Reading won at Stevenage 1-0 last game, yet somehow will 5 days coaching cafc are going to have a team that are organised, have each others backs and the fitness to go 100 minutes and score more goals than the opposition? Nathan Jones Magic dust would've to be potent.
This game is step 1 to the long and winding road, 16 steps to safety. A loss would be a big blow but not totally a surprise. A draw would be a good start with our poor away form. A win would be the catalyst to the bright new dawn; let it be.
Reading won due to a Stevenage own goal.
Own goal you say? The result of a possible defensive error?
Really looking forward to this and I think we will win but with the proviso that the game finishes ! I suspect we might see the game stopped due to their supporters protests re the ownership
Reading won at Stevenage 1-0 last game, yet somehow will 5 days coaching cafc are going to have a team that are organised, have each others backs and the fitness to go 100 minutes and score more goals than the opposition? Nathan Jones Magic dust would've to be potent.
This game is step 1 to the long and winding road, 16 steps to safety. A loss would be a big blow but not totally a surprise. A draw would be a good start with our poor away form. A win would be the catalyst to the bright new dawn; let it be.
Reading won due to a Stevenage own goal.
A worldie from 30 yards or an own goal Reading won at Stevenage 1-0 and claimed 3 points. Stevenage are in a Play-off place and without the 4 point deduction Reading would be 15th and not 20th.
Incredibly tough game for Jones to start with, but I'm just praying that he has them fired up to go for ~100 minutes and we don't gift them any goals. Avoid defeat and maybe sneak a goal. Clean sheet would be amazing, but unlikely.
For me, a few changes to come in:
- AMB has to be dropped. I still believe in the lad, but this is absolutely wrong situation for him to be in. Honestly, I don't think that Isted is that much better, but I think it would have a calming effect on the other defenders. Tangentially, Jones probably already knows we need a new keeper in the summer. - LWatson to start in a 10-style role - Jones knows him and will get a big boost if he backs him to start. We've got cover if we need to change it up, but he's a talent that can, unlike many others in the squad, carry the ball in tight areas. - Combined with LWatson, bring in Kanu from the start. Those two combined really well in the second half vs P'boro, and they haven't had enough minutes together. Bring Ladapo on later to build his fitness. - Dobbo to 100% come back in if he's fit. I think he can play with Coventry, but I'm fine with Bakinson too.
All these things require brave choices, but I hope Jones makes them and has had a glimpse across some of our recent games of when we have done well.
Can't make it to the game, but those who are, sing your lungs out. COYA.
Really looking forward to this and I think we will win but with the proviso that the game finishes ! I suspect we might see the game stopped due to their supporters protests re the ownership
Jolly good because there’s a 3 point deduction hanging over their heads after the Port Vale abandonment 😈.
Although on the pitch Reading have improved i'd imagine it could get fairly toxic in the home end quite quickly. An early goal for us would be massive.
The lowest footballing point in all our lifetimes and it’s going to get worse can’t see a win , draw at best
The club being touted for moving to Milton Keynes, the club almost going out of existence, the club moving to Selhurst, the Valley overgrown and derelict …these are low points in our lifetimes . A cyclical relegation scrap isn’t.
Right be I think the important qualifier was lowest footballing point…
This is the best squad of players I’ve ever seen at the Valley to find themselves in a relegation scrap they should be nowhere near and it’s a squad that if they get their act together under the right manager wouldn’t surprise me if they won every game between now and the end of the season. I don’t expect them to but I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.
I’d be pretty bloody surprised if Charlton won every match between now and the end of the season!
It’s unlikely to happen but it wouldn’t be a surprise, it’s a new 16 game season and tomorrow is game 1 with a new manager to sweep away the negativity of the approach most of the squad and all the fans have had to contend with; and we have a player who scores for fun when he’s not having to win the ball in his own goal area and cross to himself to set up a chance. A bit of positivity from the Charlton fans will do wonders to help, because let’s face it, Appleton’s approach killed the atmosphere and that has had its own negative impact on the players.
The lowest footballing point in all our lifetimes and it’s going to get worse can’t see a win , draw at best
I think we’ve been lower in the league a few years back, but this has certainly been an awful run.
Get worse? As it’s Jones’ first match in charge I sincerely hope (and believe maybe) that things will start improving over the next few weeks. With some tough fixtures coming up after the Lincoln game we might need to be patient however.
Whether Jones will prefer Edmonds-Green in defence over Ness, who is improving again, remains to be seen. Has REG played in defence for us yet btw? And Terry Thomas doesn't deserve to be dropped.
Tenai might well make way for Ramsay who looks interesting.
Really looking forward to this and I think we will win but with the proviso that the game finishes ! I suspect we might see the game stopped due to their supporters protests re the ownership
The Reading fan on Charlton Live said that the focus of the protests has moved away from getting matches called off (I think he said there was “little to no chance” of their fans trying to get the match abandoned).
Reading won at Stevenage 1-0 last game, yet somehow will 5 days coaching cafc are going to have a team that are organised, have each others backs and the fitness to go 100 minutes and score more goals than the opposition? Nathan Jones Magic dust would've to be potent.
This game is step 1 to the long and winding road, 16 steps to safety. A loss would be a big blow but not totally a surprise. A draw would be a good start with our poor away form. A win would be the catalyst to the bright new dawn; let it be.
Reading won due to a Stevenage own goal.
Own goal you say? The result of a possible defensive error?
Well, we took them apart at the Valley in, arguably, our best performance of the season. But, that seems a different era now with Louie Watson starting, Aneke running the show (before he was injured), Tyrese Campbell and Blackett-Taylor providing creative width and both May and Miles scoring flowing goals. That game was an anomaly though considering what we have done since. But this is a new era with Nathan Jones in charge and we have shown we can beat this team quite comfortably.
I do think we’ll get a clean sheet so I’m going 0-0 or 1-0 to Charlton. Let’s see how that works out though!
Please Nathan Jones isn’t going to change things around in 5days. If he plays the two new full backs it could just confuse things more. When was the last time we won on the road Wigan, I would expect things to be tighter overall but still come away with nothing.
The lowest footballing point in all our lifetimes and it’s going to get worse can’t see a win , draw at best
The club being touted for moving to Milton Keynes, the club almost going out of existence, the club moving to Selhurst, the Valley overgrown and derelict …these are low points in our lifetimes . A cyclical relegation scrap isn’t.
Right be I think the important qualifier was lowest footballing point…
This is the best squad of players I’ve ever seen at the Valley to find themselves in a relegation scrap they should be nowhere near and it’s a squad that if they get their act together under the right manager wouldn’t surprise me if they won every game between now and the end of the season. I don’t expect them to but I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.
This has to be right up there with craziest posts in the history of CharltonLife, which considering this includes such wonders as my Patel / tape measure fiasco - is saying something.
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Nah, we'll be fine ...
Great vibe, new players, players back, deadwood gone(for now), large away support and a new "upmarket" gaffer...
C'mon, you know what I am going to say?
A worldie from 30 yards or an own goal Reading won at Stevenage 1-0 and claimed 3 points.
Stevenage are in a Play-off place and
without the 4 point deduction Reading would be 15th and not 20th.
For me, a few changes to come in:
- AMB has to be dropped. I still believe in the lad, but this is absolutely wrong situation for him to be in. Honestly, I don't think that Isted is that much better, but I think it would have a calming effect on the other defenders. Tangentially, Jones probably already knows we need a new keeper in the summer.
- LWatson to start in a 10-style role - Jones knows him and will get a big boost if he backs him to start. We've got cover if we need to change it up, but he's a talent that can, unlike many others in the squad, carry the ball in tight areas.
- Combined with LWatson, bring in Kanu from the start. Those two combined really well in the second half vs P'boro, and they haven't had enough minutes together. Bring Ladapo on later to build his fitness.
- Dobbo to 100% come back in if he's fit. I think he can play with Coventry, but I'm fine with Bakinson too.
All these things require brave choices, but I hope Jones makes them and has had a glimpse across some of our recent games of when we have done well.
Can't make it to the game, but those who are, sing your lungs out. COYA.
Understand there on a run but there last 2 games they havent scored and walked away with 4 points! how's your luck!!
Got good feeling we will nick something...1-0 Charlton. May.
No more jellyfishing around.
Sorry if this is not what you wish to hear.
This has to be right up there with craziest posts in the history of CharltonLife, which considering this includes such wonders as my Patel / tape measure fiasco - is saying something.