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Reply | The Valley casts familiar shadow over QPR’s bright start – Report
at 08:04 11 Sep 2026
5 games in 14 days closely followed by 21 days holiday is insane. Wonder if EFL clubs should be given the opportunity to move one of these midweek games to the internationals period, can’t imagine us or Charlton would be majorly affected, probably would have had and kept Leaburn, Jimmy and Lamptey on the field and maybe a few extra from our respective injured lists. All running about rather than the canter that was Wednesdays game.
Think there’s more to this though than our medical team. Banning slide tackles, essentially, may have stopped a few broken bones but constantly tackling standing up at speed is a recipe for torn muscles, hamstrings and ACL’s.
How much do we know about synthetic fibres partially sown into grass pitches? By design they are meant to be immovable. Any sport with studs in boots needs the earth and grass to move, as it did in the days when muscle injuries were far less prevalent. Not sure it’s in the football authorities interest to find out.
And let’s not forget, every club seems to be having similar issues. |
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Reply | Joey Barton
at 12:26 10 Sep 2026
In the case of the Barnsley manager it seemed as if nobody saw a thing, wonder if the authorities have seen remand as a way of avoiding history repeating itself. |
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Reply | Charlton and the Wheelies Match Thread
at 08:49 10 Sep 2026
Have to say, I can’t remember a season where we can pin a side in their own half for such a sustained period and not only that, in an away game!
I think wba might give us a beating, especially as we have so many critical players injured, but as I see it overall, we have a top eight defence, a top four central midfield (when could we last say that?), the only limitation is the final third, not least our rather predictable wide men.
That will be our undoing thus season but this is the closest we’ve been for a long while. |
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Reply | Charlton and the Wheelies Match Thread
at 22:26 9 Sep 2026
Four games in eleven days, thought both sides didn’t fancy too much running about.
Sky mentioned that under this seasons new rules the balls in play a massive 20% more than previous seasons. All very well but I think they’re got to go to 20 teams per league and cut out so many midweek games. It’s not doing anyone any favours. |
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Reply | Charlton and the Wheelies Match Thread
at 20:55 9 Sep 2026
This feels like that first game of the season after we were relegated. All the ball first half and then they woke up and realised we had nothing up front.
Hope history doesn’t repeat itself. |
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Reply | Chair
at 07:08 9 Sep 2026
Swiss Cottage has pretty much nailed it but I’d still be inclined to get an expert in to examine our pitch. |
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Reply | Rodney and co
at 22:07 8 Sep 2026
Superb.
Seems like yesterday I was a little boy watching them whilst standing on a crate at the front of the South Africa Road terracing. |
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Reply | Chair
at 21:46 8 Sep 2026
Sad to say but this feels like Willock mark II.
Time to plan without him long term and if he ever gets back to his best, consider it a bonus. |
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Reply | Hammersmith Ram (again)
at 07:10 8 Sep 2026
There’s a hairdressers opened in the most industrial part of the Park Royal Industrial Estate.
Which got me thinking, has anybody ever gone to get their haircut on an industrial estate? |
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Reply | BTW
at 08:16 7 Sep 2026
McCarthy Bowles Thomas, those were the days. |
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Reply | Vales shot
at 23:03 6 Sep 2026
Got a ball played to him as Boro pressed that put him in a terrible position, swung it wide and took four of theirs out the picture.
One of those players who does a lot of good things that go largely under the radar. |
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Reply | Gutted...
at 09:00 6 Sep 2026
We don’t double up well defending. If Cirkin or Mbengue jump in and miss, the opposition are clean through, hence they tend to sit off.
Again, Saito, Poku or Smyth accentuates the problem. |
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Reply | Awful team selection
at 08:00 6 Sep 2026
Think during the week someone put forward the team likely to play, of which most of us agreed and it was pretty much the team we saw yesterday.
JS did the best he could given our record with getting the squad through 46 games.
In games like this we’re still a little bit short, literally. They’ve steamrollered us on a regular basis, not so much yesterday as we are building a bigger stronger team, that said, when you are having to go out there with Smyth, Saito/Chair, Poku you’re still a little light shall we say.
Smyth was unlucky with his tackle, but while his foot was trying to do a job, his upper body wasn’t, hence the fella kept the ball (fortunately) but was still standing upright and balanced (not so fortunately). The game turns on that.
With Poku and Saito, still feel, even with the ball at their feet, the defender is calling the shots. They both need to weigh in with more assists.
And going back to the dark arts, Jimmy the only one really carrying that out, knocking the wind out of their scorer did change the dynamics. We need more of that. |
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Reply | The team did well.
at 19:36 5 Sep 2026
They did.
Boro are presently one of the best three sides in the league. Unlike the four we played previously they look comfortable on the ball. They use the dark arts well, they defend from the front backwards, they are a very difficult team to play against.
They carved us open down the middle previously, none of that today, Edwards and Vale were good as a central two. Smyths block tackle could have seen the ball end up anywhere, somehow it stayed at the fellas feet. Vale shot desperately unlucky, Smyths shot, keeper made the save but it could have easily flown in the net off his knee instead of a corner. Burrell run and shot, another day could have stopped rolling and he’d have had an open goal. Just one of those days.
I’d like to see Poku try to get behind defences more often, think our wing play in general is a bit predictable, but we are improving a lot.
We’re not going to go up automatically, but we are good enough for top eight. Need to keep our heads and win the winnable games. |
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Reply | 3pm and 1 second
at 13:22 5 Sep 2026
So long as we’re not losing we’ll be top for at least 5 hours |
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Reply | Wearing the black kit on Saturday
at 20:14 4 Sep 2026
So the club have just confirmed we’ll be wearing the black kit with a hi ho silver lining?
I’m so confused. |
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Reply | Wearing the black kit on Saturday
at 17:02 4 Sep 2026
Guessing spellcheck converted w*nk into woke.
Perfectly understandable.
the statement is clear enough … ‘the dual-tone kit branding, the kit and the football will take centre stage this weekend!’
Football in third place. Nice. [Post edited 4 Sep 17:09]
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Reply | New pre match song
at 10:34 4 Sep 2026
Arrived one minute before kick off so missed out.
I’m hoping tomorrow that the SAR sound system does its standard thing, so we won’t be able to hear a word of it. |
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