I think Jones, Berry & Small will all be playing on Sunday. I also think it will be a tight game with only 1or 2 goals in it.
I'm not as nervous as I was 3 weeks ago at their place where it was ultimately do or die. That time we gave them mauling and I can see them wanting revenge. I'd even be happy coming back with a 1-0 deficit.
Looks like both my son & big brother will be going to this one. I'll watch it from the comfort of my living room......I mean, someone's got to stay home & cook dinner !
Forget the 4-0 whipping of Wycombe, that’s done. This is the reset we’ve been waiting for. The real business starts now: the play-offs. And you can bet Nathan’s been hammering that message home. His fingers might be bandaged, his veins full of Red Bull, but our passionate, general will be in full voice on the touchline, driving the boys on from the first whistle to the last.
Fingers crossed we’ve got our strongest spine back: Jones marshalling at the back, Berry bringing the spark, and Small doing what he does best, causing chaos. All we ask is that the lads bring something manageable back to The Valley, nothing too nerve-shredding!
The thought of a packed Valley under the lights & rocking, is wonderful . Those magical nights Ipswich 1998, Donny 2019, we all still talk about them. Could this be our year again? Three strong sides stand in the way, but if the Addicks play at their best, anything is possible.
And after the ticketing mayhem, the club owes the fans something special — flags, scarves, a sea of red. Let’s bring back the huge East Stand flag that gave us Premier League vibes. Make it loud, make it proud.
Wycombe Wanderers have won just one of their last six games against Charlton Athletic in all competitions (D2 L3), a 1-0 home victory in the league in April 2024.
Charlton Athletic won this exact fixture during the regular season 4-0 in April, their biggest ever win across all competitions against Wycombe Wanderers in 15 meetings.
Wycombe enter the play-offs having lost each of their last three league games, the club’s longest losing run of the season, whilst they last lost four successive games in all competitions in October 2022.
Charlton ended the League One season losing just three of their final 22 league games (W16 D3), though all three defeats during that time came away from home – 1-0 vs Birmingham City, 3-0 vs Peterborough United & 3-0 vs Wrexham.
Wycombe have previously featured in six separate Football League play-off campaigns, earning promotion in two of those (1993-94 and 2019-20). On home soil at the semi-final stage, the Chairboys have only lost one of their six prior matches (W3 D2), winning their last 2-0 against MK Dons in May 2022 in League One.
This is the seventh campaign that Charlton will feature in the EFL play-offs and first since 2018-19 in League One. That season was one of two times they’ve earned promotion, also being promoted to the Premier League following the 1997-98 play-off final against Sunderland, progressing 7-6 on penalties after finishing 4-4 in extra time.
Only Birmingham City (375) and Leyton Orient (364) have recorded more high turnovers in League One this season than Wycombe Wanderers (339), while only the O’s (10) and Wrexham (9) have scored more goals following high turnovers than the Chairboys (8).
Only four players in League One this season have recorded more 10+ metre progressive carries than Charlton Athletic’s Tyreece Campbell (162), while recording the second-most shot ending carries (40) and scoring the joint-second most goal ending carries (5).
Getting increasingly worried that theres perhaps too much expectation that we will knock over Wycombe fairly easy, and *CFC have let me down far too often in the past.
So nervous now. Yes we thumped them just a few weeks ago but that counts for nothing now. An early goal for us would be fantastic to settle the nerves.
The stats and form say a victory for us be we know that’s not the Charlton way COYRS
1-1 with commentators purring it’s all to play for and it will be but think we’ll edge it over the two legs. We are a bit fortunate their manager appears to be so incompetent.
As an aside how do the player logistics work for a Sunday evening kick off and is that more disruptive than usual?
I mean will the team travel and hole up in a hotel on Saturday or just travel Sunday morning and have a pit stop at a hotel in the afternoon etc?
Not suggesting cost is a factor at all but curious how the club best gets the team organised for such an odd kick off time and it being a relatively short journey.
As an aside how do the player logistics work for a Sunday evening kick off and is that more disruptive than usual?
I mean will the team travel and hole up in a hotel on Saturday or just travel Sunday morning and have a pit stop at a hotel in the afternoon etc?
Not suggesting cost is a factor at all but curious how the club best gets the team organised for such an odd kick off time and it being a relatively short journey.
Jones talks about it briefly in his Press Conference, as Charlotte asked the similar question, cant remember the answer... but from memory it shouldn't impact us too much - I'm not sure where in the Interview it is either
Yeah he mentioned the extra day off too due to fixture change, sounds like they may have had a extra day off and then juts shifted the plan. Monday is Sunday, Tuesday Monday etc.
As an aside how do the player logistics work for a Sunday evening kick off and is that more disruptive than usual?
I mean will the team travel and hole up in a hotel on Saturday or just travel Sunday morning and have a pit stop at a hotel in the afternoon etc?
Not suggesting cost is a factor at all but curious how the club best gets the team organised for such an odd kick off time and it being a relatively short journey.
Only one (Burton) of our last 4 matches has been a 3pm KO on a Saturday. I suspect than one match probably felt like an odd ko time as well.
As an aside how do the player logistics work for a Sunday evening kick off and is that more disruptive than usual?
I mean will the team travel and hole up in a hotel on Saturday or just travel Sunday morning and have a pit stop at a hotel in the afternoon etc?
Not suggesting cost is a factor at all but curious how the club best gets the team organised for such an odd kick off time and it being a relatively short journey.
It’s not too dissimilar to a 19:45 kick off so I’d imagine the routine would be very similar.
After watching the stream last time out against them, I think they will repeat the same, and try to physically overpower us the first 15 minutes, with constant balls into the box. Mannion will have to be strong from the off, and dominate his area.
We weather that, and get the ball down and out wide, we will grow into this.
I'm confident that we can get a win here, I feel Dodds has lost some confidence and it's being portrayed in their recent results.
I hope we have our injured players back, Berry, Jones and Small are very much missed, although the game against Burton shows we can win without them.
As an aside how do the player logistics work for a Sunday evening kick off and is that more disruptive than usual?
I mean will the team travel and hole up in a hotel on Saturday or just travel Sunday morning and have a pit stop at a hotel in the afternoon etc?
Not suggesting cost is a factor at all but curious how the club best gets the team organised for such an odd kick off time and it being a relatively short journey.
It’s not too dissimilar to a 19:45 kick off so I’d imagine the routine would be very similar.
Yes on time you are right. But given location do they travel day before or on the day I wonder?
just curious what helps players more - at home for an extra day or siege mentality of being isolated in a hotel and fully focused?
My main concern is our bench. I think it's not as strong as some of the others. And somewhere in the madness of these play-off games we are going to need them.
I still think Leaburn is a huge miss. Chuks is going to need to bring two of the best cameos we've ever witnessed imo!
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I'd be happy going back to the Valley with a draw or a 1 goal handicap, I rate our chances at home so much so, but let's hope we take the lead.
I'm gonna say 2-0 Charlton, I think we are the more prepared team for this game.
I'm not as nervous as I was 3 weeks ago at their place where it was ultimately do or die. That time we gave them mauling and I can see them wanting revenge. I'd even be happy coming back with a 1-0 deficit.
Looks like both my son & big brother will be going to this one. I'll watch it from the comfort of my living room......I mean, someone's got to stay home & cook dinner !
Forget the 4-0 whipping of Wycombe, that’s done. This is the reset we’ve been waiting for. The real business starts now: the play-offs. And you can bet Nathan’s been hammering that message home. His fingers might be bandaged, his veins full of Red Bull, but our passionate, general will be in full voice on the touchline, driving the boys on from the first whistle to the last.
Fingers crossed we’ve got our strongest spine back: Jones marshalling at the back, Berry bringing the spark, and Small doing what he does best, causing chaos. All we ask is that the lads bring something manageable back to The Valley, nothing too nerve-shredding!
The thought of a packed Valley under the lights & rocking, is wonderful . Those magical nights Ipswich 1998, Donny 2019, we all still talk about them. Could this be our year again? Three strong sides stand in the way, but if the Addicks play at their best, anything is possible.
And after the ticketing mayhem, the club owes the fans something special — flags, scarves, a sea of red. Let’s bring back the huge East Stand flag that gave us Premier League vibes. Make it loud, make it proud.
Come on you Addicks!
https://theanalyst.com/2025/05/league-one-play-offs-2024-25-who-will-win
https://www.efl.com/news/2025/may/08/sky-bet-league-one-play-offs--pre-match-stat-pack/
It will be 3.5 weeks out for the latter two come the home leg, so let's hope they are back and can get some minutes under their elastic belt.
*removed "Athletic" as is the current practise.
I mean will the team travel and hole up in a hotel
on Saturday or just travel Sunday morning and have a pit stop at a hotel in the afternoon etc?
Only one (Burton) of our last 4 matches has been a 3pm KO on a Saturday. I suspect than one match probably felt like an odd ko time as well.
We weather that, and get the ball down and out wide, we will grow into this.
I'm confident that we can get a win here, I feel Dodds has lost some confidence and it's being portrayed in their recent results.
I hope we have our injured players back, Berry, Jones and Small are very much missed, although the game against Burton shows we can win without them.
Really looking forward to the game!! COYR's!!!
just curious what helps players more - at home for an extra day or siege mentality of being isolated in a hotel and fully focused?