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POST-MATCH THREAD: West Bromwich Albion v Charlton Athletic: Tuesday 24th February 2026: KO 19:45
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It was an awful performance and not even the worst in the past month. Surely you can see this is a downwards trend we’ve tailed off massively when it matters mostForeverAddickted said:
Whilst days before we eeked out a draw against a team that cost £70m and have lost just the once in six... But Im sure we'll be facing Bromley next season, given we've been told by a few on here that we're going to drop into the bottom three aaaaany minute nowAberystwythAddick said:Looked second best against one of the worse teams in the league. The performances are not good enough8 -
We're grinding out results, the key is point(s), doesn't matter how we get them, just get them... I also like how you have conveniently changed performances to performance...AberystwythAddick said:
It was an awful performance and not even the worst in the past month. Surely you can see this is a downwards trend we’ve tailed off massively when it matters mostForeverAddickted said:
Whilst days before we eeked out a draw against a team that cost £70m and have lost just the once in six... But Im sure we'll be facing Bromley next season, given we've been told by a few on here that we're going to drop into the bottom three aaaaany minute nowAberystwythAddick said:Looked second best against one of the worse teams in the league. The performances are not good enough
Wonder who will be the first to complain if we try and match teams with style in this Division and lose horrendously7 -
not that convenient when you mentioned Southampton is it…ForeverAddickted said:
We're grinding out results, the key is point(s), doesn't matter how we get them, just get them... I also like how you have conveniently changed performances to performance...AberystwythAddick said:
It was an awful performance and not even the worst in the past month. Surely you can see this is a downwards trend we’ve tailed off massively when it matters mostForeverAddickted said:
Whilst days before we eeked out a draw against a team that cost £70m and have lost just the once in six... But Im sure we'll be facing Bromley next season, given we've been told by a few on here that we're going to drop into the bottom three aaaaany minute nowAberystwythAddick said:Looked second best against one of the worse teams in the league. The performances are not good enough
Wonder who will be the first to complain if we try and match teams with style in this Division and lose horrendously0 -
It was a v poor performance, but we're top of the relegation mini-league.AberystwythAddick said:
It was an awful performance and not even the worst in the past month. Surely you can see this is a downwards trend we’ve tailed off massively when it matters mostForeverAddickted said:
Whilst days before we eeked out a draw against a team that cost £70m and have lost just the once in six... But Im sure we'll be facing Bromley next season, given we've been told by a few on here that we're going to drop into the bottom three aaaaany minute nowAberystwythAddick said:Looked second best against one of the worse teams in the league. The performances are not good enough6 -
I was referring to you when you went from saying performances haven't been great, to suddenly having to stick to just performance, because you were once again reminded of Saturday.AberystwythAddick said:
not that convenient when you mentioned Southampton is it…ForeverAddickted said:
We're grinding out results, the key is point(s), doesn't matter how we get them, just get them... I also like how you have conveniently changed performances to performance...AberystwythAddick said:
It was an awful performance and not even the worst in the past month. Surely you can see this is a downwards trend we’ve tailed off massively when it matters mostForeverAddickted said:
Whilst days before we eeked out a draw against a team that cost £70m and have lost just the once in six... But Im sure we'll be facing Bromley next season, given we've been told by a few on here that we're going to drop into the bottom three aaaaany minute nowAberystwythAddick said:Looked second best against one of the worse teams in the league. The performances are not good enough
Wonder who will be the first to complain if we try and match teams with style in this Division and lose horrendously
Not difficult is it0 -
Strikers who turn 100% of their shots into goals sounds pretty good to me.MuttleyCAFC said:if we stay up, I think the midfield has to be the prority. The strikers are hard to judge when they get no service.
Seriously, I agree with you 100%. I hope Nathan does, too.3 -
Did you not read the part where I said and not even the worst in the past month?ForeverAddickted said:
I was referring to you when you went from saying performances haven't been great, to suddenly having to stick to just performance, because you were once again reminded of Saturday.AberystwythAddick said:
not that convenient when you mentioned Southampton is it…ForeverAddickted said:
We're grinding out results, the key is point(s), doesn't matter how we get them, just get them... I also like how you have conveniently changed performances to performance...AberystwythAddick said:
It was an awful performance and not even the worst in the past month. Surely you can see this is a downwards trend we’ve tailed off massively when it matters mostForeverAddickted said:
Whilst days before we eeked out a draw against a team that cost £70m and have lost just the once in six... But Im sure we'll be facing Bromley next season, given we've been told by a few on here that we're going to drop into the bottom three aaaaany minute nowAberystwythAddick said:Looked second best against one of the worse teams in the league. The performances are not good enough
Wonder who will be the first to complain if we try and match teams with style in this Division and lose horrendously
Not difficult is it0 -
Sorry will leave you to your sensationistic commentsAberystwythAddick said:
Did you not read the part where I said and not even the worst in the past month?ForeverAddickted said:
I was referring to you when you went from saying performances haven't been great, to suddenly having to stick to just performance, because you were once again reminded of Saturday.AberystwythAddick said:
not that convenient when you mentioned Southampton is it…ForeverAddickted said:
We're grinding out results, the key is point(s), doesn't matter how we get them, just get them... I also like how you have conveniently changed performances to performance...AberystwythAddick said:
It was an awful performance and not even the worst in the past month. Surely you can see this is a downwards trend we’ve tailed off massively when it matters mostForeverAddickted said:
Whilst days before we eeked out a draw against a team that cost £70m and have lost just the once in six... But Im sure we'll be facing Bromley next season, given we've been told by a few on here that we're going to drop into the bottom three aaaaany minute nowAberystwythAddick said:Looked second best against one of the worse teams in the league. The performances are not good enough
Wonder who will be the first to complain if we try and match teams with style in this Division and lose horrendously
Not difficult is it0 -
Terrible but great point given we came from behind.
This is why people call these games must win, when we're bad we're truly awful so would be nice to take advantage of those who are just as bad and take all 3 points and not make survival bloody harder for ourselves, but a points better than no points.
Collins looked good again when he came on, can get about the pitch a bit so makes for an excellent covering defender.
Lovely ball from Ramsay and a well taken goal from Dykes, see what happens when you dare to pass it forward to feet 😱
Losing Jones is a massive blow with 3 tough games in a row but sexy Sichenje got it covered.
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Your immense sarcasm manages to completely miss the point of the quote. They do work on them in training, what they don't do is actually use them in games. Now that might very well be a coaching issue but words to that effect have been said during pretty much every bad run of performances we've had under NJ so it isn't a coincidenceCharltonManor1966 said:
Do you mean they actually work on patterns of play in training???!!!fenaddick said:
"It was tough on me and Miles, we were quite isolated and weren't really doing our patterns of play we've been working on in training"fenaddick said:
Blimey, just think how bad we would be going forward if the team didn't do this?
Thank heavens that NJ has the foresight to actually think about patterns of play and getting the team up the pitch.
Where on earth would we be without this?4 -
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I remember being encouraged when we played brilliantly and lost to Leicester earlier in the year. I thought: 'if we can play like that all year we'll be fine'. But I soon realised that we aren't going to play like that all year, and it's actually a pretty bad sign if you can't pick up points when you play your best.
But it's a really good sign if you can grind out results when you're not at the races. I would love to see us go back to being a more aggressive team who presses high and takes a few more risks, but I completely understand why that isn't our approach at the moment. 12 more games to go.
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WBA are undoubtedly one of the worst teams in the division, there's no argument there and it is frustrating we couldn't beat them or play more aggressively but some context about their squad is needed. Trasnfermarkt values their squad at €68.53m and ours at €29.05m. That, of course, means they have some players capable of playing better than the team performances suggest. I think their two best performers last night were Campbell and Johnston. Campbell was a genuine bargain, he cost about €1.3m last summer. That is still more than we spent on a defender in that window, Sichenje has cost more. If you include loan fees, Johnston has got WBA a total of €4.7m which is more than we have spent on any single player this season and probably for a decade. He's also played a decent number of games for Celtic, European football and nearly 100 Championship games and is 26. We don't really have players of that age, with that pedigree. The 26 yr olds in our squad are Knibbs and JRC.
Was our football turgid and uninspiring? Of course it was. Should we be regularly beating teams with squad value over double ours? Of course not13 -
Golfie, whilst your concerns are valid, we really don't know what the transfer plans or budget are and I don't think that will be addressed by the board until we do or do not secure Championship safety. As I have said, it's early days but the signing of Sichenje is a step in the right direction, but let rip mate when we know where we finish and what we put together with regards to the squad at that point.golfaddick said:
I think it's a legitimate question to ask on here. Everyone is saying that we should be thankful for being where we are given our budget so I just ask.....what will our budget be next season ? Because if its the same as in the summer (and let's be honest we didnt spend any money in January apart from the BFK - who is raw & not experienced inEnglish football) then we can expect more of the same. I think we should be looking at more than just keeping our heads above water, because a few long injuries/ loss of form and its hello League 1.SouthLincsAddick said:
It’s this naivety and moaning which I think winds some people up. The first season after promotion is always the toughest as you have to upgrade most of the squad, all on a low budget. Next season we don’t have to upgrade the whole squad, while a lot of L1 players haven’t made the step up, there’s a backbone of a squad there that can compete, adding four or five quality players will improve us further, but it’s going to be small improvements every season. If you’re not happy with the owners and them wanting the club to be run in a sustainable way then please write them a letter rather than clogging up this forum with your moaning.golfaddick said:
So say we stay up......what's our aim for next season? 4th bottom again ? What will our budget be ? 3rd worse again ? Assuming Cardiff & Lincoln get promoted (no idea who will go up via the play offs) then I expect Lincoln's will be worse but Cardiff I imagine will be a lot better than ours & would be looking at mid table (like Stoke or Swaneea).ForeverAddickted said:Two years ago...
vs. Now...
Just getting the job done by any means necessary... We dont need to be impressive at this stage of the season, its not like we're going to have some late surge towards the Play-Offs, we don't need to win any plaudits - All that matters is getting points on the boards, and a few wins here and there... Whilst a good few are fixated on "how" we play, they might realise, in part, we're just replicating the needs to survive a relegation battle from a few years ago... A few even said we were basically relegated after that Lincoln draw.Oh and people even said in May 2024 that they didnt see us "evolving" under Jones...
Unless we take it seriously next season then I don't expect it to be much different to this season. And I wouldn't think too many would accept another season of hoofball with no desire to win a game of football5 -
Agreed.ShootersHillGuru said:
We won’t get away (if we do) of setting up like we currently do again next season. Three relegation slots this season with Wednesday relegated months ago. A poor Oxford and I think a few surprise teams struggling. Next year’s Championship will be a much tougher proposition. Setting up every week to keep a po8nt and nick something will eventually relegate us.The Red Robin said:
Because he doesn’t value it.ShootersHillGuru said:
Should have been addressed in January. It’s been an open sore ever since Nathan Jones took over but he won’t look at it for some bizarre reason. Crying out for someone that tries to control the game.MuttleyCAFC said:if we stay up, I think the midfield has to be the prority. The strikers are hard to judge when they get no service.1 -
Ok for NJ to say we started slow and outplayed in first half etc etc as if that isn’t our norm. But it is our norm now.2
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Oh, you've raised your head again AberystwythAddick, you and a few others spent the entire first period of the Southampton game informing everyone how shit we were as a team or a club, then Carey equalised and you must have gone shopping with the wife, because we didn't hear you calling them shit after that. You are one of a number on here who's sport is ripping into the club as soon as we put in a poor performance or defeat. I'm hoping that you live where your user name suggests because I'd rather have people supporting the club at the Valley, but you and others continually slate a club that has lost once in the previous six games.AberystwythAddick said:
Did you not read the part where I said and not even the worst in the past month?ForeverAddickted said:
I was referring to you when you went from saying performances haven't been great, to suddenly having to stick to just performance, because you were once again reminded of Saturday.AberystwythAddick said:
not that convenient when you mentioned Southampton is it…ForeverAddickted said:
We're grinding out results, the key is point(s), doesn't matter how we get them, just get them... I also like how you have conveniently changed performances to performance...AberystwythAddick said:
It was an awful performance and not even the worst in the past month. Surely you can see this is a downwards trend we’ve tailed off massively when it matters mostForeverAddickted said:
Whilst days before we eeked out a draw against a team that cost £70m and have lost just the once in six... But Im sure we'll be facing Bromley next season, given we've been told by a few on here that we're going to drop into the bottom three aaaaany minute nowAberystwythAddick said:Looked second best against one of the worse teams in the league. The performances are not good enough
Wonder who will be the first to complain if we try and match teams with style in this Division and lose horrendously
Not difficult is it15 -
Am I the only one who thought Ramsay's pass was meant for Fev but he over hit it? Not that it bothers me in the slightest of course 😂1
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Norwich can also win at Leicester. Oxford can also win at West Brom, the drew at boro last week. A draw in that game would be a good outcome for uspaulsturgess said:Such a huge point but just looking ahead to this weekend
Leicester play Norwich - winnable
West Brom at Oxford - winnable
us V Wrexham - likely defeat
if those 3 things occur we’ll still be sucked right back to the coal face of it
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The Red Robin said:
Agreed.ShootersHillGuru said:
We won’t get away (if we do) of setting up like we currently do again next season. Three relegation slots this season with Wednesday relegated months ago. A poor Oxford and I think a few surprise teams struggling. Next year’s Championship will be a much tougher proposition. Setting up every week to keep a po8nt and nick something will eventually relegate us.The Red Robin said:
Because he doesn’t value it.ShootersHillGuru said:
Should have been addressed in January. It’s been an open sore ever since Nathan Jones took over but he won’t look at it for some bizarre reason. Crying out for someone that tries to control the game.MuttleyCAFC said:if we stay up, I think the midfield has to be the prority. The strikers are hard to judge when they get no service.Easier to quote your post than find SHG's but whilst I agree... a year is a long time in the EFL, rather than the Premier League - Both Derby / Preston have gone from surviving relegation by a point, to having one eye this season on the Play-Offs, Oxford of course have gone the other way, from finishing 17th to likely relegation (maybe we want to avoid that position this year on thought)Even about a year and a half ago, no one would have thought that we'd have gone from a League One relegation battle, to winning the Play-Offs in a single season... The EFL (all three Divisions) is f**king weird, you can have a great campaign one year, and then for some reason, do utter shit the next and visa versa. Who knows what'll happen, so dont think its overly worth thinking / worrying about for now.Lincoln for example have swapped 11th for 2nd... Da f**k is all that about.2 -
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It makes you wonder if they knew they were on borrowed time with Lloyd hence Collins signing.... But he looks more than capable but relying on Gillispey is a little troublesome. Has anyone got an update on Burke coming back?0
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Tailed off massively when it matters most? Really?AberystwythAddick said:
It was an awful performance and not even the worst in the past month. Surely you can see this is a downwards trend we’ve tailed off massively when it matters mostForeverAddickted said:
Whilst days before we eeked out a draw against a team that cost £70m and have lost just the once in six... But Im sure we'll be facing Bromley next season, given we've been told by a few on here that we're going to drop into the bottom three aaaaany minute nowAberystwythAddick said:Looked second best against one of the worse teams in the league. The performances are not good enoughLast six game form table we are 14th - we've taken 9 points from those six games, only losing once.So averaging 1.5 points per game for the last six whereas over the previous 28 games we averaged 1.14 points per game.Yes, it's not pretty to watch but I couldn't give a flying f*ck at the moment as long as we stay up - that is all that matters this season (and always has) and the sooner we can secure survival the sooner we can start to plan our summer recruitment. Everyone knows, including Jones, that we need to bring in better players.25 -
Bizarrely Mikey Johnston hadn't started the previous 3 games for WBA. I'd read various comments from WBA fans baffled by that, and after last night I'm also confused, as he easily looked their best player.
Indeed we've played a number of excellent wingers in recent weeks in Johnston, Scienza, Fatawu and Azeez.5 -
I think on reflection it will now be interesting what summer recruitment plans emerge.Plenty of comments on here suggesting we had (last year) invested well / building a future squad but now it looks limited.Do we expect wholesale rebuilding again?0
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Ah......wingers eh ? Those clubs are so outdated. They need to get with the times and employ the wingback system. 2 for the price of one then 😀killerandflash said:Bizarrely Mikey Johnston hadn't started the previous 3 games for WBA. I'd read various comments from WBA fans baffled by that, and after last night I'm also confused, as he easily looked their best player.
Indeed we've played a number of excellent wingers in recent weeks in Johnston, Scienza, Fatawu and Azeez.2 -
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The total lack of competence, ambition or tactics on show last night left me with only one conclusion - Russell Slade had returned.1
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5 touches in the box and no corners. Seems hard to argue that one half is better than the other with those numbers. No clutching at straws please, time to move on to another plan
The players look lost trying to make this one work2 -
Ramsay and Bell got very bad fouls yesterday and just jumped straight back up. Not saying go all Portsmouth/Arsenal style, but look after yourself and the team.1
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