Dross. Total and utter dross. I've now been to 5 pre-season games and watched one on the net and we have looked a threat going forward once - Welling. We are basically playing 5-3-1-1. Midfield shockingly bad. Crofts and Foley are so one paced and defensive it seems to affect the whole team's tempo.
Some really poor body language on the pitch, Ajose again looks incredibly frustrated. Slade very low key. Stood with his hands in his pockets saying very little.
Really Hope Meire isn't writing the match report as she has spent entire half smirking at her phone.
I can't ever remember a Charlton side looking so undercooked so close to the season starting.
Finally, what is the point in having Gobern here if he isn't going to get a run out. We've seen Crofts and Foley numerous times. FFS, give the bloke an hour to show what he can do.
Utterly depressing. Can see myself staying in the pub in Manchester next week!
Slade telling the fourth official "we don't need it" when they announced the one minute added time.
I'd say we've been turgid, but that would indicate we've done something. Phillips can't kick and nearly got muscled off the ball early on as he dithered with a backpass The five man defence is shit, Thomas and Konsa flanking the Potty mouth and THD (who's ran clean off the pitch at least 3 times) and Solly (who's tackling has been rash to say the least) Tweedledum and Tweedledee are awful, always passing backwards to our lacklustre defence or losing the ball entirely, and Crofts in particular is so, so negative, at one point the ball fell to him 25 yards out from a poor keeper clearance and instead of having a shot he tried to pass the ball, problem was he didn't look up (he rarely does, watch him and see) and there was no one there. The other time he tried to pass forwards it was to give them the ball for the goal. Ba keeps turning his man and driving forwards, the problem is he usually forgets the ball and therefore is just running around aimlessly. Lookman is a livewire, but is so thin and weedy he bounces off everyone, he needs some muscle/avoid other players Ajose hasn't touched the ball so there's nothing to judge him on
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Some really poor body language on the pitch, Ajose again looks incredibly frustrated. Slade very low key. Stood with his hands in his pockets saying very little.
Really Hope Meire isn't writing the match report as she has spent entire half smirking at her phone.
I can't ever remember a Charlton side looking so undercooked so close to the season starting.
Finally, what is the point in having Gobern here if he isn't going to get a run out. We've seen Crofts and Foley numerous times. FFS, give the bloke an hour to show what he can do.
Utterly depressing. Can see myself staying in the pub in Manchester next week!
I'd say we've been turgid, but that would indicate we've done something.
Phillips can't kick and nearly got muscled off the ball early on as he dithered with a backpass
The five man defence is shit, Thomas and Konsa flanking the Potty mouth and THD (who's ran clean off the pitch at least 3 times) and Solly (who's tackling has been rash to say the least)
Tweedledum and Tweedledee are awful, always passing backwards to our lacklustre defence or losing the ball entirely, and Crofts in particular is so, so negative, at one point the ball fell to him 25 yards out from a poor keeper clearance and instead of having a shot he tried to pass the ball, problem was he didn't look up (he rarely does, watch him and see) and there was no one there. The other time he tried to pass forwards it was to give them the ball for the goal.
Ba keeps turning his man and driving forwards, the problem is he usually forgets the ball and therefore is just running around aimlessly.
Lookman is a livewire, but is so thin and weedy he bounces off everyone, he needs some muscle/avoid other players
Ajose hasn't touched the ball so there's nothing to judge him on
-Solly - Konsa - Johnson - THD
Holmes - Foley - Crofts - Jackson
-------Lookman - Ajose
I would assume. Maybe Holmes up top and Lookman out wide.
I'm guessing a lot of people are away on holiday.....
I'd really really love to see 20k plus WHEN they go. A big effort from all of us to do that will be brilliant.