Nathan Jones reacts to loud boos from Charlton fans after demoralising defeat to Crawley

Nathan Jones reacts to loud boos for Charlton Athletic fans after the demoralising 2-1 defeat to Crawley Town on Tuesday night.

Max Anderson’s late strike earned Crawley a first away league win since the opening day of the season as they defeated the Addicks 2-1 at The Valley.

The Red Devils went ahead thanks to a cracking finish from Tola Showunmi, sending a curled effort straight into the top corner from the edge of the penalty area in the 33rd minute.

Daniel Kanu got the hosts level on 68 minutes, but Crawley fought back to get in front with Max Anderson netting on 81 minutes.

So then, where does that leaves both sides in the League One table? For Charlton, they sit right in the middle, 12th with 22 points from 17 games played, and 8 points behind the playoff places, but are closer tp the drop zone, 4 points. Crawley are 19th with 19 points from 18 games and one point above the relegation places.

I’d rather get aids than have to watch that game again. Hoof ball will be my reason for suicide. I was wrong about a mid table finish, we will be in a relegation battle. What do they actually practice at training??? #cafc pic.twitter.com/jebkq8UoNR

— georgia bussey (@georgiabu1) December 3, 2024

Charlton boss Nathan Jones said when asked about treatment from the supporters, per London News Online: “Fans pay their money and they are entitled to their opinion – when things go well they cheer and when things don’t go well you get the reaction. It was an edgy night but that’s probably because we didn’t give them a performance they could get behind.

“Our decision-making contributed to the fans’ edginess. They are not hoodwinked. They see something they don’t like and they are entitled to show their frustration.

“The performance was poor – especially first half. We had a go second half and made some really positive changes to try and get back into it. We have conceded from distance again, twice, and that is a frustration.

“Some of our decision-making and some of our quality was not up to standard and that’s why we’ve lost the game. I don’t know (why it happened). We’ll debrief and have a look at it.

“It was a really edgy night all over and players didn’t make great decisions when they had opportunities. We’ve had more shots than them but they’ve had more on target. They showed more quality when chances came. We snatched at stuff in the final third.

“We had as many positive players as we could at the end but we just couldn’t get any real bit of quality apart from the moment we scored from. It wasn’t a good performance tonight.

“We started with three strikers but it didn’t prove that way. On the weekend we were pretty dominant and we had a considerable amount of quality chances. Tonight whenever we had any kind of things we didn’t capitalise.

“Alex Mitchell had a great chance early on and didn’t take it. They scored from 25 or 30 yards, whatever it was, but we didn’t show that level of quality.

“Second half we have had 11 shots today but three on target. They’ve had seven and six (on target).

“Sometimes you take your chance and sometimes you don’t. We are inconsistent at the minute. We’re not putting levels of performances together. We’ve had a lot of injuries and had to play players in makeshift positions and so on – that is affecting certain things with our fluency and balance but we have to be better than we were tonight.”

Nathan Jones gives his take on tonight’s loss 🗣️#cafc pic.twitter.com/ex6N8iaGcK

— Charlton Athletic FC (@CAFCofficial) December 3, 2024

He added: “We weren’t good enough. Especially in the first-half, second-half we had a bit more of a go, but we didn’t show enough quality in our play. We didn’t show enough tempo or aggression.

“They showed better quality than us, we had more shots, but they had more on target, we had three out of 11 on target whereas they had six out of seven.

“We’ve been beaten from distance again and a shot that’s been parried that we didn’t follow in, we have not been anywhere near the levels we need to be, that is why we have lost the game.

“We had a lot of chances and shots, we snatched at a lot. When anything fell for us, we snatched at it, and we put more into the stand than we did at their goalkeeper.

“We didn’t take advantage when we were in the final third, that is categorically different to what happened at the weekend.

“That is why we lost the game; we weren’t good enough tonight and I take responsibility for that.”

“We had the two midfielders suspended in terms of Doc and Berry. Karoy had a tight hamstring, so we did not risk him.

It was good to see DK [Kanu] come back with a goal and also Lloyd who has been out for a considerable amount of time.

“We need a better performance than that, and we demand a better one than that all the time. We are being inconsistent; we aren’t showing enough consistency. Every time someone shoots from distance it either goes in or something happens.

“We have defended the box relatively well on most occasions, it is just from distance. Huddersfield was distance, tonight, distance, Birmingham earlier in the season, distance.”

Here’s what Twitter users had to say as Nathan Jones reacts to loud boos for Charlton fans after the demoralising defeat to Crawley…

@jamesxandrews: Get an interviewer who’s going to ask hard-hitting questions. Let him get off scott free again! He talks about quality being poor tonight, has the quality ever been there? Dreadful questions, absolutely pointless. Give up

@V7SQUADS15: Uno I still back jones I’ll be honest a manager of his caliber yes sometimes the football shite and sometimes we win the games cause of hoofing but with him changing stuff every game and still looks like experimenting I think this January window is gunna be a huge one

@CAFCChappers: After two decent performances? Last Tuesday was shocking against Burton

@Joshnormann1: Ask him why we persist with this awful “style of play”? Ask him why players are trotting around the pitch? Ask him what they actually do during the week to improve on the previous game?

@KarlSage21: The whole place wasn’t on edge tonight. The whole place is absolutely bored shitless of the dire performances week in week out. We have nothing to get behind or excited for, it’s awful.

@ValleyFloydFred: After an interview on Saturday where he came out with how fans have questioned him, questioned transfers and stated that these players care and are different from what we’ve had in the past, he looks like a complete mug after tonight. Their midfield bulldozed ours and if he looks into the quality of shots we are taking in games, they are hideous. The underlying stats for how we have played all season are worrying.

@Billy_Luker: Soft questions, no surprise there

@tomgreening_: 10 seconds in and says “we’ve had a bit of more a go” no we didn’t. That’s enough for me I’m off for bed

@Alex_CAFC47: To me at this rate it’s not the manager who’s the problem it’s clearly the players, we’ve had the same group of players under three managers and they’ve all been sacked. There needs to be a massive change of squad in January.

@SteveK157DFC: I’ve said it before, Jones is living off a bit of success at Luton still. Nowhere near as good a manager as he believes he is. Far more failure in his career than success and acts like a child on the touchline to boot as well. Players don’t look interested either.

@CafcFacts: We may have won Burton, but it was not a good performance

@Joe_Lukes: To be clear, we was absolutely carved open before the shot from distance and are on a regular basis.

@mattranduk: How can a man that has nothing to be arrogant about, still be so arrogant

@maxallis0n: They didnt cut us open? They had to make one pass and they were past the entire midfield