It was a disappointing performance all round today. We didn't look as assured at the back as usual, don't know if Clarke's early booking was a factor in that, but Crawley didn't make the most of their opportunities in the first half and we had a couple of decent efforts of our own. It looked like things had taken an upturn as we started the second half brighter, with Danny Lloyd's extra energy, then poor defending led to the Crawley goal any after that the visitors had plenty of opportunity to extend the lead, while Rovers barely tested their keeper.
The absence of Vaughan spoke for itself. Kirby has disappointed so far, though a decent long range effort tested their keeper. However Danny Lloyd after a bright started when he came on, wasn't able to keep that up, there do seem to be issues with his fitness/stamina. Agree with RLC that Crawford was anonymous and CBT didn't make much impact either. I think that KH would have been better off bringing on Rides instead of Crawford, switching to 3 at the back and wing-backs. Making Feeney right-back effectively nullified his attacking threat when we needed a goal.