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Re: Match Day Thread: Crawley
I hear you . You have to agree though that there isn't much point of signing all of those players if they don't play really is there? Westgaard looked like he was starting to get up to pace last week , Lowry looked excellent . They didn't even travel . Simons got 8 minutes . God only knows what is happening with the rest . What worries me is I looked at that starting eleven and I thought hoofball . We have be reverting back to this since the new year and it is certainly what we got today . Grace said they were making tweaks because teams were setting up against us in a low block . His answer to that was to go over the top . We have been doing it for weeks now . I really fear for us . We have not been the team from earlier in the season for a long time . Dodds' has said he will not change much . I think he needs to change a lot ! Today was not on him . Today was just a continuation of what we have seen since Christamas . The warning signs have been there for weeks .

Re: Match Day Thread: Crawley
Disappointing result and by the sounds of it performance today. But some big overeactions. This was Dodds's first league match, so way too early to be making any sort of judgement. I am concerned about a number of new signings seemingly not being fit enough to even make the bench, but that's not Dodds doing and if he doesn't feel they're ready, it shows he is brave enough to make the call of leaving them out of the squad.
Also, whilst in general performances haven't been great recently, Barnsley the other week was one of our best of the season. We left it late, but I thought we were superb that night. Losing Kone is huge for us, so let's hope he's back soon.
Re: Match Day Thread: Crawley
Confidence has to be an issue. We were champagne football for much of the season. Slick passing, flicks and tricks. Now we are a million miles away from it. Nervous, error prone, risk averse. Fred is an attack killer consistently wanting to check back instead of rampaging down the line. He gets lost inside and the shape falls apart. GMac went missing for most of the second half too but some of that was down the Crawley of course.
Signing 12 players is bound to cause disruption. Having a new coach the same. Losing a club icon similar. So we should not be surprised the wheels have come off.
It’s going to take weeks for new players and coaches to settle down. To me that says it all. If we hang on to play offs we might have a second wind. Recent performances suggest it’s going to be a horrid decline.
Re: Match Day Thread: Crawley
Talk is cheap. Actions (and his body language) suggest he isn’t capable of difficult decisions, exemplified by his choice of matchday squad today.

Re: Match Day Thread: Crawley
I wasn’t at the game but ffs some massive over reactions on here, twitter and wouldn’t want to look at facebook . New manager loads of new signings and quite a few important injuries so let’s just chill and see what happens. Maybe the football isn’t great at this time but we have the players to change that have some patience .

Re: Match Day Thread: Crawley
Wow, "if" we hang on to the playoffs!
We're still in the top 2 for now, so let's not overreact too much just yet.
We've got 2 home games in 5 days coming. We can react after those.

Re: Match Day Thread: Crawley
I posted in the first video of him arriving that he gave the wrong impression by hugging everyone even though he’d never met them. He needs to be able to make harsh decisions and let people know who is in charge. I got 10 downward thumbs for that post, I look forward to more

Re: Will Norris signs
I suppose we’ve had to revert to long balls forward now that we have a keeper who is not comfortable passing the ball on the deck. Sad.

Re: Match Day Thread: Crawley
Didn't look like a promotion chasing team today.
I was amazed we didn’t start making subs from the 60 minute mark, thought the game was crying out for something to freshen things up.
Still could have nicked it at the end though, feel like we need something like that to get a bit of momentum going again.
Simmons has to start on Tuesday, was very impressed with his cameo. Personally I’d like to see Kodua and Taylor in too.