Crewe Alexandra v The Gas, Jesters Official matchday thread

Isn’t it past your bed time?

The way I see it we are lumbered with the rubbish Garner and Widdrington recruited for at least the remainder of this campaign, with this in mind the best we can realistically hope for is the recruitment of an experienced defensive coach (somebody like Tillson)?

The blame lies with the board's decision to back Garner for much too long. Paul tisdale have been left with a division one squad that offers three strikers . Two are development players who never kicked a ball in div one or two and a 4th in line striker who is trying and burning himself out.

How on earth did the board allow garner to sign a 4th left back ? Nearly 11 midfielders ?. Clubs know if you put two on hanlan then we have no other option in the strike force . This been going on for months .

By running a division one club on one experienced striker is totally unacceptable . We don't know if our playing budget allows any more incoming? . If we go down that will be my reason !!.

Yes we miss Tony Craig , not the fastest but a good football brain

Completely agree. If we go down it’s down to a shambolic summer transfer window.

I get why some people are saying the second half was encouraging & that we played well, but what did we have to lose at that point?

We were 2-0 down and had to throw everything at them to get back into it, which we did, and then we immediately went behind again & so had to throw everything at Crewe again to try and level the score. That’s the easy part.

It’s much harder to play well when a game is level.

Thought for a few minutes I thought the boys might have rescued my thread, but sadly no. Too many goals conceded by poor marking from free kicks needlessly given away.
Ehmer in the FB role is far too slow getting back and hasn't got the ability to get a telling ball into the box when he goes forward.
Hanlon was giving them some problems, but too often he was on his own, I think if Daly or Nicholson was there it would be different, but he needs someone to play off him. Ayunga isn't the answer.
We need another front man urgently! We also need a quick defender and I think we have just loaned out the player we needed to fit in at the back? Without both we are in another relegation scrap.
Hope Ozzy is back for the weekend? We need at least him back to have any chance.
I'll have a little break before I do another thread now. All yours GGMI!

The blame lies with PT if he doesn't know his players after 7 weeks and no one else. Imagine a new manager coming in over the summer and then saying after the first game that he doesn't know the players yet. That would be deemed unacceptable.

I don't listen to interviews from managers these days as they just depress me, however - if he really has said he doesn't know them yet then whilst I don't agree with 1981's recent post about him writing in the papers, perhaps he actually should spend more time focusing on his squad, rather than writing articles in the papers.

Unfortunately it sounds like we were poor yet again and we're in real danger of losing 6 in a row this time next week. We're already 2/3rds into the transfer window and don't seem to have made much/any progress. This was also after Tisdale confirmed to us that the Covid break allowed the club to sort themselves out on the transfer front.

Garner seems to have got us in this mess, but Tisdale isn't getting us out of it. I'm not suggesting we sack him or anything, but I expect better and more from a man of his experience. Sadly my worries of him not having enough L1 experience is looking accurate.

Exactly, when was the last time you heard of us playing well and dominating a game at 0-0? Let’s not forget Crewe had a 4th cleared off the line.

We can see from our stats that we don’t score enough and you can see from our stats that we give away too many so the midfield managing to dominate possession is neither here nor there because we can’t score and can’t defend. Addressing one of those areas in a January window is bad enough, addressing both of them is a damning indictment on “the best squad since promotion”.