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Apr 24

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Dobbo going or staying?

The 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.

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Apr 22

Travelogue – Clermont, Florida

Rarely do you ever see rolling hills in Florida, but running down the spine of the sunshine state is Lake-Wales Ridge, a 100-mile white sand ridge that tops out at 312 feet, the highest natural point in the state called Sugarloaf Mountain…. Not to be confused of course with the other Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro.

About 10 miles south of here on the same sand ridge is a pretty little place called Clermont. We were there this past weekend for a swim meet at the National Training Center staying at an AirBnB a couple of miles from the historical downtown area.

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Apr 20

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Charlton Athletic 1 Shrewsbury Town 1

Draw 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.

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Apr 19

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Lucas Ness signs year extension

A interesting decision to trigger Lucas Ness’ contract for a final year. The 22-year old has had exactly 33 minutes of football under Nathan Jones and has appeared way down the pecking order behind Gillesphey, Hector, Thomas and Edmonds-Green.

I am always happy to see our academy players given an extra chance to prove themselves, and this is certainly that.

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Apr 16

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Play up Pompey

After 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.

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Apr 13

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Cambridge United 1 Charlton Athletic 1

Another 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.

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Apr 12

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New Sky TV and EFL deal

As 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.

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Apr 10

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Charlton Athletic 2 Wigan Athletic 2

A 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.

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Apr 8

Solar Eclipse

America has been in total eclipse meltdown today, although not literally hopefully.

Mind you I was standing on Wall Street in New York earlier and was about the only person on the street without those eclipse glasses. The sun was bright and I am not sure my ray-bans cut it.

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Apr 7

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Candlelight concert

I first started seeing my social media feeds filling up with pictures of dark eye-catching churches and historic theatres with a classical quartet sat amongst flickering candles at the end of last year, but candlelight concerts have been wowing audiences in hundreds of cities since 2020.

Candlelight Concerts has since became a successful brand under its parent company Fever, which is a global entertainment platform, and has struck upon a very winning formula.

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Apr 6

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Charlton Athletic 2 Barnsley 1

Barnsley 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.

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Apr 6

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Lloyd Jones’ injection

The 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.

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Apr 1

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Charlton Athletic 0 Stevenage 0

Another 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.

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Mar 30

Alexander Hamilton on our doorstep

I was lucky enough to see Hamilton on Broadway 6 years ago, and today I went again with the family to see the touring production at the Van Wezel Theater in Sarasota, and it did not disappoint.

I was told before my first viewing that it was a show you’d have to see a number of times as with each visit you make new discoveries. In fact I have a mate who has watched it a couple of dozen times, and he might only just be able to tell the complete Alexander Hamilton story.

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Mar 29

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Exeter City 1 Charlton Athletic 1

That 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.

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