Post by hickmottsenior on Nov 23, 2019 19:50:12 GMT
Million % a penalty
And, yes, it is getting boring at Crawley Town. One alone going down this term may deprive us of some potential drama, but now I'm starting to wonder...
No need to press the panic button. String a few runs together and we could create more distance between us and Morecambe. Morecambe were thumped 5-0 today which does make we wonder why we struggled against them. Its not been a great season, drifting higher up and some hope of maybe the play offs seems so long ago. I cannot see us though being in any danger of the drop allbeit maybe thankful we are in a league of only 2 dropping out with 1 having already dropped (Bury).
I don't think it was a lack of effort today, I thought it was a combination of being beaten by a better side and poor tactics from Cioffi. Exeter could and should have scored more goals. Going forward we lacked ideas and defensively we were pulled all over the place by Exeter. There was an air of inevitability when they scored although conversely we should have had a penalty just before that, but we should've defended the corner much better.
Like others I was puzzled why Nadesan was playing out of position as a winger when he wasn't affecting the game at all. Grego-Cox would've offered more on the wing. I want him to do well as he's a local lad, but even when he plays in his natural position he doesn't look up to this level.
Palmer continues to frustrate- fouling, play acting, giving up when it doesn't quite fall his way and struggling to link up with his team mates.
Camara continues to be one of the most frustrating players I've ever seen, wins the ball well then gives it away cheaply. Beats a couple of players and gets into great positions, but then has the most woeful shot or pass.
Looks like another season struggling in the lower half of the table. Can't see us beating Fleetwood next week and I can't see when the next winning is coming at the moment.
I thought we had improved from last week & had a bit of scrap in us, which pleased me as i posted last week that i wanted to see a better approach.
However... You did not have to be Pep Guardiola to conclude that Nadesan is not strong enough as a centre forward or any sort of natural winger, he looks like he could be a half-decent number ten with Ollie doing the donkey work.
It is one thing not to utilise him in the role, but what i really don't get is the reluctance to change things when the original plan is quite evidently not working...?
And that JTG is down to the manager, no excuses, he needs to start learning pretty damn rapidemente...!
My view on yesterdays fayre. In the first half Exeter should of been out of sight but their woeful finishing and a MoM performance from Morris kept it even at half time. Second half much better from us with Bez having a few attempts and Dalison's poor header, if better should of been a goal. I was in line with our penalty shout and the officials bottled it imho. Lack of concentration from the resulting corner saw Exeter wrap up the points. Felt for Nasedan, nothing seems to go right for him, but he is not a wide player. The CB's weren't convincing again yesterday, maybe give CSW & Joe Mac (if fit) a game. The concensus from those around me yesterday was that we have no midfield, no leaders and no one that can dictate play. The game yesterday was crying out for a battling Jimmy Smith and the quality of a Josh Payne. As predicted a lower home crowd following the Morcambe game, the club must be grateful that Exeter brought a few hundred. Finally anyone else think Exeter's Williams looked like a Cuban gangster out of an 80's movie?
Once again it’s late November and the general vibe is now not ‘that we are in with a shout at the play-offs’ but ‘it’s okay we won’t go down there is always a team worse than us in this league’. If that is all we have to get excited about (or hope for), and it has been since Eren took over, we are lost as a football club. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the fact we are a league club after all those years in the Dr Martins etc, but we are not moving forward at all, we have once again reverted to type on and off the pitch (over £50k for a new scoreboard, really!?). It finally looked like us long suffering fans were going to have a season to enjoy, not endure, back in August, but as someone else has mentioned that seems like a long time ago. The way we limped out of the league cup, when we could have had another historic day at Old Trafford was the writing on the wall for me and many others. If we carry on this way, the crowds will continue to dwindle, and eventually we will be the worse club in the league (we already have the worse defense and our manger earned his trade as a defender) and if relegated (probably not this season) I believe we would struggle to ever get back into the league.
Once again it’s late November and the general vibe is now not ‘that we are in with a shout at the play-offs’ but ‘it’s okay we won’t go down there is always a team worse than us in this league’. If that is all we have to get excited about (or hope for), and it has been since Eren took over, we are lost as a football club. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the fact we are a league club after all those years in the Dr Martins etc, but we are not moving forward at all, we have once again reverted to type on and off the pitch (over £50k for a new scoreboard, really!?). It finally looked like us long suffering fans were going to have a season to enjoy, not endure, back in August, but as someone else has mentioned that seems like a long time ago. The way we limped out of the league cup, when we could have had another historic day at Old Trafford was the writing on the wall for me and many others. If we carry on this way, the crowds will continue to dwindle, and eventually we will be the worse club in the league (we already have the worse defense and our manger earned his trade as a defender) and if relegated (probably not this season) I believe we would struggle to ever get back into the league.
interesting thought as a club are we moving forwards...suppose it depends how you measure that success, some clubs like Bury and Macclesfield might look at keeping afloat as a success against the giants of the premier league that reep virtually all the financial rewards in football with little filtering lower down. Yes crowd was down perhaps many floating fans saving a day out for the cup again. Its good to remember the non league days and anyone that was at West Green too will appreciate the move to Broadfield and playing league football. We have that, at least secured again and an alternative to the same ole corporate fish bowl stadiums of Manchchester Liverpool and Falmer. Despite not being happy with Gabby and I often think of if only we held onto this and that player...but alas it doesnt work like that lower down the 'food chain', for league football and the odd bit of Norwich and Stoke excitement Im grateful I follow Crawley Town not the masses that head south down the A23 and A27.
Exeter even played a full 90 minutes on Tuesday night and still looked far better in all departments.
I don’t think their ‘keeper needed to put his kit into the wash basket, it was that clean.
Ok, it did look like a penalty and the Incompetent Officials bottled it. However, had it been given, there was no assurance that we would have scored !!
Cioffi said in he's post match ramblings that Naseden playing wide was a sacrifice replacing the suspended RGC, his problem is that like most of us we are aware of how vulnerable we are at fullback and hence he plays players wide to support the flanks.Youngs support play is good but his pass/cross completion rate is appalling and interceptions mean we are often caught on the break, if Francome is now fit play him at right back Dallison left and Mac,Sendles or Tunicliffe in the middle but above all we must play two up top.
Yes it is good being a league club but is that it? Season after season of mediocrity is starting to get tedious as a crap match is a crap match be it in the PL or SLP. Have we enjoyed the last four or five seasons more than our last couple in Conference or winning the SL? If we could see some progression then fine but it has been same old same old for years and more will eventually latch on to the easy glory of the carrier bags or one of the glossy PL teams if we can't start consistent improvement on the field.
Cioffi said in he's post match ramblings that Naseden playing wide was a sacrifice replacing the suspended RGC, his problem is that like most of us we are aware of how vulnerable we are at fullback and hence he plays players wide to support the flanks.Youngs support play is good but his pass/cross completion rate is appalling and interceptions mean we are often caught on the break, if Francome is now fit play him at right back Dallison left and Mac,Sendles or Tunicliffe in the middle but above all we must play two up top.
then why on earth did he play Nadesan on the wing instead of Nathaniel george who is a natural wing player?!
Cioffi said in he's post match ramblings that Naseden playing wide was a sacrifice replacing the suspended RGC, his problem is that like most of us we are aware of how vulnerable we are at fullback and hence he plays players wide to support the flanks.Youngs support play is good but his pass/cross completion rate is appalling and interceptions mean we are often caught on the break, if Francome is now fit play him at right back Dallison left and Mac,Sendles or Tunicliffe in the middle but above all we must play two up top.
then why on earth did he play Nadesan on the wing instead of Nathaniel george who is a natural wing player?!
Fair point & you could also mention Van Veltzen, plus having sacrificed a forward, the plan never worked - no blame on Nadesan - we were over crowded on the touchline with too few in the middle and the little blond guy & the Snoop Dog lookalike out wide for Exeter, saw an awful lot of the ball & used it pretty well.
By all means try a tactical change, but also have the courage to revise plans if they are not working.