Lessons for Harry

Yorworth is a liability always waiting to happen. The fact we are having this thread tells a story if its own....it rauses serioys question marks over HK ability to manage a football team and needs to link to the thread are Crawley in some sort of crisis

There was a mixture of some good performance from some of our players and some poor performances from others.

Morris- 6/10 Didn't have much to do and did little wrong so hard to judge too much.

Lelan- 8/10 Proved the doubters wrong with a disciplined and composed performance in defence.

Connolly- 6/10 Battled hard, but the mistakes and silly fouls let him down yet again.

Yorwerth- 5/10 Looked lost in midfield, didn't seem to know what he was meant to be doing.

Young- 7/10 Got forward well and put some good crosses in.

Bulman- 6/10 Not the player he was, understandable given his age, but picked up the second balls and improved our midfield, but doesn't have the legs to keep harrying the opposition players like he used to.

Randall- 8/10 composed performance in midfield, was positive and tried to make things happen. Can hold onto the ball too long sometimes though.

Evina- 6/10 Generally did OK, nice to have a proper left back for a change.

Boldewijn- 9/10 Scored a great solo goal and looked dangerous when cutting inside, caused Port Vale all sorts of problems with his pace.

Verheydt- 5/10 Battled hard and won some flick on's but was marshaled out of the game at times by a rugged and experience Port vale side.

Roberts- 4/10 Looked lost, anonymous, what did he do? He has a worrying tendency to go missing in games!

Payne- 7/10 Noticeably improved the midfield when he came on, kept things simple and moved the ball forward well.

Lewis- 3/10 Did he touch the ball? Not sure why we took off our best player for him?!

Cox- 6.5/10 lots of energy and effort, but nothing quite came off for him.

The lessons the manager needs to learn is that if we're going to play out from the back we need to have players in midfield showing for the ball and who can pass it, Payne showed he can do that, Yorwerth looked lost.

Verheydt needs support. I think he would benefit from having a strike partner and we need t get players to support him. I would like to see Camara given a chance, I've read some good things about him in pre season on here. If it doesn't work out and he's not up to this level so be it, I know he's only 20 and this is his first taste of league football, but we don't have any better options at the moment unless we get someone in on loan.

Enzio should stay on the left as when he cuts in side he causes the opposition all sorts of problems, he's our best weapon going forward.

I'd much rather have Cox out on the pitch than Roberts if yesterday is anything to go by- Cox was more like the player I thought he was- industrious, hard working and positive going forward, Roberts was wearing his invisibility cloak again.

In summary, we have enough quality that we should be able to stay up, but we need to sort out the formation and tactics and play to our strengths more and cut out the mistakes.

The way we came out in the second half suggests that Harry can make positive changes.

How many silly fouls are we talking here? I have to ask because out of the 12 fouls given, his name wasn't against any of them...!

There were certainly some promising points from yesterday's game, we were certainly the footballing team, but were bullied by a strong physical team.

I was late to the ground so missed the first goal, but the second was a stupid challenge on a player already in the air, deserved yellow, and the non-existent challenge by Yorwerth gave Kay an unchallenged header at goal. Enzio pulled one back with a great solo goal (pass it ..... pass it ...... pass it.... oh, alright, shoot and score) but again defending let us down.

The difference when we moved to a back four was obvious with the space between Evina (who I thought had a good game) and Enzio suddenly a huge one. I would rather see a 4-4-2 as Enzio doesn't get back and can score, so play him as the second striker. We can then have Roberts playing in his better position and get the link on the wing.

I was disappointed to lose, but as long as lessons are learnt we can move onwards and upwards.

Oh, and it was good to see Lewis Young have a good game. 

I've come to the conclusion that it isn't the individuals, just that they don't seem to gel.

Connolly, Lelan and Yorwerth all have their supporters, however watching the goals on Sky the first one was unlucky (although maybe the wall should have been more solid), the second was bad (Yorwerth totally lost his man) and the third awful (lame attempt by Evina to block cross, forward totally unmarked between Young/Lelan).

As for MC, I saw a couple of times he moved forwards but then could only play it sideways. But at least he looks like he wants to be there.

We have a serious issue up front, having let a 20 league goal forward go and replaced him with a cart-horse. Let's hope after a few games TV will get some fitness as Saturday he was really feeble.

TV was very isolated up front, his performance wasn't great, but he was bullied out of the game by a well drilled Port Vale side.

Vale won't be the only physical team in this league we come up against, Harry will have to find a way around it or it'll be a repeat of last season.