Match Day Thread I Donny believe it!

In a word, yes.
We have one plan. If it doesn't work, we don't win.

 

Perhaps not in quantity, but for quality there is no comparison.
A small group of fans with minds free enough to think for themselves and see what's really going on is worth any number of toadying apologists.

 

Except when we played 4-4-1, when Novak got sent off.

 

A fair point, but if it has to take a red card to force from Robinson what Ferguson can do at will for his Doncaster team, the question of who is the better coach is a valid one indeed.

So far it's been a mostly smooth ride for Charlton this season. A couple of needless defeats and one footballing lesson from a superior team are the only hiccups on the way to a play-off place. Unless however our talkative manager can walk the walk as well, I fear we will take rather fewer than 20 points from our next 11 league games.

 

Who's going to the game today to line the pockets of the Belgians/support the team?

 

Here is the West Stand, 5 mins from kick off

Those plans to grow a new fan base are not going well

 

Here is the West Stand, 5 mins from kick off

Those plans to grow a new fan base are not going well

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Cheesy commentary and crowd noise

 

1-0 at half time - Fosu.

 

Was it a penalty?

 

Where is Marshall, not on the bench?

 

No. No mention

 

1-0 FT. Good result - looking forward to the feedback.

 

A desperately scrappy & disjointed slugfest between two sides that lacked that extra bit of quality on the day.

The game got off to a strange start with a 3.05 kick off. Fosu scored from outside the box with their keeper at fault. The ref - who made @baraettmattesvensson look like Peter Crouch so short and fat was he, then got knocked out cold, causing another 10 min delay.

Both sides hit the bar and huffed and puffed. Da Silva was not at his best today and Holmes & Fosu ran up too many blind alleys.

The bottom line is that the standard in this league is excreable, but you have to win horrible games like this to get out of it. Another sub 10,000 crowd today suggests that many remain unconvinced ...

 

Donny played some nice football but have a dodgy keeper and no cutting edge. Reeves hardly got a sniff, and when he did he got clattered. To be fair to Holmes and Fosu they usually had no-one in support. Clarke had his least effective game, as well as blazing over from 6 yards when it looked easier to score, and JFK and Kashi are both sitting in front of the back 4, presumably on KR's instructions. KR must be the scruffiest manager in England as well as the loudest- I could hear him in the NW, even without my hearing aid.

 

Job done, but not as comprehensively as it should have been.
A good start, early goal at the near post from 20 yards+ and Charlton were running the show. Then around the 25 minute mark we seemed to just ease off and let Doncaster back into the game. On another day we might have been punished with an equaliser.
Charlton dominated nearly all of the second half, and I didn't think Donny looked very much like scoring - though Solly and Amos had to do some urgent work at times. At the other end we should have been able to score at least one more to kill off any possibility of an unlikely loss of 2 points.

In the end it's the win that matters, and the 3 vital points.
Doncaster put in a shift but I thought they were bang average. Yet despite that, this was not an easy or a routine victory.

 

I don’t normally dig out referees, but that midget we had today was diabolical. He couldn’t keep up with the play.

 

His replacement was better.
What would you say the crowd was?I'd say about 9,000, 1 seat in 3 taken. I noticed there were no police horses needed, they must think they don't need them any more.

 

That's your fault for attending and FURTHER lining the pockets of the Belgians.

So strongly against them you need to see a dart board, not The Valley, at a weekend.

 

Not having your ease at seeing Nero's