Cambridge

[gazan]

Interesting choices in line up. Daniels preferred to Thomas. Finney playing in addition to Porter is risky. Neither will be contributing a lot to the game so therefore loading the workrate on to the other 8 outfield players. The full backs will have to do a lot of ball carrying. Meanwhile, Murphy and Robertson will have to keep the back covered while funneling the ball forward.
Bit worried as Cambridge soak up pressure and overload on the counter.

[Fidler]

One gets very nervous about the outcome of a game when Crewe appear to have the game sewn up for three points. Yet again they concede from what looks like a winning position by allowing the opposition to score in the dying minutes of the game. What is wrong with the team to allow this to happen!

[Wartman]

One gets very nervous about the outcome of a game when Crewe appear to have the game sewn up for three points. Yet again they concede from what looks like a winning position by allowing the opposition to score in the dying minutes of the game. What is wrong with the team to allow this to happen!

Lack of options on the bench can’t agree with Frogpole I think the squad is weak and stilling lacking in numbers the bench was poor today and lacking in any quality to change the game, when you replace your winger with a center forward that tells you all you need to know. Lundstrum is not good enough so Gomes must be no better I assume ? Macfazdean for Bennett WTF !! Artell has a lot of questions to answer still 3 players light get on with getting them in Dave before it is too late, nailed on relegation.

[Timmy58]

Lack of options on the bench can’t agree with Frogpole I think the squad is weak and stilling lacking in numbers the bench was poor today and lacking in any quality to change the game, when you replace your winger with a center forward that tells you all you need to know. Lundstrum is not good enough so Gomes must be no better I assume ? Macfazdean for Bennett WTF !! Artell has a lot of questions to answer still 3 players light get on with getting them in Dave before it is too late, nailed on relegation.

We looked in no trouble in the first half but they definitely upped their game in the second period. We didn't! Repacing Kashket with Mandron was unavoidable due to the injury. Mandron obviously is not a winger or wide man and our natural replacement for him would be Knight who is currently out injured. So, yes we are going to look weak in areas where our cover is injured. Macfadzeen is a midfielder or Left Back so a reasonable option to replace Bennett on paper at least. Lundstrum I think is good enough. He is just a different type of player to Finney and Ainley. Gomez I suspect is not quite up to it yet (won't have had a pre-season) although I expected to see him had we managed to increase our lead early in the second half

[ShropshireAlex]

We looked in no trouble in the first half but they definitely upped their game in the second period. We didn't! Repacing Kashket with Mandron was unavoidable due to the injury. Mandron obviously is not a winger or wide man and our natural replacement for him would be Knight who is currently out injured. So, yes we are going to look weak in areas where our cover is injured. Macfadzeen is a midfielder or Left Back so a reasonable option to replace Bennett on paper at least. Lundstrum I think is good enough. He is just a different type of player to Finney and Ainley. Gomez I suspect is not quite up to it yet (won't have had a pre-season) although I expected to see him had we managed to increase our lead early in the second half

I agree completely - my guess was Mandron was due to replace Porter after 60 minutes, but Kashket's injury ruined that and we had no striker option. Clearly Lundstrom didn't bring what DA hoped (steadiness - his touch was awful) to the lineup when he came on and given that maybe keeping Finney on (playing as a No 10 as he was) would have been better. McFadzean was meant to bring a lead protecting lineup into everyone's minds I think but he seemed to think he was a winger. If we'd gone 3 up it would have been the perfect time to give Gomes a run out - surely must play Tuesday v Wigan, though we need to make fewer changes than normal with no game after for 10 days.

[Wartman]

I agree completely - my guess was Mandron was due to replace Porter after 60 minutes, but Kashket's injury ruined that and we had no striker option. Clearly Lundstrom didn't bring what DA hoped (steadiness - his touch was awful) to the lineup when he came on and given that maybe keeping Finney on (playing as a No 10 as he was) would have been better. McFadzean was meant to bring a lead protecting lineup into everyone's minds I think but he seemed to think he was a winger. If we'd gone 3 up it would have been the perfect time to give Gomes a run out - surely must play Tuesday v Wigan, though we need to make fewer changes than normal with no game after for 10 days.

So I repeat the squad is short still and the bench limited; Mandaron is a center forward not a winger has he has proven several times, Lundstrum is not good enough (at present) he maybe in the future but at the moment is way short. Macfazdean was brought in as a full back not a winger. You can’t reduce the squad in numbers as Crewe have done to improve the quality within the budget as you then have to over play the players and they get injured and the back up squad is not there!! This current squad is heading to league 2 no doubt about it.