POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic v Bristol City: Saturday 10th October 2026: KO 12:30

Aaaaaachoooo 

golfaddick said:

Southbank said:

golfaddick said:

sam3110 said:

Jones calls subs gamechangers, but I think today they changed the game for the worse. I also think starting Edwards was a mistake.

A solid first 15 minutes but we were pretty pants after that. 

I think Mcnamara ending the game at right wing was a weird choice, and TC was clearly spent, but Alli mustn't be up to much in training if he can only get on for 3 mins at the end. 

Knibbs and Kelman did nothing to keep up the pressure that we built up leading up to the big TC chance, and it felt like the game was always going to peter out after that. 

A point gained but yet again were ultimately undone by an individual mistake by us rather than a glorious piece of play by the opponent 

This.

We spent all summer planning to play wingers & although we didnt manage to sign JRS we did bring in Alli and Nkeng...............but we end up in the last 20 mins relying on our rightback to attack & put crosses in. 

We need to stick to our pre-season thinking & play with 2 wingers. And play with a natural striker (Kelman or Godden) - Mbick is NOT the answer.

You are missing the point. Macnamara was at right wingback, not wing. Neither Alli nor Nkeng have shown they can play in this position, where you have to defend as well as attack. The problem is neither can Macnamara, who is a defender. We switched to 5 at the back today because we were under the cosh. 4 at the back does not work because we have no effective 10. 
We are now in a position where we cannot play 4 at the back effectively because we have no10, and we can't do five at the back either because we only have one wingback, Mesik.
Stuck

So what is the answer ??    There must be one, or are we going to go the rest of the season switching between 2 impossible formations & grinding out draws week after week. 

I don’t think there is an answer. We’re a poor team at this level and will likely be relegated. As a season ticket holder who goes to a fair number of aways too I hope that’s not the case but the writing is starting to appear on the wall. Maybe we can have a January window to turn it around . 

Plenty of advice to not get too down, but I literally felt my life blood draining away after 15 minutes.  I think the crowd's did too, judging by the dip in atmosphere.

It is the same old, same ole, with the backs playing ball between themselves in front of the keeper, the midfield scrabbling away - invariably losing possession  - often with unforced errors, and the forwards choking on the lack of service received - save for the occassional aerial bomb to chase.

It improved somewhat after the subs in the second half with a goalmouth scramble which should have produced for us, an excellent freekick from Knibbs and a tussel between Mesik and the much larger Adebayo which could have been most entertaining had it been allowed to develop ... my money was on Mesik btw.

I dunno maybe it's me, I just want to see us put a team to the Charlton sword occasionally,  

 

Started well and positive, but once Brizzle found our weaknesses - midfield plus Edwards - we were in trouble. Switching formation worked and we could have scored late on. Draw was fair though.

Koumetio solid defensively but looks like he’s never kicked a football in his life before .
we’re hanging on and that’s the best we can hope for 
scum above us in the table and I can’t see us reversing that for a good while yet .
Will we ever win again
huff and puff but minimal class out there
Lee Ryan Blue was there today and very invested in the game .
lots of Chinese looking punters in the directors box (more investment maybe 🤷) 
they ran out of Guiness in the lounge pre match 

63% stay up
37% go down 

Yanntheman said:

Bit surprised by the mostly negative comments at the start of the thread.

Thought we were good for the first 15 mins or so, then poor until around 55/60 when changing to the 352 brought us back into it. We were the better team after that.

Definitely good value for a point and could, and maybe should, have nicked it.

Quite enjoyed it as well and think the boring to watch comments are a bit over exaggerated (for this game in particular, not in general).

Totally agree, just back after a 200 mile round trip and myself and a friend going for the first time enjoyed. Definitely an improvement on the Cardiff game and we made more chances than we have for a while. Agree with the comments about Josh and Micah, both looked off the pace. Probably a fair result on the balance of play but at times we made a good side look ordinary rather than the other way round

Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch said:

Need Chalobah back.

This would change everything right now

Knibbs free kick was decent, hopefully he gets a few more opportunities, not like we’ve got a tonne of options anyways! 

Sword65pf said:

golfaddick said:

Southbank said:

golfaddick said:

sam3110 said:

Jones calls subs gamechangers, but I think today they changed the game for the worse. I also think starting Edwards was a mistake.

A solid first 15 minutes but we were pretty pants after that. 

I think Mcnamara ending the game at right wing was a weird choice, and TC was clearly spent, but Alli mustn't be up to much in training if he can only get on for 3 mins at the end. 

Knibbs and Kelman did nothing to keep up the pressure that we built up leading up to the big TC chance, and it felt like the game was always going to peter out after that. 

A point gained but yet again were ultimately undone by an individual mistake by us rather than a glorious piece of play by the opponent 

This.

We spent all summer planning to play wingers & although we didnt manage to sign JRS we did bring in Alli and Nkeng...............but we end up in the last 20 mins relying on our rightback to attack & put crosses in. 

We need to stick to our pre-season thinking & play with 2 wingers. And play with a natural striker (Kelman or Godden) - Mbick is NOT the answer.

You are missing the point. Macnamara was at right wingback, not wing. Neither Alli nor Nkeng have shown they can play in this position, where you have to defend as well as attack. The problem is neither can Macnamara, who is a defender. We switched to 5 at the back today because we were under the cosh. 4 at the back does not work because we have no effective 10. 
We are now in a position where we cannot play 4 at the back effectively because we have no10, and we can't do five at the back either because we only have one wingback, Mesik.
Stuck

So what is the answer ??    There must be one, or are we going to go the rest of the season switching between 2 impossible formations & grinding out draws week after week. 

We grind it out until jan. then we have all that dry powder to spunk!!!…… oh hang on😂

Question is, what is the priority? Everyone is saying about needing a 10, but we still have a family lacklustre midfield that aren't particularly dynamic and rarely create for the front players. Maybe as the full squad comes back and gets fit, we will see a better synergy, but for now, there seems to be a disjointed team out out each week . 

golfaddick said:

se9addick said:

golfaddick said:

Southbank said:

golfaddick said:

sam3110 said:

Jones calls subs gamechangers, but I think today they changed the game for the worse. I also think starting Edwards was a mistake.

A solid first 15 minutes but we were pretty pants after that. 

I think Mcnamara ending the game at right wing was a weird choice, and TC was clearly spent, but Alli mustn't be up to much in training if he can only get on for 3 mins at the end. 

Knibbs and Kelman did nothing to keep up the pressure that we built up leading up to the big TC chance, and it felt like the game was always going to peter out after that. 

A point gained but yet again were ultimately undone by an individual mistake by us rather than a glorious piece of play by the opponent 

This.

We spent all summer planning to play wingers & although we didnt manage to sign JRS we did bring in Alli and Nkeng...............but we end up in the last 20 mins relying on our rightback to attack & put crosses in. 

We need to stick to our pre-season thinking & play with 2 wingers. And play with a natural striker (Kelman or Godden) - Mbick is NOT the answer.

You are missing the point. Macnamara was at right wingback, not wing. Neither Alli nor Nkeng have shown they can play in this position, where you have to defend as well as attack. The problem is neither can Macnamara, who is a defender. We switched to 5 at the back today because we were under the cosh. 4 at the back does not work because we have no effective 10. 
We are now in a position where we cannot play 4 at the back effectively because we have no10, and we can't do five at the back either because we only have one wingback, Mesik.
Stuck

So what is the answer ??    There must be one, or are we going to go the rest of the season switching between 2 impossible formations & grinding out draws week after week. 

I don’t think there is an answer. We’re a poor team at this level and will likely be relegated. As a season ticket holder who goes to a fair number of aways too I hope that’s not the case but the writing is starting to appear on the wall. Maybe we can have a January window to turn it around . 

The people on this forum rating our transfer window as an 8/10 in August were demented, as is now becoming clear. 

I like to think there are 3 worse teams than us. Pick any 3 from

Preston
Derby
Watford 
Cardiff
Pompey

Then throw in a team that might get a points deduction, like Sheff U, and I think we'll be safe this season.

It wont be pretty & we'll grind out draws like today, but I think we'll get 52-55 points and finish a couple of places above the relegation places.

And I'm not banking on the January transfer window helping us out. Owners "looking for investment" wont be putting too much of their own money in. 

Cardiff?

I take it you never got to see our last match before the break? We could have lost that 7 or 8 -1.

Tbh we really needed a win today as dont see any wins in our coming games for the remainder of october . 

kidbrookeaddick said:

DennisBooth said:

This doesn’t look like a penalty.

https://x.com/Astro1102/status/2108890215624446105/video/1

To be fair this one probably wasn't but the first one which was dismissed should have been a penalty to them so on balance was probably fair

The first one was a free kick outside the box and a red card