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Jamaica world cup qualifiers - TC, Anderson and Bell called up for Mar 2026 squad (p7)

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  • Crispywood
    Crispywood Posts: 1,552
    “Experiment has failed” and “realistically he’s never going to make it at Charlton”. To be blunt, have some patience. He’s only 21, pretty inexperienced, has completely changed his way of life to try and be successful here. 

    In my opinion, it’s still too early to say he/we have failed and that he’s never going to be a decent player for us. 
    The fact he has managed to make it to this level growing up in Jamaica and moving to England on his own is incredibly brave and impressive for a young lad I’m not taking that away from him. 

    But strictly looking at it from a footballing perspective we’re talking about a player who at struggled on loan at Crawley, and yes hes only 21 but thats only 1 year younger than a Leaburn, TC, 3 days younger than Anderson and he’s older than Kanu etc.

    For every 1 academy graduate that makes it you get 10-20 Roddy’s Vennings etc who don’t.

    He’s arguably one of the best personalities at the club from the pre-season clips and I hope he has a great career and not saying he can’t go on to do good things, but going head over heart what is there to suggest he’s going to make it at Charlton. 
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,618
    Ooh, that's a swanky kit. Might treat myself and my daughter to one of those to wear this summer, if they qualify, and get Campbell on the back.

    My 10-year-old daughter took a real shine to TC, for some reason, when I flew her home for the playoff final last May. She loves his song. She seems to have thing for the black boys as her favourite gladiator is Nitro, too!
    Please tell me that doesn't extend to Darnell Nurse... 😏 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 17,260
    “Experiment has failed” and “realistically he’s never going to make it at Charlton”. To be blunt, have some patience. He’s only 21, pretty inexperienced, has completely changed his way of life to try and be successful here. 

    In my opinion, it’s still too early to say he/we have failed and that he’s never going to be a decent player for us. 
    The fact he has managed to make it to this level growing up in Jamaica and moving to England on his own is incredibly brave and impressive for a young lad I’m not taking that away from him. 

    But strictly looking at it from a footballing perspective we’re talking about a player who at struggled on loan at Crawley, and yes hes only 21 but thats only 1 year younger than a Leaburn, TC, 3 days younger than Anderson and he’s older than Kanu etc.

    For every 1 academy graduate that makes it you get 10-20 Roddy’s Vennings etc who don’t.

    He’s arguably one of the best personalities at the club from the pre-season clips and I hope he has a great career and not saying he can’t go on to do good things, but going head over heart what is there to suggest he’s going to make it at Charlton. 
    The Crawley thing looked more unfortunate than anything else to me. He actually was playing ok for them and got his first goal and then went out to Jamaica and lost his place. Crawley’s form was poor and the manager went more defensive and then in January decided to sign a load of ex players. 

    He was meant to be going to a top end L2 team who played attacking football and ended up at a bottom end team. It just ended up not being the right fit, that can happen with loans 
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 22,638
    Dixon will be fine, he'll get a better loan next season and push on a lot, he's still a kid and his technical ability gives him a far higher ceiling than most young players. 

    As soon as we're safe I wouldn't mind seeing him and Mwamba on the bench and Fullah and Gough starting a couple of games, just to guage where we're at with some of these guys
  • sammy391
    sammy391 Posts: 4,007
    sam3110 said:
    Dixon will be fine, he'll get a better loan next season and push on a lot, he's still a kid and his technical ability gives him a far higher ceiling than most young players. 

    As soon as we're safe I wouldn't mind seeing him and Mwamba on the bench and Fullah and Gough starting a couple of games, just to guage where we're at with some of these guys
    This! 

    Get him more minutes towards the end of the season, alongside Fullah, Gough & others- he’ll be fine! 

    I really like Dixon, he has a lot about him - clearly a good lad, has ability and a real rawness to him. Think he could be an upgrade on TC if he gets minutes 
  • Crispywood
    Crispywood Posts: 1,552
    sammy391 said:
    sam3110 said:
    Dixon will be fine, he'll get a better loan next season and push on a lot, he's still a kid and his technical ability gives him a far higher ceiling than most young players. 

    As soon as we're safe I wouldn't mind seeing him and Mwamba on the bench and Fullah and Gough starting a couple of games, just to guage where we're at with some of these guys
    This! 

    Get him more minutes towards the end of the season, alongside Fullah, Gough & others- he’ll be fine! 

    I really like Dixon, he has a lot about him - clearly a good lad, has ability and a real rawness to him. Think he could be an upgrade on TC if he gets minutes 
    Imagine Dixon wasn’t signed from Jamaica and part of the academy and we went and signed a winger from a poor L2 side who managed 0 G/A in 14 league games and said yep he’s going to be our new striker/winger we’d all lose our absolute heads. 

    He is a lovely lad but people are letting there liking for him overlook his footballing ability. System and circumstances may have not been favourable for him at Crawley but if you have a future for a championship side in the next 1-2 years you have to at the very minimum making it into a L2 side 
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 2,523
    1-0 vs New Calaadonia
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/c3ex882p4zjt

    They play DR Congo 31st March
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,517
    So we missed out on the headline supercallyarefantasticJamaicaareatrocious. 
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 22,638
    iaitch said:
    So we missed out on the headline supercallyarefantasticJamaicaareatrocious. 
    Wait a few days and you'll be able to replace Cally with Congo