Reply With QuoteThis team will have to play out of it`s skin to get any double this season Mick, Bristol just hammered Vale 5-0!
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Perhaps one of the reasons why the Alex find themselves in such a predicament, is the fact that they still have not completed "the double" over any team in L1 this season.
If they could now repair this failing in 4 key games, then L1 safety would be assured.
Having already beaten Preston (a), Bristol City (h), Crawley (h) and Colchester (a), then these are the games that could turn our season around. The Alex meet each one of these sides over the remaining few weeks of this season.
Surely the team cannot go a whole season without beating another team twice. Can they?
I wonder if there has been a previous campaign where the Alex did not complete one "double"?
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This team will have to play out of it`s skin to get any double this season Mick, Bristol just hammered Vale 5-0!
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Stranger things have happened, Paul. We were outplayed, outfought and thrashed by Gillingham at our place. Then we went to their place as underdogs and gave them a footballing lesson, winning 3-1.Originally Posted by PAULCAFC
With Crewe, anything can happen and often it does!
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First chance coming up this weekend in the double stakes. Beat Crawley and we have our first double of the season.
Last night's defeat at the hands of Port Vale might just make our opponents even keener to achieve their first victory in five games. Had they have beaten the Vale, they might have been a little more relaxed, because they would have been 9 points clear of us (which actually equates to 10, considering their superior goal difference).
In fact, Crawley's goal difference is far better than any of the teams in the mire. So in fact they have a 7 point advantage already over those stuck on 40 points.
Looking at is in that way, perhaps Port Vale have a better chance of reaching the play-offs, than of Crawley being relegated.
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Trust me, if we beat Crawley on Saturday, that will be 5 on the bounce for them. They'd be right in the mix then!
However, if THEY win ...!
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Trust me, if we beat Crawley on Saturday, that will be 5 on the bounce for them. They'd be right in the mix then!
However, if THEY win ...!
Last night's Posh win over Colchester, leaves the Vale with absolutely no chance of reaching the promised land of the play-offs. Only if they had have lost (and they do play Wolves on Saturday) would there have been a slight hope for our neighbours.
However, Colchester are now deep in the mire. Their home game against Tranmere will prove very interesting. All we can hope for is a draw between these two sides (and perhaps between Shrewsbury and Stevenage), although the Alex MUST win at Crawley. I will start to look at Crawley as real relegation candidates, if they do lose on Saturday. Then things will get very tense for all involved.
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Our first double of the season today. Great three points, although other games did not go quite in our favour. Shrewsbury, Carlisle, Oldham and Tranmere all winning. Colchester continue to look suspect, with that visit to us on Easter Monday increasingly looking like a six pointer. Crawley continue to jitter, although I am not yet convinced they will go down.
As this thread is concerned with "doubles", the history makers today were those lot down the road. Vale secured their first double over Walsall since the 1899-1900 season.
What are the chances of there being three "doubles" today from local sides. Will Stoke complete the full set when they visit Chelsea tonight? I very much doubt it to be honest, but football can through up all manner of surprises.
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[quote="alexmick" over any team in L1 this season.
If they could now repair this failing in 4 key games, then L1 safety would be assured.
Having already beaten Preston (a), Bristol City (h), Crawley (h) and Colchester (a), then these are the games that could turn our season around. The Alex meet each one of these sides over the remaining few weeks of this season.
Surely the team cannot go a whole season without beating another team twice. Can they?
I wonder if there has been a previous campaign where the Alex did not complete one "double"?[/quote]
Back in the dire '70's,when Crewe away wins were scarcer than sightings of Hayleys Comet (or error-free Harold Finch articles),we only notched a solitary victory on our travels in one particular season,and I think it was our last away of the campaign,at Bournemouth.
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No, it was 0-0, in front of 1,974, in December 1979. And even that was not our lowest gate of a season when only the 'old pals' act must have kept us up.
Yes, it was a lot worse before Dario arrived.
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It's "double" time again on Monday. Our second opportunity arrives when we face Colchester to complete another double. Beat them and that's two doubles so far this season. The Alex could even make it a grand total of four as both Bristol City and Preston have already tasted defeat earlier in the season.
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