Recent content by cafc83

I wonder how Luton Town (docked 30 points in similar circumstances) feel about your 10 point deduction. The rules now clearly state that if a club goes into liquidation the penalty should be 15 points, not 10. Another example of the football league's clear bias toward the bigger clubs.

Northampton town ey? Quite a downsize - were you worried about the bedroom tax bill for all those empty seats?

Just thought I'd say congratulations on reaching the play offs as you predicted. The jpt final must seem even more trivial to you now your massive club is destined for greater things.

Well everbody knows the reason Lennon only got 40 caps, there have been numerous books written about it. Robbie Keane's transfers amount to £75 million according to wikipedia you've been a little over generous with your rounding up. With regard to Keane you've got to admit he's been about -...

I don't think you can argue that Bellamy and Keane have been more influential than Platt and Lennon. All four were international captains. Lennon would have earned far more than 40 caps for NI were it not for sectarian intimidation. Platt won 62 caps for England, scoring 27 goals, not bad for a...

We're talking about youth players though, Platt and Lennon were both 19 when they came to us.

This has already been addressed, both players report in their autobiographies that their careers were going nowhere until they came to Crewe under Dario Gradi.

Send me a list of players who have spent a substantial part of their development, up to the age of 21 shall we say, at your club that have gone on to receive full England honours. I'd be very surprised if it stood up to ours.

Celtic I should say.

Yes but we have to have to have some kind of quality filter on the issue, I mean how much can you learn about the quality of a club's academy by the number of players they have developed for Wales or Ireland or Zimbabwe, not exactly powers in world football are they? I would suggest the acid...

Well according to Wikipedia you've only had 4 England internationals (and that's who've played for you, not who have been developed by you) and I suppose you could add Sturridge to that list although he joined City (Manchester) very early on and was at Villa before Coventry. I would be very...

I'm talking about current players but if you want to go into history: Full England internationals: David Platt, Danny Murphy, Seth Johnson, Dean Ashton, Rob Jones, Geoff Thomas. Others (to name a few) include: Neil Lennon, Robbie Savage, Nick Powell, Ashley Westwood, Billy Jones, David...

Stop wiritng ill-informed shi#e about our club and threads about our manager, our fans, how lucky we are etc etc and there would be no cause for us to contribute.

Your academy is just as good as ours, I'd be surprised if one other person in England agreed with that statement. 2 players sold to villa and united for total of £8 million in the past year. Which academy product in your first team comes close to the ability of Luke Murphy?

Not necessarily true, you should see the list of clubs dario turned down over the years, big clubs in far better financial circumstances than Coventry find themselves at present.