Another reason to get out of the Championship are these late Saturday afternoon televised games, which means I will have to miss tomorrows match against Wolves because of a pre-arranged dinner with some friends. Usually with a 3pm KO I can get back home by 6pm, which leaves plenty of time to go out for the evening.
Tomorrows game is an obvious must win one and I think we need to win a further three games and draw two to reach 71 pts, which should be enough to secure sixth place. The first season Curbishley was totally in charge was 1995/96 and we scraped into the play-offs in sixth place with 71 pts. A lot of frustrating home and away draws, twenty in fact meant we lost out on automatic promotion. For the record P46 W17 D20 L9 F57 -A 45 Pts 71
Players of note Bowyer, Rufus, Robinson , Newton, Balmer, and Leaburn who was top scorer with 9 goals.
Unfortunately we were knocked out by Palace(In the first half at home we should have been 3-0 up) who then went onto lose in the final to Leicester-I was so sad about that.
The team today has some similarities to the 95/96 team but there is one major difference being the midfield of Bowyer, Robinson, Newton and Robson/Nelson and the first three players having an exceptional season -Oh! for a midfield like that tomorrow.
If we fail to make the play-offs, which now seems likely I think we will all have to be patient because it took Curbishley three seasons to get it right and two inspired signings of Kinsella and Mendonca certainly helped.
Charlton 2 Wolves 1 Iwelumo , Varney
attendance 20,121, minus one disgruntled season ticket holder.
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Make that minus TWO, CND. I wont be there either, for the very same reason. Although I am not sure I am that disgruntled about missing it, to be honest.
Mind you, I will be VERY disgruntled if, against all the odds, our heroes manage to turn on the style and give the Wolves a right good spanking....
I resent any change for the benefit of armchair tv viewers. Still it does mean there's plenty of time to pop in and see the Under 18s at Sparrows Lane. You going?
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