Charlton Athletic F.C. Reserves

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Charlton Athletic
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Full name Charlton Athletic Football Club
Nickname(s) The Addicks
Founded 1905
Ground Stonebridge Road
Northfleet
Gravesham
(Capacity 5,011)
Chairman Flag of England Richard Murray
Reserve Coach Flag of Ireland Mark Kinsella
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2007–08 Football Combination Cental, 2nd
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Charlton Athletic F.C. Reserves are the reserve team of Charlton Athletic. Since 1999 Charlton Reserves members of the FA Premier Reserve League Southern however due to the relegation of the first team at the end of the 2006/2007 season, from the Premier League to the Football League Championship, they were demoted to the Football Combination Central where they now play against other Football League reserve teams.

The side consits mainly of Charlton's Academy players who are aiming to break into the first team squad and in the near future. Senior players may occasinally play when returning back from injury. The reserve-team coach at Charlton is Mark Kinsella, having previously been development-coach before the hiring of club manager Alan Pardew.[1]

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[edit] History

[edit] Under Glynn Snodin

In 1999 the team joined the FA Premier Reserve League Southern. Led by reserve-team coach Glynn Snodin had relative success in their first season, finishing 2nd, however in comparison the next 3 seasons were disappointing as the club finished 8th, 7th & 7th respectively. After this however things picked up, and Charlton became unexpected winners of the league in 2003/2004, and this was then followed by a second success at the Charlton team won the division again in 2004/2005, just a season later. This was followed by a another good season, seeing the Addicks finish forth, however popular reserve-team coach Snodin left to join Southampton as first-team coach.[2] Snodin was replaced by Mark Robson for the remainder, however this was short lived as Charlton faced a managerial re-shuffle after the resignation of Alan Curbishley, Mervyn Day & Keith Peacock.

[edit] Under Mark Kinsella

With the installation of Iain Dowie as head-coach, Robson was moved to development coach, working with both the Reserve & First Team sides, however after Dowie was fired he was named assistant head-coach, under Les Reed. Mark Kinsella replaced Robson as development coach until this hiring of current club manager Alan Pardew when Kinsella was moved to reserve-team coach. Despite a hectic season the team still managed to finish 6th, however due to the relegation of the first-team the club were demoted to the Football Combination Central where after spending much of the season top of the table were pipped to the post by Southampton F.C. Reserves on the last game of the season.[3]

[edit] Home Ground

Stonebridge Road, November 2007
Stonebridge Road, November 2007

In the last 9 years the reserves have had many different stadia. In there first season they played their matches at Welling United's ground, Park View Road, but the stay was short lived. For the 2000/2001 season the reserve team played their matches at the first-teams ground, The Valley, however when there was a clash in matches the reserve teams would play their games at Park View Road. This system continued until the 2006/2007 when the team moved their matches to Gravesend & Northfleet's ground, Stonebridge Road. The reserve team continued to play their games there in the 2007/2008 season, after the change of club name from Gravesend & Northfleet F.C. to Ebbsfleet United F.C.

[edit] Current squad

Charlton Athletic have no set reserve squad, however these are players who have played 3 or more reserve team games in the 07/08 season as of 2008-05-17[4]. Squad Numbers where given are for the current first team squad.

No. Position Player
19 Flag of England MF Dean Sinclair
20 Flag of France MF Therry Racon
27 Flag of England FW James Walker
28 Flag of Ireland MF Harry Arter
31 Flag of Ireland GK Robert Elliot
32 Flag of England MF Josh Wright
33 Flag of England DF Aswad Thomas
34 Flag of Wales DF Grant Basey
36 Flag of England MF Scott Wagstaff
37 Flag of Portugal DF Paulo Monteiro
39 Flag of England MF Jonjo Shelvey
40 Flag of England MF Rashid Yussuff
- Flag of England GK Callum Christie
No. Position Player
- Flag of England GK Joe Woolley
- Flag of England DF Rhys Coleman
- Flag of England DF Sam Long
- Flag of England DF Taylor Sinfield
- Flag of England DF Chris Solly
- Flag of Denmark MF Martin Christensen
- Flag of Ireland MF Ruairi Harkin
- Flag of Colombia MF Steve Lozano-Calderon
- Flag of Denmark MF Mikkel Rygaard-Jensen
- Flag of Cyprus MF Alexander Stavrinou
- Flag of England FW Ben Godfrey
- Flag of England FW Danny Uchechi

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Mark Kinsella Coaching Profile. Charlton-Athletic.co.uk. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
  2. ^ Snodin set for Saints switch. Charlton-Athletic.co.uk. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
  3. ^ Football Combination Central 2007/2008 Final Table. theFA.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
  4. ^ Reserves Fixtures & Results 2007/2008. Charlton-Athletic.co.uk. Retrieved on 2008-03-17.

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