MATCH THREAD : Stoke City V Charlton Athletic : Saturday 5th September 2026 : KO 12:30

fenaddick

DamoNorthStand said:

fenaddick said:

DamoNorthStand said:

fenaddick said:

DamoNorthStand said:

As long as we learn and stop wrapping them in cotton wall and making stupid numbers of changes again.

Momentum is everything in this league and this has just flat out not worked.

We cocked up team selection all ends up. Never again please 

The other end of that deal is you can’t moan when a player gets injured because they’ve been overplayed which happened to Bell and Coventry last season 

It’s bloody early September. It was the wrong decision and hasn’t worked. End of.

Happens sometimes but let’s not dress this up and something it isn’t. 

Can’t ever do this again.

So funny that you’re desperate for Koumetio back when he got injured being overplayed at the same time as you’re arguing we shouldn’t rest players 

Overplayed after 2 and a half games? Come on

And the most minutes in pre season and a dodgy injury record. NJ wanted to rest him for a reason 

jose

If Apter comes on then the desperation reaches a new level.
Unless he scores five.

LargeAddick

I predicted Skipp would start but I’m not sure he was even with the squad on Wednesday and what with the squad being away maybe it wasn’t the right decision to start him.

Sword65pf

We do shoot ourselves in the foot, our main midfield signing was it appears guaranteed to get injured, Chalobah is needed back quickly.

eastterrace6168

93Addick said:

Bobby Madley shags dogs

That's an insult to dogs...

Garrymanilow

Well, I hope JRC has enjoyed his last start of the season before December. I feel like he's spoken to Jones and asked what else he can do to get in the 11 and Jones has had to accept he's not wrong. The problem is he's good at coming on in stretched games and not starting them, particularly with a midfield behind him that has a combined 0 league starts between them. I'm sure there's more to come from Ouma and Skipp but this asked a lot of them and then there's no rhythm or leadership in the team once that dodgy pen gets given. Depending on what happens in the second half I don't think this feels as damaging as the Saints game because we can always point to this criminally poor reffing performance at least as some mitigation but it's not great. Let's hope a different side comes out second half. Ideally 1970s Brazil.

CAFCsayer

We really, really miss Chalobah... Taking Cov out of the team too while he is out was suicide

JustCharlton

We're gonna win 5-4 🎶

soapboxsam

No problem with the formation which had seen cafc joint top but I said Skipp and Ouma would be brilliant or a disaster in the preview; it was the latter.

Anything that could go wrong has gone wrong.

I wish Lloyd would get the players to push up because Arthur has so many bodies in front of him that deflections are bound to happen.

If the Penalty against Ouma was given in the Premier, Declan Rice would've a dozen given against  him !
 I can assume TC was being rested for the next game at 3-0 or did he miss a tackle and Nathan had the hump ?

sam3110

Coventry on for Ouma

SELR_addicks

sam3110 said:

Coventry on for Ouma

30 minutes too late. Should've been protected. 

mendonca

Coventry on for Ouma says it all

jose

Cov for Ouma.

Southbank

Scoham said:

Southbank said:

Nug said:

Massive wake up call that we have to compete at our very best every game, we can’t just turn up and expect to turn teams over. Midfield is still our biggest issue, not sure we’ve really sorted it.

A lot of us thought that.  I could not understand why all the focus was on getting a right winger, and we did not even do that.

It wasn’t, we signed 3 CMs, promoted a 4th from the u21s and released our CM captain. Couldn’t have done much more in that position.

We could have got a proper 10. We have already had Carey, Knibbs, Grant and Costello playing in that position in 6 games. Obviously a problem.

se9addick

LargeAddick said:

I predicted Skipp would start but I’m not sure he was even with the squad on Wednesday and what with the squad being away maybe it wasn’t the right decision to start him.

If it wasn’t for Ouma’s calamity there’d be more scrutiny on Skipp’s performance 

Ferryman

LargeAddick said:

Think that’s what we are going to get from Ouma I’m afraid. Passing been poor and now given away the pen. Bit soft maybe but you hold people like that and it’s the risk you take. Ruined a good start.

Well he's on loan so can get rid. Coventry replacing him

aki2798

Writing from the away end and I haven’t seen us cheer a sub like that before haha.

mascot88

Ref just chatting with the Stoke playing and giving each other a fist pump - expect more dreadful decisions incoming 

Fumbluff

Well that was the sub we’d all have made after the 2nd goal?

DDOUBLEE

se9addick said:

LargeAddick said:

I predicted Skipp would start but I’m not sure he was even with the squad on Wednesday and what with the squad being away maybe it wasn’t the right decision to start him.

If it wasn’t for Ouma’s calamity there’d be more scrutiny on Skipp’s performance 

Who knew that the midfielder who's been an absolute disaster for Leicester would suddenly become good for us, baffling as to why he started today

Talal

Almost pointless bringing him on now, may as well have kept him rested. 

Redvalleyeast

Valley11 said:

Personally I think the ref has totally changed that game. A shocking penalty decision that completely swung the momentum. 

No booking for their number 9 after he deliberately looked then smashed Jones.
Get through second half without any injuries or suspensions and get back to London is about the best we can hope for at this stage. 

As soon as i saw who the ref was i had a bad feeling. He is absolutely woeful. Doesnt excuse our absolute capitulation.

aso914

LargeAddick said:

Even if it wasn’t a pen we’ve fallen apart afterwards. It went to Ouma’s head too, soon after at fault for the second. Some criticism of Lloyd Jones here as captain. He needed after the pen to have a quiet word with Ouma, tell him to keep his head up, forget it and get on with it. It worried me when he was made captain and asked what sort of captain he’d be he said he isn’t that vocal but leads by example. That’s why Doc WAS a great captain, he’d have been in Ouma’s ear encouraging him.

This is my worry about him as captain. He’s an amazing player but he’s not a vocal captain he’s even said so himself. In times like this he doesn’t know how to rally players and be encouraging with words and he loses his cool way too quickly when we’re under the coch. I know it might not seem like much but vocal leaders in the dressing room are important.

sam3110

For a split second I thought Madley wasn't going to whistle that foul on Bell

Pelling1993

Why bother putting miles in Coventry’s legs at this point!? 

ForeverAddickted

SELR_addicks said:

sam3110 said:

Coventry on for Ouma

30 minutes too late. Should've been protected. 

Kin hell... Similar to Spurs you dont know when to give it a rest at times do you

Banging on about those using stats but the last two seasons, you've commented on being able to see performances with "Your own eyes", claiming we wouldn't go up losing at Reading, whilst claiming last year plenty we'd get relegated... So yeah your track record is pretty unreliable as well

mascot88

Such cheats - 

the lowest of the low these guys 

CAFCsayer

SELR_addicks said:

sam3110 said:

Coventry on for Ouma

30 minutes too late. Should've been protected. 

45 minutes too late

Laddick01

So we’ve rested Coventry, then brought him on at 4-0 down.

Surely, if he could only play 45, we’d have been better starting him rather than starting Skipp and Ouma who probably don’t even know each others name.

Bedsaddick

Can’t see Ouma starting another game anytime soon.