Just back..

To the car and my 10 minute drive home
At least 5 gilt edge chances second half,Town should of buried Crawley before they got their penalty (too far away to see if it was or not)
Khan, Lloyd, Hunt and Clifton x2 all wasteful.
Apart from one good save in the first half Crocombe had nothing to do all game and he nearly saved the penalty from where we were standing behind the goal.
It’s a good job this game meant nothing toTown or else I’d be flipping fuming we threw away 2 points tonight.
MoM for me was Smith, even without Waterfall next to him he dominated their front 2 also a mention for Lloyd who again ran his nut’s off all game, has a great attitude and give 100% Love to see him play for us next season.

Quoted from Sussexmariner

To the car and my 10 minute drive home
At least 5 gilt edge chances second half,Town should of buried Crawley before they got their penalty (too far away to see if it was or not)
Khan, Lloyd, Hunt and Clifton x2 all wasteful.
Apart from one good save in the first half Crocombe had nothing to do all game and he nearly saved the penalty from where we were standing behind the goal.
It’s a good job this game meant nothing toTown or else I’d be flipping fuming we threw away 2 points tonight.
MoM for me was Smith, even without Waterfall next to him he dominated their front 2 also a mention for Lloyd who again ran his nut’s off all game, has a great attitude and give 100% Love to see him play for us next season.

Very good summary and some solace from fact it doesn’t matter but would we have been any less likely to have thrown it away if it did ? Therre  is the mystery with this team . Can do it in one off games in the cup/ play offs but not in the  league. Why ? Don’t expect any answers.

Getting over the initial frustration.. because that certainly was frustrating to not take 3 points from.

I thought some of the stuff we played was lovely and free flowing a times. Definite issues with finishing that we need to address. However we seem to have progressed from a team that’s tough to watch at times and doesn’t create chances, to one that now does but can’t finish.

Pre game I wondered if PH would start looking at a 4 at the back as he’s on record saying he does prefer that over a 5.

The positives: thought Smith and Maher had very good games (with one maybe possible exception from the latter), Morris and Hunt ran the midfield well and I’ve in the past been unsure if Hunt would suit a 2 in midfield without the defensive cover. Emmanuel was immense first 30 minutes, Harry and Lloyd ran and caused real issues.

All in all, yep it’s incredibly annoying as we should have won that twice over. However I’m quite positive about the improvement we’ve seen of late.

Turning those draws into wins is key next year. With some key additions I don’t think we’re far off being able to challenge the top 7 next season.

I suspect the fans who'll be even more píssed off than us tonight will be Hartlepool fans.

A mate of mine paid to watch the live stream. He said we were really impressive and is very worried what we might do to them in a week or two.

I told him to relax, we'll do what we always do — either impress right up to the final third and do nothing, or get into the final third and be wasteful in front of goal. I also told him to have a look at our home record in the league!

Not sure it made him feel any better tbh. They need to start winning and a draw will be no good to them at BP.

Got to say fair play to their keeper clapping the Town end at the end when he's got nothing but abuse for the entire second half.

That would have been a hell of a lot more frustrating if I wasn't almost home (one hour from Crawley Station to Peckham) and more importantly if we had something to play for.

We were all over them. Absolutely battered them 1-1. Did not look like a side that has played 9 times this month. First to pretty much everything. Yep they were wasteful but this is hardly new news, is it? Not finishing teams off has been a problem consistently. At least we know exactly what we need to improve in the summer.

Was it a pen or not? The replay I've seen looks like it might have been but a Crawley fan right in front of it on TFF is saying no chance and not only that but that the lino gave it as a corner and was ignored by the ref.

Another thing to note is that the attack/midfield that finished the match has played barely any football together. Other than Morris and Clifton I don't think even any pair of them that have played together much let alone all of them as a unit.

Probably the best following down South midweek in terms of noise since the Bromley fiasco too.

Quoted from Sussexmariner

To the car and my 10 minute drive home
At least 5 gilt edge chances second half,Town should of buried Crawley before they got their penalty (too far away to see if it was or not)
Khan, Lloyd, Hunt and Clifton x2 all wasteful.
Apart from one good save in the first half Crocombe had nothing to do all game and he nearly saved the penalty from where we were standing behind the goal.
It’s a good job this game meant nothing toTown or else I’d be flipping fuming we threw away 2 points tonight.
MoM for me was Smith, even without Waterfall next to him he dominated their front 2 also a mention for Lloyd who again ran his nut’s off all game, has a great attitude and give 100% Love to see him play for us next season.

Well put.

In my Opionion
Paul Hurst to me at times is reluctant to use subs but last night at Crawley come the 2nd half he did use them and not in the usual dying last 5 minutes.Thats not a dig at him but all managers quote from my "Non  Grimbarian Wife" (Football Pundit in training) "Why do they leave it all to do in the last 3 mins!"
UTM

Can’t recall Mayer using the long throws last night as opposed to the Walsall game when every long throw was cleared by their defenders. Maybe Hursty does read The Fishy and realises they don’t work.

Quoted from Son of Cod

Got to say fair play to their keeper clapping the Town end at the end when he's got nothing but abuse for the entire second half.

That would have been a hell of a lot more frustrating if I wasn't almost home (one hour from Crawley Station to Peckham) and more importantly if we had something to play for.

We were all over them. Absolutely battered them 1-1. Did not look like a side that has played 9 times this month. First to pretty much everything. Yep they were wasteful but this is hardly new news, is it? Not finishing teams off has been a problem consistently. At least we know exactly what we need to improve in the summer.

Was it a pen or not? The replay I've seen looks like it might have been but a Crawley fan right in front of it on TFF is saying no chance and not only that but that the lino gave it as a corner and was ignored by the ref.

Another thing to note is that the attack/midfield that finished the match has played barely any football together. Other than Morris and Clifton I don't think even any pair of them that have played together much let alone all of them as a unit.

Probably the best following down South midweek in terms of noise since the Bromley fiasco too.

I don't think it was a pen at all, looked like he won the ball and the linesman seemed to agree.  I also think you look at the players reactions and Crocombe isn't picking up a card for dissent if he's not genuinely aggrieved by the decision.  But, that's all a moot point because if you go in like that in the box you force the ref to make a decision, stay on your feet and you don't.  I doubt Maher will make the same mistake again though.  On the subject of Crocombe, have to say it was a good effort from him, did everything possible to put the taker off and despite being sent the wrong way he still nearly saved it.

It was a terrible pen, right down the middle and no pace on it. Crocombe got a hand to it and will be disappointed he didn’t do better. His reaction said everything. He even slipped doing that.