As a striker on loan we could do far worse and the prolific targets went elsewhere. I'm sure if given the support and chances Obika will deliver.
Obika did OK can't blame him today he didn't get any chances come his way ,still think he's the best we've got.
Just seen Football League show, As always BBC with some brilliant knowledge.... apparently Morrision tripped their man for the Pen... in all fairness he looks exactly like Dervite so I cant see the mistake... Also why do they keep having to talk about the pitch? The commentators and Sean Dyche mentioning a "dreadful playing surface" and even worse comment was by Dyche "the worst pitch I have seen in many years" Are Charlton the only ones in the world who appear to know that we have a problem with the drainage breaking?
I didn't see the show, but to be fair there were no talking points on that match so they would have to fill the 25 second highlights with something, anything. No positives whatsoever for me from that match. Burnley are very very effective. They're also quite good, but effective and efficient. We didn't deserve anything from the match. Best of luck to them in the Premier League. I'm a little less confident about the Forest match now. Hopefully can bounce back. Why would Burnley fans want to go in the West Stand? They didn't sell out.
I think Riga was saving him for the Forest game, can't argue with that. I think Astrid moved over to the right, where he was even more ineffective, I'm not sure where REza was supposed to be playing, it didn't really matter for all the impact he made. I assume that Jose has now told Roland a few home truths about how much "help" these players really are. Roland probably heard it already from CP, but didn't believe him.
Well, I was there and it was'nt much fun. I ll post more later, but in short, the stand out points were what I ve been reading on here. Church simply is nt the striker we need now, and his confidence is zero. Green cannot cross. And Poyet? Eighteen, and he put the rest to shame. Best Charlton player I ve seen for years. I dont care what it costs, we need him here.
Possibly our worse home performance this season .... Just no passion on buzz Burnley didn't have to do much to win was a very sad performance
Yeah I'm not arguing with the decision to take Poyet off. Both he and Cousins will need to be rested occasionally in the run-in. I just couldn't understand the resulting formation. It looked like Cousins was on his own in midfield and Wilson/Wiggins converted to wing-backs. Was it Obika or Sordell wide left? My eyesight not so good, whoever it was looked busy so I'll guess Obika. And despite there being only 6 players with any defensive role (and 3 supposed strikers on the field), it still didn't look like there was a striker. Reza and Astrid wandering around midfield and Jackson just behind where a striker might be. It must be the future.
The performance showed CP not to be the disaster some thought, a new more adventurous coach as JR clearly is cannot turn this team into a goal scoring machine. And JR did what CP did in the cup, which he was critisised for, taking Poyet off, in effect giving up on the game. We need to be quicker on the breaks. Our quick attacks take 5 minutes to reach the edge of the opposition penalty area but when we reach there, there is no final ball or anyone who can put the ball away. My hope of avoiding the drop is disappearing, this time next week my hope may have gone altogether.
To be fair to Sordell, he has started trying recently. L1 is full of ex-Charlton strikers who are scoring regularly, by the way, Clarke and Mooney are in the top 10, and Smith probably would be if they counted his goals for Wimbledon.
I can't say too much at the moment, but apparently they were a group of Norwegian Burnley fans... I'll be receiving a call at some point during Monday.
Well that made a mockery out of the word "match", it was a no contest from the get go... The lack of goals in this squad is frightening, and doesn't look like getting better with these set of players... AA & Reza seem to be the only two who shoot in anger, and they still haven't scored, and only get to play bit parts anyway. A free kick and an early one on one with the keeper, which our striker hits like a back pass, are our main highlights... It's hopeless, surely those who have put so much emphasise in the past on tactics, substitutions & motivation, can now see that these pale into insignificance, when applied to a squad of players who simply are not good enough...
CP WAS a disaster this season at least, as he left us bottom of the table and the lowest scorers in all four leagues. All you say say about Riga on Saturday was that he tried to pull the levers at his disposal. He correctly identified that both Green and Church are utter cack, and pulled them both off. Hopefully that spells the end at Charlton for both players. Playing Astrid up front was truly bizarre, though. Aside from our impotence up front, a couple of other worries from Saturday were a rare poor performance (hopefully) from Cousins, and a calamity of a game from Wiggins. Looking at our fixtures, it must still be 50/50 us staying up. The Yeovil at home game now looks massive.
I thought we started relatively well, match Burnley all over the pitch and but for a clinical headed goal were a bit unlucky to be 1-0 down at half time. On top of that you have a penalty which from my view a yard outside the box and a deflected third in injury time and I thought 3-0 flattered Burnley, but we did nowhere near enough to deserve anything from the game. What worries is that we seem to keep the ball relatively well but there such a lack of urgency to our attacking play that the penalty box is soon crowded out with defenders. There doesnt seem to be anybody willing to stick their head above the parapet and take the game by the scruff of the neck and have a pop at goal or try a defence splitting pass. I put this down to two things, a lack of quality and fear of failure. The only one that looks to have that sort of quality is Adjarevic but to play him up front was bizzare to say the least.
So Riga trying to pull the levers at his disposal is exactly what Powell was doing all season? Clearly the squad lacks quality, you can say that was Powell and investors faults but its not exactly like Powell wasn't getting the most out of players, clearly the squad isn't up to it, and no manager, Powell, Riga or Mouriniho could get this squad winning because we can't score. We sign a striker and he never gets played, whether he's up to this level or not, we have to go for it, chuck him on. Tudgay, Sordell, Church, Reza won't score the goals to keep us up, but it's not helped by the sale of our best players in Stephens and Yann, those two were full of creativity this season and Yann was someone you were always confident of making something happen. What is so frustrating is Green has loads of ability but never shows it, same as Sordell... well not too sure about Sordell. Church yeah, we all know he would never score, but he does very clever runs which give opportunities to fellow strikers, not that any of them are good enough to use the space. We're down unless JR gets goals from the strikers, I'm not too negative about our ability to keep goals out, but scoring is the failure here.
Am quietly confident when we play Yeovil... Not because of who they are but because they've proven recently that they're not great in Defence whilst we've already proven that we've got one of the best Defences in the League... I've just highlighted a boring 0-0 draw here havent I lol! Cant rule out the Barnsley game as well... Wont be so important for Barnsley I suspect but thats one of our last games in hand and we'll certainly need to win it should we not get a win over Yeovil
