Notice we have a lady lino this afternoon, the highly rated Lisa Rashid. Is she the first female official at a Charlton match - and therefore a bit of history being made today?
Nads has had a fortnight to look over the squad, form his impressions and put his own fingerprint on the squad. Liked his comment: “What have we got to lose? Let’s try and be as positive as we can" .
Bang on. That's what I like to see from our manager.
Team lineup: No idea if Ryan is fit enough or no, but Washo out hamstrung. Chance for Rocket Ronnie perhaps?
Live on Sky. No Valley Pass production, except some foreign countries (not including Cornwall, unfortunately :smile ) No Scott Minto Show today, either. That's a big miss, I always enjoy the pre-match bants with Scotty & Curbs plus legendary Addick.
Come on you REDS!
I'm a little stunned to say the least, but this is Nadkins squad.
Let's see how we do. Not going to guess the formation as we have so many defensive players.
James Coppinger must be about 40! Good player though. Can’t see an obvious formation in our line up but Atkins has license to fart around a bit with our resources in preparation for next season which is, realistically, what the rest of this season is about.
Interesting quote from Nadkins I've just seen: "“Maybe I’ve got in my mind the way I want us to play. But maybe just at this moment in time, where our squad of players are collectively and individually, maybe they don’t fit into that."
He goes on to say it's about using whatever shape or style we can to keep the season going.
So expect we're not going to see a typical 'Adkins' transformation in style of play. Squad aren't up to it. Be interesting to see how we set out today.
Where was this?
Obvious thing is our lack of wingers. Can’t move to a 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 with only two wingers/wide forwards.
Hope that we get plenty of corners with Inniss playing... Its always fun to see him well out of the way in the penalty area having two from the opposition keeping his company because they cant trust him making a late run and getting involved
Looks an interesting line up, at last Ryan is back, sod's law ain't it now it's Akin that's out, good to se DJ staring, looks like an attacking format, for a game we must win, only real missing link is Washington, he will be a big miss
Interesting selection. I reckon injury influenced the selection, but there I was thinking if Nige gets a tune out of Schwartz and a full on melody out of Morgan then he's the real deal. Well that's not happening today. Gilbey and Pratley must deliver big time this afternoon. The good news is if we get a corner or free kick we have Big Rye to aim at.
Breath of fresh air, new manager, new ideas, things can only get better, its not all about today, tomorrow, this season, its about next season for me, with our new squad to be.
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my guess is 4-5-1
Let's see how we do. Not going to guess the formation as we have so many defensive players.
Matthews, Innis, Pearce, Purrington
Jaiyesimi, Pratley, JFC, Maatsen
Gilbey
Stockley
Is this it?! Or:
Amos
Innis, Pearce, Purrington
Matthews, Pratley, JFC, Maatsen
Jaiyesimi, Gilbey
Stockley
Either way, very negative to me. But what do I know hopefully all part of a plan.
I don’t get why Aneke is on the bench after two weeks off.
I do like matthews over Gunter personally.
Don’t like Shinnie on the bench, but let’s see if Gilbey has a new lease of life.
Maatsen has been a bit suspect at left back so maybe playing further forward will help him.
Bogle is bound to score
I'm imagining a back 3 (Innis, Pearce and Purrington as the CBs). It's possibly a 352, with DJ up front alongside Stockley
That ain't it, Chief!
I reckon injury influenced the selection, but there I was thinking if Nige gets a tune out of Schwartz and a full on melody out of Morgan then he's the real deal.
Well that's not happening today.
Gilbey and Pratley must deliver big time this afternoon.
The good news is if we get a corner or free kick we have Big Rye to aim at.
I wonder if a change in manager will see a change in our injury fortunes
Matthews Inniss Pearce (c) Purrington
............Pratley Forster-Caskey
........Jaiyesimi Gilbey Maatsen
............,,......Stockley
I quite like it set up like that...
If he wants to play a 4-2-3-1 and Millar is still jetlagged, Maatsen must be the next best choice at LW. He spends most of the game there anyway!
Also looks like another manager doesn’t rate Albie quite as highly as the fanbase does.