Charlton v Bristol Rovers - Match Thread

AFKABartram

Afternoon everyone and welcome from a grey SE London as the South Eastern Express loops it’s way around the Royal Slade Green Gardens.

Can we win without Taylor?

Team news when announced...

sam3110

Bielik at the base of the midfield diamond, Solly and Dijksteel full backs, or are they wing backs and Bielik is in a back 3 with Bauer and Pearce?

kafka

Weak bench, bar Forsu

ForeverAddickted

No Billy Clarke at all... thats a bit surprising!!

Hope its part of his recovery and that he's not had a setback

Sage

As said in the predictions thread, albeit with Ward instead of Fosu which I am a little surprised about:

Steer
Dijksteel Bauer Pearce Solly
Bielik
Lapslie Aribo
Ward
Ajose Grant

Sillybilly

No Reeves anywhere to be seen either. Not very hopeful I’m afraid.

ForeverAddickted

kafka said:

Weak bench, bar Forsu

Bit harsh on Stevenson when he's third top scorer

paulie8290

After comments the other day surprised Reeves not even on bench.

ForeverAddickted

paulie8290 said:

After comments the other day surprised Reeves not even on bench.

Hopefully Lee is saving some for Burton on Tuesday

He certainly had a tendancy to swap Dasilva and Page for the weeks when we had two games at the end of last season because of their injury problems at the time

ross1

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soapboxsam

paulie8290 said:

After comments the other day surprised Reeves not even on bench.

Lee Bowyer has form for smoke and mirrors.
Only recently Taylor played when Lee said he had a stomach injury and wouldn't play.

ross1

https://twitter.com/i/status/1066303979427119109

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https://twitter.com/i/status/1066335584891875333

Cafc43v3r

With Igor, Taylor, Cullen, Clarke, Reeves and Page all unavailable that's still quite a good team/bench.

killerandflash

No need to rush Reeves back, while Clarke looked really rusty on Tuesday. Lapslie deserves to keep his place

ross1

https://twitter.com/i/status/1066338402205933568

Swisdom

True story - Stefan Payne was going to join us on loan at the start of the season but good old Roly pulled the plug

killerandflash

Plenty of Brizzle folk on the train, a decent away turnout I imagine

ross1

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smudge7946

Go in the addicks

RedChaser

killerandflash said:

No need to rush Reeves back, while Clarke looked really rusty on Tuesday. Lapslie deserves to keep his place

So does Sarr especially as Djiksteel didn't have his best of games in the cup replay scoring the lowest (5.39) in the players marks

Chris_from_Sidcup

Swisdom said:

True story - Stefan Payne was going to join us on loan at the start of the season but good old Roly pulled the plug

If true then i'm glad he didn't as it would no doubt have held back the development of Grant. Also when we have Taylor, Grant, Ajose and Igor it's not surprising Roly said no.

ross1

Darrell Clarke makes five changes to the side that hosted Barnet on Wednesday night, ahead of today's clash with Charlton Athletic at The Valley.

https://t.co/RDF6sUTOHm

Callumcafc

ross1 said:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1066303979427119109

They need to update the record victory part to 8-0 vs Stevenage... cough up Roland...

RedChaser

ross1 said:

Darrell Clarke makes five changes to the side that hosted Barnet on Wednesday night, ahead of today's clash with Charlton Athletic at The Valley.

That'll be his first team today then!

ross1

https://twitter.com/i/status/1066342660833779714

AFKABartram

Big group of singing Europeans at the front of the East

Aethelstan

Cafc43v3r said:

With Igor, Taylor, Cullen, Clarke, Reeves and Page all unavailable that's still quite a good team/bench.

Poor old Forster-Caskey! How soon forgotten!

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Cafc43v3r

Aethelstan said:

Cafc43v3r said:

With Igor, Taylor, Cullen, Clarke, Reeves and Page all unavailable that's still quite a good team/bench.

Poor old Forster-Caskey! How soon forgotten!

I didn't includ him because I doubt we would have got Cullen if he wasn't injured.