Crawley Town v Leeds Utd Match Thread - Cooper returns as Bielsa makes seven changes

[Chilli D]

Costa can go.
If he can't take on a beat League 2 players, he can forget the Prem.

[SG90]

Costa can go.
If he can't take on a beat League 2 players, he can forget the Prem.

No one will want him on this evidence.

[Peter in Blackpool]

doomed, doomed i tell yeah

[Boo Radley]

Blame all round here.

Bielsa threw this under the bus and, as much as I love him, the name of the club has been badly tarnished by that performance today.

Most players today can also hang their heads in shame. I hope we have a big enough cheque book to fix this. Our squad is wafer thin and we are a couple of injuries away from dire trouble. Embarrassing

[1964white]

No wonder we never win anything. In my lifetime I can't remember us ever giving the cups any effort.

It's a disgrace SG

[Irish Ian]

and for those who say the kids aren't good enough ...this performance proves neither

Yep, kids need to be not thrown in against teams who are playing the biggest game of their lives.

Today Bielsa tried to force things in the second half, some days it works, today we didn't have a chance for it to work as in a blink of an eye we were two down.

[SG90]

No excuses now. 21 games left, they can't moan about being tired and too many games now.

[Fridge]

Embarrassing

[SG90]

Yep, kids need to be not thrown in against teams who are playing the biggest game of their lives.

Today Bielsa tried to force things in the second half, some days it works, today we didn't have a chance for it to work as in a blink of an eye we were two down.

It's not fair for the youngsters to be exposed to this. But they were on a hiding to nothing.

[Clacton White]

Its as bad as all of them.
I honestly thought results like this were a thing of the past once we reached the Prem.

Turned off at half time to watch clips of places I won't be holidaying at this year, it all seemed a dull match . Just turned it back on......oooops .......back to the non holiday vids .

[SG90]

We've thrown away both cups now and made no effort. Why?

[Finnatic]

Fair play to Crawley but Bielsa has thrown the game at HT.
He showed respect to them pre-game and also first half, but second half...
No striker
No defensive midfielder
No recognised CB

He didn’t seem angry at any point

Odd

[Boo Radley]

and for those who say the kids aren't good enough ...this performance proves neither

Seriously? While they were thrown into a new, unfamiliar team, players like Davis, Shackleton and Casey looked so far off the standard that we need in the Premier League it’s nowhere near funny.

[Cjay]

Goes to show that we have absolutely no depth whatsoever.

An embarrassment.

[Peter in Blackpool]

It's not fair for the youngsters to be exposed to this. But they were on a hiding to nothing.

quite right, fancy playing them against league 2 teams.

save them for easier games.....like Southampton next week

[1964white]

My policy is usually no MOTM for cup games ..that will continue today I think

You won't get many options anyway Faaip

[Cjay]

Sorry but i think the kids have to take some responsibility to.

Shacks, Struijk and Davis are 2 players who some want in the 1st team, absolutely not based on today.

The rest are miles off, Jenkins, Casey, Greenwood miles miles away.

Casilla and Costa can go.

Hernandez, Rodders, Ali, Harrison all pathetic today.

[Irish Ian]

Costa can go.
If he can't take on a beat League 2 players, he can forget the Prem.

But he did repeatedly in the first half but there was nothing to aim at. He was not our worst player today

The whole centre of our team was a let down, part of that was tactical and part performance

Pablo, Struijk, and Shacks were poor together.

[1964white]

Wise move mate

I'll be doing a Players Ratings topic....I'm not letting these tw*ts get away with no criticism.

[Leeds1000]

Just a awful woeful piss poor performance. Credit to Crawley for making players (who earn more in a week than they earn in a year) look useless. Crawley you have a new fan here, well played you should be proud of your lads today, its what the FA cup is all about. I hope you draw a proper team in the next round to give you more money in the coffers.

Casillas should have saved the first 2 for me, but we were not good enough in any position on the pitch today. When you are in the Championship and your squad is piss poor like Leeds have been over the last 16 years you can forgive a performance like that, but today that was shite from a supposed PL team.

I am disappointed because i thought we had a outside chance this year. Mid-table survival at best it is then folks.