Charlton Athletic Post Match Thoughts

[sawmiller]

Very concerned about Proctor. JCH must now stay put. As other have said, defending a concern, and could be looking over our shoulders a fair bit this season. Imperative we get the building blocks in place and are able to stabilise the club and build a decent foundation. Would take mid table mediocrity if offered now

[jolly_roger]

It was my first chance to see the Millers today and for the first 10 minutes I was fairly impressed, but after that oh boy did it go wrong.

Easy to blame the ref, who was incompetent as usual but there are basic flaws there.

1. I assume because Moore has had a good goal scoring start that our main tactic is to lump the ball at him from 30 yards away? Our midfielders were completely out of the game. It was reminiscent of the way we used to lump the ball at Alex Revell.

2. Credit to the Charlton manager who set his number 22 out wide thus leaving Williams to decide whether to man mark him or to defend the space in front of Emmanuel. The outcome was Emmanuel was often trying to mark both men and ended up being run ragged. I assume Warne subbed Taylor to try to commit their number 22 to defending but the game was lost by then. It needed a plan B much much earlier.

3. The defence? A collection of individuals not a cohesive unit, individually they have talent but there's an obvious lack of defensive coaching at the club. Both goals should have been bread and butter defending. Fair enough it was a foul and a typical Kettle cock up leading to the second goal but the way Newell waved a leg at the guy that crossed the ball was very very weak. Even then it should have been defended out.

Overall, it looks like it's going to be a very long season

[brassgnat]

Didn't go yesterday, and such as Charlton, Peterbro, Fleetwood are amongst favourites for top 6, but they are not established championship sides, and we are still losing to them.
Are we now expected to lose to anyone who is top half Division 1?

[DaveyJohn]

Didn't go yesterday, and such as Charlton, Peterbro, Fleetwood are amongst favourites for top 6, but they are not established championship sides, and we are still losing to them.
Are we now expected to lose to anyone who is top half Division 1?

I think a mid table finish for us this season will be about right, so in some respects I think we will struggle against any side with promotion/play off ambitions. We need a season or two in this league to rebuild so that any return to the Championship doesn't lead to a season of utter farce