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POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic v Sheffield United: Saturday 17th January 2026: KO 15:00

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  • ArmchairAddick
    ArmchairAddick Posts: 519
    Billy_Mix said:
    panther10 said:
    I just pray  we dont play like that at millwall next week 
    If we play 10 times better than that we’ll get humped by minimum 5
    truly the most widely inept gutless pissing about I’ve seen in over 30 years 
    only Clarke Kaminski and Dykes were decent
    TC and Lloyd Jones were mostly adequate 
    several are ill equipped and a shameful few clearly couldn’t give a damn
    Manager Jones seems to have lost any grasp  of how to play attacking football 
    WTAF was he doing with the Godden substitution at the death?
    2 man advantage and we leave nobody up the field for Sheffield set plays
    that is choosing to not do the job properly especially as TC and Carey are useless defensively they might as well be out of the way in our own box take 2 attackers out with them the defensive risk is nil and we might just keep the ball or have somewhere to kick it
    relentlessly negative unimaginative and ultimately scared shitless to the point of total inertia 
    we are in deep deep shit
    👏
  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 3,176
    SOTF said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    cantersaddick said:
    Come on lifers, a little perspective please. We've been on a horrible run for a while and up against a side who for the last 2 months have been on a very good run. Yes we didnt batter them in the 2nd half as we might want us to but we did what we needed to. A win is a win. Points on the board. Away from the scrap at the bottom of the table. Platform from which to build and players coming back from injury/new signings looking promising. 

    Cheer up!!
    Charlton fans: "We CANNOT go back down to League One... It would ruin us"
    Also Charlton fans: "Oh we can't be winning games like that"
    Do you think the performance was good?

    No-one is unhappy with 3 points, but we need another 18-20 for safety. We’ll get nowhere near that number if the first half performance and marginally beating 9 men Sheffield United is the level we’re satisfied with.
    Or the second half performance as well. 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 97,077
    edited January 17
    SOTF said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    cantersaddick said:
    Come on lifers, a little perspective please. We've been on a horrible run for a while and up against a side who for the last 2 months have been on a very good run. Yes we didnt batter them in the 2nd half as we might want us to but we did what we needed to. A win is a win. Points on the board. Away from the scrap at the bottom of the table. Platform from which to build and players coming back from injury/new signings looking promising. 

    Cheer up!!
    Charlton fans: "We CANNOT go back down to League One... It would ruin us"
    Also Charlton fans: "Oh we can't be winning games like that"
    Do you think the performance was good?

    No-one is unhappy with 3 points, but we need another 18-20 for safety. We’ll get nowhere near that number if the first half performance and marginally beating 9 men Sheffield United is the level we’re satisfied with.
    The first 30mins wasn't great, but it was similar vs. Ipswich where we got dominated and weathered the storm
    The fact that Sheffield United had two players sent off isn't our problem
    We then didn't struggle in the second half as others would want to believe, given that we had 3-4 opporuntities to score, including a clearance off the line... We're just not going to be high scorers this season, that was pretty obvious even before this match. We basically played a team who parked the bus, a team who finished 3rd last season, and because of miss-management in the summer, are in a false league position... We've just done the double against that side... Yet for some its not good enough... Jesus!!
    We've also played better than we have done today, most notably against Leicester and we've lost - So the outcome of both games, when you primarily take the performance into account is that it means absolutely f**k all... All that matters is to score more than the opposition... We've done that today... Tuesday we might be better, we might be even worse, who the f**k knows... Its the beauty of Football
  • Zulu
    Zulu Posts: 283
    Bamford is clearly just a cheat.
  • iainambler
    iainambler Posts: 971
    PWR

    A defeat was staved off by two red cards for the Blades. 
    We should have capitalised on their being down to 9 men with more than one goal. As soon as it went in we then sat back and played defensively. No passion or desire whatsoever. 
    Glimpses of passion from Campbell and Leaburn. Our new No. 99 was decidedly not flaky, but not convinced by the new No. 44 - his passing was dire. 
    To be honest, I’ve never been pissed off after a win before. If we carry on playing like this we will rely on the bottom three relegatees really making a bigger pigs ear of it than we are. 
     
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,499
    Some excellent saves from Kaminski built a platform for three points.

    Apter and TC would have offered width from both sides and made us slightly less predictable towards the end. 

    Great purple sky, the only other noteworthy observation.
  • ArmchairAddick
    ArmchairAddick Posts: 519
    Zulu said:
    Bamford is clearly just a cheat.

    I think  theres something wrong with his arms, or his brains muscle co-ordination to them.  Every time he falls on his arse they start waving around.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 21,173
    fenaddick said:
    Billy_Mix said:
    panther10 said:
    I just pray  we dont play like that at millwall next week 
    If we play 10 times better than that we’ll get humped by minimum 5
    truly the most widely inept gutless pissing about I’ve seen in over 30 years 
    only Clarke Kaminski and Dykes were decent
    TC and Lloyd Jones were mostly adequate 
    several are ill equipped and a shameful few clearly couldn’t give a damn
    Manager Jones seems to have lost any grasp  of how to play attacking football 
    WTAF was he doing with the Godden substitution at the death?
    2 man advantage and we leave nobody up the field for Sheffield set plays
    that is choosing to not do the job properly especially as TC and Carey are useless defensively they might as well be out of the way in our own box take 2 attackers out with them the defensive risk is nil and we might just keep the ball or have somewhere to kick it
    relentlessly negative unimaginative and ultimately scared shitless to the point of total inertia 
    we are in deep deep shit
    Tell us how you really feel 

    He must be totally punctuated by the performance.
  • robroy
    robroy Posts: 4,493
    TheHerminator said:
    It seems everyone  on Charlton life assumes that the last performance is basically what it’s going to be like for the rest of the season. 

    If we win and play well we’re going up

    if We lose and play poorly we’re going down and are dreadful. 

    Can you not just take this for what it was? A really poor performance. 

    The way some people are talking we never started the season well and we’re doomed.

    we cant play much worse than that. I think we’ll get better with Cov back in the middle and Dykes to rotate with Leaburn. Plus when Edward’s is back we have options again.

    chin up 
    BipolarLife at its best 

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  • RC_CAFC
    RC_CAFC Posts: 1,805
    Billy_Mix said:
    panther10 said:
    I just pray  we dont play like that at millwall next week 
    If we play 10 times better than that we’ll get humped by minimum 5
    truly the most widely inept gutless pissing about I’ve seen in over 30 years 
    only Clarke Kaminski and Dykes were decent
    TC and Lloyd Jones were mostly adequate 
    several are ill equipped and a shameful few clearly couldn’t give a damn
    Manager Jones seems to have lost any grasp  of how to play attacking football 
    WTAF was he doing with the Godden substitution at the death?
    2 man advantage and we leave nobody up the field for Sheffield set plays
    that is choosing to not do the job properly especially as TC and Carey are useless defensively they might as well be out of the way in our own box take 2 attackers out with them the defensive risk is nil and we might just keep the ball or have somewhere to kick it
    relentlessly negative unimaginative and ultimately scared shitless to the point of total inertia 
    we are in deep deep shit
    Calm a little bud. We won. We know it was crap but there are lots of games you play well and lose. 

    No one will over celebrate it and I’m sure Jones will be letting them know it wasn’t acceptable as a performance.

    No point in getting angry with a win though. Life is faaarrrr too short.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 97,077
    edited January 17
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  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,290
    Invaluable 3 points, but Kaminski MOM probably tells you most of what you need to know about the performance. Apart from his efforts and a nicely taken goal, I'm going to try to erase the rest of it from my memory.
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,631
    Absolute garbage and were lucky to still be in it by the time of the reds but a win's a win. Jones does make some strange decisions though. Anderson as a holding midfielder, taking off Leaburn when we're defending a throw. Hard to understand the logic.
  • FreshHaddock
    FreshHaddock Posts: 31
    edited January 17
    Worst performance of the season. Fantastically entertaining drama packed match, a win and a clean sheet. This is what it means to be Charlton?!

    I know exactly what “Headphones” meant when he said that there would be laughs, tears and it’s all good fun. 
  • Nug
    Nug Posts: 4,646
    Never has the phrase ‘a win’s a win’ been more apt. We were dreadful but 3pts closer to safety. Will need to play much better than that in the coming weeks. Clarke looked decent and Kaminski kept us in it.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 33,133
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    The way I see it is we looked comfortable in the second half and it could be argued we were a bit too safe after we scored. But having said that, if they didn't even have a half chance, you have to look at it positively. I certainly do as it was an important 3 points and that is the be all and end all. What is another positive is we could have been behind by a couple before they imploded. I think they tried to bully us and it was working but when you do that you need to stay behind the red line and it cost them because a couple of their players weren't able to. The first was an assault and you have to wish Knibbs well. The second, I thought there wasn't intent but it was a clear red by the laws of the game and was stupid especially given where the game was after the first sending off.

    I think the fans were a bit naive not understanding the importance of the points and Jones was right to be a bit upset with some of us. I mean we were passing the ball in the middle without being pressed with not long to go and getting abuse from our own FFS! I was a bit angry so I imagine Jones was livid.
    Because at 1-0 you are never safe. We were giving away silly free kicks allowing them to launch it in the box and by leaving no one up it allowed them to get everyone forward. One misplaced clearance, one mistake and it's 1-1 and we've thrown it away. 2-0 it would have been game over and no nervy moments. Some will say they didn't have a single chance second half but as I say once the ball is in the box anything can happen. I don't think anyone was naive not to recognize the importance of a win but that can disappear in the blink of an eye. For what it's worth I think TC was right not to shoot when they keeper was still in our half. Miss and they have the ball and can launch one more attack on us but at other times second half we were way too passive.

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  • TheHerminator
    TheHerminator Posts: 871
    Garrymanilow said:
    We’ve gone from ‘I’ll take 21st any way possible’ at the start of the season to whining about winning very quickly, well done everyone. We’ve gained ground on Oxford, West Brom and Blackburn today while beating a team who I don’t think we expected to get 6 points off this season all without a functional LWB and missing some key players. I’ll definitely take it. It’s a good day
    It’s mad isn’t it. 

    Also people seem to have forgotten how well we played at the start of the season and assume we can never regain any of that form.

    a football season is ups and downs. More downs than ups recently but we won’t play that poorly again this year I’ll bet 
  • Bostonaddick
    Bostonaddick Posts: 875
    I really don’t understand why NJ doesn’t play Apter.  He was good when starting minus one defensive lapse that led to a goal.  He was decent playing out of position as a lwb last month.  
  • Fortune 82nd Minute
    Fortune 82nd Minute Posts: 8,596
    Talal said:
    Absolute garbage and were lucky to still be in it by the time of the reds but a win's a win. Jones does make some strange decisions though. Anderson as a holding midfielder, taking off Leaburn when we're defending a throw. Hard to understand the logic.
    Taking off Leaburn 2 minutes into injury time when United had a throw opposite our penalty area - to be taken by a player who had a good long throw - is truly one of the most braindead, ridiculous decisions I have ever seen in over 50 years of watching football.

    Why take off one of our best headers of the ball for someone who is not the biggest?

    Still I'm sure the 30 seconds Godden had on the pitch will have done him the power of good.
  • jakecafc
    jakecafc Posts: 2,139
    There's no sugar coating that we were poor from minute 1, but a win is a win. 18 more points from 20 games should be enough for us to stay up. More than achievable. 
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,649
    edited January 17
    Look on the plus side, with 11 players Sheffield would have probably rolled us over.

    A crucial 3 points nearer to safety.
  • 2121
    2121 Posts: 1,374
    I dont understand, and havent for 30 years of following charlton, how, when there fans were calling the ref a wanker when he was next to them,none of our players thought lets try and dribble past them in the box and let them make a challenge. Bamford would have been all over it. 
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,895
    ForeverAddickted said:
    SOTF said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    cantersaddick said:
    Come on lifers, a little perspective please. We've been on a horrible run for a while and up against a side who for the last 2 months have been on a very good run. Yes we didnt batter them in the 2nd half as we might want us to but we did what we needed to. A win is a win. Points on the board. Away from the scrap at the bottom of the table. Platform from which to build and players coming back from injury/new signings looking promising. 

    Cheer up!!
    Charlton fans: "We CANNOT go back down to League One... It would ruin us"
    Also Charlton fans: "Oh we can't be winning games like that"
    Do you think the performance was good?

    No-one is unhappy with 3 points, but we need another 18-20 for safety. We’ll get nowhere near that number if the first half performance and marginally beating 9 men Sheffield United is the level we’re satisfied with.
    The first 30mins wasn't great, but it was similar vs. Ipswich where we got dominated and weathered the storm
    The fact that Sheffield United had two players sent off isn't our problem
    We then didn't struggle in the second half as others would want to believe, given that we had 3-4 opporuntities to score, including a clearance off the line... We're just not going to be high scorers this season, that was pretty obvious even before this match. We basically played a team who parked the bus, a team who finished 3rd last season, and because of miss-management in the summer, are in a false league position... We've just done the double against that side... Yet for some its not good enough... Jesus!!
    We've also played better than we have done today, most notably against Leicester and we've lost - So the outcome of both games, when you primarily take the performance into account is that it means absolutely f**k all... All that matters is to score more than the opposition... We've done that today... Tuesday we might be better, we might be even worse, who the f**k knows... Its the beauty of Football
    The clearance off the line was because we were so bad at trying to score a goal, Sheffield decided to have a go themselves 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,303
    Not sure I’ve seen a win that has made me more pessimistic for the rest of the season before! 

    Obviously pleased with three points, but goodness, we made very hard work of that. 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,874
    edited January 17
    We were excellent at the start of the season, then we had a few injuries too many and lost confidence and we are working to get that back. So three points against the form team in the league is a positive surely, especially as that was looking highly unlikely in the first half. Some are saying we should have gone more for 2-0 as if that was easy. Well look at them first half, they didn't get the goal their dominance suggested. You have to decide what is the lesser risk. When we got the goal, it was perfectly valid, if not sensible, to restrict them to no chances which we did. Unless somebody can point one out to me which I missed. Yes it wasn't great to watch, but this game was all about the three points which some seem to have forgotten. Wins will help us get back to where we were and it won't turn from bad to good instantly. Out bad form started when Hernandez had brain freeze when we would have got at least a point against Wrexham and were defending well. That was when it started slipping then it slipped further. We are clawing it back and we can get back to where we were but the fans need to play their part which they usually do.

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