Charlton news thin on the ground Charlton news is extremely waif like at the minute, isn't it? Dover Athletic tonight where Yassin Moutaoukil, Jonathan Fortune, Lloyd Sam, Svetoslav Todorov and Stuart Fleetwood are named in the squad that will be a mixture of first team and youngsters with French trialist Kevin Tunani being the one to watch from what I heard from an eye-witness who was Dartford last week.

No sign of either Sean Canham or Paul Coutts, both non-leaguers who Pardew was supposed to be running the eye over.

My son, brother and a host of mates are all off to Brighton Saturday along with 900 other Addicks, a great effort for a pre-season game that has caught the imagination. I will get a report no doubt from an 8-year old and an update on his new favourite player around about mid-afternoon here on Saturday.

Various, well one or two names have been thrown out there by unreliable websites for new signings, one of whom the butcher of Plymouth, Krisztian Timar has just signed a new contract with Argyle. Fortune has been linked with a money move to Preston, who have been very inactive in the summer market, whereas it is said that the Bougherra deal to Real Betis is off. I certainly hope so because we are certainly short at the back. Still in my mind we are still short of a midfielder in the mold of a Mark Kinsella. If I knew who, then I wouldn't be sat here, I'd be playing Championship Manager.  ¶ 09:09