Clash of the Category 2 Academy Minnows - Crewe vs Colchester

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

Bipolar Crewe host fellow relegated side from last season Colchester at Gresty Road. After handing out sustained beatings to Colchester, it's worth noting that they are unbeaten in 4 of their previous 5 visits to Gresty Road.

The team that started at Crawley for us should remain the same bar the injured George Ray being replaced by Perry Ng or the returning Jon Guthrie at CB. Dagnall and Bowery back together means we'll be able to build on the Crawley win, both players are key to us surviving this season and we really missed Dagnall in the Hartlepool and Newport games in particular.

Colchester have a large injury crisis but they're no mugs and will give us a game. Kurtis Guthrie tore us apart in the 4-0 and it appears he won't be playing on Saturday so that's a relief. The form book says we'll lose this one to keep the pattern going, I think we'll draw 1-1 with Bowery once again scoring for us. A win though would be massive and take us to 45 points going into our long trip to Carlisle next week!

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

I thought we had some Colchester fans on this forum you know...

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

Pitch inspection, looks like the game is off if the inspection is this late...

 

[dedwardp]

Game on, now the rest of our team can pick up season-ending injuries too.

 

[dedwardp]

Our away form is just abysmal.

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

Massive win for the Reds! Back to back clean sheets and wins have made up for the Newport debacle and I'm confident one more win will see us home and dry even if Newport rally.

Great to see Chris Dagnall back and firing after his ban, I'm confident we'd have beaten Newport and possibly Hartlepool had he been available, he's been the key cog in our survival bid and great to see Dave Artell getting him firing after the fraud woefully misused him.

On a huge run of 16 points out of 27 under Dave, over the last 5 weeks we've gone from in freefall to looking virtually comfortable and that's testament to the big man and the players who have confidence and belief back!

 

[dedwardp]

Game on, now the rest of our team can pick up season-ending injuries too.

Just Szmodics then who has broken his leg, just what we needed. This season has completely gone to pot.

 

[TimeyWimey]

The change in Dagnall, man. He was the most ineffective striker since Anthony Elding till Artell took over. Now he's on fire. Still not quite "best strike force in League Two" as Radio Stoke put it, lol ffs twats. Clean sheets are piling up too... bloody Ben Garratt.

We're sorted now. Any Crewe fan worried about Newport/Orient taking 14 more points than us before the end of the season needs tablets.