Match Thread ⚽️ Coventry City vs Norwich City Match Thread - Saturday 21st Jan (23 Viewers)

[Nick]

Hyam sale continues to haunt us too

Does it?

 

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[Matt smith]

Surely there's a half decent CB leader we can sign?

Fadz is more important that COH

Rolls Royce

miss him ridiculously

 

[Matt smith]

Does it?

Not really, we just miss fadz

 

[Speedie's Head]

Does it?

At least until we get a replacement. We were always a defensive injury away from a relegation battle, let's hope that it doesn't come to that.

 

[MAFF]

Second half was so pathetic.

 

[Tommo1993]

Thought Sheaf was way too respectful today too. Seemed to constantly stand off them.

 

[shmmeee]

Piss poor that, no fight, can't believe when people laughed at me earlier in the season when I said this defense is awful. It's Peado Pete and his band of merry men.

Defence was fine until Fadz got injured.

 

[Matt smith]

It’s going to be ‘incremental’

means you’re not going to bloody invest Doug

 

[Matt smith]

Defence was fine until Fadz got injured.

Fadz is key

 

[Kieranp96]

Lol

I thought it was funny, I forgot to put “” as I was quoting someone

 

[Gint11]

Would love to know what the half time Team talk was. Zero reaction after half time is worrying. Many teams would have come out fighting and put pressure on 2nd half.

Sounded like Norwich were head and shoulders above us but even so, getting 2 goals back I was expecting a better 2nd half, at least for first 10/15 of it

 

[PUSB-We_are_going_up]

Im beginning to lose all optimism

 

[shmmeee]

Find it really hard to believe we can’t find a CB. Surely there was a list that Rente was top of and we’ve had six months to find another.

 

[larry_david]

How have we sleep walked our way into Allen playing every minute of every game and being captain?

 

[shmmeee]

Whoever we bring in needs to be ready to play. The two loanees looked raw as fuck today.

 

[shmmeee]

Doug king the saviour

Will put season tickets up by 100 quid and won’t invest

see it now

There’s enough that’s actually happening to be depressed about without making things up TBF

 

[Northants Sky Blue]

Let the Doug times roll- 2 paperboy WB's and extensions for Wilson + Eccles

We need a cheesy pic of CB holding the shirt at Ryton early this week

 

[mark82]

Whoever we bring in needs to be ready to play. The two loanees looked raw as fuck today.

BNC looked good going forward first half. Probably unfair to judge JWE on that second half.

 

[Grendel]

How have we sleep walked our way into Allen playing every minute of every game and being captain?

Allen plays the way we have since robins took over. Pressing midfielders who harass the opposition

Palmer and Norton Cuffey are massive departures from a successful philosophy - playing both today was a recipe for disaster

 

[Grendel]

BNC looked good going forward first half. Probably unfair to judge JWE on that second half.

Cuffey was dreadful

 

[ccfc922]

Our goalkeeper is shit
Dabo looks closer to retirement than match fitness
Our most experienced CB is now Michael Rose who as CBs go is timid as hell
Our other two CBs are 19 and 22 year old loanees..
Our defensive leadership is gone with McFadz.
Allen has become not just a mainstay in the team but our captain, and he is extremely inconsistent with the ball.
We don't win the ball high up the pitch very often anymore with O'Hare out

As a team we were reliant on Gyokeres, O'Hare, Hamer and Sheaf all playing well to compete. O'Hare being out now means the other 3 have to be absolutely on fire every week. The rest of them are bottom end Champ/top half L1 players.

Time for King to get the cheque book out or he'll be financing a L1 campaign.

 

[shmmeee]

Allen plays the way we have since robins took over. Pressing midfielders who harass the opposition

Palmer and Norton Cuffey are massive departures from a successful philosophy - playing both today was a recipe for disaster

First half was the first time he actually harassed for ages. Usually he just stands ten yards off them. Truly dreadful player.

 

[Matt smith]

There’s enough that’s actually happening to be depressed about without making things up TBF

Yeah fair enough just annoyed haha

frustrated

 

[ccfc922]

Cuffey was dreadful

Did okay going forward at times, but so slow. Defensively, we were a joke on that right hand side with him and Dabo.

 

[Grendel]

First half was the first time he actually harassed for ages. Usually he just stands ten yards off them. Truly dreadful player.

Clueless

 

[Ashdown]

Doug ain’t no saviour, he’s not even a supporter…..he’ll flip the club to Ashley and make himself a nice little profit and fuck off. I hope so anyway.

 

[shmmeee]

Yeah fair enough just annoyed haha

frustrated

Plenty of time to be pissed off about that in the summer if it happens. Got to pace yourself.

 

[mark82]

Cuffey was dreadful

Disagree. Opinions, hey?

 

[PUSB-We_are_going_up]

Desperately need a CAM, CB, if possible a ST. Severely missing O’hare and even more so McFadzean

 

[PVA]

The whole defence was awful to a man today. Dabo, Rose, Doyle, Bidwell all dreadful. Constantly caught out of position, ball watching, letting runners go.

Pukki is obviously a great player but Doyle didn't have a clue against him.

 

[Samo]

We are clearly still suffering from the lack of investment in the summer and have too many squad players in the team regularly, but I really don't think there is any need for all the knicker wetting.

 

[pusbccfc]

Agree with the guy on CWR. No heart second half. One man team.

 

[PVA]

Cuffey was dreadful

Someone's giddy at finding a new boo boy.

 

[Speedie's Head]

Fadz is key

That's right but his injury has exposed the wider issue.

 

[Grendel]

Disagree. Opinions, hey?

His positional sense was diabolical - play him as wing back and your asking for trouble based on that - what’s the point of shipping an experienced player like Kane and recruiting loan rookies? It’s an odd strategy