Plus points, couple of goals from Jackson's changes and coming from 2-0 down.
Unfortunately, I can't get excited about that performance. It was littered with mistakes, we constantly gave the ball away and and were far too open for my liking. I am back to what I said after the Shrewsbury game, I fear for us against any of the teams pushing for promotion. I can't see us living with any of them at the moment.
Liam Millar seems to be going backwards. He definitely needs to be rotated out of the team and DJ deserves a chance.
For context, consider Bristol Rovers away form. They have not won an away game since 5th December and their record since that date (including the game last night) reads as follows:
Won: 0 Drawn: 2 Lost: 9
Scored: 5 Conceded: 21
I would like Jackson to step into the firing line and be a huge success, but my instinct is he is not the right man for where we are/want to go at the moment. Hopefully he will remain involved as he is clearly a good link between the players and management, but I have a feeling we will se a new man come in and he will bring his own team with him.
Can't agree. A pet hate, which some of you may have noticed, is when fans treat our loan players differently to our fully-contracted players. They're all Charlton right now, support them all right now, unless they really aren't trying, which is a very rare situation
If Maatsen wasn't a loanee would you feel the same?
I am sorry but all the while we are competing for something I agree they should be treated the same. Once we're not competing, why play them? The whole point of loanees for us is that they enable us to compete.
JJ will make a decision based on what is best for his career.
I personally don't think that working as Bowyer's assistant is what would be best, but he may choose that over being an assistant to a new manager at Charlton.
Agreed, but working with a legend liker Curbishley might be a lot more appealing
For all the people saying to drop Maatsen, what part of Jackson's self-avowed preference for higher press and positivity on the ball will that aid? Sure, Purrington's errors are less noticeable because he has a less proactive style, but my whole support of Maatsen has been because his movement is on a level other full-backs in L1 just cannot touch. If we're gonna go out and beat the other bigger teams, we need to gamble on our best players playing at their best
Maatsen is clearly still a much better player than Purrington with the right decision making.
Agreed. The problem is Maatsen usually makes the wrong decision, always out of position and generally passes to the opposition. He's young he will improve, but I'm judging him on now, not what he may be in 3 years time.
good fight back from 2-0 down and regained a play off slot where a couple, Doncaster & Lincoln, are starting to falter. However there is still a need for a BIG improvement to keep up a promotion drive. I wonder if we'll see an Addicks/Mackems Pt 3 in the early summer?
As soon as playoffs are out of reach, I'd terminate all our loans early. Play only our players that are fighting for contracts. (I realise this may only be 1-3 games)
You can't terminate loans outside of transfer windows.
Of course, there's a choice not to select the player ......... now that would piss off the lending club, if that's what you mean?
Bench them then.
We need to focus on who is going to be kept on/renewed.
For all the people saying to drop Maatsen, what part of Jackson's self-avowed preference for higher press and positivity on the ball will that aid? Sure, Purrington's errors are less noticeable because he has a less proactive style, but my whole support of Maatsen has been because his movement is on a level other full-backs in L1 just cannot touch. If we're gonna go out and beat the other bigger teams, we need to gamble on our best players playing at their best
Disagree, we've had 4 months of gambling on Maatsen playing at his best and he hasn't and he's shown no sign of doing so. Let's stop gambling on a naive lad with potential and tighten up our leaky defence with a player who is more reliable, has miles better positional sense, is a better crosser and scores more as well. I've nothing against Maatsen other than he's a liability we can well do without. (I don't doubt he has potential, but that's no use to us now).
Came over as a reasonably fair assessment of the game, and a calm reasoning of where they are this season, must say lost count of the "dusting themselves down" required
Agreed, like how he bemoaned the free kick but focused on his teams inability to setup for it rather than focus on the referee
I commented at the time that the free kick was soft BUT the referee had also given them soft free kicks against Stockley, so the referee was consistent.
For all the people saying to drop Maatsen, what part of Jackson's self-avowed preference for higher press and positivity on the ball will that aid? Sure, Purrington's errors are less noticeable because he has a less proactive style, but my whole support of Maatsen has been because his movement is on a level other full-backs in L1 just cannot touch. If we're gonna go out and beat the other bigger teams, we need to gamble on our best players playing at their best
Disagree, we've had 4 months of gambling on Maatsen playing at his best and he hasn't and he's shown no sign of doing so. Let's stop gambling on a naive lad with potential and tighten up our leaky defence with a player who is more reliable, has miles better positional sense, is a better crosser and scores more as well. I've nothing against Maatsen other than he's a liability we can well do without. (I don't doubt he has potential, but that's no use to us now).
I think to an extent there's room for both of them depending on the opposition. Purrington's more solid defensively, but he does get done for pace, so Maatsen's a better bet up against nippy wingers like DJ
No Watson or Pratley in the starting line-up. =3 points Who'd a thought it
Exactly what i thought
Like all football forums we have diverse views but I can't remember anyone saying both Watson and Pratley should play in the midfield at the same time ?
Lee Bowyer thought it was a good idea to play the yellow card twins together when it's patently obvious the game has moved on and Pratley and Watson can't get away with the tackles they have made most of their careers.
JJ agreed with the consenus.
I think it wasn't so much the tackles, but the lack of energy and pace.
IF we can get Inniss fit quickly enough and we play Watson in front of the defence, it will be hard for the top teams we play at the end of the season to break us down. We then might get into the pkayoffs with a few 1-0s. We won't get there with a weak defence. Giving Hull, Peterboro etc a 2 goal start will not work.
Please no, don't do that.
Compare the movement of Shinnie and F-C tonight compared with Watson and Pratley last Saturday. It's chalk and cheese. Let's thank Pratley and Watson for their efforts and move on for the rest of the season without them starting.
Sure, if we don't mind being 2-0 down after 20 minutes.
Watson or Pratley in front of the defence, possibly, and Watson in preference; Watson and Pratley together, never again, please. We need Shinnie and JFC in the side as much as possible, they're our two main creative players, so if you're having Watson, you've got to be prepared to sacrifice Millar or Morgan out of last night's team. Not too hard a decision to make on the back of what we saw last night.
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Unfortunately, I can't get excited about that performance. It was littered with mistakes, we constantly gave the ball away and and were far too open for my liking. I am back to what I said after the Shrewsbury game, I fear for us against any of the teams pushing for promotion. I can't see us living with any of them at the moment.
Liam Millar seems to be going backwards. He definitely needs to be rotated out of the team and DJ deserves a chance.
For context, consider Bristol Rovers away form. They have not won an away game since 5th December and their record since that date (including the game last night) reads as follows:
Won: 0
Drawn: 2
Lost: 9
Scored: 5 Conceded: 21
I would like Jackson to step into the firing line and be a huge success, but my instinct is he is not the right man for where we are/want to go at the moment. Hopefully he will remain involved as he is clearly a good link between the players and management, but I have a feeling we will se a new man come in and he will bring his own team with him.
I am sorry but all the while we are competing for something I agree they should be treated the same. Once we're not competing, why play them? The whole point of loanees for us is that they enable us to compete.
Aneke on the other hand has very good control with the ball to feet and does bully the opposition more
The problem is Maatsen usually makes the wrong decision, always out of position and generally passes to the opposition.
He's young he will improve, but I'm judging him on now, not what he may be in 3 years time.
Let's stop gambling on a naive lad with potential and tighten up our leaky defence with a player who is more reliable, has miles better positional sense, is a better crosser and scores more as well.
I've nothing against Maatsen other than he's a liability we can well do without.
(I don't doubt he has potential, but that's no use to us now).