We are now into the last third of the regular season and Charlton’s middle section of the season has seen them move into around the Play Offs places, which gives those fans something to look forward to, unlike the previous 3 seasons where the campaign was heading towards midtable or in the case of 12 months ago a possible relegation battle.

What’s left then? 7 at home with Huddersfield being the only side to head to the Valley, above Charlton in the league table, with the other 6 sitting 10th or below. As mentioned before home form will be key, if Charlton wish to be in the top 6 by the end of play on the 3rd May.

8 games away from home appear to be stronger tests when you look at the table. 4 trips to the current top 6 in Wrexham, Wycombe, Stockport and Leyton Orient. Those last 2 the next away games to face. The proverbial six point clashes. The remaining 4 trips against sides 16th or below, with 3 of those sides in the bottom 5 and fighting to avoid relegation. No easy games on the road but no reason why a dozen points at least from those 8 can’t be achieved.

On the injury front it’s looking excellent, bar Ashley Maynard-Brewer who was withdrawn at Halftime last Saturday at Birmingham with a groin injury. Fair play to all concerned that we have a fairly clean bill of health.

The possibility of suspensions is something to bear in mind as well at this stage of the season with Conor Coventry 1 booking and Luke Berry 2 bookings away from 2 game bans. However this is up to and including the 37th League game of the campaign. Fingers crossed with those two.

And finally we have one more international break left. That coincides with the Peterborough away game on the 22nd of next month. The home game in November was called off with less than a week’s notice when Thierry Small, Karoy Anderson and Kaheim Dixon were called up to represent their respective countries. Conor Coventry was called by the Republic of Ireland at very short notice as well. We will have an answer on that fixture nearer the time if it needs to be rearranged.