| Charlton Friendly match thoughts - Omari, Barbrook, Young, Muric 23:01 - Jul 29 with 3865 views | unstableblue |
Some quick fire thoughts from our penultimate pre-season friendly in Colchester’s northern gateway, here we go:
1) good turn out from blue army mostly filled three stands, not as large a contingent as a few years back, and not as vocal, but impressive numbers - that caused a 15min delay due to A12 exit fun
2) Col United pitch looking in pretty good nick, and a vast improvement on last season, bodes well for our woman’s and U21 sides
3) a minute applause following the tragic loss of a Charlton schoolboy player
4) interestingly McKenna chose his second sting starting 11 for what was effectively our home friendly, I think Charlton may have done the same
5) led to a bit of a disjointed town display which lacked some bite in the final third
6) barbrook and Humphreys is a young pairing, but they did OK, and barbrook one of the highlights of the game - tidy player, with some physicality and pace, perhaps he can make it
7) kipre played alongside Wolfie… and our new signing was another stand out - he’s a beast but also cultured… he’s going to give some real competition to greaves
8) Clarke was on the left and had moments but was a little anonymous… but grew on second half and showed his quality with an excellent goal
9) Al Hamadi was a bit of a comic character, some errors and barnstorming play, but a clinical finish for the goal, despite looking offside
10) Chaplin got around and some moments, but don’t think it was a performance that demanded he starts as the 10
11) Ogbene had some nice runs and moments, didn’t carve out a great deal of brilliant chances
12) I thought Young really improved us when he came on - he’s quality on the ball and reading the game, could be a key addition
13) OMARI! Wowsers is he going to stay?! Hirst, Philogene/Clarke, Szmodics, Hutchinson - it almost doesn’t seem fair!!
14) Philogene not as good when he came on as a sub than his performance in Scotland… but still oozed some class
Mainly the b team, not a great display, but in individual performances and a couple of moves a lot to look forward to
Need another striker of pedigree - BIG TIME.. and sounding like the second midfielder is close.
Don’t think you can have Omari, Philogene, Clarke, Ogbene and Broadhead -
Imagine Nathan could be going.
PS - one mild clanger from Muric, then a great save, sums him up a little. I though it was the Charlton fans booing him as he approached the away end… some fake news about perhaps
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| Charlton Friendly match thoughts - Omari, Barbrook, Young, Muric on 10:11 - Jul 30 with 383 views | Sharkey |
A friend of mine was a steward last night, from 5.30 and then near the dug-outs. His main observations were
1. Nathan Jones never stops swearing.
2. The pitch was even narrower than last season. (Originally the reduced pitch was an emergency measure because of the drainage issues, but evidently Cowley likes it that way. I think most people agree that women's football is better if the pitch is on the small side, so good for Town.)
3. Davis and Muric were the most patient autograph-givers.
4. KVY was there and clearly friends with a lot of the Town players, even if he wouldn't have played with most of them. |  | | |
| Charlton Friendly match thoughts - Omari, Barbrook, Young, Muric on 10:18 - Jul 30 with 335 views | Wright1 |
| Charlton Friendly match thoughts - Omari, Barbrook, Young, Muric on 23:29 - Jul 29 by unstableblue |
I hear ya
Not starting Clarke in the Championship is criminal but I fear that’s where we’re heading
BUT it’s a long campaign, Broadhead is seemingly going so you need a quality sub/back-up… at a level higher than Ogbene/Chaplin. |
Clarke really is one in the eye for all the people panicking about Hackney and wanting us to move on IMO - always get plan A when you can. I think he was just plan B when our Philogene move fell part last summer and had he signed Clarke would likely never have arrived here.
I could be totally wrong and he may have been part of the plan all along - but he's certainly starting to feel like an expensive back up or a square peg in a round hole. Quality player but ultimately I (and I think McKenna) think Jaden is better. |  | | |
| Charlton Friendly match thoughts - Omari, Barbrook, Young, Muric on 10:32 - Jul 30 with 300 views | BrentwoodBlagger2 |
| Charlton Friendly match thoughts - Omari, Barbrook, Young, Muric on 23:09 - Jul 29 by bartyg |
Why would Charlton boo him? |
nah - there was booing from the fans behind the other end - our fans... [Post edited 30 Jul 11:07]
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| Charlton Friendly match thoughts - Omari, Barbrook, Young, Muric on 10:34 - Jul 30 with 292 views | itfcjoe |
| Charlton Friendly match thoughts - Omari, Barbrook, Young, Muric on 10:11 - Jul 30 by Sharkey |
A friend of mine was a steward last night, from 5.30 and then near the dug-outs. His main observations were
1. Nathan Jones never stops swearing.
2. The pitch was even narrower than last season. (Originally the reduced pitch was an emergency measure because of the drainage issues, but evidently Cowley likes it that way. I think most people agree that women's football is better if the pitch is on the small side, so good for Town.)
3. Davis and Muric were the most patient autograph-givers.
4. KVY was there and clearly friends with a lot of the Town players, even if he wouldn't have played with most of them. |
KVY walked past me at the bar in the away end so must have been in the stands. |  |
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| Charlton Friendly match thoughts - Omari, Barbrook, Young, Muric on 10:38 - Jul 30 with 254 views | BrentwoodBlagger2 |
I thought Kipre was outstanding - big, confident, good in the air and a strong tackler. He looked comfortable and not much, if anything, got past him. We have 4 decent central defenders now.
Overall a good performance, but hey a pre-season friendly. | | | |
| Charlton Friendly match thoughts - Omari, Barbrook, Young, Muric on 10:41 - Jul 30 with 237 views | southnorfolkblue |
| Charlton Friendly match thoughts - Omari, Barbrook, Young, Muric on 23:29 - Jul 29 by unstableblue |
I hear ya
Not starting Clarke in the Championship is criminal but I fear that’s where we’re heading
BUT it’s a long campaign, Broadhead is seemingly going so you need a quality sub/back-up… at a level higher than Ogbene/Chaplin. |
I could see us lining up Hutch SS Clarke/Philogene. I think KM will have to work out which one is the better option to finish the game as we know he likes to make wholesale changes upfront in the last 20 minutes | |
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| Charlton Friendly match thoughts - Omari, Barbrook, Young, Muric on 15:25 - Jul 30 with 118 views | Tractor_Boy333 |
| Charlton Friendly match thoughts - Omari, Barbrook, Young, Muric on 10:38 - Jul 30 by BrentwoodBlagger2 |
I thought Kipre was outstanding - big, confident, good in the air and a strong tackler. He looked comfortable and not much, if anything, got past him. We have 4 decent central defenders now.
Overall a good performance, but hey a pre-season friendly. |
I remember a couple of seasons back watching Town against West Ham side in a friendly and Zouma was playing. Kipre reminded me of him. | | | |
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