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00:00 We will start actually with Crawley because I mean the turnaround has been incredible

00:12 really considering how they finished last season, managed to just about stay up and

00:20 now they're finally going to stay up, I think it's 10th but the position doesn't really

00:26 tell the whole story as I said earlier there's only a very small amount of points between

00:32 more than half the league at the minute. What's been the difference so far this season do

00:37 you think, what's been the reason do you think for the turnaround?

00:41 Well it's mainly Scott Lindsay the manager, he obviously came in January after I think

00:46 he was their 6th manager of last season and he did what he had to do at the end of last

00:53 season, survived and now in the summer he's just the recruitment has been fantastic and

01:01 they've brought in 15 players, got rid of a load of players and the football they're

01:08 playing is, I mean I joked on another show I did the other day that they were playing

01:13 like Barcelona, peak Barcelona but in relative terms it's not far off because they are just

01:20 I mean against Newport on Saturday they won 4-1 and they had 71% possession and they had

01:27 644 passes compared to Newport's 262 and it was one all at half time but the second half

01:34 they just dominated and they were passing the ball around for fun, sorry MK Dons, Newport

01:40 County just did not know what to do with them, couldn't handle them and I think it's just

01:44 the recruitment, Scott Lindsay and the way he's got this team playing is just all the

01:49 reasons and they could have easily had more points this season as well but I mean they

01:55 are just a joy to watch at the moment even when they lost 6-0 to Swindon a couple of

01:59 weeks back.

02:00 At first half they could have had 3 or 4 goals, they missed a couple of golden opportunities

02:06 when it was only 1-0 to Swindon and they just fell apart second half but if they put those

02:11 chances away it could be a completely different story so it's an amazing turnaround but yeah

02:17 it's the recruitment and Scott Lindsay that are the main reasons why they've done so well

02:21 this year.

02:22 For everybody who doesn't know, what's Lindsay's background and what has he done specifically

02:30 since he came to the club, obviously he had that first challenge of just keeping him in

02:35 the division and he's done that but what is it he does and what has he brought to the

02:40 club?

02:41 Yeah well he played for Chillingham, him and his dad played for Chillingham as well as

02:48 a player and then he just came up, got his coaching badges, he's been assistant manager

02:52 at Forest Green, he's been assistant manager at Swindon Town and then he became manager

02:58 of Swindon Town after Ben Garner left and yeah, coolly got him in.

03:05 There was a little bit of, well as you always get when a new manager comes in, the fans

03:11 of his former side were all like "oh good luck with the boring football you're going

03:14 to get with him, it's not going to be great in that" and to begin with it was because

03:19 like you said he had a job to do last year, at the end of last season but what he's done,

03:24 he's just installed discipline, he's given the club a togetherness which I mean I've

03:31 been covering Crawley for 20 years now and we've had some, there's been some really good

03:37 times, the Steve Evans times, there was the time they beat Leeds 3-0, we went to Old Trafford

03:42 to watch them in the FA Cup but there's always, there's never been sort of like a family feel

03:47 around the club and that is what he's tried to install I think and he's just come in and

03:55 he spoke the other day really quite well on it actually, he was asked about the discipline

04:00 last year at the club because as soon as he came in he said "we need to be more professional"

04:05 and that's what he's done and last year he said it was 28 days, his first 28 days in

04:11 charge it took for everyone to turn up to training on time and he said he's cut that

04:19 out, he's basically got rid of all the players that seemed to be the problem players from

04:23 last season and then this year he said they've had none of that, they've had the odd one

04:27 turn up late for different reasons but now they hold court sessions and there's a real

04:31 togetherness in the group, he showed me a great video of one of the players turning

04:35 up to training in a shirt and tie with a powerpoint presentation defending why he was late kind

04:42 of thing and it was great, it was great to watch and just the togetherness and last year

04:46 when Kevin Betsy was first installed, the first manager under Wagme United, the American

04:51 owners, I was allowed to go to the training, well not watch the training sessions but I

04:57 was allowed to turn up at the training ground and then I'd speak to whoever I want to and

05:02 you just got, there was just no, yeah there was no real impression of togetherness or

05:06 anything like that, some players were swanning about doing their own stuff and that but now

05:10 I'm not allowed at the training ground for press conferences, we do it a bit more professionally

05:15 now but I just get the impression that it's just everyone gets on and it's just a real

05:21 family atmosphere at the club and it's not just the players playing squad, it's the coaching

05:25 staff, it's the media team, it's the general manager, the secretary, everybody just seems

05:31 like they know what Scott Lindsay wants and that they're going to achieve something under

05:35 him and it's just a real joy to go to the press conferences now and then and everything,

05:40 you just get so much from them. So no, I think Crawley's biggest concern this season is if

05:49 they continue to do well, as we've seen this week, Tranmere have got rid of the manager,

05:54 I think player people will look at what Scott Lindsay's done at Crawley and think, okay

05:58 we could do with a Scott Lindsay and then that will be Crawley's biggest problem this

06:01 year if that happens.

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