Apr 23
The final Valley game of the season and a victory in front of a crowd of 11,207. I wonder how many of those will buy a season ticket for next season?
It was typical of an end of season game, the first half was pretty turgid but the second was better and after Craig MacGillivray made a double save just after the start we were the dominant side with the Shrews rarely gambling men forward into dangerous offensive areas.
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It was much needed, and although the first half was largely forgettable and we were second-best for a big chunk of it, we did end it on the front foot and the 2nd half saw us deservedly take our first three points since December 11th.
Please click for moreAug 26
A bit of a weird one for me to be honest. I am quite friendly with the Lee family, although not enough to have any real intel, but I am sure Elliot Lee joining the Addicksâ today on loan will have raised a smile with both his grandad and father.
Please click for moreI’m not one for looking at the league table or casting season-long aspersions after three games, but I would like to see a glimmer of possibility, a framework, a promising player, a style of play, but today was again poor.
After a pre-season of much hype of player acquisitions, a defined style of play and rock n’ roll what has been served up so far has been pretty uninspiring. We were a long way second-best today, overrun in midfield, error prone in front of our own goal and bereft of attacking ideas…. the long hoof in the general direction of Stockley’s head will become very tiresome, very soon.
Please click for moreI was off the radar yesterday. I think that is what the glued-to-the-election-other-half said to me when I eventually got home last night before falling asleep on the sofa.
Thanks to Benjy Nurick’s Twitter feed I did manage to follow the game and at 2-0 with us steaming forward at every opportunity and not having conceded a goal forever the game sounded a forgone conclusion with just over half an hour gone.
Spoke too soon I said to myself after Ched Evans scored twice in two minutes to bring Fleetwood level.
Good news today as the club made a positive investment in the future by offering new contracts to Albie Morgan and Josh Davison.
Morgan and Davison, both 20, signed three and two years deals respectively. Davison has an option of a further year.
I am on a self imposed social media ban. The negativity is caustic. Anyways it was bought to my attention that Albie Morgan has come under criticism for his âlikingâ Karlan Grantâs post gloriously celebrating Huddersfieldâs 4-0 win on Saturday.
I always thought of Morgan older than his years, but publicly approving to Grantâs finger to lips action was rather stupid. He has since unliked what he liked, so guess thatâs okay.
Lee Bowyer cheery, positive and brutally honest in todayâs pre-weekend press conference.
Cheery that he has an almost full squad to pick from, positive after last weekâs crucial win and a high energy week of training, but brutally honest about some of his players.
Thereâs been many games this season where Bowyer could not name a full bench, but with Cullen, Taylor, Williams, Hemed, Oztumer, Forster-Caskey and Amos all fit enough for action and with Aneke and Lapslie to next two to come back, and then add in the three transfer deadline additions, Bow has for the first time in months choices.
So proud of that Charlton team tonight, six 20 or under players featuring. They took the game to Swansea on their own patch and dominated the 2nd half. Not one hid, and they moved the ball well and chased every lost cause.
Davison, Dempsey, Morgan, Vennings, Doughty and not forgetting Conor Gallagher were a credit. Again, thank you for your hard work and expertise Steve Avory.
That was about as far removed from a Lee Bowyerâs team performance as possible. It was awful, and my heart goes out to the brave 500 or so Addicks who wasted a day if not longer going up there to watch it. Including Matt Southall. Legends all.
It was a good, open game for the Sky cameras, but we canât afford to give away two-goal leads, but in the end we have to be pleased to take a point and after their second I was happy to see us go for it and try to get the winner.
We started slowly but took the lead with our first real attack. Gallagher showing great awareness and desire to continue his run into the box and slot home after Leko missed a pass from Bonne, who deserved the assist.
We relaxed after and got the passing game going as the Covered End turned the volume up.
A lot of smiling Addicks getting a well earned rest during the international break. The Championship is a great league, one of Europeâs most competitive and it feels good to be back and thus far we have not looked out of place at all.
We have played 4 of the top 7 and lost just once. In only one game did we not do ourselves justice, and that was at Wigan. Yet a week later we bounced back in the best possible way, memorably beating Leeds. Iâm still glowing from the Fulham game. We didnât win, but it was a great advert for the league and we played our part and that away corner was, as someone we know would say, bouncing.
What with first Beram Kayalâs delayed loan and then the ongoing signing of Tomer Hemed, transfer deadline day was a bit of a moving target for us Addicks, but yesterdayâs transfer deadline #2 didnât really shake any foundations as only one young squad member headed out on loan.
Brendan Wiredu goes out on loan to Colchester United until January. The 19-year featured in Lee Bowyerâs pre-season plans and was at Bromley at the end of last season. Colchester have good pedigree of producing and improving young players and Wiredu made his debut tonight for the Uâs in the EFL trophy.
I gave a little punch of the air yesterday as I queued for Doctor Doomâs Fearful at Universalâs Islands of Adventure when the final whistle blew at The Valley.
Back to winning ways to start the new year and into 5th.
Sounded as in the first half we were awesome, many describing it as our best football of the season with the team playing with confidence and finesse as Walsall chased shadows. Of course scoring two goals in the first 10 minutes will help that.
3 points on the slate, and another injury time winner, but this time in our favour. A paltry, but supportive Valley crowd didnât have much to cheer for the first hour. The first half was exceptionally dull according to reports. I havenât a clue as I was a taxiing on a plane and then oblivious at 30,000 feet until I could sign on for wifi at our Colombian hotel, and then celebrated with a cold beer.
Six subs this week, no Jed Steer. Phillips was steady by all accounts and the front two both scored. Loving Lyle, but I would love to see Grant crack it. Great to see him get the winner.
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