Charlie Kelman signs
A Sunday signing.
Charlie Kelman has signed from Queens Park Rangers on a 4-year deal for an undisclosed fee, which apparently was in excess of £3m, rising to £5m with a ton of add-ons.
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Jul 27
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Kelman and Knibbs
K&K. Well, at least it seems one K.
QPR and Charlton today reached an agreement for the transfer of Charlie Kelman according to top level transfer guru Fabrizio Romano. Of course the much more reliable and down to earth source Rich Cawley is now carrying this story as well.
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Ethan Gailbraith bid turned down
Sky Sports are reporting, so a reliable source, that Leyton Orient have turned down a bid from Charlton of £1.3 million for Ethan Gailbraith.
Gailbraith impressed for the O’s in the last two season’s playing 96 times, scoring 11 goals, with 10 assists.
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Charlton Athletic 1 Leyton Orient 0 (Wembley)
Exhausted, but the best kind of 🔴⚪️
I learnt a long time ago that these kind of days do not come along very often, and when they do you have to soak it in, cement it into your memory. Soak it in, Addicks.
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Leyton Orient 1 Charlton Athletic 2
Wow. This team does not know when to give up.
We deserved something from the game, but as the clocked ticked onto 90 minutes, hope appeared to have left the stadium, yet the 11 yellow shirted Addicks had definitely not.
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Big games are what it’s about
Of course I wasn’t paying any attention 😉, but tonight went pretty well elsewhere.
Tonight the juices flow a bit quicker as Saturday looms larger. I tell you what though, it’s nice to be involved in a big game, we have not had anywhere enough of them in recent seasons.
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Big win, big win
I had been trying to keep an eye on the Addicks last day of the transfer window whilst at a work symposium where back to back meetings only allow breaks for more coffee and a pee.
After a month of inaction it all happened today as the club signed on loan Alex Gilbert and Tom McIntyre, moved out Zach Mitchell on loan and sold REG permanently to Leyton Orient.
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Charlton Athletic 1 Leyton Orient 0
I didn’t know if that was going to come, but our superior fitness told and Luke Berry’s 92nd minute winner gave us a second league 1-0 victory.
Clean sheets were impossible to come by last season, but Nathan Jones has fabricated a base from which we can build.
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Leyton Orient 1 Charlton Athletic 0
Indefensible that. Another display devoid of idea, organization, threat or care.
And afterwards again Michael Appleton passed blame onto the players. I suspect keeping telling them that they are not good enough and need to be replaced or kicked out in January is taking its toll.
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Charlton Athletic 1 Leyton Orient 0
Definitely plenty of work needed, as well as new players, but a welcome opening day win for the Addicks over Leyton Orient today.
There was a lot to like, but we made a little bit too much work out of it in the end, but did enough to deserve the win in front of a very decent crowd.
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Optimism-ometer 📈
My optimism-ometer is a little bit more perkier this August than it has been in recent season eves.
Absolutely a lot more work needs to be done in the transfer market and we are missing players in key positions, but there is a month to go, and most clubs, not all, but most have been quite suppressed in the market so far.
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Addicks in Spain
I was going to tune in tomorrow to see the boys play Leyton Orient but it kicks off at 6am here. Mind you it is a two hour match split into 30 minute quarters, so I am sure I will catch a bit of the action at some point.
Over 150 Addicks are in Marbella to follow the team, which is pretty amazing. I hope they are having a great time in the sun.
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Idris El Mizouni
Ipswich’s Tunisian international looks to be high up on Dean Holden’s loan list. Whilst loan players normally come late in a transfer window it sounds as if Charlton have already lodged a season-long offer but are up against competition from Derby and Wycombe.
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Carlisle away. In November
That might just be a tad too early to celebrate promotion!
The League One fixtures were spat out today and we begin with our first league local derby for a little while when we host promoted Leyton Orient at The Valley. This is followed by a trip to Peterborough United. Two home games follow against Bristol Rovers and Port Vale.
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The no d*ckheads policy
In the new order of things it looks like Stevenage and Leyton Orient will take over from Millwall and Palace as our rivals.
I am chuffed for the O’s, their fans have been through hell and back and their success shows what can be done with smart and thoughtful ownership with the club at the very heart of decision making. As for Stevenage I wasn’t bothered.
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Bonne chance
A surprise signing today down in SE7. Macauley Bonne, Leyton Orient’s top scorer from the last two seasons, 49 goals in all. Even more surprising was there was a fee. Lee Bowyer indicated that RD maybe prepared to offer small fees on players, where there is future value.
Bonne signed an extension to his O’s contract last summer and it is thought that there was a break fee of £200,000.
The O’s and Shots
In the National League the contrasting seasons of Aldershot Town and Leyton Orient were enormous. Both teams I have always had a soft spot for.
My first ever football match I witnessed live was at The Recreation ground in Aldershot. As I badgered the old man to take me to his club, the one a few miles away in SE7 that he’d got out of the habit of watching, we happened to be at some friends one weekend in Camberley.
The Dad was an avid Aldershot watcher, and asked my Dad and I to accompany him, and I have vivid memories of the day. The opposition has always been a mystery to me, but I’m pretty sure it was Stockport County, themselves promoted yesterday and in a quirk of fate will replace the Shots in the National League.
Heartbreaking for The O’s
Great little club are Leyton Orient. During the mid 70’s and 80’s when I first started going to Charlton we played them regularly and my family and I would always make the short journey across the river. We were there for the abandoned game in 1978. The game was called off at half-time and the tannoy system was so bad that the crowd only found out by word of mouth. We went back for the re-arranged game which had been postponed again and was pushed back 24 hours to see us avoid relegation by the skins of our teeth.
In 2014 The O’s were a penalty kick away from playing in The Championship and then Barry Hearn sold the club to Francesco Becchetti, who walked the EFL’s fit and proper test because he had money and ambition. Sadly what Becchetti also had was not one clue of how to run a football club. As Barry Hearn said: “But no one could have foreseen the level of ineptitude when it comes to management. You can’t do due diligence on whether he is a nutter!” Sound familiar?
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No tears spilt for Fulham
“All aboard the CAFC party boat to Fulham” – Johnnie Jackson
My disappointment at seeing Birmingham avoid relegation soon evaporated after hearing of Fulham’s demise at Stoke City. They were truly awful yesterday and after 13 Premiership season’s they will join Cardiff in The Championship next season.
I have long had an irrational dislike of Fulham, who were transformed from a community, family club with a rich history into the egotistical face of Mohammed Al Fayed, who over time squeezed every ounce of individuality out of the club and it’s famous ground. Michael Jackson statues and neutral areas just two examples.
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Winning
Charlton Athletic 3 Leyton Orient 1
April Fools Day came late to SE7 yesterday as not only did those rip roaring Addicks win for the first time in 7 weeks, the ball stayed on the ground for longer than it has for months and Jose Semedo scored only his second goal in 128 Charlton appearances. Feels good doesn’t it?
Judging by reports we started well, with a good tempo and movement. Then we conceded and our fragile confidence split. At half-time though Powell finally got through to the players and they came out and put on a show. The O’s didn’t lie down however and the Valley faithful got a long-owed decent match, 3 goals, some positive talking points afterwards and of course 3 points.
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Solly good show
Leyton Orient 1 Charlton Athletic 3
A Charlton performance to warm your heart tonight in East London. After a decent first half with the ball being played along the floor more than is normally expected in Div 3, we held a 1-0 lead but after the break the O’s cranked up the pressure and ex-Addick Scott McGleish scored against us again and then within minutes for the second league game in a row we were reduced to 10 men.
Dailly’s second yellow was clumsy and with 30 minutes left I was sat at my desk thinking a point would be a good result. However Doherty and particularly Llera showed great resolve heading and kicking every cross away whilst in front of them Racon and McCormack formed a human shield.
Abbott ran his socks off and Martin was a clever outlet but it was Scott Wagstaff, disappointing in the two games so far who caused the damage with a finish that Super Clive would have been proud off to put us surprisingly back in front. Then a fantastic burst of pace down the right by Waggy deep into injury time ended with an inviting cross to be met by a jubilant Chris Solly to end proceedings.
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