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Re: FA Cup

Postby steveizy » Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:00 pm

Hull City 0 - Crawley Town 1 :devil

Sorry for the late post. No excuses this time except the huge hang over that followed after celebrating this epic victory!

A very long but enjoyable day out started at The Half Moon and we departed at 8AM. We took a short comfort break at Peterborough services before driving on to Blyth, near Worksop. This gave us a nice long break before onward to Hull.

The KC Stadium is a rather impressive modern 25,000 seater dual-use stadium - the other tennants being Hull FC rugby league team. The pitch was in top notch condition. Very good facilities, good stewarding and a massive 1400 or so Crawley fans out of an attendance of 14,473 made for a great atmosphere before kick off and an even better one during the match.
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On the pitch, Crawley were awesome. Gone was the team that seemed to have lost a bit of direction recently. All of our boys were well up for this one and very focussed. Our new loan signing Sanchez Watt from Arsenal slotted into the team beautifully and made some very good contributions on his debut after meeting the team only a day or so before. Scott Shearer was exceptional in goal. I could go through the whole team - every one of them played a blinder!

From the whistle we succeeded in putting them under pressure whilst also denying them possession and it worked. For the first half hour or so The Tigers had no attempts on our goal whilst The Reds had four or five and a few corners. They got a bit stronger towards the end of the first half and Shearer was called on to make a couple of good saves. Barnett had another shot saved by their keeper just before half time. HT 0-0.

The second half saw The Tigers coming into the game a bit more but it was still mainly Crawley with several attempts on goal. In the 56th minute Tubbs ran onto a beautiful long pass on from Sergio Torres and beating their offside trap... Matt took his time and slotted the ball under their advancing keeper. :applause Hull 0 - Crawley 1.

All of us 1400 or so Crawley fans went wild with excitement and our singing went up by a few more decibels :scarf Terrific atmosphere!

But with over half an hour to go anything can happen in football so there was quite a bit of tension too and a few of us were thinking of Plymouth last week where a late goal denied us a win...We carried on pushing them though they did have a few attempts and Shearer was really tested on a couple of occasions. But the balance was still in Crawley's favour with Sanchez Watt unlucky twice in quick succession - the first being saved and the second being off the post after a Tyrone Barnet shot had been blocked. We contained them, with a few nail-biting moments, for the rest of the match and were still more of a threat to them than them to us.

Absolutely fantastic result. All of our boys did a good job :applause

The long journey home to Crawley was made a lot easier by the jubilant mood on the coach with a lot of speculation over who our next opponents would be in the 5th round! I don't think anyone mentioned being at home to Stoke!

Yes! After the draw on Sunday, Stoke City - last year's finalists come to Broadfield on the weekend of the 18/19 February as the first Premier League club to play there competitively ... this will be a sellout and could well be a TV match!

Last year Manchester United... this year Stoke. It is possible for our super team to win this at "Fortress Broadfield" and advance even further in the FA Cup! :devil What an upset that would be!

Next week we come back to League football as we face Bradford away at Bradford. I'm going on the coach with Carol for another long away journey... something like 1700 miles in the last few weeks. Should be a good game and Crawley will be keen to keep near to the top of the table whilst Bradford are trying to claw their way out of the danger zone at the bottom of the table. We will have to do without Matt Tubbs though :cry We have sold him today to Bournemouth for an undisclosed sum - believed to be circa 900K. This - for a fan is devastating news, although we all understand the reasons. We just hope that Evans brings in a replacement before the closure of the transfer window, though stepping into Matt's boots will be a tough act to follow. Thanks for everything Matt, you always gave us 110%. You will always be a legend at Crawley and good luck at Bournemouth :notworthy

Interesting times being a :crawleyscarf supporter :scarf

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Re: FA Cup

Postby steveizy » Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:21 pm

CRAWLEY Vs STOKE CITY

Crawley Town has announced ticket and game details for the biggest ever match to take place at The Broadfield.

Season ticket holders first day, then CTSA members next, then on Sunday 5th Feb tickets go on general sale. Such is the demand that this is strictly one ticket per person and no phone applications are being taken. Don't leave it if you want a ticket. This is a sellout before a ticket is sold and there are going to be some disappointed.

The match takes place on Sunday 19th February and kicks-off at 12:00.

http://www.crawleytownfc.com/page/Lates ... 79,00.html for more details.

Could we cause one of the biggest cup upsets ever? I think our boys could pull this off :devil

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Re: League Two

Postby steveizy » Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:57 am

Bradford P - Crawley P Match postponed due to frozen pitch.

Bradford groundsmen were confident that the match would go ahead - but despite their pitch covers and warm fans blowing all-night they were unable to combat some of the lowest temperatures this year and the referee declared the pitch unfit at about 11:00.

We were only about 20 minutes away from our planned stop at The Miners Arms in Tankersley South Yorks so we continued and had a very nice buffet and beer. We left about 1:15pm, just as snow was beginning to fall and arrived back in Crawley at 6:30... 20 minutes later it was snowing heavily. Looks like the weather followed us down the M1. Glad we avoided being stranded on the coach although a few of us could happily have been stranded in the pub :drink

Only one League 2 match took place - Plymouth vs Southend which ended in a 2-2 draw. We are still in 4th place but have a game, or two, in hand over the three above us.

Although the main reason for our trip was cancelled, we all had a great day out :scratch

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Re: League Two

Postby dub » Sun Feb 05, 2012 5:36 pm

It's good to know that you guys and a great day out especially after travelling all that way and more importantly you all got home safely before the really bad weather hit.
Shame about the match :yes
Roll on the the summer :glasses

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Re: League Two

Postby steveizy » Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:18 pm

dub wrote:It's good to know that you guys and a great day out especially after travelling all that way and more importantly you all got home safely before the really bad weather hit.
Shame about the match :yes
Roll on the the summer :glasses

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Yep, the decision to leave the pub when we did was a good one. Fortunately, our coach travel is insured against this sort of thing and nobody will be out of pocket - except the insurance company. :-D

A long way to travel to a pub for a Saturday drink but as I said all great fun!

The main problem for the club will be fixture congestion towards the end of the season and if we beat Stoke in the FA Cup, this will be even worse as league games will have to be re-arranged. Our home match this Tuesday against Cheltenham is also in doubt.

Yes - roll on summer! :rainy

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Re: League Two

Postby steveizy » Wed Feb 08, 2012 2:57 pm

Crawley 4 Cheltenham 2

Great result for Tubbs-less Crawley especially after the work put in by fans to clear the pitch of snow in the days leading up to this match. Our new signings all made brilliant appearances with Sanchez Watt scoring twice on his home debut. :clap

Unfortunately this was the first home match that I have missed this season. I haven't been that great this week ...man-flu probably, but that and being bent over double after a stint of plastering left me feeling totally unable to go. A triple whammy for me. I was keen to see our new signings in action and it seems that they all played very well, Cheltenham were top of the table and I hate missing football :cry I had to settle for live commentary from the Reds Player instead.

Cheltenham took an early lead against the run of play when in the 4th minute their Luke Garbutt hit a low ball into the bottom of our net from outside the penalty area. We weren't behind for long though - in the 12th minute Sanchez Watt got the equaliser and his first Crawley goal with a long drive from outside the area. By all accounts this goal was class :clap Then, in the 14th minute Barnett was on hand to hit another long one into the top of the goal. Class again! :clap in the 39th minute Barnett was on hand again to hit another one from the edge of the box again into the top of the goal :clap HT 3-1

The second half started with Crawley in control again and Cheltenham adopted the risky strategy of using all three of their substitutions at around the hour mark. It didn't help though as Sanchez Watt hit his second from close-in just after that, in the 64th minute :clap 4-1 with 25 minutes to go is a winning score but Cheltenham weren't having any of that and 10 minutes later their Darryl Duffy got a consolation goal from close range. 4-2 with 15 minutes to go! But we held on!

Karl Hawley was brought on as a substitute for fellow débutante Billy Clarke in the 86th minute and, by all accounts, put in a good show for his first few minutes of action in a Crawley shirt. Final whistle 4-2.

Great result for The Reds and puts us back at the top of the table on goal difference over Cheltenham but we still have a game in hand.

Hopefully by Saturday I will have recovered from this dreadful illness and am looking forward to our next home match against 18th place Aldershot which kicks off at 3:00pm. We played them earlier, away, in the season and won by a single goal. Unless yesterday's match was a one-off, I cannot see anything other than a Crawley win but anything can happen in football.
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Re: League Two

Postby steveizy » Sat Feb 11, 2012 9:35 pm

Crawley P - Aldershot P

Sorry folks with Crawley touching -12 degrees overnight, it didn't really stand a chance :cry:

Hoping that our game away at Swindon on Tuesday evening goes ahead... starting to get "football withdrawal symptoms" !!

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