Are you saying Reza and Obika couldn't handle playing on Saturday and again tomorrow. I see double standards. Previous management would have been slatted by a section of the fans for not putting out his best team and accepting a draw or defeat in advance of a match.
I asked before the Leeds game when was the last time we kept an unchanged line up. It really hasn't helped us this season.. back in the promotion winning year, a pivotal factor was the fact CP was playing pretty much the same 11 every week. And I may be wrong, but PP had similar success in our first season in League One when we started the season with 7 wins?
A very risky strategy if true. We'll quickly run out of matches we can "afford" to throw away. Hopefully wins against Yeovil and Barnsley, as you say.
He's not tinkering with 8 of the players, just the front 3 because no-one has made a case for a permanent starting place. Or have they?
We had precisely that situation under the previous regime. We threw the towel in at Leicester with the minimum of concern, to save ourselves for the Sheff United quarter final. I am not for a moment suggesting that targeting certain games is right, after all it costs top money for a so called "Gold" game like v Reading (LOL, what a con...) I trust Riga up to now and he may have looked at what he has at his disposal in the dressing room, and made that call.
Wiggins has been inconsistent. If Curbs was manager Astrid would be on the plane home by now after Saturday's "get-me- out-of-here" display.
Unfortunately, The Asteroid is our best creative player - see the ball he played through to Obika for our goal at Forest. I see him as a bearded, Swedish, less-good version of Matt Le Tissier. If he's in the mood he'll dominate the game; if not, he's worse than useless.
But on Saturday he just decided he'd had enough. What you don't want in a relegation scrap is one player whose attitude stinks the place out.
Indeed. We've been lucky to have very few of those kind of players at Charlton over the years (at least until 2006). I hope Jacko et al have been laying into him about what it means to play for this club.
It looked worse than that TBH. He couldn't even be bothered walking quickly. I wondered whether he has a medical problem. I mean he'd just had a 20-minute break!
Some players are just naturally unfit, and I think AA is one of them. If he had stamina plus a yard or two of extra pace then he would be a top Championship player. I don't doubt his brain see's things his legs can't do.
And that is probably why AA has never gone on & made a career for himself. You can see he is a talented player but his fitness & stamina are just not there.
Agree with vol his natural talent is better than the heights he's reached in the game, or not as the case may be, a luxury player in a team that can't afford luxuries his skill and pritchards attitude we'd have a world better.
If he genuinely was as knackered as he looked there might be a medical problem there. Mike probably remembers Vernon Sollas, turned out to be a kidney problem made him run out of steam around the 7th round.
Think he was the youngest British champion or one of them still in his teens destined for world glory never got beyond British title level .. That's goin back a few years mate
I wonder whether it is more psychological than medical, with Riga telling him at half time he would be coming off to make way for Reza. The result of the forewarning being demotivation and a lack of effort. Knowing that he was being "saved for the next match". Tomorrow we may well see a different player again.
He would be a pretty sensitive soul then! If Riga had said "Just give me 15 minutes" he'd be entitled to expect Astrid giving him 15 minutes of proper effort.
