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Re: Match Day Thread: Crawley
2 wins and nobody will give a toss what he said in a welcome interview that most people didn't watch and those who did have forgotten.
No need to over exaggerate. He'll be judged on results, and not just the first two or three.
Re: Match Day Thread: Crawley
I don't get to go to many games, sadly the ones I do get to I seem to bring us nothing but uninspiring results !!
Today - I thought we looked bright for the first 25 minutes.
Their goal was an amazing strike, I was right behind it and it was beautifully struck.
We responded well with some good intensity.
Once the equaliser came which wax very well finished, the game descended into one big head tennis competition.
Our insistence in just lumping it down the channels for one of our big forwards to try and catch up with and then out fight 2 defenders was baffling.
We kept on, time after time doing this with no positive results.
The same with the throw ins down the right hand side, I lost count how many times Fred had a defender in front and behind him and yet the throw in was still launched in his direction. Nothing good could come or did cone from this.
Our forwards looked shot after 60 minutes.
Substitutes we're too little too late.
When the ball was played on the floor we looked effective, such as the glaring chance with the last kick.
Was very impressed with Norris, good in the air, authoritative, not the best distributor however we won't have any scary moments with him behind the sticks.
The stand out player for me in the games i have seen this year was Caleb Taylor. And i feel we missed his drive and forward thrust.
Thought Humphreys looked good when the ball was on the floor.
Would rather see McCleary come on with 20minutes to go to make a big impact on the game rather than start when all the defenders are fresh. He's a great weapon to keep in the armoury.
Today was not a point gained, it was truly 2 points lost.
Crawley fought well, and i thought deserved a point as we weren't savvy and clever enough to actually think about the game. We got caught in the headlights of just a continuous game of head tennis.
I actually came away from the game really annoyed - I appreciate I don't really have the right to be annoyed as I'm not a regular attendee nowdays, however it's so very annoying when we just play 70 minutes of hoof ball. And the start had been so promising.

Re: Match Day Thread: Crawley
It’s been a few games and weeks of training and MD has had to hit that ground sprinting! Sure, it’s not a good result but let’s see how we get on over the next 3-4 games.
Time now for all-in Doddsball and for him to be more brave and be that Number 1!
I’d never heard of him and it was a bit of a disappointing / underwhelming appointment with people like Schumacher available but we are where we are.
3 points needed on Tuesday as a must.
Re: Other Football
They played well today against top of the league Sheffield Utd and more than matched them but when you’re at rock bottom that bit of luck is hard to come by.

Re: Man of the Match - Crawley (A)
What? Where else has he played other than CB and RB? Both of them shakily
Re: Match Day Thread: Crawley
We haven’t been the same team since Morley left, which was going to cause enough of an issue by itself, without everything else that’s happened.
I reckon Simons will solve that problem, surely he’ll start the majority of games from now on.
As for today, a point is a point. Sometimes you’ve got to respect the point, as someone used to say.

Re: Match Day Thread: Crawley
We nearly signed Roman Dixon on loan from Everton at the end of the transfer window. He's a right back, he's also on the bench today against Crystal Palace.
Re: Match Day Thread: Crawley
Don't understand why? Can any of the downvoters explain? During our best spell this season our tactics necessitated the full backs bombing forward. Skura has no attacking impetus or talent at all. He's an inexperienced CB with potential to be a solid League One player. He's not an attacking RB. And it severely hampers the team
Re: Match Day Thread: Crawley
I wouldn't have thought this was 2nd playing 22nd if I didn't know better.
Re: Man of the Match - Crawley (A)
What an utter shambles but, despite a few wayward moments, Declan Skura showed once again that we needn’t be too concerned about the absence of Jack and Jasper.
