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Re: Crawley in League 1

Postby steveizy » Fri Aug 31, 2012 5:02 pm

dub wrote:
Thanks for the update steveizy and for the promise of a reminder of when the tickets go on general sale :applause
The Mrs & me will certainly need make sure we are in attendance :yes
Swansea have squad of 39 :-D I imagine that it's normal not to play the first team :scratch Swansea trounced Stoke 2 to Nil in Oct 2011,
and to state the obvious :-D , Stoke stuffed us up !
Back Feb of this year 2 to nil :angry
Swansea are on a roll :notworthy Crawley are on roll :notworthy
I'm going to love this match :yes Come on you reds! :scarf :scarf :scarf
:thunbsup :thunbsup :thunbsup
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Well, they have the dilemma of whether to risk their best players who could get injured and, thus, risk their main objective - success in the Premier, or to field a lesser team and risk an upset :indifferent

They do have a large squad at their disposal, so I see a mix with one or two of their top players on the bench as impact subs if it is going wrong for them! They won't be taking this lightly though and I'm certain that they will pay us a bit of respect by putting out the strongest team they can manage.

If you and Nevis can make it, you'll have a great evening - of that I'm certain!
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Re: Crawley in League 1

Postby steveizy » Sun Sep 02, 2012 9:09 am

Crawley 1 Leyton Orient 0

It was back to League football yesterday after the recent excitement of the League cup.

Initially, Orient looked the better team and our keeper was forced to save a shot in the first minute. Gradually Crawley came back into the game as time wore on. The first half ended goalless but with Crawley looking more confident.

The second half was much the same and a lot of hoofball was being played by both teams and not a lot of passing football. This all changed in the 72nd minute when Nicky Ajose put us ahead. :applause The assist on the goal came from débutante Mike Jones who only signed on Friday :applause Three goals in three games for Nicky now! The remaining 20 minutes or so were tense but The Reds were the stronger of the teams with a couple of close attempts.

Three points from this match put us in 4th place in League 1. A good position to be in but early season placings do not really tell us much. The crowd of 3278, including 679 Orient supporters was disappointing again. It is hard to think of ways to get more people through the gates... maybe the town really doesn't have the hunger for League 1 football - dunno why :scratch

Next is our quest in another cup - The Football League Trophy a.k.a. as the Johnstones Paint Trophy when we entertain League 2 Gillingham at Broadfield on Tuesday evening. The previous matches with The Gills last season resulted in one win each, both being away wins. This is not such a high profile competition but will give Richie Barker some game time with his new signings, hopefully to see our strengths and weaknesses. Tickets are only £8.00 for the terrace and a sell-out is extremely unlikely! Full details: http://www.crawleytownfc.com/news/artic ... 25130.aspx

Then, next Sunday, 9th September, Crawley host Portsmouth in the league. This is a local derby and Pompey have already sold out their ticket allocation. Whether we achieve our highest ever gate remains to be seen but indications are good so far The match is being televised live by Sky sports hence the Sunday fixture - for those who can't come.

All in all, a busy time for the club at the moment :scarf

I will report on both games - stay tuned!

:scarf :scarf :scarf COME ON YOU REDS! :scarf :scarf :scarf

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Re: Crawley in League 1

Postby dub » Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:52 pm

steveizy wrote:Crawley 1 Leyton Orient 0

It was back to League football yesterday after the recent excitement of the League cup.

Initially, Orient looked the better team and our keeper was forced to save a shot in the first minute. Gradually Crawley came back into the game as time wore on. The first half ended goalless but with Crawley looking more confident.

The second half was much the same and a lot of hoofball was being played by both teams and not a lot of passing football. This all changed in the 72nd minute when Nicky Ajose put us ahead. :applause The assist on the goal came from débutante Mike Jones who only signed on Friday :applause Three goals in three games for Nicky now! The remaining 20 minutes or so were tense but The Reds were the stronger of the teams with a couple of close attempts.

Three points from this match put us in 4th place in League 1. A good position to be in but early season placings do not really tell us much. The crowd of 3278, including 679 Orient supporters was disappointing again. It is hard to think of ways to get more people through the gates... maybe the town really doesn't have the hunger for League 1 football - dunno why :scratch

Next is our quest in another cup - The Football League Trophy a.k.a. as the Johnstones Paint Trophy when we entertain League 2 Gillingham at Broadfield on Tuesday evening. The previous matches with The Gills last season resulted in one win each, both being away wins. This is not such a high profile competition but will give Richie Barker some game time with his new signings, hopefully to see our strengths and weaknesses. Tickets are only £8.00 for the terrace and a sell-out is extremely unlikely! Full details: http://www.crawleytownfc.com/news/artic ... 25130.aspx

Then, next Sunday, 9th September, Crawley host Portsmouth in the league. This is a local derby and Pompey have already sold out their ticket allocation. Whether we achieve our highest ever gate remains to be seen but indications are good so far The match is being televised live by Sky sports hence the Sunday fixture - for those who can't come.

All in all, a busy time for the club at the moment :scarf

I will report on both games - stay tuned!

:scarf :scarf :scarf COME ON YOU REDS! :scarf :scarf :scarf

hi steveizy
Thanks for the update :thunbsup the fortunes of the :reddevils appears to be going from strength to strength :scarf
The club has had some top results lately and hopefully will continue building on this success :notworthy
The squad at Crawley consists of 26 plus 4 additional players :scratch and Gillingham have a squad of 27 + 3 additional players :scratch
Crawley will need to play a strong team on the night. :scarf
Gillingham who top league two drew 1 -1 at home against Chesterfield in their last match.
Chesterfield (ranked 19, league two) drew one all at Leyton Orient (ranked 23 league one) earlier this year.
We're coming on strong :punch
:scarf :scarf :scarf COME ON YOU REDS! :scarf :scarf :scarf

Ps: :thanks for sorting us out a pair tickets for the match against Swansea to be played later this month :applause
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Re: Crawley in League 1

Postby steveizy » Wed Sep 05, 2012 4:13 pm

Crawley 3 Gillingham 2

Crawley progress to the next round of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy after this narrow victory over The Gills at Broadfield.

It was The Gills who opened the scoring when their Bradley Dack headed home at close quarters in the 22nd minute. In the 40th minute, new signing Joe Walsh hit a strong ball from the edge of the box into the top right of their goal :applause 1-1 First goal for Joe - great stuff. HT 1-1 which was a bit flattering to Gillingham.

The second half had only just started when we took the lead from a 47th minute Clarke goal. :applause 2 -1. The lead lasted all of two minutes. Gillingham weren't done yet! In the 49th minute Lewis Montrose levelled things up for The Gills 2-2! In the 86th minute substitute Scott Neilson hit a fantastic long range goal from outside the box straight into the top corner of the net :applause 3-2 Full time.

This was a good match to watch as both teams really wanted to win. Crawley had more chances and more of the play. Not much perfect passing and a fair bit of hoofball from both teams but good entertainment, none the less. It was also a good test for some of the players who haven't had much game time so far this season and the new lads.

The crowd was never going to be huge but the turnout of 1249 which includes about 150 Gills was disappointing considering the low ticket prices.

Next is the all ticket, televised League match against Portsmouth on Sunday. This will might be a big crowd at last.




dub wrote:
hi steveizy
Thanks for the update :thunbsup the fortunes of the :reddevils appears to be going from strength to strength :scarf
The club has had some top results lately and hopefully will continue building on this success :notworthy
The squad at Crawley consists of 26 plus 4 additional players :scratch and Gillingham have a squad of 27 + 3 additional players :scratch
Crawley will need to play a strong team on the night. :scarf
Gillingham who top league two drew 1 -1 at home against Chesterfield in their last match.
Chesterfield (ranked 19, league two) drew one all at Leyton Orient (ranked 23 league one) earlier this year.
We're coming on strong :punch
Ps: :thanks for sorting us out a pair tickets for the match against Swansea to be played later this month :applause
Topman ! :notworthy


My pleasure to be able to get you tickets. The club allowed us season ticket holders 4 each when normally it is one each. Hope this helps us get a record crowd for Swansea. To your other comment, it looks like Richie Barker chose a strong enough team to do the job but as I mentioned, it did allow game time for some of the other players in the squad.

I will report back on the Pompey match which we hope will bring us the points...

:scarf :scarf :scarf COME ON YOU REDS! :scarf :scarf :scarf

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Re: Crawley in League 1

Postby dub » Wed Sep 12, 2012 12:13 am

Crawley Town 0, Portsmouth 3. (Sunday 9th September)

The Reds lost to Portsmouth in a shocking defeat after being reduced to 9 men, a result of some dubious refereeing decision making.
The sending off of Josh Simpson and Hope Akpan gave Pompey one serious advantage.
Portsmouth playing 11 to 9 were bound to take control of play and that's what happened !
Against adversity Crawley battled to balance this numerical advantage, but after loosing two players it was all about damage limitation.

Not wanting to sound a bad sport :innocent methinks that had this cruel twist of fate had not occurred :no :thumbsdown In the worse case senario :crawleyscarf would resulted a no score draw at the final whistle.

It's again another example of how unpredictable prediction making is :rotfl a bad decision by the match official :angry can send things belly up
It;s just a blip 4 The Barkers Boys... next up :clap :clap
PRESTON v CRAWLEY TOWN (away npower League Sat 15 Sep 12, 15:00)
Preston held a nil nil draw against Scunthorpe earliar this year and the :reddevils trounced The Iron 3 -0 back in August, :punch :punch
:scarf :scarf :scarf COME ON YOU REDS! :scarf :scarf :scarf
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Re: Crawley in League 1

Postby steveizy » Wed Sep 12, 2012 2:23 pm

dub wrote:Crawley Town 0, Portsmouth 3. (Sunday 9th September)

The Reds lost to Portsmouth in a shocking defeat after being reduced to 9 men, a result of some dubious refereeing decision making.
The sending off of Josh Simpson and Hope Akpan gave Pompey one serious advantage.
Portsmouth playing 11 to 9 were bound to take control of play and that's what happened !
Against adversity Crawley battled to balance this numerical advantage, but after loosing two players it was all about damage limitation.

Not wanting to sound a bad sport :innocent methinks that had this cruel twist of fate had not occurred :no :thumbsdown In the worse case senario :crawleyscarf would resulted a no score draw at the final whistle.

It's again another example of how unpredictable prediction making is :rotfl a bad decision by the match official :angry can send things belly up
It;s just a blip 4 The Barkers Boys... next up :clap :clap
PRESTON v CRAWLEY TOWN (away npower League Sat 15 Sep 12, 15:00)
Preston held a nil nil draw against Scunthorpe earliar this year and the :reddevils trounced The Iron 3 -0 back in August, :punch :punch
:scarf :scarf :scarf COME ON YOU REDS! :scarf :scarf :scarf
:mz:


I was going to report this match but thanks to Dub, I will not need to now!

Dreadful game, awful referee just about sums it up... The Reds did not look good before the sendings-off but once they happened we'd had it :thumbsdown

Hopefully just a blip - one that we can learn from. Two players suspended over their dismissals won't help us. No appeal possible as not straight reds but two yellows.

Onwards and upwards... Off to Preston North End on Saturday - I'm going of course, hoping for a revival though this is going to be tough, very tough. I'd bite your hand off if you offered me a draw and a point from this today! Whatever the result, it will be a good day out to a new ground :scarf

:scarf :scarf :scarf COME ON YOU REDS! :scarf :scarf :scarf

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Re: Crawley in League 1

Postby steveizy » Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:29 am

Preston North End 1 Crawley Town 2

Due to another matter, I was unable to go to the match in the end despite having a ticket. It seems that the Reds did quite well without me!

I listened to the live commentary on the Reds Player instead. The first half saw Preston start quite brightly but it wasn't long before Crawley got into the match, pressing Preston back into their half for long periods. The first half ended goalless.

The second half started with Crawley in the driving seat again. In the 54th minute, Gary Alexander headed home a cross from Nicky Adams from short range :applause 0-1 Four minutes later it was Alexander again when he let one go from distance, beating their keeper :applause By all accounts this was a world class goal. 0-2. Crawley came close once or twice more but it was Preston who got one back in the 91st minute 1-2 and with five minutes added time the last minutes were tense, to say the least. Full time eventually 1-2. What a difference six days made... last week the disappointment of losing so badly to Portsmouth at home to this week when we took the points from an iconic team that were unbeaten in their previous five matches.

This result sees the Reds in fourth place in League 1 with other big and famous teams below us. Of course, the season is still young and anything can happen in football as we all know but what a position to be in especially after losses to Swindon and Pompey!

Next up is our journey to Colchester on Tuesday evening, again I have match and travel tickets and I'm really hoping that I will be able to go. Colchester are currently sitting at the bottom of the table, having only three points from their six games whilst Crawley have twelve points from six. Colchester will have something to prove and will be up for this match but if we can play like we did yesterday, we should beat them. If only it were that simple...

:scarf :scarf :scarf COME ON YOU REDS! :scarf :scarf :scarf

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