What an utter pile of shite....Varney, Bailey and Hudson (just) are the only ones to come out of it with any credit.
The rest of em might as well have not bothered......Youga and Sam were about as bad as it can get, do I watch a different game to Pardew. How Sam came out for the second half was laughable, he was an absolute joke and bottled pretty much everything. Youga is just a clown full stop.
Primus clearly isn't fit enough and from what I'd heard of Cranie, he was supposed to be the nuts....he's looked garbage to me and certainly no better than Moo2
They are the only few I can be bothered to type about as they were the worst of a bad bunch.
N.B Weaver also seemed to be tied to his post by a piece of invisible elastic, if we could take it away from around his waist before Saturday it might help.
Our support was excellent, can't have been to many empty seats (apart from their main stand which they could've got away without even opening)
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That's not a good sign at all. Did any of the players have the balls to come and face the fans at full time or did they all skulk off sheepishly?
Took the gutless way out then. Even Matty H? The like of Kiely, Rufus, Kins, Robbo, Hunt etc NEVER did that.
I'll never forget Forest away in the cup. Only Holland and Ambrose came over to clap.
Yet another inconsistent player to add to the ones we already had. Not the type of players any team needs, but we have plenty of them.
Pards certainly likes a rough diamond. I think it massages his ego to think he can polish them up. Trouble is he keeps buying turds and he's all out of brasso.
Disagree an inconsistent player is one that changes from game to game, he'shad one good game for us and thats it, our players are becoming worryingly consistent.
That's part of the frustration. Ledge - he's all talk and little delivery.
Fair enough Kap but don't rty and pin it on me!
We were quite simply never in the game. They got a corner in the first minute, and it never got better after that. They dominated play, won all the 2nd balls and generally as a unit wanted it more than us. What was so disappointing is against other sides we have seen, they weren't even any good.
We started with Varney up on his own, but he was so isolated it was unreal, and we never really had possession anyway. Put Boazza more central 2nd half, but it never really looked like working. We didn't register a single meaningful effort on target all game.
Varney worked his nuts off to no avail, and Bailey gave his all against an impressive midfield, probably the best part of their game, but overall it was just disappointment all over the field. Youga sadly is regressing game by game, while Cranie has showed precious little to carry a highly rated tag.
We had to lose over there at some stage, and i'm a big boy and can take it on the chin. But i'm struggling to see hardly any positives in our future direction at the moment. I said before the game that i didn't fancy it because this side just hasn't got enough about it.
Certainly appeared the case tonight.
The problem with all these loan signings is that they probably have clauses saying they have to play, so they're in the comfort zone and don't have to fight for their place.
Mou2 was a big difference that day, gave us all the width and outlets that we needed and have lacked since. He also has the final ball to cause defences problems. The trouble is he makes a mistake defending and he's Pardews scape goat.
"A triple change from boss Alan Pardew, who shelved his 4-5-1 formation in favour of all-out attack in the closing stages as Andy Gray, Svetoslav Todorov and Zheng Zhi were all introduced, promised much but delivered little, and it was Palace who went closer to a second than the Addicks to an equaliser"
The hosts appeared fragile at times when put under pressure,
and despite committing players forward at will, the visiting side couldn't break through.
with Ambrose offering an attacking threat at the tip of the central triangle
Are just 4 of the diamonds on offer
Although I only listened to the commentary I completely forgot he played tonight. Don't think I heard his name mentioned once
Get the feeling with us, we need other teams to have an off day, us to have a good start, then we might play well. Not often we play well causing the other team to struggle.
This is depressingly spot on.
It was nip and tuck out there
we never stuck to the game plan in the 2nd half
we would have won it if we got the goal...
their goal was offside
I'd rather he just said we got what we deserved instead of bullsh intellignet football fans
It was hardly the Alamo, was it...?
Agree with everything you've said there.
Not got much to add other than I've never been a Pardew out merchant but to be honest after tonight, i don't think he's got long left. The only positive was i thought our support was quality there tonight.
Wouldn't want to be in Pards' shoes in the morning.
Charlton manager Alan Pardew:
"It was a real derby with no quarter given. We had chances but the final ball just wasn't there to give us a lift and I thought their goal was offside, so that was disappointing.
"The boys are fully committed but I'm looking at one or two and thinking I need to give other people a chance.
"We are still above Palace but we are falling behind the pace now and we need to put a little run together, otherwise we could find ourselves in trouble."
Played into their hands tonight. Paddy and the other centre half won't have an easier game all season.