Oct 25
7 points in a week that ended with a long schlep up the east coast is a terrific return and today once again the Addicks did just not know when to give it up.
A late Luke Berry goal from a copybook James Bree corner gave us a deserved point.
Please click for moreSheffield Wednesday have been placed in administration after it was revealed His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs plan to issue a winding-up petition against The Owls.
Wednesday have been hit with an imemdiate 12-point deduction.
Please click for moreThat is the most remarkable of results.
And I didn’t see any of it. In a meeting for the beginning and then in a bar with others for the bulk of the game, which at least allowed me to celebrate every goal.
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We all know it was only the first game, and there are 45 to play, but I’m still wallowing a little bit from Saturday’s win over Watford. Back to earth tomorrow though when we host Stevenage in the Carabao Cup, and whilst we hadn’t played Watford since 2015, this is our 7th meeting with Stevenage in less than three years.
Please click for moreI’m at Gatwick waiting for my flight, which I might actually miss unless I can stop myself scrolling through videos and photos of yesterday.
A momentous day, a momentous season that due to the contrasting segments of it seemed to last forever.
Please click for moreExhausted, but the best kind of 🔴⚪️
I learnt a long time ago that these kind of days do not come along very often, and when they do you have to soak it in, cement it into your memory. Soak it in, Addicks.
Please click for moreIt doesn’t look as if we will be getting more tickets, which is quite unfathomable from Wembley and the EFL in so many ways.
Even considering blocks left empty for segregation and corporate junkies there will still be 10,000 seats sat empty on Sunday.
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Just as the blood pressure has returned to some kind of normality, thoughts turn to another week of expectation, excitement and nerves.
They were two highly competitive, tight and stressful games against Wycombe, yet on Thursday in a cacophony of noise we perservered and have put ourselves in with a shot of the ultimate goal.
Please click for moreA magical night at The Valley, plenty of sore heads and rasping voices this morning.
A remarkable achievement to get to this point, and The Valley last night was a special place.
Please click for moreI was exhausted by the time I went to bed last night. I felt as I had headed every long ball.
Three more days until the next chapter of this season, rest will be key for all of us.
Please click for moreThat was a battle, pretty gruesome at times, but we were equal to everything that was thrown at us, including the odd elbow and lunging tackle.
A clean sheet and level after the first leg. Back to The Valley we go.
Please click for moreA busy day on the club’s ticket page, which brought systematic moans, groans and stresses. I heard from a few mates about the problem Albury had as well.
I’m actually surprised the club has decided to sell tickets on a Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday and it appears they had very few staff covering phones.
Please click for more4th place finish then. We might not have won anything to this point, but applause 👏 all round to Nathan Jones, his staff, the players and all of those Addicks that have backed them home and away all season long.
Together the journey will continue.
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Addicks have had better Saturdays. Yesterday was a turgid day all round which I don’t need to remind you.
Yet, in times like these I remind myself of what Curbs would say. Don’t get too high on the highs and too low on the lows.
Please click for moreThat was thoroughly disappointing.
Two early quick fire goals stunned us and Wrexham simply out-Charlton’d us throughout and were deserved winners. Fair play to them and Parky.
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Talk about giving us something to get behind. That was a virtuoso performance producing a magnificent result this afternoon.
Please click for moreI didn’t really enjoy that. Northampton gave us a real run for their money, and never backed off, but we found a way to win, and win we did.
A play-off place is now secured with three games remaining and we move into 4th.
Please click for moreWell, that was exactly what it said on the tin. Very scrappy game on a bobbly pitch with the ball spending most of the time in the air.
It was an ugly game but we stood tall, stayed organized, scored at a good time and scrapped ourselves to an important three points.
Please click for moreCongratulations to the Blue Noses, I know a few of them drop by here occasionally. You came, you spent, you conquered but money alone isn’t always the key to success.
The owners also took a large gamble on Chris Davies, and he has cleverly coached and man-managed a big squad of riches, including Alfie May, who deserves to celebrate a rare honour in a career that started at Corinthian in the Kent village of Fawkham.
Please click for moreApologies to those of you that get to games a lot more frequently than me, it was the law of sods that meant I witnessed our worst performance since December in my first game in SE7 for a fair while.
However the comeback was stirring and a point was valuable from a game we would’ve lost on most others occasions in recent years.
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Great result tonight, fabulous 3 points on the road that we had to dig really deep for. Mansfield were no pushovers but we came and conquered.
Please click for moreThe perfect response.
It was a fantastic performance from beginning to end. A totally dominating display against a play-off rival. The sunshine wasn’t the only thing to light up The Valley today as to a man the red shirts shone bright ☀️.
Please click for moreOperation Weston Homes Stadium can be consigned to Room 101 with many others over the years.
The Addicks were backed by big numbers but it was a very disappointing day as Peterborough unravelled our defensive solidity and we weren’t able to convert even one of many goalscoring opportunities.
Please click for moreSounds as if we are a go for next Saturday at Peterborough after much speculation that the game would be called off as part of the international break.
Nathan Jones said yesterday that the deadline had passed for us to ask for the game to be cancelled, but Posh do have until Monday.
Please click for moreAbsolute dominance for 84 minutes then it all got a bit panicky.
For the first half and almost the entirety of the second we played like a juggernaut running downhill, we were quality, but we weren’t able to completely snuffle out our visitors who had a new manager in the dugout.
Please click for more“We’re going into eight weeks of your life now where you sacrifice everything – you’re not shopping tomorrow, you’re not bowling, your diet’s good … if your wife or girlfriend wants to go shopping, wants to do that, they have to make the sacrifices, it’s a massive sacrifice for us to achieve something because you can’t now go to Bluewater tomorrow walking around high-fiving and going Costa Coffee when you should be resting and all those things, we have to be at it, the professional has to be paramount, everyone’s sacrificing, everyone’s family is sacrificing for the greater good if you like”
Nathan Jones has always been good for a quote – whether unhinged, philosophical or funny.
Please click for moreWas that as nervy as it seemed to me?
It might not have been, but Crawley presented a real banana skin tonight and we dealt with the pressure and delivered. Three more points and a clean sheet win on the road.
Please click for moreA good point ended a very good week for the Addicks.
It was a highly physical game where the ref let a lot go, possibly too much, but we held out and to a man the defensive unit were excellent.
Please click for moreGame management. We’ve had times, many times over previous seasons when we’ve been absolutely terrible at that.
Tonight however was another example of how the mentality and leadership has so vastly changed. Clean sheets are the foundation, but seeing games out to where that goal is rarely threatened is the nexus.
please click for moreWow. This team does not know when to give up.
We deserved something from the game, but as the clocked ticked onto 90 minutes, hope appeared to have left the stadium, yet the 11 yellow shirted Addicks had definitely not.
Please click for moreOf course I wasn’t paying any attention 😉, but tonight went pretty well elsewhere.
Tonight the juices flow a bit quicker as Saturday looms larger. I tell you what though, it’s nice to be involved in a big game, we have not had anywhere enough of them in recent seasons.
Please click for moreA very comprehensive win. The high press was perfection today and often it looked as if we had more players on the pitch, and Exeter just couldn’t deal with us.
It was the ideal way to bounce back from last week.
Please click for moreI was only telling myself a couple of weeks ago when we were mid-run that we just had to worry about ourselves.
I wasn’t paying close attention to the table or other games, and I certainly wasn’t paying any attention to other team’s fixtures.
Please click for moreGaining a result today was more in hope than expectation, so I’m only really disappointed that we weren’t able to muster some chance potentials at the end.
The Blues were worthy winners following their 1st half display but in the end it was only an error that separated the two teams.
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What happened and what did they do with our drab-season’s already over Charlton Athletic?
Please click for moreI didn’t think that winner was coming but they are starting to earn our trust and are planting the psychology of inevitability among us.
An unlikely winner, and I’ve criticized him on these pages, but I was really pleased for Macauley Gillesphey tonight.
Please click for moreFor 30 first half minutes our play was strewn with silly mistakes, one almost gave Stevenage the lead but for a fantastic stop from AMB.
Then AMB fell ‘injured’ and Nathan Jones called the team over to the touch line and we never looked back.
Please click for moreI am still bitterly disappointed about that. Just a couple of months ago I was sitting through games nonplussed, today I found myself fully invested. I presume that is a good thing, but that was two points thrown away.
Blackpool probably deserved their drew on the balance of chances, and in the cold light of day it was a good point, but a few hours later and I’m still in a state of annoyance.
Please click for moreJob done. I’m not sure I have seen such a dominating one half display from the Addicks for a long time.
After the somewhat unforeseen win at Bolton we just had to follow that up with two banana-skin looking home games, and we did.
Please click for moreFrustratingly annoying since 1905.
94th minute and somehow Shipley doesn’t put them in front. 96th minute Small slots home and cue absolute bedlam in front of the Covered End.
Please click for moreA bounce back win, which did not look likely until Nathan Jones made 2nd half changes that turned the game on its head.
On the hour mark we were behind, were short on ideas and another long journey home point-less looked certain.
Please click for moreWell that was a shocker. That performance and result has firmly put us back in our box.
Rotherham, who have been making their own way up the table after a really poor start to the season, were better than us in every single department and it was a toe-curling throw back to the hapless defensive display’s of last season.
Please click for moreToday marks the 6th day of the January transfer window and rumours whether warm or wildly inaccurate are in short supply.
From an internet scroll only Wigan have been active making three signings, but most clubs have been quiet.
Please click for moreDisappointed not to win that. It has been rare this season when we haven’t won when we really deserved to, so I’ll take that as a positive.
Reading have also been on a good run, and had chances themselves especially in the 1st half, but we grew into the game and more than shaded it.
Please click for moreHappy New Year to those travelling Addicks ☔️. I at least hope that there are plenty of pubs with warm fires and the darts on the telly in the vicinity.
15 minutes before kick-off the referee called the game off. He may well have been hoping for the rain to hold off and the sun to miraculously dry the pitch in that time before kick off, but Met Office radar clearly shows that the rain was not going to subside.
Please click for moreWycombe lost their first two games of the season 2-3 to both Wrexham and Birmingham but had not lost since in the league and are easily the division’s top scorers.
That is what the Addicks faced today, but I think we even surpised ourselves with what we saw this lunchtime.
Please click for moreNot always fluent, but once again it was easier on the eye and good to back up the big win at Northampton.
I thought under Gary Monk (and Jason Euell) Cambridge played some nice stuff and after our quick fire start we had to battle hard to keep the 3 points.
Please click for moreAbsolutely no idea where that performance came from, but happy that it did. Take nothing away from the team today, they were excellent.
Our most dominant performance away from home for many a season, and chuffed for the 2,000 Addicks who more out of devotion than expectation spent their Saturday before Christmas in Northampton.
Please click for moreI was sat ready with iPad open at 10am (3pm UK time) when there was a knock at the door, and unexpected visitors showed up.
My understanding-other-half looked at me and said she’d deal with them and I could go into another room and watch the game but to her surprise I shut my screen and joined them for coffee instead.
Please click for moreA dismal game that could have been ruined by the weather, but watching Charlton it is hard to tell these days.
It was better than Tuesday, but that is a very low bar, although reverting to a back three and two wing backs meant at least we couldn’t just pump it long, and they did try to pass it.
Plese click for moreWe really are a pitiful excuse of a football team. Devoid of any quality, creativity and ideas.
Desperately dull and ineffective long diagonal hoof ball, circa 1980, hoping, praying for a flick or a defensive mistake to ‘create’ a chance on goal. That is our sole game plan. Our philosophy, our identity. Heaven help us.
Please call for moreThis wasn’t as much as a must win, it was a had to win, and win we did.
End of match report….😎
Please click for moreAnother defeat, that is one league win in nine. Less points than we had at this point last season which was before Appleton sent us hurtling towards a relegation battle.
Jones asked us to judge him on performances and after he had made us much stronger following the summer transfer window. As a reminder, his last three signings were A Campbell, Potts and Hylton.
Please click for moreDuring yesterday’s match I wasn’t anywhere near a screen and my phone was firmly in my pocket as I sat among 103,000 others at the Texas v Florida college game in Austin. Quite an awe-inspiring experience.
Unlike the one for Addicks at St James Park.
Please click for moreI think a last kick of the game equalizer hides another below par performance, but it was still great to hear the noise when Matty Godden smacked home that penalty.
It was not in anyway memorable, and the build up to this week’s game has been a little odd, but if a few of those day trippers or lapsed fans return, then at least that’s something, as we don’t get any better at nailing these ‘big games.’
Please click for morePoor once again. It was so very Charlton to throw that away, but three points would have been daylight robbery. One point was shoplifting.
Today made me think that Birmingham and Stockport were anomalies, and although the table is tightly packed together I have nightmarish visions of mid-table mediocrity once again.
Please click for moreWe should’ve won that, shouldn’t we?
We played pretty well, and upped the ante in the second half to bestow the game an exciting finish but once again we were unlikely to score more than a single goal.
Please click for moreThat’s more like it. A Charlton performance you can get behind. More of that please.
Credit to Nathan Jones on the formation switch and game plan. The turnaround in some of those player performances was nothing short of insane, and it does make you wonder what happened in those last three games.
Please click for moreI have to say I’ve been pretty impressed with Birmingham City’s start to the season.
The Premier League can be bought, The Championship can be bought thanks to parachute payments, and a bit of investment can go a long way in League Two but buying success in the third tier has long been fraught with impediments.
Please click for moreI blindly thought we’d see a reaction tonight, how wrong was I? How wrong was Nathan Jones?
The difference being Jones had his fingers all over that performance, and I just live in a world of false optimism.
Please click for moreThat was awful. More awful actually watching them in the flesh than on CATV, at least then I can do something else more interesting like sort my socks into pairs.
It’s not so much losing, but it was the feeling of nothing. Nothing to cheer, nothing to get excited about, nothing to get you off your feet.
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