It looks like we have picked up a few injuries before tomorrow night’s game. I would imagine that Fosu and Pratley will come in for Williams and Bielik. And that Solly will be recalled for Djiksteel. I also think that after Saturday nights healthy attendance we will be back to 7000-8000 for Burton. Midweek games on work nights are a ball breaker for many fans, me included. Anyone going ?
Looking at the table again, it’s a bit of a weird one. With so many games to go all we are playing for is a favourable Play Off draw.
Barring injuries and suspensions a playoff spot is already there for us. With only one game against a current top ten side left (Luton) it would take a run of a bottom 4 side to see us miss out. A 4th place finish for us with 2 legs over the navy boys in May
Portsmouth showed on Saturday that they are an average side IMO. If we can’t beat them over two legs we have no business thinking of the Championship. The same applies to Doncaster or Peterborough. I have a feeling we are destined to meet Sunderland again in a Wembley Play Off final. The big difference 21 years on will be that instead of Super Clive Mendonca we will have Josh Parker...
looking forward to it although we don't seem to perform on Tuesday nights for some reason. lads left it all out there Saturday though so might be good to freshen up side.
I like Solly, but his form has dropped this season IMO. Opposition teams target long diagonal balls to get in behind him. Williams out for 3 weeks ...so we won’t see him again this season. There’s a player in there, but he’s another who will never stay fit enough for long enough to do himself justice.
Not true , Reeves came on for Bielik and played really well , fosu was also improving. Lapslie can’t get a game , our bench has never looked healthier
I wouldn't make too much of the fact we only have to play one more (current) top 10 side. Having an easier looking run-in than some of our play-off opponents is a positive at face value, but some of the Clubs we will be playing could have targets they want to achieve - and they might have to work harder than we do. Being 'safe' in the top 6, the pressure is now on Lee Bowyer to keep his players motivated. It's not like last season where the play-offs were an unlikely dream that was made reality by a great string of underdog wins. Top 6 is now ours to lose - not an ambition to chase. Burton at the Valley tomorrow will be a telling test of Charlton's resolve to keep going, rather than think it's already job done.
Most of them are crap or out of form to be fair. By League One standards it’s still a respectable bench. None of them are up to it at a higher level.
Is this going to be a case of 'after the Lord Mayors show'? A more than half empty Valley, and opposition set up for a draw, when the home fans turn up expecting a spanking. As I said before Pompey, our problems seem to set in when the opposition shut up shop, and I'm not confident tonight. I'll go for a 1-1 draw, though I hope we can do much better (ddep down I'd want us to go on a winning run like the one we achived before the Sunderland play off final.
It could well be a hangover night tonight. Poor attendance, rotten weather, an opponent who isn't going to play open, easy-on-the-eye football and just let us stroll through them. Tonight could be much tougher than Saturday. If Boyer gets it right and we do Burton, it will be as big a lift to me as beating Portsmouth. No way is this a given, or should it be dismissed if we do win it. I won't be surprised at all if we come unstuck this evening.
I can see a 1-1 draw. It is going to be tough after the weekend. Burton have a good record away from home. Phillips Solly, Bauer, Sarr, Purrington Reeves Cullen, Aribo, Fosu Taylor Vetokele Subs Maxwell, Dijksteel, Lapslie, Pratley, Marshall, Hackett- Fairchild, Parker
