Crewe Alexandra v Swindon Town Official Matchday Thread

[Flashheart]

Posh are capitulating and I think one of the chasing pack will take 6th from them. Whether or not that is us remains to be seen, although those around us aren't in great form either.

[Posh Red]

I'm confused as Harley doesn't appear to be the scapegoat any more but we don't appear to have a new one. Who are we all supposed to blame as the nexus of all failure now?

Hall will be fit again soon, and will come back into the team because we won't be able to afford to play Troy. We will then have our scapegoat back.

[Reg Smeeton]

True but we are also 2 defeats in 10 games (excuding the penalties because the 90 mins ended 1-1)  which shows we are tough to beat, but we need to turn those 6 draws into wins.

That said I think play offs are beyond us now but who knows, one good run of results and its wide open again.

I'm only doing league fixtures. 6th place is definitely up for grabs, Posh aren't much different to us, but do have the extra points, a couple of games in hand, and maybe might get some inspiration from the JPT...equally they're just as likely to fall apart.

However, we just don't have the goal threat atm....early season, Ranger, Ajose, N,Guessan, was decent enough front line and we need to score to win as we'll more or less always concede.

[Peter Venkman]

In the last 13 league games we have won 3 drawn 6 and lost 4 scoring 13 and conceding 16.

I feel that the problem is not defensively so much as it is offensively, averaging 1 goal per game in 13 games is not good enough but conceding little over 1 per game isn't that bad.

Over the same 13 game period Brentford have scored 24 and conceded 12, but they have won 8 of those games losing once.

Peterborough over the last 13 league games have scored 21 and conceded 22, they have won 4, drawn 3 and lost 6 and they do indeed look like they will miss out on the play offs if that form continues.

I was surprised to see that Sheff Utd have won their last 6 games in a row in the league, and in that time only conceded 1 goal, thats a good momentum for a team that were in the bottom 3 until a couple of weeks ago.

[Flashheart]

I was surprised to see that Sheff Utd have won their last 6 games in a row in the league, and in that time only conceded 1 goal, thats a good momentum for a team that were in the bottom 3 until a couple of weeks ago.

There's often a team that makes it into the playoffs with a late surge and it looks as though that team this year could well be Sheff U. Unless, of course, another team in the pack gets their act together.

[@mwooly63]

There's often a team that makes it into the playoffs with a late surge and it looks as though that team this year could well be Sheff U. Unless, of course, another team in the pack gets their act together.

They were in a misleading league position before enlisting Clough as manager,
As is our luck there league position has improved massively before we meet, Bradford too to a certain extent     

[Bob's Orange]

Agree with some of the comments about our potency up front. I didn't go but with ajose or ranger up front yesterday we probably could have been 2 or 3 up at the break.

Smith missed a 1 on 1 yesterday and I'm not convinced he can play up front on his own.

What the answer is, I don't know, give ranger a new leg? Give N'Guessan a go up front with smith?

[REDBUCK]

They played together against Crawley. Not much of a succedd

[Reg Smeeton]

Agree with some of the comments about our potency up front. I didn't go but with ajose or ranger up front yesterday we probably could have been 2 or 3 up at the break.

Smith missed a 1 on 1 yesterday and I'm not convinced he can play up front on his own.

What the answer is, I don't know, give ranger a new leg?

When you've non scoring forwards, then you have to try and get goals from other areas of the pitch....Chelsea show how it can be done.

In very tiny patches some of our boys have shown they can score a few..eg Luongo Kasim and Byrne, Harley chipped in yesterday, when Pritchard is back, he's shown he can score free kicks.  The massive gap this season is from centre back....most centre backs should be worth 3 or 4 goals a season...ours have managed zip, as far as I can recall.

Flint and Ward last season managed 4 in the league...not great but helpful.

Mason when he's played has shown he's capable of scoring.

[leefer]

Agree with some of the comments about our potency up front. I didn't go but with ajose or ranger up front yesterday we probably could have been 2 or 3 up at the break.

Smith missed a 1 on 1 yesterday and I'm not convinced he can play up front on his own.

What the answer is, I don't know, give ranger a new leg? Give N'Guessan a go up front with smith?

There is only one answer...pay out on a decent striker or two......Smith and co are decent players but hardly prolific.

Really miffed we let Storey go out on loan...great time for him now to get some games,get full fitness back and score some goals....most natural finisher we have here except Ranger in my opinion.

[Empathy Sloth]

We'll have Storey back soon, don't think he's the answer but it will be good to have more competition for places.

[sonicyouth]

Still not convinced that Storey is the goalscorer we need but will concede that giving him a chance right now would do us no harm. The loan has certainly transpired as pointless.

[REDBUCK]

WWell he has 47 mins today to show what he can do

[fuzzy]

I can't see it but it would be nice to get something today. Okay, if we manage a win or even a point, I'll change my avatar to a sickening picture of Harry Styles (I'm that confident!)

Gnasher, not that I really want to see a picture of the Plug ugly cunt but, you did promise....

[Sippo]

Looking at the highlights, TAH looked awful. Backing off too much.