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Houchens Head
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Your phone needs charging!
MatthewWallis
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My biggest fear is this long break killing all momentum
Brylowes
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I find it all a bit depressing TBH, in 40 odd years of following City I’ve witnessed supporters ofAnyone needing cheering up enjoy looking at the below again
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Countless other clubs enjoying watching their team go on an unstoppable winning streak.
The sort of run that steadily builds momentum until it becomes it seems ‘almost impossible to
Lose and ends with the team ultimately leaving the rest of the pack in its wake.
For the very first time in my lifetime, I was genuinely believing that we were that club ‘and we
We’re those supporters ‘at last it was really happening to us, surely nothing could stop us or
Get in our way now.........oh well.
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shepardo01
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Haven't looked at it for ages.
Can't bring myself to.
Could so easily be just blown up in smoke.
Or upon resumption be an absolute lottery due to everything that has gone on.
The momentum we built was massive.
I'd snap hands off if offered season close as is now or PPG.
Can't bring myself to.
Could so easily be just blown up in smoke.
Or upon resumption be an absolute lottery due to everything that has gone on.
The momentum we built was massive.
I'd snap hands off if offered season close as is now or PPG.
Brylowes
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Funnily enough ‘I looked at it this afternoon for the first time since it was cancelled,
Then this thread popped up tonight.
Obviously the virus and all the death, misery and financial repercussions that come
With it takes precedence over everything else but on the sporting side of things this
Really is unbelievably cruel on CCFC and it’s supporters.
Paxman II
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I don't understand why the EFL and FA are still dragging their feet. The season must end now, with enough games played to determine promotion and playoffs. Either make it PPG ratio or leave as is. No relegation but teams who started the season like Bolton while not relegated will start the new season on minus their points again. Better than being relegated and fair.
Just end the uncertainty.
Just end the uncertainty.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Teams that are blatantly not good enough to stay in the league shouldn't get a reprieve. Southend and Bolton should go
clint van damme
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It won't end uncertainty though because no one can guarantee next season starting in August. Certainly not with supporters in attendance.
I think if they could then they would end this season now.
I expect this season to finish BCD
Gynnsthetonic
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The more I look at it the more comfortable it looks, if that was a championship team or league 2 team and I saw that I would say it's in the bag all day long and award them the title, that's not being biased
higgs
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I know but we are Coventry city after all different rules apply to us!!
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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So why should there be promotion but no relegation? Other than the fact that we're top and were looking increasingly likely to go up?
If there's no relegation there should be no promotion either. Simple as that. Still keen?
Brighton Sky Blue
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We should be finishing the season behind closed doors, in the worst case scenario some sides have 10 games to play most have fewer.
Houchens Head
Fairly well known member from Malvern
Why not do what the people who run the 'Pools' do? When too many games are postponed, they bring in a "panel of experts" to decide the outcome of those games. I'm sure this could be used for the current situation? It might take them a while to go through all the remaining games and make a good decision but surely it's better than cancelling the whole season?
superskyblue
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Robins and his backroom team are so well organised and meticulous in everything they do. I have faith that we'll be as prepared or better prepared than our rivals upon resumption of the season.
Ring Of Steel
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Something else that’s just cheered me up 
skybluesam66
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With the disruption, i now expect 80 points to be sufficient (13 more)
we should easily be able to take 10 points from :-
Blackpool
Burton
Wimbledon
Accrington
Lincoln
Shrewsbury
and that leaves 3 points from :-
Oxford
Gillingham
Peterboro
Wycombe
I also expect us to be in a very good position in the championship as we will be one of the only teams with increased revenues versus this season
we should easily be able to take 10 points from :-
Blackpool
Burton
Wimbledon
Accrington
Lincoln
Shrewsbury
and that leaves 3 points from :-
Oxford
Gillingham
Peterboro
Wycombe
I also expect us to be in a very good position in the championship as we will be one of the only teams with increased revenues versus this season
Paxman II
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Simple. No team is impacted unfairly. The leagues will have extra teams in them from promoted sides but can introduce a 3 down instead of 2 down for a couple years to realign the leagues back to normality.
clint van damme
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I don't think any team in a play off position or just outside will agree they weren't impacted unfairly.
Sunderland have to play the team directly above them, Peterborough, so I'm sure they'd kick off about the season finishing on PPG. (though they generally are griping about something anyway).
Legia Sky Blue
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I've seen a few others mention this type of thing, but surely you're on the wind up Houch? Of all the ideas of how to sort this out, this is up there with the most ridiculous.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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But they would be unfairly impacted next season by having more games to play. It seems people are looking for the solution that best helps them, which is fully understandable.
I can understand our fans wanting as-it-stands or PPG to conclude the season and we go up. I want to go up too. There is that fear that that unstoppable momentum we'd built before the stoppage is lost and anything from here on in would be a lottery. If there's one thing you do as a Cov fan it's expect the worse. But I also have a sense of fair play and it doesn't seem fair. Fairer than other solutions and suggestions but still not fair.
Plus I've waited forty years to be in a position like this and may never get to experience it again. To have it all end now would in years to come make it a soured memory. People always saying it wasn't a 'proper' win etc.even though it would probably be pretty memorable due to its unique nature.
I know anything could happen on the restart and it could all go wrong, but on balance that's a risk I'd be willing to take to make this a 'proper' title.
I'm also in two minds about why we're so keen to get next season underway. As a promoted teams there's every chance we could find it hard going and end up losing more than winning. Why are we so keen to enter that situation as quickly as possible when we've played so well this year.
Yes, the chances of BCD or later restricitions may work in our favour budget wise as other teams would be more affected than us in terms of gate receipts etc (but would we still have to rent the stadium for the whole season even if most of it were BCD - I suspect we would) but we would have a very low budget in comparison to many others teams in that division.
Paxman II
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SBD I do not see it from rose tinted sky blue glasses. The fact we are top is immaterial to what are unprecedented times in our country and around the world. Yes a few extra games to play next season but that's hardly an impact and the season could be laid out an extra few weeks too. But the impact of a cold start up BCD would be far greater and the risk to health is still going to be enormous anytime soon.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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So next season more games to play, high likelihood of disruption from new lockdowns to manage cases for health service So people aren't going to be willing to buy tickets due to the uncertainty (that's if we're even allowed in or if there might be massive capacity restrictions to enable distancing etc) or we play the entire season BCD selling 'tickets' to watch online which would be the bizarrest circumstances for the players - like every game was a training match. Atmosphere won't be there and it'll be largely a damp squib as players can't find the same level of motivation.
Plus what if a player is diagnosed. Will the entire team either get tested or have to isolate again affecting fixtures. So higher likelihood of fixtures being called off mixed with more games to play. Can't see that becoming a disaster can you?
You may not think you're viewing it through Sky Blue glasses but the fact that you suggest promotion still occur but not relegation just shows you are. Either both occur or neither. Can't just cherry pick what best suits us.
Houchens Head
Fairly well known member from Malvern
Please explain why you think that way?
Legia Sky Blue
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Because it's completely random! You're as well having a computer simulated game if you want to do this (which is also ridiculous). All ex Pro's decisions would be subject to their bias towards their old teams and against their rivals. How would we feel with a panel including ex Sunderland or Portsmouth players but no Cov? It didn't really matter what the pools panel decided anyway as it wasn't real, but this would matter and would be wide open to legal action by any clubs disadvantaged by their decisions. Football authorities can make some barmy decisions at times, but if they opted for this way to decide the season, it would top everything.
Houchens Head
Fairly well known member from Malvern
Rubbish! It would be overseen by The EFL and Premier League people who would ensure that fair judging took place. So what would you like to see? Abandon the season all together, restart and hope that we find the same form for another full season?
Terry_dactyl
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Chin up mate! In that time frame you’ve also seen us win an FA Cup and watched us playing top flight football for a fair few years. More than most, both on here and football clubs generally!
I know what you mean though...
clint van damme
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I honestly can't think of one salient reason why this season shouldn't finish.
I think the points you've put forward would have more validity if the government said everything will definitely be returni g to normal on a definitive date which of course they can't.
I think finishing this season on PPG is an absolute minefield for the EFL and with the EPL seemingly determined to finish the season I don't see any way in which the EFL doesn't follow suit.
Sky Blue Pete
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We have been that club
Sick Boy
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Nice! Got mine arriving next week.
Legia Sky Blue
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No, I want to see this season finished with matters decided on the pitch, where they should be decided, not off them, and regardless of how long that might take. In your scenario, would you accept the EFL/ Premier led pools panel decision, if it resulted in other teams finishing above us and us not getting promoted?
Houchens Head
Fairly well known member from Malvern
I doubt if that would be the scenario, due to our form. We pissed this season!
SlowerThanPlatt
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You cannot relegate or promote a team of somebody else’s opinion
Legia Sky Blue
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.......... but that's the whole point. You want some random person chosen by the EFL to decide our fate. That person might take a contrary view to ourselves, see some arbitrary factor like goal difference, where a few other teams are ahead of us, and think that we had a flukey season so far and were due a bad run, who knows?
Much better to be decided on the pitch, where it should be settled.
standupforcity
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Promote top two... have play offs as per...BUT.... also have play offs between bottom four