v Charlton Athletic (h) - 4/1/26

[RevidgeBlue]

4 minutes ago, DE. said:

Such a poor team out there, struggling to come back from 2-0 down at home to Charlton. Absolutely criminal what the owners have done to us. I had written a more critical post but honestly it isn't fair to be having a go at who we have out there. They're very limited but they're trying. The players and even the manager aren't the problem. The problem is the 15 year constant, a dark cloud that's been hanging over the club for far too long.

The manager is fully complicit imo.

Fully "aligned" with the destruction of the squad, absolutely useless and thoroughly dislikeable to boot.

Edited 18 hours ago by RevidgeBlue

[bluebruce]

20 minutes ago, duckson said:

Pulled out and no contact at all, watched the replay twice show it twice.

I watched it too. Definitely contact. Pulled out of giving it full force but he caught him and it was a bit high. Easily a penalty. So was the one we didn't get.

Edit - seen the best replay of it now, retract my comment, Picks definitely avoided catching him. Dive.

Edited 18 hours ago by bluebruce

[AspRover]

Remind me, we don't actually own Baradji do we? Or is it an obligation to buy next year or something. He's one of the few looking decent at the moment, it would be fairly typical of us to have paid to nurse him back to health and not end up with him as our player...

[Exiled_Rover]

2 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Celtic may be overdoing it, things can't be that bad there, but you don't think we should be giving our board and ownership a torrent of shit?

Us? Yes.

Celtic? No.

[davulsukur]

Just now, AspRover said:

Remind me, we don't actually own Baradji do we? Or is it an obligation to buy next year or something. He's one of the few looking decent at the moment, it would be fairly typical of us to have paid to nurse him back to health and not end up with him as our player...

He's on loan, can't remember if it was an option or obligation to buy.

[B16Rover]

1 minute ago, AspRover said:

Remind me, we don't actually own Baradji do we? Or is it an obligation to buy next year or something. He's one of the few looking decent at the moment, it would be fairly typical of us to have paid to nurse him back to health and not end up with him as our player...

The 24-year-old, who impressed in the Swiss top flight last season, joins on loan until the end of the 2025-26 campaign, with an option for the move to be made permanent.

[Gav]

3 minutes ago, DE. said:

Such a poor team out there, struggling to come back from 2-0 down at home to Charlton. Absolutely criminal what the owners have done to us. I had written a more critical post but honestly it isn't fair to be having a go at who we have out there. They're very limited but they're trying. The players and even the manager aren't the problem. The problem is the 15 year constant, a dark cloud that's been hanging over the club for far too long.

Gestede thinks this a competitive squad!!

[Polky]

2 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

I watched it too. Definitely contact. Pulled out of giving it full force but he caught him and it was a bit high. Easily a penalty. So was the one we didn't get.

Not sure he touches him…

[RTM08]

The other thing that really sticks out is that we're clearly one of the worst teams in a year where pretty much the entire league are evenly matched and in with a shout of promotion. 

If we'd built on last year's squad we could have made it over the line last year or this year but no, Gestede knows better.

[DE.]

Just now, RevidgeBlue said:

The manager is fully complicit imo.

Fully "aligned" with the destruction of the squad, absolutely useless and thorough dislikeable to boot.

Complicit, yes, but he's also totally irrelevent. If it wasn't him it'd just be some other chump.  

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Falling like a Stone.

[bluebruce]

3 minutes ago, AspRover said:

Remind me, we don't actually own Baradji do we? Or is it an obligation to buy next year or something. He's one of the few looking decent at the moment, it would be fairly typical of us to have paid to nurse him back to health and not end up with him as our player...

Option to buy. You'd have to hope the player terms are already agreed and binding or it just won't happen.

[G Somerset Rover]

Absolutely pathetic. Don’t be fooled by us getting a goal back - we’ll still lose.

[Gav]

Fair play here, we are battling back, they’ve not given up. 

[Hasta]

11 minutes ago, Scotty1991 said:

I saw Celtic fans yesterday in their hundreds stood outside the board entrance kicking off. Shame we don’t do the same. 

We did 14 years ago. It made no difference as the owners aren't in the building.

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

6 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

The manager is fully complicit imo.

Fully "aligned" with the destruction of the squad, absolutely useless and thoroughly dislikeable to boot.

VI goes and some other fuck stick comes in, it's utterly irrelevant until the wretches sell 

[duckson]

7 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

I watched it too. Definitely contact. Pulled out of giving it full force but he caught him and it was a bit high. Easily a penalty. So was the one we didn't get.

 

Watch this from the third angle.....dived!

 

[davulsukur]

5 minutes ago, Polky said:

Not sure he touches him…

No one even touches him?

[bluebruce]

11 minutes ago, Polky said:

Not sure he touches him…

Last angle is more revealing, you are probably right actually. Could do with a clearer image and slow mo to be 100% though. The player reacts like he felt something, when he probably didn't see enough to feel confident in the dive. But yeh looks like he pulls short of making contact to me. Charlton player likely just gambled because he saw a body coming in a little recklessly.

Edit - clearer image confirms, definitely didn't touch him. A well chosen dive tbf, but I do hate cheating bastards.

Edited 18 hours ago by bluebruce

[RevidgeBlue]

3 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Option to buy. You'd have to hope the player terms are already agreed and binding or it just won't happen.

Hard to think Baradji will want to join if he receives any sort of offer from elsewhere.

[AvRover]

4 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

The other thing that really sticks out is that we're clearly one of the worst teams in a year where pretty much the entire league are evenly matched and in with a shout of promotion. 

If we'd built on last year's squad we could have made it over the line last year or this year but no, Gestede knows better.

Agree, but isn't that the story for most Championship teams though? Only a few can *afford* to keep the squad together so for most it's groundhog day? Given PSR, the general finances and players agitating for a move to the PL we have to work with a high turnover squad.

[Lancaster Rover]

10 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Entitled shits.

It’s usually wise to stay quiet on matters where you don’t have the full facts to hand. The Celtic board have overseen a systematic downgrade in all positions over the last 18 months, at the same time as making record profits on players sales, shirt sales, etc. Dermot Desmond is allowed to act as the owner when he is merely a preferential shareholder. It’s nothing to do with entitlement it is to do with a fan base (largest funder) holding the stewards of the club to account. A club continually milking the fans like a cash cow whilst simultaneously spitting i their faces 

[rovers11]

Charlton are awful - but we are worse.

We're getting worse by the week and I'm now struggling to see 3 worse teams than us. Looking grim now.

Awful manager, board, owners, recruitment. It's a miracle we've staved off relegation this long with incompetent clowns owning and running the club. 

[Hasta]

[DackDackGoose]

The way he dives is pathetic, refs been awful, regardless they're winning every ball going towards our box.

This team is not looking good. Eat my hat if we won it now