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Cheltenham Town vs Charlton Athletic | Sunday 7th May 2023 - 12noon KO | Match Preview

ForeverAddickted
ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,436
edited May 2023 in General Charlton
Cheltenham Town vs Charlton Athletic
Sunday 7th May 2023 - 12noon Kick-Off
Referee: Tom Nield

Introduction
Its time to sign off for another season... Forty Five games played... One to go, and very little progress made

Those looking for a straw to cling to will be delighted to know that we've at least moved forward in the League table, its not been the fight for the top six but progress has been made, albeit at the speed of the Kings Coronation - More goals have been scored this season, however we've equally conceded more... If we want to truly impose ourselves on the top six next term then we must cut out the latter and improve even further on the former. We visit Cheltenham Town this coming Sunday lunchtime... Another season confined to the History books, and gone with a whimper.

The Opposition
Name: Cheltenham Town (15th) | Manager: Wade Elliott
Ground: Whaddon Road
Previous League Result: Wycombe 0-3 Cheltenham

Its been an impressive second season for the Robins... A sluggish start to this campaign was always understandable given the need to replace their Manager. Yet our opponents have once again gone about their business in solid fashion, and will be rather pleased to see fellow Gloucestershire rivals: Forest Green Rovers making an instant return to League Two.

The Addicks travel to Cheltenham this Saturday, with the hosts in good form, they've lost just twice in their last twelve, moving from the relegation battle into a comfortable mid-table slot. Meaning that this game is pretty meaningless all round for both sides going into tomorrows game - The visitors will certainly be looking to record a first victory over Cheltenham, having never been rewarded with all three points, in three League attempts - Understandably, we'll need to watch out for Alfie May, the Gravesend born Striker started this campaign slowly (just the one goal in his first seven games), but will looking to add to his 21-goals before departing the club in the summer.

How Cheltenham do without their talisman next season, that'll be their biggest challenge.

Charlton Team News
Fans were rocked by the shocking news to come from Sparrows Lane in many a year the other day - We learnt that key players to our season would be left out of the trip to Cheltenham this Sunday, how we cope without the services of Macauley Bonne, Matt Penney and Gavin Kilkenny is anyone's guess... But the three January signings have all had their time in SE7 ended early.

Elsewhere and Dean Holden has hinted that Ryan Inniss will return to the team this Saturday (after serving his latest suspension), which'll add to the possibility of the Centre-Back being here next season - George Dobson on the other hand could well be rested for this last fixture, ensuring that he avoids any suspension next season.

Maynard-Brewer
Sessegnon - Hector - Inniss - Thomas
Morgan - Henry - Fraser
Rak-Sakyi - Leaburn - Campbell

Substitutes Bench: Wollacott - Mitchell - Kane - Egbo - Kanu - Payne - Rylah
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Comments

  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,436
    God I hope performances on the pitch make writing these Previews a bit easier next season!!

    I'm not holding much hope.


  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,829
    Thanks as always for all the previews. Enjoy the summer break 👏👏
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    edited May 2023
    Expecting another kick in the bollocks from this inconsistant, bottle job of a football team to rally us into a summer of endless takeover bullshit.

    2-1 to the Chelts(?)
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,874
    Thanks FA for the previews.

    Cheltenham without May will be significantly weaker next season, he'll be really hard to replace. 
  • KettsJohn
    KettsJohn Posts: 1,210
    Yeah, great previews every week. Look forward to these so thanks. Always want us to win but won't care if we lose really. Just be glad to end the season. Will it be better next season? Please let it be.
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,003
    As I said on another thread, we need a draw to make sure of 10th. Shrews and Lincoln are two points behind with worse goal average, and they play each other 
  • Bods64
    Bods64 Posts: 473
    Hats off to all the CL match preview team for their sterling work throughout the season. I’ll be watching my 46th league game of the season - dunno if I deserve a like or lol, perhaps a sympathetic vote if there was such a category! 
  • Sadly, I am not that bothered about this. No Dobson, no passion, no victory. 3 - 0 defeat predicted. Roll on next season! Have a good Summer everyone.

  • BansteadAddick
    BansteadAddick Posts: 1,117
    edited May 2023
    Very few positives this season. At least Rak Sakyi has been good and at least he has played a full season. If Leaburn leaves he will have played less games? Watch the future stars of tomorrow at the Valley before they leave. This looks to be coming true. Cheltenham will win again and I am sure it will be one last poor performance to go with it. Another season in League 1, so disappointing. 2-0 Cheltenham.
  • 19addickted96
    19addickted96 Posts: 475
    Play the kids as much as possible 

    Kanu, leaburn, Rylah, Campbell, Mitchell & Henry. Let’s see what they have to offer
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  • MintoHumbugs
    MintoHumbugs Posts: 753
    Without Dobson that midfield suddenly looks very weak.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,013
    Without Dobson that midfield suddenly looks very weak.
    Expect to lose without Dobbo, although I wouldn't play him & risk a suspension.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,436
    Whoops... Just realised I put the wrong KO time

    Its at 12noon, rather than at 12:30pm
  • grumpyaddick
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,597
    Just tuned in for a quick glance at the post match thread only to realise the futile torture of this season is still not over. 
  • Wellred
    Wellred Posts: 1,118
    We are going to end the season with a good win going for 3-1 to the mighty CAFC
    Come On You Reds  B)
  • Blucher
    Blucher Posts: 4,137
    Thanks for the excellent previews, FA - if only the team could match your level of consistency and fortitude.

    If Dobbo is omitted, I fear we'll have a preview of what we'd have been in for had he picked up a significant injury earlier in the season. All areas of the team - with the exception of goalkeeping - need strengthening, not the least of which is midfield, where George has carried the team for most of the season. Maybe a fit McGrandles can contribute next season but neither Morgan or Fraser are good or consistent enough to make us serious challengers.
  • Southbank
    Southbank Posts: 5,258
    Not sure why we are playing Sess or JRS when we could be giving Mitchell and Kanu league time.
  • Doomer Jon
    Doomer Jon Posts: 327
    The most recent and sick example of the rot that has infested our club is Alfie May. Ex Vickers Crayford Dartford (VCD) and Erith and Belvedere player. 5th highest scorer in our league for a team lower than ours. Taken from under our nose . Scouts should be sacked. 

    I said in the summer if we had any ambition we would buy Cole Stockton (scored 1st goal against us recently) and Alfie May. We would be in the play offs if we bought both. 

    However Saangaard and his lickspittles thought better. 

    I am right, those imbeciles are wrong. Proven. Fact 

    Put money on am.
    May to score first. Easy money 💰 hi



  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,683
    5.15 am.
    Time to get up and walk the dog.
    Then a quick shower before setting of for Cheltenham. 
    At 68 years of age I must be mad.

    Thanks for all the match previews FA
    Much appreciated 
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    edited May 2023
    It's a 4am kick off local time. I've got a nasty cold, so might find myself waking up in the night again then stupidly staying awake to watch. 

    If I don't make it, please make some Liam Sercombe-cision jokes for me. 

    It's not been the season we'd hoped for. But watching Jez and Dobbo play has been a real treat. I'm so glad JRS won POTY. He got my vote but I thought being Palace would cost him a reward he deserves. The boy is class. He's in the Cullen and Bielik tier for me, he's just playing in a far, far worse side unfortunately. 

    At the next level for me have been Ness, Sess, Miles and the 'keepers. And then Fraser, when used properly and on his game, is one of the better midfielders in the league. Same with CBT really, and I've enjoyed watching Campbell grow a lot more than I thought he would.

    I've not been around much in recent weeks due to life stuff (a lot of it good, my partner and I bought a house together), but coming on here during match days is always a joy. Usually. Sometimes. Whatever.

    Here's to next season being the one. We live in eternal hope. And the hope, as they say, is what kills you. 
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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,829
    Full respect to those up so early on a Sunday to travel to this 
  • Marcus_cafc
    Marcus_cafc Posts: 60
    2-0 win for us today I’ll be there 
  • bromleyjohn
    bromleyjohn Posts: 5,986
    Going to this . Think Aaron Henry should be given another start. If Morgan starts we lose. Hoping for some real effort and enthusiasm from the team. Let’s finish with a flourish.
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    With the midfield exposed in the absence of Dobbo I suspect we’ll struggle. 
    Would settle for a draw. 
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,720
    edited May 2023
    Cheltenham v Charlton
    Two teams ........ two words ....... who cares.
  • Sage
    Sage Posts: 7,278
    Well done @ForeverAddickted on the consistent performances this season, even picking up my slack!

    As much as Henry would be the obvious choice to play instead of Dobson, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Mitchell start in the defensive midfield role. It allows us to drop to a 5 if we really need to, and he has the ability to play in that midfield role. In fact, his stature (how he plays and moves) is very similar to Dobson and could be just what we need in his absence.

    I think with Clare out, Egbo comes in, it’s only right when he is a right back and is our player.

    With this in mind, I would like to see…

    Maynard-Brewer
    Egbo - Inniss - Hector - Sessegnon
    Mitchell
    Morgan - Fraser
    Rak-Sakyi - Leaburn - Campbell

    Wollacott, Kane, Thomas, Henry, Payne, Rylah, Kanu
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    edited May 2023
    Sage said:
    Well done @ForeverAddickted on the consistent performances this season, even picking up my slack!

    As much as Henry would be the obvious choice to play instead of Dobson, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Mitchell start in the defensive midfield role. It allows us to drop to a 5 if we really need to, and he has the ability to play in that midfield role. In fact, his stature (how he plays and moves) is very similar to Dobson and could be just what we need in his absence.

    I think with Clare out, Egbo comes in, it’s only right when he is a right back and is our player.

    With this in mind, I would like to see…

    Maynard-Brewer
    Egbo - Inniss - Hector - Sessegnon
    Mitchell
    Morgan - Fraser
    Rak-Sakyi - Leaburn - Campbell

    Wollacott, Kane, Thomas, Henry, Payne, Rylah, Kanu
    Yes, I think that would be what I might go for too. Maybe Thomas instead of Inniss. Wollacott might deserve a game for showing he is a team player too.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,436
    Cheers @Sage... thanks for your support with the midweek games.

    It'll be interesting to see who the Seventh sub will be, we've both selected Rylah, yet my reasoning was down to his recent Contract.

    There will be others more Senior in the U21s equally hoping for the spot
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,827
    Sage said:
    Well done @ForeverAddickted on the consistent performances this season, even picking up my slack!

    As much as Henry would be the obvious choice to play instead of Dobson, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Mitchell start in the defensive midfield role. It allows us to drop to a 5 if we really need to, and he has the ability to play in that midfield role. In fact, his stature (how he plays and moves) is very similar to Dobson and could be just what we need in his absence.

    I think with Clare out, Egbo comes in, it’s only right when he is a right back and is our player.

    With this in mind, I would like to see…

    Maynard-Brewer
    Egbo - Inniss - Hector - Sessegnon
    Mitchell
    Morgan - Fraser
    Rak-Sakyi - Leaburn - Campbell

    Wollacott, Kane, Thomas, Henry, Payne, Rylah, Kanu
    Yes, I think that would be what I might go for too. Maybe Thomas instead of Inniss. Wollacott might deserve a game for showing he is a team player too.
    5 or 6 of that 11 won’t be here next season .  Back to the drawing board.
  • Sage
    Sage Posts: 7,278
    Sage said:
    Well done @ForeverAddickted on the consistent performances this season, even picking up my slack!

    As much as Henry would be the obvious choice to play instead of Dobson, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Mitchell start in the defensive midfield role. It allows us to drop to a 5 if we really need to, and he has the ability to play in that midfield role. In fact, his stature (how he plays and moves) is very similar to Dobson and could be just what we need in his absence.

    I think with Clare out, Egbo comes in, it’s only right when he is a right back and is our player.

    With this in mind, I would like to see…

    Maynard-Brewer
    Egbo - Inniss - Hector - Sessegnon
    Mitchell
    Morgan - Fraser
    Rak-Sakyi - Leaburn - Campbell

    Wollacott, Kane, Thomas, Henry, Payne, Rylah, Kanu
    Yes, I think that would be what I might go for too. Maybe Thomas instead of Inniss. Wollacott might deserve a game for showing he is a team player too.
    Think Inniss is more likely to get a new contract than Thomas and although I agree about Wollacott, it happens a lot at last game of season, Holden will be conscious of Maynard-Brewer’s confidence and hoping he finishes with a clean sheet.