Dire football you can’t sugar coat it anymore with “we played well” . We’re losing games badly. Only positive thing I have to say is Ransom did well and deserves a start. Nichols tried his heart out and Tilley was excellent as always. BETSY OUT
Absoloute garbage. Slow sideways passing boring to watch. The third mistake this year passing a round at the back thats given a goal.
The owners need to act quick and get rid of the manager. The team looks like a bunch of strangers. He's recruited a load of under23 players with no experience at this level who want to play at half pace.
Second half he puts Nichol in midfield! Which confirms he's no idea.
It's awful to watch and frankly dull as dishwater as far as entertainment goes.
I’m going to be generous and say from around 6th minute we were not competing, embarrassing and outplayed by a very average (at best) league two side. Not good enough, not quick enough, not smart enough and to be honest I think this current set up would struggle in the southern league.
To be embarrassed like that against a local rival is unforgivable,not unfortunate. We lack many things despite the lovely football in our own third.
To be clear, I’m not in the “sack the manager” camp just yet but for fuck sake Betsy you need to take a long hard look at this, before it’s too late for all of us.
Last Edit: Aug 20, 2022 16:17:39 GMT by armchairfan
To be clear, I’m not in the “sack the manager” camp just yet but for fuck sake Betsy you need to take a long hard look at this, before it’s too late for all of us.
Same here. I always said he needs 10 games to show what he can do.
However you need to learn lessons along the way about what works and what doesn't. If you don't have shots on target you don't score.
I hope the owners are engaged too.....when I saw Preston and Eben at the fans forum they didn't impress me and not much has changed there either.
5 games seven goals conceded and only two goals scored. In four games we haven't scored or looked lime scoring. It's says everything about the garbage football Betsy is producing. Sack him.
A 2-0 absolute thrashing. Make no mistake Reds were COMPLETELY beaten. That was painful to watch. Dom MOM closely folloeed by Tilley. To matters worse AFC werent that good.
We've had one decent second half of football in the first 5 league games and we still lost that game!
The only reason we have got one point is because the opposition couldn't score in that game.
This is a very steep learning curve for Betsy, the new owners and all these academy players we've got.
I thought Tony Craig looked like the only half decent defender we had until he made those two silly fouls and got sent off.
From the moment we overplayed at the back and gave the first goal away the confidence drained away and we had no idea how to get back into the game. Numerous times in the first half Powellm Adebowale overplayed and took forever on the ball losing it, both were in some ways unfortunate to subbed at half time given they weren't much worse than the rest of the players. Second goal before half time came from us again overplay at the back and taking forever before Craig made a rash challenge then a well taken free kick and we go in at HT 2-0.
As if the first half wasn't bad enough we again overplay in midfield and get caught on the break and Craig makes a proffesional foul against that wombles player with the silly blonde wig. From that point onwards we were a total mess and it was painful to watch the last 30-35 minutes with Wombles casually passing it around at ease at the back and through midfield. Although a thankless task, the new guy upfront didn't great and only Tilley and Balgizi looked to make things happen.
There's too many academy players out there and the manager only knows how to play one way, there is no plan B out there and too many players out there too casual on the ball playing like it's a pre season friendly. What annoys me is that when we've given the ball away at the back several times and we've conceded a goal or two directly from these mistakes, we still don't resort to kick it long, utter stupidity.
What we've got now is a total mess. A manager who's blow the budget on a load of academy players that aren't ready to play proffesional football and who doesn't know his best team and who's whole coaching phliosphy is only suited to Premier League and acadamey football and American owners who look like they still go to college frat parties and have only just started calling football football not socer let alone have a club about owning and overseeing an English football league club.
Even if the new owners sack the new manager, the next one is left with a total mess with all these academy players that aren't ready yet. We've got to hope that Betsy can turn this around, but one or two of the senior players has got to have a word in his ear and tell him we cannot continue to play with these tactics!
I'm not a Crawley supporter but sat up and took notice when you signed Dom Telford. I was impressed by what appeared to be happening and backed you heavily ante-post. It is an understatement to say it's not looking like a good investment. However it is just five league matches in so I'd give Betsy a bit more time yet; but what was your star striker doing on the bench? Has he been injured?