POST-MATCH THREAD: Portsmouth vs Charlton Athletic: Saturday 11th November 2023 | KO 3:00 PM

MarcusH26 · November 2023

Norris was the keeper that got lobbed last season from 40 yards when he was at Peterborough by Alfie May. Very surprised he's at a promotion chasing club because he's always looked a bit suspect.

PaddyP17 · November 2023

Was there. What a good game. I don't think I could fault a Charlton player - Portsmouth were very good. Still hard to process it but initial impressions are their number 8 ran the game, AMB earned us that point despite the pen, and Alfie May is a ludicrous signing.

Up the fucking Reds

PaddyP17 · November 2023

NB every Portsmouth fan I spoke to was also embarrassed by their keeper going down

redbuttle · November 2023

gmantaxi said:

Just got in from a cracking away day , proper old school that ,could have gone either way , but feel Mcgrandles has some neck for refusing to celebrate and cupping his ear when he hasn’t done a stroke since he signed for us .

You just proved why he did that.

charltonbob · November 2023

Valleysarr said:

Bailey said:

ct_addick said:

For all you naysayers who have given McGrandle a torrid time….that celebration is what you get….

ct, so many times on here I have wanted a player to ram it back down a posters throat. Today when McGrandles scored seconds after being accused by DDOUBLEE and Golfie of being shit, when neither of them had seen him play for any length of time, I danced around the room.

Are they proper Charlton and travelled away or watching on their laptop!

Proper Charlton ? I've travelled all over the country in my 58 years supporting Charlton but don't travel anymore, does that mean I'm not proper Charlton ?

Wheresmeticket · November 2023

PaddyP17 said:

NB every Portsmouth fan I spoke to was also embarrassed by their keeper going down

killerandflash · November 2023

Pompey have got a LOT of late winners in added time recently, so they were probably due to concede a late one instead!

TellyTubby · November 2023

AFKABartram said:

Croydon said:

SDAddick said:

Croydon said:

ross1 said:

gmantaxi said:

Just got in from a cracking away day , proper old school that ,could have gone either way , but feel Mcgrandles has some neck for refusing to celebrate and cupping his ear when he hasn’t done a stroke since he signed for us .

Perhaps if you spent the last few months with repeated injuries while trying to get match fit, and reading comments about how useless you are by so called fans, you may not be too excited about celebrating with them

I've got no time for it. Same as Jack Payne and Fraser away at MK Dons last season.

Bad attitudes run through this squad in my opinion and tbh we're still massively underperforming - 11th in league one, 5 points off 6th and 13 off top 2.

What did Payne and Fraser do at MK Dons?

Also, I agree we're underachieving, but if you take out the Holden era, we're in playoff form. Appleton is 1.73 ppg since coming in, which would have us just behind Peterborough. There were injuries to start the season, and some of the transfers came in late (which always happens), but it should now also be clear that Holden was holdin' this team back.

Cupped their ears to us in the away end

He could cup my balls for all I care if he keeps nicking injury time goals :-)

To each his own.

Athletico Charlton · November 2023

Set off at 8am by car. Spent a few hours visiting the historic dockyard with my family; Mary Rose was amazing, HMS Warrior and Victory excellent too. At 2pm my lad and I left my daughter and Mrs AC to go to the footy.

So, for the game. We were stood near the front, partially blocked by the goal/net but the team seemed to give it their all and just kept bouncing back.

Pompey score first and Kamara runs to the corner where there are no Pompey fans to celebrate as he clearly hates the 18,000 of them that had turned up. 😉

Then up pops Alfie May to score yet again for us. I am late 40's but love this bloke. Total legend. Runs forever, celebrates each goal like it is his last and just keeps scoring. I am jumping around celebrating for a few seconds when I remember I should be celebrating with my 10yr old boy... turn to see him... and he is gone, nowhere to be seen... Oh no, he has bolted down the stairs on his own to celebrate at the front with the players... #prouddad (shame they had all run to the other side of the goal to celebrate... 🤣).

AMB, what a superstar with all those saves to keep us in it but has a rush of blood and they get a pen. Norris celebrates with arms waved aloft directed straight at us Charlton fans. They score, my boy reminds me of his 2-1 Pompey prediction. Gutted.

"Near Post Norris", as I now refer to him as, starts pissing me off further with his behaviour, and a short while later he fakes injury from catching a ball - which the ref laps up, then goes down in slow mo for an Alfie May gust of wind. Utter dickhead.

But wait, with time disappearing, McG; most unlikely of goal scoring heros, gets in with a header, "near post Norris" falls as slowly as he did for Alfie Mays gust and we have an equaliser. My boy right next to me, never heard me swear at footy before... Can I contain my glee at the goal and at the near post Norris catastrophe without him hearing...can I F*ck!

Then Dobbo... Could have won it at the death, but a draw is a decent result.

GunWharf Quays, Fish and Chips by the Southsea and off home we go.

Good day out. Had to be a draw; we always win at Fratton Park but my lad has only ever seen us lose away... Until today.

MrWalker · November 2023

Sat with an avid Pompey mate. Said categorically we were the best visiting team he'd seen at Fratton. His mates seemed a decent bunch.
Think both our clubs should be scrapping it out for Champoinship play off spots next season 🤔

Chunes · November 2023

That goal makes Alfie May League One's top scorer with 12.

Callumcafc · November 2023

McGrandles has a quiet game: he’s shit get rid

McGrandles scores a late equaliser to snatch a point: he didn’t celebrate how I wanted get rid

Unfortunately some have already made their mind up and until he proves he’s the second coming of Mark Kinsella, that’s not going to change.

oohaahmortimer · November 2023

nagAddick said:

Big shit 🤣

I’d give my right arm for one of them ffs

oohaahmortimer · November 2023

I would have lost my house on todays game was I a gambling man , home banker that was .
Still the amazing header by McGrandles was well worth a point .
McGrandles or some of our fans who’s touchier , oh he didn’t celebrate cos there was still time left … well that video after the game with Hector shoving him forward shows that was bullshit .
in the ideal world a bit of passion/ fake passion for our club endears you to the fans but what really endears you is consistently putting in a good shift and performance and getting promotion out of this shithouse….

come on you reds , get us out of here

there is hope , the league is shit , so’s our defence but our attacking threat is good to see (please stay fit and well Alfie )

only saw bits of the match but AMB pulled off some miracles but their keepers an absolute clown for his antics and not stopping or at least being better positioned for our goals , thank fuck , silly twat

Callumcafc · November 2023

We’ve now played 8 of the 10 teams who sit above us in the table after today.

Next three are against 22nd, 23rd and 15th. Big opportunity to narrow the gap to the top six.

tangoflash · November 2023

Callumcafc said:

We’ve now played 8 of the 10 teams who sit above us in the table after today.

Next three are against 22nd, 23rd and 15th. Big opportunity to narrow the gap to the top six.

And this is where we usually come unstuck.

JamesSeed · November 2023

MuttleyCAFC said:

What I don't understand is how the ref and his assistant between them couldn't see the handball which was a pen every day according to the laws as they are now!!!!!

The way he managed the injury faking keeper was an outrage. Very poor.

Outside the area.

golfaddick · November 2023

Bailey said:

golfaddick said:

Valiantphil said:

AMB is easy MOM
CBT - shocking today, not interested.
Dobbo - same old Dobbo
May - worked his socks off.

Perhaps CBT thinks if I'm not good enough to play against Cray then I'm not good enough to play against the League leaders.....and was giving Appleton the finger.

Or maybe he was a bit rusty not having played last week.

Maybe that's what happens when you rest players we you dont need to.

Your clutching at straws now Golfie, you've moved on from your misquote about Appleton finding out about eleven players, which he never did, but you used it so as to justify your opinion that McGrandles is a shit player. Be humble sometimes Golfie, fact is you or I haven't seen hardly anything of McGrandles to declare him shit or otherwise. As for the Managers decisions, most people think he wasn't at fault for Cray, the players were.

Once again, please show me where I have called McGrandles shit.

I can take the brickbats & the pelters.....but not the lies.

JamesSeed · November 2023

Athletico Charlton said:

Then up pops Alfie May to score yet again for us. I am late 40's but love this bloke. Total legend.

I’m 67, but love this bloke. With that work rate and attitude I think I’d love him even if he scored half the goals he does.

king addick · November 2023

Would have happily taken a draw at Fratton Park so very pleased.

Think MA has come in and is changing the mindset bit by bit ( bar Cray) and these players will keep going and going until the full time whistle. Haven't seen that for a very long time by a Charlton team.

clive · November 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz_2TAvtNmg

JamesSeed · November 2023

oohaahmortimer said:

I would have lost my house on todays game was I a gambling man , home banker that was .
Still the amazing header by McGrandles was well worth a point .
McGrandles or some of our fans who’s touchier , oh he didn’t celebrate cos there was still time left … well that video after the game with Hector shoving him forward shows that was bullshit .
in the ideal world a bit of passion/ fake passion for our club endears you to the fans but what really endears you is consistently putting in a good shift and performance and getting promotion out of this shithouse….

come on you reds , get us out of here

there is hope , the league is shit , so’s our defence but our attacking threat is good to see (please stay fit and well Alfie )

only saw bits of the match but AMB pulled off some miracles but their keeper’s an absolute clown for his antics and not stopping or at least being better positioned for our goals , thank fuck , silly twat

1. You’d have lost your house a few time in recent years then (as would quite a few of us).

2. Touchier (great word) maybe, but I was just reporting what he said in his interview after the game. I think I agree, on reflection, that he was spinning it. He feels fans haven’t given him a fair crack on social media, and he’s right.

3. Looking forward to welcoming him to The Valley! 😂

AFKABartram · November 2023

‘Near post Norris’ - love that

Bailey · November 2023

golfaddick said:

Bailey said:

golfaddick said:

Valiantphil said:

AMB is easy MOM
CBT - shocking today, not interested.
Dobbo - same old Dobbo
May - worked his socks off.

Perhaps CBT thinks if I'm not good enough to play against Cray then I'm not good enough to play against the League leaders.....and was giving Appleton the finger.

Or maybe he was a bit rusty not having played last week.

Maybe that's what happens when you rest players we you dont need to.

Your clutching at straws now Golfie, you've moved on from your misquote about Appleton finding out about eleven players, which he never did, but you used it so as to justify your opinion that McGrandles is a shit player. Be humble sometimes Golfie, fact is you or I haven't seen hardly anything of McGrandles to declare him shit or otherwise. As for the Managers decisions, most people think he wasn't at fault for Cray, the players were.

Once again, please show me where I have called McGrandles shit.

I can take the brickbats & the pelters.....but not the lies.

I didn't say you called him shit mate, you stated that Appleton had found out about eleven players against Cray and that McGrandles was one who was in the eleven guilty men. Another poster, I think it was FA, pointed out that Appleton clearly stated he found out about three or four not the eleven. The poster who called him shit was DDOUBLEE, and in fairness to that poster he accepted with good grace that McGrandles had made him eat his words. I hope that's cleared that up and would you like some custard with your humple pie 😂😂

Sillybilly · November 2023

I only managed to catch the first 20 and the last 20 but for what I saw that was a good old fashioned wnd to end football match. I really enjoyed it. Some of our bigger stars went a bit missing (CBT, Leaburn and young TC) but there was a purpose about the group that was nice to see. Hopefully a new start for McGrandles.

letthegoodtimesroll · November 2023

Sillybilly said:

I only managed to catch the first 20 and the last 20 but for what I saw that was a good old fashioned wnd to end football match. I really enjoyed it. Some of our bigger stars went a bit missing (CBT, Leaburn and young TC) but there was a purpose about the group that was nice to see. Hopefully a new start for McGrandles.

That was a pure end to end, non-stop battle from start to finish. Both teams and sets of players will come out of that game as better teams and will push on from that, OK maybe not their goalkeeper whose gloves might not have been so slippery when the ball slid through them had he not spent so much time unnecessarily laying on the grass beforehand