Nathan Jones on keeping Charlton Athletic grounded despite meteoric rise up League One table
Nathan Jones says his Charlton side will not rest on their laurels after their meteoric rise up the League One table.
Tuesday evening’s 1-0 home triumph over Barnsley made it 11 wins from 15 – a run that has seen the Addicks climb to 5th.
The South Londoners have lost just twice since mid-December and now find themselves sitting pretty in the play-off places with 12 games of the regular season left to play.
But Jones insists that he will keep the side grounded with plenty of work still do before the campaign is over.
He said: “There’s no one getting carried away at this football club. Well, no one that I come into contact with every day. We know what we’ve got to do. We’ve got to keep winning.
“We’ll keep taking each game as it comes. We’ve got a game in hand on some. We’ve got to make sure that we hammer home all these things but it’s relentless at the minute. We’ve got three games now until hopefully a break and as I said we’ve got to keep this momentum going but we’ve got to be right at it.
“We’ve got to realise what’s got us to this position and keep getting better because we can’t rest on our laurels. Every week that we’re here, every week that we work. It’s not about just going through the motions, it’s about getting better, getting results but getting better in what we do and believing in what we do and at the minute we’re in a good place.”
The Addicks are set to travel to fourth-placed Stockport County on Saturday, before a rearranged trip to Crawley Town next Tuesday. A home tie with Wigan Athletic follows, before an away game at Peterborough United on a designated international weekend.
Asked if he expects the trip to the Posh to be off for international call-ups, Jones explained: “I don’t know but we’ve got a lot of internationals. If we haven’t and people don’t get called up then we go into it and we’re ready to go but with a lot of internationals there’s a possibility that might happen.
“Whatever happens we’ll have a week going into it so there’s no mid-week game there so we’ll have that break is what I meant.
“So not necessarily the game’s off but the week leading into it. We haven’t got Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday so it’s three games and then a break of a week. So, one way or another.”
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