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Post by brassmonkey on Jan 29, 2011 18:54:57 GMT
Great result for them today to win at Torquay. They will do well next year in League 2 (as cant see wimbledon or luton beating them to the championship). See that Tubbs got the winner again will put a few more quid on his transfer fee. Interesting to see if anyone makes a bid for him before the end of the day on Monday.
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Post by Worcester Yellow on Jan 29, 2011 18:59:32 GMT
Hate that Crawley will be bigged up as a fairytale by the media.
They're a horrible little club with a crooked manager and money to burn. 1500 away fans today...wont even get that at home next game!
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Post by Lone Gunman on Jan 29, 2011 19:19:52 GMT
Hate that Crawley will be bigged up as a fairytale by the media. They're a horrible little club with a crooked manager and money to burn. 1500 away fans today...wont even get that at home next game! Exactly, there's probably no club less worthy of a cup run in the non league at the moment. A poxy little team from a dump of a place with a bent manager who have bought their success this term have no place in a fairytale exept perhaps as the evil stepmother.
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Post by Surreal Madrid on Jan 29, 2011 20:16:12 GMT
From now on we should refer to them on this forum as 'Creepy' Crawley.
Reckon so? ;D
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Post by John Lennon on Jan 29, 2011 20:35:19 GMT
Ive got family from Crawley, and have always followed thier results. Seen them plenty of times in the past. I hate Steve Evans, but just because someone puts money into a club, doesnt mean they dont deserve success. There was 3,700+ at their last home game
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Post by Mark on Jan 29, 2011 22:49:46 GMT
All this hatred for Crawley and Evans is getting a bit boring. That nice honest chairman Cap'n Bob got us three years in the top flight, before we went bust, lost the ground and spent four years in the Conference. At least Crawley are spending money their owners can afford with up front transfer fees.
Who is more worthy of a cup run from non-league? Almost every ex-league club in the BSP is there due to mismanagement and overspending.
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Post by WeAreTheResurrection on Jan 29, 2011 22:51:22 GMT
Watching the highlights, Crawley have filled the away end! In decent voice too
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Post by oxyellow on Jan 29, 2011 23:08:04 GMT
Anyone see Jamie Cook win the second pen, then when he wanted to take it maccalister snatched the ball off of him in a heated scuffle, then went and missed! what a tool.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2011 23:25:23 GMT
Crawley continue to make friends wherever they go it seems. ITV didn't bother to dwell on their "Magic of the Cup" victory and instead chose to focus on their play acting/diving/in-fighting and of course the delightful Raynor's antics before kickoff.
I don't care how they got their money, it can't buy class and Crawley don't have any of it.
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Post by Yellowbrains on Jan 30, 2011 1:24:13 GMT
Horrible club and the way they are going about buying success is a disgrace to football.
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Post by baldy on Jan 30, 2011 8:18:32 GMT
I've said it for two years now - Steve Evans is a class act as a football manager and his team play some great stuff. Four games against league opposition and not one defeat is no coincidence. I don't know the stats from yesterday's game but they bludgeoned Swindon over two games and deservedly wen through against Derby.
Crawley will grace the football league and Evans deserves to manage much higher up. Crawley are a stepping stone to bigger things for him.
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Post by unification on Jan 30, 2011 9:18:37 GMT
I've said it for two years now - Steve Evans is a class act as a football manager and his team play some great stuff. Four games against league opposition and not one defeat is no coincidence. I don't know the stats from yesterday's game but they bludgeoned Swindon over two games and deservedly wen through against Derby. Crawley will grace the football league and Evans deserves to manage much higher up. Crawley are a stepping stone to bigger things for him. Is he a class act though, Baldy? My overriding memory of Steve Evans is our Football League encounters with his Boston team, notably this one: www.soccerbase.com/results3.sd?gameid=468800As I recall, Boston were time wasting and happy with a draw from the kick-off. Abbey wasted time as soon as he had the ball and I still regard it as one of the worst games I have ever seen at the Kassam - boring, devoid of talent (which Oxford, sadly, had little of that season), negative and ugly. This was not your romanticised, free-flowing 'little' Crawley that you seem to cream your pants about, but an ugly, tinpot and downright nasty side doing everything in their power not to play football. There's more than one side to Steve Evans. He may have moneybags Crawley playing like a side two divisions that they should be, but as soon as he's up against it, anti-football will come to the fore.
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Post by baldy on Jan 30, 2011 9:40:14 GMT
Evans is damaged goods in many peoples eyes but I am judging him on a football basis and he did very well at Crawley with no money and now he's doing it with money. You can't really ask for much more. I dint really subscribe to this money guarantees success thinking. I mean who, apart from Brodie, have Crawley signed that, say, Luton couldn't have ?
Luton could have afforded Tubbs from Salisbury or Bulman from us or that centre back with the funny namen- McFadyan is it ? Where did Evans find him ? Look at the Crawley squad man for man and it's far from full of big names. Lutons squad has bigger players in it. How do you explain that ?
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Post by brassmonkey on Jan 30, 2011 10:03:45 GMT
Horrible club and the way they are going about buying success is a disgrace to football. Whats different about this to say Chelsea, Man U, Notts County, etc etc
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Post by Cobi Jones on Jan 30, 2011 10:47:44 GMT
To be fair to Evans, he can spot a player.
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Post by Cardiff Yellow on Jan 30, 2011 11:36:31 GMT
yes he can. That Jamie Cook is just brilliant, and absolutely nobody knew Tubbs or Brodie were any good before last summer did they?
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Post by Cobi Jones on Jan 30, 2011 11:43:40 GMT
Jake Wright, Jean-Paul Pittman, he got money for Madjo
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Post by theyellowblaze on Jan 30, 2011 11:43:53 GMT
Crawley Town really are a detestable little club!
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Post by outofthegloom on Jan 30, 2011 12:33:38 GMT
I don't care how they got their money, it can't buy class and Crawley don't have any of it. Good post ^ Crawley were deplorable before they had money. It makes no difference to their behaviour. They would still have carried on their antics yesterday and previous, e.g. not letting Robbie Savage in with the BBC before the last round, regardless. Doesn’t matter if they get promoted, they will never be a proper club whilst they have Evans. I’d be embarrassed to be a Crawley fan.
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Post by NorthWest Ox on Jan 30, 2011 13:41:35 GMT
Anyone see Jamie Cook win the second pen, then when he wanted to take it maccalister snatched the ball off of him in a heated scuffle, then went and missed! what a tool. Also, it was Mansell that fouled him, and Zebroski gave away the first pen, with Bulman also playing for Crawlye, it was a bit of an old boys re-union.
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Post by concretebob on Jan 30, 2011 13:44:16 GMT
I dislike Crawley and Evans greatly. However they are doing things the modern way - with money.
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Post by behindthegoal on Jan 30, 2011 14:02:35 GMT
They've got a bigger airport than us.
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Post by Mark on Jan 30, 2011 14:09:25 GMT
So if everything was right in the world it would be Luton in the draw. After all they are only in the conference because the FA stuffed them points deductions.
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Post by unification on Jan 30, 2011 14:45:02 GMT
Evans is damaged goods in many peoples eyes but I am judging him on a football basis and he did very well at Crawley with no money and now he's doing it with money. You can't really ask for much more. I dint really subscribe to this money guarantees success thinking. I mean who, apart from Brodie, have Crawley signed that, say, Luton couldn't have ? Luton could have afforded Tubbs from Salisbury or Bulman from us or that centre back with the funny namen- McFadyan is it ? Where did Evans find him ? Look at the Crawley squad man for man and it's far from full of big names. Lutons squad has bigger players in it. How do you explain that ? You're right. Luton could have afforded Tubbs or Bulman ahead of Crawley ... had regular hand-to-mouth BSP economics been in play. Luton are the biggest club down there with the most fans and what we would assume would be the largest revenue streams. However, that is anything but the case. Tubbs for a reported £70K (more than we paid for Craddock), Brodie for for +£200K and throw into that the wages for Kuipers, Torres, Simpson and so on and Crawley don't just compete with Luton, but with any side in League 2 and most of League 1. Money has made that side by luring a mixture of good league players and wily BSP pros to their ranks and, granted, Evans has put together a good side, but my original point was that he his sides don't try to play football when those resources don't exist. His Boston sides were ugly and negative and just because he has some money to spend at Crawley, it doesn't suddenly make him a football genius with an ethos of playing good football.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2011 14:46:40 GMT
They've got a bigger airport than us. So have Lootown - so that's not saying a lot!
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Post by Lone Gunman on Jan 30, 2011 15:30:14 GMT
I doubt that baldy really thinks evans is a good manager, just as I doubt that he admires the style of football played by stoke. The only reason he claims these things to be the case is because he loves to court controversy, just like moobs.
In fact, moobs is better at it as he is far more subtle such that you aren't always sure when you're being played. Baldy's attempts at trolling have all the subtlety of a sledgehammer smashing a priceless ming vase.
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Post by concretebob on Jan 30, 2011 16:20:02 GMT
They've only gone and got Man United away in the next round...
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Post by sihath on Jan 30, 2011 16:22:20 GMT
I remember Nick Harris saying that he recalled games at Crawley where the Crawly bench spent the whole games questioning pretty much every decision that the ref or linesman on their side of the pitch gave. It was a constant/deliberate attempt to undermine the officials.
Nick said he knew that all managers will appeal for certain decisions but this was every decision, and was normally accompanied by a swear word every couple of words.
It was the worst behaviour he had every encountered in 30-40 years of following Utd.
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Post by concretebob on Jan 30, 2011 16:29:19 GMT
I remember Nick Harris saying that he recalled games at Crawley where the Crawly bench spent the whole games questioning pretty much every decision that the ref or linesman on their side of the pitch gave. It was a constant/deliberate attempt to undermine the officials. Nick said he knew that all managers will appeal for certain decisions but this was every decision, and was normally accompanied by a swear word every couple of words. It was the worst behaviour he had every encountered in 30-40 years of following Utd. Nick Harris was so upset with the swearing from the Fraudster and Convicted Criminal he said "I'm Bloody sick of it!" How people like baldy can defend Steve Evans is beyond me.
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Post by Mark on Jan 30, 2011 16:35:20 GMT
Well Wimbledon and their gamesmanship did alright for several years.
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