What a cracker !!
Love to know if anyone left at 2-3 :-)
Very impressed with Racon. Good touch and very busy, liked to get into the box.
Samedo didn't look as composed at right back as he has in other games.
McLeod done ok. Won the penalty very well.
ZZ looks a real quality player, looks a step above this level.
Sam at times looked like the ultimate world beater, but then two mins later looked worse than average.
Its at the back all the problems are. McCarthy may of scored the winner, but he is simply awful, no getting away with it. Hate to knock our own, and perhaps he's just had a poor start, but i can't see for the life of me what Pardew saw in him, i honestly can't. Fortune looks to have improved, but just when you think he looks reliable, he'll go and switch off.
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todorov was different gravy
mcleod looked like a div 2 player
mcarthorse is a worse buy than traore
As a Charlton fan though, it was the sort of performance we've come to expect - except actually winning it! I'd have ZZ down as man of the match.
I liked the swap of penalty takers after McLeod's was saved.
They had a long throw and Fortune completely switched off, their player had a free header. Fortune and McCarthy have words, and this bloke behind got up and just exploded:
'Its your f*cking fault McCarthy (it wasn't), you're f*cking useless you f*cking waste of space, useless f*cking prick'
Silence all around as the ball breaks down the other end and we get a corner. Ball in and McCarthy scored a header. I haven't laughed so much in ages, bloke took absolute pelters, but took it in good spirit.
Think I saw Ketman, Stu from SE7 and Carlsberg in the covered end as well, wonder what they thought of it.
i'd settle for that, but i thought he was a lot more attack minded than Jones ever was, and has a turn of pace and can cover the yards. Didn't seem afraid to put his foot in either. Looks a find.
Fortune was awful tonight, leaving the ball when he should have been challenging for it, the mouthful Rudolph gave him for their third went on and on.
Samedo looked good going forward and interlinked well with Sam at times but they both went missing for a while.
ZZ looks the buisness
What a cracking game, and a great atmosphere.
Quiet a few people around me starting leaving at 2-3.
Glad we hung on, but we need to sort out our defence otherwise we'll get punished.
saw that but don't think there was anything in it. Think they just moved a few youngsters back a few rows,
Because his agent engineered a move back to France and he wanted to go, not much we could have done about that. Besides, lets not turn Diawara into Rufus, he is better than McCarthy but was a poor defender in the English game himself.
A couple of weeks ago, I thought everyone said Todorov was useless......?
;o)
But what a cracking game, hats of to Stockport, and we looked good going forward.....ZZ utter class abd brilliant.
.. bunch of kids were annoying but produced just about the only bit of atmosphere in the lower north... the group that got moved in the east were nothing but a bunch of chavvy locals.. .probably half of them millwall
But he looks a much better player now. Has a good touch and vision, and if he can be on form he will be a real asset. Its keeping him on form that me be the problem.
I'll admit that i thought he looked a finished player. Hopefully it is starting to look like i jumped the gun on that. The one that hit the bar near the end was sensational.
Edit - Ok, just seen the highlights on SSN - I must've imagined it!
Nurse! More drugs please! ;o) lol
Good save hands and also commanding and confident with corners, his distribution could be better,also made some important saves.
Definitely one for the future.
Thanks! Glad he did ok. Deano probably gave him some tips on kicking before he left:-)
Ormiston I'm not saying he was Rufus but he was class and knew how to defend in my opinion. I hear what you say about his agent etc. Why didn't we hang on to him until we had a replacement lined up? If we couldn't get anyone then fuck it, he's got a contract he'll have to stay, at least until Jan.
Still he's gone and we need a leader in defence urgently.
As for not letting him go, well, we all know that that scenario is one that sounds fine in theory but in practice just does not work out. If someone is offering 3 million quid for him and he does not want to play for us anymore then its daft to keep him because you can't have someone in the side who is a destabilising influence.
The whole thing happened quite fast and we did not really have much chance to get a replacement lined up, Pardew obviously had Diawara in his starting XI so would not have been scouting for a new centre-half in pre-season.
My bet is that we will bring Calum Davenport in from West Ham on loan and also bring in Danny Mills on a short-term deal.