Millar starts on the right, makes a pass left, keeps his run going, ends on the left wing, crosses in abs we score.
No idea what he was doing starting in the right but to nit switch him abs Shinnie at half time and instead make close on 4 subs on 60 minutes to ensure we hardly had another attack really didn’t go well.
I can only think Bowyer was trying to find a way to get some service into Schwartz. Didn’t work.
Awful game of football and if it wasn’t for not being able to do anything much else no way I’d be watching Tuesday.
It’s quite concerning just how much we look right at home in the upper mid-table area of League One. On paper we surely have a squad that should be at or near the top of this Division - but there’s something or several things missing. In particular, I would say:
Energy - we seem so slow in reacting, so often being beaten to the second ball.
Movement - our movement off the ball is poor, with players in possession lacking an out ball and therefore forced to pass backwards.
Cohesion - how many times do we string together more than three or four passes? Not many.
Tactical nous - look at today, despite a bright opening and very good goal we didn’t seem to realise that the conditions were very much in our favour in the first half, and would be very much against us in the second. So we didn’t press high, instead banging endless long balls forward that invariably ran out of play. Fleetwood taught us a lesson in anticipating and playing the conditions.
We were very, very lucky to scrape that point today. We were indebted to Stockley for scoring and never stopping fighting for the ball, and to Famewo who provided much needed solidity at the back.
We keep saying the next game is a must win, that we have to go on a run soon, if we want to get up into and stay in the play off places. We can’t keep saying that and failing to deliver. Time and games are going to run out and we’ll be stranded in this shit league at least another year.
How many times are we going to read.... we need to win the next or........?? So tedious watching and reading excuses to cover up the obvious!!. Fu***ing custard is gonna be out of date by the time I get to use it!!!😤😤😂
Apart from their 22 chances, I thought we were quite comfortable.
Yeh but only 8 were on target🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
22 chances, 8 on target ...... but only 2 'clear cut chances', of which they scored from one.
Fleetwood were busy, adapted well to their familiar windy coastal conditions - but really, they had little more cutting edge than we had.
They're a team in 16th which lost one of their main goal threats in Ched Evans, and indeed also lost a manager to presumably off field reasons. It's not a high bar to try and show as much cutting edge as them, which we massively failed to do...
We need to lower our expectations and maybe bowyer has a point about a new team coming together. We really do have to start planning for next season because even if we made the play offs there is no way we would get to the final and certainly not win it.
Just a couple of seasons ago we would have had a wind swept 300 up there who wouldn’t have told us in any real detail until Sunday morning that it was shit, and thousands of us at home who would have seen the final score on our phones, BBC1 or Sky and thought ‘fair point’.
#GoodOldDays
I've got a mate who's a season ticket holder at Colchester but he refuses to watch them on the telly. His argument is that football below the Championship (and frequently in it) is not good enough to be televised. The poor quality isn't so important when you're at the ground because if you sit behind the goal you don't get a good enough perspective to form too much of a judgement. When you're getting a perfect overview from a camera high in the stand it's a constant reminder of how bad the product is.
They have also just done Donnie 3-1. The conditions were horrendous and Fleetwood have a far better idea of how to play in that wind than we do, no it wasn't pretty and some of our players didn't get a touch but its a point won.
We need to lower our expectations and maybe bowyer has a point about a new team coming together. We really do have to start planning for next season because even if we made the play offs there is no way we would get to the final and certainly not win it.
If we made the playoffs, we would have to be on one mother of a winning streak, and playing like this squad should be. Therefore, I’d be confident we would piss both first legs and Wembley.
Dreary, dismal stuff. We managed just one shot on target in the
entire game. Fleetwood are a dull team, too – yet registered 22
shots; we were hanging on at the end. We simply aren’t sharp or inventive enough for the play-offs.
Once again our
central midfield lacked the creative spark to mount dangerous
attacks. Shinnie probed in the first half – crossed accurately for Stockley’s well-taken goal – but disappeared in the second.
Stockley was our most effective outfield player. Millar had a rare
bad game.
Smith achieved
something remarkable – in 56 minutes he made no impression
whatsoever. And I’m sorry to say – Schwartz is a dud.
A truly terrible second half performance from Charlton, in a game which - quality wise - would not have looked out of place in non-league.
In terms of the level we’re at, that has to be one of the most abject 45 minutes I’ve seen over the last 50 years or so. The present team looks pretty rooted in League 1.
We somehow held out for a point despite the Fleetwood onslaught, but the team looked mentally shot and totally lacking in confidence, belief and leadership.
Big pressure this week, as two more lame performances at The Valley would, realistically, end our play-off pretensions.
Apart from their 22 chances, I thought we were quite comfortable.
Yeh but only 8 were on target🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
22 chances, 8 on target ...... but only 2 'clear cut chances', of which they scored from one.
Fleetwood were busy, adapted well to their familiar windy coastal conditions - but really, they had little more cutting edge than we had.
They're a team in 16th which lost one of their main goal threats in Ched Evans, and indeed also lost a manager to presumably off field reasons. It's not a high bar to try and show as much cutting edge as them, which we massively failed to do...
Dazzler had posted a table of match stats, which included showing Fleetwood had 22 chances ..... wow! that's impressive.
But it's a good reason to see that all these stats are usually meaningless ..... 22 chances? Hardly, they included all sorts of 40 yard wind-assisted punts that went nowhere near the goal, overhit crosses and tame spongefoot shooting that barely trickled vaguely in the direction of the goal line ..... and that's most of their "8 shots on target".
The same table showed they had "2 clear cut chances", of which they scored with one and Amos brilliantly saved the other. But really, the only stat that counts is the number of goals scored.
I think it comes down to balls. We have a great start in demanding conditions and it isn't a masterstroke that you push up and press and make it hard for your opponents to clear in the conditions. Bowyer has become a negative coward and when we scored, his priority was to be solid but everybody knows you have to play the conditions.
Par at H/T was 2-0 and we came in 1-1. Fleetwood murdered us in the second half because they set up how any half decent manager would. We can thank a lack of finishing ability on their part and a lot of luck for gaining a point. Sadly, we can't put it down to anything we did!
Yes Bowyer is an ultra negative coward and I would gladly say it to his face. He should walk and surely would do if he put the club above himself. Even he must realise that he has lost it!
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LB & JJ need to work on basic teamwork.
Whatever happened to the old one two? Fleetwood found it useful, we had no clue how to defend against it.
No idea what he was doing starting in the right but to nit switch him abs Shinnie at half time and instead make close on 4 subs on 60 minutes to ensure we hardly had another attack really didn’t go well.
I can only think Bowyer was trying to find a way to get some service into Schwartz. Didn’t work.
Awful game of football and if it wasn’t for not being able to do anything much else no way I’d be watching Tuesday.
I've seen milk turn quicker!
This week, as an added bonus, I'll get to mix it up a bit & feel deflated on a Tuesday night as well!!
I'm beginning to think he's right.
However, it will not be happening......
Dreary, dismal stuff. We managed just one shot on target in the entire game. Fleetwood are a dull team, too – yet registered 22 shots; we were hanging on at the end. We simply aren’t sharp or inventive enough for the play-offs.
Once again our central midfield lacked the creative spark to mount dangerous attacks. Shinnie probed in the first half – crossed accurately for Stockley’s well-taken goal – but disappeared in the second. Stockley was our most effective outfield player. Millar had a rare bad game.
Smith achieved something remarkable – in 56 minutes he made no impression whatsoever. And I’m sorry to say – Schwartz is a dud.
In terms of the level we’re at, that has to be one of the most abject 45 minutes I’ve seen over the last 50 years or so. The present team looks pretty rooted in League 1.
We somehow held out for a point despite the Fleetwood onslaught, but the team looked mentally shot and totally lacking in confidence, belief and leadership.
Big pressure this week, as two more lame performances at The Valley would, realistically, end our play-off pretensions.
Dazzler had posted a table of match stats, which included showing Fleetwood had 22 chances ..... wow! that's impressive.
But it's a good reason to see that all these stats are usually meaningless ..... 22 chances? Hardly, they included all sorts of 40 yard wind-assisted punts that went nowhere near the goal, overhit crosses and tame spongefoot shooting that barely trickled vaguely in the direction of the goal line ..... and that's most of their "8 shots on target".
The same table showed they had "2 clear cut chances", of which they scored with one and Amos brilliantly saved the other.
But really, the only stat that counts is the number of goals scored.
WELCOME BACK CHRIS
it can’t happen soon enough
Par at H/T was 2-0 and we came in 1-1. Fleetwood murdered us in the second half because they set up how any half decent manager would. We can thank a lack of finishing ability on their part and a lot of luck for gaining a point. Sadly, we can't put it down to anything we did!
Yes Bowyer is an ultra negative coward and I would gladly say it to his face. He should walk and surely would do if he put the club above himself. Even he must realise that he has lost it!