I wasn't able to see the game, but from the commentary, Diawara held together the backline with another impressive performance, Dazza snatched at a golden opportunity and Hughes put one into the sidenetting. Oh, and Andy Reid off with a niggle.
Another point...
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Truly awful match, shocking.
Happy with the point though.
We were lucky to get a point tonight but things are maybe evening themselves out a bit now. Diawarra top drawer again, Carson done well with a couple of stops but also spilt a couple.
Three clean sheets on the spin. Bring on City
Carson 7 - pretty solid, made some great stops but also fumbled a few
Young 7 - looked better going forward & defended well
HH 7 - a much better performance, concentrated on his game & no silly mistakes
Diawara 9 - brilliant, solid, read the game well & one or two perfect tackles
El Kak 8 - defended well, one or two neat step-overs to bring the ball clear
Holland 6 - didn't see much of him, didn't do much right or wrong
Faye 5 - lost possesion too often for my liking, this spoilt an otherwise steady display
Romm 8 - thought he did very well, constantly troubled the NUFC defence & linked play intelligently
Reid 6 - lack of fitness told & his first touch often let him down - are his feet too small, they are tiny!!
M Bent 6 - did Ok, worked hard, closed down but created nowt
D Bent 7 - gave Bramble & Moore a workout - should have done better when though on goal, late on
Kish 5 - too late to make an impact, huffed & puffed as per usual
Hughes 6 - some neat passes & unlucky not to score at the death
Bit harsh on Andy Reid - sounds like they've been hammering him into the ground during fitness training, so not surprised over what happened to him today.
Ain't that right Len?
agreed, I've longed maintained some players get away with a lot more than others before they are criticised.
We have to be pleased with a point away from home at Newcastle. If we can get it right against City next week we can get out of the bottom 3.
Very impressed with Diawara once again.
Carson 7 -solid, positioning ok, handling ok too.
Young 7 - looked better going forward, but gave Duff a bit too much space for comfort. Made a few good interceptions.
HH 7 -looked a bit shakey to me, but no messing and decisive.
Diawara 9 - brilliant, solid, read the game well & one or two perfect tackles -repeating above comments, our MOM, a few little mistakes but so what.
El Kak 7 - best game I've seen, but still has that odd moment when he loses concentration, perticularly when he let Duff through when he should have cleared, Rossi hot the bar with Carson stranded.
Holland 7 - grafted hard, closed down his marker, but offered nothing much going forward.
Faye 5 - not his best game, on his return should have done better,gave away posssession too often for my liking, an otherwise steady display
Romm 8 - our only real cutting edge, had some good opportunities, but final ball let him down.
Reid 7 -ran his socks off, first touch ok, but failed to deliver any killer passes
M Bent 7 - did Ok, worked hard, but failed to link wuth D Bent, but that wasn't his fault.
D Bent 7 - a poor game, starved of possesion, two half chances late on that went nowhere.
Subs:
Kish 6 - ran around and had his usual game, did nothing wrong but he[led shore our midfield up
Hughes 6 - again as with Kish did nothing wrong, had a late chance.
Dowie: body language suggested that he was happy with 0-0, while Roeder seemed to be continually wringing his hands and looking clueless. Newcastle were the better side, (again, so what they were at home) but only because of Parker though he faded after the knock on his ankle and Duff who needed a good finisher to supply. The lack of a cutting creative edge still worries me. Reid worked hard on and off the ball but never really looked like supplying the killer ball.
Lastly, the penalty shout..no way outside the box for one thing and secondly Duff ran across Diawara and then fell over him.
Referee - Mike Dean - had a good game. Took no nonsense and got every major decision right.
bUT friom my drunken state, reid promised much but delivered little, we never looked like scoring, am happy with a point, and for a neutral it must of been the most pony game ever.
happy with a point, but not as positive as i was before the game. Concerns growing. On the plus side, this kebab meat and chips is lovely :-)
I think Diawara could be the future of our defence for a few years to come, for a last minute buy he looks very good...
We are now in absolute desperate need for a creative midfielder, I thought Reid looked rubbish today, nothing he did really worked, there was no incisive pass from ANYONE, Bent got in on goal becasue titus shambles tried to catch the ball in his shirt and failed..... Rommers did well I thought always took pressure off us and scared their defence also set up Hughes who should have smashed it rather thatn placed it I thought, and as for Faye he had really decent chance and try to do a Del Piero type finish which unsurprisingly failed, he could have smashed it and we could be here with massive smiles on our face......
On the positives at least Dowie seems to have realised that he can defend and battle out a point or a clean sheet. What we now need is a positive attacking game against city, maybe the rest has fixed up JFH, you never know, so he might be able to do something there... all in all bad performance I think, but we got a point which is very promising in terms of survival........
3 points next week please.......
Also the clocks have gone back which nails me to a post, as last nights match started at 3.15am or something stupid....
Rubbish.....
Lets hope its only a 24 hour bug !
3 unbeaten at the moment, 3 clean sheets, bit of confidence in the final third, and we'll get the win. Citeh are poor at the moment, worse then us, and I fancy getting the points
One plus is that the defense are getting games together as a unit, instead of one or more forced changes every week. Certainly they looked the best that I've seen this season, even with the usual El K blunder.
Good point. I wonder what will happen when Traore's back. Will they go with him on the left and move HH back to the centre, with the possible effect of destabilising Diawara (ie will he and HH have the same understanding, or will they both play the same role as big bastard and generally get in each other's way), or will they have the nerve to bench HH?
My concern is that i can't see us putting the passes together with the players we have like West ham did. We seem to go from one problem to another. We sort out the back four and keep 3 clean sheets, and then have trouble at the other end.
Wouldn't thought i would say this a week ago, but next Saturday is pretty much a 'must win'.
The rot for me has been stopped, would have been better with a win against Watford, importantly we're not conceding cheap goals, and if you don't concede you're chances of winning are a lot lot better
no excuses now, we have pretty much a full strength squad & he's had time to work with them - so this is it
Bring on the Citeh!
Agree with every bit of that.
Starting to get a bit of a gap 4-5 places above us, it needs to be closed now.
I was just behind this commotion that started from the whistle at the beginning of the game. the geezer standing up got told to sit down, so got the hump and stood shouting at the old geezers for 10 mins so missed that bit of the game, I'm somewhere in between the 2 of them, as i'm all for standing up and shouting, singing etc, but when i do so, when we haven't sold out, i'd stand near the back so as not to annoy anyone and also to be with the other standing singing shouting type people. so for that, i'd say the drunk bloke was at fault. (also you shouldn't shout at old men who aren't capable of standing) however, the old geezer (who every time he shouted tons of foamy gob sprayed out of his mouth) proceeded to shout everytime the jokey songs started that our fans are our disgrace. he said that you are not a proper supporter if you don't wear a shirt and a scarf, and that singing the addams family song is despicable, and he was embarrassed to be a charlton fan, and also the song "stand up if you love charlton" is wrong, as if you loved charlton you'd wear a shirt or a scarf.
now i'm all for calmness at football, none of this fans fighting other fans etc, and I did find him hilarious, but seriously, he was rather OTT with his opinons and therefore i found myself swaying back in favour of the drunk man standing up clapping out of tune on his own.
was anyone else around that area or do you know who i'm talking about?
the drunk bloke got asked to relocate to the back in the end which he was fine doing, it wasn't a problem.
I HOPE THEY HAVE THE NERVE TO BENCH HH. I'M NOT SURE IT NEEDS 'NERVE' IN FACT, HE'S LOOKED A BIT SHAKY TO ME. THEN AGAIN IS TRAORE SO GREAT? ALL HE'S DONE SO FAR IS MAKE A LARGE CONTRIBUTING FACTOR TO START THE SEASON OFF SO BADLY.