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POST-MATCH THREAD: Millwall V Charlton Athletic: Saturday 24th January 2026: KO 12:30
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I thought he looked alright in fairness. Naturally lacking match fitness but dont think he will take long to get up to scratch.Callumcafc said:
I’m reasonably confident he’ll turn out to be one of our best players by the end of the season and everyone will be hoping he comes back next year.charltonbob said:
Not going to happen, Clarke & Dykes probably decent signings FOR US, Luke Chambers just unbelievable nonsense from this football club. Sadly we're deep in the shit & I don't see a way out.ShootersHillGuru said:Not sure this Charlton team have what it takes to stay up. Deficiencies all over the pitch. Manager who every season goes through a period of wearing blinkers. Unless this week brings in some genuine quality then I think we’ll be back down with the dead men next season.
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You play someone who is not 100% fit in a local derby to get some game time? Does Jones not realize what this game meant to us fans FFS.2
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To be fair mate, if you'd said the opposite I'd have fallen off my chair!Callumcafc said:
I’m reasonably confident he’ll turn out to be one of our best players by the end of the season and everyone will be hoping he comes back next year.charltonbob said:
Not going to happen, Clarke & Dykes probably decent signings FOR US, Luke Chambers just unbelievable nonsense from this football club. Sadly we're deep in the shit & I don't see a way out.ShootersHillGuru said:Not sure this Charlton team have what it takes to stay up. Deficiencies all over the pitch. Manager who every season goes through a period of wearing blinkers. Unless this week brings in some genuine quality then I think we’ll be back down with the dead men next season.4 -
That may well be the case, unfortunately he’s not the answer right now, probably get 60 minutes out of him next week, then 3 games in just over a week, so probably it will be half a dozen games before he gets to 90 minutes.Callumcafc said:
I’m reasonably confident he’ll turn out to be one of our best players by the end of the season and everyone will be hoping he comes back next year.charltonbob said:
Not going to happen, Clarke & Dykes probably decent signings FOR US, Luke Chambers just unbelievable nonsense from this football club. Sadly we're deep in the shit & I don't see a way out.ShootersHillGuru said:Not sure this Charlton team have what it takes to stay up. Deficiencies all over the pitch. Manager who every season goes through a period of wearing blinkers. Unless this week brings in some genuine quality then I think we’ll be back down with the dead men next season.2 -
Smack himfadgadget said:My Mate who is a toolbox season ticket holder ( yes i know ) said it was the most one sided derby he had seen in his lifetime and it should have been double the final score if they had took their chances .
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It's all been said, but I came away from the Den yesterday thinking I don't think I can put myself through that again.
I actually left early, which I never do, straight after the penalty. It was a relief not to be held in and to get away pretty quickly.
First half we competed without troubling their goal and with them having all the chances.
Second half. Fcuk me, it will take some time to get over that. What a shambles.
Up until now I was sure we had enough about us to achieve what we set out to do, avoid relegation.
Now I am not so sure.
We won nothing in the air. We won no second balls. We were a disorganised, demoralised rabble who chucked the towel in.
It felt like a watershed moment.
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that is likely to be to late to help to keep us up.Callumcafc said:
I’m reasonably confident he’ll turn out to be one of our best players by the end of the season and everyone will be hoping he comes back next year.charltonbob said:
Not going to happen, Clarke & Dykes probably decent signings FOR US, Luke Chambers just unbelievable nonsense from this football club. Sadly we're deep in the shit & I don't see a way out.ShootersHillGuru said:Not sure this Charlton team have what it takes to stay up. Deficiencies all over the pitch. Manager who every season goes through a period of wearing blinkers. Unless this week brings in some genuine quality then I think we’ll be back down with the dead men next season.1 -
Both looked like a right couple of tramps yesterday. I presumed they were getting into character for a new production of Waiting for Godot.soapboxsam said:Gribbo said:Never liked Gary Oldman anyway, overrated Eastenders type, who got lucky somehow, and who the fucks Daniel Day Lewis? Sounds like a 18th century American poet ffs
Not a fan of knighthoods like me Gribbo ?
Gary Oldman (New Cross born) may have said he was a Man United fan but was definitely cheering on Millwall yesterday next to his method acting buddy Daniel Day-Lewis who is the son of Cecil Day-Lewis the Anglo Irish UK poet laureate from 1968-72.
So you were only a couple of hundred years out and CD-L wasn't a yank !
Daniel Day-Lewis first went down the Den when he wanted to study a certain type of Neanderthal for when he played Bill"the butcher" Cutting in 'gangs of New York' (2002)
Daniel feels he has found his tribe when he goes down the Den.
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Not bad for a playing with a heavily strapped ankle. He showed more fight and determination than everyone dispute his injury. Let's just hope he has not made it any worseaso914 said:
I keep seeing people say this but Lloyd won the majority of his duels on the pitch yesterday. We conceded four so I’m not going to say it was a top performance but he did his job the defenders around him failed him.m_2 said:This game showed the physical dominance of ‘the dark side’ compared with our lightweight players.
The stark difference in the tunnel before they came out said it all. At least half their team were 6ft 6 or + and our lot looked intimidated before they were on the pitch. Lloyd did his best but every other heading challenge was lost and 50-50’s only went one way. We don’t just need more left footed players, we need physically imposing players all over the pitch to survive.
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I don't know much about him other than he's had two lengthy lay offs with his back problem. Our problem is we need a LB/LWB NOW not by the end of the season. Playing just 45 minutes on saturday because we have to manage his minutes is just fucking ridiculous. If he can't play 90 minutes NOW why have we signed him ? I honestly don't think I've ever heard of a more ridiculous situation at this football club. I can't believe there isn't an experienced championship LB out there not getting games at his parent club that wouldn't improve our leaky left side.Callumcafc said:
I’m reasonably confident he’ll turn out to be one of our best players by the end of the season and everyone will be hoping he comes back next year.charltonbob said:
Not going to happen, Clarke & Dykes probably decent signings FOR US, Luke Chambers just unbelievable nonsense from this football club. Sadly we're deep in the shit & I don't see a way out.ShootersHillGuru said:Not sure this Charlton team have what it takes to stay up. Deficiencies all over the pitch. Manager who every season goes through a period of wearing blinkers. Unless this week brings in some genuine quality then I think we’ll be back down with the dead men next season.15 -
Lady Luck was out of town we’ve been performing shit for ages , this result was inevitable considering the reality of what preceded it .
The bluff is over , we are genuinely inept all over the pitch with a minuscule spattering of quality .
The money spent on transfers that do not get much game time is appalling when you consider the mingeyness of the budget .
We have a manager whose histrionics/passion is all well and good when winning a bit but when you’re on the run we are it can only put the players on edge and make them even less likely to take risks, hence our crabbyness and backwards piddling about and no positive attacking intent from most , Campbell apart .
This season has been heading in one direction for a good while and yesterday many could see what those without rose tinted were pointing out a while back, the euphoria of promotion and that crest of a wave that rode us to a good start long gone.
To be beaten by the great unwashed from Zampa New Dirty Den ex East End North of the river scum is nothing new but the gulf in clubs is a joke. We have been a shambles for years on and off the pitch whilst our nearest and dearest are enjoying the best footballing times in their history .
The new norm is wank and we’re a year in front will become a year behind if we get relegated .
There is time to turn this around but it will require wholesale changes somewhere and a massive rethink because we’re on a one way street to league one as it stands .
A great opportunity could turn in to one of the biggest nause ups in Charlton times with plenty of them.
Keep supporting the boys, that’s all we can do as much as we’re fucking complete guff .
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Easy to throw the baby out with the bathwater in such situations and believe that every player isn't up to it.
That's not true, and if we are going to work our way out of this mess then we are going to need to use what we've got, whilst hopefully adding a bit of quality.
I'd look to pairings, who plays well together? who have good understandings. TC/Leaburn, Carey/Apter, Coventry/Doc etc.
Let's get some cohesion back into the team. Players who will work for each other and who are on the same wavelength.
We have drifted a long way from that recently and now look like a team of total strangers.
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We have to be honest about it, with our meagre crowds nobody will ever want to spend money on players for us and that is the problem. Any funds we had went on league 1 players who are never good enough for the championship. Still we will get a different derby next year against Bromley. One thing is for sure, we need to keep Jones so we can play games against Maidstone and Dartford in 3 years time.DOUCHER said:Time to go 451/433- Tc and apter/tanto either wing, clarke and chambers full backs, leaburn and dykes sharing the 1 up front, kelman and godden to come on and finish - if we go down, we go down with a fight and trying to attack. I've supported NJ and still do but we have to change things up and get back on the front foot.1 -
Lol that’s fair.Chunes said:
To be fair mate, if you'd said the opposite I'd have fallen off my chair!Callumcafc said:
I’m reasonably confident he’ll turn out to be one of our best players by the end of the season and everyone will be hoping he comes back next year.charltonbob said:
Not going to happen, Clarke & Dykes probably decent signings FOR US, Luke Chambers just unbelievable nonsense from this football club. Sadly we're deep in the shit & I don't see a way out.ShootersHillGuru said:Not sure this Charlton team have what it takes to stay up. Deficiencies all over the pitch. Manager who every season goes through a period of wearing blinkers. Unless this week brings in some genuine quality then I think we’ll be back down with the dead men next season.
If I didn’t think so I would just say nothing.
There’s plenty of things that I have disagreed with this season - it’s just a case of choosing not to post “negatives” that have been covered ten times over by other people and I don’t think I’m adding anything new.3 -
A very good point ooahh, if we went up a season early, as the club has said, then promotion to the championship was clearly marked for this season, relegation would have us regressing more than just a season. It's a big trap door.oohaahmortimer said:Lady Luck was out of town we’ve been performing shit for ages , this result was inevitable considering the reality of what preceded it .
The bluff is over , we are genuinely inept all over the pitch with a minuscule spattering of quality .
The money spent on transfers that do not get much game time is appalling when you consider the mingeyness of the budget .
We have a manager whose histrionics/passion is all well and good when winning a bit but when you’re on the run we are it can only put the players on edge and make them even less likely to take risks, hence our crabbyness and backwards piddling about and no positive attacking intent from most , Campbell apart .
This season has been heading in one direction for a good while and yesterday many could see what those without rose tinted were pointing out a while back, the euphoria of promotion and that crest of a wave that rode us to a good start long gone.
To be beaten by the great unwashed from Zampa New Dirty Den ex East End North of the river scum is nothing new but the gulf in clubs is a joke. We have been a shambles for years on and off the pitch whilst our nearest and dearest are enjoying the best footballing times in their history .
The new norm is wank and we’re a year in front will become a year behind if we get relegated .
There is time to turn this around but it will require wholesale changes somewhere and a massive rethink because we’re on a one way street to league one as it stands .
A great opportunity could turn in to one of the biggest nause ups in Charlton times with plenty of them.
Keep supporting the boys, that’s all we can do as much as we’re fucking complete guff .4 -
Or a single left back in the academy that hasn’t been worth trying for a single minute.charltonbob said:
I don't know much about him other than he's had two lengthy lay offs with his back problem. Our problem is we need a LB/LWB NOW not by the end of the season. Playing just 45 minutes on saturday because we have to manage his minutes is just fucking ridiculous. If he can't play 90 minutes NOW why have we signed him ? I honestly don't think I've ever heard of a more ridiculous situation at this football club. I can't believe there isn't an experienced championship LB out there not getting games at his parent club that wouldn't improve our leaky left side.Callumcafc said:
I’m reasonably confident he’ll turn out to be one of our best players by the end of the season and everyone will be hoping he comes back next year.charltonbob said:
Not going to happen, Clarke & Dykes probably decent signings FOR US, Luke Chambers just unbelievable nonsense from this football club. Sadly we're deep in the shit & I don't see a way out.ShootersHillGuru said:Not sure this Charlton team have what it takes to stay up. Deficiencies all over the pitch. Manager who every season goes through a period of wearing blinkers. Unless this week brings in some genuine quality then I think we’ll be back down with the dead men next season.1 -
Can't wait until we are the 4th biggest club in London.
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‘4th biggest club in London, you’ll never sing that.’blackpool72 said:Can't wait until we are the 4th biggest club in London.
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It’s OK, we’ll be the 4th biggest in South London next year.4 -
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blackpool72 said:Can't wait until we are the 4th biggest club in London.
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He must have meant South London - fourth after the Nigels, the scum, and Bromley.0 -
If Millwall can do it, we can - still get bigger crowds than them now and then there’s Bournemouth…ValleyLocal said:
We have to be honest about it, with our meagre crowds nobody will ever want to spend money on players for us and that is the problem. Any funds we had went on league 1 players who are never good enough for the championship. Still we will get a different derby next year against Bromley. One thing is for sure, we need to keep Jones so we can play games against Maidstone and Dartford in 3 years time.DOUCHER said:Time to go 451/433- Tc and apter/tanto either wing, clarke and chambers full backs, leaburn and dykes sharing the 1 up front, kelman and godden to come on and finish - if we go down, we go down with a fight and trying to attack. I've supported NJ and still do but we have to change things up and get back on the front foot.4 -
The management coming out with that guff last week was one of the most comedy pie in the sky nonsenses since that guitar-bothering clown started spouting off tosh about European football when he took over.blackpool72 said:Can't wait until we are the 4th biggest club in London.
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Cloud cuckoo land and/ or empty platitudes.
Actions and tangible evidence is what we need not bizarre unsubstantiated pipe dream rubbish.
We're miles behind Millwall on and off the pitch and light years behind Crystal Palace despite the latter's current soap opera.
Build a competitive Championship squad and fucking shut up with nonsense like 4th biggest team in London. Not even the 4 biggest team in London Borough of Greenwich going by Saturday's clusterfuck.22 -
TBF we weren't far off that when Curbs was manager, in fact I think at one stage we were actually top of the London League, regarding results amongst all the London clubs in the Premier League.RodneyCharltonTrotta said:
The management coming out with that guff last week was one of the most comedy pie in the sky nonsenses since that guitar-bothering clown started spouting off tosh about European football when he took over.blackpool72 said:Can't wait until we are the 4th biggest club in London.
Buzzing
Cloud cuckoo land and/ or empty platitudes.
Actions and tangible evidence is what we need not bizarre unsubstantiated pipe dream rubbish.
We're miles behind Millwall on and off the pitch and light years behind Crystal Palace despite the latter's current soap opera.
Build a competitive Championship squad and fucking shut up with nonsense like 4th biggest team in London. Not even the 4 biggest team in London Borough of Greenwich going by Saturday's clusterfuck.
Seems like light years away now!5 -
Good luck selling tickets to watch this dross.DOUCHER said:
If Millwall can do it, we can - still get bigger crowds than them now and then there’s Bournemouth…ValleyLocal said:
We have to be honest about it, with our meagre crowds nobody will ever want to spend money on players for us and that is the problem. Any funds we had went on league 1 players who are never good enough for the championship. Still we will get a different derby next year against Bromley. One thing is for sure, we need to keep Jones so we can play games against Maidstone and Dartford in 3 years time.DOUCHER said:Time to go 451/433- Tc and apter/tanto either wing, clarke and chambers full backs, leaburn and dykes sharing the 1 up front, kelman and godden to come on and finish - if we go down, we go down with a fight and trying to attack. I've supported NJ and still do but we have to change things up and get back on the front foot.0 -
He’s right I was there they should have scored 6 or 7 and yes it was one sided. Men against boys I’m afraid.Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
Smack himfadgadget said:My Mate who is a toolbox season ticket holder ( yes i know ) said it was the most one sided derby he had seen in his lifetime and it should have been double the final score if they had took their chances . 3 -
Try and find one. It isn’t as easy as it lookscharltonbob said:
I don't know much about him other than he's had two lengthy lay offs with his back problem. Our problem is we need a LB/LWB NOW not by the end of the season. Playing just 45 minutes on saturday because we have to manage his minutes is just fucking ridiculous. If he can't play 90 minutes NOW why have we signed him ? I honestly don't think I've ever heard of a more ridiculous situation at this football club. I can't believe there isn't an experienced championship LB out there not getting games at his parent club that wouldn't improve our leaky left side.Callumcafc said:
I’m reasonably confident he’ll turn out to be one of our best players by the end of the season and everyone will be hoping he comes back next year.charltonbob said:
Not going to happen, Clarke & Dykes probably decent signings FOR US, Luke Chambers just unbelievable nonsense from this football club. Sadly we're deep in the shit & I don't see a way out.ShootersHillGuru said:Not sure this Charlton team have what it takes to stay up. Deficiencies all over the pitch. Manager who every season goes through a period of wearing blinkers. Unless this week brings in some genuine quality then I think we’ll be back down with the dead men next season.
If there was an experienced option available then we’d obviously have signed them. It’s like people think we are signing unfit/injury prone players on purpose. If that’s all that’s available then it’s a choice between that or signing a league 1 player that’s fit but probably not good enough3 -
Later upload than usual, sure people won't mind this time
https://youtu.be/bPyMqZKR1ho?si=w-1RB2BDkhxl2I7L 8 -
The bloke pre-match that said “I’d rather we got smashed 4-0 than got a 1-1 draw”, wonder if he still felt that way at the final whistle!!Braziliance said:Later upload than usual, sure people won't mind this timehttps://youtu.be/bPyMqZKR1ho?si=w-1RB2BDkhxl2I7L10 -
Your comment around last week's " Q & A" has been on my mind since Saturday's debacle, RCT.RodneyCharltonTrotta said:
The management coming out with that guff last week was one of the most comedy pie in the sky nonsenses since that guitar-bothering clown started spouting off tosh about European football when he took over.blackpool72 said:Can't wait until we are the 4th biggest club in London.
Buzzing
Cloud cuckoo land and/ or empty platitudes.
Actions and tangible evidence is what we need not bizarre unsubstantiated pipe dream rubbish.
We're miles behind Millwall on and off the pitch and light years behind Crystal Palace despite the latter's current soap opera.
Build a competitive Championship squad and fucking shut up with nonsense like 4th biggest team in London. Not even the 4 biggest team in London Borough of Greenwich going by Saturday's clusterfuck.
It's highly likely that the date was arranged for BEFORE the Millwall match so that difficult questions regarding the inevitable outcome of that derby would not be on the agenda.
Regarding the personnel involved, I've never trusted JR . Some of us are aware of the circumstances surrounding the departure of a loyal member of staff at our club a while ago that I wished from Day 1 had been "leaked "....since then, I wouldn't trust this man as far as I could "toss" him. But perhaps that's just my thoughts. Once again, not having an experienced CEO on site daily is to our detriment IMO.
How I wish that Gavin Carter was based in the UK with more day to day issues easier for him to deal with .
Along with all Lifers, I await positive news from the camp to give us some degree of hope for the remainder of this season.
Should the worst happen & League 1 welcomes us back come August, this week's actions /non actions could be cited as the most crucial of the season.
Not to forget that discussions re season ticket prices must soon be on the Board's " to do" list....10
