MATCH THREAD : Dartford V Charlton Athletic : Pre-Season : 3rd July 2026 : KO 19:45

RonnieMoore said:

Patrick Bauer Joined Cambridge 

Hope he kicks Ahadme in training (only joking Gas  )

To much high ball second half .. not as good as the first half performance, TC should have scored …. But when you look at the list of players missing Doc Edwards Godden Kaminski Mbick Kanu Dixon Collins Bell …. Shows how many players we got and the need to trim the squad to get better quality in .. once again the service to the front men was poor and that’s something like NJ has said has to be brought in .. 

sam3110 said:

DamoNorthStand said:

blimey Redmond is 32 - thats nothing nowadays. He has played hundreds of games in the Prem, and only a couple of years ago had a very successful loan in Turkey. Could do a lot worse.

Can he play as the advanced RWB as a back up?

Not sure we need him to, we played 4 at the back both halves.

It's only preseason but it might be a shift in shape that indicates this "evolution" that Jones is on about

Interesting.... 4-2-3-1? Maybe like the England formation? 

That was an abysmal watch.

I wasn't expecting my knack for running into the worst fans to start at a pre-season friendly in Dartford.

After the game, one of their lot seemed to think that locals had priority boarding and away fans had to wait at the bus stop until all Dartford fans had left the area. Queue him threatening to beat me up for having the audacity to already be on the bus before several other Dartford fans had even made it to the bus stop.

I told him to bring it on, at which point his mate piped up saying that he could do what he wanted as he had kids with him. Perhaps he should be setting a better example for his children, who were of course gobby as hell and weren't happy that I was speaking back to their father. Naturally, the guy was all mouth and went straight to the back of the bus instead of starting the fight that he wanted.

According to his kids, he was upset that Dartford had lost. However, I think we have more to be upset about than they do after that performance.

charlton_hero said:

Aimless long balls into Kelman and TC in the second half, Redmond probably one of our brighter players. Impressed with the directness of Fullah and Mwamba in the first half.

I hope we’ve seen the end of TC playing anywhere but on the wing. 

Just a fairly important point. Alex Mitchell wore the 4 shirt in the second half.

He had a good game with some important tackles. Same with Keenan Gough.

Apter covered a lot of ground in the first half and was covering back as well as getting forward.

None of the named subs warmed up let alone got on the pitch.

Crusty54 said:

Just a fairly important point. Alex Mitchell wore the 4 shirt in the second half.

He had a good game with some important tackles. Same with Keenan Gough.

Apter covered a lot of ground in the first half and was covering back as well as getting forward.

None of the named subs warmed up let alone got on the pitch.

How could you get a fairly important point so wrong?

bolloxbolder said:

Crusty54 said:

Just a fairly important point. Alex Mitchell wore the 4 shirt in the second half.

He had a good game with some important tackles. Same with Keenan Gough.

Apter covered a lot of ground in the first half and was covering back as well as getting forward.

None of the named subs warmed up let alone got on the pitch.

How could you get a fairly important point so wrong?

For those of us at the ground there were clearly several errors on shirt numbers. Alex Mitchell was a named sub. His shirt number last season was 4 and several of the players were wearing their's.

Several of the Charlton supporters beside me confirmed my comment.

After all Dan Kanu scored the goal according to the Dartford announcer and the Charlton team sheet.