The Crawley Town Courier
Squad23 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Janoi Donacien
52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Crawley Town lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market23 Aug 2027
Jay Williams asks to leave Crawley Town
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Denzel frozen out at Crawley Town
This is not rotation. Denzel has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Crawley Town is pretending otherwise.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Taylor Richards scored one and made one — 7.96
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.96, and 2 involvements.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
A hand in 2 of them from Jack Aitchison — 7.92
Marked 7.92. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Crawley Town
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Burnley tell Crawley Town: Oliver Sonne is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market23 Aug 2027
Simon Young steps up from the Crawley Town academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Simon Young has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market23 Aug 2027
Crawley Town promote Timothy Hawkins from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Timothy Hawkins has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Daniel Watson joins the Crawley Town first team
- Match Crawley Town find a way past Northampton Town
- Squad Nacim El Hassani falls out with a teammate over standards