I understand the scepticism about Colin Kazim-Richards' appointment, but this is why the new Crawley Town head coach has my full backing
I understand why people may be sceptical about the news that Colin Kazim-Richards was appointed head coach of Crawley Town.
Some say he has no experience, some say they didn’t see anything that warranted him getting the job. So, I thought I would give my thoughts on the appointment.
I personally like the appointment. It’s correct to think he has no experience, and it’s correct to think that not much changed after Scott Lindsey left…but his one and only remit was to keep Crawley Town in the football league – which he did.
He has no experience – he has plenty of playing experience and has played football all over the world, he has no managerial experience but has played for and with some of the best in the world. If you can’t learn about how to manage players from that sort of experience, I’m not sure you will ever learn it.
Not much changed after Scott Lindsey left – again that is possibly true. The football wasn’t pretty, but it didn’t need to be. It needed to be gritty, hard fought, battling – which for the most part it was.
The other thing I think of when people say they didn’t see any change from when Scott was in charge – it was his signings…none of them had worked with Colin before, and Colin only had seven games with them all,
He won his first two games, against Gillingham and Newport – whether Scott would have won those games, we will never know.
We lost to Grimsby who are 90 minutes away from Wembley in the Playoffs, we lost to Bristol Rovers, who at that time were the form team in the league, then three draws. Yes, we were lucky that there were two worse sides than us down there…but in his seven games in charge, Colin got 9 points.
In Scott’s last seven games, we got five points (five draws).
Let’s give Colin our full backing, a full preseason and some of his own signings, if there are any and get behind the team – we showed in those last few games, those last three gritty hard fought draws that we, the supporters (yes I am a supporter, I just get to write about the games as well) are best when we get behind the team, and the team responds when we get behind them…COME ON YOU REDS!!!!!!