Tuesday 13th September 2022

[ShrimpsMeltdown]

I think for a team like us, we are always going to play like that against teams like Wednesday and Ipswich. 90% of the time it isn't going to work but there's always that 10% chance we'll get something if they are having an offday (like last season) any points gained against the bigger sides are a bonus, we need to win the mini league at the bottom to stay up.

They are on a different planet to us and last night showed, Wednesday were just dominant from start to finish and Bannan was a joy to watch. We had 1 big chance at 0-0 which Phillips fluffed and another header wide later on, one of them goes in at 0-0 and then it's a potentially different game (probably not)

We're too nice as a team aswell which I think will cost us in the end. Cole was back last night, but was barely involved and didn't really react well to being subbed. Saturday is a big one.

 

[Luke Imp]

Just standard Derek Adams football really. It’s worked for them overall to be fair even if I wouldn’t be too thrilled seeing it each week.

Meant the gap between the top and bottom sides but yes, I don't think Adams-ball would be high on anyone's list.

 

[BRFC_Gas]

I follow was absolutely awful tonight, freezing, buffering. stopping and then repeating what had been on before then jumping 2 minutes ahead etc, missed both goals and the offside one , just about got a replay when we hit the post, would not say we were shit, won at a canter and spent the last 20 minutes just playing the game out. nit like a training exercise in the end, never in trouble, zero shots on target for NK Dons who looked abysmal

My ifollow was fine unfortunately. Quite a few times I thought it was buffering, but it was just our defence standing still.

 

[The Jovial Forester]

Can't sniff at four points from two games, though sounds like we were lucky to go in level at the half (didn't stay up wee small hours local time). Had a spell second though and general view our end was we earned the point.
Sorry to hear your news TractorBoys, strength to you and yours.

 

[TheDon]

I actually expected us to be a bit more hopeless than we were. So that’s a plus! At times we looked better than we have in previous games.

We don’t have the players to challenge. They’re either all injured or as a consequence of failing to properly recruit. We’re at least four players short without our (six?) injured. We have no fit wingers, no competent wing backs or full backs, no pace and one senior striker. It’s all a bit bleak. It’s the first time in a while that I’m just not all that interested in watching football, specifically Oxford United. I’m a bit detached from it. I couldn’t even tell you who we are playing this weekend.

That Joseph chance by the way actually cleared the stand bizarrely.

Unless I’m conveniently forgetting there wasn’t (beyond long range efforts) many chances? I don’t recall Eastwood making a save?

Come and watch the Town GL, might cheer you up a bit

 

[Greenacres]

Seems odd to post comments on a game several days after it took place but I've only just made it home to the shire. Charlton was a game I went to more in hope than expectation...on paper we had made a bit of a dodgy start to the season and they were hovering just below the play-offs, would have taken a point before the game so more than happy with one at the end.

Positives: We looked really decent for the first five minutes, managed to steal a goal just before the break from absolutely nowhere, Dom Bernard had a really decent game once swapping sides of the pitch and bamboozled JoJo with a cross that found one of our players. My pre-match chicken pie was actually pretty tasty, though at nearly £5 it rates as a bit more expensive than a Greggs offering...London prices! Stadium, impressive, probably the biggest I have seen Rovers play in (Wembley excepted obviously), atmosphere really decent despite it being only two-fifths full, our supporters made a bit of noise. Minute silence observed impeccably...you could have heard a pin drop (think I heard someone sneeze) and I managed to remember the recent changes to the National Anthem when belting it out. Thought we actually played pretty well in the second half, good value for our point in the end. Chatted with a couple of Charlton fans on the DLR on the way to the game and the train back towards Greenwich afterwards, they seemed to view me with friendly curiousity rather than suspicion...not always guaranteed in my experience.

Negatives: For around forty minutes in the first half we were dreadful, after they scored, Dom Bernard looked well out of his depth and constantly getting roasted before switching sides. Don't like to sound critical but the people staffing the away turnstiles and the entry to the car park were incompetent...hope none of them is playing a role in the Queen's funeral or it could be the longest in history. Arrived at the ground in good time, was waved in through the gates, walked past the ticket office as I had one already and up to the turnstiles...bloke at the turnstile told me to go back as they hadn't opened...don't you love conflicting messages, went back the way I had come and one of the people in the group of yellow vests said, "you can't go in yet", at which point the gate was padlocked shut. Waited about 20 minutes in the rain, gates then opened again and waved past for a second time...only to discover that the turnstiles weren't working, they only turned anti-clockwise, a group of about ten stewards/club officials/randoms then had a discussion about the problem...until one bright spark chirps in with "have you turned the power on?"...surprisingly nobody had thought of that! Tannoy in the ground, worse than ours, sounded like someone talking from the bottom of a fish-tank. We only brought a couple of hundred fans, think the stewards and facilities in the away end will be totally out of their depth when the likes of Pompey, Ipswich and Sheff Weds rock up with three thousand...hope it goes well for them as those in the stand, and the people running the refreshment stand were really friendly.

Not a new ground for me, had been there many years ago when it was a bit of a wreck...before Charlton were forced to play home games elsewhere...think they have done a pretty good job with the rebuild of the stadium, bet the atmosphere is amazing when it is full. Will be a real culture shock for their fans when they visit our ground...but to be honest, it is for almost anyone...hopefully they are made feel as welcome as I was at their ground, once I had actually made it inside!