Looks mustard as far as the Brum comments go. Good for us, our midfield is bow edging brilliant. And with Lyle, Hemed, Bonne, Chucks fit and now able to switch to play 1 or 2 up front with Taylor being the 1 or part of 2, seems good..
“Massively disappointed to see him leave. Battler and winning mentality. So good on his day, unfortunately for him couldn’t get in over Sunjic and Bellingham. You guys will love him”
“Massively disappointed to see him leave. Battler and winning mentality. So good on his day, unfortunately for him couldn’t get in over Sunjic and Bellingham. You guys will love him”
Surprised Bellingham is still there, weren't Man U meant to be after him?
No idea why Birmingham have let him go. This has a touch of a reverse Michael Morrison about it.
He’s everywhere on the pitch whenever I’ve seen him play. Got a bit of Pratley about him but is also more well rounded technically too.
Obviously not as talented as Conor but I imagine he will play the “Gallagher role” and what he lacks in star quality he will make up for in sheer hard graft.
That's a good analogy.
Loaning a player to a side near you in the table seems odd, it would be like us loaning Jason Pearce to Barnsley
He is a decent signing but it begs the question why Smith?
Midfield or lack of it is what has cost us last few months. Cullen, field, Williams, oz, aneke all going to need to be managed having smith and Davis helps that and hopefully ensures we don't have to use vennings and Dempsey who are not ready yet
Send Dempsey back to Non-League (no rush), Vennings back to the U23s (can go to Non-League next season)
Morgan and Doughty can remain at the club and add depth to the Midfield along with Lapslie
Given how many midfielders we have, I wish we'd sent Dempsey and Morgan on loan to a EFL club. Still have: Pratley Cullen JFC Davis Williams Lapslie Field Smith
All can play as 8s. About half can play as 6s. Then still have as 10s: Aneke Oztumer McGeady Williams (appears in both lists)
That's a lot of midfielders. Not a bad thing. Just wish we'd used this chance to let Dempsey and particularly Morgan get more experience. Both look to have decent potential, Morgan in particular.
He is a decent signing but it begs the question why Smith?
Midfield or lack of it is what has cost us last few months. Cullen, field, Williams, oz, aneke all going to need to be managed having smith and Davis helps that and hopefully ensures we don't have to use vennings and Dempsey who are not ready yet
Send Dempsey back to Non-League (no rush), Vennings back to the U23s (can go to Non-League next season)
Morgan and Doughty can remain at the club and add depth to the Midfield along with Lapslie
Given how many midfielders we have, I wish we'd sent Dempsey and Morgan on loan to a EFL club. Still have: Pratley Cullen JFC Davis Williams Lapslie Field Smith
All can play as 8s. About half can play as 6s. Then still have as 10s: Aneke Oztumer McGeady Williams (appears in both lists)
That's a lot of midfielders. Not a bad thing. Just wish we'd used this chance to let Dempsey and particularly Morgan get more experience. Both look to have decent potential, Morgan in particular.
Who knows - with our injury record it might be an idea to keep them both here. The people coming back still aren't fully fit.
Also may be chance Bowyer might be thinking about switching to a 451 (4-2-3-1) with the numbers we have?
“Massively disappointed to see him leave. Battler and winning mentality. So good on his day, unfortunately for him couldn’t get in over Sunjic and Bellingham. You guys will love him”
Surprised Bellingham is still there, weren't Man U meant to be after him?
They are but given his age, no real need to go for him now. Think he'll go in the summer.
Solid loan signing who should help steer the good ship . One of the tweets above saying he couldn’t get in their team due to Bellingham and Sunjic , the reason he is here is probably because he wants to be playing and deffo has a touch of the Morrison deal about it except of course ours is a poxy loan as usual
Solid loan signing who should help steer the good ship . One of the tweets above saying he couldn’t get in their team due to Bellingham and Sunjic , the reason he is here is probably because he wants to be playing and deffo has a touch of the Morrison deal about it except of course ours is a poxy loan as usual
He'll be suspended by end of February. Makes Pratley look like a kitten.
Of all the posts in the last 24 hours this is the best. Made me chuckle out loud. l just love being a Charlton fan.
My Dad first took me to the Valley in the mid 60’s. He’d take me when he wasn’t working on a Saturday. Him being an on course bookmaker this meant that it was always freezing and the ground was too hard for racing. My mother would wrap me up like a baby in swaddling and we’d drive up from Brighton. My first game was an FA cup tie against Preston in January 1966, I was nine years old, we lost 2-3 but I was hooked. Even though I’d been going to Brighton with my elder brother for the previous two seasons, to me Charlton was something else. The size of the old East Terrace, the reverberating noise, and then there were the local ‘characters.’ The one I remember the most sat in the old wooden West Stand on two seats and shouted out the funniest abrasive comments, usually directed at the referee. To a nine year old this was gold dust. Grumpy Addick, thankyou for reviving the memory and carrying on the tradition.
Unless its just the floodlights, that looks like it happened during the day?
Considering it's a B/W photo, it could have happened any time before 1907. I think it's a great signing: a Prately Deluxe.
People are wearing t shirts in the background - I reckon that’s from visiting with Birmingham a while ago. It looks like bright sunlight - wonder if we played them at the Valley in warmer weather?
This signing gives us the CB back-up we were after. Now Pratley can fill in at CB and Davis play the defensive midfield role. Very clever! In Bowyer we trust!
Yeah its really surprised me... You can have five in a matchday squad yet six in total (I think thats the absolute limit)
I certainly never expected Bowyer to go beyond five with how he stresses about having good relations with the parent clubs
Unless after Chelsea's behaviour his new approach is: "f**k 'em"
I think it’s about rotation. I think Bowyer saw what happened earlier in the season and doesn’t want a repeat of a team with Vennings and Dempsey in. Yes, not all can be in the match day squad, but Pratley has been pretty much run into the ground, Field is only just returning from injury as well as Cullen. Don’t think Bowyer always fancies Morgan, so I actually see this as astute way of managing the run in of games.
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let’s win tomorrow 😱
“Massively disappointed to see him leave. Battler and winning mentality. So good on his day, unfortunately for him couldn’t get in over Sunjic and Bellingham. You guys will love him”
Pratley
Cullen
JFC
Davis
Williams
Lapslie
Field
Smith
All can play as 8s. About half can play as 6s. Then still have as 10s:
Aneke
Oztumer
McGeady
Williams (appears in both lists)
That's a lot of midfielders. Not a bad thing. Just wish we'd used this chance to let Dempsey and particularly Morgan get more experience. Both look to have decent potential, Morgan in particular.
Also may be chance Bowyer might be thinking about switching to a 451 (4-2-3-1) with the numbers we have?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Davis_(footballer)
One of the tweets above saying he couldn’t get in their team due to Bellingham and Sunjic , the reason he is here is probably because he wants to be playing and deffo has a touch of the Morrison deal about it except of course ours is a poxy loan as usual
Perhaps he'll score v Millwall.......
Grumpy Addick, thankyou for reviving the memory and carrying on the tradition.
I think it's a great signing: a Prately Deluxe.
edit - yep that’s him walking out in Sept 2019