Match Thread Coventry City vs Grimsby Town Match Thread - Saturday 24th Mar (20 Viewers)

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BackRoomRummermill

BackRoomRummermill

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SlowerThanPlatt said:
Biamou isn’t as bad some people make out but he doesn’t have a strikers instinct - well in this division, anyway.

You can’t coach someone to see images. Good goal scorers have a picture of the goal and the goalkeeper, they don’t have to look up
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Where were you when the same was said in October ?
 
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Rodders1

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Good result - Grimsby were terrible though to be fair.

Hyam, Grimmer, Bayliss, JCH and McNulty all stood out today. Oh and I actually like Haynes in the team ahead of stokes all day long.
 
BackRoomRummermill

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Otis said:
Hasn't the upturn in form also coincided with Bayliss's inclusion, especially when he is played in the middle?
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Otis , again I am no armchair hero but some of us turned against MR when it’s quite obvious he ahould play there , along with Biamou being played against others on the bench who have since proved themselves . I still have no confidence in MR it’s the players doing it , I reckon the players feel the same

He has never made a tactical change in a match to prove otherwise, indeed he has done the opposite
 
SlowerThanPlatt

SlowerThanPlatt

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BackRoomRummermill said:
Where were you when the same was said in October ?
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What do you mean ‘where were you?’

I don’t judge players in the first few months. Someone like McNulty for example started off poorly but I always knew he had class above this division and I did predict he would score 15 plus goals this season.

I didn’t judge Biamou because when a player comes from a league below they need to take some time to adjust. However, from watching him play now for many months, some of his game has improved slightly but he still has no strikers instinct
 
mark82

mark82

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SlowerThanPlatt said:
What do you mean ‘where were you?’

I don’t judge players in the first few months. Someone like McNulty for example started off poorly but I always knew he had class above this division and I did predict he would score 15 plus goals this season.

I didn’t judge Biamou because when a player comes from a league below they need to take some time to adjust. However, from watching him play now for many months, some of his game has improved slightly but he still has no strikers instinct
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Yep, that's pretty much nail on the head. He's not as bad as some make out. Does some things well. No goalscoring instinct. He's a decent squad player for this level but Clarke-Harris is a better striker.
 
BackRoomRummermill

BackRoomRummermill

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You have answered your own question . I don’t know if you have ever played football at any level , I have played football at what I would call minor level .

A lot of people here very early on realised his basic lack of footballing ability . You cannot now try to berate people because of that . He will never ever be a professional footballer and MR has to take a lot of Blame in even entertaining him . Injuries aside a waste of a good Cov shirt.
 
SlowerThanPlatt

SlowerThanPlatt

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BackRoomRummermill said:
You have answered your own question . I don’t know if you have ever played football at any level , I have played football at what I would call minor level .

A lot of people here very early on realised his basic lack of footballing ability . You cannot now try to berate people because of that . He will never ever be a professional footballer and MR has to take a lot of Blame in even entertaining him . Injuries aside a waste of a good Cov shirt.
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Are you even reading my posts? I’ve not berated you or anyone

I just simply said I gave him a chance in the opening months as players sometimes find the step up difficult
 
Otis

Otis

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mark82 said:
Yep, that's pretty much nail on the head. He's not as bad as some make out. Does some things well. No goalscoring instinct. He's a decent squad player for this level but Clarke-Harris is a better striker.
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Can't see that anyone would disagree with that.

Biamou is a decent option to come on from the bench with 15 mins or so left though, even just for harrying, chasing down and making a nuisance of himself against tiring defenders. Same as Reid for Shipley (usually, though today it was Vincenti).
 
Mcbean

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Luton just picked up another 3 against Barnet - Wycombe with 70 points seems a long way off but is the target
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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Also some extra after thoughts:

Hats off to Grimsby for the away following in a shite position in shite form.

Was lovely to see the confidence in Bayliss at times, running at players in a way I haven't seen from a City midfielder for a while. L2 defenders don't like it and he'll always have half a chance while he does it.
 
Mucca Mad Boys

Mucca Mad Boys

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BackRoomRummermill said:
Otis , again I am no armchair hero but some of us turned against MR when it’s quite obvious he ahould play there , along with Biamou being played against others on the bench who have since proved themselves . I still have no confidence in MR it’s the players doing it , I reckon the players feel the same

He has never made a tactical change in a match to prove otherwise, indeed he has done the opposite
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You live in a weird world. So when we do well as a team, the players deserve credit and MR doesn’t, but when we did badly, it’s MR’s fault? Strange.

I think it was worth trying Bayliss on the wing with Kelly and Doyle in the middle. That CM partnership was a large contributor to our defence being the best in the league. After Jones, and before Vincenti, there was no standout candidate for the RM berth. A worthy experiment which didn’t go to plan. Surely the manager deserves credit for reconignising that instead of doubling down.

Same goes for your point about Biamou. He recognised we needed a ‘number 9’, went and got a damn good player in JCH, who, let’s not forget, was a 3rd choice target. Who would you have lined up with McNulty at the time? Beavon? Ponticelli? Biamou was the best option at the time and, overall, their partnership was beneficial to the team for a while. JCH is just a player who’s head and shoulders a better player.

Oh, and of your point about ‘not playing players who have since proven themselves’, if this relates to JCH, it’s a dumb point to make because when signed him Biamou has scored 2 goal in consecutive games - so dropping him would’ve been unjustified. JCH earned his starting place.
 
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Otis

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Tommo72 said:
Knowhere near the gap there was and we win our game in hand and it could go to three pts...
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We just have to do our bit and keep on winning.

We win every game that will surely be more than enough to secure automatic promotion.
 
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