no, still rattled !!

hate football, thank the lord test cricket on this week, proper sport that... football is rubbish

I think this result, selection, subs bench, subs, next lot of subs and utter ineffectiveness does dent Bielsa's credibility.

I was genuinely worried about life after Bielsa and yesterday, for the first time I thought actually not so bothered who comes next now.

One wonders if this takes the shine off the relationship with AR and there develops some internal tension because AR is all about ego and having our name rubbed in it won't go down well.

And I am sure that this is not the case, but if this happened in tennis, the Tennis Integrity Unit would be all over it, because there were so many bizarre data points about it that did not make sense.

No, I’m still smarting. Having tried to laugh it off yesterday, I find today that I still want Bielsa to come out and explain himself, and apologise, for an awful personal performance.

Jack Harrison as CF. There you go Marcelo, start with that one.

comment by The Spanish Italians - its not coming home (U21595)
posted 2 minutes ago
no, still rattled !!

hate football, thank the lord test cricket on this week, proper sport that... football is rubbish


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Ha, we’ll agree to disagree to agree on that one I think.
What is hard to take is having BBC Breakfast on and seeing Crawley’s victory splashed all over the place. I also live in the south east so it’s the main item in the local news, too. At 64 and having followed the team for over 50 years, I thought the days of being depressed at Leeds’ defeats were behind me, but this is hard to take!

comment by Lorralorimer (U18994)
posted 4 minutes ago

comment by The Spanish Italians - its not coming home (U21595)
posted 2 minutes ago
no, still rattled !!

hate football, thank the lord test cricket on this week, proper sport that... football is rubbish


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Ha, we’ll agree to disagree to agree on that one I think.
What is hard to take is having BBC Breakfast on and seeing Crawley’s victory splashed all over the place. I also live in the south east so it’s the main item in the local news, too. At 64 and having followed the team for over 50 years, I thought the days of being depressed at Leeds’ defeats were behind me, but this is hard to take!

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had to turn GMB off this morning when MArk Wright came on - not in the mood..

I called him a nonce, and turned the TV off.. mate, I proper hate football

was a free hit, he gave players a chance, they let him down, odd substitutions, we got well beat, bielsa, will take on the chin as we should and move on.

I still can't understand the substitutes that were made at half time. We looked bad in the first half but i still thought we would win it. The substitutes were a complete failure. Two young kids and Harrison running around like a headless chicken up front. Its like we wanted to lose the game...

comment by The Spanish Italians - its not coming home (U21595)
posted 34 minutes ago
no, still rattled !!

hate football, thank the lord test cricket on this week, proper sport that... football is rubbish


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A proper sport that has a tea break. And each match appears to last 57 years

Nope, still feel very disappointed. In my mind it's far worse than Histon/Sutton etc. We weren't beaten by a smash and grab 1-0. We were well and thoroughly beaten, 3-0!!. We barely had a chance on goal. Dreadful performance. The resources we had available, there's absolutely no excuse for that scoreline. Poor decisions (on and off the pitch).

comment by The Spanish Italians - its not coming home (U21595)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by Lorralorimer (U18994)
posted 4 minutes ago

comment by The Spanish Italians - its not coming home (U21595)
posted 2 minutes ago
no, still rattled !!

hate football, thank the lord test cricket on this week, proper sport that... football is rubbish


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Ha, we’ll agree to disagree to agree on that one I think.
What is hard to take is having BBC Breakfast on and seeing Crawley’s victory splashed all over the place. I also live in the south east so it’s the main item in the local news, too. At 64 and having followed the team for over 50 years, I thought the days of being depressed at Leeds’ defeats were behind me, but this is hard to take!

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had to turn GMB off this morning when MArk Wright came on - not in the mood..

I called him a nonce, and turned the TV off.. mate, I proper hate football
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I doubt whether you've ever watched cricket or rugby, probably get excited about playing chess?!

No felt awful yesterday, feel flat today.

Another Leeds FA Cup farce that will be re ran every year when the 3rd Round comes.

Yesterday was bad make no mistake - We never looked like scoring at all and Crawley played the occasion to the full and we didn't.

...just hope there is a real response versus BHA. ( Although no Kilvington is not a good start).

Have to say I thought the selection was strong enough before the game. I still think it should have been.

Think the subs at half time were a disaster. But the performance in the first half wasn't good enough anyway.

A couple of big concerns for me. Rodrigo upfront. and the formation 3-3-3-1 hasn't worked for some time now. When we lose one of the 8's we get completely overrun in the middle of the pitch, are forced wide and lose possession. We can't win second balls in the middle. And we leave too much space for opposition to attack into. That's been worrying against a few sides this season, but for it happen against league two opposition is crazy.

Kiko wasn't one of my worries following the game because I've already written him off and don't think he should have been anywhere near the team sheet anyway.

Kalvin even - damned auto correct

Ive seen a lot of media saying that Crawley played out of their skin. Thing is i don't think they did. It was more we were terrible and the cause of our own downfall

I don’t think they either outwood to be honest, they didn’t even really break sweat.

The worst part for me, is a 33 yr old reality tv star, on a publicity stunt, came on as a sub.

Come on now I'm not taken in by all this downbeat comment....you love it, all this 'modern' system of playing without a defence, regularly being beaten by 3 goal deficits...I'm just surprised no other teams are employing this strategy, this modern tactic....

You should be really pleased Bielsa won't change his system....Faith told us not so long ago that goals scored don't really matter to Bielsa, they're not that important, it looks like he thinks goals conceded isn't so important either...this playing strategy might well be confusing the players....not to mention the fans?!

comment by Wetherby White (U6810)
posted 2 minutes ago

The worst part for me, is a 33 yr old reality tv star, on a publicity stunt, came on as a sub.

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stunt? I assume you spelt that incorrectly?

I suppose you could point to the fact in the first half we should have had a nailed on penalty when Rodrigo was pulled back and had we taken the lead then the players would have relaxed and scored another one before half time. We'll never know and also it was a bobbly pitch and didn"t suit our playing style and we lost our rhythm and was a factor in our players constant poor control and misplaced passes but this would all be clutching at straws and doing Crawley a disservice for their thoroughly warranted victory.

They wanted it more than us were more focused and treated the tie like their lives depended on it. We approached the game as though we are billy big bollarks from the Premier league and you are lower league fodder that we don't need to worry about you.

Bielsa's substitutions looked even worse as soon as we went a goal down, Crawley smelt blood and punished our inexperienced back line and couple that with a cassilla howler and are fate was sealed.

Yes it still hurts but I think we need to forgive and forget and remember the great results we have had under Bielsa's reign but if we get turned over against Brighton then that's the time to worry because that defeat could start a serious slump and drag us into a relegation scrap that is touch and go we are equipped to cope with.

Time will tell but yesterday was a real low point in the club's history but the best day in Crawley's history. That's football.

comment by kamara's left foot (U21862)
posted 58 minutes ago
was a free hit, he gave players a chance, they let him down, odd substitutions, we got well beat, bielsa, will take on the chin as we should and move on.
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How is it a free hit? We don’t go into the Europa cup or anything, we are out!!. Couldn’t be anything further away than being a free fking hit

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posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago

comment by The Spanish Italians - its not coming home (U21595)
posted 34 minutes ago
no, still rattled !!

hate football, thank the lord test cricket on this week, proper sport that... football is rubbish


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A proper sport that has a tea break. And each match appears to last 57 years

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yeah.. but cricket, rugby, boxing, doesn't break my heart if things don't go the way I want it.

football does

Didn’t go to bed until 230am. Was too angry to consider sleep. Just up now and I am seething. Should be looking forwards to the 4th round draw today.
I see alioski has said the players and manager are “sad”, suggesting they did want to win the game but all decisions taken appear otherwise.
Was it the worst - I don’t think so. Personally think Histon was worst as it was the first time ever we lost to non league opposition and Look at where Histon Are now in the tier system - tier 8!!! They are an absolute tiny club and whilst I know we were league one at the time it was falling.

Each Cup defeat as its own frustrations But generally speaking it comes down to selection. This was our first genuine attempt at having a chance to win the cup in 18’years.

Seething

omment by Kebablegs (U17699)
posted 3 seconds ago

Didn’t go to bed until 230am. Was too angry to consider sleep. Just up now and I am seething. Should be looking forwards to the 4th round draw today.
I see alioski has said the players and manager are “sad”, suggesting they did want to win the game but all decisions taken appear otherwise.
Was it the worst - I don’t think so. Personally think Histon was worst as it was the first time ever we lost to non league opposition and Look at where Histon Are now in the tier system - tier 8!!! They are an absolute tiny club and whilst I know we were league one at the time it was falling.

Each Cup defeat as its own frustrations But generally speaking it comes down to selection. This was our first genuine attempt at having a chance to win the cup in 18’years.

Seething

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you go always watch the draw to see who Brentford have got

Look...you got beat by FC Gatwick....deal with it & move on