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POST MATCH THREAD : Charlton Athletic V QPR: Friday 6th February 2026 : KO 20.01
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Just out of interest, were the QPR supporters held back last night after the final whistle?1
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Maybe so, but there was one chance when Clarke was free and away in the 18 yd box, and screaming for a pass, and Carey just put it into row Z, he was rightly apoplectic, and pissed off big time, like us all, he needs to think about the pass as well as the shot sometimes..2121 said:Carey didn't have his shooting boots on last night, however, come on, we all wanted him to shoot when he got into those postitions!7 -
I think what is interesting, listening to Jacko and Jamie Mackie after the game and listening to pundits on NTT20 they all think that we should just about be okay and don’t seemed super concerned about us facing relegation. They’re more worried about West Brom and Leicester than us3
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Objectively a good point against a top 10 team who tore us apart at their place.
A month ago I would have expected to lose this one. That first half performance with new players really lifted my spirits and we were unlucky to not be ahead after some good saves by the Charlton fan in their goal (he could have fluffed one and helped us out!)
Paul Smyth is a class player and would have him in our side even if he didn't set the world alight for us when he previously played for us.
Lyndon Dykes for me is the definition of what a football fan wants at this level and below....just gets among it and grafts and battles and has a good football brain too. For someone who's not played much football he's hit the ground running and leaves nothing out there. Hope we sign him permanently.
Whilst we're not a team that's gonna be plauded for its guile we were relentless in that first half with wave after wave of attack and aggressive pressing and we looked a completely different side from recent weeks (pre Leicester). Second half was disappointing to see us ease back in that sense and not sure why...whether it was a change of tactics our side or their side or just ran out of puff.
Saw enough last night and v Leicester to feel that relegation is very very avoidable and am pleased with the new players like Dykes, Clarke and Coady who have made us a much better prospect.
The fact that I was disappointed not to get 3 points last night shows how far we've come in the past few weeks where i was genuinely concerned about how we'd turn around the lack of confidence and self belief. I said after the Millwall thrashing it would be a watershed moment whereby we'll either plummet and be down or we'll react and galvanise. Fortunately from what I've seen since then I believe it's the latter and feeling very positive. 17th and all we need to do this season is stay up so feeling very upbeat with all things Charlton today and long may it continue.
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Most of it has been said, first half yay second half nay.
Lucky and glad to get away with the point but a proper missed opportunity not being able to find the net in the first half. We're improved but far from being comfortable in this division just yet, but some good signs. The subs were game changers just sadly not the way we hoped... If chambers can't do a full game (for awhile at least) then need a better alternative than TC to come on at LWB , or, go back 4 and TC and Fev on the wings.
On the subs.... Imagine watching Docherty running around for 90mins, You've been under pressure, turning to the bench, you look at Coventry, then Costello and say "strip off Bez"
Big shout out to Dykes great showing last night, said it about Bree that some of the names we brought in might not be top championship players but for us they make such a difference you can really see the step up in quality in just average middling types like Dykes, JRC, Bree etc.
Also linked well with Kelman, looking like a proper strike partnership in the making, persist with it.
Gutted and relieved. One more point in the board.
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Chambers brings a level of technical ability that I'm not sure we have anywhere else in the squad. They were desperate to stop him crossing, doubling up every time, and when he got an inch of space he immediately put an outrageous ball in - absolutely criminal no one was at the back stick to head home.
Also insane to get the power and accuracy he did on the free kick shot from that distance10 -
Meh. A point gained but disappointing we couldn’t keep up the first half pressure. QPR were shite and we just seem to let them off the hook, second half especially.Staying up is the objective but if we do, we need a whole summer of coming up with a new identity. Another season of 70 yard diagonals and I think I’ll pack it in.3
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No there were plenty of knobheads at the station.....Fortune 82nd Minute said:Just out of interest, were the QPR supporters held back last night after the final whistle?0 -
Also hilarious that apparently what Kaminski needed to turn into a sweeper keeper was an ankle injury0
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QPRs manager thinking they were the better team and should have won is pretty funny. Thought they offered very little until Kolli came on.4
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Shout to Godden as well, with possibly the worst off the ball run I’ve ever seen from a striker, and then people bollocked Carey for losing it.
Still love you tho Matty.0 -
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I’m remembering two long range goals. There’s the one against Blackburn that he struck brilliantly but Jones made a joke after about how he’s lucky it went it or he would have killed him because it should have been squared to Bree, and then his goal against West Brom which was on target but needed a goalkeeper error to go in. I like that we have a player who will shoot but there’s been more than a few occasions where his judgment has been so, so poor and cost us promising positions. We create so little across a match that we can’t really afford that so his decision making needs to improve massivelyfollett said:
He has some credit in the bank because he’s scored a few from distance but he does have the habit of killing good attacks with speculative efforts. Clarke was open for a one on one with the keeper yesterday if he slotted him in rather than blasting it over the bar2121 said:Carey didn't have his shooting boots on last night, however, come on, we all wanted him to shoot when he got into those postitions!5 -
think its all been said - we were probably all sitting there at half time waiting for the 60 minute mark thinking get TC on up top to run at them down the left and we'd suck the ball into the net with godden coming on as well to capitalise - didn't pan out like that, QPR didn't yield and got stronger rather than us - why coventry didn't come on to add fresh legs is baffling to me - if he's injured, why is he on the bench? please never play TC at wing back again and tbf QPR ain't a bad side and we can't expect every team to let us up the anti in the second half just coz we think thats what's gonna happen - i actually think QPR is a tougher game than stoke who have come right off the boil so point not the end of the world.4
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king addick said:
Pressing was fine but he didnt release the ball quick enough at times and not passing to Clarke was piss poor. And yes his shooting was awful!RC_CAFC said:
Carey didn’t have a shocker at all, he just left his shooting boots at home. His pressing with Docherty were excellent and he caused them a lot of issues.king addick said:Carey had a shocker. TC probably had the worst cameo I have ever seen. Ramsay still looks devoid of confidence and Berry shouldn't be near the team. Cov or JRC would have been better.
Saying that...a draw ended up being a fair result but first half we should have been 2 up.
Agree about Berry though. That change made no sense to me.
Dont get me wrong, I beleive the concept of you cant always play well but he needs to learn from the mistakes because he is a good player, I just thought he was poor overall tonight.
I really don't care if I'm in a majority of one but yes Clarke was in a good position to his right but Carey was unmarked and it was well within his shooting range so why wouldn't the top scorer and Charlton's number '10' have a shot at goal. His execution of shots all night was poor but he takes up excellent positions and his goals over this season will probably keep as in the Championship.
For years, make that decades, I have wanted to see an attacking midfielder be brave at Charlton and take shots at goals; the fact that Sonny's radar was OFF last night doesn't change that opinion.
Yes, a pass was on to Clarke but his record of 4 goals* in 123 games in the EFL doesn't mean he was certain to score; obviously in retrospect many wish he had passed to Harry but if the ball wasn't weighted just right and H didn't score, Carey would have got pelters for not shooting.
*Harry should have 5 goals after his deft header from an excellent corner from Carey against Leicester.
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Cook was superb. Went close with the header late on too.Callumcafc said:Sky MOTM: Joe Walsh
SofaScore MOTM: Steve Cook
FotMob MOTM: Steve Cook
WhoScored MOTM: Steve Cook
Flashscore MOTM: Steve Cook
Think that tells it’s own story.2 -
Yep that was his 10%Fortune 82nd Minute said:
He ran pretty impressively when Kelman broke away against Coventry, had his shot saved and JRC who had run about 50 yards put the rebound away.oohaahmortimer said:
JRC can’t run, 90% of the time he looks like he has deep sea diving boots on .ForeverAddickted said:
I can f**king well run... Stick me out there thenIR94 said:
at least JRC can run, berry moved like a limp dogForeverAddickted said:DDOUBLEE said:Every substitution seemed to make us worse. We missed Leaburn as Godden is still getting back up to speed. Why JRC wasn't brought on instead of Berry... Insane, but thankfully didn't cost us.Worth remembering that we dont know what would have happened had JRC been brought on. We bemoan the Berry change, but nothing to say that JRC wouldn't have had a moment that would have proved even more costly had he come on. Hindsight is a beautiful gift, not that I mean it as a criticism as works the other way tooFrustrating we didn't take the chances that came out way. But Jones did his job as Manager tonight
Berry came on in the 90th minute can’t believe he didn’t win it for us, pointless
Surely he (or Coventry) was a better bet to bring on than Berry last night?
Coventry should have come on, not old lead boots or Berry , Berry is more likely to nick a goal but the game was only going one way as we approached injury time2 -
Worst carey performance we’ve seen tbh. Decision making was diabolical but has plenty of credit in the bank. TC looked genuinely bummed out to be playing left wing back again. Couldn’t help but feel Godden could’ve got himself a chance or two if he stopped looking up to the covered end with his hands over his mouth in frustrated shock when something nearly comes off, keep working and enforce a mistake.Chambers looks decent but a bit lightweight and naive, but these are things that will change with more game time and coaching.Solid point to be honest but we should’ve got a goal with the football and chances we made first half and maybe qpr will feel they should’ve got a goal in the second. So a point apiece is fair. Definitely look like we deserve to be in this division though. Just no depth in the squad.2
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Simonsen said:
Cook was superb. Went close with the header late on too.Callumcafc said:Sky MOTM: Joe Walsh
SofaScore MOTM: Steve Cook
FotMob MOTM: Steve Cook
WhoScored MOTM: Steve Cook
Flashscore MOTM: Steve Cook
Think that tells it’s own story.
Steve Cook showed why he has played 506 app in his career with 180 in the premier with a powerful display.
Joe Walsh made decent saves but the best save of the night was by Thomas Kaminski with his excellent body shape in added time to save a point for Charlton.
Cook was MOM but if Carey, Ramsay and Coady had shown more composure along with good attempts from Chambers and Kelman then the 3 points were Charlton's and we are all ecstatic.
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Better team first half and should have been ahead but some great saves by their keeper.I thought from about 60 minutes onwards a few of our players looked exhausted, Clarke in particular started struggling big time. (No surprise as he’s not played a lot of football)
The longer the game went on though it looked like QPR would knick it. Pleased with a point in the end, if we carry on playing like we have tonight and Leicester we’ll be just fine.2 -
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Well if TC doesn’t know what his role is going to be in the team by now, he needs to be prepared for splinters in his arse. Because coming on and playing like that isn’t going to force NJ to pick him to start in any position. He was in positions to attack forwards , he chose not to try to do anything different when challenged. The defenders are better in the championship he needs to work out how to be better against them. Look forward to the obligatory excuses on his behalf.Diebythesword said:Worst carey performance we’ve seen tbh. Decision making was diabolical but has plenty of credit in the bank. TC looked genuinely bummed out to be playing left wing back again. Couldn’t help but feel Godden could’ve got himself a chance or two if he stopped looking up to the covered end with his hands over his mouth in frustrated shock when something nearly comes off, keep working and enforce a mistake.Chambers looks decent but a bit lightweight and naive, but these are things that will change with more game time and coaching.Solid point to be honest but we should’ve got a goal with the football and chances we made first half and maybe qpr will feel they should’ve got a goal in the second. So a point apiece is fair. Definitely look like we deserve to be in this division though. Just no depth in the squad.0 -
i don't think Carey had a bad game, he looks back to his fittest / best to me - just had a 5 minute spell where he chose the wrong option a fw times and blazed a couple of shots over - well worthy of his place - he operates in a position where time and thinking space is at a premium and lets be honest, fullah has had a few goes there and chose the wrong option (trying to dribble past the back line rather than laying it off). Carey's a brave player and isn't there to do the safe, sideways thing.4
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And what would Clarke have done with it ?? Shoot or cross ?? I'd rather take my chances on Carey scoring than Clarke. And if Clarke had crossed it what are the odds that the cross is blocked or a striker (if one was up with play) would have scored anyway ?JaShea99 said:
If there’s no better option, yes. When there’s a player screaming for it in acres of space on his right, no.2121 said:Carey didn't have his shooting boots on last night, however, come on, we all wanted him to shoot when he got into those postitions!3 -
Not a loss, which is good, but we could and probably should have won that and another two points would have really put pressure on some of the teams playing today in our league within the league.
Come 5:30 today we'll have a better idea how costly it could be.0 -
Set an alarm for 3:50am, which my son proudly informed me this morning he turned off for me. 😮💨
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If Carey top bins one of those shots, which we’ve all seen him do, the place goes mental, his shooting was off last night but would rather him have a go. His game in general was ok, does need to consider the easier pass at times but think NJ will coach that.DOUCHER said:i don't think Carey had a bad game, he looks back to his fittest / best to me - just had a 5 minute spell where he chose the wrong option a fw times and blazed a couple of shots over - well worthy of his place - he operates in a position where time and thinking space is at a premium and lets be honest, fullah has had a few goes there and chose the wrong option (trying to dribble past the back line rather than laying it off). Carey's a brave player and isn't there to do the safe, sideways thing.3 -
Thought a draw was fair but more importantly we have looked soooo much better in these last two games than the previous 3 months of utter shit .
Dykes I thought was our motm , superb again , Bell won motm in the lounge.
we have naff all skill or attacking threat creative wise but our solidity should get us over the line to safety .
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We’ve got balance again, if injuries allow consistent selection I think we will improve going forward.oohaahmortimer said:Thought a draw was fair but more importantly we have looked soooo much better in these last two games than the previous 3 months of utter shit .
Dykes I thought was our motm , superb again , Bell won motm in the lounge.
we have naff all skill or attacking threat creative wise but our solidity should get us over the line to safety .
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Or how valuable 😜thenewbie said:Not a loss, which is good, but we could and probably should have won that and another two points would have really put pressure on some of the teams playing today in our league within the league.
Come 5:30 today we'll have a better idea how costly it could be.0 -
Said before this game a draw against qpr a free hit against stoke and then must beat pompey
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