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I see Crawley Town suffered a break in yesterday. Two bottles of prosecco and five bottles of champagne stolen. If Lord Stiffupperlip is going he'd better take his own bubbly, or else he'll be supping Stella with the plebs.

Anyone here going to witness our very own smash and grab of three valuable points? Sadly, I will not be going. Last time I did that tortuous trip to Crawley was in 1985. I travelled for hour upon hour to get to a wedding which I duly missed. I only made it to the reception - it was in a girl guides hut....all that way for a plate of fish paste butties and Elvis being played on a ghetto blaster in the corner. My bed for the night turned out to be a cold kitchen floor (although the batty bridesmaid was there to keep me warm - those were the days!). I vowed never to return unless carpets, a hot meal and a bed were guaranteed.

I don't see this one being a problem for us. Frustrated by our tight defence in the first half I then expect Boco and Stanley Fletcher to rip them apart in the second. It's got easy win written all over it.

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Can't see it being an easy win at all LordD, no more than 3-0.

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Last season's 0-3 result was one of the 'easiest' three points Stanley got, but I doubt this time Crawley will be quite so accommodating. Given the clear-out and number of new signings over the summer, I had them down as an outside bet for the play-offs this season (but what do I know? Very little, mostly).
Looking forward to seeing Stanley put in a professional performance. Another 94th minute winner will do for me.
Big opportunity for Mr.Lacey in Captain Conneely's absence?

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With any luck,that would give us a better chance imho.

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We might be plebs, m'Lud, but no lager for us, just the good stuff. Brewery Shades on the High St is the place for hopped delights for all tastes.

As for easy wins, you're a year too late, old bean. Windass and Crooks ripped 'em apart this time last year. As Exile says, it'll be a different story tomorrow, but we need not travel without hope.

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It can get creepy there John said.

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Will be interesting to see who is picked in place of Seamus today - need someone who can give an easy option for our defenders/wing players and resist the temptation to resort to hoofball. Rommy to be a super sub again for us today methinks

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Not sure Paddy has the same level headedness as Seamus, from what I've seen of Aaron Davies , albeit he hasn't played much, he could be a candidate to fill the position?

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Remember it well exile!!,watched Crawley this season and their worse than last year !,hope I haven't jinked us,but they were poor

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No Boco, McCartan, Kee or Fletch in the starting line up.being saved for the second half goal blitz after they have been lulled into a false sense of security.
What a wily old fox Coleman is.

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Lacey is only change, is Billy still injured? He Aint on the bench.

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If only there was text commentary, these questions could be asked?? . . .

Just checked on twitter feed, Billy still injured & should know more about his long he's out for by next week :( bless him, hope he's back sooner rather than later

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How come the coverage aint what it was?:confused: very poor now imho

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Don't know Cashy, seems like the twitter feed has taken it's place - to be fair we probably don't have enough personnel to run both - seems I'm gonna have to drag myself into this century :)

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Newport's keeper been sent off, looks like he won't be visiting the Crown next week - shame, it'll give that nice Mr. Westley a headache :rolleyes:

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I thought it was a much better coverage on the fishy site. twitter is crap in my view

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0-0 Half Time.

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We're doing OK, trying to keep it on the deck, the better team. Just hasn't fallen quite right up front yet. Been caught on the break a couple of times, two tidy saves from Elliot, but apart from that they haven't threatened much. Not a bad game, Stanley trying to keep on the front foot and play at a good tempo. First goal, if it comes, will be crucial I think.

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Been following text from Dan all afternoon Di !.... BBC have been up to date as well..for once !

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Any away point's always welcome I suppose, sounded a close game - guess a repeat of last year's route wasn't to be (we'll save that for Westley's lot next week)

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Where did you find the link for that Alan? I reckoned to look but must've missed it

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Go to t'Fishy site...go to 'Team' on the menu bar ...drop the box...select 'match coverage '.

HEY PRESTO !

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Me too

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Cheers, will remember that for next time :)

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The stats dont bear that out Di, we had 20 attempts to Crawleys 6 according to the bbc.

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me too, thanks Yonmon!

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Text commentary been there all season apart from an odd one where there was a problem with the internet at the away ground.

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Would have helped greatly if the club had mentioned that.

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Pretty it was not, pretty dour it was. Stanley will no doubt feel they should have won as they created the better chances, but failed to convert any. Very crowded midfield, lots of beach ball heading, even more slipping backside over bosom, especially from MrGornell, when he wasn't bring penalised by the ref every time he challenged for the ball.
Was hoping to see Mr.Lacey strut his stuff in midfield but he just did OK, often needing or wanting a tad too much time and too many touches. But his task was made harder by rately having many options other than a short sideways pass to an already marked colleague.
Goalie and back four impressive again, and they dealt with Crawley's attempts to press in our penalty area much better than at Cambridge.
Best attacking move of the match, started by Matt Mattyhorn Pearson winning the ball just inside his own half and ending up barrelling his way onto their keeper, only to fire just wide.
Started the day being happy with the prospect of a point, so no complaints. But Stanley, especially their attacking midfield, still not quite there.

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Why would they need to? Its always been there for any old numpty to find :rolleyes:

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Well going off remarks on here, it seems many have not seen it, but keep kissing ass, makes no difference at all to me.:rolleyes: i'm quite delighted to find this out, now i can shove titter were the sun don't shine.

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well this old numpty used to find text link under match news...... so they change things & don't tell anyone?

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Curses! Feels like two points lost, especially after viewing the highlights.

Was very disappointed that Boco didn't start. I suppose Coleman must have his reasons why the very average Mr Gornell is preferred over a player so sublime.

Still, by all accounts we were the better team, sounds like we didn't lose in midfield and Coleman reckons it was the best performance this season - so could be classed as another step forward? Just frustratingly close to getting it right.

Coleman was sent to the stands at half time "the only manager in history to have been sent off without ever having left his seat".

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Why our most gifted player gets so little match time defies logic to me, then to bleat about missing chances is pathetic imho.:rolleyes:

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Kissing ass (Americanism, the preferred local dialect would be arse)? How in gods name is pointing out that the link has always been there kissing arse? Whether or not you appear to be a normal human being in 'real life' or not I for one have had enough of your odious, inflammatory remarks. You seem unable to post a single thing without adding some kind of insult. I realise you wont give a clowns ass one way or tuther but I'm now adding you to Room 101(blocked) along with Davo and Malcolm the Mole. Perhaps I can now go back to enjoying Accy Web without having to read your diatribe every third post on every thread.

Sorry Kitchener, didnt intend to insult everyone who didnt know where the link was. I should have said 'any clown' then perhaps folk might have realised who it was aimed at.

The link has had it's own spot since the website changed as far as I know. Maybe the author of the match news section should include a link, but I think it is frequently written by different people.

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This was a game crying out for a Chris Eagles appearance, He seems to be out of favour for some reason. He has the class touch to the strikers we seem to be lacking from midfield. He is a great play maker if he could get a run of games in the team we would have a lot more chances, we have the strike power it is just the link up play we are struggling with.

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Hear! Hear! Agree totally, just don't know why he isn't starting every game. Coley could always take him off if there is a problem in the first half. He always looks rusty when he plays but he always will until he gets more game time!

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Sounds like we are still in need of a player who quite simply has 'The Knack' of being able to put the ball in the net!:cool:
We now seem to be pretty solid at the back but simply lack punch up front!
It seems to me that a safe prediction for most of our matches would be 0-0 !
That's exactly what I thought the score would be yesterday!
Oh for a proven goal scorer!:pdry:

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Without wishing to become embroiled in KissAssGate, I've just looked at the Official site.

Firstly, looks like a twitter feed on the home page. So I assume those who hate Twitter can still get the twitter updates without having to feel dirty and unclean?

Next, on the live coverage it look like there's some tweets in it. Where do these come from? Is it the dude who runs the live coverage that selectively adds them? Then I notice someone complaining about the negative comments - yet I can't see any negative comments. Am I missing something?

Finally, who is doing the respective coverages (Twitter and the web site feed)? Are they both associated with the club? If so, why are there two of them? Would it not be possible for both to use Twitter with the full twitter feed also going to the web site - thereby satisfying the needs and whims of all at a stroke?

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Choirboy - I'm not sure it's that. Firstly I think we could do with bossing the midfield a bit better. From that we will get more service to our speedy, skilkful front/wide men. More chances created = more goals?

A proven goal scorer would be great too, but I'd think we can score enough with what we have given our great defence?

My gut feel tells me we'll get more chances and goals with Boco playing, and either Kee or Fletch (assuming he's good) rather than Terry.

Maybe Eagles playing well would make a difference?

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Just watched the 'highlights' - although it didn't show too much - how on earth did the ball not go in amongst that goalmouth scramble?? It did look like Paddy was fouled as he attempted to get it over the line but a bit difficult to tell from the few seconds shown.

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Yeah, that's where I always accessed it from so when the link wasn't there I just assumed there wasn't any coverage - didn't have the nouse to search elsewhere :) - at least we know now for future games

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:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::r ofl38: just demonstrating that if it dont suit yeh,:rolleyes:

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Dan Jewell is the guy who does most of our media stuff. He usually does the text coverage unless he is otherwise engaged with radio coverage, then Dany Robson or Ben Shorrock take over.

If you send a comment to the text coverage it will show on their screen and they can post or ignore accordingly. I would imagine the negative posts he mentioned were ones that werent published.

Going back to the 'missing link' its probably just an oversight, the other part has been live for over 2 years now so it would be just assumed that everyone knows about it - will DM Dan and let him know that they dont

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Thanks Maccawozgod.

Is Dan the bloke that interviews Coleman? Whoever it is does it really well. Not like the usual idiots that try to interview managers. Almost a certain telepathy between them.

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It certainly is Lord Didsbury.

He does a good job all round to be fair. I'm not sure whether he gets paid or not but if he does now, then it hasn't always been the case, he didn't even get a haircut for about 5 years!

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Or a shave:)

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Very good extended highlights. Jesus, terrible decision not to give a penalty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-6BE0kKQqY

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Going off them, on another day we coulda won 3/4 nil.

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Crawley manager was on Talksport. Very nice about Stanley and said it should've been a penalty.

I also listened to the game on Crawley FM or whatever their local station is and they were all glowing about Stanley's performance.

All nice to know if not very useful.

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And still he persists with Gornell. I give up!

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Just watched the 'extended' highlights courtesy of Lord D....
Looks like we should have won by a score of something like.... 5-1 !!!!!:confused:

ps Why change the 'Winning Formula' from the Blackpool match.....?
Which was to bring on Gary Taylor-Fletcher and Rommy Boco with 30 minutes left. Which was clearly the main part of the formula and why we beat Blackpool!

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Guys, don't confuse a condensed three minutes of 'highlights' with the whole match. There were 90 other minutes of play that weren't considered a highlight.
If, when I was leaving the ground, someone had told me that was a 20 shot performance from Stanley I'd have questioned their sanity.
Don't get me wrong, Stanley were, on balance, the better team and created more chances than their hosts, but that performance was quite some way off the same game last season.
Maybe sitting at the back of the stand prevented Professor Coleman from getting instructions to the bench but, by about the hour mark, certainly by 70 minutes, Stanley were crying out for someone who knows where to be to get a shot at goal and/or, having got the chance, knows how to convert it. Given he's only here until the New Year, I was surprised the Fletch didn't come on for Gornell who, as ever, ran his heart out but was struggling both with a ref, who unfairly penalised his every challenge, and staying on his feet.
By the way, as regards the latter problem, Gornell was not alone in slipping and sliding. I wonder if it was because the Crawley pitch is half plastic? Do the slippers that players wear these days not grip as well on semi-artificial surfaces?

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Initially, I'd have thought the same but, as far as I can tell, it will be a one-match ban and he'll serve it tonight (Tues 25th) when Newport play Barnet at home. :(

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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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Good summary, Chimer, obviously the purity of Czech beer had no impact on the clarity of your memory.

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That be a point thats rarely made - dead ball deliveries. We never seem to have anyone who we could consider a free kick specialist :(

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Here's a question which someone may be able to answer - when was the last time Stanley scored from a corner?

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Surely this is going be when we had that corner routine of Edwards dummy it and Jimmy Ryan would smash it into the net! Also reckon he has been our only free kick specialist, that rainy muddy night at the ground when he curled it into top corner. Magical

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Yeah, I too remember those goals Ryan scored from the excellent corner routine. But is it because I struggle to remember a goal from a corner more recently?
(PS suspect Jock McWindass considered himself a free kick specialist:rolleyes:)

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I do seem to remember us conceding a hell of a lot from corners in the first few seasons after promotion :(

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we,ve concedes a hell of a lot from set pieces this season as well and our set pieces are sunday league at best. an improvement in these areas would see us really kicking on.

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We've conceded at least 3 direct free kick goals haven't we? I'd suggest an element of misfortune combined with a bit of dodgy keeping - since I don't think we've been giving lots of them away.

We conceded from a corner too, but possibly only one?

We have, as you say, been crap with freekicks. Just hopeless hoofs over the bar. I'd rather see them hitting the wall rather than that. Sometimes you can get a lucky deflection.

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Direct shots from free-kicks are one thing. Low probability, but fantastic when they come off. It's the corner or free-kick supposed to be crossed into the box which doesn't clear the first defender, clears the penalty area completely or goes straight down the goalie's throat that brings the groan from me - and they were seen often from Sean at West Ham :mad:, but not at all at Crawley :), which is why I mentioned it. When they did look to be going long, there was someone (usually Matty) beyond the back post to nod them back across, it almost :eek: seemed to be planned!

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Exactly, Lord D. Until we sign Payet, we should aim for the b*****ks.
At least it will give one of their defenders something else to think about for the next ten minutes!
:D

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It was probably 5 years ago..............I remember saying to Harwood red "We never score from corners" ..... ball in from the right hand side and JJ met it at near post......... seems like yesterday.

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Let's hope we do it again tomorrow....



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