Crawley Town boss Scott Lindsey looks back on his first 100 games in charge of Reds

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Scott Lindsey took charge of his 100th game as Crawley Town manager when his side faced Crewe on Saturday. Here Scott reflects on his time at the Broadfield Stadium and highlights memorable games.

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00:00According to our stats, Saturday's game against Crewe was your 100th game in charge of calling

00:04the fixtures.

00:06Yeah, so obviously, firstly, how do you reflect on those 100 games?

00:10Yeah, obviously I love it here, you know, I've had some brilliant times, like obviously

00:15the Wembley situation was great, MK Dons away from home, you know, with the 8-1 aggregate

00:23scoreline for the semi-finals was great, you know.

00:26So, even Hartley pull away in my first season when we had to win and we kept them up that

00:32day, it was a fantastic day as well, albeit probably the wrong end of the table, but it

00:38was still a big day for the club.

00:42And yeah, I've really enjoyed my time here and, you know, over two spells now.

00:49We just want to try and build something now, it's just the start of a journey, obviously

00:55new ownership, which is going to be good for the football club.

01:00And we've got to try and build something on the pitch as well, which again, it's the start

01:07of a journey.

01:08We're very infant with that at the moment, you know, we're early stages of what we want

01:14to do and how we want to do it.

01:16We don't want to lose wholesale players every window, which we have done in the past.

01:21We want to try and settle that down a little bit and have a little bit more continuity within

01:25the club.

01:27And I think, to add to that as well, over the 100 games I've had, it's actually, you know,

01:32been difficult times as well.

01:33You know, there's been some real difficult times with kind of losing players as well.

01:37And, you know, like I say, when we played at Wembley, I think the season following, we

01:43had probably three players left from that Wembley team, you know, and that's tough to

01:46take for a manager and to continue, you know, coaching a new set of team or a new set of

01:52lads is sometimes hard, you know, and we want to try and get to a position where we haven't

01:58got to do that every season or every window.

02:00Certainly we want to add to the squad and not just keep, you know, chopping it up every window.

02:05And that's kind of like the experiences I've had over the 100 games.

02:11But like I say, I've really enjoyed it.

02:12I absolutely love, you know, this football club.

02:16I feel it's my club.

02:17I feel that the relationship I've got with the fans, any second to none, you know, I

02:23think they're class.

02:24You know, even on Saturday we lose the game.

02:27I think we showed a fighting spirit in the game, which is why they applauded us at the

02:30end.

02:30It's quite emotional actually because we're desperate for the lads to do well and I'm desperate

02:34for the fans to see us win a game and score some goals to make them happy, you know.

02:38I'm actually sad about the fact that we're not yet.

02:41We haven't kick-started our season yet and I really want that to happen.

02:46Sticking with 100 games, was there a point early on in your management at Crawley that

02:51you realised this was a really special club and what makes it such a special club?

02:55Yeah, I think probably the Artie Paul game actually maybe was the point where I did think that

02:59because, you know, the crowd, you know, the fans travelled a long way, right, the other

03:06side of the country and I remember kind of celebrating at the end of the game and going

03:11into the dressing room and thinking, yeah, this feels proper, like, you know, and then

03:16kind of settling down the next season and I really like the fact that we were backed to

03:21to be relegation favourites, I liked that, it helped us and the fact that we built a narrative

03:28in the dressing room that, you know, we used it and we liked the fact that we were underdogs

03:33and I think that's helped.

03:34I quite like being an underdog, sorry, anyway, you know, I think it helps kind of me create

03:41an environment almost like us against the world type of environment and I like that about

03:46the club, I think that we're always going to have that, we're quite a small club in many

03:50ways and I think it helps us, I think it's helped, certainly my success since I've been

03:57here.

03:59And where do you see the club in 100 games time?

04:03Well, listen, you know, talking to Raf and where we want to go is, you know, we want to

04:10go through the leagues, you know, we want to go through the leagues, that's going to happen

04:15eventually, I think, but it might take a bit of time. We've got, like I say, build a continuity

04:22with the playing staff and to try and not have wholesale changes every window where we

04:31can add one or two and try and build a continuity. I think when you look at lead two, certainly

04:37last season, all the top seven who finished in the top seven, their managers had been

04:43in post pretty much two or three years, apart from probably Stuart Maynard, who had been

04:47in post about 13 months maybe, everybody else, you know, Graham Alexander, you know, Jacko

04:52at Wimbledon, Matt Sadler at Walsop, they've been there two or three years, so you look at

04:59that, that's continuity, that's kind of having a manager in post, you know, for a long period

05:04of time that they can get a way of working within the football club, a way of playing

05:11on the pitch and I think that we need to have that, you know, we need to have a bit of stability,

05:16not just with the management team but also with the players as well.

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