Jul 7
Looks nice does Slovenia. I need to add that to my list. A blend of the Alpine mountains and the Med.
Nathan Jones has been taking his teams to Slovenia since 2017 and the squad are staying at a training camp in Kranjska Gora, which Jones is very familiar with.
Please click for moreThe video was unexpected. Alfie does appear genuinely upset. Fair play for the message, but at least we can now move on. The whole affair had taken over the pre-season, and I think in the majority of most fan’s minds set a negative mindset.
May joins Birmingham City for what is said to be £775,000 plus add-ons, and supposedly according the Nathan Jones, the fee will be reinvested in this window, although Cheltenham will get a cut.
Please click for moreI think the writing is on the wall with regard to Alfie. There’s rarely any smoke without fire and between Huddersfield having money to spend and Nathan Jones’ word gymnastics I am pretty convinced last season’s L1 top scorer has played his last game in a Charlton shirt.
Please click for moreI put Luke Berry and Charlton together after Luton announced their end of season release list and today that became a reality when the midfielder signed on a two-year contract (with a year’s option).
Berry is a signing to raise the eyebrows, and I would have expected him to have had plenty of offers from higher placed teams, particulary in the south-east, but has chosen the Addicks purely down to his relationship with Nathan Jones.
Please click for moreThere’s been lots of chatter about Alfie May since the season ended. One half of the camp are ‘he is definitely going,’ the other half ‘of course he’s not.’
No one really knows of course, probably not even Alfie, who on the back of a golden-boot winning season must have expected to just rest-up and get all fired up to start a new season.
Please click for moreWe have been told the length of Tyreece Campbell’s new contract.
“The 20-year-old winger, who joined the Addicks at U9 level, has signed a two-year deal, with a club option of an additional year.” (more)
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 moreCharlton have issued the names of players that will leave and stay for next season.
The only player offered a new deal was Tyreece Campbell, who has signed a new unknown length contract.
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 moreThe conversation on whether George Dobson will stay or leave in the summer has got louder and louder these past few weeks. There are over 3,300 comments on the Charlton Life Forum, and Nathan Jones spent the bulk of his post game chat throwing the club’s decision makers under the bus whilst singing George’s praises.
The people that matter – those that were witness to the deal in the first place including Fehérvár, George’s agent, Andy Scott and George himself have been pretty silent on the matter.
Please click for moreThe conspiracy theorists, and I live in America and have got to meet a fair few, would say that Lloyd Jones’ apparent kidnapping after having an injection almost a month ago might be more to do with his new boss finding out about this.
Please click for moreNathan Joines confirmed yesterday that once Kazenga LuaLua resolves his contract issues with Greek club Levadiakos then he will sign with the Addicks until the end of the season.
Fitness doesn’t sound a problem: “He’s one of those physical phenomenons that you could chuck him on the moon for a year and he’d come back and be able to be potent for a certain amount of minutes,” Jones said yesterday.
Please click for moreI have to tell you it is still making me smile. Watching Nathan Jones clap along to his own song bellowed out from the Covered End after the game on Saturday. He did the same at Cheltenham in the week.
Bearing in mind what we have been used to, Jones’ interviews and antics are a joy to watch.
Please click for more“We will get better” says Nathan Jones and I think we can see the groundwork of a team that will, but at the moment displays such as the one at Cheltenham are what we are going to be fed.
Games like Tuesday are a blunt reminder of what level we are at, but also, starkly, at what parameters of fitness and battling instinct we need to consistently be at to get success in this league.
Please click for moreIt has been interesting to see the team’s that Nathan Jones has picked so far.
Derby tomorrow will be his fifth game since taking over as manager and only four players have started every game. They are Harry Isted, Lloyd Jones, Terell Thomas and Tennai Watson.
Please click for moreIt was a rare moment today for me. I was in our office in Tampa and a few of us had lunch which included a colleague who is a fellow Addick. I know him, and he is normally based up in New York, so it was a nice surprise but god did we have a very depressing conversation about our joint love.
Please click for more3,000 Addicks will be backing Nathan Jones’ side tomorrow. Charlton could probably have sold even more tickets for this crucial game, although not season defining, huge nonetheless.
I like many have bemoaned the black shirts that the club have been forced into wearing on the road due to their sponsorship obligations with Greenwich University, so it will be great to see the players in red tomorrow.
Please click for moreNot ultra surprising this. Nathan Jones talked in glowing terms of Paul Hart yesterday during his auspicious first pre-match press conference. Hart has played a big part in Jones’ coaching and managerial career and rejoins Charlton about a decade after he left.
Hart is 70 and has had a golden post playing career mentoring and coaching, and as Jones said yesterday was heavily responsible for the careers of a whole team of players that played at the very top. The exalted Andy Reid being one of them.
Please click for moreIs how Nathan Jones described The Valley in his first interview tonight. I warmed to that. I warmed to him.
Nothing earth shattering in the 16 minutes conducted by the splendid Charlotte Richardson, but it was a simple message and he spoke well. I liked that he talked a lot about Charlton, and its supporters.
Please click for moreI spent a little time these last few days looking at some videos and articles on how Nathan Jones set up his teams, mostly Luton of course.
I mean, at the moment for us it is substance over style. We haven’t kept a clean sheet since Nathan Jones first went to choir practice, and on Saturday go into our biggest game for many years.
So, I think for almost all Addicks we just want the Welshman to get us back to basics and bring a bit of pride back.
Please click for more“I am extremely excited by the challenge in front of me at Charlton. It is a club that I have fond memories of from my time here and I want to play my part in moving the club forward.
“I have been approached by a number of clubs to get back into management but I have been waiting for the right opportunity. From my conversations with the Board and given the long-term nature of the contract, I can see there is a real appetite to build something here which I am really looking forward to being a part of.”
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