Matthew Etherington Appointed As New Manager

There was always a difficult decision to take regarding Lewis, I liked him a lot but it's incredibly early for him in his coaching/managing career, I could have gone either way on that in terms of him getting the job here permanently but that's fair enough, it's a good thing people want to champion his cause and good luck to them and good luck to Lewis if he lands somewhere else straight away and starts massively proving us wrong.

What I don't think is that great though is starting to slag off another guy before he even walks in the door, that's a new thing that's starting to creep into fan culture that I've not seen before. It's not good for Crawley because the level we are at we often will have names come here who are not very well known, who had heard of Dermot Drummy and maybe some Brighton fans may have heard of Richie Barker.

Etherington deserves the backing that we've given any new manager in the past. Starting to invent stuff about him that he is bad like so and so or will do this and that bad thing without giving him any chance at all injects a sourness into the fan base that could seep into support at grounds.

By all means champion Lewis Young but, to do that, it's not necessary to run down Matt Etherington