The Crawley Town Courier
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Crawley Town
49 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match21 Aug 2027
37 matches without a goal for Crawley Town
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 37 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Josh King: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Crawley Town have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market23 Aug 2027
Aaron Rowe hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Crawley Town can pretend not to have heard.
Market23 Aug 2027
Noah Salau has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Crawley Town they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Noah Salau signs for Coventry City while still at Crawley Town
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Noah Salau has agreed terms with Coventry City for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Lemar Gordon is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Keanan Bennetts in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Crawley Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Crawley Town
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
In brief
- Squad Jack Barrett has improved at 25, which nobody expected
- Match Grimsby Town take the points off Crawley Town
- Market One of our own: Mark Clark joins the Crawley Town first team