Alan Pardew is ready to swing the axe at Charlton after Darren Randolph's error against Southampton all but cost his side a play-off place.

Andy Gray's first goal for the Addicks earned them a 1-1 draw at The Valley, but they could not force the win they needed after Randolph had gifted the visitors a 10th-minute lead on his first league start of the season.

The 20-year-old, this week recalled from a loan spell at Bury with Nicky Weaver suspended, somehow spilled a speculative Stern John lob into his own net under pressure from no-one but his own defenders.

"It looks like it might have cost us although mathematically it is not over," said Pardew, whose side are now four points off the pace with three games remaining. "I can't keep making excuses for our failure to win at home, but I think I know why and I have to put it right.

"I have told the players that over the next three games they have to show me they want to be here, otherwise I will make changes."

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