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Quite a bit before my time but this thread found me searching for some old pics of HQ. Found this one which looks like it was after a match had finished.
First time I went to Charlton was with my Dad in 1981/82. Beat them 2-1 courtesy of the best save I have ever seen and to this day by John Burridge who somehow managed to twist and change direction midair to a 30 yarder that took a heavy deflection, which he managed to tip over the bar. Stood up the top of the east terrace which was a lot less packed than this picture. Plenty of ‘raids’ going on in the Charlton end including the rolling down on the terrace of the huge old industrial dustbins! Happy days.
The bright side of the amount of injuries that we have suffered is that the younger players are having to step up. Just a few years ago hearing the likes of Aaron Drewe being in the first team or the likes of Gubbins on the bench meant we were really down to the bear bones. Now if Kolli or Bennie or Morgan are picked I know they won’t let the team down.
Was at that match as a seven year old clinging onto the perimeter wall in the paddock between the School End and the players tunnel. Won 2-0 and it may have been the promotion clincher. Fulham played in yellow shirts and Alan Mullery was playing for them. Happy days and a great team was blooming. Great film.
Given the amount of passing round the back that Coventry were doing then this distorts the possession facts. I like it under Stephan that we look to get the ball forward much earlier than under Marti. Might lose possession more often but usually that’s to the opposition back four who the pan just pass it around for a few minutes
Walsh was definitely fouled for the second goal. As the corner came across Moore facing the opposite direction to Walsh bent forward as if to protect himself and shoved his not so small arsé into the back of Walsh as he went to punch the ball, hence the poor clearance. It was very clever by Moore but none the less it was a blatant foul and the ref who once again seemed to have his moods of good and very poor either missed it or decided that he couldn’t be bothered to blow. Yet near enough every corner we had he was being very picky especially with their right wing back who time and again commuted fouls as has been said before.
One incident last night really angered me. From a brilliant in swinging corner in the second half by Madsen it was cleared to Dembele by the corner of the penalty box, he had a free player to his left who had clear sight at a shot. Dembele’s pass was woefully short and set up a marauding counter attack with Rangers players struggling to get back. And the last to arrive in our own penalty area, jogging back, whilst Paul Smyth performs a potential goal saving block? Yep. Dembele. This guy needs to learn that he is not as good as he thinks he is and that it is a team game. If I was Smyth last night I think I would have chinned him once back in the changing room.
Bit harsh. Dykes has scored 60 goals in 331 appearances north and south of the border whilst Obikwu has 13 in 52. I’ve got a good feeling about this lad.
Any team that has Ben Pearson in it and accuses us of this I cannot take seriously. I see their manager was having a go at Dunne for the foul that left their forward with a broken leg. The foul wasn’t intentional as far as I could see, but he didn’t mention the follow through by Thomas on Dembele which certainly looked intentional and where Dembele was lucky to avoid serious injury.
Remember queuing to get into the Empire pool as it was then for the London Standards 5-a-sides and seeing the headlines about Dave Clement. Tarnished a good night for the club as we won the tournament.
For me also, Dave Clement was the best right back this club ever had. Had everything, pace, could tackle and leave the winger knowing that he had been tackled. Great passer, could shoot with both feet and could easily have been a winger or another central midfielder in the likes of Gerry Francis. For 20 years or so we had an amazing youth development programme, with the likes of Clement, Gillard, Francis and Leach in the late 60’s early 70’s followed by the likes of Allen, Goddard and Waddock in the late 70’s and then Macca, Stewart, Dawes and Neill in the early 80’s. Let’s hope with the application for Cat 1 status those times can return and a modern day Dave Clement can be produced.
Suddenly it looks fine again. From the glimpse of the ER side we get for the first goal, grass has suddenly appeared. Just need half our team to recover now!
One down after 8 minutes. Although to be fair to Cooper it was a real Thunderbastard of a shot. Barnsley could have been two up themselves in the first five minutes.
Says something that every WHAM player except Potts cost more individually than our whole starting eleven and yet we took them to the end.
I feel that two players came of age today, Kolli who didn’t look out of place against a PL defence and caused them plenty of problems, and Joe Walsh, two outstanding saves and by the end looked quite comfortable with those inswinging crosses. Shame we didn’t have our best team out as I reckon we would have turned them over.
If I recall correctly we were looking at closer to £6million in the summer so £4.5million is a good buy. Spread over five years, which is now the maximum for amortisation calculations, assuming we have agreed this length of contract adds £900k to the debit column on the balance sheet. With the players we have signed in the last six months, such as Kone, Burrell, Saito, Poku and even potentially Mbengue, coupled with the younger players such as Morgan and Kolli we only need one of these players to fetch big money and all costs are covered.
Have seen on the Beeb that Dieng is negotiating a release from Middlesbrough and could be signing for Hull. And yet we extend Hamer’s contract to the summer. Would have loved to see Seny back. best keeper since Alex Smithies.
I think there is something about Bennie that will see him succeed. Certainly has built up his strength and is more than happy to put a boot in where it hurts, also it seems that he knows where the back of the net is.
Thought that racist scumbag Fernandez was lucky to stay on the pitch after getting in the refs face after the sending off. Hopefully the lengthy contracts they created for this laughable bunch of filth will see them eventually caught up in the FFP or whatever the PL now call it. They’ve cheated twice to avoid financial sanctions through ‘selling’ their hotels and women’s team and it seems that the PL are reluctant to sanction them over the financial cheating by the Russian war criminal.
Still pop over to their forum and see how pleased they are with the appointment of Hull City’s second best manager in the last five years!
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