Post match views: AFC Wimbledon vs Charlton

Siv_in_Norfolk said:

I know Sarr ranges from sublime to ridiculous and in most games I wouldn’t want to risk him, but last night seemed like an ideal time to throw him into the fray

I see he wasn’t on the bench. Injured?

Yes during the warm up at Bristol I believe.

The_President said:

addick05 said:

Valley11 said:

AFKABartram said:

Only got to watch a couple of mins early in the second half but unless my eyes deceived me, Zyro did one of the worst bottle job pull out of a tackle that I’ve ever seen.

Did anyone else see that?

Yeah. They roughed our lot up and we didn’t like it.
But as others have said, home game Next is ideal. Win them all and we’re play offs. I’d question if we’re good enough but hey ho
Two final thoughts...
We can’t play like this at Pompey
We badly miss Fosu

Not the first one to make the point - to get out of this league you have to be physically strong and have a bit of nastiness too - just look at Wigan, they have good players but I watched them bully us off the park early in the season and came away convinced they were going up. To be fair we have occasionally got stuck in (Plymouth being an example) but I'm afraid all too often we just don't cut it physically.

The last time I can remember is Youds and Mills giving it 'some'

Oddly enough, I bumped into Eddie in a pub in Bromley the day after the Plymouth game. He'd been to the match and stated he was still a Charlton fan, spent a great ten-fifteen minutes chatting to him.

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/sport/16151711.neal-ardley-reveals-afc-wimbledon-tactics-that-beat-charlton/

Mendonca In Asdas said:

bazjonster said:

iainment said:

I blame Robinson and Duchatelet and the weather and the date and the pants I chose today.

So do we mate!!

I dread to think what websites you’ve been on to find that!

None mate! That's a selfie!!

palarsehater said:

Siv_in_Norfolk said:

I know Sarr ranges from sublime to ridiculous and in most games I wouldn’t want to risk him, but last night seemed like an ideal time to throw him into the fray

I see he wasn’t on the bench. Injured?

katrien knackered him

Jeez

ross1 said:

Bring in Mick McCarthy now, instead of in the summer, now that he has left Ipswich

The football might be awful but I reckon he'd get us out of the division.

ross1 said:

Scoham said:

ross1 said:

Bring in Mick McCarthy now, instead of in the summer, now that he has left Ipswich

Can't see a permanent manager coming in while Roland still owns the club, unless the takeover drags on through the summer.

But the takeover is happening this week, isn't it?

It happens every week....

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

ross1 said:

Bring in Mick McCarthy now, instead of in the summer, now that he has left Ipswich

The football might be awful but I reckon he'd get us out of the division.

would be a fantastic manager and doesn't take any bs, last night was brilliant " my name is mick mcarthy not merlin the magician"

the juggernauts of football ipswich don't know how lucky they are, keeps them there every season on a shoestring budget, they done the same with roy keane, the arsenal of suffolk

Callumcafc said:

blackpool72 said:

ross1 said:

Bring in Mick McCarthy now, instead of in the summer, now that he has left Ipswich

Lives in Bromley.
Often watches games at the valley.
Very experienced
And available.
Give him a two year contract and let Bowyer and Jackson develop under him.

Works for me.

Won't happen while Roland hangs around like a bad smell.

Totally agree.
Let's hope the takeover happens soon and McCarthy is still available..
He would be a much better fit for us than say Kewell.

GreenhitheRed said:

One man team......no Fosu no chance!

Away from home I totally agree with you. Fosu is the one player who can do it regularly away. At home, he's been far less effective, albeit ok. 8 goals away and only 1 goal at home?

The_President said:

Henry Irving said:

Said all season it would be decided at Rochdale.

Yep, to see if Rochdale survive or not.

I can see this being a potential 'winner takes all' match.

Rochdale need a win to stay up we need a win for 6th.

0-0 is my prediction

OK yes it seems when we lose FOSU we go off the Boil, but you must show Bowyer and the Team a bit more faith or support.
KR has won nothing since he left, and we have won 3, against good sides, and drawn one against a tough team Bristol at home.
Last nights performance was very poor, but if our POST was a goal, i think we still would have got a point.
no excuse, we were poor, and when we need 3 points against a horrible team of bashers, we dont get then.
a win saturday win sort things out.!!
you should all show more faith !!

cafctom said:

cafcnick1992 said:

Ridiculous scenes here. 2 weeks ago we were nowhere. We thrash three teams, conceeding only 1 goal.

We lose 1 game and you guessed it, a bunch of adults who haven't discovered fire, yet can operate a computer declare that the playoffs are gone. This is their conclusion despite the fact we're actually in the playoffs and are about to play all the teams around us.

This. And those who come out with this "season over" nonsense every time we don't win a game will hopefully stay away if we do get into the Playoffs.

season was over before it began really no one hand of heart can say with our squad on paper should be scraping into 6th place, start of the season i genuinely believed we would be battling for autos.

Simonsen said:

So, are we saying we now don't like the diamond formation?

redlanered said:

Lack of guts & fight is always more frustrating than slips and comedy errors. Bauer had one nightmare moment, versus 94 minutes of nothing from Zyro, Aribo. And yet again subs make no impact whatsoever - Marshall's cameo was an embarrassment.

I really hoped tonight would be my last visit to that horrible dump...but on tonight's evidence it won't be

Why not just make it your last visit......just don't go there again. It's a shite experience and not worth it (even if we ever were to play well there). Some grounds these days just aren't worth bothering with.

fair point but it's the closest ground to where I live, so in other respects perverse to avoid it.

TalBHAndreBA said:

JamesSeed said:

Just about all the criticisms of the team under Robinson from January to March could be made about the team, and the squad, yesterday:
Lack of balls, lack of physicality, an unbalanced squad. I have a horrible feeling the three wins under Bowyer were a blip.

But whereas Robinson didn't seem to learn from his mistakes, perhaps Bowyer will.

Konsa isn't a right back - although I'm sure Dijksteel (also not an RB but better than Konsa going forward) was being rested.
Zyro has been overused, but Bowyer knows it at least.
Kaikai isn't as good as we might have expected from a Prem loan.
442 is fine, but it's not the only formation. Let's not become predictable again.

But bottom line is we have plenty a fancy ball players, but lack the battlers to take on the Wimbledons of this world on poor pitches. Doesn't matter why, it's what we're going to do about it over the next five matches that count. A convincing win against Scunthorpe would be a massive boost. Lose, and I think it would be game over.

I can't be the only one who thinks Konsa hasn't lived up to expectations this season. I think its because he really doesn't look happy playing for us anymore.

Konsa has been deemed not a good enough centre back to displace Pearce and is presently not good enough as a regular right back. He's got his heart set on a big move but its maybe dawning on him that sometimes life ain't that simple.

He's very raw and can't seem to eradicate his habit of putting hands in the back of forwards and not coming through to clean out the header (he'd rather turn his back into the attacker and let the the ball over his head hoping for iit to go back to the keeper or out of play).

At Premier League level he'd get away with a certain amount in a three man centre back line up but would need to be playing alongside an ultra aggressive, John Terry type in a pair....or by playing in a massively superior team (which is unlikely because at the moment he doesn't look good enough).

He has many plus points; he's young, stays fit, his discipline record is good, he's quick and good on the balll. But for me he needs to add aggression, bravery and higher levels of concentration to his game if he's going to be up there with the best English defenders.