Might as well go to sleep if you're waiting on charlton Never watch the darts myself, but it does attract a big crowd. Think a lot of it is for the lash though.
3-0 burnley. Another Saturday over before 4:15. How ANYONE can defend the regime now, is more than beyond me. Failure has been accepted. Pathetic.
We're now in a group of 6 teams which are coming adrift at the bottom. Under Roland, we're in L1 for sure next season. Project 20,000?
3-0 Burnley. Bergdych, who we are offloading, finds himself in action again. I bet he's fired up for this. There's also a rumour on CL that someone Heard that 'Moussa will never play for us again'. Still, we can always recall Watt. After all it was so intelligent letting him get some game time as our huge squad meant he could'nt get a look in with us!!!
Bolton and Rotherham winning. Surely target 20,000 is about empty seats, then Roland can sell the Valley
No cards, yellow or red, in the whole game. To me this means we weren't trying and therefore Burnley didn't have to go in hard.
Only 234 Charlton fans at Burnley today. The Club really is dying before our eyes. A plea to the 8,000 grow bags and Muppets who walked straight in before Leeds - get in the f*****g car park v Wolves.
I'll start with the positives: the Charlton fans showed wonderful gallows humour throughout, and I ticked off another ground. Moreover, until Fox earned a corner a minute before half time we were right in this game. We should even have been in front by then, only for a low cross from the left to fall to the foot that Reza uses for standing on, rather than the one he plays football with. But from that 44th-minute corner, taken very poorly by Reza, Burnley broke, and the ball dropped to Scott Arfield to fire home, squeezing it past Solly and Henderson on the line. What happened after then was depressingly inevitable. A corner routine caught us half asleep and the ball was deflected in. Then, with the team in complete disarray, Gray stroked home the third; 10 minutes in to the second half and the game was already over. Heaton was forced into a decent save soon afterwards (he had also done well to tip a fierce drive from Jackson over in the first half), but the fourth eventually came, the ball rolling slowly beyond the reach of Henderson into the corner from Sam Vokes. In terms of individual performances, no-one comes out of today with any credit. Makienok was better than he has been recently, but that's not saying much. Reza looks far more threatening than he actually is and needs to learn how to use his right foot. Special mention, however, should go to Bergdich for the most inept performance I've ever seen from a substitute. We would genuinely have been better off with 10 men. We are at least consistent, in that we play OK for a chunk of the game, only to be absolutely appalling for the rest of it. If we don't score in our 'good' spell we stand no chance whatsoever of getting anything from the game. And once we concede, our heads drop and more often than not we go on to concede more. Essentially it boils down to not having enough fighters in the squad - as much as he makes it very easy to dislike him, Joey Barton is the kind of player we desperately need. But it is also a sign of incompetent management, the kind of management our owner seems to specialise in. It is of course a Charlton tradition to lose heavily in the North West. Before Roland took over, these defeats felt like one of those things that just happened because it was the way of the world. Now, though, it feels symptomatic of the wider malaise this club is currently enduring. A malaise which, without a radical rethink and overhaul in January, will see us relegated.
