POST-MATCH THREAD: Millwall V Charlton Athletic: Saturday 24th January 2026: KO 12:30

My observations (I guess I watch the game as if a 20th Century referee, with despair at the modern game, seeing as no-one has mentioned all this)

The first goal was due to Ramsay being intent on holding their attacker rather than being goalside and being aware of where the ball was in the air. It hit him lamely on the arm because he had no idea that it was about to hit him. Ramsay was totally at fault. If it hadn’t gone in, it should have been a penalty to Millwall anyway, and yellow card to Ramsay. If were NJ, I’d be livid with Ramsay.

Dykes was being pushed and pulled whilst running through on goal.The ball bounced off his head onto his arm but he was not in control of his upper body and therefore not in control of the positioning of his upper arm. Ruling this goal out was unfair because he was being fouled. The goal should have been allowed and a yellow card given to the Millwall defender. 

In the box preceding their second goal Cooper was holding our defender marking Taylor. Taylor made his run away from his marker because he was no longer able to follow him. Taylor then had a clear header. Yellow card to Cooper,  free kick to Charlton, no goal.

There’s a challenge in the box which wasn’t tidy but there was no foul. It’s his standing foot that their player moves his foot towards to intentionally trip over to win the penalty. Yellow card to their player for simulation.

Final Score: Millwall 2 Charlton 1 

Correction : 1-1  (as without goals 2&3 they wouldn't get goal 4)

Correction again: 2-1 (as we always find a way to lose against those w**k**s)

CaptainRobbo said:

The Red Robin said:

ValleyGary said:

Oxford winning as well, we are in deep deep shit 

I highly doubt we’ll give Leicester as good a game as Oxford have today. That’s a direct comparison.

Oxford scored after 4 minutes, then apparently had a seemingly good goal unfortunately ruled out, before scoring their second.
Can't see us scoring 2 or 3 next week somehow, as I doubt we keep a clean sheet.

The official stats might say otherwise but I reckon we had 3 attempts on goal today.

TC's shot
Lloyd Jones's blocked shot
Dyke's shot.

We will need far more than that to win a game of football. 

msomerton said:

SouthLincsAddick said:

golfaddick said:

Charlton and on said:

Why nullify our best player, Campbell, at half time? 

Shit set up, shit midfield and no left side. You get what you deserve.

Imagine if you could sign a fit LWB that could come in & play 90 mins straight off. No need to chop & change during the game and might give you a chance to win the match.

But you all felt it wasn't possible yo sign someone on Jan 1st so we had to wait 3 weeks to sign someone who could only play 45 mins. 

I know I'm seen as some some of idiot.....but tell me I'm.wrong. 

Usual ill informed drivel, ever tried to sign a player on Jan the 1st Golfie? Thought not, absolutely clueless!

It looks to me 14 clubs had made 1 or more signings by the 2nd of the month.

A performance today that was both embarrassing and predictable in equal measures.
Players like Macca, Coventry & Ramsay seem to be regressing at a rate of knots.
Campbell is our only player who looks to make things happen and was again MOTM.
Clarke looks like he could be a decent signing.
Golfie is absolutely spot on about the farcical left-wing back situation & signing.

The Senior Management Team need to sit down Monday morning with NJ and have a no holds barred discussion on where it’s all gone wrong and come up with a solution. NJ can’t keep hiding behind injuries, he has a fairly full squad to choose from now. Also involve the players, if they have issues with NJ they need to be aired and sorted. Things will start to get toxic soon if things don’t improve. 

Elthamaddick said:

Still a Jones supporter but he’s trying my patience now with his stubbornness 

Actually liked his post match interview and I think we might actually see a bit of a reaction / change - we have to.

I’m hopeful we can get a couple more bodies in this week.

I also still believe had we had Bell / Edwards for the last few months we’d be a good 10/12 points better off and not worried at all.

Those 2 injuries have killed the whole balance of the side.

There simply has to be a reaction to that display today though 

Who is in charge of our recruitment, Burke and Hare?

CAFCTrev said:

I’m confused. For the first two months of the season we looked, at worst, like a solid mid-table side. Now we look completely abysmal.

So what is it — a mid-table Championship squad being badly managed, or a genuinely League One-level squad with a manager who’s simply cant get anything more from them?

It's the latter. These players aren't a touch on the quality we had under Bowyer or Powell. 

They have the attention span of an ADHD patient who has discovered reels and shorts. 

jimmymelrose said:

My observations (I guess I watch the game as if a 20th Century referee, with despair at the modern game, seeing as no-one has mentioned all this)

The first goal was due to Ramsay being intent on holding their attacker rather than being goalside and being aware of where the ball was in the air. It hit him lamely on the arm because he had no idea that it was about to hit him. Ramsay was totally at fault. If it hadn’t gone in, it should have been a penalty to Millwall anyway, and yellow card to Ramsay. If were NJ, I’d be livid with Ramsay.

Dykes was being pushed and pulled whilst running through on goal.The ball bounced off his head onto his arm but he was not in control of his upper body and therefore not in control of the positioning of his upper arm. Ruling this goal out was unfair because he was being fouled. The goal should have been allowed and a yellow card given to the Millwall defender. 

In the box preceding their second goal Cooper was holding our defender marking Taylor. Taylor made his run away from his marker because he was no longer able to follow him. Taylor then had a clear header. Yellow card to Cooper,  free kick to Charlton, no goal.

There’s a challenge in the box which wasn’t tidy but there was no foul. It’s his standing foot that their player moves his foot towards to intentionally trip over to win the penalty. Yellow card to their player for simulation.

Final Score: Millwall 2 Charlton 1 

Correction : 1-1  (as without goals 2&3 they wouldn't get goal 4)

Correction again: 2-1 (as we always find a way to lose against those w**k**s)

Ramsay's own goal was offside anyway because their player attempted to play the ball after being offside at the moment of the pass. 

The ball came off Ramsay's chest, same for Dykes one. 

jimmymelrose said:

kentred2 said:

The owners have let Jones and the fans down. 

Signings either walking wounded or league one standard at best. 

Not the owners but Rodwell. They said it as much on the interview.  They don’t want to spend big because they think it will cause disharmony.  Meanwhile Wrexham spend big and don’t appeared unsettled by it.

Who’s ’taking a risk.’?

I think there is a bit more to it than that. Wrexham have managed to bring in further finance in much the same way that Ipswich have, which may explain or allow further investment in the team, I think that is the Charlton boards intention but I am not aware that it's been achieved. It's an interesting one though, one of the reasons that, as I understand it, the American interest in our football clubs have become so prolific, was the strength of the dollar against the pound, not the only reason though, Trumps Dollar has fallen dramatically, I wonder if that will have any affect on American owned football clubs. 

Bournemouth Addick said:

The only positive from today was that we won't be playing them again and it's all over for another year. The troubling thing is that the trajectory of each side suggests we might not be playing them next year at all.


If we go down (very likely) and they go up (less likely, but possible), it could be decades before we play them again in a league match.

Jones has talked recently about a track record of outperforming his budget and you could see at the start of the season how he does. We outworked teams, pressed them to death, won every second ball, defended as a unit and were generally horrible to play against, especially at the Valley. After we'd run a team ragged for 70 minutes a new front line came on like they were shot out of a cannon and we had a knack of scoring late goals. Workrate, fitness and structure are three things that can be drilled into a low budget/technically deficient team to make them effective.

Somehow all of that has gone out of the window. Since Southampton (where it was admittedly a disaster) we are too scared to press teams. But we are also unbelievably slow on and off the ball. And have completely stopped winning the second ball. Today was the worst example of that and completely inexcusable, but it has been the case to some degree for a while.

I thought our problems came down mainly to the giant hole in the left side of the defence but clearly there are deeper issues. 

On the left side, I'm not digging him out but based on that half Chambers is not the LWB we need. We need someone defensively very solid and he lived up to his billing today of being good on the ball and going forward, but not particularly strong in defence. Don't mind him as competition/backup but we need an outright left back in that role.