One aspect of Saturday's game which helped was the size of the team. With Branco, Jones, Thomas, Doughty and Norris we actually had a bit of height and muscle. Helped in winning second balls and offering a set piece threat.
Noticeable that when Rodgers came on, he took up Thomas' position as the zonal marker just past the near post, before Doughty swapped with him. Says a lot that the job usually given to one of the best headers at the club was handed over to a midget then swapped for a player of fairly average height.
Thomas had a cracking game but Charlton were so hopeless in picking him up as the second pivot (Kasim was continually tracked) that twice he had no one within ten metres of him and could take the ball from Vigs and turn on it unopposed to play out.