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Match Thread: Charlton Athletic vs Reading | Saturday 21st October 2023 - 3pm KO

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  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,002
    ForeverAddickted said:
    thenewbie said:
    cafckev said:
    It’s very hard for me, but I must feel I need to eat some humble pie regarding MA. He’s turned us around into a scoring machine since his arrival at the club 
    I'm actually a bit smug. Wasn't exactly pro Appleton (and certainly didn't expect THIS kind of form) but did think some of the criticism was overboard... which it was.
    Maybe its just a bit of luck for him at the moment, but his Game Management, and use of subs appears to be outstanding
    He absolutely HAS been lucky - we keep starting very slow and insipid before turning it up and that just can't keep happening forever, that bubble WILL burst.

    But the old cliche "you make your own luck" also applies and he is the first manager we've had in years whose response to pressure is to fight fire with fire and not double down on trying to hold out defensively instead.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,643
    And as they do Blackpool equalise at Oxford.

    Big change at the top. 
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,468
    LEEEEEEABUUUURNNNNNNNNN
    TC with a beauty of an assist. 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,731
    edited December 2023
    ross1 said:
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    ross1 said:
    Gills losing 1-2
    ross1 said:
    Gills losing 1-2
    And why are you telling us this? 
    Some are interested, you are obviously not
    Didn't want to sound a c*** but reading it back I do. I just didn't really understand why people would want to know about that non entity. 

    Still sounding like a c***...sigh... 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,440
    Lovely finish... Great to see him back on the scoresheet
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,658
    Such a fluid goal. Leaburn didn't have a moment's doubt.
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,003

  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    BBC Final Score description "a scintillating second half performance"...
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,001
    We are motoring. Fair play.
    such a shame we had a slow start
  • grumpyaddick
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,597
    Happy days. 

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  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,003

    LEEEEEAAABURRRNNNN- LOVELY BALL THROUGH FROM TUPAC
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,736
    Don't know who played it but that was a killer through ball for Miles, just enough curl on it to get round the left-side defender and into Leaburn's path.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,786
    Appleton’s boys have got me loving football again

    COYR
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,341
    Kanu believe it!
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,595
    Fair play most of the Reading support have stayed till the end...
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,731
    Briston_Addick said:
    Don't know who played it but that was a killer through ball for Miles, just enough curl on it to get round the left-side defender and into Leaburn's path.
    Apparently HIT EM UP Campbell 
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,468
    thenewbie said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    thenewbie said:
    cafckev said:
    It’s very hard for me, but I must feel I need to eat some humble pie regarding MA. He’s turned us around into a scoring machine since his arrival at the club 
    I'm actually a bit smug. Wasn't exactly pro Appleton (and certainly didn't expect THIS kind of form) but did think some of the criticism was overboard... which it was.
    Maybe its just a bit of luck for him at the moment, but his Game Management, and use of subs appears to be outstanding
    He absolutely HAS been lucky - we keep starting very slow and insipid before turning it up and that just can't keep happening forever, that bubble WILL burst.

    But the old cliche "you make your own luck" also applies and he is the first manager we've had in years whose response to pressure is to fight fire with fire and not double down on trying to hold out defensively instead.
    I think that's my feeling on Appleton too, we're getting results because we have good players and not necessarily because we have a great system. I still think he needs to get us playing better from the start.

    But, our good players are playing well, and that's both to his credit and more than could be said for the first five matches. 
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,002
    Valley11 said:
    We are motoring. Fair play.
    such a shame we had a slow start
    Might want to save this comment and just keep it to paste into the next match thread too based on the last couple of games!  :smiley:
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,786
    Up to 10th.

    First time we’ve been top half since the opening day of the season I believe.
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,736
    OK, hands up all those who foresaw a 4-0 FT scoreline at half time?

    Not me.

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  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,003

    Desperately want one more goal because @natashaeveritt7 said she'd do 5 x tequila shots if we won 5-0 in the @charltonlive group chat this morning


  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,957
    CBT with a hatrick of assists.

    That doesn't happen every game.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,341
    Briston_Addick said:
    OK, hands up all those who foresaw a 4-0 FT scoreline at half time?

    Not me.
    I didn’t. I thought it would be 5-0.
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,595
    FT 4-0 game of two halves, and again the subs changed things for the better...Nice...
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,003

    Full-time. Smashed it.
  • CL_Phantom
    CL_Phantom Posts: 5,520
    FT 4-0 YAY
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,003
    edited October 2023
    FT details

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67108898

    Not much in it apart from the goals
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,440
    Only the top three have more goals than us now... Watch out League One, however temporary it may be... the Addicks are on a charge.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,731
    Piss the league gif....
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,332
    Briston_Addick said:
    OK, hands up all those who foresaw a 4-0 FT scoreline at half time?

    Not me.
    I was confident of a win
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