Crawley

Dancingwilldoit · 03-02-2018, 20:32

Thought they were a good team. Not a bad game but we need to start learning how to attack effectively.
The number of times we got ourselves in good positions then went for the wrong option I lost count.
Blue I know you think I'm a pessimist but honestly 0 points from 2 winnable home games doesn't bode well. Back in the relegation zone with some desperate games coming up.
Bobs board will probably be screaming because we didn't sign 3 left backs but I have been saying for weeks its up top we need bodies and not COG. We just don't look like scoring. Todays goal was a bit of a fluke
We didn't play badly but we just haven't got that cutting edge in the final third. We could have won today and didn't. Our position is getting worse and worse each week. if we don't get a result next week I think we've had it.

bluepooch · 03-02-2018, 20:40

We must have messaged at the same time Dancing.
Both along similar lines

**spireitematt** · (This post was last modified: 03-02-2018, 21:40 by spireitematt.)

15 games left, need at least 7 wins to stay up and we've only won 7 all season so far, so its going to be an extremely big ask. Morecambe is now a must win game! lose there and results go against us and it's over.

Barnet are pretty much down. Morecambe, Crewe, Forest Green and us are now fighting to avoid 23rd. If we had won today and last week we would now be 21st on 33pts but hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Bringing in 11/12 players during the January transfer window is great but its going to take time for these players to get to know each other and gel and the problem we've got is we haven't got time, time and games are running out.

These are the remaining fixtures:

Morecambe A
Cambridge H
Carlisle A
Swindon H
Exeter A
Lincoln H
Cheltenham A
Notts County H
Port Vale A
Newport H
Grimsby A
Mansfield H
Forest Green A
Wycombe H
Barnet A

Looking through those fixtures I can see on paper 4 possibly 5 wins.

bluepooch · 03-02-2018, 22:05

The problem is that it is virtually impossible to predict us at the moment .Look at the last 4 games .Luton h ,Yeovil a,Stevenage h, Crawley h .Honestly how many results would you have got right beforehand ?
I might have predicted 6 points but certainly not in the order they were achieved.

Devongone · (This post was last modified: 04-02-2018, 13:26 by Devongone.)

I thought we had a chance against both Luton (if they weren't on a going day) and Yeovil (who were inevitably thinking about Man Utd). I expected Stevenage to beat us. I was quite optimistic (for me) about yesterday.

I feared Jack was planning to consign young Joe to the bench. I think he's right to identify that our wide midfield men have lacked the weapons to put pressure on the opposition's wide defence (which I'm pretty sure is a big reason we've ended up playing eight left backs this season). I was hoping Joe Rowley and Louis Dodds would move in behind Dennis and add to our goal threat. Once you've got that, my thinking is the opposition full backs have got to think both about the direct threat out wide AND covering in behind their centre backs who'll have their hands full. The more you occupy them the less weight they can add to their team's attacking threat.

Matt is quite right. Bring in this amount of new players and you have to get them to gel. Noticeably almost all Forest Green's dealings were in the first few days of the window. They've had some settling-in highs and lows. We clearly count every penny when it comes to that extra month of wages. Last-minute deals do, however, have another cost, but the crazy roundabout at the end of January clearly benefits some and creates a lot of interest, some of which seems like legalised stalking. (A good job it's not the Womens' game, there'd be a lot of casting couches - and coaches - and proto-Weinsteins around.)

My opinion is pretty much what it has been since I copped a butchers at GC's recruitment - we are going down. Somehow Jack has to lift us one place above a failing club. The brilliant Jim Bentley seems determined to organise Morecambe up the table ...... maybe Crewe could lose their remaining dregs of focus ............ or maybe Jack can knit his recruits together, but seven wins sounds a big ask to me.

bluepooch · (This post was last modified: 04-02-2018, 14:00 by bluepooch.)

We are on a horrendous run losing 7 out of the last 10 .I really hope the new players can gel quickly if thats what it needs but right now I'm feeling deflated as we are rubbish attacking wise ,none of our wide players can beat a man and put a cross in .
Their no 9 yesterday played wide and ripped us apart ,ive looked him up it was his debut on loan from Charlton,Karlan Ahearne Grant.
I thought to myself why couldn't we have got him ,he was certainly streets ahead of our acquisition Mottley Henry.
Crawley have recruited well and judging by yesterday I wouldn't rule them out for the play offs .

Dancingwilldoit · 04-02-2018, 20:50

Grant was MOM I was glad they took him off. He was just what we need and the big No23 was it? built like a brick shit house was the perfect foil for him. His goal was a cracker. I think they were one of the best teams I have seen this season and even last. They were a big side but they could pass, were not dirty or con merchants like Stevenage. I don't mind losing to honest teams and they were one of those. Problem is it leaves us in the doo doo. We need a win next Sat so desperately.

Devongone · (This post was last modified: 05-02-2018, 13:42 by Devongone.)

Karlan Ahearne-Grant was available, but to us? Crawley is a commute from London; Chesterfield is Iceland.

BUT there are better teams than Charlton all around us - as near as Crawley is to London - and we don't really take full advantage of them do we? Grabbing the odd player from Barnsley is a start but they are hardly the by-word in player development are they?

I'd love a win on Saturday, but it's a daydream.

Dancingwilldoit · 05-02-2018, 20:05

Some good posts on BB Dev. Bit above them as most are still convinced we wont go down. I wonder how many would actually still support the team if we did go down by going to games? Maybe it will be the straw that breaks the camels back for a lot of them but they will still be posting away.

**spireitematt** · 05-02-2018, 20:39

(05-02-2018, 20:05)Dancingwilldoit Wrote: Some good posts on BB Dev. Bit above them as most are still convinced we wont go down. I wonder how many would actually still support the team if we did go down by going to games? Maybe it will be the straw that breaks the camels back for a lot of them but they will still be posting away.

I will still support us if we go down. I would support Chesterfield FC no matter what league they play in. I think though if we do go down and don't find a buyer for the club then the fans could end up doing a Hereford, Chester, Darlington, FC Halifax etc.