POST-MATCH THREAD: Charlton Athletic v Norwich City: Saturday 24th October 2026: KO 12:30

I think it's becoming clear that Jones is a one trick pony. Once that stops working, he cannot get results, because he doesn't know how to.

How much really good football have we played since he arrived? I'd say very little, five games or less.
Even at Wembley, Orient played better than us.

Playing Coventry and Skipp together for so long was criminal, everyone could see it, but he couldn't.

Playing Edwards yesterday and dropping Mesic was criminal, most thought it would be, even before a ball was kicked, and it was, yet Jones thought differently.

Taking off Coventry, and bringing on Muamba, just as he had at Watford,, was criminal, no defensive midfielder at all, resulting in even more pressure on an already overrun defence, and leading to the 3rd goal.

3 subs at once yet, again. desperation, clueless tactics.

The mentality of allowing the opposition 90% possession, that has to have come from Jones, if not yesterday, it's something that has become ingrained in the players mental attitude.

It's not something that should be happening with two teams at the same level, playing eachother.

We have obviously been coached to let the other team play it around as much as they want, because we'll keep our shape, they won't damage us, and we'll hit them on the break.

Well we no longer "keep our shape", we can no longer defend, and we have very little threat on the break. Somebody needed to get their foot in, upset their rhythm and stop them controlling the game before it became ingrained, that didn't happen.

I'm very grateful to Jones for getting us up. He's incredibly hard working, he cares, he's passionate, appears to love the club etc, but as things stand today, I can't see him taking us any higher, but I can see him taking us lower.

I really hope I'm proved wrong. 

_uptheaddicks said:

Guess we are annoyed but NO way that goal should have been given offside. Looks fine and the replay on Sky does too. Not a single Norwich player protested.

The commentator on BeIn sports said it was the correct decision. Kelman was offside before the ball was played in. The only reason the defender headed it into his own net, was because he was defending Kelman, who was offside.

Not saying I agreed with him!

He also said that the Coventry challenge early second half on the edge of our box was a definite pen, because it was on the line, and the line counts as the box.

He also seemed to really have it in for Arthur for some reason, saying that he was a flappy keeper, who hadn't lived up to his promise since leaving Arsenal as a youngster, and that we needed to replace him with Manion🤣

I didn't blame Arthur for any of the goals and think he's been a great signing.