Meltdown (4 Viewers)

[pusbccfc]

I think against higher league teams we have more space.
In this league we are just bullied.
The defenders just lean on us and we loose the ball.

Most definitely, but we should have learnt in the first 2/3 months that we need to be more clever against these sides.

 

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[SkyBlueRuffian]

Difficult one this. Support your team and it means you 'settle for shit'. So, do we all walk away? Or does moaning on here and social media mean we aren't settling for shit? What are you doing in the "Not settling for shit" stakes?

Well if I had the means to talk to Robins directly I’d tell him that it’s shit and if it don’t change he should walk,but I don’t, so we have to do it on here or from the stands or via the radio phone ins. End of the day he needs to know how a lot of us feel. Like I keep saying if we don’t finish in the top seven he needs to go.

 

[italiahorse]

Most definitely, but we should have learnt in the first 2/3 months that we need to be more clever against these sides.

Having a poor midfield and then punting it up to our forwards will not help.
Biamou seems to hold his own but somehow the other more mobile forwards need support from midfield.
Doyle can see the pass but he's too far back to make it matter.

 

[usskyblue]

Tend to agree wirh OP. I.knew there would be a meltdown on here which is why I've pretty much taken the more hysterical threads and posts with a pinch of salt.

We lost. We'll bounce back.

I remember some lying effer saying ‘We’ll be back’ before m8

 

[SkyBlueRuffian]

I remember some lying effer saying ‘We’ll be back’ before m8

And that twat emigrated

 

[clint van damme]

This may sound daft but I'd be less pessimistic about the season if our run of games was a traditional home game, away game. home game, away game calendar.
But I think this run of difficult away games could put pay to our season.

Of course it could work the other way and 7-9 points could really set us up but after the last 2 performances to be optimistic of that happening is a bit mis guided if you ask me.

 

[The Reverend Skyblue]

How is everyone this morning/afternoon.
I again resorted to drinking far too much than my rather old body can cope with these days. It was the only way I could lift the heavy dark cloud of doom that overhung me after yesterdays result.
If I supported say Man City or Spurs ,I'm pretty sure I would hardly drink a drop of alcohol and have a full barnet of hair, maybe even an afro
Bastards and sometimes Dad I shout up to you up there in heaven, "why the fuck did you take me to Highfield Road all those years ago, what the hell was wrong with Maine Road or White Hart Lane "

 

[SkyBlueRuffian]

i can sympathise with all of the comments on here and i myself was quite upset about yesterday as i walked from the ground! but i really did expect it to play out like this. 28000+ crowd and this is Coventry play like shit! if we need to desperately win this is Coventry play like shit! its a bloody crying shame it really is. I took one look at Mcnulty & Bayliss and could see they were not very well and though to myself why is MR playing them? All through the match Kelly was so close to Bayliss whilst he was on the pitch it was if MR had said to him look after the youngsters help him get through the game and as for DKE who was injured prior to the match you could see the inevitable happening push the big guy up to him on the left, MR made the opposition managers life so easy it untrue. I was watching Accringtons left back in the first half and he was so shite i thought come on MR get Reid on to expose him as early as the first 10 minutes. Yesterday was all MR's fault he knew who was ill and who was injured but just did not have the Bollox to play the likes of JCH, Ponticelli, Reid,Hayes,Haynes from the off and he could have tried Barrett in the Middle of the park where he actually liks to play. No i am sorry but MR you are playing things too safe and as a result causing the team not to have a Plan of play and to just be sending players out is not a very good managerial decision. In Fact i could do that and get results and be an acclaimed messiah of CCFC this is why a really good manager earns his corn when facing adversity. Look at Accrington! Thrown ins near the opposition goal they get their players in exactly the same position everytime to receive the ball in dangerous areas, Corners the same again Time andTime again they setup exactly the same, they had a Plan thats been developed over the first part of the season and is now come to fruition where as ours has gone down the cludgie. Tuesday night against Colchester he knows Reid will be up for it! He know Stevenson will go into his shell if he get a meaty challenge on him within minutes of starting, he knows Colchester will get fustrated if we break up play by falling to the floor everytime a poor tackle is made or we take a long tim over throw ins, or Colchester fowrards will get ratty if the our centre backs lever them out of the way as they go up for a challenge but what will MR do!!!!

Robins is showing his real pedigree now, when the chips are down he’s rattling and making bad decisions, sign of a manager on borrowed time imo. John Coleman outclassed him again yesterday.

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

I deliberately stayed off last night as I knew it’d be a shitstorm. 2 wins on the and we’re world beaters again. Accrington will go up automatically. They haven’t given us a decent chance in the 2 games we’ve played against them. They are where they are on merit and it’s not the end of the world that we lost yesterday.

 

[The Reverend Skyblue]

I actually think I may take the club to court over making me drink far too much most Saturday evenings, due to yet another incompetent gutless display.
I hardly drink any other day so its no coincidence is it.
As for my early loss of hair, I'm sure the two are connected so by the end of the year I could be on my first judicial review into the causes of my excessive drinking Saturday evenings only, and why I was bald at 23.

 

[Esoterica]

Results were kind to us yesterday for moet part

But we have to our bit. Need to win 4 of next 5

Other results were ok but it's no reason to crack open the champagne.

 

[Esoterica]

We have been poor tactically all season. As early as the Newport and Yeovil games I've been pointing out the fundamental flaws in our tactics. We sit too deep defensively and then whenever we play a defensive team or a team like Accrington who grab an early goal they drop back 15 yards too and we become utterly impotent. When teams do that, the gap between the defence and the attack then becomes so large you can't bridge it while playing 2 or even 1 defensive midfielders. Robins has had 30 games since to address it and the only time it has improved is when Bayliss came in (through luck over kelly's injury) and he was able to cover the huge gap due to his ability to carry the ball himself. I got called negative then but as I said on another thread, people have been sticking their heads in the sand all season - at the beginning it was 'Look at how good our defence is' or 'The strikers are just not good enough' or 'But we beat Luton 0-3' or 'we've been unlucky with injuries' then 'but we're only X points off the autos' and now it seems to be sinking in for the majority (although there is far too much bloame on individual players). We've depended on moments of magic to win games all season masking an absolute lack of creativity in the team, yes impacted by by injuries to Andreu and then Jones but compounded by a complete lack of plan B
Part of the problem with yesterday horrendous result was having to start players who've had almost no game time recently - DKE, JMD, Kelly, LO'B, off the bench Reid, Vincenti. And the reason they've been thrown in the deep end now we've had more injuries/illness, instead of getting game time here and there while being slowly re-integrated into the first team? We've been snatching wins all season and not been able to kill games off early. 119 minutes - the amount of time we have spent this league season leading by 2 goals, an awful awful stat for a team wanting promotion.

Coventry City 3 - 0 Notts County - Jones 29, 80, 90: 10 mins
Grimsby 0 - Coventry City 2 - McNulty 62, Grimmer 75: 15 mins
Coventry City 2 - 0 Carlisle Utd - Nazon 48, Vincenti 80: 10 mins
Coventry City 2 - 0 Exeter - O.G 58, DKE 90: 0 mins
Luton Town 0 - 3 Coventry City - McNulty 17, Shipley 90, Nazon 90: 0 mins
Coventry City 3 - 2 Wycombe - 1-0 M. Doyle (14), 2-0 M. McNulty (41), 2-1 D. Scarr (45), 2-2 J. Jacobson (49), 3-2 M. McNulty (55): 4 mins
Coventry City 3 - 1 Swindon Town - 1-0 M. Biamou (17), 2-0 M. McNulty (22), 2-1 O. Banks (39), 3-1 McNulty (81 mins): 17 + 9 = 26 mins
Coventry City 3 - 1 Cambridge Utd - 1-0 M. McNulty (10), 2-0 J. Shipley (30), 2-1 G. Taft (84), 3-1 M. Doyle (90): 54 mins

 

[Hobo]

And we do keep losing away. Just five wins in 15 away games.

We have been overly reliant on our home form and yesterday that all came crashing down.

I don't think it's over yet, but it is a big concern that we may well slide now.

Stating the bleedin obvious, but Tuesday is crucial.

Some fans have been over reliant on false optimism. I don't think automatic promotion was ever really on the cards, more like top 10 to play-offs; but if we could keep in touch and get on a roll at the right time we might sneak third spot. But we would need a rebuild for league 1.

The club needs stabilising and when we go up we need to have the nucleus of a team capable of staying there. Fans are primarily disappointed due to too much false expectation. It's not like we got relegated with a side that didn't deserved to go down.

 

[The Reverend Skyblue]

were there any big rows on here last night, main culprits being Dongo and skybluetony against Grendel.
Can be arsed going through all the threads, but sometimes they can be very entertaining especially if you are a bit tipsy at the time.
I just thought it would be perfect circumstances for a massive shitfest of a row after the Accy game

 

[skybluetony176]

were there any big rows on here last night, main culprits being Dongo and skybluetony against Grendel.
Can be arsed going through all the threads, but sometimes they can be very entertaining especially if you are a bit tipsy at the time.
I just thought it would be perfect circumstances for a massive shitfest of a row after the Accy game

Barely been on. You’re safe

 

[Londonccfcfan]

'Today was a disaster', '15 games to save his job', 'We are gradually getting worse', Throwing the season away', 'Desire, passion and commitment'. Yes, yesterday was a great disappointment, but is it really necessary for this Forum to go into meltdown every time we have a poor result? I can only assume that this is a form of therapy to ward off the depression caused by such results. Or are there 'fans' who take a perverse delight in our losing? Why not have a sticky thread called 'the Psychiatrist's couch' where we can all go whenever we lose?

Yesterday was the first evening in months I didn’t even log in, as it was obvious it would have meltdown central.