The Crawley Town v Yeovil Town Can't Think Of A Decent Title Extravaganza

[MrGloverLover]

We've scored 11 and conceded 0 in our last 3 away games, however we've lost and scraped a draw in our last 2 at home.

Away is the new home this season so fingers crossed we can make it 4 in a row and get back to winning ways.

The bad news is we'll be without Diallang Jaiyesimi and Omar Sowumni who suffered 'long term' injuries against MK on Tuesday. The feeling is our best players are being targeted for rough treatment and this has been the case over the last two games where they've been kicked to pieces at times. Omari Patrick should come back into the squad and a big plus would be having Gary Warren back as we haven't conceded in any game he's played for us.

 

[Casey]

I'm going to my first game for an age! We'll lose :-(

Last game I saw was when we lost to Stevenage at home and we we awful. Seems Coffee has the lads playing more direct ( no keeper passing the ball back) but as I haven't seen it yet I'll hold judgement.

Yeovil's away record is awesome. Our home record is iffy (add to that our problems at centre half, Connolly of injured against FGR last week, McNerney got sent off, Vincelot is still injured so our only available centre half is N'Gala). We could get pasted here!

I'm showing optimism and going for a 2-1 home win.

Casey

 

[MrGloverLover]

1-0 down mass8vely against the run of play. How will we respond?

 

[Casey]

1-1 Yeovil goal disallowed, offside.

Yeovil by far the most dangerous side. Their 20 is in acres of space.

Onwards and upwards

Casey

 

[MrGloverLover]

Bloody hell. How has this happened??

 

[Casey]

Harsh. On Yeovil but we were better second half. Camara going to centre midfield and stopping the 20 running the game was the difference.

Yeovil didn't deserve to lose by two goals though.

Casey

 

[Alain]

Yes they did - and it could have been more at the end - they stopped playing and paid the price for it - roll on Tuesday and Notts County away

 

[Casey]

Oh Yeovil should have had at least two more goals against in the second half but then they should have had scored a couple more in the first...and I'm not sure about the disallowed goal being offside either but I was at a bad angle to judge.

Just thought Yeovil played well for much of the game but we grabbed goals at good moments (can there be a bad moment to score?).

Casey

 

[Mr Gloverman]

Not massively downheartened by today's result as it sounds like we could easily have got a point or even 3. I am frustrated by the constant changes of personnel these last few weeks and i feel this has unsettled the rhythm and understanding that we had forged up to now.

Obviously some changes were enforced and Sowunmi in particular is a big loss but there has been a lot of faffing around in other positions i feel, perhaps unecessarily and we've now shipped 7 in 3 and not won any. Coming of the back of such a promising and solid start too.

That said, i'd rather be sitting where we are in 12th and 10 points clear of second bottom Grimsby. Could be a lot worse i guess.

We have 3 difficult league games coming up too. Colchester at home on Tuesday which will be tough despite their surprise defeat to Bury today. Exeter at home is a west country derby and will be well contested. Then Cheltenham away which again is another sort of west country derby although i would be most confident of getting a win there than the other two games.

 

[Conker]

Crawley managing a few decent results it seems - not really missing Kewell?

 

[devilofajob]

Crawley managing a few decent results it seems - not really missing Kewell?

There seems more togetherness with the new manager. He came and mixed with the fans (although he wasn't in charge that day) at Lincoln, and the way he celebrated our 2nd goal in his first home game was amazing. We also seem to have developed that thing of the whole team/management in a line acknowledging the sides/end of the ground at the end at home.
He's also got us playing less out from the back as the default position.
Some fans who haven't been for a while are coming back seemingly because we're a bit more exciting to watch and there's more passion.
Tuesday will be fun!

 

[UTS]

Not massively downheartened by today's result as it sounds like we could easily have got a point or even 3. I am frustrated by the constant changes of personnel these last few weeks and i feel this has unsettled the rhythm and understanding that we had forged up to now.

Obviously some changes were enforced and Sowunmi in particular is a big loss but there has been a lot of faffing around in other positions i feel, perhaps unecessarily and we've now shipped 7 in 3 and not won any. Coming of the back of such a promising and solid start too.

That said, i'd rather be sitting where we are in 12th and 10 points clear of second bottom Grimsby. Could be a lot worse i guess.

We have 3 difficult league games coming up too. Colchester at home on Tuesday which will be tough despite their surprise defeat to Bury today. Exeter at home is a west country derby and will be well contested. Then Cheltenham away which again is another sort of west country derby although i would be most confident of getting a win there than the other two games.

Surprise defeat to Bury?

We’re 8th...

 

[Devon_Lad]

Surprise defeat to Bury?

We’re 8th...

You are now. Before the game you weren't. Had you lost you'd be 16th and Colchester would be 4th. I'm not sure how the table was before the game and I'm not going to bother working it out, but it would've been a big enough to call it a 'shock result' - Especially given they were home and are considered to be one of the better sides in the division.

 

[Mr Gloverman]

Surprise defeat to Bury?

We’re 8th...

So presumably you expected win at Colchester then?

Take your point though. Colchester would have been favourites given their league position before the game and they were at home but fair do's to Bury who are doing well also atm and not to be underestimated.

 

[UTS]

You are now. Before the game you weren't. Had you lost you'd be 16th and Colchester would be 4th. I'm not sure how the table was before the game and I'm not going to bother working it out, but it would've been a big enough to call it a 'shock result' - Especially given they were home and are considered to be one of the better sides in the division.

Before the game we were 11th.