Charlton went down 1-2 to Bristol City at The Valley this afternoon. They started brightly enough with a great effort by Harry Clarke, but then Scott Twine put Hodgson's heroes ahead.
Last ditch Dykes equalised on 29 minutes with the assistance of Kelman.
The visitors then went ahead from a free kick delivered by Scott Twine. Noah Eile was able to score after Mannion fumbled the ball.
Charlton seemed lethargic with the crowd of nearly 21,000 subdued.
But then a series of substitutions livened things up and there were a number of opportunities in the last ten minutes of normal time with the keeper saving with his legs from Dykes and Campbell sending the ball off target. The keeper also had to make a great save from Matt Godden.
Ramsay had to make an excellent tackle to prevent the Robins going 3-1 ahead.
The referee behaved as if his retirement plan was with Hargreaves Lansdown as every marginal decision went the way of their works side and he was taken in by their play acting
In truth it was the usual incompetence. We should stop sending referees to Specsavers and use a more up market optician like Bayfields.
Charlton remain 18th, eight points above Leicester City.
Frustrated manager Nathan Jones said: At the start of both halves, we were poor and that's cost us the game today.
"We work every single week on starting fast and being front-footed and in the first 50 seconds, we mess about it and give a corner away and that sets the tone.
"It was a game we could have drawn or won in the end but we didn't show enough quality in the final third and some of our defending was so un-Charlton like, it was crazy.
"The start killed us. When we're in the game, we know we're going to be strong late on attacking that end, but we're not giving ourselves a chance.
"It's a carbon copy, the last three home games, we're not learning from that and that's tough to take."
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