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Greg Docherty

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  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,205
    Thought he was off the charts good tonight. He's a bit better on the ball than he gets credit for, but in game like that where we have minimal possession he really comes into his own. His reading of the game and positioning to plug gaps and make blocks/interceptions is exceptionally good.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,353
    I think he must have read the match thread at half time 
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,001
    Skip <3
  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune Posts: 10,779
    I am a fan of his - I think he is far more important to this team than many people give him credit for. 
    So much of his impact can’t be measured in heat maps or raw stats.
  • NabySarr
    NabySarr Posts: 4,320
    Exiled_Addick said:
    Thought he was off the charts good tonight. He's a bit better on the ball than he gets credit for, but in game like that where we have minimal possession he really comes into his own. His reading of the game and positioning to plug gaps and make blocks/interceptions is exceptionally good.
    His best games this season have been against Leicester, Sheffield United and last night against Ipswich. He’s so well suited to those games against the bigger budget teams 
  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,744
    His worst game this season was against Watford and I was concerned. Since then he is a Lloyd Jones/Coventry in terms of first names on the team sheet.

    He’s fucking class and looks better in this division than League One. 

    He isn’t the most talented player I’ve watched for Charlton but neither was Johnnie Jackson … Doc “gets it” just like JJ did.

    Look at this video at 10:50 after Wembley. https://youtu.be/dlh-AQmkWz8?si=QvaBQuEydv9TwbYa

    “That’s for you! That for youuuuu! ” the bloke …. gets it 👍
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,033
    I thought he was excellent last night.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,205
    edited October 22
    What I like about him is that sometimes it feels like to get at our defence you have to first get past Doc (and Coventry, tbf) and then if you somehow get past one of our defenders, then you'll have to get past Doc again because he's already read what's happening and is in position to backup his team mate. And then there will be probably another defender (Lloyd Jones) behind him.

    It's a real team effort, but him and Lloyd Jones, in particular, really epitomize the organized and tenacious bodies on the line defending that NJ has drilled into this team.

    We're a bit like watching Murray or Djokovic play tennis - there's plenty of skill there but the biggest secret to those guys' success was their ability to make opponents play just one more shot that so often lead to the breakdown of a rally. We are like that, if you want to get a shot on goal, you'll need to beat one more man or play one more pass and it's that "one more" that forces the error or allows the tackle to be made.

    It's not for the purists but I love watching it happen over and over again and see us demonstrate weekly that it's no coincidence that so many teams have their worst game of the season against us.
  • superclive98
    superclive98 Posts: 4,788
    What a captain he has turned out to be.
    Any doubts that I had about him have been well and truly dispelled.

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