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Charlton Athletic 1-2 Derby County 
Paterson
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Charlton 1-2 Derby
Lawrence frgs
with the impending jail time not forthcoming Afterall and facing the first of 12 steps "my name is Tom, and I used to play for Leicester City" a newly reinvigorated Lawrence guides a steady away performance to two nil until the last ten where its kegal exercise all round.

Agree love London away games, missing this one but will be in London for Fulham away on the Wednesday night, hotel booked, booked time off work as well 😁

I've been saying this for weeks while others around me rant about him, Josefzoon is massively short on confidence. Against Luton, he tried at one point to dribble past a few players into their box and when it didn't come off I remarked that he wouldn't even try it again all game... he subsequently didn't. He needs to be like Tom Ince where he's trying that stuff all the time; it will only come off 5/6 times out of 10 but when it does it creates dangerous opportunities. Otherwise he isn't using any of his best traits- pace, skill etc and so he doesn't offer too much to the team. He probably needs a goal and then a proper run in the team if he's to start showing anywhere near his potential.

Heading to Bermondsey for a few pre match drinks, first game I’ve made this season, buzzing

Seeing a few rams fans scatteted around London Bridge. Do love a London away day!

"I've got a cold, I've got a cold, I'm on the lemsips, and I've got a cold".............my early morning singing, isn't really going down too well with me or anyone else at the moment, maybe I should try the one about Halls Originals or better still, I might give the world the full version of the Cherry Tunes in a minute...........
"sneeze...in a minute.....I'm going to sneeze in a minute........aghhhhhh...chooooooooo!"
Up The Rams...........

Think with B4 leading the charge in London, and Bielik and Shinnie in the middle and Martin banging a brace, we will be 6 games unbeaten in a 2-0 away win, all those going sing load and proud, and drive us onto another victory. 

Shinnie and Bielik just feels right somehow. As a midfield pair, its the combination you often look for. 
Much as we were blessed with midfield riches under McClaren, we've not really had that specific combination of talents in the middle since Seth and Oakley. 
Oh I really hope it works out for them both. Could be a classic partnership. 

All comes down to confidence. I remember on his debut commenting on here that it was amazing to finally see a winger take a man on and win. What happened to that player?

I hadn't watched that little bit of the Derby players naming their "funniest, hard man, best dress sense" etc. teammate - but it just came on at HT in the U23 game; and everyone very quickly and unanimously named FloJo as our most skillful player.
Maybe thats a clue as to why he keeps getting into the team, produces differently in training than he does in the first team. Confidence, as many have often thought?
I'd like to see something go right for him just to see if he built on it at all.

If you look at the form table, Charlton are sitting 18th. Their form has dropped right off after a good start. 
A draw is always a good result away from home, and id be happy with that. But a win is more likely than you might think by glancing at the table. 

I hope Shinnie puts in another performance like he did at Luton. It would be nice to have a proper ballwinner in midfield again, especially for away games. Feel like it's been ages since we've had one.

A couple of interesting facts from the BBC today:
Derby have lost just three of their past 23 regular league matches (W9 D11 L3) and are unbeaten in five Championship games (W2 D3).
Derby have won none of their last 10 away league games in London (D7 L3) since a 1-0 win over QPR in December 2016.

Hope everyone travelling down tomorrow enjoys themselves. London away days are the best. Gutted I can't be there.

If that's the case, I'm sure we could find a use for him... 

Apparently the attempts of both Gary Rowett and Nathan Jones to bring modern, attractive, forward thinking football to the Stokiemons have failed so the club is going to return to its soul and passion for miseryball - bringing back Pulis.
The writ will naturally be in the post from Steve Gibson.
https://twitter.com/MailSport/status/1178803004125974528?s=19

Mad. Who do Huddersfield think they are? 
One season in the Premier League and suddenly entitled to be topping the Championship. 
Won't end well. 

Such a relief to have both Bielik and Bogle available! At least now we can give Charlton a game.
I'm starting to think Championship's physical demands might be too much for Marriott at the moment. Always injured, or if he plays, seems to be knackered after an hour. I guess this  is what pissed Lampard of all the time, he seemed disappointed that Marriott doesn't work harder to fulfill his own potential.
I've seen it happen before with Teemu Pukki. Guy couldn't last more than 60 minutes, was lazy trainer and couldn't score for Celtic. With the right guidance he understood the demands of the game and how much working harder helps him... It's not going too badly for him at the moment.

And breathe everyone 
 

This is the preview from our forum, thought you guys might like a read!
 
Charlton Athletic v Derby County
Saturday 19th October 2019 ... 3pm Kick-Off
Referee: Stephen Martin

Introduction
Football returns to the Valley this weekend following the latest International Break - A month ago this would be considered as a hindrance, ending our form meaning we’d obtain just five points from the fifteen available - This time round though and it could be a break that'll have been welcomed, our last match against Fulham left us with no Left-Back so its been a chance for tired / injured bodies to rest and recover - This Saturday we welcome Derby County to the Valley, is it time for the Addicks to go on another run of form? - Let’s hope so!!

The Opposition
Name: Derby County | Manager: Philip Cocu
League Position: 13th

The hardest job for any Manager is surely lifting your players after suffering the heartache of losing a Play-Off Final; Only last week the news was released that Jack Ross at Sunderland had been relieved of his duties whilst in the Championship; Derby County continue to try and recover from their own Wembley loss.

Its certainly not been an easy job, for starters it was pretty obvious that Chelsea would come calling for Frank Lampard so the Rams would be forced to spend another summer looking for a new Manager - Coming into the job would be another ex-Legend of the 90s / 00s - Philip Cocu a midfielder by trade would have a career spanning the likes of FC Barcelona and PSV Eindhoven... The fallout though of replacing his Captain (Richard Keogh) to a well-documented injury won’t have aided our opponents this month as they look to turn their stuttering form into something that can actually challenge at the right end of the table.

As both Charlton and Derby have learnt though, if your successful in the loan market then you stand a chance!! - Yet if you can’t quite clinch promotion how do you recover!! - Thankfully its not a lesson the Addicks had to learn last summer; Derby on the other hand have had to deal with Mason Mount, Harry Wilson and Player of the Year: Fikayo Tomori returning to their parent clubs - Of course they've got the high profiled: Wayne Rooney returning to these shores from the MLS in January and whilst he wont play any minutes against Charlton this season, it'll be interesting to see what impact the Striker will bring.

Charlton Team News
As for the Charlton squad itself though; Lee confirmed at the start of the week that its only Chuks Aneke that is likely to miss this game (not including; Lyle Taylor and Lewis Page) – Ben Purrington would limp off against the Swans with a groin strain yet will be back in the heart of Defence this Saturday!!...

Further forward and we may get to see more of the Brighton signings; Beram Kayal and Tamar Hemed have both failed to impress with their lack of minutes, that could hopefully start to change with both now back in contention, although the latter may be forced to wait as another appears to have stolen his place!!
 
Phillips
Solly | Lockyer | Pearce | Purrington
Cullen | Pratley | Williams
Gallagher
Bonne | Leko

Substitutes Bench: Amos | Sarr | Oshilaja | Field | Kayal | Hemed | Forster-Caskey

Prediction
Once again, we enter a period which will see three games in eight days - Derby County though appear to be a team not like the one from last season, of course they dont have the same players but the loss of Richard Keogh looks set to hit them hard... There should hopefully be no pity from the Charlton players on Saturday, its an opportunity to go for the kill and get all three points!!

Indeed. Saddling ourselves with a two own-goal deficit was a bit of a mare.

Same here. That’s why I had a long face.

Tough game this one. If we can win this then real signs of an improving side in terms of results anyway.