U's:0 Creepy Crawley:5 - Thank you Histon
It's very rare that I am grateful for the existance of Histon FC.
In fact I'd go so far as to say that this is an unprecedented scenario in my life thus far, but I do wake this morning feeling happy that the Villagers are in the world.
Because were it not for their FA Cup game on Tuesday, our own match against Crawley would not have been put back by 24 hours, and I would have undoubtably been there to witness what was, by all accounts, a shambolic performance.
Instead, last night I was at the Junction watching a show by comedian Mark Watson. Despite looking like a stretched version of Lee Boylan (the likeness is more striking in real life than in that picture), Watson is properly funny, and I can thoroughly recommend going along to one of his gigs if you get chance.
On the other hand, football is very rarely a laughing matter, particularly where United are involved. Having read his big post-match whinge, I'm getting increasingly concerned about the Brabinator's state of mind.
"We're all embarrassed at the result, but we've had three players - Danny Potter, Wayne Hatswell and Paul Carden - having injections yesterday so they could play (....) Certainly after this result and performance, if we're going to sustain a serious challenge we definitely need to strengthen," he told the official site, this mornings Evening News, Radio Cambridgeshire, and anyone else who would listen.
I have some sympathy with Brabin, who is clearly working on a reduced budget compared to last season, but are we really that hard up in terms of players? Admitedly he didn't have much choice but to play Potter, but could have not rested Carden and Hatswell and stuck a couple of the young players in? It was only the Trophy after all.
Later he goes on to bemoan the need for a "big man" up front to replace Evil and Rendell, but if money is so tight would it not have been better to save the cash we spent on McMahon to put towards a striker? I want us to be successful as much as anyone, but it can't be at the expense of the future of the club.
Finally, it doesn't augur well that the manager feels the need to try and emotionally blackmail the board through the media to get them to spend a bit of cash. If he's making statements like this so publically it's fairly obvious that all is not well behind the scenes...
1 comments:
You are so lucky - I was there!!! - we just humped it and humped it again and again, we are learning stuff from Histon and stevenage it seems. Second ball was always picked up by a Crawley player - and they wanted it more than we did.
Maybe more sensible to have the three walking wounded on the bench, saving them for the league game! Josh Coulson and Gavin Hoyte would have loved a game, thus enabling Carden and Hatswell a deserved rest.
This really was the pits - felt a bit for Beesley who made run after run after run and wasn't seen, also for Challinor who didn't seem to touch anyone for the penalty and second yellow.
Fellino, Courtney, Bolland etc - in a normal job they would be being performance managed with a view to being made unemployed. 1200 odd people actually passed money on to see this.
When was the last time the U's got absolutely dumped on at home like this? Will look out for the Woking score but would rather buy some scratch cards than be robbed of another £14 in the same week.
Rant over
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