'Can we play you every week...' Charlton 4 Carlisle 0

I've only just got round to posting following Saturdays excellent performance against Carlisle following a Sunday consumed by one of my daughters birthdays. (Controlling five kids in the West End is an extremely stressful experience, but they all had a great time so it was worth the near nervous breakdown).

What was really nice on Saturday was going in at half time three up and in control, and for the first time in years not having any of the now usual nerves about throwing it all away.

Carlisle, unlike recent opposition, came to try and play the game the way it is meant to be played.  Unfortunately for them they just were not very good at this and really looked to lack confidence. (A bit like us second half of last season).  It was one of those days for Carlisle when absolutely nothing would go right and pretty much everything would go wrong. A player sent off, a calamitous display by their goalkeeper and a penalty saved.

I'd had a bet on Charlton to win five nil, so was really willing us to get the fifth in the last ten minutes, but it was not meant to be, and to be fair nothing could halt the spring in my step walking back to the car after the team proved that they do indeed have what it takes to bounce back and sustain the challenge at the top.

I can't really find any faults with any of the Addicks out on the field. Danny Green looked a bit more comfortable, and maybe with more game time could become the exciting player we had all anticipated when we signed him.  Kermogant, you can't really argue with his inclusion in the team following another two goals and an involved performance.  Wiggins was immense and is really beginning to become a key player in the team. Solly was a welcome returnee to the side.  Hughes I thought did really well filling in for Stephens in the midfield, and Hollands looked really good playing with a bit more of an attacking intent than usual.  We were once again playing with some confidence and I think all of the doubters must surely by now be coming round to the idea that we look like being there or there abouts come next spring.

With only four more games until our home match against the seemingly irrepressible Huddersfield, if we can continue in the same vein as Saturday, that game looks more and more like taking on a real epic proportions  down at the Valley.