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Jones on why team and selection news is kept top secret

Henry IrvingHenry Irving
in General Charlton

 

Charlton Athletic boss Jones on why team and selection news is kept top secret

Charlton Athletic supporters are wondering whether a number of key first-team players will be available for Sunday’s League One play-off tie at Wycombe Wanderers – just don’t expect manager Nathan Jones to shed any light on that in his pre-match media duties.

One feature of the Welshman’s reign as Addicks boss has been little information on the availability of members of his squad.

Lloyd Jones, Thierry Small and Luke Berry all missed last weekend’s 3-1 win over Burton Albion. The trio have been a fixture of the Charlton side which has powered into the play-offs and whose form had even opened up the possibility of a late surge into the top two.

Charlton boss Jones is happy to keep the opposition guessing over the fitness status of his squad.

“It is no secret to how we go about and do our work,” Jones told the South London Press at the club’s training ground on Tuesday. “We are very consistent in the things we do.

“But, for me, my team and state of how we train is a personal thing. Sometimes fans get frustrated because they want to know. We live in a world and a society where information is readily information – it is key – and everyone wants it. Everyone is prepared to do anything for it.

“If there is one thing with us, is that we like to keep our cards close to our chest. Not because we are hiding anything – but that is the way we like to do business.”

      

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  • soapy_jonessoapy_jones
    edited May 8
    In a world of emotionally and intellectually stunted cyber idiots the bleedingly obvious often needs explaining...


  • AshersAshers
    In the days of the BBC forum/chat room I remember the team and tactics being shared the day before a match, may have been when Pardew was manager. Rumours a player was sharing but can’t remember who. 
  • AlwaysneilAlwaysneil
    Also remember Robinson announcing the team a day early presumably so the opposition manager had more certainty over how to prepare. Idiot.
  • Covered EndCovered End
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    Does any manager like to reveal his team news ahead of a game?

    Always annoys me in major tournaments when our idiot press race to be first to reveal the England team hours ahead of a game.
    Yes, don't you recall Karl Robinson always doing this?
    He sometimes announced the team the day before and most often announced more than an hour before KO.
    Personally, I thought that was absolutely ridiculous.

    Mind you Jones goes a touch too far the other way, when he virtually pretends a player isn't injured when he clearly is.
  • Covered EndCovered End
    DessieValley said:
    We had an inside scope once, in 2019 when we played Oxford away. We stayed in the same hotel as the first team. In the morning of the game, we spotted Ben Purrington going backwards and forwards to the toilets. He was then asking the
    sport science guy for tablets. So it was no surprise to us when he missed the game with a stomach bug and travelled back to London on a train on his own.  

    And from there on, in our family, a dodgy tummy is known as having "The Purringtons"
    Ha ha, you've got a touch of the Purrington's.
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  • thai malaysia addickthai malaysia addick
    Alwaysneil said:
    Is it just me or do the phrase 'inside scoop' and a touch of the purrington's sit a little uneasily together. 
    Particularly if you always kneel
  • Mendonca In AsdasMendonca In Asdas
    So, after all that, what’s  the team for Sunday then?
  • cantersaddickcantersaddick
    Just take a wonder on the footpath next to Sparrows Lane that leads to Avery Hill. Plenty of gaps in the trees/hedge to see who's training..  when did journalists stop working for a scoop ;)
  • AlwaysneilAlwaysneil
    Ever since an inside scoop became synonymous with a touch of the purringtons, I mean who wants to work for that?
  • YTS1978YTS1978
    edited May 8
    Covered End said:
    DessieValley said:
    We had an inside scope once, in 2019 when we played Oxford away. We stayed in the same hotel as the first team. In the morning of the game, we spotted Ben Purrington going backwards and forwards to the toilets. He was then asking the
    sport science guy for tablets. So it was no surprise to us when he missed the game with a stomach bug and travelled back to London on a train on his own.  

    And from there on, in our family, a dodgy tummy is known as having "The Purringtons"
    Ha ha, you've got a touch of the Purrington's.
    Haha...that's funny. We call it the "Stevie's" as in Stevie Gritt...you get the idea lol
  • AlgarveaddickAlgarveaddick
    cantersaddick said:
    Just take a wonder on the footpath next to Sparrows Lane that leads to Avery Hill. Plenty of gaps in the trees/hedge to see who's training..  when did journalists stop working for a scoop ;)
    Oi, whose side are you on… 😉😆
  • Off_itOff_it
    Interesting use of the term "top secret". 

    I bet MI5 have been shitting themselves all season that news might get out of another Chuks Aneke injury, for example. 
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  • GammonGammon
    As much as this is helpful to post in full for us, these smaller websites that focus on non premier league teams rely on revenue from advertiser's on their website so copy and pasting a full article is hugely damaging to them.

    Please don't copy and paste full articles in the future guys, and at least have a link.
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