Charlton v AFC Wimbledon | Tuesday 10th August | 7:45PM | Match Preview | Match Thread

Clarky

LargeAddick said:

'Jake Forster-Caskey remains the Addicks’ solitary long-term absentee as he steps up his recovery from the ACL injury sustained in the penultimate game of the 2020/21 League One campaign, with the tie also thought to come too soon for Ben Purrington, Alex Gilbey and Ronnie Schwartz.'

'thought', so not definite

Might be too soon for him to start but an ideal opportunity for Schwartz to get some minutes off the bench even if it is the last 15 or 20.

SELR_addicks

Has Adkins cared about cup competitions in the past? 

Covered End

You get the feeling that Charlton are desperate not to offer food/drink to the fans.
Saturday all the pubs were busy at midday, but some fool decided Charlton didn't want 3 hours of busy trade, so opened at 3pm.

Tonight it's not opening at all, quite frankly I find it astonishing.

jonseventyfive

Let's hope the boys perform 2-1.

Todds_right_hook

Covered End said:

You get the feeling that Charlton are desperate not to offer food/drink to the fans.
Saturday all the pubs were busy at midday, but some fool decided Charlton didn't want 3 hours of busy trade, so opened at 3pm.

Tonight it's not opening at all, quite frankly I find it astonishing.

West upper right hand side were not selling alcohol on Friday. I was told it was because the staff were all under 18. Joke

Redhenry

can anybody find a live stream for this?

ForeverAddickted

Redhenry said:

can anybody find a live stream for this?

There wont be one unfortunately

shine166

Covered End said:

You get the feeling that Charlton are desperate not to offer food/drink to the fans.
Saturday all the pubs were busy at midday, but some fool decided Charlton didn't want 3 hours of busy trade, so opened at 3pm.

Tonight it's not opening at all, quite frankly I find it astonishing.

Yeah and then beer was running out before kick off and all you could get at HT was John smiths. Tbh beer probably ran out in the FB as people were doubling up on orders due to card reader issues (which began as soon as the bar opened)

Dazzler21

Covered End said:

You get the feeling that Charlton are desperate not to offer food/drink to the fans.
Saturday all the pubs were busy at midday, but some fool decided Charlton didn't want 3 hours of busy trade, so opened at 3pm.

Tonight it's not opening at all, quite frankly I find it astonishing.

I would assume the decision is made on cost vs reward. 

If for example we sell 5,000 beers when we have 18,000 fans in the ground (not saying there's any accuracy in that) it makes more sense to staff and open the bar facilities. If we only have 1,800 there, does it make sense to open up to sell 500 beers?

BrentfordAddick

More interested in the choice of music when they come out tbh. But we will win 1 nil. 

AFKABartram

ForeverAddickted said:

https://twitter.com/CAFCofficial/status/1425079735738982407

Slimming World got their weekly weigh in booking in first?

Well done Gillian, you’re doing really well 👏👏

Cafc43v3r

I know everything takes time but there far too many silly small things that aren't right at the moment. 

We seem to have filled two, very much needed but long term stratigic, positions while no one has an eye on the day to day nuts and bolts.  Get the basics right first.  That should be the mantra of every failing business.

Anyway on to the football.  I would play Pearce and Elewery together as often as possible, including u23 games if Deji is going to be our 4th center back. He will learn so much.

I would also play quite a few of the 1st XI tonight bar Stockley, Washington, Inniss and Famewo.   Davison, Pearce, Deji and Clayden in for them. Hopefully get half an hour into Watson as well. 

seth plum

In my opinion right now Schwartz is a long way behind the curve. A 10 minute cameo maybe, but I doubt it. As things are today Josh Davison is way ahead of Ronnie.
I expect we will see some others who have done well pre season like Deji and Clayden.

eastterrace6168

Dazzler21 said:

Covered End said:

You get the feeling that Charlton are desperate not to offer food/drink to the fans.
Saturday all the pubs were busy at midday, but some fool decided Charlton didn't want 3 hours of busy trade, so opened at 3pm.

Tonight it's not opening at all, quite frankly I find it astonishing.

I would assume the decision is made on cost vs reward. 

If for example we sell 5,000 beers when we have 18,000 fans in the ground (not saying there's any accuracy in that) it makes more sense to staff and open the bar facilities. If we only have 1,800 there, does it make sense to open up to sell 500 beers?

Get the calculation scenario Dazzler, but whatever happened to customer, sorry fan's satisfaction, 500 beers is just that, 500 fans satisfied, they don't have to open every outlet on low attendance nights, good job the local pub's don't carry that idea, when they have 6 customers in all night, somes you win, somes you lose.

Covered_End_Lad

Expect something like this:

               Harness

     Barker Deji Pearce Roddy

    Vennings Watson Dempsey

  Clayden   Davison  Ghandour

ross1

Not too bothered about the result, although I always would like us to win, but with such a small experienced squad, we cannot afford any injuries

soapboxsam

Don't have a season ticket for 21/22 because I can only take so much disappointment in my life ! I still love Cafc and will go tonight because my son can go tonight and it's cheap as chips to get in.

I will give an honest appraisal of what I see, and how ever poor the play is or an individual plays I won't use the word "dog shit" which has no place on a football forum; only at Cruffs.

I accept people speak in the vernacular but most of us would've loved to have played in the 3rd tier.

Redhenry

ForeverAddickted said:

Redhenry said:

can anybody find a live stream for this?

There wont be one unfortunately

will be somewhere

eastterrace6168

Redhenry said:

ForeverAddickted said:

Redhenry said:

can anybody find a live stream for this?

There wont be one unfortunately

will be somewhere

Any idea where...anybody...

Ferryman

Is the chip shop on Floyd Rd still open?

rananegra

Ferryman said:

Is the chip shop on Floyd Rd still open?

It wasn't on Saturday

Bedsaddick

Covered End said:

You get the feeling that Charlton are desperate not to offer food/drink to the fans.
Saturday all the pubs were busy at midday, but some fool decided Charlton didn't want 3 hours of busy trade, so opened at 3pm.

Tonight it's not opening at all, quite frankly I find it astonishing.

And only one kiosk open in The Curbs stand when they did open up . People just took one look at the queue and didn’t bother . If the was Rolands idea we’d be kicking off big time .

Bedsaddick

Redhenry said:

ForeverAddickted said:

Redhenry said:

can anybody find a live stream for this?

There wont be one unfortunately

will be somewhere

Definitely won’t be . 

golfaddick

This is a first team fixture so should be treated as one. The team that played on Sat should be playing tonight.....all bar having Ronnie on the bench. 

The fact that neither scenarios look likely means I wont be going. This competition is the League Cup. I remember Paul.Walsh scoring a hat trick for us in this round. And Bowyer the same at Selhurst against the real Wimbledon (even the OS is getting confused between 2 completely different teams). 

Covered End

golfaddick said:

This is a first team fixture so should be treated as one. The team that played on Sat should be playing tonight.....all bar having Ronnie on the bench. 

The fact that neither scenarios look likely means I wont be going. This competition is the League Cup. I remember Paul.Walsh scoring a hat trick for us in this round. And Bowyer the same at Selhurst against the real Wimbledon (even the OS is getting confused between 2 completely different teams). 

Don't be silly.
Apart from the goalie I don't want any first teamers playing, unless NA thinks they need to.
We've got an important game on Saturday. 

Jonniesta

golfaddick said:

This is a first team fixture so should be treated as one. The team that played on Sat should be playing tonight.....all bar having Ronnie on the bench. 

The fact that neither scenarios look likely means I wont be going. This competition is the League Cup. I remember Paul.Walsh scoring a hat trick for us in this round. And Bowyer the same at Selhurst against the real Wimbledon (even the OS is getting confused between 2 completely different teams). 

Aside from Inniss, I agree with you. The more these front 3 can gel, the better. I'd bring in Pearce or Deji as Inniss didn't get the full pre season so 3 games in a week would be a stretch. 

golfaddick

Covered End said:

golfaddick said:

This is a first team fixture so should be treated as one. The team that played on Sat should be playing tonight.....all bar having Ronnie on the bench. 

The fact that neither scenarios look likely means I wont be going. This competition is the League Cup. I remember Paul.Walsh scoring a hat trick for us in this round. And Bowyer the same at Selhurst against the real Wimbledon (even the OS is getting confused between 2 completely different teams). 

Don't be silly.
Apart from the goalie I don't want any first teamers playing, unless NA thinks they need to.
We've got an important game on Saturday. 

Your forgetting that a number of U23's are first teamers. 

Perhaps if we had signed more players (on another thread the consensus is around 5) then players could be rested or the U23's need not be needed for first team duty. As I see it we are so short of players that virtually the 18 man squad involved against SW should be involved tonight. 

EugenesAxe

Bedsaddick said:

Redhenry said:

ForeverAddickted said:

Redhenry said:

can anybody find a live stream for this?

There wont be one unfortunately

will be somewhere

Definitely won’t be . 

If a tree falls down in a woods and there’s noone there does it make a sound?

Leeds_Addick

Covered End said:

golfaddick said:

This is a first team fixture so should be treated as one. The team that played on Sat should be playing tonight.....all bar having Ronnie on the bench. 

The fact that neither scenarios look likely means I wont be going. This competition is the League Cup. I remember Paul.Walsh scoring a hat trick for us in this round. And Bowyer the same at Selhurst against the real Wimbledon (even the OS is getting confused between 2 completely different teams). 

Don't be silly.
Apart from the goalie I don't want any first teamers playing, unless NA thinks they need to.
We've got an important game on Saturday. 

Not to labour the point too much but if we had our squad sorted by now we could play a rotated first team and not be forced to play the U23s

I'd quite like us to win tonight, the draw was very kind to us last year and it's a big shame we weren't able to go

WK6824Nine

golfaddick said:

This is a first team fixture so should be treated as one. The team that played on Sat should be playing tonight.....all bar having Ronnie on the bench. 

The fact that neither scenarios look likely means I wont be going. This competition is the League Cup. I remember Paul.Walsh scoring a hat trick for us in this round. And Bowyer the same at Selhurst against the real Wimbledon (even the OS is getting confused between 2 completely different teams). 

the latter is unpopular opinion about wimbledon, a lot of people would see them as the same club in spirit just not legally/technically.