Surely bailey would be far better off playing in the center. I'd much rather see someone like Kyle Reid or Racon on the left instead of seeing wasted talent on the wing. Far more effective in a central position as we can see from performances earlier in the season.
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He put in a good shift and still managed a few attempts on goal.
On today's performance, I believe what you say is a red herring.
We should look at the quality of our set-piece routines first & that has nothing to do with the set-up of the team.
Could easily but didn't
Bailey played on the left early in the season not in the center. Thats where he was when he was very effective. Racon wont play out on the left.
Could not agree more. I think he would be the 1st person to start a fight in a pub and run away. He bottles it in tackles, always shouts at refs, rolls around on the floor which ruins attacks for no reason as he is fine a few seconds later and I just don't like how he runs into the oppositions face and shouts at them when we score. Plain idiot in my opinion.
One of the shots he had today as well was greedy, he should have passed to Forster. He is really starting to annoy me lately i'm sorry to say, i know the north stand shout his name but I just do not get it.
what tosh. Key player all season and has more attempts on goal than any other Charlton player. Agree he is less effective on the wing.
we lost all our impitous when reid came on a baily came central, although by that point the team had nothing left to be fair. would have prefered to take of racon for shelvy and keep baily out wide and semedo in the middle with shelvy, oh well
He misses Youga when he's on the left imo, his ability to overlap meant we always had width on the left and Borrowdale, decent as he is, doesn't have the same cavalier spirit, or ability to go past players that Youga has. Bailey would probably get a better approximation to Youga as a partner if he played in front of Richardson and Reid would give natural width on the other side, so maybe that is the way to get a better balance but Bailey wouldn't be able to cut inside and shoot from his stronger foot, and we'd have top drop Sam which might be harsh right now.
I think I'd leave it alone tbh and continue to tinker from the bench as the game goes on. We're playing well so let's let the team settle as there have been a few too many changes in recent weeks what with all the injuries, loans and tinkering.
Spot on. The nucleus of the team is solid and working well. Keep it more or less settled now.
All we need is a little more composure with that final ball - and that's an awareness issue.
Borrowdale reminds me a bit of Thatcher, doesn't really do anything stupid, not scared to challenge for the ball whether it's in the air or on the floor. Simply controls the ball and passes it on, goes long if he has to. Doesn't offer much going forward though, so we're a bit flat down the left with Bailey ahead of him.
Racon at times takes too many touches, doesn't score enough but him and Semedo work well together and both keep possession. The one thing about Racon is he always wants to get the ball under control and create a bit space for himself, then usually pass the ball on the floor. He doesn't panic, always wants to be composed, at times it's a risk but further up the pitch it's what we need at times.
Racon and Semedo showed why Parky is starting them, he's just struggled to find a spot for his captain in Bailey. Leaving him on the bench might be better for the team, then again he always gets into goalscoring positions, something you don't get from Racon. With Forster and now Burton returning, Reid able to score, Sam and Richardson down the right creating, we only need to win 1-0 (I know GD is an issue if going for 2nd though), we do have more goal threats than we did earlier this season when it was mainly Bailey and Burton.
Shame he's injured but lets slag him anyway as Mooney and omosuzi didn't play
To play in the CM he has to earn it, but Racon and Semedo in my honest opinion have been more consistent. I agree maybe he should have started yesterday, but he should have been brought off for Reidy on the 60 min mark. Lets hop his saving the best for the play-offs.
Would not say he has been "wasted" remember he played wide left at the start of the season and we won 7 on the trot
Little did I know that the thread content would be even more ridiculous -
"a busted flush", "not as good or important as he thinks he is", "the 1st person to start a fight in a pub and run away", "bottles it in tackles", plain idiot", "greedy", "the team play horribly with him in the middle", "everything has gone from his game"
- and all this in one thread started after arguably one of our best team performances of the season, a game in which most people seem to agree we were unlucky not to get anything.
There is another thread going at the moment about the "quality" of our fans. The answer to the question on that thread is clearly a resounding "YES". Makes me embarrassed to be associated with some of them sometimes - and that's coming from me, a self-confirmed pish-head who does "stupid" as a full time occupation.
By all means say if you think NB had a good/bad day but as off it says so so ridiculous.
No doubt, 4 months ago, Bailey would have turned a game like yesterday on it's head with the amount of opertunities we had!
He just seems to have lost the fight..and not even the most Bias Bailey fan can disagree, that fight and determination to win the ball and get in the right positions is the biggest part of his game.
Other players have played well and then gone hiding...What makes Bailey Immune from this.
Any top manger will tell you even the best players on paper have to earn there place.
Also, on the argument that he is being wasted out on the left..Hasn't he scored most of his goals in tha postion in the last 2 years?