Charlton v MK Dons 2016 post-match views

Post match views...

1) taking Harriott off when he was clearly our.biggest threat going forward is one of the stupidest decisions I've seen. Riga has lost me.

2) regardless of how badly a Charlton player does on the pitch, cheering when he gets substituted is awful. Those of you that sarcastically jeered Makienok can fuck off. It's poisonous, you aren't supporting the team and you're better off staying away.

How Gudmundson avoids any critics I will never know. I watched him for a lot of the game today, as he is potentially our most creative player. He just saunters about, casually jogging, going through the motions. I know most of the others seem that way too but he is supposed to be one of the better players in the league. Didn't track back, didn't close anyone down. I cannot remember anything remotely useful that he done for the whole 90 minutes

Typing without reading so may be echoing others.

Today was disappointment from the offset and today more or less sums up our season. Here's a list of what I found wrong with today.
I will start with the fact Sanogo didn't start. He scored a hat trick and then was influential last time out against Brentford. You have to start a player like that. If he's fit enough to be on the bench then he should be fit enough to start in my opinion.
The lack of passion throughout the team. We were playing a team who are down there scrapping with us. We let them [try to] play football and were absoutely awful. The likes of Poyet just didn't look interested.
Our most creative player, Harriott was taken off when he wasn't injured. He was the only player to threat the MK goal. Everything was negative and sidewards. There were other players to take off instead of CH. For example, take Fox off, move Suk-Young to LB and play 4-4-2. It is not hard... this sets me up for my next point...

Why the f*ck are we playing with one striker at home against a team who we NEEDED to beat? It is ridiculous and they're negative tactics.

Rotherham won. Middlesbrough are due a win.

The fact MK Dons deserved three points is ridiculous. They wanted it more and that's so so so frustrating.

7 points adrift with a few difficult games coming up. I cannot see a way back from this.

Have to agree, bags of effort but ran in to too man blind alleys and little came from the amount of possession he enjoyed. I for one will not be watching 3rd tier football, or any football, while these people are running the club. Can't believe what is happening to my club so very very sad.

AddicksAddict said:

I'm struggling to see why people are saying Callum was our best player. He certainly tried, but from where the bairn and I were sitting, far too often he made the wrong decision, or made no decision at all, and lost the ball.

Redmidland said:

eaststandmike said:

Redmidland said:

nothing from @colin1961.....well there's a fucking surprise!!

He has just defended Mak on the Simon Mak thread

@LargeAddick what was The Voice saying mate?

Basically that Yann never wanted to leave and was effectively forced out. Then, a deal was in place for him to return in January but Fraeye was sacked and RD pulled the plug at the last minute.

sirjohnhumphrey said:

Just home and still baffled by the starting 11, tactics, formation and substitutions.

A must win game and out first attempt on target is fifteen mins into the second half. Seems we started with a back three and went to a back four fairly quickly with JBG joining Makienok up
top.

Two poor teams who produced football of below mediocre quality. MK clearly accepted a draw and began to adopt the nightly tactics of kicking away the ball, arguing, giving free kicks away whenever we looked like attacking.

Harriot comes off for Sanogo. Our most dangerous player removed. Bergdich for Poyet shortly after. So a winger off for a forward and then a central midfielder off for a winger. Riga then puts our left wing back on the right of midfield.

Lookman on after 82 and there followed our most dangerous period of play. In the time he was on he was fouled more times than any other player. He put in better deliveries than JBG has recently and scared the life out of them.

Didn't see what Sanogo did but he has let us down badly. Means that Mak will now be playing for the next three games.

In terms of players Fanni looks a little off the pace. Tex, Motta and Yun clearly have quality. Cousins his usual driving self. Harriot was able to make the correct decision most of the time. Pope had to sort his kicking out and develop a sense of urgency.

We are down and if that is how we approach must win games then we deserve to be. If ever proof was needed that those at the top don't give a shit about relegation then this provided it in bucket loads.

Depressing.

That's the game I saw too. Excellent summary @sirjohnhumphrey. I found that all too depressing tonight. Yet another dreadful game against a horrible cheating limited side in a two thirds empty stadium watching the slow lingering death of our club. The season ticket decision just gets easier and easier. Regardless of all our background shenanigans, at 1945 there was a football match to watch. And it was absolutely f******g woeful entertainment. Just not interested any more. Riga is just another network stooge. Clueless. That was our last chance saloon game and we barely broke sweat. Bonkers team selection. The few of our players that I actually give a stuff about are not good enough and the rest - the majority - just f**k off the lot of you. Don't know if I can be arsed to go again this season so that may have been my farewell. Shame on you Roland and Katrien. Please just go and procreate elsewhere. Soon.

LargeAddick said:

Redmidland said:

eaststandmike said:

Redmidland said:

nothing from @colin1961.....well there's a fucking surprise!!

He has just defended Mak on the Simon Mak thread

@LargeAddick what was The Voice saying mate?

Basically that Yann never wanted to leave and was effectively forced out. Then, a deal was in place for him to return in January but Fraeye was sacked and RD pulled the plug at the last minute.

Good god what a chuffing shambles.....so big mac instead of Yann..joke, just a joke!!! Roland has to go, he is killing the club, if he stays RIP CAFC!

Lookman must start games in future. We only looked a threat when he came on, as for that performance from Mak words really do fail me. Can't remember the last time there was no added time at the end of the first half.

happyvalley said:

Lookman must start games in future. We only looked a threat when he came on, as for that performance from Mak words really do fail me. Can't remember the last time there was only 1 shot on target from the homeside time at the end of the game.

Fixed it for you

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Wow, no idea where to start. Excuse the bullet points but they're the only way my thoughts will have any coherence, if not style and structure.

- Two match unbeaten run! (lol) But draws are of course nowhere near enough.
- Both us and MK Dons were, overall, fucking shite. No attacking impetus from either lot; both defences looked shaky at best.

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Player views individually:

- Pope: average. Was barely tested. Distribution is suspect; made a good save though from Rob Hall
- Fanni: makes me shit myself whenever he gets the ball. Thought he would do something apoplectically bad today but thankfully he didn't. Liability/clear goalscoring opportunity waiting to happen. Did one or two not-that-shit things though.
- Teixeira: the most average performance I think I'll ever witness. Did nothing while having had nothing to do, pretty much.
- Fox: I hate saying it as he's one of our own, but he's not a great footballer and made the wrong decision a few times. Made up for it with a crucial block and a couple of authoritative tackles.
- Yun: energetic, hard-working, and did a couple of decent things. Not much of an end product though. Bit suspect defensively.
- Motta: some fancy tricks here and there, decent passing. HOWEVER: if he ever lost the ball up the pitch, he left the RH side of the defence wide open time and time again. Never comfortable with that especially as JBG and Harriott don't exactly track back.
- Poyet: poor. Can pass it, but he's the type of bloke who once he's sat on his however many ks a week will just sit on them. Lazy at school, now he's "made it" he's lazy again.
- Cousins: our best player. Not that he was anything much above average. Ran a bit, passed a bit, tackled a bit... meh
- Harriott: taken off as soon as he got into his stride. Abysmal decision from Riga. Tried to be too fancy sometimes but an undoubted attacking threat.
- JBG: a bit anonymous at times today; lacking in spirit really. Went through the motions.
- Makienok: fucking abysmal. He has no interest in anything. Didn't know shit was stacked that high. Every time he got it he gave it away, pretty much.

- Sanogo: absolutely disgraceful and unforgivable at the end. Looked awkward both in terms of clumsiness and for the oppo to handle BUT WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU PLAYING AT YOU UTTER MUG.
- Bergdich: how glad I was to see us bring on a wife-beater on International Women's Day. He can go. Not really that good at football.
- Lookman: he felt like he was on loan to us from another dimension he looked that much better. My word. Good luck to him.

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Team as a whole:

- Tactically, I think our main problem can be summed up thusly: we do not press their defences hard enough when they have possession, allowing them to advance to halfway with ease. Conversely, we allow teams to press OUR defence into our final third. This has the effect of giving us no space and them plenty. Space is one of your best friends in football, and we never have enough of it, largely because of this ridiculous failing concept EVERY manager in this regime has tried to implement.
- What was Riga doing with the substitutions?
- We still look like a bunch of strangers: Fanni, Tex, Yun, Motta and Poyet were all signed in Jan. Pope has barely played; Harriott not long back from loan.
- If that was truly the best they could do - in terms of effort, spirit, and quality - given the circumstances, we're down.
- No-one seemed to care... like genuinely, not at all.
- Fans did in fact try to get behind the team, despite it being so very hard to do so.

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It was an advert for the game of rugby, cricket, tennis, snooker, darts, skiing, whatever you like, that match. Shite shite shite game from both sides.

We're down.

AddickFC81 said:

If Sanogo was racially abused in the closing stages it was a justified act.

Any evidence he was? If he was, then it's inexcusable but so is a professional reacting like that

Every manager this season has been a improvement

Luzon - first 10 games 9 points & some crouching
Fraeye - first 10 games 9 points & a nice handwritten note
Riga - first 10 games 9 points & a lovely smile