Charlie Wayman

You should post more often. Succinct, nutshell, realistic, common sense - a most unusual recipe on here.

You are only supposed to leave your house for essential purposes.

Besides which he isn't very good

Wasn't that a different world? Covid has changed everything.

Do you not see the irony in suggesting that an ex-Academy player (star?) might be blocking the pathway for a current Academy player (rising star?)? I thought our aim was to field a team full of ex-Academy players so that we wouldn't need to bring in people from outside

He played well last night but let's not get carried away, it was San Marino officially the worst international football team in the world. He has not miraculously transformed himself into Lionel Messi. What was interesting was that Southgate played him in the AMF role and told him to stay high up the pitch. Here he plays DMF with occasional forays forward. It's different having the ball behind you most of the time rather than in front but he settled into the role as the evening bored on.

...but he is rarely outstanding and does not have the ball skills or vision of KWP.

Logically if we were still able to vote for MotM on match days, all we would have to do is add up the points each player has earned from fans for coming 1st, 2nd or 3rd each week. Of course there is always bias toward strikers if they score a goal or two so KWP and OR would not necessarily get the accolades they deserve.

Good luck with that!

Do a swap with Aguero.

It's a cup tie, anything can happen. Yes, Leicester are a good side but so are we and arguably our style of play is better suited to the sudden death knock-out style of the FA Cup. I think we will win this comfortably (2-0) although it's weeks away.

Could have been worse but not much. Three of the top 4 PL clubs in the SF, we really have bucked the trend.

The mistake Bournemouth made was to concentrate on trying to disrupt our play by early pressing rather than concentrate on their own game. Sadly for them they were not good enough or fast enough to do it, at times our slick, fast inter-change passing left them struggling and frequently hopelessly out of shape. What was good is the way we responded to their naivety by then attacking the gaps in their shape and for once finishing clinically helped of course by Bournemouth giving us space and time. Great win and on to the next hurdle. It is likely we will face PL opposition and a team that knows better how to deal with our tactics but with Ings & Walcott back we should still be able to give a good account of ourselves especially if our automatism is on an upward trajectory that seemingly was rediscovered on the training ground last week. I have been a critic of Redmond, not because of any lack of ability on his part but for his inability to focus and concentrate completely on the game in a single minded way. In the days when we were able to watch games, there were often times during warm ups when he really wasn't putting the effort into exercising properly, giving the impression of just mucking around. He seems to be easily distracted (as indeed we saw in his post match interview yesterday). If he can concentrate on his game 100% for 90 minutes than as we saw yesterday he can be quite the player, so let's hope he can keep it up.

Is this a new English language?

Not exactly Hasenhüttl putting it all out there, these are the only fit players there are so basically it's Hobson's Choice or The Team Picks Itself.

Agree, Reed was playing well, very much in the mold of JWP. Shame he was sacrificed for a forward but by that time Parker had few options but to go for it. I thought Lemina played quite well also but he seems to have had a conflicted role between DMF and AMF which makes it harder to read his game. he is though a vastly better and more consistent player than he was at Saints. I know it will open a can of worms but will he be one of the squad boosting players that Hasenhüttl will look at again in the summer? There is a half decent footballer in there somewhere and as he matures and knuckles down there might yet be a happier ending to his time here. Then again the lure of London might prove too great.

Shame on you! Nigel Adkins was one of the best manager we've ever had and one of the nicest blokes in football. He transformed the atmosphere at our club before the Poch arrived. Your demeaning put downs are unworthy of the debt we owe him and unworthy of you. All real fans will wish him well and be hoping that he can revitalise the once great club that is Charlton Athletic.

I don't remember anybody saying that, when was that?

Wow! You admired a bloke who was acting like a hooligan?

That's the Spirit. Better still, why don't we refuse to travel as its outside our lock down area and concede the match.

Context my child, context!

Not daft, essential. He's run his course as a magician, there is nothing left up his sleeve or under his hat. Reality has trumped hope, the cupboard is bare. Just suppose we could get Pochettino back or failing that Benitez, what would you say then?

Thanks a bunch Ralph, please just leave. Abysmal reaction, laughable performance. Even the commentators couldn't be bothered to mention us as we were so useless.

Team selection, tactics, demeanour after a thrashing, take your pick but be careful with the insults please.

After the last match fiasco I am not hoping or expecting a 2 or 3 - 0 win today but Demanding it. You owe us this one Ralph.