Take a bow son for a shocking display of team management. Rest your best centre back partnership for the biggest game of the season? Don't mind if I do. What's that? We leave the big guy unmarked from a corner? Yes, the return of and almost fit Solly, we can play two right footed players on the right and get crosses is. Not a bit of it, we'll play the out of from left winger on the right and drop the player of the year. We need early goals... let's leave the most creative player on the team on the bench and play Obika, who mastered the art of falling over in training this week. Then just let em play. Then realise your Harriott cock-up, move him left, watch him skin the right back twice, and take him off. Shocking. Barnsley were awful. Sale of Kermorgant cost us 3 points tonight, alongside a ridiculous team selection.
Bottom line, Roley's decision to weaken a squad that was already deprived of quality is the reason for this dross.... Absolute shocking tonight... No attacking intent throughout the team, and Riga can't do anything about it, because it's down to the players, and they just don't have it in them... Too annoyed to bother commenting further....
Add an appalling referee who let Barnsley get away with time wasting murder & I agree 100%. Although I feel CP's going ws good for the club * him as a person, Jose is proving to be much the same when it comes to team selection.
yes, forgot Mr Wave-a-lot, the muppet in the middle with his happy instructional ignoring of both time-wasting and pushing rules.
He didnt ignore the pushing rule but his selective colour blindness only found red to blame. There was a point in the second half when he waved play on when they fouled us by pushing but the moment later when jordan cousins pushed a player a foul was awarded. However lets be honest, bad selection, not set up right, poor timing of the substitutions and no one can blame CP!
SVC you are clearly disloyal, as loyal fans have moved on and support Riga unquestioningly. I read a tweet tonight that said Riga had done the best he could with the rubbish Powell had left him. Good point well made I say, and it proves that right thinking people can still blame Powell. Move on!
Not what Powell left him, it's what RD sold and left Powell to deal with and what RD brought in. and you could argue the past owners too for not getting in a decent strike in the summer... but lets move on from Powell, Riga's selection of Harriott on the right was really wrong today... but the ref was still the worse bit
Can only have been from flaky pastry but didnt know he was a fully paid a twit but it seems appropriate. I think everyone on here would have started Morro, Asteroid and Reza and left wood, ( not that he was bad), callum messup and marvie soddall out. The former would have been on the bench the latter at Sparrows lane. it is coming up for two hours after the match, my blood pressure is still raised and my wife says that when i speak every other word is either a swear word or incoherent rage.
Actually, the poor squad arguement still applies, we do not have much quality or any depth to try out squad rotation. That said, Harriot and Sodall were both poor at Brighton by most accounts. Powell had a talen for finding player combinations that worked a treat (Cousins and Stephens for example) and breaking them up. Jose seems unable to distinguish a good line up from a bad one, and when he does get the team working, treats it like a coincidence. Last night was just unacceptable against the bottom club. We now have to beat Bolton. Motivation should come from the striker they loaned us, but who starts is just a random, and I would'nt rule out Church moving back into contention. Do our managers not watch the games, or is there an alternative criteria of team selection we just don't get?
Won't bother rising to the bait Scratch, suffice to say if you want to dish out the stick on here then fine with me, but expect some coming back your way my old mate For what it is worth, I thought Riga got it wrong again last night. He is clearly trying to pull the levers at his disposal, but increasingly finding that nothing is working due to many of our players lack of basic ability. For example - Sordell proved again last night that he is basically one lazy fat arse of a footballer. Obika has one of the worst touches you will ever see, added to that he is slow, clumsy, and not great in the air. As for Harriott, huge mistake by Riga playing him on the wrong side but who has coached "Callum Messi" as he calls himself on Twitter these last 18 months ? His first touch is appalling, he can't stay on his feet, and his decision making on the ball is terrible. I didn't understand the substitutions at all. Solly and Poyet were both great. When Reza came on he seemed to be playing in central midfield. The bottom line is that this is a bad team that has the least goal threat of any Charlton side certainly in my life time. We have got 31 goals this season, I reckon we will need to score another 8-9 in the remaining games to stay up. Right now, that looks very unlikely.
i'm still absolutely furious about last night. The game was there to be taken - barnsley were awful. probably the worst team i've seen play this season except us. The decision to rest morro and wilson deserve some sort of match fixing investigation. our two most consistent players rested because we thought we were better than them? we were 4th from bottom - each game should have been treated like it was the cup final. our midfield threat was about as toothless as a 90 year old. cousins and poyet the only possible pluses, but neither can shoot, or has the confidence to shoot. Jacko picks and chooses his game. last night he chose not to. and everyone knows about messi. in his defense, i did not berate him one bit - he's obviously a confidence player and it wouldnt do him any good. our stikeforce is an absolute joke. hindsight is a beautiful thing, but right now, i think i would have preferred both of them to be dropped and replaced with morro and astrid and then grind out the boringest 0-0 ever. the ball boys showed more urgency than our strikers. the puppet got it 100% wrong last night. he's had his small upturn in results and now its back to how it was before. our team is useless and this guy looks like he's adding to it. i mean barnsley at home... wtf is that about? before i get the "give his a chance" and "4 wins in 11" backchat, lets look at what else he's done. he's signed a contract in secret till the end of the season. i mean, i was embarrassed walking away from the ground in a charlton shirt so i can understand why he did that. he's given us no clue as to if he's around next year at all. what sort of owners would allow that? "yeah ok mate, if it dont work out this season we'll get you another job at one of the other branches". at least chris P***** wanted to be here now and beyond this season. he had passion and it wasnt this embarrassing supporting him. this bunch he left the puppet has landed us right in it. but lets take a look at the team last night hamer (free), solly (free), dervitte (free), wood (free), wiggins (small fee), jacko (free), poyet (free), cousins (free), messi (free), sodall (loan), obika (loan). reza (loan from belgian branch), astrid (loan from belgian branch) do you honestly believe CP had full backing ever? he's 10 times the coach riga is. we need a takeover and fast. this belgian twat is ruining our club - the number of people i know not renewing because of him is amazing. i regret buying mine now
Riga has worked wonders ! Bloody hell, that game should be ours every time, an extremely edgy run of 5 games to now try and avoid heart failure through !
"Move on" What like you.. Do you get the last word, or something..? Right thinking people are also aware that after promotion, Powell was in no position to take the squad forward, not once the previous boards ambitions had to be adjusted greatly due to investment drying up/walking away... People who are using this "what CP has left Riga" nonsense are basically criticising a man who was left in a poor position of having to take in 2 average players, 2 days before this season started, whilst losing many better ones... If people want to ignore the obvious fine, but for me it proves some people are not as right minded as they like to think, and prefer to adopt any nonsensical argument if it protects the new manager, because they wanted the old one sacked... Said it all along NO new manager would improve this squad, and in our hour of need, the one man who could improve it, Roley, chose not to... So we are left with, what many right minded people thought all along, a struggle till the end of the season, because the lack of Championship quality in this squad reflects what our resources dictated... All this "Roley & Riga messiah" nonsense is a joke, some fans only jumped on this particular bandwagon in a attempt to strengthen their CP agenda, but mainly to cover up their dodgy football knowledge... Personally I'll jump on the Roley is a messiah bandwagon, when I see real improvement where it matters most... Better player on the pitch.
the pair of them are clueless going by the facts at hand - sells best players, rests best players. clueless. Riga + Ronald out.
Geoffrey Howe had a very apt description of that threat. However for the rest of your post I have to agree with you about team selection and the substitutions. This was a poor squad from which Riga managed to perm the worst team. It is almost as though he doesn't understand the strengths and weaknesses of the players and drew the team out of the hat. He certainly didn't understand the nature of the opposition which was a pretty straightforward team from Wilson who picked a coherent (but still poor) unit from his resources. I hesitate to say it but freezing season ticket prices isn't going to have much effect after that showing.
@ SIG "Roland and Riga Out" you say....but replace them with whom ? How about Richard Murray & Les Reed ? Or maybe Tony Jiminez and Iain Dowie? I agree that selling Yann and 'replacing' him with six foreign non entities was a huge, huge error, one that becomes more glaringly apparent with every game that now passes.
Indeed. Being criticised by you is rather like being savaged by a dead sheep I won't criticise Riga until we go down, as he was sold the proverbial "hospital pass" with this shower of ****e.
anyone with a bit of nous, someone capable, someone with knowledge of the english championship - must be dozens of ex pro's out there waiting for a job. looks like slater only sold us to van damme to f*ck us in the @rse on the way out.
