Crewe 0 Hereford 1
Well, the pre-season optimism lasted a full 16 minutes until Hereford scored and by half-time, after the forwards had conspired to miss plenty of chances, reality had well and truly set in. For all the talk of "preparing for better" the sad truth is that on the pitch little has changed. We still look shaky on set pieces, the midfield seems a bit lightweight and we've got strikers that need more than a dozen chances to convert one. Most disappointing thing for me was that for all the work in defending that apparently went on in pre-season, we got done from a corner. Same old Crewe!
Post-match, manager Dario Gradi said that the team were playing to their potential and that there isn't that much more he can squeeze out of them. Which isn't much comfort and doesn't bode well for the rest of the season.
Ah well, the league isn't won or lost on the first day of the season, or so they say. And that's the straw I'll be clutching at till next week's league game at Cheltenham. Before that though, there's the small matter of Derby in the Carling Cup. Derby have 5 ex-Crewe lads on their books (Savage, Hulse, Varney, Brayford and Bailey) but I'm not expecting all of them to get a run out. Bleedin' hope not - we'll get a stuffing!
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