Oct 9
I had a bad feeling about yesterday. Even though it was half a reserve team in the week, it was a heavy defeat and we haven’t yet had to bounce back from one of those, and I felt that would signal a sluggish start, which it did. Plus we were on such a high last Saturday, and Addicks spend as much time in the air as a penguin. Then there was our recent history with the team from the Wirral.
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Charlton Athletic 1 Tranmere Rovers 1
We can’t be happy with that can we? Yes we stopped “the rot” but a point at home to Tranmere is simply not good enough in any context.
From the radio the first half was woeful, littered by mistakes, one of which led to Rovers goal, who by all accounts were even wasting time during the warm up hence why for the bazillionth time our game finished last in the country.
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Tranmere Rovers 1 Charlton Athletic 1
I got home too late from hospital to listen in to the game. From reading reports it sounded like we got off to a blistering start but couldn’t keep up the pace in the 2nd half and a point was probably fair.
How much we should read into this result after our 4-0 win at Prenton Park at around the same time last season I don’t know. What I do know is it’s proving more and more difficult for me to pass comment on team performances and our prospects for the season as unusually by this stage I haven’t even seen the boys play yet.
So I try not to be a fraud and take my leads from friends and other bloggers but then again hardly any one player is getting a run in the team at the moment and PP is making on average 4 to 5 changes a game. PP calls it “picking teams horses for courses.” I call it not knowing your best team and for me we still look like we are in an extended pre-season.
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Piedmont Park, Atlanta
