Aug 31
The club were keen to sell Dan Kanu this summer and raise some funds, but set the price too high it seems. Instead Kanu will move to Notts County on a season long loan.
Last season the 21-year old did very well in L2 at Walsall scoring 15 league goals, his form dropping only in line with Walsall’s as they ended up in 9th.
Please click for moreSo, that is one off the wage bill, although Lucas Ness’ pay was not in the same bracket as Scott Fraser.
I am pleased Ness has got his move, and Notts County are a good club.
Please click for moreI’ve just seen the goals on Sky, what a wonderful finish that was by Waggy and fully justifying his starting place in the team. By all accounts Wagstaff played so well that Danny Green didn’t even get close to taking his tracksuit off!
We will play better teams than both Bournemouth and County but trust me we will play far worse. In Martin Allen they have a manager who is an expert motivator and they brushed aside Carlisle last week and ran city rivals Forest about as close as you can get in the League Cup on Tuesday, so today’s win at Meadow Lane packed a powerful message of what we can hope for this season.
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Tuesday night’s cancellation also affected the chances of a few players staking a claim for a first 16 place. Danny Green, Andy Hughes, Ruben Bover, Cedric Evina and maybe even Jason Euell could all have featured against Reading but although one would suspect Powell will be tempted to begin with the same team that began on Saturday I think he may give the right wing berth to Danny Green holding back Waggy for a 2nd half introduction perhaps even up front.
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Notts County 1 Charlton Athletic 0
I actually thought at times last night we played quite well. It wasn’t pretty and the pitch was a dog, but we did enough to take a point didn’t we? Anyinsah and Eccleston’s pace caused them a lot of problems, especially in the first half but for some composure one of them would have scored, and but for a reckless challenge by County ‘keeper Nelson, then Joe would almost certainly have scored. A free-kick 30 yards out and a yellow card was little justice.
Yet, for the 3rd consecutive game we lost. BWP, who I felt looked a bit disinterested throughout missed a sitter in the first and then had a poor penalty saved by Nelson, who shouldn’t have been on the pitch.
It was a horribly messy goal to concede. Francis’ misfortune aside, it came from another set-piece and Powell has to work on this. Jenkinson, a surprise inclusion at left-back, was a plus point but Doherty and Dailly played far too many lofted anywhere-will-do-passes.
For all of the temptation of an Ebbsfleet United or a Dover Athletic or even a FC United of Manchester, I was far happier with Barnet away in today’s FA Cup 1st Round draw.
We have only played the Bees four times, never in the league but we have met them a couple of times in recent pre-season’s. I was at our only competitive game at Underhill in 1995. It was a truly dreadful game, on a dreadful pitch. I think the crowd was around 1,750 and we must have had around 500. I expect there to be double the crowd on November 6th.
Charlton Athletic 1 Notts County 0
I was driving to a friends lake house in Indiana yesterday trying to sneek quick looks at my phone and it sounded a shocker, especially first half. Someone once said a win is a win but new team or no new team, we have to play better.
Goals and chances are becoming thin on the ground. Parky chased Paul Benson all over the east end during the summer, but the ex-Dagger has yet to score this season. I wonder if it is time to move Lee Martin back up front and bring our top scorer Scott Wagstaff back into the fold? Certainly that would give us more mobility.
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Paddington Station, London
