Crawley Town FC v Swindon Town FC Official Matchday Thread

[leefer]

Yep,they all looked like dabs floundering on a sandy beach at the end...good point though for me.

[LucienSanchez]

McCormack, McEveley, Miller, Williams, Collins were all shite, and we still got a point! Roberts looked better than normal.

Looked a definite penalty... if it was a dive, McCormack was still an idiot for giving him an opportunity to do so - stupid tackle. Should never start ahead of Thompson, who was great when he came on.

Hope everything is sorted soon so we can push on, we missed an opportunity today with other results going favourably.

[SuggWillSugg MBE]

Watching back on FLS.


This bell is even more fucking annoying!

[FormerlyPlymRed]

I can't believe there was only 699 there apparently, the away end looked packed to me and the side stand. Definitely over 1000 from what it looked/sounded like to me

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699 or over 1,000, we still out sung them.  It goes to show how quiet they were when other than us singing all you could hear was that fucking bell on the TV!

BTW, my Mrs was amused with some of the songs from her armchair at home!

[THE FLASH]

Both pens looked soft IMO.

I reckon the ref saw the replay and evened it up in the second half.

You could see the pitch cutting up early doors but that's lower league football.

Am I right in thinking that Martin now goes back? Disappointing for me.

We pressed but I am satisfied with a point.

Watched the match in a pub split into three. One side full of pissed up egg chasers, one side plastic Man United 'fans'.....two of us watching one screen with no sound....joy! But they did organise this specially for us.

[welshred]

The Town fans sounded brilliant on the TV. Not sure any Crawley were there aside from the knob with the hell.

Both penalties were incredibly soft. Ours moreso that theirs. Pitch didn't help our cutting edge up front but we were looking a little lacklustre anyway.

It's going to be an interesting week. Hope we can pick up 3 points on Tuesday and get the takeover/loan players in this week.

The football league is full of shit.

[cheltred69]

Looked a definite penalty... if it was a dive, McCormack was still an idiot for giving him an opportunity to do so - stupid tackle. Should never start ahead of Thompson, who was great when he came on.

No way a penalty - the guy tripped over the ball with his left foot and the only contact with Macca was when he fell on him; I don't think he dived but he milked it when he fell so cheated in that respect.

I was shouting at my TV screen for Nathan to come on throughout the first half - Macca isn't really a full-back and gets pulled out of position too often.  It was a good job the guy he was marking was fairly crap.  Possibly Nathan not started as he was one of the virus sufferers??

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Both pens were soft. Each of them was a 'sometimes they're given, sometimes not' kind if penalty. A draw was a pretty fair result although we could have won it with Rooney's bullet header - that was a brilliant save in fairness. I think Rooney could be a very good player for us given the chance. As is so often the case though, the majority of fans have written him off on the basis of virtually no evidence. It happens time and time again. It happened with Ward who was being written off after one game and its happened for as long as I can remember. Some people never learn.

[kerry red]

TBF it's not the fans that haven't given him a chance

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

TBF it's not the fans that haven't given him a chance

No of course not. There's plenty of people on hear who have written him off though. That's my point.

Edit: meant to say, 'have written him off when he hasn't had a chance to show what he can do'.

[kerry red]

FWIW I thought he looked pretty good during his cameo - claims to be starting matches based on that

[cheltred69]

I thought Rooney has looked pretty decent when he has played but often only had brief cameos - thought he showed more in a few away games (Shrews, Bury and Stevenage) more so than at home.  To be fair, its been the good form of the other strikers that has kept him out rather than any shortcomings from him.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

I would start him at Colchester.

[ghanimah]

No way a penalty - the guy tripped over the ball with his left foot and the only contact with Macca was when he fell on him; I don't think he dived but he milked it when he fell so cheated in that respect.

Macca also caught his left foot...

You can see it here (40:39)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01qmrj1/The_Football_League_Show_2012_2013_03_02_2013/