Sep 28
That 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.
Please click for moreToday’s game was on in the background to other stuff I had going on so I wasn’t paying it full attention, and I am glad I had better things to do.
The 1st half was as bad as any time last season particularly defensively. 2nd half became a masterclass in time-wasting and shithousery from the visitors.
Please click for moreWho knew. You can actually score from a corner!!
Even though we failed to inspire any away win is a good win and supported by another clean sheet the Addicks move up to 2nd in the table.
Please click for moreThat was a pretty ugly watch with a share of the spoils a fair outcome.
One cannot deny the team’s hard graft, and just to be clear I am not knocking the playing style as I remember Ben Garner. However, without sparks of creativity or balls pinging into the opposing box fashioning chances then games can be a real grind.
Please click for moreWe just weren’t at it today. I thought we poor with the ball and once again lacked decisiveness and bravery when in possession.
Our first league defeat and goals conceded, sadly in front of a large travelling support.
Please click for moreBolton have had our number for a couple of seasons now, especially at The Valley, but that number today was zero, as we kept another clean sheet and collected our third win.
Very early days, but what an uplifting beginning to the league season for Nathan Jones and his side.
Please click for moreI didn’t know if that was going to come, but our superior fitness told and Luke Berry’s 92nd minute winner gave us a second league 1-0 victory.
Clean sheets were impossible to come by last season, but Nathan Jones has fabricated a base from which we can build.
Please clicm for moreA mate messaged our chat after 15 minutes. He couldn’t follow the game and asked how we were looking. I told him I’d report back after a further 45 and 3/4 games.
It’s impossible to judge based on one game, but still first impressions count, and it’s hard not to draw some early reflections and assumptions.
Please click for moreA 1-0 clean sheet away win, something that was improbable all of last season. It was a fine way to start the season.
Lloyd Jones’ 81st minute controlled finish the difference between the two sides with solidity, concentration and hard work overcoming Wigan’s possession based style.
Please click for moreFootball hardly went away this summer what with the Euro’s and then the Olympics. I think there’s even already been European qualifying games going on the last week or so, but here we are again on the eve of the new EFL season.
League One for the Addicks for the fifth consecutive season on the back of our worst league finish for 98 years.
Please click for moreIt’s been a bit of a struggle the almost two-week hole in my life between the final of the Euro’s and tomorrow’s Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. I’d rather poke my eyes out than watch a pre-season friendly, I’m not ready for the new football season yet, so I am all geared up for the greatest show on Earth, the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad.
Please click for moreA bit of a turn up that. Bolton just didn’t show up and Oxford were worthy winners.
That means that we keep both Peterborough and Bolton as well Barnsley and welcome Birmingham City, Huddersfield Town, Rotherham, Stockport, Wrexham and Mansfield. Crawley and Crewe meet at Wembley tomorrow to decide our last remaining opponent for next season.
Please click for moreMay 8
I’m not normally one to dwell on season’s past, especially crap ones, but I had ten minutes and was toying with some thoughts around if there was actually anything positive to say at all about the last nine months.
We began the season being fed the tag line of ‘new team, new era’ which coupled with Andy Scott pushing the mantra of ‘action not words’ told us in hindsight all we needed to know of what a cycle of incompetence we were to expect.
Please click for moreI had no doubt that Birmingham would win today. I was at St. Andrew’s for the last game of the 1992/93 season when the Blues had to beat Charlton to stay up.
Saying the atmosphere was hostile does not do it justice and if Peter Garland’s shot had gone in instead of hitting the post I feared we would not got out alive.
Please click for moreCongratulations to Alfie May on his League One Golden Boot win. He truly is a very nice bloke. Lovely interview with him here.
May’s 23 goals are the most by an Addick in a league season since Andy Hunt who scored one more 24 season’s ago.
Only Bradley Wright-Phillips and Lyle Taylor have scored 20 or more goals for us in those intervening years.
Please click for moreAnd the season finally slams shut, and locked and thrown in the river tied to a concrete slab!
More defensive clumsiness followed by a gift of what was the decisive penalty was an apt way to finish the season ending a 14-game unbeaten run.
Please click for moreDraw no. 20. Very disappointing to finish off without a win, but at least The Valley had George Dobson to serenade on his final Valley appearance.
Please click for moreAfter 12 years languishing outside of The Championship, 7 in League One, Portsmouth finally found the secret sauce to get themselves back in there after coming from behind to beat Barnsley tonight and are crowned L1 champions.
We’ll miss those points we usually take off our long time peers, but Pompey are a proper club, so congratulations to them and their supporters.
Please click for moreAnother draw and more defensive ineptitudes in a game that summed up our season.
We should have scored more and despite a lot of balls into our box Isted was properly called into action once and failed to deal with a simple shot.
Please click for moreAs expected Sky TV and the EFL have shaken hands on a record domestic rights deal to show over 1,000 live games per season, thus closing down Sky Sports’ EFL red button coverage and the EFL’s domestic streaming option whether that was via iFollow or like in Charlton’s case their own streaming service.
Please click for moreA polar opposite game from Saturday as two mid table slides slogged it out in a quieter atmosphere.
The Addicks had enough chances to win the game but had to settle for their 18th draw of the season, the most in all of the EFL.
Please click for moreBarnsley have been good since they came down and they play very expansive, which allowed us to really exploit spaces on the pitch.
It was a very entertaining game and a really good Addicks’ performance which gave us the 3 points in front of a pumped up Valley.
Please click for moreAnother game of scarce quality, and this against a team attempting to get promoted.
A clean sheet has a been a forgotten prize, and I’ll take it, but the football on show, the passing, the basics was awful.
Please click for moreThat was poor at best and rubbish at worst.
Our passing was especially bad, with long balls continually over hit and short passes often loose, yet we came away with a point and should have won it deep in injury time.
Please click for moreThe game stank, and although for the hundredth time we contrived to gift another a goal, neither team deserved to win the game which had zero quality.
The pitch was atrocious but throughout I felt all we needed to do was get the ball down and put three quick passes together and we would create openings and win the game, but that was beyond us.
Please click for moreI didn’t get to watch the game and instead followed on a dodgy signal from a vast swimming arena in the middle of Florida, an area that boasts being America’s equestrian capital, but is clearly lacking in cell towers!
It did not sound either pretty or straightforward, but it was a precious home win, the first for over three months.
Please click for moreJob done tonight in Gloucestershire, but it was not easy on the eye.
Contrasting halves neither pretty, but we finished strong and we now sit in the rarefied air of 14th, and although teams below us have games in hand they all play each other.
Please click for moreThe only way we were going to concede today was by a mistake and it just shows that they are still lurking within us.
A dreadful error from Harry Isted gifted Northampton a point with their only chance of the game 10 minutes before the end. When will these goalkeepers realise they are not Ederson.
Please click for moreHow good did that feel?
When Karoy Anderson’s arrow of a shot hit the roof of the net plum, that indescribable feeling of euphoria was back, right there, inside, beating.
Please click for moreIt’s took 22 games but finally a clean sheet against the league leaders today and another visible step in the right direction.
It wasn’t a classic but we matched Pompey tackle for tackle, header for header and tactic for tactic.
Please click for moreThat’s more like it.
Something to get behind today winning an unlikely point against a very good side with the best home record in the league. Jones’ team pressed, chased and played with a fight and togetherness not seen in a Charlton team for what seems forever.
Please click for moreI’ve had time to dwell on tonight’s game, other wise known as three-quarters of a bottle of wine!
I want to look at the positives and I was encouraged more so by Jones’ interview afterwards than the actual performance that was overall still highly questionable.
Please click for moreWe were well beaten today and Nathan Jones has given himself quite the challenge.
The table stares back at us all tonight with horror in its eyes.
Please click for moreYou can’t criticize the effort, but you can criticize almost everything else.
Derby are not pretty to watch and I know we all do it, but their time wasting was tragic, nonetheless they walked away with the 3 points mostly due to us once again gift wrapping a goal.
Please click for moreA very valuable point but for 70 minutes it looked very unlikely.
How we were not 0-3 down at half-time is a mystery but we deserved a little luck and we got even luckier with our goal and were much better after we equalized.
Please click for moreTonight Charlton are looking for their 17th permanent manager in less than 18 years after Alan Curbishley gracefully left his post.
Michael Appleton’s final game was anything but graceful and in a bear pit of an atmosphere he was fired straight after the game following another injury time defeat, this time to Northampton Town who scored their winner in the 97th minute.
Please click for moreFive defeats in six. Nine without a win in the league, eleven in all competitions. Last win was the very fortunate one over Cheltenham at The Valley. Before that it was away at Wigan in October.
As a reminder we are in League One playing in front of crowds of 3,000.
Please click for moreAnother defeat, less abject than some of the others but the pattern of failure continues.
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Please click for moreA game where only a win would do and I didn’t care how it was achieved. Three times we led, and Port Vale’s third an injury time equalizer meaning more points lost to a late, late goal.
Mid table League One mediocrity and it is not good enough.
Please click for moreOnce BA staff announced at the beginning of our flight today that there would be no Wi-Fi I slumped back into my seat, put my hands in my pockets Appleton style and immersed myself in a Scandinavian crime series.
I quite recommend being blissfully unaware of Charlton at the moment.
Please click for moreAnother dispiriting defeat to another late goal caused by amateur defending.
We came into the last 7 game period with 6 looking winnable. A chance for head coach and players to ignite a play-off contention and inspire fans as the transfer window opened. 5 weeks later the season is left on the cutting room floor.
Please click for moreIndefensible that. Another display devoid of idea, organization, threat or care.
And afterwards again Michael Appleton passed blame onto the players. I suspect keeping telling them that they are not good enough and need to be replaced or kicked out in January is taking its toll.
Please click for moreAnother pitiful home performance. Only two defeats blah blah, but when was the last time we played well at home?
Dreadful game against dreadful opponents and another game we poorly managed and concede late.
Please click for moreFourth draw in five league games, but a much better performance today where we actually stuck to it for the whole game.
Although a draw I felt was the right result if it wasn’t for more rubbish officiating we would have taken all three.
Please click for moreI’ll lay that one at the door of Michael Appleton.
To start with it was an odd line-up where he persisted with Fraser, isolated our biggest threat in May and started Rylah, only just 18, when he clearly wasn’t ready.
Please click for moreI have thought a lot today about last night. I know we won, but I don’t think I have ever been as non-plussed.
All the stats, the apathy of the attendances and the mixed bagatelle of players, still disjointed due to umpteen poor transfer windows all point to another season of mediocrity.
Please click for moreMy, that was turgid stuff. But, a win is a win although there wasn’t much to encourage a race into the play-off’s despite Michael Appleton missive that it was his “most satisfying victory I’ve had since I’ve been here.”
Easily pleased I guess.
Please click for moreThat was definitely two points dropped today.
Almost a 1,000 Addicks made the longest journey of the season, to a ground that holds so many great memories, and they watched a superior Charlton unable to make it count in front of goal, and then let slip a lead after conceding another poor goal.
Please click for moreWhat a great game that was. End to end with both teams wanting to win.
The Addicks showed great strength of character to twice come from behind and grab a deserved draw, and could even have won it at the death. How the away end celebrated not for the first time at Fratton Park.
Please click for moreOur What’s App chat at half time was debating how many goals we were going to let in during the 2nd half. No way won’t they score said one.
Well for 80 odd minutes we were fine, three goals to the good. Six minutes to go and Wigan score, and I am bemoaning another game without a clean sheet. Then they score again and then we are baying for the final whistle.
Please click for moreBolton have long had the mark on us, and yesterday was no different as they won at somewhat of a canter at The Valley.
I remember my son’s first ever game was against Bolton, in the Premiership years, and they beat us that day with a couple of knock-out punches.
Please click for moreThat wasn’t even a half, it was about a 1/5th of game, the rest was a proper disappointment.
Luckily I was on a flight from Ft Lauderdale to Newark, so didn’t have to suffer it.
Please click for moreA game of two halves. Trade marked.
The first half was best forgotten other than Reading really should have been ahead at the break.
Please click for moreIf only we could defend. If only Chuks could last 90 minutes. If only CBT could finish like that on a regular basis. Ad infinitum.
An enthralling game today where it could have gone either way at the end, but a draw keeps Michael Appleton’s run going.
Please click for moreAn attacking line-up from Michael Appleton yielded goals and a good win highlighted by some exciting attacking play.
We had to overcome the traditional defensive wobble, but we equalized at the right time and went on to dominate the 2nd half.
Please click for moreI had high hopes today. We had built some momentum, more players were back to give Michael Appleton further options and I thought we’d come hurtling out of the blocks.
How wrong could I have been. The first half performance was dreadful, and it was another game of differing halves, but we had too many ineffectual players in what I thought was a very ineffective system.
Please click for moreI didn’t get to see today’s game as I was watching my daughter at possibly the longest ever swim meet a fair drive from the comfort of my couch. Catching up afterwards though it did sound that the Charlton TV feed had some issues.
But three points added in Michael Appleton’s first home game has given us all a large grin.
Please click for moreA solid platform to build on. Yet, at half time that platform was anything but solid as nothing had appeared to change from Dean Holden’s time to Michael Appleton’s.
The 2nd half was a lot better, it needed to be, but particularly the final 25 minutes plus a long added time where we were the stronger finishers.
Please click for moreWe needed that. A welcome 3 points and a proud day for Jason Pearce.
I did laugh when Pearcey got booked though, and if you didn’t see it, it wasn’t for a scything tackle.
Please click for moreSchoolboy defending saw us lose for the fifth consecutive game at Oxford. Somehow in an attacking situation we had 8 players ahead of the ball just outside of the box, and Oxford broke on us five against one to win the game late on.
Worst than that was how after a week on the training field we played the worst 45 minutes of our season in the 1st half. We were woeful forcing Holden into changing the shape before the break and he had made three changes by the time the players re-entered the field for the 2nd.
Please click for moreNew team. New era.
Or how about same old defensive mistakes, same shocking set pieces, final ball forward hopeful and useless as per and a squad a thin as 1-ply bog roll as always.
Please click for moreGutted about that. And very worried.
Actions not words is what we were promised and the action is a repeat of what we have now seen for seasons whoever the owner, the manager or the player.
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University of Texas, Austin.
