by royalgull » 23 Apr 2012, 09:50
Crawley gave us two chances to take 3rd place and make it our own and sadly we couldn't take either.
Like I said our run in was tougher and we're not a side that you would confidently back to beat anyone, that may sound ridiculous but I wasn't surprised we lost at Wimbledon, nor would I be surprised if we beat Crewe then lost at Hereford. We are a 1-0 side, and if we don't get the first goal we are generally knackered. We lack depth, we lack pace and we can be quite easy to set up against. We're better when teams play a similar game to us, we nick a goal and generally have defended really well this season. On the other side of the coin, Crawley, Shrewsbury even Southend have more attacking threat and more threat in depth than we do. Southend home to Barnet, only ever a home win and a 3-0 scoreline, we wouldn't have beaten Barnet 3-0 if we'd played them at home last Friday.
Crawley will almost certainly beat Hereford at home (comfortably I'd have thought) which means we must beat Crewe. Not impossible but they are one of the form sides and one of those dangerous sides that on their day can beat anyone. The result Saturday in terms of poitns has no significance really. We were a game behind Crawley because of the GD gap between the sides, they've got 1 point but we are still effectively 1 game behind them just with 2 to play. The main problem was on paper it was Crawley's toughest game and probably our easiest one in terms of Wimbledon have nothing to play for.
It's going to be really difficult now, we can still get 86points and you would hope that would be enough but I don't think we'll get them sadly. Too many out of form now at a key time be it tiredness or injury and we simply don't have the squad to change it.
It shouldn't detract either way if we get there or not from what has been an outstanding season. In fact right now is showing just how well the team has done considering our lack of depth.
Crawley gave us two chances to take 3rd place and make it our own and sadly we couldn't take either.
Like I said our run in was tougher and we're not a side that you would confidently back to beat anyone, that may sound ridiculous but I wasn't surprised we lost at Wimbledon, nor would I be surprised if we beat Crewe then lost at Hereford. We are a 1-0 side, and if we don't get the first goal we are generally knackered. We lack depth, we lack pace and we can be quite easy to set up against. We're better when teams play a similar game to us, we nick a goal and generally have defended really well this season. On the other side of the coin, Crawley, Shrewsbury even Southend have more attacking threat and more threat in depth than we do. Southend home to Barnet, only ever a home win and a 3-0 scoreline, we wouldn't have beaten Barnet 3-0 if we'd played them at home last Friday.
Crawley will almost certainly beat Hereford at home (comfortably I'd have thought) which means we must beat Crewe. Not impossible but they are one of the form sides and one of those dangerous sides that on their day can beat anyone. The result Saturday in terms of poitns has no significance really. We were a game behind Crawley because of the GD gap between the sides, they've got 1 point but we are still effectively 1 game behind them just with 2 to play. The main problem was on paper it was Crawley's toughest game and probably our easiest one in terms of Wimbledon have nothing to play for.
It's going to be really difficult now, we can still get 86points and you would hope that would be enough but I don't think we'll get them sadly. Too many out of form now at a key time be it tiredness or injury and we simply don't have the squad to change it.
It shouldn't detract either way if we get there or not from what has been an outstanding season. In fact right now is showing just how well the team has done considering our lack of depth.
