Josh Stevenson

We stopped doing the things that was causing them trouble.

And what Exeter effectively did was they stopped pressing us when Offord and Stevenson had the ball.

They basically said, go on then.

And They let them be our only playmakers that were able to have the ball without any pressure on them.

And I think it was the players rather than the management.

Especially one of the things I noted was in response to Exeter's tactics of we're just going to let your two centre-halves have the ball and you won't be good enough to pick us apart.

Orford and Stevenson were carrying the ball out of defence a lot and it was giving us an extra man.

There were dozens of times where they ran forward 15 yards with the ball and basically stepped into midfield and started off moves.

Referee Will Davis blowing the whistle to end after the Last Post played by the bugler.

The two teams that will be doing battle this afternoon at the SMH Group Stadium for Crewe Alexandra, it's Tom Booth, Lewis Billington, Luke Alford, Josh Stevenson, Rhys Hutchinson, Connor Thomas, Callum Agius, Joel Taberner, Matej Holecek, Jordan Gibson, and Josh Marsh.

At Chesterfield, much-changed team with Zak Hemming in goal, Renaul Hutton, Alfie Pond, Jack Simpson, Tom Pearce, Tom Naylor, George McKechnie, Liam Mandeville, Louie Marsh, Josh Koroma, and Fraser Bryden.

On the bench for Chesterfield, Lee Boney, Dylan Duffy, Lewis Gordon, Dylan Markande, Junior Eccleston, Keanu Dyer, and Rafi Lanti.

No, you're 100% right.

And, you know, the lads that you've mentioned there, you know, I chucked Josh Stevenson into that as well.

Ollie Lansley, you know, who importantly, as you say, have come through the academy.

Ethos of the club that they've, has been etched into them as they work in the academy and come through.

But then one crew goal actually turns into two crew goals.

And, you know, and I've got Josh Stevenson chases the ball for some reason.

I'm not quite sure how he's ended up near the halfway line.

The ball bounces and then all of a sudden it's a ball down the line for Lunt to chase.

There was a time where this team would really have struggled without him.

That's not the case anymore.

Not while we've got Josh Stevenson anyway.

I was going to bring up Josh Stevenson for Graeme's point there about the unity.

Oh, and they've got, um, McGoma as well, but he's on loan, so, you know, they're not, not counting on him this season.

But at center back you've got Collins, you've got Vandenberg, you've got Schuster, you've got Ajer, you've got Kim Ji-so, and then again, there's a couple of youngsters there like Benjamin Arthur, uh, and Josh Stevenson who potentially they'll develop into something.

That's a really, really strong defensive group.

The midfield is loaded, absolutely loaded.

I think that's because we sort of want to have a little bit of a longer conversation.

Josh Stevenson, how good has he been since coming in?

Yeah, no, I think he's done really well, to be fair.

Obviously, when he come in, he's obviously a young lad moving from London.

Um, the first one in particular was just literally just after the break.

Stevenson obviously still getting up to speed with the game because he came on at half time.

Uh, I think you could do with your keeper just coming and clearing everything out there.

It feels like where Stevenson first touches the ball he's probably about eight yards away from Booth so it's like well actually considering how far that's run you wouldn't have minded your keeper doing it but then it wasn't well handled from Stevenson from there but I'm not going to criticize him if he's going to make his mistake or he's going to do something stupid do it in one of those paint pot trophy pizza car sandwich whatever it is now games.

Um, so yeah, wasn't great.

Uh, Graves obviously I don't know if they did give it as a Graves own goal but I'm not sure it was going in on target the first strike.

Yeah.

I think, Trev, if we're talking about McNeil, and it probably feels right to do that here when we talk about his goal, out of the three loan signings he's probably the one that has got... has, has worked out the least at the moment.

Uh, let's finish with a quick tweet of the week, shall we? I really enjoyed this one, the more I looked into it, basically.

It comes from Crewe's Josh Stevenson.

We referenced that win against Bristol Rovers last weekend.

Uh, the club admin had tweeted, "A good afternoon's work," applause emoji, hashtag Crewe Alex.

I thought it was really good.

Josh Stevenson, though, he's got a question for you.

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