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Charlton v Brighton | EFL Trophy | Wed 30 Sept | 7pm KO | Match Preview, Predictions, News & Views
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Quite a good game with Mingi my MOM , Brighton had very few chances . Morgan and Vennings did well in midfield and Davison worked hard on his own up front . The three senior players were all poor .1
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Seen the extended highlights so based off the 50/55 minutes of play I saw.
Maynard-Brewer: 8.5 - Very decent showing. Little could be done about Lapslie's goal.Lapslie: 4 - Time the dream ended. Great strikers finish, keeper had no chance.Barker: 7 decentMingi: 7 decentVega: 6 not quite at the races, but believe like Barker he's a CB not a full back.Morgan: 7.5 great reactionary goal. Absolutely rifled his penalty too.Watson: 6 expected more, gave the ball away a lot first half.Vennings: 7.5 good tidy player.Forster-Caskey: 4 expected moreWilliams: 3 first half Albie got the ball to him in decent positions three times. Every time he dawdled and lost the ball. Didn't do any tracking and didn't take anyone on and win.Davison: 6 strong, but another I expect more from.Henry: 6 nothing amazing or awful. Positive though.1 -
Aaron Henry is going to play at the highest level, you can tell that even at 17 years old. Lovely footballer.5
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If I had a pound for every time someone has said that about a youth team player. Especially after their first few performances, I would be a rich man.Covered_End_Lad said:Aaron Henry is going to play at the highest level, you can tell that even at 17 years old. Lovely footballer.
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A lot of our academy players do go on to play to flight football. Sold on the cheap!FishCostaFortune said:
If I had a pound for every time someone has said that about a youth team player. Especially after their first few performances, I would be a rich man.Covered_End_Lad said:Aaron Henry is going to play at the highest level, you can tell that even at 17 years old. Lovely footballer.
That's not to say he won't, of course.6 -
Vennings will play to a good standard. Shall we remind ourselves of this interview?
https://cafc.co.uk/news/view/5e46ef8dd2f5e/academy-day-at-home-with-james-vennings-and-family
“He’s done it himself. He lives and breathes it. James doesn’t have a girlfriend, as far as me and my husband know, we’ve never met any girls or seen any girls. He just comes home, goes up in his bedroom, plays his games and even then, he’s playing football. Constantly, constantly football. He watches a lot of documentaries, how they play and that sort of thing. He has got an eye for the ball, he’s very talented. He’s got very good vision.”
“We just came back, opened a bottle of champagne and had a glass. He (James) doesn’t drink! Totally by his own choice, he lives, breathes, and sleeps it (football). He’s football crazy. He had a glass of apple juice. When we go out for a meal, he has apple juice.”
Some really classy touches today. Others are ahead of him for now but I think we'll see more of him in the first team before the season is done.10 -
Needs to shave that top lip though...4
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I did, used to come to meet me in a coat & boots...... nothing elseCovered End said:
Wish I had.Indianaaddick said:dickplumb said:
I have been saying this for ages. All fur coat and no knickers.AndyG said:
I agree I just dont see what he brings. I know most on here rate him but from what I see he always flatters to deceive and delivers very littleFishCostaFortune said:Have voiced this before, and I understand it's very much an unpopular opinion. But if Bowyer does not think Williams can start and play most of a game then I'd rather not have him in the squad.
Him coming on and playing little cameos like he did after the covid break last season, and so far this season, is not really reaping any benifits for the team.
Dated a girl like that once.
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I don't know why LB is surprised. JW said on signing that he doesn't score goals & he's main attribute is that he gives the ball to the players who make the assists.EastTerrace said:Doesn’t sound very impressed with JW
Can't help it if he tells the truth. They say, when someone tells you who they are then listen. JW did.
And then we offer him another years contract in the summer.
You do wonder sometimes.
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His big problem is that he hits the ground far too often. Wins free kicks until the ref spots what's he's doing.golfaddick said:
I don't know why LB is surprised. JW said on signing that he doesn't score goals & he's main attribute is that he gives the ball to the players who make the assists.EastTerrace said:Doesn’t sound very impressed with JW
Can't help it if he tells the truth. They say, when someone tells you who they are then listen. JW did.
And then we offer him another years contract in the summer.
You do wonder sometimes.1 -
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Hugely disappointed with Williams since football restarted. I would have hoped he would have made a statement to Bowyer by his performances. He hasn’t though, obviously a very talented football but to me seems to be coasting through at the moment.2
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The good news is that Orient should beat Wimbledon's reserve youth team next week to knock us out.1
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What I saw was encouraging. You can see potential in some of the players but also the understandable rawness that has to be ironed out. Including in Barker. But his range of passing is excellent and he is the real thing and we should be excited about him.
In terms of players close to the first team. It was a decent run out for Watson, Williams and JFC although none really stood out. Morgan was terrific for me. I think Bowyer would have been pleased and he deserves a place on the bench on Saturday. I know the opposition wasn't the best, but he was the best player on the pitch by quite a margin IMO. When Brighton got on top possession wise due to our inexperienced midfield, he quietened down a bit but you can see the game we want from him really developing.1 -
We didn't, there was a one year extension option in his contract, and Jonny took it upgolfaddick said:
I don't know why LB is surprised. JW said on signing that he doesn't score goals & he's main attribute is that he gives the ball to the players who make the assists.EastTerrace said:Doesn’t sound very impressed with JW
Can't help it if he tells the truth. They say, when someone tells you who they are then listen. JW did.
And then we offer him another years contract in the summer.
You do wonder sometimes.
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With L. Vega in the side we could do with Mambo at Number 5.
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Sounds like Lapslie and JFC could be in the last chance saloon (with Williams hovering on the brink). If we bring in higher quality replacements, I just don't see where they fit into the picture at all....not least because we have some very talented players coming through the youth pipeline as well.2
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Williams will always be in the picture at League One level. He is too good not to be. We know JFC is a decent player but maybe hasn't found his game yet and Lapslie is a jack of all trades player, maybe master of none, but useful in League One.0
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Agree with this.bigstemarra said:Sounds like Lapslie and JFC could be in the last chance saloon (with Williams hovering on the brink). If we bring in higher quality replacements, I just don't see where they fit into the picture at all....not least because we have some very talented players coming through the youth pipeline as well.
Personally think Oztumer is better suited to L1 than Williams given their respective records here.1 -
We can't and shouldn't keep everyone.MuttleyCAFC said:Williams will always be in the picture at League One level. He is too good not to be. We know JFC is a decent player but maybe hasn't found his game yet and Lapslie is a jack of all trades player, maybe master of none, but useful in League One.1 -
Exactly right. I think the writing is on the wall for these 3 playersDazzler21 said:
We can't and shouldn't keep everyone.MuttleyCAFC said:Williams will always be in the picture at League One level. He is too good not to be. We know JFC is a decent player but maybe hasn't found his game yet and Lapslie is a jack of all trades player, maybe master of none, but useful in League One.1 -
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We have suffered because our squad has been too weak, there is scope to bring players in and not let players go, unless there are developmental reasons for it. Even when we went up the season before last there was a spell when we had a few injuries where the team just wasn't strong enough and it didn't surprise me we lost two on the trot (one was away to Blackpool, can't recall the other).
Going up was achieved despite being short of strikers at the end.0 -
Wasn’t able to be there tonight.Though, a big shout out to my boys on the comeback and calmness in the penalty shoot-out to get the extra pointAnd, Congrats to @AlbieMorgan1 on his 1st senior goal1
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But not his old playersross1 said:1 -
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The Aussies are always good at fielding, all those diving stops on the boundary to save runsross1 said:0
