Post-Match Thread: Charlton Athletic vs Bristol Rovers | Saturday 17th December 2022

golfaddick said:

blackpool72 said:

Pedro45 said:

Innis cost us the game. Tackled for the first and a crap clearance for the second. Whole shape fell apart after they scored and going three at the back made us look very vulnerable. How Payne stayed on the whole game I just don't know. CBT looked ill to me, or not bothered? 

Wednesday will be Hayes last game in charge hopefully.

I honestly don't think it matters who is in charge at the moment. 
The players are simply not good enough 

I disagree.

We played some good stuff 1st half & should have gone in 3-0 up. They only got back into it because we wanted to play football 20 yards from goal. League 1 footballers should be clearing the ball, not trying to pass it around like they are Bobby Moore.

ElfsborgAddick said:

stockportaddick said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

Attendance given as 12 ,340

I imagine that there were never 9,000 bums on seats.

I think they counted legs, not bums

We had around 6k then?

swordfish said:

You know, I do believe this ship may sink.

LenGlover said:

60 years ago give or take a week or two I was watching the teleprinter with my late Dad and commented that Spurs were our team as at the time they were the 'glamour' club. 'no they're not he said and lectured me on how the family had followed Charlton Athletic since the 1920s if not before. He then said that I was now old enough to go to Charlton and he said we (and my grandparents) would go to the 3rd round FA Cup tie against Cardiff City on the first Saturday of January.

I never got to that match as the winter of 1962/63 was such with snow and ice that games were postponed to such an extent that the Pools Panel was created. As an aside that cup tie was eventually played midweek (I wasn't deemed old enough to attend on a school night) and we won before being drawn against Chelsea and, thanks in the main to Bobby Tambling, getting hammered. 

However, I did eventually get to The Valley once the weather improved and that season set the scene for much of the next 60 years a battle with relegation which we eventually survived courtesy of a late goal from Cliff Durandt at The Valley to defeat Southampton and then an away win at Walsall in midweek. We stayed up on goal average at Walsall's expense. At the time we were in the old division 2, the equivalent of today's Championship.

I loved it all at the time and obsessively filled in my league ladders from my comic. In short despite lack of success I was hooked.

The purpose of this self indulgent tale is to state that for the first time in those 60 years I feel little or nothing in terms of enthusiasm for Charlton. Reading various threads I'm not alone in that which is sad for the future of the Club. 

I'm an old git so Katrien Meire, if she was still around, would probably open a bottle in celebration that another old git had bitten the Charlton dust. I sense that fans considerably younger than me feel the same way. 

I have grandsons and just don't see how I can inflict the misery of Charlton upon them. Taking them now would kill their enthusiasm for football in general let alone Charlton in particular.

Sad to be thinking this way but I can't help it even though 60 years of support should be something to celebrate as should introducing a sixth generation of Charlton fans.

LargeAddick said:

Am I the only person who disagrees with this 'we should have been 3 or 4 up at half time'? I thought we were ok against an average Rovers side who we let back it in for the last ten minutes of the first half. They were always going to be better second half whilst we were woeful all over the pitch, special mention in dispatches though to Inniss. However, in general, we are absolute toilet.