Crawley Town (A)

[RUREADY2ROLL]

2 minutes ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

How does this operate for the team ?

Playing in Islington till nearly 10pm on Wednesday night, noon kick-off on Saturday, near Gatwick.

Recognising the two teams will have quite a few changes, do they return home, to go back down 24hrs later or stay South ?

They are staying down there

[W.cramp]

16 minutes ago, RUREADY2ROLL said:

They are staying down there

Haven't we used brightons facilities before for somet like this

[boltonboris]

1 hour ago, wakey said:

"top side"?

Arsenal...

[mattbwfc19]

17 minutes ago, W.cramp said:

Haven't we used brightons facilities before for somet like this

it was Brentfords i think 

[Manchester_whites]

There’s half a pitch available at Wimbledon 😂

[wakey]

55 minutes ago, boltonboris said:

Arsenal...

ahhhh

thought you meant Crawley 😁

[masi 51]

Move on to the business end of the week....Evatt has a big problem, how to get Collins and to a lesser extent Mcatee into his team.

Going off last nights starting 11 it will be the same 11 who started at Reading in his predictable 5/3/ 2. Lesser of 2 evils too his fantasy 5/2/3.

We have now 3 R/CB out in Jones/Forrester and Firinho and R/WB out in Desmond, yet he played Cogley all 90 mins at Arsenal when he could have given Matheson a run out

knowing Cogley  will have to do another 90 mins Saturday. Cogley gets injured in the next couple of games then we will have Williams playing at R/WB with Mathewson sat at home getting paid for watching Soccer Saturday.

How have we got in this position...........Jones came back from Australia injured and Evatt knew he needed Surgery and he signed Firinho and Desmond knowing full well they are injury prone. Forrester injury was bad luck and nothing could be done about that but Desmonds and Firinho got injured in cup games when he had one goal this season get us out of this league..........Cup games are irrelevant we took risks with too strong teams at both Mansfield and Barrow and to a degree last night against Arsenal.

Evatt is too thick skinned to change, and we again seen last night another goal given away playing it out from the back.

We may get 7 points from the next three games Crawley ,Northampton, Shrewsbury at a minimum and three or four players will be back and everyone will be thinking the corner has been turned. I am not convinced  we will get those 7 points, not convinced in his team selections, not convinced on his set up of the team and not convinced in his management team.......Only thing i am convinced about he wont be here at Christmas.

Anyway sat 4-3 to us Charles 2, Mcatee and Collins one each and two daft goals given away between Baxter, Santos and Sheehan........Baxter redeeming himself with at least 4 world class saves.

 

Papering over the cracks

 

Edited September 26, 2024 by masi 51

[gonzo]

5 minutes ago, masi 51 said:

Move on to the business end of the week....Evatt has a big problem, how to get Collins and to a lesser extent Mcatee into his team.

Going off last nights starting 11 it will be the same 11 who started at Reading in his predictable 5/3/ 2. Lesser of 2 evils too his fantasy 5/2/3.

We have now 3 R/CB out in Jones/Forrester and Firinho and R/WB out in Desmond, yet he played Cogley all 90 mins at Arsenal when he could have given Matheson a run out

knowing Cogley  will have to do another 90 mins Saturday. Cogley gets injured in the next couple of games then we will have Williams playing at R/WB with Mathewson sat at home getting paid for watching Soccer Saturday.

How have we got in this position...........Jones came back from Australia injured and Evatt knew he needed Surgery and he signed Firinho and Desmond knowing full well they are injury prone. Forrester injury was bad luck and nothing could be done about that but Desmonds and Firinho got injured in cup games when he had one goal this season get us out of this league..........Cup games are irrelevant we took risks with too strong teams at both Mansfield and Barrow and to a degree last night against Arsenal.

Evatt is too thick skinned to change, and we again seen last night another goal given away playing it out from the back.

We may get 7 points from the next three games Crawley ,Northampton, Shrewsbury at a minimum and three or four players will be back and everyone will be thinking the corner has been turned. I am not convinced  we will get those 7 points, not convinced in his team selections, not convinced on his set up of the team and not convinced in his management team.......Only thing i am convinced about he wont be here at Christmas.

Anyway sat 4-3 to us Charles 2, Mcatee and Collins one each and two daft goals given away between Baxter, Santos and Sheehan........Baxter redeeming himself with at least 4 world class saves.

 

Papering over the cracks

 

In short we are going to win on Saturday but we are still shit?

We should have put a B team out last and probably get fined in the process and let 4k travelling fans down?

It's the managers fault players got injured?

And you're not convinced about anything.

Fabulous.

[radcliffe white]

Keeping the 4 attackers happy won’t be easy and the money invested in Collins & McAtee they ain’t come to sit on the bench, but Vic & Charles works so yes he has an issue there

not even going to predict this

 

[masi 51]

35 minutes ago, gonzo said:

In short we are going to win on Saturday but we are still shit?

We should have put a B team out last and probably get fined in the process and let 4k travelling fans down?

It's the managers fault players got injured?

And you're not convinced about anything.

Fabulous.

in a nutshell yes but what its worth last nights team was about right except i would have given Matheson a run out.  Injuries are not the managers fault but if you play Russian roulette sooner or later you get shot.  Nothing changed from last season no except our squad is a hell of a lot better. £3m worth of signings on the bench.

Collins is too good to be on the bench period

Edited September 26, 2024 by masi 51

[desperado]

1 hour ago, masi 51 said:

Evatt has a big problem, how to get Collins and to a lesser extent Mcatee into his team.

All Evatt needs to worry about is the next game, picking a winning side, nothing else.

1 hour ago, masi 51 said:

it will be the same 11 who started at Reading

Good

1 hour ago, masi 51 said:

he played Cogley all 90 mins

Out of all the players in our squad he is the one more than capable and doesn’t have any fitness issues to put in 2 lots of 90 in the same week.

1 hour ago, masi 51 said:

he signed Firinho and Desmond knowing full well they are injury prone

In L1 to get decent players you sometimes have to take that gamble. JDB and Lee are testament to that.

 

1 hour ago, masi 51 said:

Cogley gets injured in the next couple of games

Of course in our current situation some of your diatribe is valid, although repeated relentlessly.

But as highlighted above not everything is a problem or should be anticipated as doom. Predicting a scenario where a fit player with a good record gets injured and then using that as evidence to go on with another moan is the work of a doom-merchant.

Edited September 26, 2024 by desperado

[gonzo]

Kicking off about a player getting injured when he's not even been injured

[Rival Son]

8 minutes ago, desperado said:

Out of all the players in our squad he is the one more than capable and doesn’t have any fitness issues to put in 2 lots of 90 in the same week.

The fact remains that he’s the only fit RWB in our league squad, and last night was not only a significant risk that he might pick up an unfortunate injury, but an opportunity to see if Matheson could step up and offer us a second option. We still have one spare place in our squad, and last night could have been used to demonstrate whether or not Matheson was worthy of this slot or not.

[gonzo]

5 minutes ago, Rival Son said:

The fact remains that he’s the only fit RWB in our league squad, and last night was not only a significant risk that he might pick up an unfortunate injury, but an opportunity to see if Matheson could step up and offer us a second option. We still have one spare place in our squad, and last night could have been used to demonstrate whether or not Matheson was worthy of this slot or not.

Or maybe it was an idea to play our best RWB against one of the best wingers in the country?

What the fuck is the debate here

[desperado]

9 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Or maybe it was an idea to play our best RWB against one of the best wingers in the country?

What the fuck is the debate here

It really is bonkers

It’s getting close to bonfire night, what if Thomason puts the wrong firework down his pants and is a long-term casualty?

We’ve just given him the captaincy, his influence on the team is massive and can’t be replaced.

Evatt needs to be considering this in the build-up to 5th November, just in case this happens

[desperado]

22 minutes ago, Rival Son said:

see if Matheson could step up and offer us a second option

Can you imagine the uproar if he’d have played, had a blinder, but then the realisation that he’s not part of the league squad sunk in with the doom-merchants 🤣

If he was barely acceptable against L2 Barrow, in what scenario was he stepping up to deal with international world-class players?

[masi 51]

1 minute ago, desperado said:

Can you imagine the uproar if he’d have played, had a blinder, but then the realisation that he’s not part of the league squad sunk in with the doom-merchants 🤣

If he was barely acceptable against L2 Barrow, in what scenario was he stepping up to deal with international world-class players?

Then why sign him???

We are paying him all season...Yet we do not have a full squad 

[W.cramp]

34 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Kicking off about a player getting injured when he's not even been injured

Blaming evatt for players getting injured is also a good un.    Jesus wept.

Bring back the keyser soze days

[masi 51]

10 minutes ago, desperado said:

It really is bonkers

It’s getting close to bonfire night, what if Thomason puts the wrong firework down his pants and is a long-term casualty?

We’ve just given him the captaincy, his influence on the team is massive and can’t be replaced.

Evatt needs to be considering this in the build-up to 5th November, just in case this happens

Thomason is or has never been a problem..............Maybe it is because Evatt never brought him to the club

[desperado]

5 minutes ago, masi 51 said:

Then why sign him???

Really??!

Why sign any player?

Because they have potential, because they have done it in the past, because he fits the profile, to give someone a chance, the list is endless.

Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t.

[desperado]

3 minutes ago, masi 51 said:

Thomason is or has never been a problem..............Maybe it is because Evatt never brought him to the club

Have you ever heard or read about Evatt/Tomo working with each other? 

Edited September 26, 2024 by desperado

[masi 51]

2 minutes ago, W.cramp said:

Blaming evatt for players getting injured is also a good un.    Jesus wept.

Bring back the keyser soze days

Nobody is saying players getting injured is Evatts fault.........What is being said his signings are at times a gamble and you can take that if you are getting players like Tu Tu in on a free, but our aim is to get up this season.  Two of his Three  injury risk players [Matete being the other] have been injured in cup games

That is bad game management

[masi 51]

3 minutes ago, desperado said:

Have you ever heard or read about Evatt/Tomo working with each other? 

your clutching at straws.........Nowt wrong with Tomo

On that i think we both agree

[gonzo]

7 minutes ago, masi 51 said:

Thomason is or has never been a problem..............Maybe it is because Evatt never brought him to the club

Apart from getting sent off and booked shit loads last season. 

He shouldn't have put him on last night in case he broke someone's leg and got banned for 6 months.

[gonzo]

1 minute ago, masi 51 said:

your clutching at straws

Fucking He'll, the irony.

There's enough sticks to beat Evatt with. You don't need to fabricate any more.