Sep 8
Chuks Aneke signed for Shrewsbury Town today, making him the last of the players released by the Addicks in the summer to get themselves sorted.
There’s a really good interview, if you ignore the comments about Michael Appleton, with Chuks on the Shrewsbury website if you have five minutes.
Please click for moreNo surprises in today’s released and retained list by the club.
Farewell to academy graduate Aaron Henry, Championship play-off winners medalist’s Chuks Aneke and Tennai Watson plus short-term ‘keeper signing Dean Bouzanis.
Please click for moreIt wasn’t a surprise was it that Chuks’ ban was not overturned. It rarely happens that a referee admits to a mistake, and it never happens to us.
This despite obvious video evidence that the coming together between him and the Wycombe player was neither violent conduct nor an elbow in the face.
Please click for moreMy first thoughts are that is probably Chuks done for the season or at least a big chunk of what is left.
I can’t see what other reason we’d sign Connor Wickham although he apparently has been training with the club for the past two weeks.
Please click for moreClinging onto branches of good things at the moment.
How up for it was Chuks Aneke when he came on last night? This photo taken by Paul Edwards was just a few seconds after he entered the pitch. Straight up to Lincoln’s two centre-halves banging into one and then giving them both some verbal.
Please click for moreAs day follows night, but gut wrenching for Chuks and us all the same.
Michael Appleton said today that following a scan, Chuks Aneke will be out “a couple of months at least.”
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 moreSheffield Wednesday had the look of champions didn’t they. An experienced line up, defensively sound, dangerous on the attack, a master of the dark arts and backed by a big away support. They are a juggernaut only heading one way.
Wednesday play in the mold of Darren Moore, who has been given time and support. I wonder if Dean Holden will be offered the same.
Please click for moreIs tomorrow a must win? Game 12 of the season.
Losing or in our case drawing is a habit. We couldn’t even hang on in the Pizza Cup on Tuesday. I was needlessly annoyed after the game, and despite what Scott Marshall said this was not a youthful team, and it was shocking that after dominating we still lost to a team 3rd bottom of L2 with just one win all season.
Please click for moreMcGrandles, Jaiyesimi, Egbo, Blackett-Taylor, Sessegnon, Aneke. All injured.
You have to feel sorry for Chuks. It wasn’t his fault that Thomas waggled a large contract under his nose in January. I would have grabbed the pen and scribbled my name down very quickly as well.
Please click for moreThe player we never replaced has returned today on a three-and-half-year deal said to be worth £300,000.
Aneke scored 16 goals last season, and moved for a free to Birmingham during the summer. He has played 18 matches for Lee Bowyer’s side but only 370 minutes. He has scored twice this season and came on as sub in their last game.
Please click for moreThis may confuse those that thought Chuks and Lee Bowyer didn’t get on, but money talks and so does familiarity.
Rich Cawley is reporting that Chuks Aneke is finalizing his free transfer move to St. Andrews after spending two seasons at The Valley. He has only one Championship goal to his name after spending almost his entire career in League One. He did also play 44 games in Belgium’s top league.
Please click for moreSo in this most forlorn of all season’s, when our home record resembles desperate relegation years, tonight the Addicks stretched out the fun and anticipation to the final game of the season by managing to beat 3rd placed Lincoln City 3-1.
Charlton Athletic, the grandmasters of kicking you in the teeth, now face champions Hull on Sunday when a win combined with not a win for both Portsmouth or Oxford will take us into the play-off’s.
Please click for moreThis is not an easy topic is it. Hard to follow Lyle Taylor or Dillon Phillips, but someone will be crowned our Player of the Year tomorrow.
You need to go here, if you haven’t done so already, to cast your vote for the most deserving case of this hugely frustrating campaign. Even Omar Bogle is available for selection. How thoughtful!
Please click for moreJust the two games left before the curtains can close on this ghastly season. It was an ugly game, which suited the majority of all that had gone before it.
We were terrible, undeserving of a last kick equaliser. A fuddled game plan in which the only plan appeared to play like them and just hoof up into the air at every oppportunity. More upsetting was the lack of determination and mettle to try to win the game, which we had to.
There is abolutely nothing to cling onto with this team. They, all of them, truly give you nothing to believe in.
That was terrible wasn’t it. Massive must-win game and we flunked it. I can’t help but thinking of the Birmingham game at the end of last season.
It was Crewe Alexandra we were playing wasn’t it? They were so much better than us – just like Doncaster, MK Dons, Accrington, Rochdale, Swindon etc. No need to go on.
When Chuks went down clutching his hamstring 2nd half on Tuesday we feared the worst. The man with the apparent glass muscles was playing only because he had his four-match ban overturned and now it looked as if he was going to be out injured. Charltonization at it’s finest.
But, that corner is there for the turning because today Lee Bowyer declared Chuks “fine” and fit. Good news, Aneke has been one of a few shining lights this season.
Baby steps.
If Saturday was a head on car crash then tonight was of one of parallel parking where you get the car in the space without accident even though it is not very straight!
Tonight was not about the aesthetics, it was about the win and secondly it was about the desire to get that win.
Is this the corner?
After the club appealed Chuks Aneke’s sending off against Blackpool on Saturday – it was in the 85th minute if you’d had already turned off by then. The Football Association’s independent Regulatory Commission have agreed and the red card has now been rescinded.
That was like watching us in the late 70’s. For those of you old enough to remember. Soul destroying, uplifting and slapstick in equal measures.
In all honesty the first half was pretty abominable. Our five man defence parted like the Red Sea on numerous occasions, and yes Rochdale probably couldn’t believe their luck as they hit goal of the season bingo with every effort on target, but it was another harrowing start to the first half. Well the middle, and end too.
That was a much better feeling wasn’t it?
It was so enjoyable to watch us attack like that in the 2nd half. We played with great tempo, got the ball out wide quickly, and into the box often. We looked really dangerous everytime we got into their final third and all in front of a noisy Covered End.
Funny game that.
I thought at times we looked sloppy, disjointed and rusty but we generally controlled the game without creating a ton. At other times our passing was crisp and judicious. We missed a penalty, conceded a time-honoured dubious one, but still left a ground we rarely do well at with a point.
This evening the newly put together Addicks squad proved they can do it on a chilly Tuesday night by the seaside as we left the Lancastrian coast with all three points.
The performance was once again a long, long way from perfect but there were encouraging signs. Ryan Inniss and Akin Famewo were dominant at the back against a good forward three for Blackpool. I thought Andrew Shinnie and Chris Gunter were more on point, and Alfie was once again a live wire, night cap and all.
A scrappy and sometimes untidy performance but we came away with the much needed 3 points today at The Valley.
It’s almost impossible to judge the team, and I think it will be most of this month before it’ll be fair to make any appraisals.
A great point to bring home from Wales tonight.
Another defensive blockade and when we needed him Dillon Phillips delivered with the one big save of the night from Adomah.
The result was all the more significant as Lee Bowyer made seven changes to his line-up and changed the formation. Adam Matthews and Tomer Hemed didn’t travel due to small knocks and Sam Field and Jake Forster-Caskey started in a three-man midfield after long lay-offs.
Not sure what to think about that. Watching was quite intense, but looking back the game was split into intervals. One thing is for sure we did not deserve to lose.
I thought the first half hour we imposed ourselves on the game excellently with Sam Field as the midfield pivot the real catalyst for our high pressing driving game. We held the ball well and had some good forward moments in the 1st half without really threatening, but nor did they.
Losing first Field and then JFC, now in an even more alien position of left-back, was a killer. You could tell it shook us. The changes weren’t necessarily drastic although I don’t like Solly at left back and Pratley was clearly being saved for Saturday, but it hit our flow and I’m sure Bowyer was pleased to get them back to the changing room.
This team just continue to shock you don’t they. Reading were on the back off three good results but the Addicks put in a dominant display to deservedly take the points.
Chris Solly returned as we went four at the back with Sam Field replacing Darren Pratley. In the first 45, although we had the first chance when Leko saw a shot saved, Reading had the better chances and we had to rely on both the woodwork and then Dillon Phillips who saved one-on-one just before the break.
Like waiting for a bus. The Addicks made two signings today. Tom Lockyer, a centre back from Bristol Rovers and striker Chuks Aneke from MK Dons. Both players pictured and are free agents after turning down deals at their current clubs.
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