A lacklustre, forgettable Good Friday afternoon in the West Country sunshine sees Charlton fall with barely a whimper to an almost equally bereft Bristol Rovers, 1-0. Bristol Rovers hadn't played in some twenty days and haven't scored in about six matches, but nonetheless, they saw out the afternoon and took all three points.
Only one thing of note happened all afternoon. On 59 minutes, Rovers made a change that proved decisive. A couple of minutes later, George Dobson gave away a penalty after the ball bobbled up into his arm, having been knocked his way at close range. The resulting goal was enough, because Charlton didn't look likely to score in a month of Sundays.
No season tickets will be sold off the back of that one.
Bristol Rovers 1 Charlton 0
Over to you.
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I didn’t expect another 6-0 but I sure as hell expected better than that shite. No energy, no aggression, no intent. No real attacks until well into the final 10 minutes when we showed they were vulnerable. Lame, tame end of season fare. Deano should be fuming.
That result was almost written in the stars the moment we came up against a team who had been on a terrible run of form and decided to stay compact and put men behind the ball.
Felt almost like a carbon copy to when we played MK Dons at home earlier in the season.
We just didn't turn up, we'll done to all the travelling addicks. DH needs to have a word...with the entire team....very disappointing.
Rest are inconsistant garbage OR not ours anyway.
Do I stay home and watch the game, or go to Camber Sands with the family... decisions... decisions
Had a lovely time at the beach!!
At least 6 or 7 on show today need to be moved on in the summer if we are serious about promotion next season.
Keep most of those on show today and next season will mirror this one.
It's clear that Holden doesn't trust his bench very much, when we need to change things, though I would have liked to see Bonne alongside Leaburn in the middle to try something different, as Miles was fairly ineffective today.
Awful.
The wingers were non-existent and the midfield was largely missing from an attacking perspective.
In the end we got exactly what we deserved. Nish.
We generally do well against open teams, such as Plymouth last autumn.
Rovers got behind the ball, gave us no space and as usual we couldn't do anything about it.
People were starting to get way ahead of themselves talking about next year with this squad.
Complete change needed.