Isn't fuller out for the season who knows if anyone could of done a better job BUT bringing on Hughes yesterday was pathetic in the extreme so was resting players v Barnsley . Riga's decisions no one else's and the ineptitude v Barnsley was beyond belief a Barnsley side who were by far the worst team I've seen come to the valley that I can remember way worst than any league 1 opponents .
Is this another 'Mike wants Sir Chris back" thread, in a different guise ? Ingenious Mike. If we win our two home games we will stay up. Yeovil are gone, which means that Millwall will once again be getting the smallest crowds in the Championship next season. Barnsley still have to play Derby away. I reckon its between us, Blackpool and Vietnam's favourite London club.
I've been rumbled ! cant see us winning another game before Blackpool or even getting a point. Wednesday is the easiest one left as they have nothing to play for but owe us one. Blackburn if they win tomorrow will still have play off ambitions ditto Watford then it's all down to that blackpool game. Barnsley are useless and got no chance of staying up then it's down to us and Blackpool I reckon 0 0 at best there and hope it's enough . Blackpool won't get a point between now and then either so it'll be goal difference so we have to avoid heavy defeats then we stay up.
a point from our game in hand and then matching one of the other four teams results means we stay up. although, i agree with mike.. we should have already been safe'ish - we shouldve had a result against barnsley and had more of a go yesterday
I really can't see us getting anything from Watford BUT we live in hope only blackpool are more out of form than us
If it does get down to us vs Blackpool for survival, it will be very tense and I might have to go to the game because it will be do or die. While supporting Charlton there wouldn't have been a more important game than that one, similar to the Sheffield United Cup game so much at stake, regardless the atmosphere in that match will be top notch.
I'm continuously surprised at the outlook of some, don't we as football fans learn that week in, week out no game is predictable, in any league across any sport. We will most likely get a win in an unexpected game along with another draw. We look safe now in my opinion.
How ironic would it be if that pathetic pitch of yours saves you - 3-0 down to Doncaster wasn't you? If that game had finished you'd be level with Barnsley and starring down the barrel!
We won't go down. Ever since we sacked Stevie Wonder I know we would survive. Aside from the absolute dross that we play, the totally uninspiring and pathetic future of our football club and some of our fans making complete lavatories of themselves, I have quite enjoyed this season, it's old time Charlton.
What you and other posters fail to mention is that Charlton will have played a midweek game against Watford whereas Blackpool will have had a rest. At this stage of the season, and given that we are playing so many walking wounded because we have no-one of quality to replace them, that could prove fatal. Even Riga is blaming tiredness for our losses (as, to be fair, Powell also did with less excuse). I think that is poor management in both cases to say so publicly (never give your players an excuse to lose) but I also know there is a lot of truth in it.
He is only changing the rubbish players up front. It doesn't make any difference whether they are tired or not because they will still be rubbish. It is some of our better players who are tired after carrying the passengers all season. Wilson, Cousins, Morrison, Wiggins before his injury, and Jackson (who hasn't been fit really for two years) all battle away but all have lost a bit of zip. Poyet is starting to make mistakes, too. Plus Solly is just coming back and Wilson is playing on with an injury. Dervite is looking one of our better players now because he has not been played in every match like Morrison. You once posted that extra matches just mean less training. This is nonsense. In training you can decide how much physical effort to put in and stop or change the exercise before doing damage. You don't have that luxury in a match (unless your name is Ajdarevic). Furthermore, at this stage of the season clubs are not doing any strength-building or endurance training, just sharpening-up exercises precisely designed to keep players physically and mentally fresh, very different from playing vital matches twice a week. Of course, if you are on a roll like Liverpool, the same players can keep going because of adrenalin, but we are not in that position. In nearly all recent matches we have done better in the first half than the second. I was agreeably surprised when we hung on so well against Bolton but I think we will pay for that effort against Wednesday. Watch our legs give out in the second half.
Don't buy it players can play twice a week or should be able to so the resting of Morrison stupid decision as was the playing him right back. Live and die by your decisions if we stay up well done Riga we fail buck stops with him. As with all managers we can say he's had ample time to get out of this mess . We didn't do well to hang on against Bolton we drew a game we needed to win and threw away any chance of winning by bringing Hughes on for church and settled for a point. This wasn't the away league in Europe it was at home to Midtable Bolton I've hard the argument before not training losing zip etc.. Don't buy it at all. BUT all opinions ain't it.
No doubt in my mind Riga messed up against Barnsley, but overall he's done reasonably well, struggling, as did CP, with having no RM and no decent strikers. He's trying the same options there as CP did- Green, Harriott, Cousins with about the same success.
