POST-MATCH THREAD: Stoke City v Charlton Athletic: Saturday 5th September 2026: KO 12:30

eastterrace6168 said:

oohaahmortimer said:

0%    Top 2 
0%      3-4
1%    5-6
2.5%      7-8
4.5%    9-12
83%    13-21
9%       The big R 

Not a criticism @oohaahmortimer , but where do you get your percentages from mate...

From the same place that said 100% going down last season.

jimmymelrose said:

eastterrace6168 said:

oohaahmortimer said:

0%    Top 2 
0%      3-4
1%    5-6
2.5%      7-8
4.5%    9-12
83%    13-21
9%       The big R 

Not a criticism @oohaahmortimer , but where do you get your percentages from mate...

From the same place that said 100% going down last season.

5%     I must've forgotten that
95%   That's not true

RonnieMoore said:

Two new refs on the circuit Zac Kennard-Kettle and Andy Madley please no !!!!! 





 

Andy Madley has been a referee at the topend of the game for years. He was the ref for our PO Final in 2019.

Not sure what point you are making?

Pelling1993 said:

Interesting that Nathan said in his interview with Louis that our Net Spend this summer is £1.5m. Good from the financial/SCR perspective.

I read yesterday that Stoke’s summer net spend was £30m!! Didn’t realise they’d spent that kind of money in one transfer window. 

Pelling1993 said:

oohaahmortimer said:

eastterrace6168 said:

oohaahmortimer said:

0%    Top 2 
0%      3-4
1%    5-6
2.5%      7-8
4.5%    9-12
83%    13-21
9%       The big R 

Not a criticism @oohaahmortimer , but where do you get your percentages from mate...

50 years of analysing and studying Charlton and a lifetimes worth of football knowledge and nous and off the top of my head whilst having a shit at 7 in the morning 

Cheers, makes perfect sense…

oohaahmortimer said:

eastterrace6168 said:

oohaahmortimer said:

0%    Top 2 
0%      3-4
1%    5-6
2.5%      7-8
4.5%    9-12
83%    13-21
9%       The big R 

Not a criticism @oohaahmortimer , but where do you get your percentages from mate...

50 years of analysing and studying Charlton and a lifetimes worth of football knowledge and nous and off the top of my head whilst having a shit at 7 in the morning 

Makes perfect sense 🤦

king addick said:

Wont ever get a fair go with that fucking bald worm.

Time the mods here cracked down on the rampant baldism. Give this poster a warning now!

Stu_of_Kunming said:

CafcSteve said:

Pelling1993 said:

Interesting that Nathan said in his interview with Louis that our Net Spend this summer is £1.5m. Good from the financial/SCR perspective.

It massively goes against what some people were saying about the budget being the same as last summer’s one.

CafcSteve said:

Pelling1993 said:

Interesting that Nathan said in his interview with Louis that our Net Spend this summer is £1.5m. Good from the financial/SCR perspective.

It massively goes against what some people were saying about the budget being the same as last summer’s one.

Does it? I imagine the wage bill has increased significantly and we probably paid some hefty signing on fees. 

I wouldn't put much store by what the manager says post match, especially when he upset, annoyed & likely to say anything to anyone. 

On a similar note I've read on here people saying NJ said that the players threw him under a bus. Listening to Louis Mendez's interview  this morning he actually said the players sold him down the river. 

golfaddick said:

So, to sum it all up. It was just a bad day at the office and these things happen once in a while, especially when you come up against a very bad referee. 

So.....no point being glum. We have 10 points from 5 games, which is promotional form and would have bitten your arm off at the start of the season.

Finally, no need to panic. Things will be back on track Wednesday when we will rotate the squad again, bringing back the players that won the first 3 matches. We will put QPR to the sword, followed by the usual 3- points against Pompey.

I've got that right, yes ?  Good-o.

Good to see you are back on your meds, Golfie.

After a promising start, that was a catastrophic first half performance and, after the penalty, we were completely run over. If there weren’t games coming up in midweek, I think Stoke would have kept their foot on the gas and scored a couple more in the second half, especially when we went down to 10 men.

The midfield selection of Ouma, Skipp and JRC backfired horribly and they were completely overwhelmed by Galbraith and Soumare. McNamara’s sending off leaves us with potentially 9 players out for Wednesday and a big response is required against QPR. We then have Pompey on Saturday, who have a game-free midweek. 

We need to put this car crash of a game behind us - and quickly. Kudos to the travelling faithful, who supported the team gallantly to the end. That must have puzzled the Stoke supporters, who need very little excuse to turn on their own team.

I hope we can give Stoke a good seeing to when they come to The Valley. I find their players and supporters equally distasteful.

We played poorly after the 1st goal and didn’t deserve anything.  The ref was beyond inconsistent striving for incompetent.  

SomervilleAddick said:

KiwiValley said:

Ouma appears to be good at getting in the way (albeit it occasionally  of his own teammate) but he was shocking at distribution. He was an asset to Stoke and rightfully hooked.

I can’t tell whether he’s going to be good or not - the problem is the game is just to fast for him at them moment and it looks like he’s rushing everything. Hopefully he’ll improve as he sees more game time, but I looks like it could be rough for a while. 

Ouma was part of the play when we occasionally moved the ball quickly forward, and he has shown quick feet in close up situations with opposition. I just think he was unlucky to come up against a determined referee yesterday, then snatched at a clearance when he needn't have. I also prefer to keep an open mind for now, rather than condemning the bloke. I was more unhappy with Skipp for taking at least two long shots, high and wide. Hate to see that from any of ours.   

thickandthin63 said:

jimmymelrose said:

Gribbo said:

I'd say the 90s was the best era for football - still a physical game, but played at a good pace, with plenty.

Whether a team from today would beat their equivalent from that era is another question. Although, the 90s team would probably finish the game with about five men left on the pitch!

That depends on whether you had a ref from the 90s or from 2026. If you had a ref from the 90s, it would be the 2026 team who’d finish with fewer players because they’d be getting constantly booked for holding, shirt pulling and time wasting through feigning injury.

Besides, I think people are getting confused between the 70s and the 90s. Teams were dirty in the 70s; they’d often be intentionally fouling the opposition, but this impression comes from videos of Leeds and Chelsea online.  If you watch the Big Match revisited on TV you’ll see that it wasn’t really that bad.

In the 90s you still had the attitude that ’he was going for the ball’ when he caught the man and ’he played the ball first’ when he then caught the man, but there wasn’t so much of an intention to foul. 

Ultimately, the difference between the two eras was that before, players fouled with their legs and feet, and now they foul with their arms and hands.

Very good point about the methods of fouling,having watched football for over 70 years,I really dont recall in decades gone by players being pulled back,shirts being tugged etc.,cant think when this all started,probably with the influx of foreign players,same with the dramatics.

And it's fairly easy to stop as well. Any shirt pull or holding with hands or arms is an automatic yellow. And - sorry to say but arms round an attacker in the box is a pen and a card. Call me old fashioned but I am bored with cinical professional fouls and diving. Game's gone! Sort it.

DOUCHER said:

golfaddick said:

Stu_of_Kunming said:

CafcSteve said:

Pelling1993 said:

Interesting that Nathan said in his interview with Louis that our Net Spend this summer is £1.5m. Good from the financial/SCR perspective.

It massively goes against what some people were saying about the budget being the same as last summer’s one.

CafcSteve said:

Pelling1993 said:

Interesting that Nathan said in his interview with Louis that our Net Spend this summer is £1.5m. Good from the financial/SCR perspective.

It massively goes against what some people were saying about the budget being the same as last summer’s one.

Does it? I imagine the wage bill has increased significantly and we probably paid some hefty signing on fees. 

I wouldn't put much store by what the manager says post match, especially when he upset, annoyed & likely to say anything to anyone. 

On a similar note I've read on here people saying NJ said that the players threw him under a bus. Listening to Louis Mendez's interview  this morning he actually said the players sold him down the river. 

i'd sooner be sold down the river than thrown under a bus - if we want to keep with transport analogies i think the players could say NJ was reckless at the wheel and led them up shit creek without a paddle - lets hope Chalabah is back in with Cov and Carey on Wednesday - and Koumteio - to get back on track ! 

All aboard the Cackapoopoo choo-choo.