Crawley Town v Swindon Town Official Matchday Thread

[lambourn red]

Just got back we played some great football with our midfield running the show I still don't know how we came away without at least a point. Crawley fans coming out could not believe they had just won that game , we gave Jensen a lot of stick but he made a couple of superb saves. The mist pleasing aspect of the game was even though we went 1 down and down to 10 men we still dominated.

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

Just got back we played some great football with our midfield running the show I still don't know how we came away without at least a point. Crawley fans coming out could not believe they had just won that game , we gave Jensen a lot of stick but he made a couple of superb saves. The mist pleasing aspect of the game was even though we went 1 down and down to 10 men we still dominated.

We were in control with 11 players and looked like winning.
Mind you first half so many chances missed and blocks.

M25 a nightmare driving down.

[kerry red]

Makes you wonder why Louis wasn't sent off at Luton.

As the ref gave a penalty he obviously thought it was a deliberate handball - which is a sending off offence.

If he thought it wasn't deliberate he shouldn't have given a pen.

Just wondering

[adje]

in pure footballing terms, crawley didnt deserve to be on the same pitch today.Cant comment on the pen, I was too far away but then again so was the ref! Morally, Tomlin should have got a straight red for that dive, it was so outrageous.One criticism, our corners need to be 10 times better(we had enough of em!) Thompson N man of today for me, their keeper getting  mom for them tells all

[Bennett]

Makes you wonder why Louis wasn't sent off at Luton.

As the ref gave a penalty he obviously thought it was a deliberate handball - which is a sending off offence.

If he thought it wasn't deliberate he shouldn't have given a pen.

Just wondering

isn't it that it's a goal scoring chance, ruined by a hand, rather than it being hand ball = red card?
either way, the handball at luton was given as a foul inside the area and therefore a penno

(i await DV's arrival to tell us all about high feet in the box not being a penno)

[Batch]

red card

denying the opposing team a goal or an obvious goalscoring opportunity
by deliberately handling the ball (this does not apply to a goalkeeper within
his own penalty area)

Penalty

A penalty kick is awarded against a team that commits one of the ten offences
for which a direct free kick is awarded, inside its own penalty area and while
the ball is in play

...
• handles the ball deliberately (except for the goalkeeper within his own
penalty area)

So the ref must have though Thompson deliberately handled the ball, but didn't deny a goalscoring opportunity. Which is basically calling Thompson thick!

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

in pure footballing terms, crawley didnt deserve to be on the same pitch today.Cant comment on the pen, I was too far away but then again so was the ref! Morally, Tomlin should have got a straight red for that dive, it was so outrageous.One criticism, our corners need to be 10 times better(we had enough of em!) Thompson N man of today for me, their keeper getting  mom for them tells all

A-fucking-men to that. I don't know the stats but it felt like we had 20 corners and threatened from one.

I thought Jensen won it for them really. A couple of fantastic saves and then to have the vision and ability to clear it down the field, catching us completely exposed at the back, which lead to the peanalty/goal/sending off. The only way Crawley were going to score was from a pen I thought.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

This hasn't ended my world but it is frustrating to see the dominate and self-destruct issue reappear.

Let us hope we can bring in a little bit more depth because that bench didn't have much threat.

Yes. We really really need to hold on to what we've got and get two or three in. If we do that, we'll be OK. If not....

[chalkies_shorts]

Crawley were total fucking toss and that result was one big massive injustice. Izale is a complete cunt and should have walked for being a persistent wanker. Big shout also to Tomlin who beat anything Suarez could muster up. Until the sending off we absolutely shat all over them. They resulted to leaving the foot in, leading with their elbows and basically arse raping Smith.
Couldn't see if it was a red or a pen. After that though we were still the better side. Fuck knows how they have won their 3 games so far but I'd hate to see the shit they serve up each week.
Keep the faith because on another day this would have been 3 or 4 nil to us.
The team really look together. MOM was difficult but Branco had Izale in his pocket in the 1st half.

[adje]

This hasn't ended my world but it is frustrating to see the dominate and self-destruct issue reappear.

Let us hope we can bring in a little bit more depth because that bench didn't have much threat.

yeah-very weak bench

[adje]

600 Town fans?Really?Seemed about half that!

[Mark Hanrahan]

To be fair, I thought our away following today was pretty low numbers-wise. Especially when you consider it was off the back of two straight wins, a sunny day and not exactly a mission of a journey.  I was huddled up behind the goal and couldn't believe how sparse it was.

Hilariously low attendance overall. Non-League, and you know you are... Indeed.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

To be fair, I thought our away following today was pretty low numbers-wise. Especially when you consider it was off the back of two straight wins, a sunny day and not exactly a mission of a journey.  I was huddled up behind the goal and couldn't believe how sparse it was.

Hilariously low attendance overall. Non-League, and you know you are... Indeed.

2700 - You can't survive in L1 on that. I know they have so far, but long term - you just can't.

And they won't.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

The Adver report says we had 'close to 30 efforts' on goal...w' da fuck???

I can't see where they got that figure from. For me, the whole problem was not getting anywhere near enough decent, clear cut attempts on goal from all the possession we had.

30.....REALLY?

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

Twice now we have been caught out with a long ball over the top. The defence really worries me and on a day like today when we don't take our chances we will end up on the losing side if we don't sure up at the back. Hopefully Stephens will come in and steady the ship though.

Having said all of the above though we seem to have a decent team spirit this season so far and seem to determined to put last season's away hoodoo behind us. Let's hope we get 3 points on Tuesday.