CanadianCCFC
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He scored for us in Birmingham AND got sent off for Sheffield Wednesday at Reading? Exciting day for anyone, especially a keeper!
Match Thread Coventry City v Southend (6 Viewers)
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Sky Blue Pete
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Kieren??
mr_monkey
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At least you can tell what side of the bread the telegraphs bread is buttered from the two articles about the game.... Would be nice if the local paper backed the team rather than making snide remarks about st Andrews (without ever mentioning the real reason why we are there)
jordan210
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shmmeee
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Sorry lost my shit as in laughed out loud. Not had a go.
Didn’t hear the tits out chant TBF gladly as I had my girl with me.
Sky Blue Pete
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Any ones that work in France ??
Sky Blue Pete
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I absolutely didn’t and I think sbt gets a lot of credit
robbiekeane
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Try using setupvpn mate for free and just put your location as UK
Johhny Blue
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fatso
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13 fucking seconds???
Is that all sky could manage for highlights of the whole game?
Houchens Head
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Screamer!! Great goal! Championship here we come!
lifeskyblue
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Agree re Dabo. Thought he was isolated 2nd half with jobello not tracking back and mcfadzean slow to drift across. A few times dabo was the sole defender on 2 or 3 attacking Southend players.
And what’s with us defending corners with 4 players covering near post (with at most one attacker there) whilst at back post we were out numbered. On two occasions balls to the back stick left Southend with unchallenged headers...one miss was a sitter
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Littlewood CCFC
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That's the problem with a 4 3 3 though, the 3 forwards are expected to stay forward more so 2 of the 3 midfielders need to drift wide and follow runners. Think we ran out of steam 2nd half but with the players coming back from injury and maybe bright to come in I think we will do alright this season
fernandopartridge
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Shipley looks to have dropped some weight to me, obviously working hard on his stamina. Good for him
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rd45
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Set piece defending definitely needs some work. Their 7 had unreal amounts of space on two or three of those late corners.
Part of the problem I guess may have been that Southend created nothing at all for the first hour plus, so when they picked up the pace late on we were struggling to react?
But not too shabby for the first game. A bit more fitness should help.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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*Opinion based on radio commentary
Great to get that first win, esp as we were missing some important players and the midfield sounded much better than I hoped. Westbrooke sounded tidy and Shipley was energetic. Kelly marshalled them well. Eccles sounded decent for the short time he was on, but don't think I'd want to be relying on him should we get further injuries. Fact we've still got Allen to come in too is encouraging.
First half I was getting the impression we were still the same as last year - decent in possession, creating chances, couldn't score. Fully expected second half to be the opposite and we'd end up losing but great we didn't. Once again though opposition manager made changes that affected the game and MR didn't do anything to counteract even when they started getting chances. Admittedly the bench wasn't particularly strong. They seemed to get a lot of chances at the end and it felt like it might've been due to the formation - with the 4-3-3 we were leaving a gap at the back post that should be covered by the wide midfielders. Also sounded like we still need to work on defending set pieces - good job they didn't get many until near the end of the game.
Defence seemed decent apart from the odd communication error but McFadzean sounds like a great leader at the back. Just seems we need that bit more in attack - Jobello seemed to start well enough, missed a chance and he wasn't as good after that.
Can't judge anyone after one game (last year Ogogo looked amazing and Sterling looked awful after one game) but from that we seem to have a solid enough team there,
Great to get that first win, esp as we were missing some important players and the midfield sounded much better than I hoped. Westbrooke sounded tidy and Shipley was energetic. Kelly marshalled them well. Eccles sounded decent for the short time he was on, but don't think I'd want to be relying on him should we get further injuries. Fact we've still got Allen to come in too is encouraging.
First half I was getting the impression we were still the same as last year - decent in possession, creating chances, couldn't score. Fully expected second half to be the opposite and we'd end up losing but great we didn't. Once again though opposition manager made changes that affected the game and MR didn't do anything to counteract even when they started getting chances. Admittedly the bench wasn't particularly strong. They seemed to get a lot of chances at the end and it felt like it might've been due to the formation - with the 4-3-3 we were leaving a gap at the back post that should be covered by the wide midfielders. Also sounded like we still need to work on defending set pieces - good job they didn't get many until near the end of the game.
Defence seemed decent apart from the odd communication error but McFadzean sounds like a great leader at the back. Just seems we need that bit more in attack - Jobello seemed to start well enough, missed a chance and he wasn't as good after that.
Can't judge anyone after one game (last year Ogogo looked amazing and Sterling looked awful after one game) but from that we seem to have a solid enough team there,
covcity4life
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Just watched extended highlights. Pleased with what i saw. Looks like shipley and wrstbrooke push on towards the box which is vital. We continue to play out from back abd marosi is doing sweeper keeper role. He is shorter than i thought. Jobello whilst im sure he was poor seemed to be invovled with all our attacking highlights so that bodes well
Bring on bolton!
Bring on bolton!
Sky Blue Pete
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vow
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In that case then, Robins should walk....