Re: Crawley smash and grab
Late to this having gone away straight after the game, but agree with most above - the "penalty" looks much more obvious on the highlights than I thought at the time! And I reckon most of our 9 "shots on target" happened within 2 minutes.
For me, Matty was our standout player, an absolute rock in defence, and if his run through had brought the winner he would have been a shoo-in for "Team of the Week" or whatever.
Regarding Terry Gornell, I thought he ran himself out for very little change. But I certainly don't agree that Rommy would be a better choice, not in that role anyway. It's not pretty, but in this league (imho!) you always need someone to get under the route 1 clearance hoofs to try and lay them off or hold them up, and Rommy couldn't hope to do that job. Terry's not as good as Billy Kee at holding the ball up, but he was winning a fair proportion of the first balls in the air, and laying them off (not his fault there wasn't usually anybody there). I would have liked to have seen GT-F given a go though.
Brilliant save by Elliot early on - it would have been a grim afternoon if we'd gone behind then. And at the risk of opening a can of worms in a week when nobody's whinged about Sean's performance, I thought his dead ball deliveries were vastly improved over what I've seen from him before. And was he wearing the armband?
Overall, I thought we were much the better side and deserved all the points, but was always nervous of the risk from a quick break, and wouldn't have been the least bit surprised if we'd given away a late winner. So I went away not altogether unhappy ......
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