Sky Blue Harry H
Well-Known Member
2nd half should give us some confidence
Match Thread West Brom v Coventry City Friendly (10 Viewers)
- Thread starter Nick
- Start date
Ccfcisparks
Well-Known Member
Mason looked miles better than brown to me
TheDube
Active Member
2 completely different halves. Third goal O’Brien should’ve been off his line to challenger the striker. Two centre half’s didn’t know their own space. Mason and Andreu looked class in the second half. Brown looked step off the pace in the first. Ogogo didn’t look scared to make a challenge
east_midlands_skyblue
Well-Known Member
Really good second half, bit more optimistic now!
Sky Blue Harry H
Well-Known Member
It'll be like Haynes v Stokes round 2. I'm waiting for Grendel to decide who's the better (and then vote for the other!!)
Pete in Portugal
Well-Known Member
That was my impression, but I've only got the radio commentary plus the excellent posts on here to go by. Food for thought for Robins.
bringbackrattles
Well-Known Member
Just come in and found out it was on CWR caught the last five minutes. Last time I went to the Hawthorns was in 76, we got beat 7-1. Cyrille played for Albion that day.
Sky Blue Harry H
Well-Known Member
Our car (5 of us) crashed on the way to that game (no-one hurt) and we had to listen to updates on the radio!
sw88
Chief Commentator!
Impressed me more than he has done before. Attacked better than Brown and whilst defending our left was dodgy at times I think he did alright at the back too
Andreu is a different class. Creates so much. Him and bayliss bossed the half. Ogogo mason and alessani also get mentions too.
PCH
Well-Known Member
I was at that game. We were in our famous brown kit. Gary Thompson got our 1 and Willie Johnston made it 8 but disallowed for offside... he wasn’t and it should of stood.
Ccfcisparks
Well-Known Member
Really don’t know how you can judge that off one pre season game
covcity4life
Well-Known Member
Oh behave. Only seen a few friendlies so far. No time to be writing off players as mistake buys
TheDube
Active Member
Agreed, the two linked a lot better with biamou.
Warwickhunt
Well-Known Member
no Tony Andrew is
CovInEssex
Well-Known Member
Any word on the crowd/city fans?
TheDube
Active Member
Would guess at 600-700 Cov fans. Only two stands open for Albion one was half empty
Poor old Geoff !!
Didn’t go but guessing that Wedt Brom would have been at their strongest in the first half we certainly weren’t. Second half our team seemed stronger and it was 1-1 but I assume at 4-0 up Albion had a few fringe players in. Albion squad is very much an established Premiership outfit. Still work to be done though.
fernandopartridge
Well-Known Member
Reminds me of the time we won the second half at West Brom. Was it Coleman the manager at the time? Worrying to concede 4 by half time friendly or not.
Grendel
Well-Known Member
Great to hear you back on the phone in by the way
Nick
Administrator
What did am say?
Grendel
Well-Known Member
We should sign both Billy Kee and James Collins we’ve got £4 million to spend apparently.
bringbackrattles
Well-Known Member
It was 1978 not 76 my mistake.
bringbackrattles
Well-Known Member
JimmyHillsbeard
Well-Known Member
Didn’t West Brom make several changes in the second half too?
skyblueelephant76
Well-Known Member
Most of their changes were with 10-15 mins to go
I was there too, it might have been Garry Gillespie’s debut or one of his first matches. Also seen us lose 6-1 twice, and 4-0 bloody hated the Hawthorns but not all sad news l went to our first ever away win in the top flight 1-0 and two 2-1 FA Cup wins.
bringbackrattles
Well-Known Member
I remember winning 1-0 there in the FACup I think in 73 ? Chilton scored our goal. We had a big following that day, and we had a good drink in the Sword and Alhambra when we got back.
