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POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic v Preston Nth End: Saturday 11th April 2026: KO 15:00

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  • ro_addick
    ro_addick Posts: 316
    Zulu said:
    Why is it that teams can scythe us open at will at the Valley?
    Because we're just not good enough by a country mile...all over the pitch. We've now been well and truly found out by every other team in this Division...and now duly being taken to the cleaners.
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 12,035
    1 point from a (very much) possible 9.
    I think we’re still safe but this is terrible form.
    There is absolutely no logic after today’s results that suggests that 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 33,617
    We are 25-1 to go down currently, that feels massive odds
    Wasnt it 50-1 the other week?
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,276
    msomerton said:
    Off_it said:
    That's it then. Blown it. We're down. We're not going to get another point all season, whilst a couple of the teams below us are already "safe". White flags going up all over the show.

    At least that's what I'm reading on this thread. But then I look at the table and wonder if any of the teams below us would love to swap places with us still ....... hmmm.

    Grow some bollocks you ridiculously weak and spineless bunch.
    No that would not, if meant having our current form. 
    Nope, read that a few times now and it still doesn't make any sense. But I probably get the gist - you think a team 5 points below us with 4 games to go wouldn't want to swap places. Fair enough. *makes mental note.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 33,617
    ct_addick said:
    That Preston save at the end sums it up…defender tries to clear and going in and hits their keeper who does not know where it is….then you start thinking our luck is running out…simple now…if we lose next week I can see us going down 
    Wasn't that one of only two efforts actually on target second half, Docherty shot being the other. 
  • paulsturgess
    paulsturgess Posts: 4,250
    Are we re-living 19/20?
  • crookester
    crookester Posts: 1,499
    A game lacking in quality, won by the slightly less bad team. Frustrating as we started so well, up til their goal it was up there with our best performances of the season. Carey was really poor today and Chambers not much better.

    Docherty was our mom and is looking a better cdm option than Coventry at the moment. Fevrier and Campbell were good in parts but Bell and Ramsay both looked uncharacteristically shaky.

    Fullah showed that he's still raw, had some good moments but could easily have ended up responsible for two goals. Dykes ineffective today, probably should have come off for Leaburn instead of the weird "formation" we ended up with.

    I think we'll crawl across the line but we'll have made really hard work of it. I said after the Bristol game that I thought we'd end up picking the points we need from away games, where the other team are expected to win, because of the way Jones sets us up.

    And last thing... Fevrier's corners were so much better than Carey's
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 5,351
    Season ticket sales might be slow this week 😉☹️
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 4,018
    Jones will have to watch himself now, results are  not good.

    Decided to go with a slightly more attacking team and it worked out no better. You can see why he plays the negative football he does.

    Seriously unimpressed with most of the players.


  • peterreeves
    peterreeves Posts: 1,164
    We need to beat Wednesday or get 3 draws to survive. However, the players look devoid of ideas and confidence. 

    Nathan needs to change tactics immediately as nothing is working and playing Ibby at this stage was crazy in my opinion. 

    I hope Coady can play next week as he might be the one to get us to limp across the line. 

    Relegation would be a disaster but it's at the business end of a season where you need quality but with the ridiculously low budget we never bought any....thats mostly on the owners and a little bit of Nathan regarding tactics or the lack of them. 

    Still think we can do it but it's going to be very very close. 







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  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 17,653
    ct_addick said:
    That Preston save at the end sums it up…defender tries to clear and going in and hits their keeper who does not know where it is….then you start thinking our luck is running out…simple now…if we lose next week I can see us going down 
    Wasn't that one of only two efforts actually on target second half, Docherty shot being the other. 
    11 shots, 3 on target in the second half. Won’t include that defenders almost own goal. A few of those were blocked but you’d still expect more with 3 strikers on the pitch at the end 
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 25,302
    Off_it said:
    That's it then. Blown it. We're down. We're not going to get another point all season, whilst a couple of the teams below us are already "safe". White flags going up all over the show.

    At least that's what I'm reading on this thread. But then I look at the table and wonder if any of the teams below us would love to swap places with us still ....... hmmm.

    Grow some bollocks you ridiculously weak and spineless bunch.
    What a charming man you are . 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 71,592
    I didn't like our last 20 minutes tactics at all, as we ended up with 3 strikers ( plus Berry later on) in the box, plus Lloyd Jones at times, but had nobody to create anything. And our 4 attackers just got in each other's way.

    Plus it left us so vulnerable to the counter attack, a better team would have finished us off with 15 to go. It felt like the desperation tactics you used in added time, not when you have plenty of time to go.

    I was really surprised TC was replaced with Leaburn,  as it took any the only player with some pace.

    And why isn't Chambers playing wide like a normal wingback? Instead he's sitting on midfield,  pinging it around, but providing little width. Or defensive cover down his side.
  • Danny Addick
    Danny Addick Posts: 4,089
    That was a difficult result but we were much better than we have been. 
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 25,302
    Are we re-living 19/20?
    We shouldn’t be with this squad . There’s hardly any injuries and we’ve not got a goal scorer who’s decided to go on strike like last time but performances and results don’t lie.  
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 17,653
    I didn't like our last 20 minutes tactics at all, as we ended up with 3 strikers ( plus Berry later on) in the box, plus Lloyd Jones at times, but had nobody to create anything. And our 4 attackers just got in each other's way.

    Plus it left us so vulnerable to the counter attack, a better team would have finished us off with 15 to go. It felt like the desperation tactics you used in added time, not when you have plenty of time to go.

    I was really surprised TC was replaced with Leaburn,  as it took any the only player with some pace.

    And why isn't Chambers playing wide like a normal wingback? Instead he's sitting on midfield,  pinging it around, but providing little width. Or defensive cover down his side.
    To create the space TC exploited in the first 15 mins today and first half on Monday. Also allows us to play two midfielders high up the pitch. It won’t always work but I do like it 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 33,617
    Croydon said:
    Fullah may be one for the future but he is not ready for this league. Should not be taking punts on youngsters when we're not yet safe
    I’m not trying to dig Ibby out but if TC had given the balls away in the positions he did today he would’ve got disgusting abuse. They scored from 1 and could’ve got another 2 from him losing possession in terrible areas 
    Don't know why you are using TC as a comparison because if Doc, JRC, Carey, Berry, Bell etc etc had made those errors they'd have got dogs abuse too. The difference between Ibby and them, including TC, is that he's an 18 year old kid with a handful of first team appearances under his belt whereas the others are not and maybe he shouldn't have been put in that position by NJ although I can see why NJ brought him on, to try and give us a spark.

    Why does what might or might not have happened if it were TC have to be shoehorned into everything?
  • ct_addick said:
    Shades of 2019 /2020….Supporting this club is torture at times 
    And for those of us who are older 1971/72 as well. 
  • Charlton and on
    Charlton and on Posts: 1,107
    4 to go, 5 above the drop. Highly unlikely Oxford win 50% of their games. Even more unlikely that Leicester win 75%.

    We should still get a couple more points too. You get points in unexpected places in football and sometimes lose when you thought you might win. 

    I hope the players have more character than the bed wetters on here. 
  • kinveachyaddick
    kinveachyaddick Posts: 4,197
    Still it was great to see Berry come on and influence the game with zero 

    shouldn’t be near the matchday squad but is Jones’ old mate 

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  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 13,323
    Off_it said:
    That's it then. Blown it. We're down. We're not going to get another point all season, whilst a couple of the teams below us are already "safe". White flags going up all over the show.

    At least that's what I'm reading on this thread. But then I look at the table and wonder if any of the teams below us would love to swap places with us still ....... hmmm.

    Grow some bollocks you ridiculously weak and spineless bunch.

    There's negativity but not sure I've seen  a single comment saying were definitely down?
  • boggzy
    boggzy Posts: 3,752
    edited April 11
    Said for 5 or 6 weeks that I can see us going down at Swansea.

    We started so bloody well today.

    Been saying 'four more points' until the recent draw. It's the final three that is the problem. I can easily see us getting no more, but as ever hope to god I'm wrong.

    IF we stay up, the owners pumping money into next season vs doing the bare minimum and keeping Jones sticking with the 'keep it tight and nick one in the second half'/ 'bypass the midfield' type of play is altogether another conversation. Although we will obviously go down if the latter is the case.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 35,523
    Jayajosh said:
    We’ve only scored more than one goal five times this season, let that sink in. We are ‘one goal Chartlon’ and the Championship’s gift. 
    Same as Sheff Wed. We are slightly better in the fact we have scored 3 goals twice. Sheff Wed have scored 2 goals in 5 games.

    But we have kept plenty of clean sheets so that's alright then. 
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 12,035
    4 to go, 5 above the drop. Highly unlikely Oxford win 50% of their games. Even more unlikely that Leicester win 75%.

    We should still get a couple more points too. You get points in unexpected places in football and sometimes lose when you thought you might win. 

    I hope the players have more character than the bed wetters on here. 

    Don’t agree with this part. Think they are more than capable of that
  • gmantaxi
    gmantaxi Posts: 446
    Lose at Wednesday and we are fucked !
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,468
    Yet another pony team comes to The Valley and wins. Glad the last game is on TV, so I don’t have to sit through any more dross football at our home ground. 

    If we can see it, surely NJ can. 
    Don’t start TC
    Always start Godden if possible 
    Carey is invisible, don’t bother. 
    Play to go forward -  not sideways and back
    Don’t take too many touches - gamble. 
    Practice corners and FK - we are awful. 
  • MrBurns
    MrBurns Posts: 1,732
    4 to go, 5 above the drop. Highly unlikely Oxford win 50% of their games. Even more unlikely that Leicester win 75%.

    We should still get a couple more points too. You get points in unexpected places in football and sometimes lose when you thought you might win. 

    I hope the players have more character than the bed wetters on here. 
    Oxford have Wednesday to play and Millwall last game of the season. If Millwall have playoffs secured they will rest players for that game  
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 35,523
    edited April 11
    mendonca said:
    We'll be okay, have you seen Portsmouth's run-in?

    😮
    Beating Middlesbrough isn't the end of the world, given how they've fallen off a cliff with their promotion push
    But just need to hope that this is more of a flash in the pan for Portsmouth rather than rejuvination
    Pompey play Leicester next week when we play Sheff Wed. They also play their game in hand (against Ipswich) this coming Tuesday. 

    If we lose next Sat just hope to God that Pompey dont beat Leicester otherwise we will be in big trouble.

    And Oxford's last 2 matches are against Sheff Wed & Millwall. 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 99,219
    Yet another pony team comes to The Valley and wins. Glad the last game is on TV, so I don’t have to sit through any more dross football at our home ground. 

    If we can see it, surely NJ can. 
    Don’t start TC
    Always start Godden if possible 
    Carey is invisible, don’t bother. 
    Play to go forward -  not sideways and back
    Don’t take too many touches - gamble. 
    Practice corners and FK - we are awful. 
    Wot? - Nearly every chance we created in the first half came from TC
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 17,653
    4 to go, 5 above the drop. Highly unlikely Oxford win 50% of their games. Even more unlikely that Leicester win 75%.

    We should still get a couple more points too. You get points in unexpected places in football and sometimes lose when you thought you might win. 

    I hope the players have more character than the bed wetters on here. 

    Don’t agree with this part. Think they are more than capable of that
    If we presume they beat Wednesday which of Derby, Wrexham or Millwall do you think they beat?