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Wouldn't you be more concerned if there was zero discourse about Eckert and his methods? He's undoubtedly staking his claim, but there remains risk factors in making him permanent. And - perhaps - risk factors if we don't. It's a bigger conversation than any single result. Especially when that has its own thread.

I'm not arguing against playing it around at the back, but the key (which it isn't clear from your word soup whether you're for or against) is how the ball is subsequently used. If it's played along the rearguard as a method of pulling the opposition hither and thither, that's great. But if it then goes forward at a glacial pace - and/or includes unnecessary 5-yard passes to every player en route - the opposition resets, we get to the halfway line and there's nothing doing. Having watched us do the latter for all too long, I grew bloody weary of it. I don't think I was alone. Yesterday was a much more dynamic approach than we've become accustomed to.

The recycling at the back was largely inconsequential to that move. You could just as easily cut it out of the clip. It was two consecutive bold, between-the-lines passes that made it happen. Often we overplay that ball out of defence, hitting the boots of every player in-between. The speed of transitioning from defence to the halfway line was key. Keeping hold of the ball is fine. But at some point you've got to take a chance and make a beeline for the opposition box. Not every side will be as naive positionally as Charlton, but even with teams playing low blocks you've more chance with countering with pace than ponderous buildup. Is this Eckert's influence, or simply the players let off the leash? Guess we'll see.

Best we crack on with being the bullies our financial status suggests we ought to be, then.

Anybody else indulging in imagining the scenes within the Charlton dressing room as Jones combusts? 🤭

I make that 25% of Charlton's goals this season conceded in under 25 minutes. What a stat!

Gotta love an opposition sub within the first half hour. 👌

"Nathan Jones, your football is shit." 😆

Surprise surprise, top Championship players can play a bit when unshackled. Continues to feel like a black mark against Still rather than any mega advert for Eckert. IMO.

Bad feeling about this one. Mad Nate has them well-organised, and other than a narrow loss to Wrexham they've been in very good form. Can absolutely envisage him doing something akin to a 'Ralph v Liverpool' come full time.

Always found it bizarre how many posters spelt his name Goa. Or did it just become an in-joke? 🤷‍♂️

Whilst I'd have respected the chanting continuing, it was never likely if results started picking up. Think it's wrong to assume they've stopped, though. Won't take much for discontent to rear its head again.

If we choose to follow that counter-argument we can continue as we are for a bit, no? Rather than giving Eckert a multi-year contract. Might be nice to dodge paying further unnecessary payoffs. Just for a season or so...

Every week (OK, not so much today...) we see opposition keepers that could improve us. Most could've been pried away for a reasonable price. They might not do us in the Prem. But how about we fucking focus on getting there first? You could permanently demote Bazunu to play with the kids and he would still be shown up. There's sunk-cost fallacy and there's... This. One of the clearest examples of Sports Republic's insanity.

Felt it was disjointed for long spells, and once again we lost the plot after the subs. However we were at least fairly clinical, which isn't something you could accuse us of this season to date. The creative players seemed to have a bit more freedom to run at the opposition - but that could've just been because Wednesday are limited. Two fairly 'meh' wins is probably the best we could've hoped for in this interim spell.