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May 12

15 players released

Part one of Luzon/Duchatelet/Meire’s summer transfer strategy was executed today with the announcement of 15 players released.

They are: Tal Ben Haim; Simon Church; Chris Eagles; Roger Johnson; Lawrie Wilson; Oguchi Onyewu; Neil Etheridge; Jack Munns; Harry Osborne; Harry Gerard; Kadell Daniel; Kurtis Cumberbatch; Kieran Monlouis; Rhys Browne; Levander Pyke.

A mixture of the unfortunate attrition of young pros who were unable to step up plus 7 first teamers. My only disappointment is seeing Ben Haim go, although it was apparently his own decision. Not so much disappointed but sad to see Lawrie Wilson and Simon Church move on.

The Welshman scored just 10 goals in Charlton colours, but his work rate could never be questioned, but I expect his career will have to continue down a division.

Lawrie Wilson’s form dipped this season after an excellent 2014/15 season, when I personally thought he was player of the year. He was very friendly with Hamer, Morrison, Hughes and Jackson and an integral part of Chris Powell’s squad but he was sidelined under both Peeters and Luzon and the writing was on the wall. However I am pleased that he was able to come back to the club where he began his career to show us what a great pro he is. Best of luck Lawrie.
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Mar 20

Seeya Lawrie

Lawrie Wilson has joined Millwall’s relegation rivals’ Rotherham on loan until the end of the season and sadly I expect that will be the last we see of the former academy player, re-signed by Chris Powell almost 3 years ago.

Wilson is out of contract at the end of the season and has been a peripheral figure for the Addicks this season, although he has featured in 27 games, but mostly in bit parts. Early in the season 17-year old Joe Gomez was preferred at right back to Wilson, when Solly was rested and Jóhann Berg Gudmundsson has made the right side of midfield his own.
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Aug 13

Charlton Athletic 4 Colchester United 0

Charlton and formality are two words rarely seen together in the same sentence, yet last night a decent turn out at The Valley witnessed just that.

Credit to Big Bob for putting out a team capable of winning the tie, then giving a galvanizing half-time pep talk and finally throwing on further match-winners later in the game, even though the game was won, to keep up the interest. As Bob said the fans “had a good night.”
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Apr 14

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We go together

Tuesday night, and another Addicks game under the lights.

There are big games, there are massive games and there are huge games. All of those boxes are ticked tomorrow as we look to put a glimmer of light between us and the noise below us.
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Apr 8

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Charlton Athletic 3 Yeovil Town 2

“Please put away your tray tables and turn off all mobile devices.”

Sat on a plane at Miami Airport, I had to turn off my phone at half-time and my mind was then left to race away for two hours overthinking a multitude of potential different outcomes of tonight’s game. Flying above the clouds at 30,000 feet should bring solitude and calm. Oh no, not when Charlton are playing a relegation six-pointer it doesn’t!
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Mar 10

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The morning after

Well I hope the players and coaching staff woke up this morning with more stomach for the fight than me. I got up this morning feeling like I’d been hit by a bus with a very negative state of mind. Talking to my brother and a few mates who were up there did not help.

My heart goes out to all of you that made the journey and had to endure a long and thoroughly despressing trip home.

I was very nervous before the game, probably because I am so unused to seeing us live on the television, and frankly this was another to consign to the rubbish bin tagged Charlton’s TV games. 
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Feb 28

Game of poker

It was little over a week ago now since Roland Duchâtelet announced in front of a large audience that he was discussing Chris Powell’s contract “for the coming years.”

That night Powell and Alex Dyer cancelled an appearance at Bromley Addicks, probably to avoid difficult questions from an audience as fans assumed that negotiations were ongoing. That was Thursday.
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Jul 10

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First signings

Noah’s Ark or Sparrows Lane at least is back in business as two new signings joined the fray yesterday.

Ex-academy youngster Lawrie Wilson (who was the last Lawrie we had? Madden? Abrahams?) joined on the famous undisclosed fee, reported to be £500,000. Striker Jordan Cook joins from Sunderland I would think as more of ‘one for the future.’
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