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Huddersfield v Charlton | Sat 29 Feb | 3pm KO | Post-match thread

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  • Been out all day, checked my phone a couple of times, last at about 10 to 5, 2 down, thought we lost 2-0, just seen the final score, WTF?
  • Rowland may be long gone but he left his legacy behind!
    Thanks for selling grant and selling the club at the last hour leaving little time for the new owners to clear up the mess you left behind
  • Look on the bright side climbing up to mid table would have been boring at least this is exciting and nail biting going right to the wire! Hope we have have an easy last game in case we need points or goal difference at the death
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,054
    What an absolutely shit day for results. We lost 4-0 to relegation rivals Huddersfield, allowing them to go three points clear of us. Ex-Addick, Grant getting a brace as predictable as it is depressing. Wigan and Reading both won whilst Stoke, Luton and Blackburn all picked up points. It's still in our hands but only just; another week like this one and it won't be any more.

    Palace won to effectively end any relegation worries they might have. West Ham won to take them out of the bottom three. Millwall claimed a point after being behind and actually went a place up the table.  

    Elsewhere, other ex-Addicks Regan Charles-Cook and Joe Piggott both managed to do what none of our players seem to be capable of,

    Some days I fucking hate football. Today is one of those days.
  • timken
    timken Posts: 1,003
    10 games not 10 days
  • We have a shit squad and new owners who are convincing nobody - we are becoming a bit of a joke. Needed a big performance today and we capitulate 4-0.

    This squad would struggle in L1. Too many mediocre players

  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,819
    Can we have an official statement from the anti-bedwetting brigade please.
    Not sure this will count. We appeared to start slowly and then got into the first half, failed to score and then gifted them a goal with some bad defending. 

    Then we were ok until they scored again and then we totally lost it.

    We have enough quality to win games, and will win some more, should be enough if we battle and have some confidence back. Negative tactics won’t help and we are in a scrape but we should still just about make it.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2020
    I'm still scathing over the Sheff Wed game.

    That was more of a balls up than today for me.


  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,502
    Doughty and Green have been very disappointing, especially given the very bright start they both made when they they appeared on the scene.🤔
    Prefer Leko to Green. He gave us a decent outlet. 

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  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,040
    500 miles round trip. 
    Taylor can fuck off and the number 4.
    Town were poor too 
    Referring to Oshilaja just by his shirt number is proper poor (even if you're right that he played badly). And Taylor to fuck off?!

    You're entitled to your opinion but I'm not letting this shit go unchecked. Absolutely idiotic. 
  • timken
    timken Posts: 1,003
    I suppose all you negative bedwetters believe liverpool are crap as well [3-0 down after 75 mins as i type this]
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,502
    timken said:
    I suppose all you negative bedwetters believe liverpool are crap as well [3-0 down after 75 mins as i type this]
    Yeah that's the same thing... 
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,389
    timken said:
    I suppose all you negative bedwetters believe liverpool are crap as well [3-0 down after 75 mins as i type this]
    22 points clear at the top of the table? Are you purposely trying to be a WUM or are you actually serious?
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,769
    The idiots attacking Matt Southall on twitter are embarrassing. 
  • 1968CAFC
    1968CAFC Posts: 578
    I feel sorry for all the loyal travelling fans today
    who had to endure that gutless embarrassing shite performance.
    and I still cannot understand why Phillips gets such
    rave reviews from some of our fans.
    being a fair stopper sometimes is all well and good,
    but he cannot kick a ball out to save his life, cannot
    kick accurately and struggles to catch balls also.
    when will Ben Amos get a chance ?
    we had 4 reasonable players today the rest including Taylor were very poor to average.

    Another  awful performance,
    keep that up and we will be back in league one.

    Wake up Bowyer !!


  • The idiots on twitter are embarrassing. 
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,163
    Bye bye championship... At least the teams worst than us allegedly are making a go of it. 
  • I was fantasizing before the game that we'd beat hudders and re-buy Grant in the future. ha ha
  • Rossman92
    Rossman92 Posts: 3,656
    edited February 2020
    Can we have an official statement from the anti-bedwetting brigade please.
    Gone straight past wetting the bed to shitting the bed

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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,902
    Bye bye championship... At least the teams worst than us allegedly are making a go of it. 
    Attaboy, the Dunkirk spirit lives on. Fight them on the beaches, etc.
  • Thought Huddersfield looked a top of table side based on the way they bossed the play. They always seemed to find a man in SPACE whereas our passes were in the main to a player with no space (a town player 3 yards away) and possession was either lost or the ball played back to the back 5/4 and inevitably back to Dillon who was also put under pressure, which is how the first goal came about. Huddersfield were quality but let's.not get this out of proportion. They started the day on the same number of points 35 games into a season. To me that makes us about equal. As can be seen with many results involving teams around us, that if they turn up they can beat anyone including the top team ala West Brom v Wigan. We are in a very worrying position, there is no other way to view it. Our form is not that of the teams around us so the odds are against us staying up. I'm not a pessimist, just a realist. I hope that Bowyer can do something amazing over the next 10 games but fear he doesn't have the experience or squad to play to his plans. 

    Having watched at Hillsboro and again today, it's a tough week. I seriously hope the player's can pick themselves up to give the fans something to cheer about (because it's needed).

    As an aside, it was slightly amusing that Karlan's song incorporates their amusement at having bought him from Charlton Athletic! Less amusing were his two well taken goals. 

    Tough times ahead, but it's what being a fan is all too often about. Onto the next episode. 
  • billysboots
    billysboots Posts: 1,596
    Thought Huddersfield looked a top of table side based on the way they bossed the play. They always seemed to find a man in SPACE whereas our passes were in the main to a player with no space (a town player 3 yards away) and possession was either lost or the ball played back to the back 5/4 and inevitably back to Dillon who was also put under pressure, which is how the first goal came about. Huddersfield were quality but let's.not get this out of proportion. They started the day on the same number of points 35 games into a season. To me that makes us about equal. As can be seen with many results involving teams around us, that if they turn up they can beat anyone including the top team ala West Brom v Wigan. We are in a very worrying position, there is no other way to view it. Our form is not that of the teams around us so the odds are against us staying up. I'm not a pessimist, just a realist. I hope that Bowyer can do something amazing over the next 10 games but fear he doesn't have the experience or squad to play to his plans. 

    Having watched at Hillsboro and again today, it's a tough week. I seriously hope the player's can pick themselves up to give the fans something to cheer about (because it's needed).

    As an aside, it was slightly amusing that Karlan's song incorporates their amusement at having bought him from Charlton Athletic! Less amusing were his two well taken goals. 

    Tough times ahead, but it's what being a fan is all too often about. Onto the next episode. 
    That was because Huddersfield played a high tempo pressure game when we had the ball shutting down the space - when they had it we sat off making it easy fo then to lose our markers.
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,825
    Hopefully Lee Bowyer will learn from this game. After Wednesday he decided to go with a very attacking line up away from home and compromised the defensive side of things. If we were at home then, maybe, but basically he under estimated Huddersfield and they were a threat right from the start. They had so much space and pace and we had difficulty coping. And once they went 1 and then 2 up there was no way we were getting back into that. In fact we had a better chance of conceding more goals which is what happened. Our superior GD has always been an extra point for us but now that has basically gone. A very naive team selection in my opinion. 

    So what does Lee do from here? I would say, get back to basics. Stop trying to be too clever. Respect the Championship. Respect the teams we're playing against. Recognize the players that we have and use them to the best of their ability. Lee has always been able to do that but lately it seems to have changed a bit. Is the pressure starting to take its toll? I'm surprised if it has because that just doesn't seem to be him. And, has his approach changed since the new owners took over? Food for thought maybe. 

    Anyway, whatever happens between now and the end of the season it's going to be an interesting few weeks. There's never a dull moment following Charlton so strap yourselves in.      

       
  • RedRyan
    RedRyan Posts: 912
    For me there’s a sense that the cohesion has been lost. Lots of frustration and angry words between the players, especially the back 4 and Dills.

    Stupid to gift them a goal. We started the better in the 2nd half but nothing would come from it. The rest is history.

    For what looked like an attacking XI we really were toothless.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,693
    No more to say atm. Wait for next Saturday & see how I feel by then, but no-one can say it hasn't been coming. Even the wins this month have not been convincing & could easily have lost all 3 of them at some point during the 90 mins. Those 3 games we came out with a plus 4 goal difference, which was wiped out in just 1 game today.
     Huddersfield showed how you win a game against your relegation rivals. 
  • hudson-son-son
    hudson-son-son Posts: 2,645
    edited February 2020
    It's not going to be pretty but ultimately we are so different game to game that I've not given up all hope yet, the Forest away performance was surrounded by shit. Cant trust our defence for any away game so makes the home games so must winnable 
  • I’m very worried now and I haven’t been all season. But the performance I saw on Wednesday followed by the result today suggests that we could be league one next year.

    very disappointed and we are all going to look at the poor transfer window as the turning point. 
  • Matt Smith and Davis to save our lives? Come off it 
  • J BLOCK
    J BLOCK Posts: 8,321
    Airman are you insisting they have no money? 

    For what it’s worth I’ve been told that a player has told a couple of fans last week that ESI don’t have anywhere near the dough anyone thought.