Match Report and Robinson Quotes after Posh

I wish he'd stop harping on about not having Rudd | Solly | Holmes | Pearce!!!

Love this analogy.

“Now we have to look at ourselves and dig deeper than ever before, because that was not acceptable. We have to dig deep and find that formula. I said it was like an oil tanker and it’s been a lot harder to turn than I thought.”

Add the fact that the tanker turns right when you turn the wheel left and that Roland has been filling it up with baked beans instead of Diesel and I think you've got it about right Karl.

Edit , must support palace , unless we've signed a new player, I've not heard of Jason Perce in your article!

Phew to that Louis, I always thought t might be a windup!

A well put interview from KR

Walk away with 3 points on Wednesday evening and you have nothing to say. The win will be in your bank for a long long time, as far as the fans are concerned.

Come away without a win like all the other Charlton managers have done since December the 5th 1995, then as above, just walk away with nothing to say. We have heard it all before.

Talk is cheap, Results are your voice.

“Let’s get the excuses out of the way because I don’t want to use them. Not to have Jason Perce, Declan Rudd, Chris Solly and Ricky Holmes is massive."

Don't agree with this at all. The keeper situation makes no odds to how we played. Pearce replaced by Teixeira arguably makes the side stronger. Whilst Solly is a good player, not many teams score goals and win games because of their right back. Holmes i'll give him is a big loss.

"We had 120 minutes the other day – Jordan Botaka, Ademola Lookman and Ezri Konsa were out on their feet. Taking that out of the way, all of the other stuff was nowhere near good enough. Maybe it’s a good thing for me to see the other side because sometimes you need it.”

Is Botaka really that tired, the guy has played about 5 games all season. He can't be tired!
Lookman fair enough. But if Konsa was so tired after the other night, why didn't we play Foley at right back today?

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

“Let’s get the excuses out of the way because I don’t want to use them. Not to have Jason Perce, Declan Rudd, Chris Solly and Ricky Holmes is massive."

Don't agree with this at all. The keeper situation makes no odds to how we played. Pearce replaced by Teixeira arguably makes the side stronger. Whilst Solly is a good player, not many teams score goals and win games because of their right back. Holmes i'll give him is a big loss.

"We had 120 minutes the other day – Jordan Botaka, Ademola Lookman and Ezri Konsa were out on their feet. Taking that out of the way, all of the other stuff was nowhere near good enough. Maybe it’s a good thing for me to see the other side because sometimes you need it.”

Is Botaka really that tired, the guy has played about 5 games all season. He can't be tired!
Lookman fair enough. But if Konsa was so tired after the other night, why didn't we play Foley at right back today?

Just unfit ; )

"I'm walking into The Den with Charlton Athletic. There's no other way about it"
Weird quote, what does it actually mean?

I think this is a quite a revealing interview.

An admission at the end that the jobs going to be harder than he thought (wouldn't have been lied to would he?), already starting to complain about lack of players (does he think Slade had £5m to spend and just didn't bother?) and it's not all about injuries, every man and his dog has known since August where we were short, and we were patient weren't we Louis ;-).

I wonder how he's getting on with the Network Scout and his desired player selections for purchase/sale and I wonder when they will tell him how little of the Konsa/Lookman £6-10m he'll actually get to spend (if they haven't already). In fact I wonder if they told him they's be sold?

I think this could get interesting.......

In the meantime, when will he work out the squad can't play how he wants and actually work with what he's got until he can build a different type of squad.

I can just see Alex Ferguson explaining to Cantona and Giggs or Beckham come to that, that he always plays wing backs so they were out. I think this shows his inexperience, he should be looking to get the best out of what he's got until he can change it. And I don't think in anyway shape or form he is.

Rob said:

He drove down to Bristol and saw our 5-1 win. I reckon he thought this was going to be easy peasy. Wrong.

Oh really!

cherryorchard said:

The opening line from Louis' report might suggest Robinson fell for RD's and KM's patter.
"Karl Robinson says it has been more difficult that he expected to find a winning formula with Charlton"

All I can say is 'Really, Karl?'

IT should be noted that he didn't find one with MK Dons who had an even worse record that Charlton during 2016. Perhaps everyone has figured out how to play KR's style of football and rather than engaging in banter KR needs to engage in a little thinking?

sm said:

cherryorchard said:

The opening line from Louis' report might suggest Robinson fell for RD's and KM's patter.
"Karl Robinson says it has been more difficult that he expected to find a winning formula with Charlton"

All I can say is 'Really, Karl?'

IT should be noted that he didn't find one with MK Dons who had an even worse record that Charlton during 2016. Perhaps everyone has figured out how to play KR's style of football and rather than engaging in banter KR needs to engage in a little thinking?

Was what an MK Dons fan said to me before the FA Cup tie, but of course depends on the quality and suitability of players. Too early to judge, IMO.

charltonbob said:

Rob said:

He drove down to Bristol and saw our 5-1 win. I reckon he thought this was going to be easy peasy. Wrong.

Wasn't that score line a little (lot) flattering though ? I may be wrong here but weren't 3 of our goals deflections ?

They also went down to 10 men after 65 mins due to an injury having used all three subs @charltonbob full report here http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37982572

charltonbob said:

Rob said:

He drove down to Bristol and saw our 5-1 win. I reckon he thought this was going to be easy peasy. Wrong.

Wasn't that score line a little (lot) flattering though ? I may be wrong here but weren't 3 of our goals deflections ?

My Gas supporting mate who was at the game said that that was the closest 5-1 he's ever seen and that Gas actually played OK. The difference according to him is that we were clinical (yes I know!) and they were profligate.