Crawley Match Thread

To.wn only 7 points from playoffs with either 1 or 2 games in hand - amazing

also. fair play to green. he hasn't given up trying all season. which is more than we can say about a lot of previous strikers we have had.

his goal changed the game. gave us real confidence to kick on.

Interesting, and probably significant,  that it was the experienced  pros who played well tonight-rose,green,waterfall,hewitt plus I understand macca made several vital saves

Quoted from BottesfordMariner

The deluded amongst you who thought could win tonight.

Wake up and smell the roses.

A poor team . Leaderless on the pitch and appearing to lack direction from the touchline.

Don't be taken in by Holloway's deflecting talk
IH is taking us one way.
Looking at the best route to Kings Lynn  next season.

Pardon ?

As the game was played during my wee hours, I couldn't see it.  Typical that we got a win.  Saw short highlights  It seemed like we played more intelligent football - not playing form the back when our defenders have a player up their backsides. Two decent goals.  I'm glad Green scored.  He works hard and he tool that well.

Quoted from forza ivano

Interesting, and probably significant,  that it was the experienced  pros who played well tonight-rose,green,waterfall,hewitt plus I understand macca made several vital saves

Don’t forget Scannell , he was my man if the match

Quoted from Heisenberg

I cannot agree with the constant chopping and changing, it seems completely random to me. No Pollock, Windsor, Gibson or Williams. I can only see another defeat, I’m afraid, but I hope to be proven wrong.

So, so pleased to be proved wrong on this one. Well done to Ollie and the boys

Can the doubters now please get off Holloway’s back!

I think Green plays well most games but as a striker he’s judged on his efforts in front of goal and they are somewhat lacking.

Last night he took his goal well and I think he used his experience to bring others along. Was actually quite impressed with him. Similar with Scanell, perhaps he wants away, perhaps Holloway wants him gone but playing well is likely to improve those chances so we can only benefit from that.

The first half was bizarre and then the second just kind of happened. Once they scored it seemed like the inevitable and perhaps they felt that too. Who could blame them? We dug in though and earned our goal and the game seemingly fell away from Crawley with Macca only having to make one save, albeit a great one.

I suspect next Tuesday could be a terrifying watch as Exeter once again seem a good side. Have the problems disappeared? Probably not? Are many of them likely too? Probably not but it’s a better feeling rocking up at work this morning with three points.

Despite scoring, it doesn't change my view on Green, he's not good enough if we want to challenge in the top half.
Having said that... he did have a good game.
His link up play does go unnoticed a lot. a couple of 1 touch passes into the wingers and the CB have been dragged out of position on to him, and the wingers are then running past him, and he did that well last night, so fair play to Green!

Defence still worries me slightly, but overall, they had a good solid game.

Rose become the league 2 Kante, he seemed to be faster than all the Crawley players, his reactions made a huge difference, and was intercepting passes before they've been made, incredible performance, one we've not seen from a town player for some time IMO, and that's not an exaggeration

Scannell looked a league 1 player tonight.
Confident, experienced, some quality one touch moves to disappear from defenders like they was never there.
a 'Typical' league 2 type player gets his head down and runs, he didn't, he looked up, had visions of the passes through the defence, and made some wonderful passes, was a genuine joy to watch at times.

Wright is the other one who deserves a special mention.
He looks to have a great future in the game. He's the type of player that can have a good game, even when the team are playing poor... deserved his goal!

The rest all played great, and everything just worked for a change!