Blackpool v Charlton | 20/10/2020 | Post Match Thread

Covered End said:

Lincsaddick said:

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/competitions/league-one/12109834/blackpool-0-1-charlton

the disallowed goal WAS offside
and Purrington was unlucky to get a second yellow 
Bogle looked to be a threat, at least from looking at the brief highlights
Doughty put in a very clever and very brave header for the goal

All in  all a good performance, no, goals conceded and three more points

Surely by todays laws Bogle is not offside unless he unsighted the goalie, or he actually nudged the ball in.
He wasn't in front of the goalie, so the lino must be saying he nudged it in.
There is no way to tell from the view on Skysports.

We'll never know unless someone releases some footage from a better angle, but my gut tells me he touched it in. Something about his reaction just seems a bit sheepish, like he realises a second too late what he's done. He then tries to jog off nonchalantly like he did nothing. Then when the whistle goes he turns around trying to look shocked, but he looks to me like he was expecting it to happen.

jamesking93 said:

Cafc43v3r said:

ElliotCAFC said:

Cafc43v3r said:

killerandflash said:

MuttleyCAFC said:

Watson was very tidy. I think the danger is to be wrongly critical of Watson and Pratley, when the issue is not with them at all, but the perceived need for a more attacking midfielder in the side. 

I imagine myself as a half decent League One defender (we can all dream!) and I think, I wouldn't fancy playing against Aneke at all. I wouldn't mind playing against say Washington in the same way. 

It's a bit like with recent Southgate England teams that have had 2 defensive midfielders, it's not that the likes of Rice, Henderson, Winks and Phillips are bad players, it's more the decision to play 2 of them against teams like Denmark which is being questioned

The problem isn't, as you rightly pointed out, good or bad players.  It's static players.  I don't mean ones that don't run, I mean ones that stay in rigid positions. 

If you have 2 center halves, 2 center forwards and 2 defensive midfielders you have 6 outfield players who stay in the same shape for 90 minutes.  You have to have very good full backs and very fit "other" midfielders to make it work.  Also 3 of those 4 have to be "on it" else it's turgid, boring and you won't score goals.

When we played well last season we had Taylor, Leko, Gallagher and Williams providing that.  The season before we were probably at our best with Williams, Aribo, Taylor and Igor in the team but it just wasn't often enough.

That's one of the reasons Bowyer likes players like Smyth and Leko. 

The word ‘static’ in the dictionary has a picture of the Andrew Crofts and Kevin Foley double pivot. 

Dark times.

Was it Swindon where Jackson played with the above in front of a back 5 🙄🙄

Our team that day was: 
Rudd
Solly
Fox
Bauer
Pearce
Foley
Crofts
Ulvestad
Jackson
Ajose
Novak

God that team is really shit

jamesking93 said:

Cafc43v3r said:

ElliotCAFC said:

Cafc43v3r said:

killerandflash said:

MuttleyCAFC said:

Watson was very tidy. I think the danger is to be wrongly critical of Watson and Pratley, when the issue is not with them at all, but the perceived need for a more attacking midfielder in the side. 

I imagine myself as a half decent League One defender (we can all dream!) and I think, I wouldn't fancy playing against Aneke at all. I wouldn't mind playing against say Washington in the same way. 

It's a bit like with recent Southgate England teams that have had 2 defensive midfielders, it's not that the likes of Rice, Henderson, Winks and Phillips are bad players, it's more the decision to play 2 of them against teams like Denmark which is being questioned

The problem isn't, as you rightly pointed out, good or bad players.  It's static players.  I don't mean ones that don't run, I mean ones that stay in rigid positions. 

If you have 2 center halves, 2 center forwards and 2 defensive midfielders you have 6 outfield players who stay in the same shape for 90 minutes.  You have to have very good full backs and very fit "other" midfielders to make it work.  Also 3 of those 4 have to be "on it" else it's turgid, boring and you won't score goals.

When we played well last season we had Taylor, Leko, Gallagher and Williams providing that.  The season before we were probably at our best with Williams, Aribo, Taylor and Igor in the team but it just wasn't often enough.

That's one of the reasons Bowyer likes players like Smyth and Leko. 

The word ‘static’ in the dictionary has a picture of the Andrew Crofts and Kevin Foley double pivot. 

Dark times.

Was it Swindon where Jackson played with the above in front of a back 5 🙄🙄

Our team that day was: 
Rudd
Solly
Fox
Bauer
Pearce
Foley
Crofts
Ulvestad
Jackson
Ajose
Novak

Looking at that team, dark days indeed. Still, at least we were patient...

In fact, Ulvestad has gone on to be a key player for Djurgardens, helping them win the Swedish League last season, and is even a 5-goal-a-season banker nowadays!

Callumcafc said:

Have the kids been at the crayons again. 

Callumcafc said:

Inniss and Watson by far had the highest number of passes, and both over 80% accuracy. 

Some v good stats there for most of the team. Inniss needs to work on his forward passes - not quite in Sarr's league on that, yet.

aliwibble said:

Ulvestad is another one of the those players that I'd completely forgotten existed.

I remember Croft’s and Foley because they seemed to be somehow rooted to the floor like tiny half asleep ents. 

ForeverAddickted said:

Dazzler21 said:

I like this. Amos distribution myth once again being disproven.

I thought it was always agreed that Amos had really good distribution, it was the one thing between him and Dillon 

I think a few people were questioning it at the start of the season. Admittedly it's quietened down lately.

Leuth said:

aliwibble said:

Ulvestad is another one of the those players that I'd completely forgotten existed.

He was just about one of our best players that season! Good old Wolf City

I think the guy had a run of a few games in the middle of the season where he did well. Definitely not one of the key players! Was anonymous most of the time.

To be fair to all those players, who have all carved out decent careers in the game but were fairly anonymous for us, they did arrive at a time when the club was a general shitshow and had been in a tailspin for a few years. I don’t think it’s easy to come in and perform under those probably quite stressful circumstances. Makes it all the more remarkable what Bowyer has achieved at a time when things were at their worst.

Lincsaddick said:

most of the points for Purrington are ridiculous even given he had a poor game .. he's never been popular for some reason but now he looks as though he will be this season's stake out scapegoat .. never let it be said that Addicks fans always stick up for their players, unless they are 'home grown' in which case they can do no wrong

I'd say they're incredibly fair given the opposition. 

Blackpool were shite and we looked comfortable if a little toothless up until Purrington went and got himself sent off. 

His first foul was silly, he proceded to make several other silly decisions and was not direct enough. He rarely played Doughty down the wing and eventually made a very stupid foul to be sent off. 

That's not scapegoating. He just had one of those awful games that any player can have.

He's a league 1 left back in league 1, but you'd have hoped he'd come back down to this level a little sharper and smarter after a Championship season. 

Dazzler21 said:

Lincsaddick said:

most of the points for Purrington are ridiculous even given he had a poor game .. he's never been popular for some reason but now he looks as though he will be this season's stake out scapegoat .. never let it be said that Addicks fans always stick up for their players, unless they are 'home grown' in which case they can do no wrong

I'd say they're incredibly fair given the opposition. 

Blackpool were shite and we looked comfortable if a little toothless up until Purrington went and got himself sent off. 

His first foul was silly, he proceded to make several other silly decisions and was not direct enough. He rarely played Doughty down the wing and eventually made a very stupid foul to be sent off. 

That's not scapegoating. He just had one of those awful games that any player can have.

He's a league 1 left back in league 1, but you'd have hoped he'd come back down to this level a little sharper and smarter after a Championship season. 

Not often I disagree with you Dazzler, but on some parts of your point I do.

Purrington has really lost a lot of confidence in his play, he actually hasn’t started more than 4 consecutive league games for an entire year. For a left back, that’s some going. We’ve had 27 league games since January 1st, he’s started 9 of them. Until Crewe on the first day of this season, he hadn’t started a league game since Middlesbrough on 7th March.

My point is, he’s found it difficult to keep his place in the team, and to be honest, that shows Bowyer has made a lot of changes to the defence over the last year. It’s hard to get any kind of consistency, form, or sharpness when it’s being changed so often, or you don’t know if you’re going to be in the team next week. Building that confidence and that consistency in his game has been nearly impossible for a while now. That’s not a dig at Bowyer by the way, it’s stating what’s happened.

Then when we returned from lockdown, Oshilaja, a right footed centre back, played left back - Purrington’s position - because Hull had Wilks and we tried to combat it. Purrington never got back in the team, that must’ve hurt.

Then, I’ve seen on here and all over social media about Purrington never playing for us again, people pleading he doesn’t start for us again. That’s ridiculous. Are we all forgetting how solid and effective he was when we won promotion? He’s had a tough time and the Championship was not his level. He now needs a bit of self belief and maybe to be reminded he is a good player, and he will come good I am sure of that.

Yes, he made some silly mistakes against Blackpool, and yes he was poor overall. But let’s be honest, he was up against their most dangerous player who was cutting in on his stronger side, Purrington’s weaker side, and he is quicker than Purrington is. Once he got the yellow, we should’ve gave him more protection, but we didn’t. We isolated him against someone who Blackpool were always going to try and even things up to get us down to 10 men. He should’ve done better and known not to get so tight, sure, but it’s obvious he was worried about being beaten and sometimes that means you panic and naturally don’t want to give your opponent too much space. He didn’t help himself, but the rest of the team didn’t help him out either.

What should’ve happened when he got booked was Doughty come over to the left and give a bit more protection because Washington was not going to do that. It also would’ve combated the difference in speed on that side because of Doughty’s pace.

He hasn’t been great for us for a while, probably a year now, but let’s take a step back and analyse why that could be and see what he might need again to become that impressive left back who was important to our promotion run in.

I don't disagree with what you're saying, I did expect him to come back more confident and IMO he hasn't done badly barring Tuesday, I'd say he's been pretty steady. 

I also agree we should have protected him more, but neither yellow was clever and his game suffered from getting the first so early.

Hopefully we can work with him to get him back up to speed and keep Doughty in front of him. 

killerandflash said:

limeygent said:

I don't think the passing and possession stats mean a whole lot. If you pass around in the back a lot both stats will look good but mean very little, except perhaps that you're having trouble getting the ball into their half. 

Inniss in particular made lots of successful sideways passes in his own half, but consistently lost it when he played it forward into the opponents half

Watson's pass map is more impressive, as he was all over the pitch when making his successful passes

Yeah, he's a midfielder. 

Watson seems like he might be the true Marmite player this season. What I saw as a fairly ineffective performance where he did a bog-standard job as pivot without ever making any particularly promising play and often getting caught a yard behind the opposition, others are seeing as his glorious ascent to our 'most important player'. I guess we'll need more games to find out