Gas v Crawley MDT

Right now, I feel that the club have wasted the money they`ve paid him, and ( with a few exceptions )  I`ve wasted a year of my life watching the team he`s put out.

Relieved he's gone at last and hopefully we'll improve under his replacement.

I guess the opposite question is more relevant, how do you feel about Mansfield away next week if MT is still in charge, I fear a hammering.

Well we see it differently which is fine.
We had 2 more corners than them, otherwise they had better or level key stats.
They were better on and off the ball.
Gave the ball away less than us in both halves.
For the chances we had in the first half, they more than matched up in the second. They were fitter than us.
They were better at putting players behind the ball on turnover. Their substitutions were better than ours.
Their key players were more effective than our key players, with only Forde as the spark.
All this from a team away from home and in the bottom 4.

He won’t be gone and I don’t fear a hammering, I think we will do well and win.

Just got back..

What lush day ... Actual local tour juice!
Other choices on offer on a pre match liquid lunch.
I had more Fortitude than our defence in second half...
Interesting new sights sounds and history to explore..... and a w g grace pic to die for!

Anyhoos....onto less important measures:
Out sung and from 50 mins onwards outplayed by Crawley!?
Holy moly..
But we didn't lose, and unbeaten run continues and although I really think we should have taken chances and won, a point going into a run of tough challenges pre Xmas might be the best we can do...?

A game of two halves left us dangling for a point in the end, where our creativity, endeavour and daring play in first half was swept away by as much as that from them in second.

Fair play to Crawley....get all the bs out of the way, gamesmanship time wasting, playing the ref and horrible side of football they got right - they actually nullified our midfield, rendering Lindsay Conteh, Hutch and Shaq impotent. Their defending high up made it difficult for us to play around them, and they compacted the defence and mid that saturated the space preventing our play.
They used the flanks better than us and targeted our well known Achilles heel of a right (wing) back - this time Mola the fall guy, he struggled on that side. Well done them, they played some attractive football at times.
We hardly strung anything of any use in second half, and while we had probably best 3 attack options at end with Promise, Sincs and LT it appeared that none of them knew where to be or what to do when they received ball.
Disappointing.

It's like a mishmash of funneling in players in obscure positions they're not suited for, and it felt (in second half) a dysfunctional team with no focal point, outlay or movement with the ball.

First half, ironically we moved really well off the ball.
But in the second phase of the first half you could see cracks in our play... arguably we could have been winning by 3 clear goals... and we surrendered possession more and more.

Nice saves by Griff.
Nice interceptions from Wilson and CT, a nice balanced blend.
CM anonymous.
Really liked Bilongo contributions.
Luke McC won m o m and I could see why, he covered every blade with running and chasing, unlucky with his header but the real m o m was their Keeper if not the ref!?
Ref was sold a dummy and played a blinder.... every time someone went down it had to be a foul!?

Anyways, we move on to a tough midlands fixture next week where stats usually go against us - perhaps we can reverse the trend like Creeping Crawlers did today?
I'm not sure I'll hold my breath.

MT should be scratching his head tonight.
Any more hiccups like this, and those Arab owners might have something to say about scratching that head whilst it's rolling...

It’s a game of 2 half’s.

I don't blame Taylor for the substitutions as for me Hutchinson looked tired, Martin is coming back from injury. I thought great, fresh legs upfront! And I would of done the same... However Omechere can hardly run, Sinclair couldn't get into the game and god knows what has happened to Thomas?. Omechere and Thomas should be nowhere near the first team until both of them are fit. It was like playing with 9 men.

Never a more apt phrase than game of two halves for that today. We were excellent first half and should of been out of sight. Crawley looked every bit a relegation team after 45 minutes.

Second half was completely different we were abysmal and Crawley were excellent, was nice to watch a team playing decent football at the MEM for a change.

Luke McCormick often vilified was quite rightly given man of the match he was terrific as was Connor Taylor.

If Crawley can get a decent number 9 in January they will stay up they were much better than the other bottom four sides we have seen this season.

As a side note I watched Exeter v Lincoln earlier and first half Rovers second half Crawley were much better than both of them we just need to find that 90 minute consistency.

Or lock the opposition manager in the loos so he can't give his half time talk?