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Starting RB when we play 4 at the back, Wilson would play higher up the pitch. 
 

Fighting for the third CB spot in a 5. Got away with defensive injuries this year but you need at least 5 top CBs if we are going to be competitive in the championship. 

Expect if Cashin is still here at the end of the summer he will be made Captain. 
 

The kind of player you build your defence around and there’s no way Cash or Nelson will want to leave unless it’s for premier league football

Looking likely he will be relegated with Birmingham next weekend. 
 

Maybe an unpopular opinion but I’d have him back here-would suit the 3rd CB role well

Suspect we might have seen a few farewells today-Barks/Hourihane maybe even Sibs/Collins/Wildsmith 

going to be a long and exciting summer, and time to see if the recruitment fella can really spot some players with the freedom of a higher budget and no pressure of promotion

9 minutes ago, SKRam said:

Are the fixtures out yet? 

Forest at home-Oct 12th 12:30pm kick off #hearditherefirst

Early numbers to buy Ebou, what do people reckon we’ll end up buying him for? 
 

I’ll go ball park £450k plus addons 

Absolute joke of a decision from the EFL and to make the decision at this stage of the season. 
 

Has far wider implications as will have a knock on effect to the money from ticket sales for not just Gateshead. 

Most away wins in a season, most points in a season, a promotion (we hope) and getting the best defender in the league to sign a new long term contract in his first full season. All of this with very little spend and spotting some gems in the rough (Adams and Wilson). 
 

When we talk about the success under Jim Smith or Clough, we rarely talk about style but the results they had. If we go up this year I think Warne will be remembered in 10-20 years for the results he achieved. 

1 hour ago, rammieib said:

I don’t like the fact it automatically defaults to Wildsmith first on the drop down. If you accidentally go vote before realising it was a drop down menu then Wildsmith will get a larger proportion of votes than expected.

Would also be nice if there was a link to the YPOF after you’ve done the senior one.

Just looks like a Work Placement Kid has set these screens up.

#WorkPlacementKidOut 👀

2 hours ago, r4derby said:

With the injuries currently throughout the squad, we’ve stumbled onto a formation that surprisingly works quite well. Collo getting another weeks training helps. Joe Ward is a wing wizard with an eye for goal. CBT looks like an actual player too. NML looks the odd one out though, not quite working through the middle (not that I’m suggesting he’s dropped, he’s still good, just maybe a bit injured?)

Defence has survived 2 matches without anymore injuries. 1 to go until Sonny the headless is back.

Oddly thought Ward looked his best slotting into the ‘10’ role last night, he seemed to interchange with NML on that right hand side and both goals came from him floating in the middle. 
 

Might be the three attackers behind the striker swap and change in the game depending on what the opposition defends with.

🎵🎵It’s magic you knooooowww….wet Tuesday night with Collllooooo🎵🎵

Heard Marinakis wants to make us his feeder club for his up and coming sleeping European giants 

Have we had a youth player in recent memory who scored as many in their loan as he has? Looks to have all the core attributes to kick on next season and an ideal replacement for Washington/Gayle

Eh we’re doing alright I guess 

20 minutes ago, Wanderlust said:

Well done. Thought we deserved more but that's football.

See how it goes from here on in, but glad I don't have to watch that every week TBH.

We'll live 🙂

Gayle is a top level player starting to wind down his career, Collins is a lower league specialist who on form is one of the best in the league. 
 

It just happens that they are both about the same level now, and benefiting us

Player pull is huge, if he has the choice between going back to Cardiff who never really gave him a chance, or playing for us where the fans already love him and will continually play whenever given the chance then we know where he will go. 
 

The same reason the likes of Warne, NML, Cashin, Bradley etc all signed/stayed with us when they probably could have commanded better money and higher leagues.

Ffs

Great play by Hourihane, think we have a real chance at gold at the olympics this year (in diving) 

Reportedly on 35k a week at Stoke. Presumably his wage (even if reduced) is still going to make him the top earner at the club hence it running by the EFL 

Massive loss with Collins out for the season, absolutely imperative we get Waggy and Wash back fit now 

Some teams just know how to poohouse a result against us, yesterday was one of those games. 
 

It’s no different to when we were in the championship, we could never seem to beat Cardiff or Reading. 2 points lost but we are never going to win every game this season.

Odd one, they always say don’t change a winning team but I don’t think anyone could say we play better football with 3/5 at the back. 
 

That said, everyone that played on Saturday earned their spot for the next game and unless NML isn’t fit I wouldn’t change it. 

On 02/02/2024 at 14:07, Charliegeorge1962 said:

Dropping over half of our league points in January has all but ended our chance of automatic promotion.

The poor performances in the above games don't bow well for playoffs either. Yep we won against Cheltenham but let us be honest we were 2nd best at home to a team in the bottom 3.

 

….highest we’ve been in the league all season?

51 minutes ago, tinman said:

A welcome and good win, but that was a tough watch the second half. 

Makes the win all the more sweet. On paper Charlton has one of the best squads (and certainly best attackers) in the league.

If scrappy 1-0 gets us top of the league come May then Viva-la-Warneball