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POST-MATCH THREAD: West Bromwich Albion v Charlton Athletic: Tuesday 24th February 2026: KO 19:45

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  • It baffles me there could be 3 worse teams then us in this league 
    Well we're 17th, so at the moment there are more than three teams worse than us...
  • robroy
    robroy Posts: 4,609
    The good thing about that point is their manager will stay on for possibly a few more games and we have a point. If we had won, they may have got a decent new manager bounce and leapfrogged us.  
  • Steven81
    Steven81 Posts: 1,252
    My god we are awful. We didn't lose a must not lose game and the goal was fairly nice on the eye and results went our way in other games but we were dire.

    Out of interest does Fevrier have a weird running technique or does he need to lay off the fast food?
    If he's on the fast food I'd hate to see him on slow food.
  • NomadicAddick
    NomadicAddick Posts: 2,156
    My third time posting pretty much the same thing on three PMT’s in the last 2 weeks… a Dykes and Leaburn partnership won’t score you goals at Championship level let alone win you games.

    Frustrating lining up with those two, almost got away with it as anyone could see it needed a change at HT, bar for Lloyds injury. Definitely missed his organisation at the goal which goes without saying was shocking marking, let’s hope he’s ok and not out for too long.

    BFK did pretty well IMO, never easy coming on as a CB. Shout out to Ramsay for the sublime ball and a classy finish for Dykes.

    Given the way things were going on the pitch as well as in the other games, come 60 mins would’ve bit your hand off for a point.

    Two home games on the spin, let’s finally pull away a bit, PLEASE! COYR. 
  • Cov's last ditch tackle tackle near the end was a point saver.
    Great first touch and finish by Dykes. Good point but we are so poor with the ball.
    Jones ankle got to be a worry going forward?
    Bring on the Hollywood Taffs - we will probably beat them now on Saturday!!

  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 19,015
    Sod it, go to the cinema for entertainment, fucking appalling performance, but meh, for a point, and we’re staying up 
  • Bailey
    Bailey Posts: 3,769
    I know they ran their socks off on Saturday but that was 90 odd minutes of nothing. Weird substitutions, ten minutes into the second half, I don't think Coady is gonna help you chase the game, so why keep him there for ten minutes ? Two chances and we scored with one of them, West Brom are bloody awful, Charlton and the ref made the conscious to join them in their dross, I think if West Brom don't change their Manager, I will confidently predict that they will finish below us. 
  • Wow that was awful - can't string any passes together. Terrible to watch.

    We are undoubtedly the worst team I've seen in the Championship this season... Surely we can play better than this?

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  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 21,390
    edited February 24
    The positive thing about being in a relegation battle, is that the teams around you are equally bad and lose. Think Jones wants to draw our way to safety
    I'll be delighted with twelve 0-0 draws from our remaining games playing the most pony football imaginable.


    That was really awful though!

  • jakecafc said:
    Also, I thought Coventry had a point to prove when he came on. Should definitely be starting next game.
    He will as coady can’t play against Wrexham 
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,707
    Thought Coventry was good and Dykes battled.

    Shichenje impressed my with his ability to pass between the lines. We desperately needed that.

    Bell was solid down the left. Ramsay was much better second half.

    That's about it for positives. First half was poor tactics and team selection again. We looked pedestrian and predictable. Nothing on target and nothing particularly close. Couldn't even work set pieces. 

    We definitely struggle against the poorer sides and play better against the better sides for a reason. We're a side set up to be defensively solid and look to hit teams on the counter or on the set piece. WBA didn't deserve the level of credit we gave them tonight, especially in the first half. They looked brittle as soon as we got the ball down and played. It's just that we only did it for about five minutes in the second half.

    We will need to be better than that, either this season or next depending on if we stay up. We can't keep inviting the weaker teams onto us just to lump it forward to two target men. Defenses at this level are good enough in the air that they won't be dominated (see also: Pompey) and the lack of movement makes it easy for opposition midfielders to win the seconds. 

    Overall, a poor performance, a massive point. One closer to 50. Hopefully Jones learned about the Leaburn and Dykes pairing tonight as well. Hopefully.
  • My watch buzzed halfway through the first half to ask me if I was stressed! I had to have a word and tell it that if it was watching the fucking shite, I'm watching, it would be stressed too.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 71,199
    Before the game I really wanted 3 points. After that performance, I'm grateful for the 1 point which keeps WBA down there.

    A very good goal completely out of keeping with the rest of our performance, a quality ball forward to the feet of a striker, who controls it excellently and nutmegs the keeper. Sadly we reverted back to mediocrity after that 30 second burst of football.

    WBA play pleasant football, but aren't clinical, and that's why they're down there. 

    The lose of Jones is worrying as he's such an aerial colossus, and we'll probably face Keiffer Moore on Saturday. Ramsay played well though, and Sichenje looked sharp in the tackle. It was good that his debut was from the start on Saturday, not as a sub tonight. Coventry was decent when he came on, he looked much more like his usual self.

    Chambers looked a bit lost tonight, not contributing in attack at all, but also not being that tight defensively. 
  • superclive98
    superclive98 Posts: 5,103
    Excruciatingly painful watch, but a point is a point and denying West Brom all 3 was huge.
    West Brom's remaining fixtures are horrible. Can't see where a win is coming from for them.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,204
    Rhetorical question .. what’s happened to the team that beat Ipswich and played so well earlier in the season. Can’t blame injuries, we’re back to full strength. Baffling 😕
  • fenlandaddick
    fenlandaddick Posts: 1,936
    Tough game to endure. They looked there for the taking in the first 15 mins and we did nothing. So they grew into the game and scored, then got a load of confidence.
    Thank god Dykes has got a bit of guile and a pair of shooting boots. Great pass by Ramsay and Fevrier's duck was sublime. 

  • siblers
    siblers Posts: 2,195
    A point is fine and results went our way but the performance is very worrying. Struggling to see where the wins will come from.

    Fear for us against Wrexham if Jones isn't fit
  • 2121
    2121 Posts: 1,487
    4-3-3 saturday?! 

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  • The Prince-e-Paul
    The Prince-e-Paul Posts: 6,790
    edited February 24
    That 94th min reclycled ball that was caught bang centre edge of the box, on the volley, was sooooo close to being the winner. West Brom will be gutted tonight. 
    We robbed them of that point. 






  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,986
    I think Sichenje was bought because he has excellent attributes we can develop. I doubt we wanted to rely on him so soon, but whilst a bit raw, he has done very well and could be a great buy for us I think.
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 13,212
    Waiting for the train back to Birmingham and I'm amazed we've got a point out of that.

    They won't play a worse team all season. If they had any quality in the final third and they would have battered us. 

    There is going to have to be an insane amount of investment in the summer because we are lacking in quality in pretty much every single position. 
  • Holdkneebomb
    Holdkneebomb Posts: 1,289
    We set up for an ugly point and delivered, so important to keep the gap to WBA who I think are favourites to go down; fancy Oxford to beat them Saturday and their run in looks tough. COYR
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,283
    _MrDick said:
    Rhetorical question .. what’s happened to the team that beat Ipswich and played so well earlier in the season. Can’t blame injuries, we’re back to full strength. Baffling 😕
    People have worked us out. Given us more respect. 
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 21,390
    _MrDick said:
    Rhetorical question .. what’s happened to the team that beat Ipswich and played so well earlier in the season. Can’t blame injuries, we’re back to full strength. Baffling 😕
    We've been rumbled.

  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,952
    edited February 24
    Well that was needlessly stressful. West Brom are terrible but looked better than us for a lot of it. They absolutely should have scored a second but they didn't have the confidence to finish any of their chances when they came. We were always going to get one chance and it fell to Dykes who seems to be some kind of wizard for us. No idea how he got that chance and squeezed it in but he did and that's now 2 goals and 3 assists in 9 games. He's now contributed as many goals and more assists than Olaofe and Apter did combined. Great bit of January business and he's the player no-one wanted us to sign. Jones is clearly still dreaming of how good we looked against Leicester when Leaburn and Dykes started but it has to stop now. It's just not happening and it's putting more pressure on the rest of the team. Give me TC and Dykes or Kelman and Dykes from the start and keep the ball a tiny bit lower. Teams have clearly realised they can't give our wingbacks any space and we need to start setting traps that will allow Bell and Ramsay to play past them as they're both good on the ball and as we saw with Ramsay today can make something happen in that half space. 

    I don't really want to think about it too much anymore, we only gained on the teams around us and didn't lose our must not lose game. That's another gameday slipped away from our rivals and no-one any closer to overtaking us. Let's just hope we can catch Boro at the height of their wobble and get a ridiculous win there or something. Tough games to come but a few more hard-fought draws like this, an unexpected win and a result against Wendies and we should come out of this the other side
  • The starting line up didn’t work, but I think as long as it was goalless then NJ was happy. Fair play to NJ for switching it after going behind and we looked better, not by much, but it was enough to get back in it. We’ve got to remember, we’ve got the 3rd worst player budget in the league and currently we’re not in the bottom three. Onwards!
  • Sword65pf
    Sword65pf Posts: 1,399
    Eh confused as to a lot of comments digging out Fevrier, thought he looked positive and helped us move it forward largely but game of opinions I suppose 
    At least he tried to move forwards with the ball, I think people have decided he’s not very good because he’s not as quick as expected.
  • timken
    timken Posts: 1,074
    A genuinely terrible performance. I have no idea how we've stolen a point there.
    probably because wba are shit as  well