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We underestimate them at our peril2 one off games form goes out the window
Quote from: scawsby steve on April 29, 2024, 07:22:51 pmQuote from: Campsall rover on April 29, 2024, 07:01:31 pmQuote from: GazLaz on April 29, 2024, 05:49:52 pmQuote from: drfcsteve on April 29, 2024, 05:44:50 pmOut of interest what has caused Crewe’s drop in form? Do they have a lot of injuries? Injuries and they over achieved earlier in the season. They weren’t quite as good as their position reflected.Over 46 games they are the 7th best team. Yes they did better than I thought they would do but over 46 games the table does not lie.Injuries look at injuries we had and we have finished 5th.Sorry to be pedantic, Camps, but they are the 6th best team. Crawley are the 7th best. Put reply in wrong place SS so deleted. I will try again.Just put that it was a deliberate mistake just to test your football knowledge. You will be pleased to know you passed with a distinction.
Quote from: Campsall rover on April 29, 2024, 07:01:31 pmQuote from: GazLaz on April 29, 2024, 05:49:52 pmQuote from: drfcsteve on April 29, 2024, 05:44:50 pmOut of interest what has caused Crewe’s drop in form? Do they have a lot of injuries? Injuries and they over achieved earlier in the season. They weren’t quite as good as their position reflected.Over 46 games they are the 7th best team. Yes they did better than I thought they would do but over 46 games the table does not lie.Injuries look at injuries we had and we have finished 5th.Sorry to be pedantic, Camps, but they are the 6th best team. Crawley are the 7th best.
Quote from: GazLaz on April 29, 2024, 05:49:52 pmQuote from: drfcsteve on April 29, 2024, 05:44:50 pmOut of interest what has caused Crewe’s drop in form? Do they have a lot of injuries? Injuries and they over achieved earlier in the season. They weren’t quite as good as their position reflected.Over 46 games they are the 7th best team. Yes they did better than I thought they would do but over 46 games the table does not lie.Injuries look at injuries we had and we have finished 5th.
Quote from: drfcsteve on April 29, 2024, 05:44:50 pmOut of interest what has caused Crewe’s drop in form? Do they have a lot of injuries? Injuries and they over achieved earlier in the season. They weren’t quite as good as their position reflected.
Out of interest what has caused Crewe’s drop in form? Do they have a lot of injuries?
Quote from: drfchound on April 29, 2024, 04:38:58 pmQuote from: steve@dcfd on April 29, 2024, 11:14:58 amLet’s hope after the first leg that TLT is not regretting his decision to come for the ball at Gillingham.Do,you mean perhaps that Jones will have had a blinder and TLT can’t be sure of his place for the second leg and final. If you want to put that way hound then that’s your choice it’s not the way I’m thinking. But I hope he does have a blinder and can get to crosses and move his feet better.
Quote from: steve@dcfd on April 29, 2024, 11:14:58 amLet’s hope after the first leg that TLT is not regretting his decision to come for the ball at Gillingham.Do,you mean perhaps that Jones will have had a blinder and TLT can’t be sure of his place for the second leg and final.
Let’s hope after the first leg that TLT is not regretting his decision to come for the ball at Gillingham.
TLT is now able to play in the first leg now and will most probably start the games, a question though, if the games went to penalties would you consider subbing Jones on with minutes to go after his heroics in the EFL cup?
A lot of questions to be answered in this game, are Crewe really decimated by injury, our run of wins coming to an end with a draw, has our luck changed? can we continue our goal scoring exploits?, Olowu or Anderson? How big is the fact TLT can play? a two legged game, not our usual format, will it effect our game plan and inhibit our style of play? will we benefit from a full weeks rest from the last league fixture? And the BIG ONE, it being a Bank Holiday, will the chippy be open?
We need to do a “Southend” to Crewe!
Taylor currently slated to play in a charity game at Shrewsbury Town on 12 May.
It is not often a small miracle happens but it has in this instance, if we step back and take it in we realise just how unlikely this game coming about was to happen, the only confident person publicly Grant McCann who never gave up, and to be fair quite a few of us must have thought in your dreams Grant. I admit that after losing to Bradford in the EFL trophy game I just hoped for a good reasonable finish to the season away from the drop that was drawing us in, and adding Close and Connor Carty to season ending injuries just seamed to top our troubles off, How lucky we were with Adeluken and Craig signed as replacements, their contribution to our season has been outstanding and now on the the hardest challenge of all, the lottery that are the playoffs, and hopefully Close and Carty recover well and get back to full fitness. So it's on to a new start to a competition, one where everything including current league form goes straight out of the window, and every player taking part knows they have a chance for a Wembley appearance and promotion up the league, all that has gone before apart from giving them this second chance meaning nothing, nada, and only the three potential games having everything riding on them. Crewe will be just as up and confident as we are, the results will be who handles the pressure and play with confidence the best, and their whole concentration over the coming days until the game will be on how to defeat us, the way we play, the weaknesses we have and how to nullify our strengths, it will not by any stretch of the imagination easy, after all for much of the season, in fact until just this week they have been the better side. The playoffs are where the manager has the most influence on the final result I have always thought, not always do the best sides win these mini competitions, where just one individual mistake or a piece of brilliant skill can win a game with little time to nullify the resulting outcome. We can be confident in our management team that they will be well prepared and they will want the team to play with no fear, we just have to go for it, to be fair most sides we will come up against have been better organised defensively than we have over the season. So a full seasons work comes down to a lottery of three games at the most and luck will most probably play some part in just who wins the mini competition, lets hope for a change it is on our side. Crewe's home record is not that good or bad scoring 35 goals but also conceding 35 their season tailing off somewhat since their loan players in the first half of the season left and a number of injuries took a toll of their playing strength, although Nevitt with 16 league goals will want some watching and came up with the equaliser at Colchester yesterday. Our run means nothing now in this new mini competition. So a little extra time to gather our strengths and rest to this bank Holiday fixture, tension will rise over the week, and we need to do what we have been doing well and go into the game in the best possible frame of mind and composure and carry on the good things we have been doing. The club is in the best place it has been for a long time no matter what happens, it can only get better, the prize is there for us to grasp, give it our all and if we fail giving our all and are beaten by a better side so be it, the ride has been fantastic and promises even more if we play well and have a little luck on our side. Just go for it.
:turd:as you say, not always.I remember that Southend were the form team going into the play offs back when we played them in the semi final.