Back to picking players who were shit weeks ago because the others were shit more recently. Be calls for Matthews back come Doncaster.
A box midfield scares the shit out of me to be honest. We get over run with 3, let alone 4. Flash backs to Cheltenham.
God knows what team he will pick and I haven't got a scooby what I would pick. I am just juggling least worse options round in my head.
If we don't play 3 proper center mids we will get ripped apart. Still might even if we do mind.
Completely agree. It will be exactly as you say. X in for Y not because they are any better, but because we haven’t seen them in a few weeks and it’s their turn on the crapowheel
Will be going to the match but finding it hard to drum up any real enthusiasm. Can’t see anything other than a draw - other teams have us sussed out. Another defeat would be absolute disaster.
At least the 40 Accrington fans will go home happy.
and you can bet on the Covered End singing 'your support is fucking shit' in between 'we're fucking shit' and 'we want Adkins out'.
Accy game has all the characteristics to be a repeat of the Bolton game. Players need a real kick up the bollocks from someone who gives a shit but isn't washed
According to Lancashire Lad's statbank: Sam Lavelle was the least bad player for CAFC at Lincoln on Saturday. That being so we're so far up shit creek it's too late for a search party If he's the benchmark 22nd in division 3 is the limit of this squad's capabilities Never lower Until Saturday evening...
Great review as always...., Anything less than a team performance, and a convincing result i think should spell the end for Adkins, however nice a chap he is. Only thing that counts is points!! The ball spends so long in the air it comes down with snow on it! Lets play the ball to Stockers feet instead of a long punt and hope that he knocks down and then wins the second ball.
Heart say 2-0 , head says 0-2.
But i will be there, hoping i can see some glimmer of improvement before the odyssey that is Sunderland away.
With Accrington's anti-football tactics, it's going to be a really shite evening of football.
At least they won't pass through us. I reckon 0-0
I wold fancy us to give a stupid goal away in a tight game. I think it will boil down to who is the most crap. I can see us winning, possibly 2-1 but we have no chance on Saturday unless something amazing happens out of nowhere!
This is the team I think he’ll go with rather than the one I would like to see. For the record I’d rather see
Paulie
Leuth Henry Irving Oohaahmortimer Gribbo
Aliwibble Fanny
Mr Largo Sage Seth Plum
Elfsborg
They would do a better job
Interesting team you have picked @cabbles and I understand some of the positions:
Seth Plum as a left winger seems apt. Elfsborg up front so the ball has to be played on the deck. Henry Irving as a CB as he is a good reader of the game. Has every copy of Shoot mag. Ali and Fanny as they have the legs in midfield. Sage, such a bright young player who can support the vertically challenged Elf.
Have doubts on a few others. Leuth will wander lonely as a cloud. Oohaahmortimer will go missing when he needs a pony and trap. Gribbo is a natural Left back in the sense he is normally Left back in the dressing room. Mr Largo is similar to Ben Watson in that he gets a lot of yellow cards and he prefers to walk. Paulie is a similar keeper to Thurman, he prefers to punch the ball even when he is taking a goal kick.
After watching my first live game on Saturday, I know why there are so many moans on here. We seemed to bring in four wingers at the start and until CBT woke up in the last 10 minutes, you would think that we had none. Kirk, waste of time, Leko decided to not live up to the good football I have been reading about, DJ is nowhere to be seen, and even CBT seemed to take time before he got started. If we are going to start with Stockley, two of these have got to give him service. I am normally positive, but after Saturday, I cannot see how we will win any game.
looking forward to the game bizarrely enough even though everything suggests it will be utter crap - its a competitive fixture, its not a farcical international match or a silly cup game and we need the 3 points so it has my interest - i hope we give dobson and clare some game time - really don't want to see watson return - hope Lee is playing - shame arter isn't as haven't seen him yet - we were very good in the first half the last night match i was at before the late collapse and f we do manage to get a couple of goals up, i could say us thumping a team - equally likely however is that we lose 1-0.
Charlton Athletic v Accrington Stanley Tuesday 19 October | Kick-Off: 19:45 Live on Valley Pass
Referee: Sam Allison - Previously officiated a Charlton match away at Wigan back in March where the Addicks came out victorious, 0-1
Introduction No identity. No structure or game plan with and without the ball. No clue. And that's just some of the things said about us by opposition supporters. Charlton's season for any kind of success, as has been so accurately said elsewhere, is dead in the water. More than a quarter of the season has passed and it's quite clear the longer this situation continues, the higher the chances are that we will indeed get out of League One, just falling through the dreaded trap door instead. As I write this, Adkins remains in charge. It seems as though our owner, who did unbelievably well to save us a year ago, is burying his head in the sand. As a whole, it's not like this group of players can't do it or get results, much of the team just missed out on the play-offs last season, others have played regularly at a higher level. But 20 minute spells or a good half here and there is not enough. We need to put it together consistently, and we have to do that now. In contrast, our opposition on Tuesday evening have an identity. They know their jobs on the pitch with and without the ball, and they have idea of how to play the game. For the famous saying, "who are they?", it's now very much, "who are we?". Up next you know exactly who it is, Accrington Stanley travel to The Valley.
Opposition Manager: John Coleman | Stadium: Crown Ground League Position: 13th | Nickname(s): Stanley, Accy, The 'Owd Reds Form: LWLDLL
Accrington Stanley travelled to Cheltenham Town on Saturday, losing 1-0, their line up was:
Savin Sykes | Nottingham | Amankwah McConville | Conneely | Morgan | Hamilton Butcher | Pell Bishop
One notable absentee from the Stanley squad is Dion Charles. The striker was prolific last season in his partnership with Colby Bishop, but he's currently in the midst of a stand-off with the club around his future. With his contract expiring in the summer of 2022, Stanley feel they deserve the right value for him, whilst Charles feels his career has been stagnated by not securing a move away. All of this is going on whilst results of late have slipped, they've been poor. Stanley's only wins this season have come against sides who are below them in the table, notably 3 of them against the other clubs who make up the relegation zone...
As we saw live on Sky Sports the last time Accy played in SE7, they can be a good footballing team, especially with the influence of Nottingham bringing the ball out of defence. They're a big side too and will make it tough for us, not giving us a moment's peace to settle on the ball. They'll get in our faces, make it difficult, and will look to pick up the second balls. Here, they'll give themselves a platform to go and play. It's going to be a challenge and if I were to pick a fixture at home after a poor performance and result on the road, this would be low down on my list.
Charlton Team News We are likely to see a few enforced changes to the side who started the last two league fixtures. Elliot Lee came off in the first half ill on Saturday so could miss out. Harry Arter came off with a hamstring complaint so is likely to be in the stands, and Akin Famewo has a calf issue that could force him out too. As Stanley are a big side who will play 3 at the back, I would've anticipated us to match them up. However, if Famewo misses out that is unlikely to happen. I am expecting a few changes, even though Adkins has said he'd like to keep a settled side - picking the team for this is still anyone's guess. For example, Stockley will be hoping to get his first start in the league for a few weeks, Purrington could come in for Souaré, whilst Blackett-Taylor and Washington will be pushing to be involved too.
As clean sheets are extremely hard to come by this season, we've put ourselves in a position where we have to score at least 2 goals a game to give ourselves a chance. This has to stop. In a game that's going to be a battle, I think we'll see as many experienced heads on the pitch as possible.
Prediction Charlton fans will turn up and give it their all in the hope that we can somehow push the team on to victory under the lights. Whether that pushes the players on and transpires into 3 points and a good performance, we will find out at 21:45.
Charlton Athletic 1-1 Accrington Stanley Leko
Jesus that's an awful looking team. A plodding back 4 & a midfield full of width but nothing else.
We will pull the rabbit out of the hat for this game and pick up only are 3rd league win of the season. Not going to be easy but 2-0 to Charlton before heading up to the North East this weekend.
With Accrington's anti-football tactics, it's going to be a really shite evening of football.
At least they won't pass through us. I reckon 0-0
I wold fancy us to give a stupid goal away in a tight game. I think it will boil down to who is the most crap. I can see us winning, possibly 2-1 but we have no chance on Saturday unless something amazing happens out of nowhere!
What I think. Win tomorrow, lose Saturday, Adkins stumbles on, nothing changes.
Comments
Gunter Lavelle Pearce Purrington
Watson Clare
Leko Gilbey CBT
Stockley
This is the team I think he’ll go with rather than the one I would like to see. For the record I’d rather see
Paulie
Leuth Henry Irving Oohaahmortimer Gribbo
Aliwibble Fanny
Mr Largo Sage Seth Plum
Elfsborg
They would do a better job
A box midfield scares the shit out of me to be honest. We get over run with 3, let alone 4. Flash backs to Cheltenham.
God knows what team he will pick and I haven't got a scooby what I would pick. I am just juggling least worse options round in my head.
If we don't play 3 proper center mids we will get ripped apart. Still might even if we do mind.
That being so we're so far up shit creek it's too late for a search party
If he's the benchmark 22nd in division 3 is the limit of this squad's capabilities
Never lower
Until Saturday evening...
The ball spends so long in the air it comes down with snow on it! Lets play the ball to Stockers feet instead of a long punt and hope that he knocks down and then wins the second ball.
Heart say 2-0 , head says 0-2.
But i will be there, hoping i can see some glimmer of improvement before the odyssey that is Sunderland away.
COYRs!!!
He needs to go....and here is an ode to him, hopefully in good taste.
Nigel, Nigel its time you go
Your time is up, as you should know
Two wins so far, is hard to take
The fans are tired, for goodness sake
You have failed to get the team to play
As fans, we are now at pains to say
Go now and with do so with good grace
Or stay and risk losing yet more face
You tried, you failed
What can we say?
Other than
Au revoir, Mr A
At least they won't pass through us. I reckon 0-0
Interesting team you have picked @cabbles and I understand some of the positions:
Seth Plum as a left winger seems apt.
Elfsborg up front so the ball has to be played on the deck.
Henry Irving as a CB as he is a good reader of the game. Has every copy of Shoot mag.
Ali and Fanny as they have the legs in midfield.
Sage, such a bright young player who can support the vertically challenged Elf.
Have doubts on a few others.
Leuth will wander lonely as a cloud.
Oohaahmortimer will go missing when he needs a pony and trap.
Gribbo is a natural Left back in the sense he is normally Left back in the dressing room.
Mr Largo is similar to Ben Watson in that he gets a lot of yellow cards and he prefers to walk.
Paulie is a similar keeper to Thurman, he prefers to punch the ball even when he is taking a goal kick.
Henry's cardigan will clash with the Accrington kit
Aliwibble will not leave her laptop for 90 minutes in case someone on here tries to start a thread that should really be in Marketplace
Fanny is not available, she is half way through binge watching a box set
Mr Largo will be late as his train will be stuck at Lewisham
Elfs will need stilts or a lightweight step ladder if we intend playing the long ball.