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Darren Bent

Red_Pete_in_Dubai
Red_Pete_in_Dubai Posts: 2,764
edited March 2007 in General Charlton
He had an absolute shocker of a game. Couldn't pass it 10 yards, didn't look interested in the hard work, got in other players' way..... but then got one chance from the spot and finished superbly. As Pardew said, probably his worst game ever in a Charlton shirt. But who cares!!!!

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  • Tavern
    Tavern Posts: 7,681
    As long as we get the 3 points could not care how we play
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,224
    Call for Alan Pardew resignation....3 points are not good enough....we demand entertaining football at all times! [smileythingy]
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,671
    Nobody could claim DB was great yesterday but the guy is carrying an injury!

    I think he was there to rally the fans as much as anything.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    I don't think he has trained much since the Newcastle match.
  • Ledge
    Ledge Posts: 7,179
    you ain't the bloke sitting 3 rows behind me who fucking moaned constantlly at Bent. I mean is he not entitle to a quiet game now and again he has been on and off the treatment table. Jeez
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,238
    I thought he had a shocker too but assumed cos of his injury. Lets hope he can keep carrying it - no let up now with breaks between football. I was in no doubt he would stick that away... tho I did watch from behind me happy clapper.

    Will he be pissed with Pardew for saying that tho in his interview?

    JUst settling in front of telly to watch goals on sunday. Wigan players on the sofa.
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,813
    The thing is that those sorts of games are always going to be really hard for any player like Bent, who relishes using his pace and movement to get behind defences, to play in. Wigan's centre havles, DeZeeuw and Hall are decent players and they close the space down so well that its really tough for Bent to get space by coming deep either. I really feel that Bent's value could come in the three remaining away games when ZZ might be able to spring him in a few times behind a home back four that have pushed on a bit. Yesterday would have been ideal for a DiCanio type player who could produce a dribbles or cute pass to unlock a packed defence.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,282
    Agree that Bent was poor (and Pards said his worse game for Charlton) but wouldn't fault his effort.

    Even the penalty was at a poor height and nearly allowed the keeper to save it but the power Bent puts into his shot meant it went in anyway.

    But he's entitled to the odd poor game considering the number of good ones he's had. A but more fitness and the rest of the team firing as well, who knows. roll on Man City.
  • Barn Door Varney
    Barn Door Varney Posts: 2,000
    Agree that DB was poor but when his only service comes from hopeful (or should that be hopeless) long punts from the back, what do you expect?
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,197
    not his greatest game but i would've preferred him to run the ball in injury time into the corner flag rather than the misplaced pass to m bent which allowed them to break and cause a few more heart attacks

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