Match Thread Coventry City vs. Fleetwood Town Match Thread - Wednesday 23rd Oct (18 Viewers)

[shmmeee]

Still think the players available lend themselves to 4231...

Always believed you pick your system around your best players and for us that’s Walsh and Kelly, and O’Hare playing centrally. 433 only has one holding mid.

 

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[Philosoraptor]

I thought you were a numbers guy?

There are loads of trends to follow. Not just game to game.

 

[ccfcway]

Always believed you pick your system around your best players.

is it wise to play a 5-5-0 formation ?

 

[DannyThomas_1981]

Feeling optimistic (ish). Our style of play IS effective until the final chance, but at some point that will come good - it did last season. Plus, we have to be realistic, for all his strengths MR is a creature of routine and will not change his formation unless forced.

I’d bring Kelly back as an experienced head in the middle and unfortunately that would be for one of Westbrooke or Shipley, probably the latter as he had a quieter game against MK. I’d push Walsh slightly forward, as he’s good on the ball and I’d like to see him with it in a more advanced position.

O’Hare is wasted out wide, but if we get the system working as it should and get quicker ball forward he is very capable of being effective in an outside forward role. I know people are bemoaning the loss of Jobellos width, but the outside strikers aren’t supposed to be wingers. If him and Hiwula make lots of runs through the inside channels and off the back of defenders, I’d back all three midfielders to pick them out.

Im not a boo boy like the majority, but unfortunately Baka is a weak link. He has attributes but can’t seem to make them work and as such we carry him, especially in this system.

I hope we have some attacking threats on the bench other than Biamou and Kasteener. I’d prefer to see some of the on form and rated U23’s given a chance. I still believe there’s a player somewhere in Kast, but on current form he’s useless and doesn’t work in a footballing team.

Let’s hope we do something tonight as for all the positives of a young team, confidence will be more fragile.

Also, I expect Ched Evans to have a good game, for all the moral issues, he’s a good striker.

2-1 City.

100% agreed with this. The first goal is vital. If we ever do get a lead we are going to be incredibly difficult to play against given our possession game. We need a couple of confidence boosting wins and everything will be back on track.

 

[Adge]

Nothing else other than a victory will do and then the MK result will be a good point. If not.......

 

[Dimi_Konstantflapalot]

No Kelly again. What is going on?

 

[coop]

Lowest crowd of the season and the ground share to hit reality tonight.Think we will lose as don't no where the goals are coming from.Hope I'm wrong of course.

 

[speedie87]

Team is unchanged.
Really don’t understand that

 

[Nick]

Unchanged team

 

[bawtryneal]

A45 normally

M18
M1
M42
M6 North

 

[coop]

No goals again and Kelly and Walsh should be In the middle .

 

[clint van damme]

Unchanged team

I read that as unhinged team. I might have been right

 

[Nick]

Can't see why Kelly is still on the bench unless he's injured

 

[SeaSeeEffCee]

Awful team selection that.

What has Mason done wrong?

 

[clint van damme]

No goals again and Kelly and Walsh should be In the middle .

No Kelly is a strange one

 

[Cavan O'Doherty]

Kelly had to come back in for Westbrooke, we’re simply not the same team without him. Very strange decision to not change it in some way, again I’m not confident based off that line up.

 

[Saddlebrains]

I love Mark Robins but hes starting to get on my tits now. Kelly HAS to start, and Mason mot even in the squad is fucking ludicrous. Nailed in defeat i feel

 

[clint van damme]

Kelly had to come back in for Westbrooke, we’re simply not the same team without him. Very strange decision to not change it in some way, again I’m not confident based off that line up.

Unless MR was happy with the result and performance Saturday so doesn't want to drop anyone, which is also very strange.

 

[cc84cov]

Robins is starting to piss me off with this bullshit

WHY IS KELLY NOT STARTING !!!

 

[lifeskyblue]

I think mason was having a fitness test on the pitch 15mins ago.


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[Johhny Blue]

We need someone to step up tonight, With the chances we keep creating we need to start finishing them. I don't care if its a defender but someone needs to put the ball in the net.

Dabo?

 

[speedie87]

Mason must be carrying an injury to have not played the last few weeks and then not even on bench. Expect one of those he’s tried to manage it but needs an op messages next week!

glad hiwula is playing yes he looks awkward and misses chances but at least he gets in positions to have them

 

[jordan210]

Dabo?

I would not be surprised. Would like to see more shots from outside box

 

[Johnnythespider]

McCallum or Mason off in January ?

 

[chiefdave]

Can't see why Kelly is still on the bench unless he's injured

Can only be that's he's not up to playing 90 minutes.

 

[ccfcway]

Awful team selection that.

What has Mason done wrong?

apart from looking knackered and not right when he was on the pitch 10 mins ago ?

 

[Warwickhunt]

No goals again and Kelly and Walsh should be In the middle .

MR not showing his hand too early by the look of it!

 

[Johhny Blue]

Thanks for that. I'd recorded that game and didn't know the result!

Spoiler Alert

We won the cup

 

[Warwickhunt]

Dabo?

the opposition net i think he meant:joyful:

 

[larry_david]

Quite happy to look like a tit after the game but same team is shambolic. If he don't pick Kelly soon we're gonna fall out

 

[Esoterica]

Can only be that's he's not up to playing 90 minutes.

So play him for 60 and then adapt to the in game situation at the time! He was ready for 90 against FGR 2 weeks ago! Infuriating decision. It's not just his turnover of the ball we miss too but his ability to accurately switch play with his diagonal passing.

 

[RegiswasGod]

MR's stubbornness is starting to piss me off. Still no Kelly and a formation that every opposition team has sussed out

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Very surprised no changes - this surely has to be the last chance for this line up before he starts changing. Really can't understand how Kelly can be on the bench and play a fair bit of another get yet not be considered for starting tonight. If he's not fit to start he shouldn't be on the bench.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Can only be that's he's not up to playing 90 minutes.

But given the type of player he is surely you want him in at the start to settle things down and if you have to take him off so be it. Better to get the good start. I suppose you could argue if we took the lead he'd help us see the game out but given the way our strikers have been playing recently and who's starting today is that likely to be the outcome?

 

[Esoterica]

Quite happy to look like a tit after the game but same team is shambolic. If he don't pick Kelly soon we're gonna fall out

We can make a pair of them then! Hope I get this thrown back in my face later but Fleetwood, in a night game, against a Joey Barton team who will be big, tough and experienced.... They will game-manage our kids off the park if we're not careful. Last year we played Fleetwood midweek in the middle of a sticky patch of form and got tonked 3-0.