.
Absolutely behind NJ and think he’s the right man for the job, but we’re crying out for another central midfielder with real quality on the ball, on top of the other obvious areas that need strengthening.
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Give over 😂Redrobo said:“But he and the players now seem to be stuck in that negative mode, and can't snap out of it.”
I really do think that applies more to some fans.
When Jones arrived we were a broken Club going backwards at an alarming rate. Staff had been cut to the bone, scouting seemed none existent, numerous managers were tried - and failed, relegation to league 2 looked like a real possibility.
We have all come such a long way in such a short time. Yes the squad is short of some real quality, and yes, the quality below 1st team players is a lot lower than we need. Perhaps promotion came a bit too early on the journey - I wouldn’t change that as I love the Championship.
The squads of every other team cost more and get paid more. On paper we should lose every game.
But Jones has created a team. They have the belief and give everything they have to our team.
For me, the biggest threat to survival this season is us the fans. If we don’t give 100% as well, then we are not keeping up our end of the deal.
We have to give Jones and the team the love so they can continue the fight.
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Going off kilter a bit.
Does anyone on here know who decides which players do the tunnel jumps, is it the management of the players?
Obviously on the rare occasions that we score more than one goal, both scorers would usually do it.0 -
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The worst performance yesterday came from our terraces. Sheffield United fans continued to back their players even after they committed two of the stupidest head-loss moments I’ve seen at this level. Meanwhile, we booed ours while they kept their heads and ground out three points.
The atmosphere at the Valley was better when we were averaging 15,000 in League One. The extra 5,000 have brought little beyond prawn sandwiches, long queues for bovril and unrealistic expectations.
This season was always going to be tough. You do not get extra points for style. Grinding out points will keep us up, not putting 3 goals past 9 men.
When people say “remember where we were,” it only resonates with those who were actually there.
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Yes we got three points (thank the lord) but we can’t brush under the carpet the fact that we are currently awful. Completely lost our way since the first quarter of the season. No cohesion in our play. We lack a real goal threat and our defence is a shadow of the one earlier in the season. Make no mistake if we continue with our current form we will get relegated. Yes we’ve been fairly unlucky with injuries to key players but nobody outside of us cares a hoot about that. We are struggling and Jones must find a way to get us moving forward again. The window is open but it would appear that the wallet is closed. Yes we’ve have some reinforcements but is there anyone that really thinks we’ve signed our way out of trouble ? I don’t. Relegation would be an absolute disaster. We have it within our own hands to ensure that doesn’t happen and I don’t see anything that inspires me to believe we’re taking the threat seriously enough.Rob said:I don’t understand all the Nathan Jones bashing. The aim this season is to stay up and I think we will quite comfortably. We were in League 1 for a while and had developed a league 1 attitude and a league 1 team. It takes a while to change that culture. But slowly Nathan Jones will do that. Give him a chance.I know today wasn’t pretty but a win is a win. The Championship is brutal and we’re doing that, essentially, with mainly a league 1 squad. I can understand his caution in games.4 -
Never seen a game prompt so many essays from our fans!1
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On a more serious note I don't have much more to add. My main frustration wasn't open play yesterday, it was uninspring but I can understand why either Jones was being cautious or the players were scared of being the one to make a mistake.
What really annoyed me (and I said so on the match thread too) was all of our throw ins going backwards and bringing all 10 outfielders back to defend set pieces against 8 outfield players. All we had to do was leave TC up high, punt a clearance as long as possible and he would have space to run into to either take a shot or get hauled down and take them to 8 men. The naivety of Hylton showed there and I think he was just as scared as the players to be seen as the one at fault for us throwing it away3 -
Sorry disagree, I thought the covered end were not at it yesterday, they are the driving force that get the other fans going, yesterday they undermined that with the booing in the first and second half, the Sheffield United fans were brilliant the best I have seen at the Valley this season.paulsturgess said:
superb postAFKABartram said:
Then (not being personal), I honestly can’t believe anyone present who sat through that hasn’t got serious concerns at the direction our play and confidence is going in, or highlight the fans as being negative as a key takeaway.superclive98 said:
I was. In fact, because of the shit trains, I haven't even made it home to Broadstairs yet.AFKABartram said:
Out of interest, were you there @superclive98 ?superclive98 said:Only Charlton fans can complain about how we won, when we're in a relegation battle.Given the circumstance, I thought the fans were great. If Jones or anyone thinks a crowd of football fans isn’t going to voice some frustration when they are playing so badly and negatively during a bad run, then they are in cloud cuckoo land. I’d rather highlight that despite what was on offer, the fans continued to sing Nathan Jones red and white army throughout.At the end of the game, the team felt embarrassed to celebrate and there were no fist pumps. The manager scarpered quickly. Our goal keeper was man of the match in a game we played against 9 men for more than half of it. The away team got a standing ovation from their fans.It was awful. Everyone is hugely thankful for the three points, particularly given other results, but we’ll see in the next few games whether the double sending off was just the bit of fortune we’ve been needing, or a very temporary papering over the cracks.
that was effing awful
thank god for the 3 points
we HAVE to be A LOT better
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I think this was always the case. We all know we spent big for us in the summer but we still couldn't bring in reliably fit Championship players (bar an out of favour JRC who has been a slow burn here). I actually think the signings of Clarke and Dykes probably show we're happy to pay higher wages than in the summer, even just for 6 monthsshirty5 said:Weird game of football. Sheffield United should have been 3 goals up after 30 minutes and then they absolutely had a shocker with both sending offs to hand the 3 points to us in the second half.The crowd were getting edgy second half but it was about keeping the ball after we went a goal up. In an ideal world we would all love a 2nd or 3rd against 9 men. I make Jones right on that.
Short term that’s a very handy 3 points for us and will go a long way in our battle to stay up this season.
Long term based on that first half and mainly what I have seen so far this season, we are miles behind the majority in this division. If we stay up we would have to spend twice as much as we did back in the summer to be competitive.Onto Tuesday and another opportunity to pick up another win.0 -
Just watched Wilders full post-match interview. His anger with the ref and our players is mind blowing. Thinks we should have a red card before there ones.Confirms that the club will be appealing the second red card. His opinion is no card or yellow at most was correct.7
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Players need to give fans something to get behind, we shouldn’t get behind mediocre performances, just because we support the club doesn’t mean we should accept and cheer a bad performance. Noted applauding at the end given we got over the line, but fans are allowed to show frustrationmsomerton said:
Sorry disagree, I thought the covered end were not at it yesterday, they are the driving force that get the other fans going, yesterday they undermined that with the booing in the first and second half, the Sheffield United fans were brilliant the best I have seen at the Valley this season.paulsturgess said:
superb postAFKABartram said:
Then (not being personal), I honestly can’t believe anyone present who sat through that hasn’t got serious concerns at the direction our play and confidence is going in, or highlight the fans as being negative as a key takeaway.superclive98 said:
I was. In fact, because of the shit trains, I haven't even made it home to Broadstairs yet.AFKABartram said:
Out of interest, were you there @superclive98 ?superclive98 said:Only Charlton fans can complain about how we won, when we're in a relegation battle.Given the circumstance, I thought the fans were great. If Jones or anyone thinks a crowd of football fans isn’t going to voice some frustration when they are playing so badly and negatively during a bad run, then they are in cloud cuckoo land. I’d rather highlight that despite what was on offer, the fans continued to sing Nathan Jones red and white army throughout.At the end of the game, the team felt embarrassed to celebrate and there were no fist pumps. The manager scarpered quickly. Our goal keeper was man of the match in a game we played against 9 men for more than half of it. The away team got a standing ovation from their fans.It was awful. Everyone is hugely thankful for the three points, particularly given other results, but we’ll see in the next few games whether the double sending off was just the bit of fortune we’ve been needing, or a very temporary papering over the cracks.
that was effing awful
thank god for the 3 points
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The guy is just an embarrassment to the club...stoneroses19 said:Just watched Wilders full post-match interview. His anger with the ref and our players is mind blowing. Thinks we should have a red card before there ones.Confirms that the club will be appealing the second red card. His opinion is no card or yellow at most was correct.1 -
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Given how crap we've been over numerous seasons our support has rarely turned on the players. Would be far more toxic at a lot of other clubs.
We had some pitiful crowds in L1 and it didn't help the atmosphere.2 -
Almost spot on but Southampton did us no favours either. If ever there were an opportunity to close that gap, this was it.IR94 said:If we go down on a close goal difference, this will be the match to point to.
However knowing us we'd have tried for more goals and conceded or worse got our own red cards, losing key players for the next few games.0 -
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Yeah but apart from all of that we were brilliant!Billy_Mix said:.KAMINSKI: kept us in it again if he’d been 5% off we’d have been 3 nil down in 20 minutes with worse to come
BREE: hopelessly one footed shoulda got hooked after about 15 minutes
RAMSAY: fit? Looked like a pub player
JONES: struggled with 2 clunkers either side
GILLESPHEY: donkey
CLARKE: good debut scandalously underused by his colleagues when in oceans of space
ANDERSON: industrious but headless chicken needs to realise he doesn’t have to play at 100mph all the time
RANKIN-COSTELLO: overrun first half les bad 2nd
KNIBBS: lightweight and lack of effort whenever he starts - hope the injury isn’t too serious
LEABURN: worked hard but had negligible service
KELMAN: looked disinterested and couldn’t find a pass
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Subs: CAREY: utterly shameful didn’t try a leg couldn’t even get one corner or free kick right pops up with a goal but he has been shaming the shirt for weeks now
CAMPBELL: Pacy but one dimensional
DYKES: Showed what he’s all about with his first two involvements- 1 assist then smashed a defender The team then singularly failed to get the ball anywhere near him for the rest of the game
What the fuck was NJ watching? Looks like he’s lost the plot Keeps putting square pegs in round holes and picking pisstakers like Carey and Knibbs if we go down by goal difference it’s all on the manager
What defeatist moron keeps everybody back to defend set plays when we have a 2 man advantage ?
11 back is always a fuckwit choice cos there’s no out ball and there is always at least one chump who’s a liability at the back - today was as demented as it was dismal
Good to see Godden back even if subbing him on for the final throw on was A grade suicidal mental nonsense
Must mean we won’t see the desperately disappointing Olaofe again
Need to be 300% better on Tuesday to avoid a shallacking And better again to compete with smallwall and Leicester
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Against 9 players the space over the pitch is huge ! They were trying to equalise which meant when we broke there was space everywhere but we played sideways and backwards allowing them to get back ! No idea why we would do that. Confidence must be very low if we are playing to hang on to a 1 goal lead against 9 men
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The only shot I remember them having in the second half was a hamer pot shot from 30 yards that was spanked high and wide. We got an early goal and were in complete control after that other than the 1 dangerous break they had. Really don't get the second half groaning, it was a sensible game plan / professional performance to secure the 3 points which is what we needed. Glad we didn't give them any opportunity for a sucker punch by going gung ho personally.
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I'd have taken the point and still believe that would be the right call if I had to make it again!NorthheathAddick said:
I’d actually said to my lot & those around,I’d take a point now when they went down to 9…not quite believing it,but a little mistake from a nervy & deep Charlton 11 throughout last 15mims & it so coulda gone that way…I’m sooo glad I was wrong…covered_end_junior said:That first half was dreadful, almost as bad as Southampton. The only reason we were still in the game was because they didn’t take their chances and Kaminski pulled off some unbelievable saves. Jones, Kaminski and maybe Ramsay were the only players who had a decent first half.
Even after their first red card, I still thought we’d lose. The midfield was completely non-existent and I never want to see Anderson and Costello in there together again.
When they went down to nine men, my initial reaction was that we might nick a point (only half joking)
After calming down at half-time, I thought surely TC and Coventry would come on and we’d go on to win it. TC did come on, along with Dykes, and we got the early goal. From there I felt we should have gone for a second, not throwing everyone forward but 1-0 and knocking it around slowly as we were felt risky.
Thankfully we saw it out and we’ve really got away with one today. Taking Leaburn off late on when we could have done with his height to defend the corner seemed odd, unless he genuinely couldn’t continue. Bringing Godden on felt like a sentimental sub.
Absolutely behind NJ and think he’s the right man for the job, but we’re crying out for another central midfielder with real quality on the ball, on top of the other obvious areas that need strengthening.
Even after we scored I (and probably most of the crowd!) were assuming Shef U would overwhelm us in the last 10 minutes and score a goal.
Didn't happen this time but we were extremely lucky. Eight times out of ten that's what would have happened!
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Chris Wilder being very supportive of the referees decisions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X2V49Y_85o
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