Steve Herbert: Crawley Town really need to start winning again
A hard fought point on the road in Essex, but how we could have done with all three.
Two late misses from Klaidi Lolos and substitute Ronan Darcy could have made the Friday night jaunt across the Dartford Bridge a whole lot more profitable.
Reds returned from Joey Essex country with a clean sheet and a point. But after the rest of the league two results on Saturday it leaves us just above the drop zone by one point. An excellent away win by Newport at Barnet saw them leapfrog us into 21st. Barrow also secured a decent point which saw them edge closer, plus they have the luxury of a game in hand. All it’s done has made Easter Fridays game in South Wales absolutely gigantic. It’s looking like Hartlepool away proportions all over again.
We really need to start winning again to make this whole scenario look a lot more promising in our favour. By the time this goes to print, we’d of already played Barnet at home on (Tuesday night) I just hope for our sake we have prevailed. It doesn’t take a mathematician that long to work out our downfall. A seriously high number of of draws and lack of wins has cost us. We may have lost less than those around us, but it’s been our inability to turn draws in to victories that has continued to hamper our progress.
Scott Lindsey is going to have to become the miracle man once again and produce a run of results that can keep us in the 92 club.
He’s done it before, in the season prior to play off promotion at Wembley. He also came very close to doing it last season after going down by one measly point from League One.
The players have certainly stepped up again over recent performances. But its wins now that’s needed. Pretty football can only get you so far. It was much more of an ugly performance at Colchester United, with Crawley picking up no fewer than six bookings on the night. So going by stats alone the players certainly have the fight. I just have no desire to take it to the final day of the season. We need to secure our survival long before we play promotion chasing Salford City at home on the 2nd May.
As fans we are all up for a bit of end of season excitement, but this is all becoming a bit too much. Especially with the realisation that Dorking v Crawley could actually be about to happen. We all joke about it, but nobody wants that, especially outside of the football league. Dorking gaffer Marc White and the Wanderers can come up to us in the EFL if they fancy a local game of football in the future.