POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic v Norwich City: Saturday 21st March 2026: KO 15:00

Southendaddick said:

What is our record like when we have these kids for a quid and £5 to get in games, we always seem to lose…

No issues with the day trippers some of them might come back but the first time I have seen a kids buggy brought to a game before 😂

NabySarr said:

Sword65pf said:

NabySarr said:

PragueAddick said:

valleynick66 said:

cafc_se7 said:

JoshAddick said:

The scapegoating of TC is an absolute disgrace. During ‘academy week’ aswell.

Chants of ‘fucking useless’ and ‘he’s fucking shit’, whilst also getting booed when he wasn’t subbed, and jeered when he was subbed. It’s embarrassing.

This is a lad who joined our academy at the age of 8 and has stayed with us throughout, massively contributing to our promotion last season. Give your head a wobble if you’re one of the ones giving him stick week in week out

Add to that his first full season at this level. I get the frustrations around areas of his game but the abuse is disgraceful! No wonder he doesn’t celebrate with the fans when he scores, I wouldn’t. 

I can’t see this conclusion. 

He simply doesn’t score enough (none of his team mates either)  to claim any sort of pattern to how he celebrates.

FWIW I’d not be surprised if he’s had his head turned and he’s off in the summer. 

“Having his head turned”. As in his agent being able to say, “look Tyreece you really dont need to take that shit from your own fans each week. Let me get you a move to a club that wants to play you as a winger”. 

? 

I hate agents, but could hardly blame this one for saying that to his client.

Would be a shock to many of our fans that don’t rate him, but if TC moves in the summer it won’t be to league 1 or league 2. Would be plenty of championship interest 

Well if that’s how it pans out and he’s as good as some would have people believe, we should be getting a lot of money for him? To help with the squad build. 

Only a year left on his deal, so although it would probably be a 7 figure fee it wouldn’t be that significant. I’d much rather we got him on a new contract and kept developing him 

golfaddick said:

IAgree said:

I have had doubts about the whole wingback system and some aspects of Nathan Jones tactics, selections and style of play. I fully admit it’s not pretty at times, although there are flashes of more entertaining play.

However,

He got us promoted from the horror that is league one after a truly dreadful decade - I know this isn’t something which altogether excuses mistakes now, but this is really recent and a real achievement 

He has kept us up when the step from League One to the Championship is larger than ever. Frankly I would rather stay up and get the points than play pretty football and be back in league one! Although I don’t think it’s an either or situation- It’s still in essence a L1 team.

I think it’s fairly obvious that the owners are in it for the long haul and have spent money where and when it matters. They are clearly still learning however. I would far rather have sustainable development than the reckless spending and boom and bust of some of our competitors, especially after the last decade.

I have no problem whatsoever with discussion, debate about the manager, players tactics etc - it’s a football forum after all!

I do find reminiscence for football two or three decades ago very irritating however. I also find the borderline glee from some lifers when we don’t turn in a good performance baffling. Especially since some freely admit they no longer attend, often appearing to revel in a “ I told you so’ repetition of the obvious. We know we need a better team and recruitment, we know we need greater depth, we know we need some finishers and we know we need  more flexibility from the manager of occasions. Personally I think if we stay up, carefully build a championship squad and make sustainable investments, that at least some of those concerns will abate 

Don't know why you just didnt name me as it was quite obvious who you were referring to. 

But anyway........

Having seen the extended highlights on Sky my take on the game is that -

We were lucky only to have conceded 1 
It was not a pen.
No clear cut chances from any of our players.

And to address a couple of other points.

I think we've been lucky this season to be in a division where 1 team was relegated from the off by having such a big points deduction and then not being able to recruit effectively. Then we were thrown another bonus of having another team deducted points. Without those 2 events we would be in the bottom 4 & struggling to stay up.

Cant wait for this season to end and to see to recruitment planned during the summer. I know I won't get my wish of signing exciting goalscoring attack minded players but at least we should be able to out bid Lincoln to a few stodgy pass it sideways midfielders.

What a time to be alive.

NabySarr said:

sam3110 said:

MarcusH26 said:

Will be interesting to see how we set up against Ipswich without Clarke who's become key for us, hopefully have Sichenje back by then and then Ramsay to RWB. Wouldn't fancy Fevrier against Jack Clarke or Jaden Philogene

I could see us going

Ramsay, Jones, Coady, Bell, Chambers

If no-one is fit in time for the game.

One thing we will never do (and shouldn’t even think of doing) is removing Jones from the middle of the back 3 

guinnessaddick said:

LargeAddick said:

Question. When they had two players go down ‘injured’ and they had treatment on the pitch when subsequently substituted why were the subs not made to wait 30 seconds before coming on?

Isn’t the 30 secs for players in case they have feinted injury and had “treatment”?  So if they are actually injured and they go off, the 30 secs isn’t imposed.

MuttleyCAFC said:

thickandthin63 said:

The referee today was either
1)Registered blind
2)too cowardly to award the penalty
3)Bent

There is no way that is not a penalty he was 5 yards away,perfect view,also referees assistant,what a joke,they dont assist,just give offsides and throw ins,even on throw ins any 50-50 calls they wait for the ref to give the decision.
I am not moaning about the result,Norwich where good,they found space,passed the ball quickly and accurately,we did not.There goal should have been prevented but was not closed down,we did miss opportunities to score,but overall the better team won.This is the standard we must achieve to remain in this league and compete.I dont really think we are that far away,we have the defenders,we have the battling midfielders,in Kelman we have a striker who could well come good,plus Kanu coming back.We need the cool calculating midfielders who can put their foot on the ball and play at their pace,e.g. Norwich nos.21 and 25 who never seem hurried.They would cost money,so I await with baited breath the summer transfer dealings.

I think it was more option 2. The ref deemed the tug on the arm to be not that hard. He completely forgot to question why their player was tugging his arm at all but he was that sort of ref. As Nathan Jones said, that was a foul anywhere else on the pitch. That explains it. I said to my brother he was going to ignore their time wasting at the end and he did. You can sort of get a feel for these idiots. 

I did have a line in recent seasons that we can't complain about the refs too much in League One because it is our fault we were in League One. We have gone up and the standard of refereeing is just as bad, if not worse. I think there is a crisis in refereeing generally, even at the higher levels. It is sad as it takes away from the game. I am a great believer in punishment for poor refs and I hope yesterday's gets that. He deserves it.

ForeverAddickted said:

Stuart_the_Red said:

Would love to know what NJ was saying to the Norwich manager on the pitch at full-time!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Championship/comments/1s0dks3/nathan_jones_claims_that_philippe_clement/

Henry Irving said:

Best team won.

Yes, we hit the bar and should have had a pen but for all our hard graft we weren't as good as Norwich.

Take the loss, take the break, come back fresh and take the three points we need to stay up.

ForeverAddickted said:

For context this is the clip that Nathan Jones was unhappy about... and I get it, even the Norwich assistant has to tell Clement that he needs to go and acknowledge him

https://www.reddit.com/r/Championship/comments/1s0kj05/the_full_time_incident_between_philippe_clement/

thickandthin63 said:

The referee today was either
1)Registered blind
2)too cowardly to award the penalty
3)Bent

There is no way that is not a penalty he was 5 yards away,perfect view,also referees assistant,what a joke,they dont assist,just give offsides and throw ins,even on throw ins any 50-50 calls they wait for the ref to give the decision.
I am not moaning about the result,Norwich where good,they found space,passed the ball quickly and accurately,we did not.There goal should have been prevented but was not closed down,we did miss opportunities to score,but overall the better team won.This is the standard we must achieve to remain in this league and compete.I dont really think we are that far away,we have the defenders,we have the battling midfielders,in Kelman we have a striker who could well come good,plus Kanu coming back.We need the cool calculating midfielders who can put their foot on the ball and play at their pace,e.g. Norwich nos.21 and 25 who never seem hurried.They would cost money,so I await with baited breath the summer transfer dealings.