POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic v Portsmouth: Saturday 12th September 2026: KO 15:00

AndyG said:

MuttleyCAFC said:

Athletico Charlton said:

Getting really fed up with watching teams target Leaburn, week after week.  They can't cope with him and just resort to constant fouls everytime he gets the ball yet he gets absolutely zero protection from the referees.
Stoke was the absolute nadir of that, especially when Madley then booked Leaburn first.  It's a disgrace really.
Leaburn was superb today, hopefully he can get himself into a goal scoring groove, if he could get 12-15 this season we would have a very very valuable player on our hands.
Campbell was excellent too, swung a great ball for Alli to score (but he didn't), and put lots of other decent balls in. He isn't perfect but if he was he wouldn't have with us.
Thought Skipp and Coventry looked excellent together.  We badly miss a good number 10, Grant, JRC, Knibbs, Carey; none are good enough sadly.  Hopefully we find a way to fix that in January.
We have had an excellent start to the season.

It shows they are shit refs. The league gave us a decent ref against West Ham as it was West Ham. He could see Leaburn didn't foul Taty for the second. Today's ref would no way have done that as he has a preconceived idea that because Leaburn is big he fouls and can't be fouled. It isn;t bias against us, it is a bias against big, tall players but what can you do? These people shouldn't be reffing but if they didn't they wouldn't have enough refs. The penalty was ridiculous as the defender didn't even try to hide the push. He put both hands out and pushed. It isn't for the ref to decide how hard he pushed. He can't possibly know that. The player pushed, clearly pushed and Leaburn went down. What can you do with these clowns? No way between them that the officials could have missed that. Wankers. I think there is no better word for these type of officials who don't ref what is in front of them.

The ref today was the ref at West Ham lol

And there you have it & the main reason why I never complain about referees. You can't do anything about their decisions so just suck it up & hope you are on the right side of one the next game you play. 

Haven’t read the thread this evening as went out for my birthday after the game. A more frustrating game than Wednesday as Pompey are several levels of quality below QPR. A shame we didn’t take our chances in the first half. Second half I’ve not sure I’ve seen less happen in a half ever. As long as we don’t lose I’m fairly content. 

golfaddick said:

Athletico Charlton said:

Getting really fed up with watching teams target Leaburn, week after week.  They can't cope with him and just resort to constant fouls everytime he gets the ball yet he gets absolutely zero protection from the referees.
Stoke was the absolute nadir of that, especially when Madley then booked Leaburn first.  It's a disgrace really.
Leaburn was superb today, hopefully he can get himself into a goal scoring groove, if he could get 12-15 this season we would have a very very valuable player on our hands.
Campbell was excellent too, swung a great ball for Alli to score (but he didn't), and put lots of other decent balls in. He isn't perfect but if he was he wouldn't have with us.
Thought Skipp and Coventry looked excellent together.  We badly miss a good number 10, Grant, JRC, Knibbs, Carey; none are good enough sadly.  Hopefully we find a way to fix that in January.
We have had an excellent start to the season.

No chance Leaburn is getting anywhere near 12-15 goals. 7 games in = 0 goals. Not his fault really because he spends much of his time battling 2 defenders about 40 yards from goal. Even Kane would struggle to score in our team. 

I'd be surprised if any of our strikers score more than between 6 & 8 this season. Double figures is a pipe dream. 

Instead of constantly slamming the club...try and educate yourself a bit about football. How about this for some perspective?
"£329m spent and still no goals for sorry Tottenham" -Telegraph Sport.

Major said:

golfaddick said:

Athletico Charlton said:

Getting really fed up with watching teams target Leaburn, week after week.  They can't cope with him and just resort to constant fouls everytime he gets the ball yet he gets absolutely zero protection from the referees.
Stoke was the absolute nadir of that, especially when Madley then booked Leaburn first.  It's a disgrace really.
Leaburn was superb today, hopefully he can get himself into a goal scoring groove, if he could get 12-15 this season we would have a very very valuable player on our hands.
Campbell was excellent too, swung a great ball for Alli to score (but he didn't), and put lots of other decent balls in. He isn't perfect but if he was he wouldn't have with us.
Thought Skipp and Coventry looked excellent together.  We badly miss a good number 10, Grant, JRC, Knibbs, Carey; none are good enough sadly.  Hopefully we find a way to fix that in January.
We have had an excellent start to the season.

No chance Leaburn is getting anywhere near 12-15 goals. 7 games in = 0 goals. Not his fault really because he spends much of his time battling 2 defenders about 40 yards from goal. Even Kane would struggle to score in our team. 

I'd be surprised if any of our strikers score more than between 6 & 8 this season. Double figures is a pipe dream. 

Instead of constantly slamming the club...try and educate yourself a bit about football. How about this for some perspective?
"£329m spent and still no goals for sorry Tottenham" -Telegraph Sport.

Couldn't give a fuck about Spurs.

Only reason I can think of for the lack of subs was that NJ wanted to get a full 90 minutes into a lot of those legs, to try to build match fitness up to the next level. 
I think we need to persevere with Alli. First half he was excellent, good effort just before HT as well.
Good to see Skip settling in nicely and Cov's game has moved up a level this season.
Defensively and in midfield, I think we'll be fine. But something needs to click up front, ATM something is lacking, and I think we are definitely one quality player short in that department.

Jones didnt make any subs because he thought the players on the pitch, even though knackered, were more likely to score/less likely to concede than changing the shape slightly with players from the bench.

he just doesnt trust Knibbs, Rankin-Costello, Carey, Mwamba, Ouma, Nkeng to not fuck up of given 20-30 mins. 

2 home games in a week where we haven't had a single shot on target in the second half. Really disappointing as i felt Portsmouth were there for the taking.

No idea why Jones didn't make any other subs. If you're not going to bring on the likes of Nkeng, Knibbs, Mwamba for the last 15 minutes at home to Portsmouth when we're crying out for some fresh legs and a bit of an energy boost then what are they even doing here? You can't really moan about the scheduling and how tired players are and then only make 1 sub.

Positives are a clean sheet, no more injuries and we're still unbeaten at home, but i think that was 2 points dropped and the same problems as last season are still very evident.

Decent game,dont think anyone had a bad game.all put in a shift.f had to pick a stand out player it would be Skipp.we did however give the ball away needlessly a few times which could have cost us.For some reason,the ref didnt seem to think pushing someone with both arms on the back was a foul,apart from the obvious penalty,this happened a few times(both teams).I was right near the goal kick corner incident,how the lino missed the pompey touch will remain forever a mystery.The odffside incident was also keystone cops standard,Leaburn had no interest and walked back onside,Campbell who was miles onside,got the ball and was adjudged by the ref(Lino had not flagged)to be off side.Whereby ref obviously realised he had ballsed up ,and told lino to raise his flag to get him out of the shit.These refs get around £!20000 p.a. plus match fees,3 times now in the last 3 games,obvious errors could well have cost us points,surely the standard has to be raised.

Having only seen it at the match, it looked like as clear a penalty as you will ever see. 

After the last three matches there's an awful lot of "evening itself out over the season" to come... 

I say that as someone who detests VAR. 

The difference having a quality keeper has made this week is two points rather than zero.

Parky looks on shaky ground at Wrexham and his £10m keeper hasn’t exactly had a great start. Some of their fans are already calling for AO to be recalled, and if they do end up changing manager, you’d imagine whoever comes in would want to take a look at Arthur in January.

If there’s any way we can sort a pre-contract with him now, I’d be all over it.

cafc_se7 said:

Croydon said:

We look unfit. Players blowing at their arse from 60 mins onwards. The game is screaming for subs and we make one. 

2 wide men who can't cross. Alli was so poor after his miss. 

We made some great defensive additions in the summer but our inability to improve our attacking options means we are unable to break shit teams down. Horrific to watch.

Might be due to the fact Pompey had a week off and were fresh?!

I didnt say they looked fitter, I said we looked unfit. 

 Leaburn and Campbell have looked dead on their feet after an hour of every match, and Alli was the same yesterday. 

I thought Cafc played good football 1st half with decent build up and some shots on target. TBF to Alli he tried to cushion the ball into the net from about the only cross from TC that found a red shirt. Unfortunately Alli got a tad underneath and the chance to get the Pompey crowd off his back was lost.

1st half Charlton were definitely the better team with the best chances. I can't remember Pompey having a chance 1st half. It's just a shame that Leaburn, Alli and Grant who all did excellent work to have the opportunity, all hit the ball straight at the keeper. Karlan had a narrow angle so he had limited options.

2nd half and straight away Arthur makes a smart save down low to tip the ball away for a corner.
Everyone and their Auntie could see several CAFC players were struggling physically from the 60th minute onwards but Nathan despite having a few committee meetings with Fleming and coe didn't make any subs until Kelman came on in the 76th min but we needed other fresh legs.

No one was playing bad but some were blowing out their backside and Pompey were gaining momentum.

We are not getting any big Ref decisions go our way which is so frustrating even though we are all bias but so many seem clear cut 🤷🏻‍♂️

After the 4-0 Stoke hammering, to keep two clean sheets is a good response but goals are the name of the game and they have dried up not helped by the officials.