Jack Powell

Defensive Midfielder - Crawley Town
31 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jack Powell

21 Edition

The Crawley Town Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at Crawley Town

Amin Nabizada and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at Crawley Town

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Taylor Richards was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Latta N'Dabrou

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Francisco Vera

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Crawley Town

Something was said to Jack Powell and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Andrew Roberts on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Squad

Latta N'Dabrou: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Crawley Town will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

Match

Crawley Town draw a blank against Salford City

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Salford City defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Squad

Bookings catch up with Jonny Russell

One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Crawley Town will feel it on Saturday.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Crawley Town Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Harry Forster out for 21 days

21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Crawley Town lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Amin Nabizada 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.

Squad

Words at Crawley Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Taylor Richards is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

One of those days for Jack Aitchison

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

Jack Powell gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Talks stall between Crawley Town and Janoi Donacien

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Match

Crawley Town and Colchester United take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

Andrew Roberts on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Andrew Roberts after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Callum Guy

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

5 Edition

The Crawley Town Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Dion Conroy 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.

Transfer targets

Oakley Cannonier due for a Crawley Town medical

Everything agreed with Liverpool, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market

Jack Powell comes home

The shirt still fits. Jack Powell is back at Crawley Town, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad

Tempers go at Crawley Town

Taylor Richards was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Transfer targets

Crawley Town rebuffed over Sean Steur

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Newcastle United have kept their man, and Crawley Town go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A row about effort at Crawley Town

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nacim El Hassani was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

16 new faces, and Crawley Town are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad

The formation has left Nacim El Hassani behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Crawley Town will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Francisco Vera

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief