higgs
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I suspect we get the 8k - 10k diehards
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cc84cov
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4-5k midweek against Fleetwood Town
ccfctommy
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Why is there a big clamour to get Doyle back as coach?
NortonSkyBlue
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And doesnt that tell you something...Norwich, Southampton and Leicester kept their support in League one. Ours are like rats leaving a sinking ship.
On Robins. He should see out the season and go. Why would you want to manage a team where the ungrateful bastards that support them are calling for a change at every, and I mean every, opportunity? Ideally I would like Robins to stay and build on his great work but, like Strachan, I suspect anything he does would be doomed to ridicule and that helps nobody.
Personally relegation would not be the end of my world, I go to support Coventry City and have never gone to watch the opposition so it is not critical to me that I will be watching Newcastle United next season or Cheltenham. I would prefer to be in the Championship on the up but would understand that maybe we were punching above our weight and it wasn't to be.
My replacement for Robins would be Ian Evatt, who has turned Bolton around and happens to be from our fair(weather) city.
I think what you are hearing is a very vocal tiny minority, I actually think most Coventry fans understand what we are up against this season. I would like to think the majority are not heard as they realise that our position is either expected or slightly better than expected, so the the managers future isn't on their radar. I think it may only be 3 possibly 4 people on this site that are advocating a change at this exact moment of time. That is really small considering the large membership on the site. They are having to go back 9 and 20 years respectively to find the rare example where we stuck by the manager and it was a bad call.
In our situation even if we are relegated personally I wouldn't be sacking him, however understandbly there will be more asking for it then. I would only see it as a bad call if we didn't make the play offs in league one, which is all most were hoping for last year, when we caused a very pleasant shock.
So for me stick with him relegation or not, if it is relegation give him a chance to get us in the play offs, if he fails then consider change.
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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We go back 9 and 20 years vecuase they were the only times we stuck by a manager passed their sell by date.
again, if we were fighting or at least showing like we had an idea what we were doing I’d be ok with it. Currently the team looks rudderless
we have 9 games left. We should be finishing above Rotherham, Wycombe and Sheffield weds.
if we go down it will be a disaster. You’re talking about waiting to see if we don’t come up next season? What if we don’t - then it’s even harder to come back up. We’ve been down that road.
you already know the fickleness of our fanbase. The club cannot afford to go down.
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Do you not think it’s not punching above our weight to finish above Rotherham, Wycombe and a team in turmoil with a 6 point head start?
strachan should have been sacked when we were relegated not given at the time the championships biggest transfer budget and a quarter of the season
you also make out that it’s only city fans who are calling for change - modern football changes managers on average every 2 years. It hasn’t done badly for Watford over the years
I know mate, you have to go back that far because we never stick by our managers and continually sacking them hasn't worked well that often .
Anyway 9 games... 2 wins, 4 draws, 3 defeats
Have a day off. We beat Derby a couple of games ago and Brentford a couple of games before that, hardly rudderless.
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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I know mate, you have to go back that far because we never stick by our managers and continually sacking them hasn't worked well that often .
Anyway 9 games... 2 wins, 4 draws, 3 defeats
did you defend Slade this much? Surely needed time?
You know what I really hope he proves me wrong. Really Do - happy for you to recall this lack of faith by myself.
more than happy to admit I’m wrong if Robins keeps us up.
I really hope you are wrong as well mate, fingers crossed however I do think it's 50 50 as to whether we stay up, I think it will be dependant on the results of others as oppose to our own performances unfortunately.
Grendel
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I know mate, you have to go back that far because we never stick by our managers and continually sacking them hasn't worked well that often .
Anyway 9 games... 2 wins, 4 draws, 3 defeats
Well it has as we stayed in the top flight in the 80’s because of it
If we had never gone near that clueless oaf thorn we’d have not been relegated then either
Brighton Sky Blue
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I know mate, you have to go back that far because we never stick by our managers and continually sacking them hasn't worked well that often .
Anyway 9 games... 2 wins, 4 draws, 3 defeats
Who we beating, based on last week’s garbage?
NortonSkyBlue
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You may call it garbage against Wycombe, I call it another point gained. Yes I would have wanted three but it is what is it is. 4 points from 3 games and why do you base a season on the Luton and Wycombe games?
You definitely live in scapegoat city my fellow Sky Blue.
Brighton Sky Blue
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I call it two points dropped ahead of significantly harder opponents. They were both very poor displays and are our most recent efforts.
So we'll never win another game until we sack the manager?
Have an @ yourself you tool...
"one team from the Premier League's "Big Six" of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Tottenham Hotspur, had made a bid of $10 million for Dike -- currently on loan at English Championship side Barnsley -- that was turned down. "
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Orlando City SC has turned down an offer from an unnamed English team to acquire forward Daryl Dike, a source has confirmed to ESPN.
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Have an @ yourself you tool...
"one team from the Premier League's "Big Six" of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Tottenham Hotspur, had made a bid of $10 million for Dike -- currently on loan at English Championship side Barnsley -- that was turned down. "
Source: Orlando rejects Dike bid by English club
Orlando City SC has turned down an offer from an unnamed English team to acquire forward Daryl Dike, a source has confirmed to ESPN.
Hi mate, I don’t see the part where it says Barnsley are buying him for £20 million?
shmmeee
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How come we didn’t manage to find one the last twenty years then?
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Because we went for a big name rather than capable managers. When we had a good one we sacked him for Peter Reid...
As it goes didn’t wilder turn us down
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Think he managed Kidderminster for a bit. Then didn’t he have a heart attack?
Brighton Sky Blue
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Scouting for WBA I think
| No, but you @'d me because some Barnsley lad said they wouldn't be paying much more than £1.5m for him which is clearly bollocks seeing as they've already turned down $10m. |
You said we couldn’t afford the loan as Barnsley will be paying £20million at the end of it. Glad we agree that’s not the case
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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After beating brentford you'd have thought "who aren't we beating if we play like this"?
Before that game we all thought we were going to get hammered as we weren't playing that well.
Maybe some of the games coming up will see teams with nothing to play for and we'll have more intensity? Maybe we'll pull another Brentford style performance out of nowhere? Some half decent finishing and we win that game Sat comfortably. We've got a couple of decent finishers on the bench. Hopefully we can get them on the pitch more
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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It was just an example. Maybe the players have got used to the same faces around the training ground, or the same old routines, and it needs freshening up to get the players fully focused again. Someone of a Doyle style temperament that expects nothing less than 100% may help, plus on the touchline being more animated than MR and haranging officials.
cc84cov
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Doyle wouldn’t work under robins again but i agree the manager the squad are not exactly a mentally strong unit,Robins is bottle job
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It was Brian Clough who said that if a manager went, the chairman should go with him.
FWIW, we have had some capable managers, but the club's been a basket case. Sticking with the manager should be as much about whether the foundations are being builtto increase the likelihood of good results, as opposed to whether we win, lose, or draw against Wycombe. Robins certainly ticks that box.
Bumberclart
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Said it in Twitter on Saturday, but since James has come in, he's completely stunted Kellys influence on games.
Pre James, Kelly used to control games, but now hes just playing a bit part.
Pre James, Kelly used to control games, but now hes just playing a bit part.
chiefdave
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Sky Blues boss has touching message for Michael Doyle
The Sky Blues skipper has joined Notts County on an 18-month deal
shmmeee
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James is the new Joe Cole. Just shoehorned in regardless of his actual impact on the game or how many others in the team it disrupts.
Terrible signing.
(Except for the games he was benched, of course)