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POST-MATCH THREAD: Fleetwood Town vs Charlton Athletic | Saturday 16th March 2024 - 3pm Kick-Off

LoOkOuT
LoOkOuT Posts: 10,859
in General Charlton
A poor pitch and an awkward wind make conditions difficult today, in what was a scrappy affair for both sides.

The Addicks opened scoring with a penalty won and dispatched by Alfie May a few strokes into added time before the end of the first half. Fleetwood left it relatively late, mounting a bit of a comeback on eighty minutes. Their goal came from a lapse at the back that allowed midfield substitute Ryan Gradon through on goal and clumsily poke the ball in off the post. With the momentum now with the home side, Harry Isted kept us in it with a cracking point-blank save. A debut for Kazenga LuaLua, replacing Daniel Kanu, almost paid off when he had a chance to put fellow sub Freddie Ladapo through, but he put it just out of reach. Ladapo had a chance in the box before the final whistle but the ball just wouldn’t sit down and was eventually poked wide after a goal-mouth-scramble.

The equaliser came as a difficult blow at the end of a slog of a match. Fleetwood benefit in their attempt to claw themselves out of relegation and Charlton remain on a decent unbeaten run.

Fleetwood 1 Charlton 1

Over to you.
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Comments

  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,338
    That wasn't a football pitch. Not going to judge us harshly trying to play on that disgrace - we fought hard at least, couldn't play any football. They need to start punishing clubs for producing surfaces like that 
  • KettsJohn
    KettsJohn Posts: 1,211
    Seen better games....
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,838

    One best quickly forgotten. Difficult conditions and a lack of quality on both sides led to a truly awful game. Should have won, could have lost. Another point. Move on.

  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,787
    We lost there the season we got promoted.

    We’ve never enjoyed playing there, one big Fosu performance in 2017 aside.

    The sooner they are in League 2 and we can get another bogey ground off our list of away games the better.
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,299
    Ugh! Horrible game, no quality at all from us, not much from Fleetwood either. Probably more up and unders than I'll watch in the rugby later! But a point closer to safety.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Callumcafc said:
    We lost there the season we got promoted.

    We’ve never enjoyed playing there, one big Fosu performance in 2017 aside.

    The sooner they are in League 2 and we can get another bogey ground off our list of away games the better.
    Could well be joining them 
  • stoneroses19
    stoneroses19 Posts: 7,224
    Disappointing result, although at least the unbeaten run continues.

    Fleetwood, the kind of side, that makes you hate league one. Never a pleasure to watch them or play at their ground. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,338
    Conor Coventry is a really exceptional footballer. Today he was reduced to looking like a idiot, and it wasn't his fault at all. You just can't play normal football on shit like that. He's already been given 2 in Player Marks which I think is really harsh - he still fought, challenged, won some good ball. But when you don't know which direction the ball will bounce in every time it hits the surface, it's impossible 
  • Tunwellsaddick
    Tunwellsaddick Posts: 2,453
    Scrappy, we never got going, fair result.

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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,338
    cafcdave123 said:
    Callumcafc said:
    We lost there the season we got promoted.

    We’ve never enjoyed playing there, one big Fosu performance in 2017 aside.

    The sooner they are in League 2 and we can get another bogey ground off our list of away games the better.
    Could well be joining them 
    Everyone out 
  • Southbank
    Southbank Posts: 5,259
    A truly dreadful performance which we did not deserve to win and could have lost.
    We are incapable of defending long throws. Our midfield was guilty of misplaced, short passing and crossing. The defence is still guilty of comical errors.

    Blaming the conditions and the pitch is not good enough. Not many years ago most pitches were like this and players rose above it if they were good enough.

    I think NJ will need to clean out the defenders and start again.

  • Redvalleyeast
    Redvalleyeast Posts: 4,707
    Disappointed to concede to such a poor goal defending wise but overall,a draw was a fair result. The worst we've played under NJ bar the very early in his tenure Reading game. We went down to their level on a shocking pitch. Hopefully we wont have to play them again next season, a horrible side. Its a point we didnt have this morning so got to be happy with that. 
  • supaclive
    supaclive Posts: 6,515
    The pitch was horrendous.  It did us no favours, but as already mentioned we can't defend long throws, DESPITE playing three centre halves!
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,338
    I seriously doubt 'every pitch' was like that in the 1970s. Were groundsmen back then all just the stupidest, laziest person they could find? 
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,042
    Absolutely awful game but it's a point away from home, the unbeaten run continues and none of the bottom 4 gained any ground on us.

    Couple of weeks now to rest up before we go again.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,885
    There's genuine reason for optimism for next season. But the sooner this one ends the better.  Another pig of a game. Another late goal conceded. Just let it end.
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,470
    Off_it said:
    There's genuine reason for optimism for next season. But the sooner this one ends the better.  Another pig of a game. Another late goal conceded. Just let it end.
    Fraser and McGrandles back for next season after all :)

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  • follett
    follett Posts: 1,036
    The game does feel like a bit of a write off. It's an easy excuse but the pitch played a huge part in every single player forgetting how to kick a ball. Not concerned about how poor we were apart from on the long throws. Consistently unable to defend them all season.
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,003
    The worst we've played under Jones really but in some ways that's not a totally bad thing - inasmuch as genuinely poor performances stand out as exceptions rather than being the norm as they were under Appleton.

    We never ever do well against Fleetwood at their own ground and the pitch certainly did us no favours but I will say that if Jones is going to actually transform the team next season then winning games like this one needs to be something we learn to do.

    Still unbeaten in 7. Still in decent form. Hopefully just a bad day at the office, and learn from this then move rapidly on.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,885
    Leuth said:
    I seriously doubt 'every pitch' was like that in the 1970s. Were groundsmen back then all just the stupidest, laziest person they could find? 
    As opposed to people today making stupid lazy comments about a time they know nothing about?
  • SouthWest_Addicks
    SouthWest_Addicks Posts: 6,307
    edited March 2024
    Awful game. No real quality from 
    either side. Similar to Northampton that we should have never let them back in the game and should have run 1-0 winners.
  • BigDiddy
    BigDiddy Posts: 1,189
    We would have lost that under Apples, so a point is OK.

    My only gripe is that NJ did the subs 15-20 mins too late.

  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,787
    edited March 2024
    Jones basically saying the pitch is horrendous and the wind didn’t help, ruined any chance of a decent game of football.

    Overall he’s pleased with the run of results after coming in we were one point above the bottom four and now we’re 10 or 11.
  • Jonniesta
    Jonniesta Posts: 1,156
    Poor game. Could've won. Could've lost. Can blame the conditions to a certain extent, but generally no-one can claim to have had a good game. Best forgotten. 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,787
    edited March 2024
    Connor Wickham had a problem with his thigh after last weekend so didn’t get a proper week of training and was left out.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,179
    I’d have taken a point before kick off so not too disappointed with the result, but the performance was pretty dreadful. Yes the conditions were tough but I counted at least 3 air shots when well placed, again we had that one moment of really poor defending that had nothing to do with pitch or conditions.

    Fair play to Isted. He hasn’t impressed me at all but today he made two big saves and we’d have lost without them. 

    One of the lowest quality matches I’ve ever watched, at a professional level at least. 
  • BigDiddy
    BigDiddy Posts: 1,189
    supaclive said:
    The pitch was horrendous.  It did us no favours, but as already mentioned we can't defend long throws, DESPITE playing three centre halves!
    Our defending at the end was borderline suicidal - we can have scored a few own goals for Fleetwood.

    Still fear what  TT and Gillesphey will do when under pressure,


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