Charlton fan in peace We were wondering on our message board what your guys thought of Tony Watt, as we hear his loan will become permanent in January. From our perspective, he is undoubtedly a talented striker on his day with a good work rate. He started off as a crowd favourite, but stories soon emerged of fall outs both with management and fellow players at Charlton. Watt can start an argument in an empty room. If you look back, identical problems arose with him at Celtic and Standard Liege. In short, there is a telented player in their somewhere, but don't be surprised if be beats up Russell Slade sooner rather than later. Good luck for the rest of the season
Can't come soon enough for me............ Initial impressions are all good - that's all we can say. Gives us an option that we didn't have before his arrival. We have suffered up front with lower league offerings like Revell and Doyle who are thankfully now put out to graze on loan. If he causes disruption in the squad then maybe it wont be an all bad experience - I fancy our lot have got a bit too "cosy" with Slade and something needs to change to get the best out of what is undoubtedly a talented bunch.
He has brought us much needed pace and the ability to run at defenders. We have sadly lacked this for a while. I think we will all look forward to seeing how Slade's man management skills work out - or not.
Charlton must have a good striker if he can keep Watt out of the Charlton team. Got to be worth buying next month - £1.2m being touted in the press.
Watt and another striker: - http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...s/cardiff-city-looking-sign-charlton-10599737 http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/cardiff-city-linked-striker-being-10599188 I'm pleased to see we are no longer looking at Div. 1 strikers. This one's in the National League!!! Not yet got a Wiki page either.
Hang on a minute Bluey - he's probably "one for the future" and will cost £8M and be on £45K a week..............
............and then we can sell him back to Halifax for 3 whippets and a weekend break in The Woolpack........
Unfortunately Charlton has a negligent absentee foreign owner who hasn't watched one of our games for over a year. He is about as popular as Ebola in South London. Charlton only got Tony Watt from Standard Liege because our owner owned them as well There is a player in there with Watt, but based on previous experience he won't stick around for long.
That's the league Vardy came from though, so it's not a deal breaker BUT Vardy is very quick. That will transfer all the way to the top as Vardy has shown. Don't know anything about this bloke other than the goal in the WOL highlight would have been saved by any Championship keeper. As for Watt, I'm more than happy to take the risk with his temperament, he's a class act on the pitch.
and that helps us in midfield how? Also, if we're signing more strikers, shouldn't we be shedding a couple too?
Totally agree Remote. Case proved yet again tonight. In control first half, lost the plot second half but lucked out for the win. Brentford must be gutted.
He seems to have an aversion to midfielders. Just posted on another thread, 2-0, crying out to clog up the midfield and he swaps strikers. 2-1 and he pulls a midfielder for a full back. 532. WTF is all that about? I could just about understand pulling a striker and putting a defender on, but only just.
Why did he come off Was he injured or just rested for the B'ham game? The difference between him & Mason is like between chalk and cheese. ps. Why did Mason usurp Macheda's spot on the bench
Watching Watt dart through the middle in the first half, evading a massive boot designed to take him out, reminded me of one Tony Evans, back in the day. Chap next to said Alan Lee to a tee, but he was younger and didn't see Evans play. A crowd favourite already because he will run for anything, bit like Brian Clark! Best part of the night was not taking KWJ off, sensed he was looking for it, make him play I say...lazy two goal git, cleared a lot in defence though....hey who farted...what was That all about eh?
That's the spirit. Watt looked ****ed tbf. He'd put in a real shift twice in 3 days. He'd just lost possession very tamely with a poor touch which isn't the way he's played so was just down to exhaustion imo. I think that led to him being subbed. It was an ideal chance to bring on a midfielder rather than Mason and push one of noone/pilks or even gunnar into the 10 role and let whits or okeef sit with Ralls. Whilst defending our 4-4-2 looks out of sorts as the gap between the strikers and the 2 banks of 4 grows. Up to about 60 mins we do a reasonable job of keeping the gaps down with either everyone dropped in or a higher press. Once we have the 2-0 to defend we start to sit in with a bit of tiredness. The strikers are still looking to play up the field though and it gives this huge space 10 yards inside our half for the opposition to build from. At that point we have to either commit to holding a line higher up the pitch and commit to the press started by the 2 strikers or you sub players to get a more defensive mindset with fresh legs on the pitch. Play a bit deeper and try and keep enough pace at the top of the pitch to counter attack effectively. We seem to keep getting caught between the 2 styles. Both styles have their pluses and minuses we just need to commit to one imo.
My thinking is similar though let Gunnar sit in front of the back 4, 4141. At 2-0 they need to attack so look to counter with the 2 wingers pushing on in support of the 1 on the break.
