The first half was shite. I’m a more loathing, bitter, and angry, man for having watched it.
Unfortunately, to everyone’s dismay, both sides returned unapologetic for the second half and the misery continued.
There was nothing beautiful nor interesting—zilch, nada, nein—about this game that demands any detail in explanation beyond the fact that both sides are not very good and Ben Garner’s, in particular, are shockingly devoid of both ideas and skill. No urgency, no creativity, late substitutions; what is Garner doing and why is it going so wrong?
Perhaps this whole farce was, if anything, a fitting tribute on the eve of a winter World Cup hosted on the desert sands of Qatar.
Oh… they scored on 57 minutes, from a counter attack that we defended very poorly. We had maybe two limp efforts on their goal and a lot of ponderous faffing about in the centre of the park. Port Vale were without their top scorer plus another key attacker and they lost 4-0 last week. But we turned up laboured and wholly ineffective.
Port Vale 1 Charlton 0
Over to you.
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Cmon England.
How depressing it is following this club.
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We don't have a single left sided defender at the club available.
We have a cart horse as our captain and sole striker
And we have a group of players who collectively don't give enough effort.
Nothing will change in January as Tommy boy will not spend a penny.
We have become a permanent fixture in league one while our neighbours Lord it over us.
So fucking depressing supporting this club at the moment.
I would be fining him for these performances. They're a disgrace. There was a moment in the first half where a nice cross looped up and he didn't even challenge for it because it would've meant moving. Instead he just stood there and moaned.
Defensively not good enough again.
The pitch today was awful and the ball was constantly bobbling around.
I'd say we need another two transfer windows but don't have much faith in us doing the business.
Stockley is the worst centre forward we have had for years, nowhere near any crosses just can’t see the point of playing him.
One break and defence falls apart we are so poor at the back.
without doubt the worst footballing period in our history
4 seasons on the spin in league one await
utterly depressing but the upside is we’ll be in the cnuting pizza painting piss pot trophy again and can play u21 sides and give our kids some experience
don’t be so negative , why are our fans moaning all the time
really
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crap
That was shocking. The players looked knackered and we could barely string a pass together and their goal wouldn't look out of place in a Laurel & Hardy film. Embarrassing.
Considering how bad Stockley is , it's about time the elephant in the room was addressed. Why can Chuck's only play half an hour? As fans we have never been officially told why and it's only fair we know.
The season is over in the league unless we continue this run without winning and we might yet get dragged into a relegation battle.
I hope TS refunds the 900 fans that made the trip today.
Problem is once we miss one or two players, we look crap because our depth is way way below what is required.
Sound like a broken record but first 60 minutes we have to play with ten men every single game because of our poor excuse for a striker up top.
Come January we need to spend. Will TS actually make an investment or wait to finish lower midtable again and blame the manager for it?