Idle jr and I broke our journey at Greenwich and sat in the garden of the Gipsy Moth in the sunshine. The idea of just spending the afternoon there occurred to both of us. Wish we had.
Comments from the wife who goes once a year after walking for the Upbeats. No energy from the players, ball played around with no skill or desire. Players didnt want to be there. Taking money from the supporters under false pretences. Club should refund admission money. Why can't they show the same enthusiasm as the Upbeats. No respect. Should donate their wages to the Upbeats. Embarrassing.
I think those suggesting that Chris Solly is surplus to requirements after Djikstill's display need to have a major rethink.....dreadful.</blockquote
To be fair he’s not really a full back is he.
On another note, another impressive performance by Toney for Scunny.</blockquote
I actually don’t think rotating the full backs helps either. And If you are going to ask a player to play out of posistion, give him a run of games there.
Just one other thing to add. The goal celebration was a bit of a piss take. Kneeled down and prayed like he had scored a worldy at the Nou Camp. You scored a tap in mate get over it.
Just one other thing to add. The goal celebration was a bit of a piss take. Kneeled down and prayed like he had scored a worldy at the Nou Camp. You scored a tap in mate get over it.
To be fair it was in front of the Covered End at The Valley. Every footballers dream.
Just one other thing to add. The goal celebration was a bit of a piss take. Kneeled down and prayed like he had scored a worldy at the Nou Camp. You scored a tap in mate get over it.
To be fair it was in front of the Covered End at The Valley. Every footballers dream.
Also what summed up today well was right at the end when Amos went up for the corner and we played in short to Reeves who shot. Brilliant to have him as an extra man but not use him
Amos ad a great game as well to add to the above. Made a number of good saves. He did give me a lol moment too when he tried to pass to a full back and it bounced over them
I watched from NW quadrant today after doing he UpBeats walk, the walk was great, the UpBeats similarly great.
Kaikai didn’t seem to add much and as a result nor did reeves or Aribo in the first half. I thought djiksteel had another good game generally and da Silva.
Their goal looked a bit too easy and may have been offside in the buildup.
Watching the game from our side, the linesman and the referee made a number of very very poor/inconsistent decisions that I thought allowed them to break up our play by them just falling over. Probably may well have lost if they were better but I thought they had a shocker, all of them and when they watch it back, they won’t be proud of their decisions often at all.
Scunthorpe set up to fall over easy under shoulder to shoulder or marginal challenges and the referee team bought that. Against a team doing that, we should have fallen over just as easily (or ideally been good enough to avoid even the decisions that went against us).
Thought Bowyer made good attacking subs early, would have personally liked to see Zyro and Fosu play together.
Fosu has very very very quick feet and always seemed to be looking for an outlet, one was not often there and he always had 2/3 players to beat. Was surprised how wide he played.
The last 5-10 minutes we seemed to realise that we were losing a potential chance to playoffs and put some urgency into the game, would have been better to have seen more of that earlier.
Great saves from Amos kept us in the fight but our pushing forward kept those spaces open.
Personally wouldn’t play Kaikai again as I think he was the main lack of threat in the first half that meant we didn’t have enough going forwards.
What a painful dull experience it is being a Charlton fan . Only upside is we missed the first 25 mins due to youngest son having a match . Amos is my player of the year the turnaround from the early clueless flapping performances is nothing short of a miracle , FairPlay to him .
I genuinely hate us , the pain the anguish the shitness is getting to me more than ever before , i think our neighbours being light years ahead of us is magnifying these feelings .
A lamentable performance with no redeeming features. Scunny were nothing special but were sharper, won their individual battles, kept their shape and looked more dangerous going forward than we did with our feeble attacking play. They also showed considerably more desire and fight than our players - and this from a team who had gone 10 games without a win. What an indictment. Regardless of whether or not their player was offside in the build up to their goal, they thoroughly deserved the three points.
We were disjointed in midfield and Scunny always seem to have a man over (which they probably did most of the time). The slow tempo of our play and the lack of movement made it very easy for our opponents to get everyone into position and it felt very much like some of our worst performances under Robinson. Weak performances from Zyro, KaiKai and Ajose compounded matters and, while the introduction of Fosu livened things up, we never really extended their keeper and didn’t, in truth, look like scoring.
With two tough away games coming up next week, only the most cockeyed optimists amongst us will fancy our chances of making the play-offs. Realistically, our chances have gone and it’s time to get out the maps to Accrington and The Stadium of Light.
A pretty joyless afternoon, save for watching the thoroughly admirable and entertaining Upbeats pre-match from the North Stand Bar. A great set of lads with infectious enthusiasm.
Off the field, let’s just hope that we can get ourselves out of current limbo and start to rebuild the club on and off the field. Going into another season under the present owner simply does not bear thinking about and there is much work to be done.
A couple of weeks back I was looking at flight prices for the play-off final weekend. After watching that today I don't think I'll be on Skyscanner again any time soon.
Poor, both as a team and most individuals.
Scunthorpe were no world beaters but were better organised, more focussed and definitely more up for it than Charlton.
Just seem the goal on C5. Still don't think it was offside as the player had a lot of space to run into when the ball was played & Pearce was probably playing him onside. Saying all that, the cross should never have got to the striker to tap in from 3 yards (when was the last time one of our players had such a simple chance ?) and if Bauer thinks that is defending then he can go & play on Hackney Marshes as he'll find his level there.
Painful today, it was like Robinson was back in charge. The play was too slow (Bauer to Pearce to Bauer etc), no fight, no width, no movement. Kaikai avoided the ball, drifted around and did nothing.
I couldn’t work out what kaikai was supposed to be doing, if was anything productive, he failed.
Saw him in the middle, drift out a bit but not much, whatever he was asked to do he either didn’t or couldn’t do it.
It seems we are playing him in the wrong position, it seems to me, and I have not seen him as much as some, that he would be best played at Selhurst Park
I've been going through a whole range of emotions after this latest defeat. Initially, I wasn't too bothered, accepting the ineptitude of the team, their frailties and the recognition that Scunthorpe did a job on us. But as this evening has progressed, the one thing that has been nagging me is that I'm not entirely convinced that the players care as much as I do. As fans, we commit our heart and soul to the cause and all I want from my team is that they match that same desire, then as one we can say we win together and we lose together. That to me is not evident I'm afraid. As LB said in his post match comments, they need to stand up as men for the remaining games but tbh I remain severely pessimistic.
I've been going through a whole range of emotions after this latest defeat. Initially, I wasn't too bothered, accepting the ineptitude of the team, their frailties and the recognition that Scunthorpe did a job on us. But as this evening has progressed, the one thing that has been nagging me is that I'm not entirely convinced that the players care as much as I do. As fans, we commit our heart and soul to the cause and all I want from my team is that they match that same desire, then as one we can say we win together and we lose together. That to me is not evident I'm afraid. As LB said in his post match comments, they need to stand up as men for the remaining games but tbh I remain severely pessimistic.
Too late. The last 2 games has told me all I need to know. No heart & no bottle. Too late to start now. If they couldn't "stand up" against the likes of Wimbledon then they're not going to against Pompey or Blackburn.
Out of interest, when was the last time we came back from a losing position to win ?? I don't think we've done it this season & the best I think we've done are draws away to Bury & Bristol Rovers & admittedly 2 goals against Peterborough at home. Shocking situation & a big part of the problem. As soon as we let a goal in the players know the game is up. To put it into context, Wimbledon came from 2 goals down today to WIN. Away from home.
Can't believe we've gone from the predictability of one system to the predictability of another. It's crazy that average League One teams can suss us out so easily.
I don't know how the average age of our team compares to other teams, but we look like a bunch of kids out there sometimes.
Our best players on current form appear to be Amos, Page/Dasilva, Reeves and Fosu. Maybe Bauer on a good day? And only a couple of weeks ago many of us were hoping we'd sign Zyro. Ok, some of us, at least. What happened to Mavididi, our great saviour. And the return to form of the prodigal son, Ajose, seems to have petered out, before it really got started.
It's driving me, and by the sounds of it, many of you, nuts.
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No energy from the players, ball played around with no skill or desire. Players didnt want to be there. Taking money from the supporters under false pretences. Club should refund admission money. Why can't they show the same enthusiasm as the Upbeats. No respect. Should donate their wages to the Upbeats. Embarrassing.
On another note, another impressive performance by Toney for Scunny.
Kaikai didn’t seem to add much and as a result nor did reeves or Aribo in the first half. I thought djiksteel had another good game generally and da Silva.
Their goal looked a bit too easy and may have been offside in the buildup.
Watching the game from our side, the linesman and the referee made a number of very very poor/inconsistent decisions that I thought allowed them to break up our play by them just falling over. Probably may well have lost if they were better but I thought they had a shocker, all of them and when they watch it back, they won’t be proud of their decisions often at all.
Scunthorpe set up to fall over easy under shoulder to shoulder or marginal challenges and the referee team bought that. Against a team doing that, we should have fallen over just as easily (or ideally been good enough to avoid even the decisions that went against us).
Thought Bowyer made good attacking subs early, would have personally liked to see Zyro and Fosu play together.
Fosu has very very very quick feet and always seemed to be looking for an outlet, one was not often there and he always had 2/3 players to beat. Was surprised how wide he played.
The last 5-10 minutes we seemed to realise that we were losing a potential chance to playoffs and put some urgency into the game, would have been better to have seen more of that earlier.
Great saves from Amos kept us in the fight but our pushing forward kept those spaces open.
Personally wouldn’t play Kaikai again as I think he was the main lack of threat in the first half that meant we didn’t have enough going forwards.
Only upside is we missed the first 25 mins due to youngest son having a match .
Amos is my player of the year the turnaround from the early clueless flapping performances is nothing short of a miracle , FairPlay to him .
I genuinely hate us , the pain the anguish the shitness is getting to me more than ever before , i think our neighbours being light years ahead of us is magnifying these feelings .
Play offs 20%
100% Roland Out
We were disjointed in midfield and Scunny always seem to have a man over (which they probably did most of the time). The slow tempo of our play and the lack of movement made it very easy for our opponents to get everyone into position and it felt very much like some of our worst performances under Robinson. Weak performances from Zyro, KaiKai and Ajose compounded matters and, while the introduction of Fosu livened things up, we never really extended their keeper and didn’t, in truth, look like scoring.
With two tough away games coming up next week, only the most cockeyed optimists amongst us will fancy our chances of making the play-offs. Realistically, our chances have gone and it’s time to get out the maps to Accrington and The Stadium of Light.
A pretty joyless afternoon, save for watching the thoroughly admirable and entertaining Upbeats pre-match from the North Stand Bar. A great set of lads with infectious enthusiasm.
Off the field, let’s just hope that we can get ourselves out of current limbo and start to rebuild the club on and off the field. Going into another season under the present owner simply does not bear thinking about and there is much work to be done.
Not good enough. We didn’t look like scoring and we never put enough pressure on Scunthorpe.
We were too predictable punting long balls up to Zyro. Two defeats in a row, I think the plays offs are a distance dream now.
Poor, both as a team and most individuals.
Scunthorpe were no world beaters but were better organised, more focussed and definitely more up for it than Charlton.
First defeat I've witnessed live for some time.
Saw him in the middle, drift out a bit but not much, whatever he was asked to do he either didn’t or couldn’t do it.
Sit on the attacking midfielder and constantly pressure the sitting defensive midfielder.
There's no width and no outlet.
And then "press us high and when they won the ball back switched it wide quickly".
Three teams in a row have negated our diamond.
We've been rumbled. And stopped in our tracks.
But that might be because I gave the football a miss.
But as this evening has progressed, the one thing that has been nagging me is that I'm not entirely convinced that the players care as much as I do.
As fans, we commit our heart and soul to the cause and all I want from my team is that they match that same desire, then as one we can say we win together and we lose together.
That to me is not evident I'm afraid.
As LB said in his post match comments, they need to stand up as men for the remaining games but tbh I remain severely pessimistic.
Out of interest, when was the last time we came back from a losing position to win ?? I don't think we've done it this season & the best I think we've done are draws away to Bury & Bristol Rovers & admittedly 2 goals against Peterborough at home. Shocking situation & a big part of the problem. As soon as we let a goal in the players know the game is up. To put it into context, Wimbledon came from 2 goals down today to WIN. Away from home.
I don't know how the average age of our team compares to other teams, but we look like a bunch of kids out there sometimes.
Our best players on current form appear to be Amos, Page/Dasilva, Reeves and Fosu. Maybe Bauer on a good day? And only a couple of weeks ago many of us were hoping we'd sign Zyro. Ok, some of us, at least. What happened to Mavididi, our great saviour. And the return to form of the prodigal son, Ajose, seems to have petered out, before it really got started.
It's driving me, and by the sounds of it, many of you, nuts.
Where's the Prozac....
Love my Charlton