Crawley reserves 5 - 0 Albion reserves [Merged]

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

Couple of hundred.

First time I've seen people watching a game from a Flyover!!

Is it the same pitch I had a game on?

 

[clippedgull]

Anyone recognise the Brighton player?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Anyone recognise the Brighton player?

El-Abd with the skippers armband. What do I win?

 

[leigull]

He looks really fat in that photo

 

[clippedgull]

El-Abd with the skippers armband. What do I win?

My gratitude! He looks fat, and has a tash?? Or do I need spec savers? !!

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Is it the same pitch I had a game on?

Yes.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

My gratitude! He looks fat, and has a tash?? Or do I need spec savers? !!

I would imagine the tash is for Movember and he has been out of action for 6 months or it could be the angle of the photo.

 

[clippedgull]

I would imagine the tash is for Movember and he has been out of action for 6 months or it could be the angle of the photo.

Cheers! I think the tash threw me.

 

[fleet]

Sounds like they scored from nearly every cross that they had - must have been top defending! Also sounds like we created almost nothing - which is bad news even if it is a reserve game of no significance.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

From what I saw (first half only) Bukley created quite a bit down the right hand side.

IMO his performance was the only good thing I saw today (Apart from AEA's return, and Lewis Dunk's car)

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

@cankergren

150 tweets or something in his first 48 hours, just bantering with everyone.

Casper has become my favourite person to follow on twitter already. I always assumed he was quite a quiet man but he has a 'voice' on twitter lol

 

[kevtherev]

Friendly or not, players should still want to win. With seven first teamers playing that scoreline is a joke....Professional pride anyone?

 

[pork pie]

As promised, Gus is taking his style of football down to all levels of the Club!

What next?

 

[Chester Drawers]

Couple of hundred.

First time I've seen people watching a game from a Flyover!!

About 150 ... for flyover read footbridge ...

 

[chucky1973]

Ok, so I left at half time, so you really are only getting half the picture...

Of the 'returning' players:

Buckley - Looked good, quick and fit - I'd start him Saturday.

Kaz - Heavy pitch not helping hom, but Bench only on Saturday

Adam - Great to see him playing again, but him and Vincelot just looked too small up against their strikers (the guy who played for Dagenham last year and scored in the first minute)
El Abd will need a couple more games IMO to get him fit.

Vincelot - poor performance, I preferhim at full back.

Hoskins - I rate him, whether he plays depends on the formation.

Sparrow - playing alongside Rogers in midfield. Both looked slow - anything we created came from wide.

Both full backs young and small, not impressed with either, sorry.

Barnes. Sorry, but not good enough.

Crawley - Big, physical, a typical Steve Evans side.

Pitch - poor and heavy.

I also only saw the first half and agree with most of what you saw. I would just add that Buckley was a class above any on the field and looked good, always trying to create something, but players around him let him down. I know that Adam has just returned from injury and its great to see, but the defence was just shocking, Crawley had 4 chances in the first half and scored 4. Brighton had one very good chance from barnes but the Marine made a superb save, saying that, Barnes should have scored and his all round game I would describe as "lots of effort, no quality" so many wasted passes.

KKL just looks unfit, he got past a couple of players but the pitch didnt help him at all, he also seemed to hurt his hand in the first half.
Hoskins.....Jury is out, like Barnes lots of huff and puff, but nothing to show for it, bad touch and had options to shoot in the first half, but decided not too.
Brez..............oh dear.....no more to say.

I stood next to Gus and Tanno in the bottom Corner to the one Brighton attacked in the 1st half and they seemed annoyed with something, but were speaking in spanish or something similiar so couldnt grasp what, but he did have a long conversation with Steve Evans at Half time (boy is he fat!!!)

Overall, Crawley played a very good game, they didnt play mis passes or go long, they tried and succeded in playing football and it worked, the 2nd goal was a great volley and they have shown they have the strenght in depth to win league 2 and do well in league 1.

Oh and Dunk does have a very nice white car and Craig noone is so tiny!!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Will make ZERO difference to the Coventry game either way in my opinion. It's a run out.

You didn't seem to think the England Spain friendly was just a run out

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

One other thing I noticed about today, was that apart from Buckley and Brez, we really are a SMALL team.

 

[slinky]

Ouch. That's gonna hurt morale

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[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Ouch. That's gonna hurt morale

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But, just guessing I would say only one player who played today (Buckley) 'may' start on Saturday.

 

[Husty]

I cannot believe that Buckley, Hoskins and Barnes combined couldnt manage a single goal against some league 2 reserves? Horrific.