All over, finished 3-3.

Lynn pulled it back to 2-2 in the first half (a soft penalty and a good close-range strike) and took the lead with another good goal midway through the second half but we levelled it a couple of minutes later.

Overall it was an enjoyable match with some good passages of play from both sides ... with some pretty ropey bits thrown in for good measure!

Unfortunately I didn't see a team sheet so don't know the names of the players our standout players were the no 14 up front (he scored the third), and nos 7 and 8 in midfield. The no 7 had a running battle with Lynn's no 5 all match which was entertaining.

The two centre-halves (nos 15 and 6) looked iffy - often caught out of position, poor distribution, and a couple of mix-ups with the 'keeper.

Before tonight King's Lynn had had a perfect pre-season, winning five out of five, scoring 18 and conceding only three; they played some good stuff and it was a decent test for the U23s.

My father-in-law was suitably impressed with our team, reckons we've got some good youngsters in the team ... which he said is just as well as they'll probably need to be in the first team sooner rather than later!

Well done on getting the team sheet @matt88. I now know which players I thought were OK and which were crap!

I deffo liked the look of Vennings and Isiaka; Kareem was very lively and covered a lot of ground.

One other thing: the attendance of 298 included a lot more Charlton than I expected! Saw plenty of Charlton shirts and scarves in the main stand and heard a lot of Charlton voices.

Bedsaddick said:

My local side Biggleswade Town took on the Under 23’s tonight . 
0-0 at half time then Charlton took the lead only for The Waders to go 2-1 up with two quick goals , the second a superb over head kick ( 2nd picture) . Charlton then equalised and it finished 2-2 .
A very even game - Fair result . The only player I really recognised from Charlton team was Toby Stephenson who came off at half time . 

 
Pictures courtesy of @Martyn_Haworth ( Twitter )

Wearing last season’s kit

Won 2-0 at Tooting tonight.  

clive said:

killerandflash said:

clive said:

August fixtures below

Monday, August 12th: Charlton v Sheffield Wednesday (1pm - Princes Park)

Friday, August 16th: Birmingham City v Charlton (2pm – The Phillips 66 Community Stadium)

Tuesday, August 27th: Charlton v Bolton Wanderers (2pm – The Valley)

Full list below

https://www.cafc.co.uk/matches/u23-matches

Since when have Charlton played U23 matches at Princes Park (Dartford)? I don't remember that being announced

As i mentioned earlier in the thread i was told this on the 30th July by a reliable source which i can now reveal as Chris Parkes,He also said that he expected this to be announced on the website along with the fixtures.
This is the first season at Princes Park  for most of the home fixtures. 

I missed that!

Was surprised as traditionally Charlton never seemed to have a very close relationship with Dartford, when compared to the other non league clubs in the area. Nice ground and set up there

killerandflash said:

clive said:

killerandflash said:

clive said:

August fixtures below

Monday, August 12th: Charlton v Sheffield Wednesday (1pm - Princes Park)

Friday, August 16th: Birmingham City v Charlton (2pm – The Phillips 66 Community Stadium)

Tuesday, August 27th: Charlton v Bolton Wanderers (2pm – The Valley)

Full list below

https://www.cafc.co.uk/matches/u23-matches

Since when have Charlton played U23 matches at Princes Park (Dartford)? I don't remember that being announced

As i mentioned earlier in the thread i was told this on the 30th July by a reliable source which i can now reveal as Chris Parkes,He also said that he expected this to be announced on the website along with the fixtures.
This is the first season at Princes Park  for most of the home fixtures. 

I missed that!

Was surprised as traditionally Charlton never seemed to have a very close relationship with Dartford, when compared to the other non league clubs in the area. Nice ground and set up there

It's come about because of a catastrophic spell-check failure: someone typed Carlton Football Club instead of Charlton and Princes Park was Carlton's home ground in the VFL/AFL for over a century.

The only Princes Park close to Charlton was at Dartford and, hey presto, this is the position we're in today.

It'll be interesting who plays in this, with the League Cup game tomorrow

Very young side.

Allsopp, Albon and Kesey all from the U18

Kesey was/is Richard Afrane-Kesey so keeps our double barrelled name count up.

killerandflash said:

Henry Irving said:

Very young side.

Allsopp, Albon and Kesey all from the U18

Kesey was/is Richard Afrane-Kesey so keeps our double barrelled name count up.

Everyone following Karlan's lead, within 6 months of dropping the double barrelled name, he'd got a move to the Premier League

6 months later, back in the championship

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">HALF-TIME | Charlton U23s 0 Sheffield Wednesday U23s 1<br><br>The Owls lead at the break at Princes Park. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cafc?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#cafc</a></p>&mdash; Charlton Athletic FC (@CAFCofficial) <a href="

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">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The next Zak Ansah? But hopefully this one will want it a bit more.