I don't buy all this that the youngsters are inexperienced.
I agree it is good to have a couple of experienced heads on the field, but it is the calmness of the youngsters which stopped us conceding tonight at the end. And also v QPR we passed it around at the end thanks to the youngsters. Aslo you may all forget that it was the experienced lot that let the goal lead turn into a 2-1 defeat v the MASSIVES last season in the last few minutes.
If it wasn't for the youngsters this season, we would be out of the fight for survival now. And we wouldn't be in the quarters.
When you think Poyet, Cousins, Fox barely 30 league games between them. Thought Morro, Wood, Wilson, Jacko and Poyet were immense. Should have scored a least one more first half. Church worked his nuts off but does has a sponge foot. Was there 'goal' over the lines? Who cares. Deffo a red on Harriott.
Well done all those able to get up there. After watching the live stream I'm off to lay down in a darkened room. COYR.
Walking back to the car i overheard two Wendies, saying that they thought old boys Wood and Morrison were key to stopping them tonight and they played into our hands by lumping the ball up in the air which was generally mopped up easily.
As said already Powell celebrated as long and hard as those in the West Upper and to see him swinging on the crossbar like a schoolboy was a joy to see. It's nights like this that make following Charlton to nights like Donny Rovers all the more sweet.
I'm always proud to say i'm Charlton and tonight my 12 year old talked about going back to school in Sheffield next week and giving it large!Love it :-)
Absolutely buzzing - just got in - fantastic being there - great atmosphere - I thought we deserved the win - that was a performance out of the Curbs era. Nights like this make all those bad games fade away. Can't wait for the Sheff U game - but let's not kid ourselves that will be tough too. By the way where is operationpig?
Absolutely buzzing - just got in - fantastic being there - great atmosphere - I thought we deserved the win - that was a performance out of the Curbs era. Nights like this make all those bad games fade away. Can't wait for the Sheff U game - but let's not kid ourselves that will be tough too. By the way where is operationpig?
When you think Poyet, Cousins, Fox barely 30 league games between them. Thought Morro, Wood, Wilson, Jacko and Poyet were immense. Should have scored a least one more first half. Church worked his nuts off but does has a sponge foot. Was there 'goal' over the lines? Who cares. Deffo a red on Harriott.
Well done all those able to get up there. After watching the live stream I'm off to lay down in a darkened room. COYR.
Walking back to the car i overheard two Wendies, saying that they thought old boys Wood and Morrison were key to stopping them tonight and they played into our hands by lumping the ball up in the air which was generally mopped up easily.
As said already Powell celebrated as long and hard as those in the West Upper and to see him swinging on the crossbar like a schoolboy was a joy to see. It's nights like this that make following Charlton to nights like Donny Rovers all the more sweet.
I'm always proud to say i'm Charlton and tonight my 12 year old talked about going back to school in Sheffield next week and giving it large!Love it :-)
Oi, weren't you meant to be working?! (Apologies if I've got the wrong guy...)
"Charlton's gameplan was spot-on. They dug in when they had to and they looked like they had another gear they could kick into.
"The hype around Sheffield got to the Wednesday players. They never got settled and were chasing the game. Charlton deserved the win and I expect that they will have too much for Sheffield United too."
Been home since 23.30 but thought I'd relive the game by reading through the match thread and then the post match comments. Like another lifer commented it was difficult to concentrate on individual performances because of the emotional excitement, singing and the banter going on in the ground. The fans were great and the atmosphere was electric. I do think we won the game with our fast start, putting them under real pressure for the first 30 mins. Proud that there were two 18yr olds, a 19 year old and a 20 yr old from our accademy, and they played well in a hostile environment of 25,000 yorkies baying for southern blood. They were lucky that they kept 11 players on the pitch. Llera on Church in the first half ( didn't even get a booking!), then a defender on Harriot in the second that nearly cut him in half. Some lovely passing and movement in the first half, which faded away as we came under more pressure. Just coming up to 01.00, with a glass of wine in my hand and still buzzin'
Hamer was excellent felt great to have him back in. Them two young boys Cousins and Poyet looks way way beyond their years in midfield. Poyet has the vision to pick passes we have been missing. If we can stay up and keep him... next season he will be a revelation. Wilson was superb at right back. Jackson contributed a lot despite it being his 2nd game in 3 days. Ajdarevic has a good first touch and has good vision and the right idea with some of his passes but just couldn't quite execute enough of them as he meant. He does look like he'll be an asset though as he grows into the side. Church's shooting is dire but he worked as ever superbly today and was actually for once very effective, winning free kicks linking up with other players holding the ball up. A very good effort playing up there on his own.
Support was great, so glad I made the effort and took the half day off to get up there. Got some great memories of Hillsborough now... the 4-2, the 1-0 Jackson free kick and now tonight. Having said that, I spent much of both of the latter having heart palpitations and looking away from the pitch praying for the end.
Celebrations at the end were class - you can see for these boys playing out there the prospect of a Wembley outing means as much to them as it does to us...
And as for SCP. I have never once questioned him and I hope that he will get a lot of credit from the doubters now. The man unites this football club. A lot of my passion for Charlton Athletic would drain away if he left at this current moment in time. There's not a man in the world I'd swap for him... I'd rather we had SCP as manager than Messi on the pitch. If if IF we can stay up this time round and keep Powell in charge, I honestly believe there's gonna be a lot of fun times ahead for us.
Spoke to some Wendies after and they were embarrassed by the route one football they played - said we deserved it - CP take note, these boys can play! First 25 mins was the best we've played all season - we can do it - let's hope the midweek games don't hurt us - 4 academy kids starting was fantastic as well - buzzing!!!
Home sweet home! Deserved win. Hard to pick a MoM but will go for Church, unbelievable work rate and we'll taken goal. Suspect refereeing and a poor lino spoilt it a little bit on another day it could of finished 10 a side. COYA
What. A. Performance. Absolutely buzzing, every single one of them players dug in and fought so hard. IMO we outplayed and outfought Sheffield Wednesday but did ride our luck a few times.
Our fans were immense and the celebrations when we scored and at the end will live long in the memory. My throat is in pieces.
Also had a Sheffield Wednesday fan come up to me after and shake my hand and say well done, one of the few gracious supporters they have!
What interests me is how Powell will now approach the rest of the season having seen what he has seen over the last three days, he will need to use the full squad of players given the number of games we have to play but we DO need to settle on a regular XI and - crucially - how we are going to set up.
The bottom line is that Adjarevic is different gravy - a class above anything we have had since Andy Reid - BUT if he is going to play then we are going to need to build the team around him.
He can't play wide - too slow - and not mobile enough to play centre-midfield in a two-man partnership so that means he either plays at the head of a diamond or behind the striker like he did tonight in the '10' role.
Its a tough call and might differ from game to game but I would like to see him play the same role as he did tonight - but we need to make it work better.
If AA plays there then we would probably play Church up there as a lone striker - although AA could link well with Reza - but the bigger issue is that because AA is not a runner we will need more midfield runners getting in front of the ball and into the box.
Can Cousins and Poyet do this? Not their style at the moment - although both could learn - whilst we saw Harriott do it tonight and Jacko on Saturday.
Ultimately we need to be in the market for a right-hand side attacking player - a player who can get right up and support Church and give an option for AA when he is on the ball - could Nego have a crack in this role? I guess Tudgay could also be tried there and we could even look at Church if Reza plays as striker.
My issue really is that with Cousins, Poyet, Jackson and AA we have four central players in there and clearly lack genuine width on the right, we saw tonight Cousins does not fit there all that well.
Here's how we might line up....
Hamer
Wilson - Morrison - Wood - Wiggins
LOAN - Cousins - Poyet - Harriott
Adjarevic
Church
Jackson could then come on around 60 mins to add his experience - but we do need more attacking threat down that right-hand side to give us more punch up front.
Wednesday have 50% top supporters and 50% complete twats. I suppose we all have them. But rather focus on the bitter sour sore losers who give their club its reputation, maybe we should give them some credit for the decent ones.
Spoke to some Wendies after and they were embarrassed by the route one football they played - said we deserved it - CP take note, these boys can play! First 25 mins was the best we've played all season - we can do it - let's hope the midweek games don't hurt us - 4 academy kids starting was fantastic as well - buzzing!!!
The defence was great - hats off to Wilson, the ex- Wednesday boys Morrison and Wood, and young Morgan Fox, who wasn't too troubled on his debut. Hamer was excellent, both I'm terms of his goalkeeping and his winding up of the home crowd. Very good save near the end.
I thought Poyet was very polished and we played some good stuff in the first half and defended well in the second. Churchy had the run on Leira throughout and eventually we made it pay with Jacko's free kick and Churchy's header.
We sat with a Wednesday friend in the South stand, level with the penalty area, and I didn't understand why their second "goal" was disallowed, although presumably there was a foul.
Overall, very well deserved and no one around us thought any different.
Unless I looked away at the wrong moment there was no disallowed goal.....
It's great that so many academy players are coming through and playing well. Also Harriott looks like he may be getting back to last seasons form which will be great for us.
I am currently realising exactly why a good night's sleep is a good idea, mostly through not having had one... but totally worth it. Long old journey there and back but probably the best Charlton atmosphere of the season I think - it was like the best bits of the QPR game, for 90 minutes.
Well done players, well done CP and well done us I must say!
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I agree it is good to have a couple of experienced heads on the field, but it is the calmness of the youngsters which stopped us conceding tonight at the end. And also v QPR we passed it around at the end thanks to the youngsters. Aslo you may all forget that it was the experienced lot that let the goal lead turn into a 2-1 defeat v the MASSIVES last season in the last few minutes.
If it wasn't for the youngsters this season, we would be out of the fight for survival now. And we wouldn't be in the quarters.
Well done Poyet, Cousins, Fox and Harriott.
As said already Powell celebrated as long and hard as those in the West Upper and to see him swinging on the crossbar like a schoolboy was a joy to see. It's nights like this that make following Charlton to nights like Donny Rovers all the more sweet.
I'm always proud to say i'm Charlton and tonight my 12 year old talked about going back to school in Sheffield next week and giving it large!Love it :-)
Comments by Chris Waddle very fair:
"Charlton's gameplan was spot-on. They dug in when they had to and they looked like they had another gear they could kick into.
"The hype around Sheffield got to the Wednesday players. They never got settled and were chasing the game. Charlton deserved the win and I expect that they will have too much for Sheffield United too."
They were lucky that they kept 11 players on the pitch. Llera on Church in the first half ( didn't even get a booking!), then a defender on Harriot in the second that nearly cut him in half. Some lovely passing and movement in the first half, which faded away as we came under more pressure. Just coming up to 01.00, with a glass of wine in my hand and still buzzin'
Hamer was excellent felt great to have him back in. Them two young boys Cousins and Poyet looks way way beyond their years in midfield. Poyet has the vision to pick passes we have been missing. If we can stay up and keep him... next season he will be a revelation. Wilson was superb at right back. Jackson contributed a lot despite it being his 2nd game in 3 days. Ajdarevic has a good first touch and has good vision and the right idea with some of his passes but just couldn't quite execute enough of them as he meant. He does look like he'll be an asset though as he grows into the side. Church's shooting is dire but he worked as ever superbly today and was actually for once very effective, winning free kicks linking up with other players holding the ball up. A very good effort playing up there on his own.
Support was great, so glad I made the effort and took the half day off to get up there. Got some great memories of Hillsborough now... the 4-2, the 1-0 Jackson free kick and now tonight. Having said that, I spent much of both of the latter having heart palpitations and looking away from the pitch praying for the end.
Celebrations at the end were class - you can see for these boys playing out there the prospect of a Wembley outing means as much to them as it does to us...
And as for SCP. I have never once questioned him and I hope that he will get a lot of credit from the doubters now. The man unites this football club. A lot of my passion for Charlton Athletic would drain away if he left at this current moment in time. There's not a man in the world I'd swap for him... I'd rather we had SCP as manager than Messi on the pitch. If if IF we can stay up this time round and keep Powell in charge, I honestly believe there's gonna be a lot of fun times ahead for us.
Brilliant
Don't you just want to hug all our brave lads and most especially our very special gaffer ! Simply the best !!!!
They epitomised everything that's good about this great Club tonight...
Such a shame that failing to cover their pitch meant a number of our fans missed out on witnessing something special tonight.
How about we do it all again in less than 2 weeks' time ?
I'm really loving Yorkshire !
What. A. Performance.
Absolutely buzzing, every single one of them players dug in and fought so hard.
IMO we outplayed and outfought Sheffield Wednesday but did ride our luck a few times.
Our fans were immense and the celebrations when we scored and at the end will live long in the memory. My throat is in pieces.
Also had a Sheffield Wednesday fan come up to me after and shake my hand and say well done, one of the few gracious supporters they have!
I'm off to bed. What a day
The bottom line is that Adjarevic is different gravy - a class above anything we have had since Andy Reid - BUT if he is going to play then we are going to need to build the team around him.
He can't play wide - too slow - and not mobile enough to play centre-midfield in a two-man partnership so that means he either plays at the head of a diamond or behind the striker like he did tonight in the '10' role.
Its a tough call and might differ from game to game but I would like to see him play the same role as he did tonight - but we need to make it work better.
If AA plays there then we would probably play Church up there as a lone striker - although AA could link well with Reza - but the bigger issue is that because AA is not a runner we will need more midfield runners getting in front of the ball and into the box.
Can Cousins and Poyet do this? Not their style at the moment - although both could learn - whilst we saw Harriott do it tonight and Jacko on Saturday.
Ultimately we need to be in the market for a right-hand side attacking player - a player who can get right up and support Church and give an option for AA when he is on the ball - could Nego have a crack in this role? I guess Tudgay could also be tried there and we could even look at Church if Reza plays as striker.
My issue really is that with Cousins, Poyet, Jackson and AA we have four central players in there and clearly lack genuine width on the right, we saw tonight Cousins does not fit there all that well.
Here's how we might line up....
Hamer
Wilson - Morrison - Wood - Wiggins
LOAN - Cousins - Poyet - Harriott
Adjarevic
Church
Jackson could then come on around 60 mins to add his experience - but we do need more attacking threat down that right-hand side to give us more punch up front.
Great performance, great result. Looking forward to getting into the office to milk it up
The future's bright. The future's RED n WHITE
Well done players, well done CP and well done us I must say!