Crawley Town vs Swindon Town official matchday thread.

[Peter Venkman]

Adebayo just offside with just the keeper to beat, didn't look offside to me.

[Peter Venkman]

thought they were just waking up when Anderson scored

They had strung a few passes together but not really threatened much, Vigs made a few catches from crosses, without Poleon and Nathaniel-George they would have no threats at all.

[Peter Venkman]

Lancashire fires over from 6 yards, ref gives a foul anyway.

[Batch]

did they hit the bar. yes. phew

[Peter Venkman]

Crawley hit the bar.

[Peter Venkman]

4 shots on target from Swindon, 1 from Crawley so far.

Adebayo passes to Doughty far too hard in a dangerous position.

[Peter Venkman]

Doesn't look more than about 1,000 there today. Very sparse.

[Peter Venkman]

Pretty good half 2-0

[Peter Venkman]

Nelson and Toums best players for us IMO.

Lancashire still not quite up to it but better defensively, just attacking at corners hes been awful.

Adebayo not having his best game, his first touch has not been great, I would like to see Richards on fro him this half early on.

Otherwise they have all played pretty well really. Taylors free kicks not quite back to his best yet though.

[china red]

Do they pay the adver staff?

[Batch]

Although Crawley looked useful early on we started to control it and could have scored more really.

Doughty linking up play nicely, and mcGlashen really drawing the fouls. Nelson looking better and Dave is getting fitter.

I don't think Crawley are out of it yet though.

[joteddyred]

Good half.  Keep it up lads. 

[RobertT]

That was a bit like a lower quality version of the play off game at home against Sheff Utd.  Both teams look just as likely to score as concede at times.  We could have had 4, they could easily have had a couple with some breaks of the ball.

The one Batch refers to where Taylor got caught out.  That's his issue in a nutshell, he chased a player trying to intercept and ended up stuck in the centre circle.  He just just let the player run off him there, trust the midfield to come back in or a centre half to take control.  He plays like a midfielder, gets dragged out of position, loses his positioning watching the game develop at times, instead of focusing where he is and where his inside centre half is.  Not helped by the fact that he gets no cover in front of him, something McGlashan does quite well for Knoyle.

Going forward we've looked a little more incisive I think and they invite pressure on themselves like we would have done under Williams.  Diagarouga has looked a bit better for me in this game, not fully up to speed yet, but he creates a barrier.

Anderson finally delivers something, but still gets caught on the ball.

How Doughty has found himself in this league is beyond me.

Central defenders both look ropey to me - neither of them has any consistency in deciding to drop off or attack the ball, meaning they often get under the damned thing or give the player 2 yards of space to turn.

Overall, a good away performance so far, still very much need to focus though.  Think we have another goal in us, would not be surprised for this to end-up 3-2 again, but hoping more like 3-1.

[Wobbly Bob]

The ref blowing for any physical contact has possibly worked to our advantage in breaking the game up, as Crawley are looking to play with some tempo.

Nelson very good so far.

[Peter Venkman]

Central defenders both look ropey to me - neither of them has any consistency in deciding to drop off or attack the ball, meaning they often get under the damned thing or give the player 2 yards of space to turn.

Interesting, I thought Nelson looked far and away our best defender so far, getting blocks and headers in which we haven't had this season at CB, Lancashire I agree with you though.