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MATCH PREVIEW: Charlton Athletic vs Mansfield Town | Saturday 14th December 2024 - 3pm Kick-Off

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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,624
    Sage said:
    Said to my 5 month old this morning we’re going Charlton today and he laughed and then whinged straight after. Thought it summed up being a Charlton fan quite well recently. If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry… 😂

    I do actually think we’ll get a win today though. Don’t ask me how.

    The way NJ was talking in pre match, we’re going with a back 3 and wingbacks so expect to see TC at wingback again.

    Beyond that, who knows. Just hope we can come away with 3 points. 
    Five month old - impressed.
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,824
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    Sage said:
    Said to my 5 month old this morning we’re going Charlton today and he laughed and then whinged straight after. Thought it summed up being a Charlton fan quite well recently. If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry… 😂

    I do actually think we’ll get a win today though. Don’t ask me how.

    The way NJ was talking in pre match, we’re going with a back 3 and wingbacks so expect to see TC at wingback again.

    Beyond that, who knows. Just hope we can come away with 3 points. 
    Five month old - impressed.
    He then said “please can I support someone else - Nathan Jones is sapping the life out of me “
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,784
    I'm just waiting to see if my son wants to go. If he doesn't, I won't bother either. It's painful enough sitting through this turd-fest with company, so I certainly won't bother on my own. Every summer I get sucked in to renewing my ST, with promises of things will get better, but it's just getting worse. 
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,753
    EveshamAddick said:
    clive said:
    • This will be just the third league meeting between Charlton Athletic and Mansfield Town and the first match between the pair since the Addicks won 3-0 in April 1978.
    • Mansfield Town have won just two of their last 10 away Football League games against sides from London (D3 L5), keeping just two clean sheets across that time.
    • At home in League One this season, Charlton have faced chances from their opponents worth just 5.2 xG in total, the lowest such tally in the competition.
    • Mansfield have lost each of their last five league games in succession and could lose six in a row for the first time since November 2013.
    https://www.efl.com/news/2024/december/13/sky-bet-league-one--pre-match-stat-pack/
    Can anyone explain how if our xG is so good, why are we so shit?
    I dunno. My xg for Charlton these days is 0.5 because we are shit. Isn’t that logical?
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,841
    Turd-fest - brilliant!

    Not expecting much today, there was no reaction after the Crawley debacle, just the usual grim attritional approach. If L. Jones plays, like last week, we have a better than average chance of a clean sheet. That’s it.

  • Brown59
    Brown59 Posts: 236
    In the fans bar it’s bloody freezing no heating on. Saving money for major signings in the transfer window. 😂😂
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,319
    Good to see the Sun out at long last, at least down here in Medway - Good day to be going to watch a Football match... Unless you're heading to the Valley
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,624
    tangoflash said:
    I'm just waiting to see if my son wants to go. If he doesn't, I won't bother either. It's painful enough sitting through this turd-fest with company, so I certainly won't bother on my own. Every summer I get sucked in to renewing my ST, with promises of things will get better, but it's just getting worse. 
    This is exactly the type of post that Gavin Carter needs to see and get back to the owners.
  • Brown59
    Brown59 Posts: 236
    I think we’ve all been conned into getting our STS. 
    We’re going nowhere at the moment but not sure sacking the manager will help. The board need to put there hands in there pockets but that’s not going to happen. Tough times at the valley at the moment. 
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,677
    Brown59 said:
    I think we’ve all been conned into getting our STS. 
    We’re going nowhere at the moment but not sure sacking the manager will help. The board need to put there hands in there pockets but that’s not going to happen. Tough times at the valley at the moment. 
    Not sacking the manager and continuing with the current course of inept tactics plus crap (or, even worse, feigning crapness) players is hardly an incentive for the long-lost faithful to come rolling back either.
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  • CAFCBill
    CAFCBill Posts: 398
    I have no idea why I think this but I think it will be a 3-0 win. I think we'll score early as well. I'm fully prepared to be proven wrong though  :D
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,677
    jimmymelrose said:
    Briston_Addick said:
    mattwils said:
    Very hard one to gauge.  Absolutely no idea who will play. If we lose or draw and play badly, the crowd will make it very clear how they feel and pressure will ramp up on jones. This lot are in terrible form, worse than us, but so were Bristol Rovers and they totally outplayed us. I’m praying for an upturn, but predict a 1:2 defeat
    Anything other than a resounding victory for Charlton and Jones will be gone (or should be) by the time the World Darts Championship starts on Sunday.

    Another shocking defeat should see him on his way before Strictly starts on Saturday evening.
    I doubt our owners care about darts or Strickly.

    It strikes me as ironic that Duchatelet was shouted down for suggesting supporters go dancing after the match, but for twenty years the flagship Saturday evening TV programme in the UK has been a dancing competition programme.
    I couldn't give a stuff about Strictly (but interested in the darts), I was merely providing reference points for a sacking timescale.

    A clueless performance and horrendous loss should result in an instant dismissal, whereas anthing else other than a resounding and comprehensive win should provoke discussions amongst the owners hence a Sunday departure.

    In my opinion, if we have to sit through a first half like we did against Crawley I'd want to see Pearcey give the HT team talk and take over as caretaker for the second half.
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 5,909
    CAFCBill said:
    I have no idea why I think this but I think it will be a 3-0 win. I think we'll score early as well. I'm fully prepared to be proven wrong though  :D
    I would love you to be right mate whereas I think we will set up to keep it tight after all we are playing the mighty Mansfield !!! The usual backwards, sideways passing until the long high ball hoping for a defensive mistake playing for a 1-0 borefest
  • CAFCBill
    CAFCBill Posts: 398
    AndyG said:
    CAFCBill said:
    I have no idea why I think this but I think it will be a 3-0 win. I think we'll score early as well. I'm fully prepared to be proven wrong though  :D
    I would love you to be right mate whereas I think we will set up to keep it tight after all we are playing the mighty Mansfield !!! The usual backwards, sideways passing until the long high ball hoping for a defensive mistake playing for a 1-0 borefest
    I think your prediction maybe more accurate but I live in hope. I don't know why lol
  • CAFCBill
    CAFCBill Posts: 398
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W9HvVALGj8&ab_channel=CharltonAthleticFootballClub - This is actually quite a nice bit of content from the club. The guy in the video seems like he's got a really nice personality they should get him to do more stuff like this.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,271
    In a crisis? Need some points just before Christmas? Are you from a shite northern town playing the highest  you've been in the leagues in decades? Then come on down to The Valley Clinic, where Dr. Jones (calling Dr. Jones) and his crack team of absolute has-beens, hanger-ons, never-weres and barely-theres will be on hand to see to your every need!
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,677
    sam3110 said:
    In a crisis? Need some points just before Christmas? Are you from a shite northern town playing the highest  you've been in the leagues in decades? Then come on down to The Valley Clinic, where Dr. Jones (calling Dr. Jones) and his crack team of absolute has-beens, hanger-ons, never-weres and barely-theres will be on hand to see to your every need!
    Charlton Athletic Football Club: helping the winless, goal-less and pointless since 1905.
  • red10
    red10 Posts: 834
    Left to right across the back and back again. Bit of pressure from the opposition and back to the keeper to lump it forward to nobody in particular. Rinse and repeat for 90+ minutes. Deep f@cking joy.
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 5,909
    red10 said:
    Left to right across the back and back again. Bit of pressure from the opposition and back to the keeper to lump it forward to nobody in particular. Rinse and repeat for 90+ minutes. Deep f@cking joy.
    It’s the process mate ! Stick to the process ! 
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,127
    FRONT FOOTED HERE WE COME
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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,852
    stoneroses19 said:
    killerandflash said:
    Either way, for once I won't be there. With the Strictly Come Dancing final at 6pm, no way could I get home in time after the match. If we had been playing better football, I would have gone, but with the rubbish football at the moment, I'll stream it instead.

    Which ironically benefits the club, as I'll be paying my £10 to watch it from Belgium, which is more than I would spend at the game tomorrow.
    Joking? Otherwise, we've hit a low point when fans are choosing Saturday night tv over The Valley. 
    Not joking. If you've been watching something for 3 months, the final is a big thing, and it's not the sort of programme to watch later on demand. 

    It would have been a harder decision if we were playing well.
  • L0rd_M0ntagu3
    L0rd_M0ntagu3 Posts: 329
    Hopefully Mannion is back fit 
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,677
    Fumbluff said:
    FRONT FOOTED HERE WE COME
    Front footed ... but a massive gap between bat and pad and bowled through the gate by a straight one.

    Or, in football terms, simple ball through the midfield with the centre backs in different postcodes, slotted past the keeper.
  • ChiAddick
    ChiAddick Posts: 1,781
    Its hard to see where our goals come from.

    1-1
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,410
    NJ drinking in the last chance saloon.
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    I think we’ll win this one, but if we don’t then I think we’re in real trouble.
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,622
    ChiAddick said:
    Its hard to see where our goals come from.

    1-1
    Obviously nobody is expecting Charlton to score so trees and synthetic rope makers would be my guess 
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,747
    edited December 2024
    I'm expecting rinse and repeat . Anything better will be progress. 
    I hope Leaburn , Docherty and A Campbell do not start and we revert to 442 with Jones and Mitchell as centre halfs. 

    Prediction . 2-2 after going behind again  (Ahadme and Kanu)
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,271
    I think we either go

    GK
    Mitchell Jones Potts
    Laqeretabua Taylor Docherty Anderson Edwards
    Kanu Ahadme 

    Or 
    GK
    Edmonds-Green Mitchell Jones Edwards 
    Taylor
    Docherty Anderson 
    Berry 
    Kanu Godden

    But I'm not happy with either lineup tbh
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,015
    With the run Mansfield are on (5 straight defeats) and the fact they’ve never ever beaten us, an away win is nailed on today.

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