Crawley Town v Cheltenham Town

[Shade]

To me, Paul Godfrey sounds like he's saying Flynn's time is about up.

[rooner]

Past experience would suggest that action needs to be taken sooner rather than later.

[theidlerich]

So much for optimism; no forward skill; passing poor, especially into final third. Bennet too slow and the early yellow curtailed his 'brashness'. Crawley looked more likley to score; penalty was far too soft, similar shoves on our players all over the pitch resulting in nothing. On this form; players and tactics we are looking at York next season. At least somewhere pleasant to possibly venture too! Total change in coaches; DoF and his entourage; and rather too many players needed!

[Warwickshire Robin]

As much as I would love MF to turn this round realising he has been dealt a really tough hand in his time here, performances on the pitch are making it so hard to back him. We are so hard to watch, I turned to the cricket at half time and couldn't be arsed to turn back for the second half even though it was raining at Edgbaston!

We just look clueless, rudderless and leaderless (that can be applied for off the field too).

[andgarod]

Defensively very shaky
but no patterns of play just hit it anywhere
If we had watched them why didnt we put their keeper under pressure for goal kicks etc
Coaching staff needs going
I didnt hear PG say that we dont need a CEO what did he suggest

I dont believe Garlick will let this roll on for more than 1 or 2 weeks
If we dont win next Saturday the P45s will be out hopefully
I have always regarded PG as safe but if he believes there is no problem at the club then he needs to go as well
Kinsella shirt no name or number second half

[Robin]

To be fair, I can see why Rovers let Hutchinson out on loan. Pretty non existent today.

He left because he wanted to leave after his wife was abused nothing else, he doesn't want to go back there either.

[Si Robin]

Embarrassing today.

I've said it before, there's an argument Flynn hasn't been given the right tools, but by the same token he's not using the tools he has in the right way.

There's no defending him for today.

[Shade]

Defensively very shaky
but no patterns of play just hit it anywhere
If we had watched them why didnt we put their keeper under pressure for goal kicks etc
Coaching staff needs going
I didnt hear PG say that we dont need a CEO what did he suggest

I dont believe Garlick will let this roll on for more than 1 or 2 weeks
If we dont win next Saturday the P45s will be out hopefully
I have always regarded PG as safe but if he believes there is no problem at the club then he needs to go as well
Kinsella shirt no name or number second half

PG said the performances aren't good enough, more hard work needs to be done on the training ground. Off the pitch he said we don't need a CEO as they have people doing the jobs a CEO would do, "we need more soldiers, not generals." His actual quote initially made it sound like a CEO wouldn't make any difference whatsoever as everything a CEO would do is already being done.

Kinsella was wiping blood on the front of his shirt as he went off at half time. It seems that players don't have more than one printed up shirt.

[Ihearye]

Defensively very shaky
but no patterns of play just hit it anywhere
If we had watched them why didnt we put their keeper under pressure for goal kicks etc
Coaching staff needs going
I didnt hear PG say that we dont need a CEO what did he suggest

I dont believe Garlick will let this roll on for more than 1 or 2 weeks
If we dont win next Saturday the P45s will be out hopefully
I have always regarded PG as safe but if he believes there is no problem at the club then he needs to go as well
Kinsella shirt no name or number second half

I listened to the podcast for the first time ever, out of curiosity and what I heard had me shaking my head in disbelief at how the club is being run. What was it? The statement, that we didn't advertise for a kit man, because we were so busy with the closing of the transfer window, but we will get round to it soon. On what planet can a professional football team not handle putting out an advert for a kit man position, alongside the recruitment of players? Is the DOF also in charge of the advertising budget and detailing the job role and recruitment of the kit man ?

[Shade]

Windows been shut 12 days now and there's still no advert for a kit man is there? But it's ok, we don't need someone whose actual job it would be to make sure s#!t like this actually gets seen to...

[TheTownClub]

[/quote]
"we need more soldiers, not generals."
[/quote]

Far be it from me lecture the owner and CEO of an international recruitment and talent consultancy, but the problem is we don't have *a* general. Yes, there are people doing those jobs, but who's providing that strategic overview and making sure they are working together? If it's Mike and/or Alison, then fine. Let's see them do it. But we need someone issuing giving executive direction, and not a committee that meets every few weeks.

[rooner]

To be fair, I can see why Rovers let Hutchinson out on loan. Pretty non existent today.

He left because he wanted to leave after his wife was abused nothing else, he doesn't want to go back there either.

I don’t know about that but they didn’t have to let him go did they? He’s still their player. One decent touch in two games that’s all I’m saying.

[I-Love-CTFC]

It's hard to see where the goals are going to come from. Miller and Angol are one of the worst striker partnerships I have seen in some time. We miss Jordan Thomas big time, he's the only one that seems to have that spark.

[paperboy]

It's hard to see where the goals are going to come from. Miller and Angol are one of the worst striker partnerships I have seen in some time. We miss Jordan Thomas big time, he's the only one that seems to have that spark.

Yep, M and A work hard but.....
Bring back goal machine Manny Duku I say.

In fairness injuries have killed us off.

We sign two decentish players in Hutch and Sherring, but lose Jordan Thomas so a net loss in the transfer window too.

[Si Robin]

It's hard to see where the goals are going to come from. Miller and Angol are one of the worst striker partnerships I have seen in some time. We miss Jordan Thomas big time, he's the only one that seems to have that spark.

Yep, M and A work hard but.....
Bring back goal machine Manny Duku I say.

In fairness injuries have killed us off.

We sign two decentish players in Hutch and Sherring, but lose Jordan Thomas so a net loss in the transfer window too.

There's a simple solution to that - don't buy injury prone players!!

[andgarod]

did the players travel down last night or this morning
They were flat perhaps they didnt get enough sleep and then had to have a tactics talk from downes
I say again if we watched previous games or even the first half why not shut their keeper down from goal kicks we had 2 strikers
Time for changes

[Fuller]

did the players travel down last night or this morning
They were flat perhaps they didnt get enough sleep and then had to have a tactics talk from downes
I say again if we watched previous games or even the first half why not shut their keeper down from goal kicks we had 2 strikers
Time for changes

Downes said in his interview on the official on Friday morning that they were travelling to Crawley on Friday afternoon after training at Seasons in the morning.
Was it worth it?

[paperboy]

We've been reasonably competitive in the first half of matches, with lots of effort, but when energy levels inevitably drop, the lack of quality, particularly up front, shines through.

[Si Robin]

I really struggle to see where goals are coming from. We seem to be hoping for bits of magic, like we got last season.

We can't keep depending on Luke Young scoring howitzers from 25 yards.

[RS1978]

It's hard to see where the goals are going to come from. Miller and Angol are one of the worst striker partnerships I have seen in some time. We miss Jordan Thomas big time, he's the only one that seems to have that spark.

Tbh we haven't really replaced that spark from Colwill or the threat off the bench from Taylor and Dulson. Is it a question of Bickerstaff/Angol/Tommy Taylor still not being up to speed after a truncated pre-season?

Taylor could snap up half-chances to keep us in/win games (like AFC Wimbledon last season) and Dulson tried long shots (as he's currently doing to good effect in the NLS with Maidenhead) but without them, who's the natural finisher, the one that tries shots from long distance, or the one that gobbles up half chances?

[Ihearye]

it is sadly amusing, how we always hark back to the last loan

[Ihearye]

We've been reasonably competitive in the first half of matches, with lots of effort, but when energy levels inevitably drop, the lack of quality, particularly up front, shines through.

could that be because we sign the walking wounded and the 'haven't played much'

[longmover]

Paul Godfrey reckons we don't need a CEO as the work is all already being done.

It isn't though, is it.

borderline 'gaslighting'

[WhaddonIrregular]

The work may be being done, in that the club is operating. But I'd argue the work is being done to the absolute bare minimum.

If the club was unable to advertise for a kitman because all focus was on the transfer window, as was mentioned on the podcast, shouldn't there be someone on the board who is not involved in the playing side of things?

[Robin]

I am convinced the board believe everything is ok and if we win some football matches it will all calm down. Ideally we need our owner to listen and hear fans not just the board so he can help ensure we are pulling in the same direction.

[longmover]

I am convinced the board believe everything is ok and if we win some football matches it will all calm down. Ideally we need our owner to listen and hear fans not just the board so he can help ensure we are pulling in the same direction.

the board really need to take down that calendar dated 1999 if they think everything is ok.