The Voice - Match preview (a) v Crawley Town - Sat 5 August 2023 3pm

Have the crypto boys left them now? Transfer exodus? Im out of the loop with summer activity!

 

Crypto geeks are still there, or some of them at least

 

Having slagged most of them off when they lost 9-1 at the weekend!

 

Ade has been training with the Red Devils for the past week and featured as a trialist during the second half of Tuesday’s pre-season opener against East Grinstead Town.

Speaking on the arrival of Adeyemo, Manager Scott Lindsey said: “Ade is a player that got flagged up to me by a friend of mine who I know and trust. We had him in at training briefly at the end of last season, where he impressed, so I invited him back for the start of this season.

https://www.crawleytownfc.com/news/2023/july/ade-adeyemo-signs-for-crawley/

what the ****

 

He did indeed. Not very good man management Roger!

 

How many have we sold for this game so far?

 

Ashley Nadesan the latest senior player to leave Crypto Town. Signed for Gills today

 

They are literally falling apart at the seams.

 

Knowing our luck we’ll beat them 5-0, they go bust, can’t complete the season and the result is expunged from record.

 

Anyone confident enough to guess at a line up yet? I'm assuming the starting line up (barring injuries) might be somewhere near next week's opener team.

 

Lewis in goal, Smallwood in the middle and Cook up front is nailed on 100%
Then at 90% certainty I’d say Walker and Pattison will start.
70% sure the back line will be Stubbs, Taylor, Halliday and Ridehalge.
Not confident on the rest

 

Can’t agree with your back line. However don’t ask me what it will look like ! Rides no chance. Probably Halliday ditto

 

Swap Platt for Taylor and that could be the starting lineup at Crawley?

 

I don't know how many but for those planning a rail trip BEWARE. Along with several others I am booked on the 18.06 from Crawley to Stevenage and got a note overnight it has been cancelled by Thameslink. Currently looking at Three Bridges which is not far from Crawley and is a rail junction with possibly more options for getting back into London. I'm due on the 19.55 from Stevenage which appears doable but BEWARE and look at your plans.

 

Rail travel at the present time is just too unpredictable and fraught with risk, not to mention the extortionate costs. I priced it up and it was a whopping £300 for 4 of us travelling from Shipley.
On that basis I’ll be leaving in the car at 7am, it’ll take me within a 3 minute walk of the ground, it’ll be there kindly waiting for me straight after the game finishes and have me home at around 11pm. All at a cost of about £75 in fuel and the driver won’t be expecting any overtime either.
They can shove their trains up their arse.

 

I'm going with:

Lewis
Halliday Oyegoke Stubbs Kelly Ridehalgh
Smallwood
Pattison Walker
Smith Cook

Can't see him leaving either Halliday or Oyegoke out so that's my thinking on him going with Oyegoke RCB rather than Platt

 

And it's going to be nil - nil, got nil - nil written all over it

 

I'm very unsure about the back 5 but I'm hoping that's the midfield/forward line up.

If so, I'm pretty confident we'll score at least once.