robbiethemole
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Freezing my nuts off and turgid fucking footy! I must be fucking mad
Match Thread Coventry City - Bristol City FC Match Thread - Saturday 18th Jan (13 Viewers)
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fernandopartridge
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Confidence and to an extent a lack of forward options. Jamie Allen used to look forward but he is turning backwards.
TomRad85
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By watching him. He breaks down every move, it never goes any further than BTA.
fernandopartridge
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Kitching has been our best player. Some good forward passing from him.
larry_david
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Feels like MR is still in charge. He's not changed a single thing
Seymour_East
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You have the right to build it up
Ccfcisparks
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People slagging BTA off but Simms is the one who’s misplacing 2 of every 3 passes and has been dispossessed 3 times
He should never have lost his place to be honest. I don’t care if he’s got a bad attitude or is a bit of a head case, he’s our best defender
Nick
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His touch is ok unless it's a pass. He holds it up then head down and runs or doesn't look before passing.
It's exactly what had us under pressure at Norwich.
shmmeee
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He’s retained the balls forward well. Yes he’s running into dead ends but his touch has been excellent.
almost as good as AT
Ccfcisparks
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Yet his pas completion is near 70% and Simms’ is 33%
shmmeee
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The front two aren’t close to our issue today.
covcity4life
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Done ok. Bit shaky at back .binks been poor. But some good stuff too. Like the passing and two striker threat. Both Sims and bta doing well
RoysterE17
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So tedious watching this every week. I try to stay positive but these players make it so hard. Think rudoni has been quite poor today
Sky Blue Pete
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Well hes dropped Collins and Kitching is playing
pusbccfc
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McNally should be walking a tightrope but because he walked away, the ref got nervous booking him. Never seen anything like it.
Sky Blue Pete
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He’s trying to make things happen
Ccfcisparks
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Don’t say that too loud. Frank really hasnt stamped his brand anywhere close on this team
Sky Blue Pete
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But …….
fernandopartridge
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He had a good spell but since then has been poor, we definitely need a lot more from him
shmmeee
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He doesn’t have a brand. He has zero tactical knowledge and he relies on having better players than the opposition and them doing something game winning. Really was a terrible appointment.
Danceswithhorses
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We looked really poor 1st half.
Lots of passes going astray, and frequent massive gaps at the back, which if Bristol were a top side, would have cost us dear.
BTA and Simms have had scraps to deal with, mostly consisting of the ball being hoofed down the line at them.
Midfield seem invisible.
Need to be much better second half, or Bristol will eventually take advantage of our charitable defending.
Lots of passes going astray, and frequent massive gaps at the back, which if Bristol were a top side, would have cost us dear.
BTA and Simms have had scraps to deal with, mostly consisting of the ball being hoofed down the line at them.
Midfield seem invisible.
Need to be much better second half, or Bristol will eventually take advantage of our charitable defending.
OldBedrocker
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DaSilva has Rudoni as an option to pass to though. Everytime Milan looks up there is loads of space but no fucker to pass to
Cov98
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Huh? I thought we hired an elite tactician?"
I wouldn’t say he has zero tactical knowledge but he’s not going to be the man to progress us
Esoterica
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Bristol had 40% possession with a 60% passing accuracy, 37% accuracy in the final third. They are terrible stats at this level and we turned that gift into one weak shot on target.
We are unable to keep possession when we pass the ball forward into the middle of the pitch as we are both poor with our back to goal and slow to play the initial pass. The consequence is we spend way too much time going backwards or down the wings where there is space. It's too slow, it's too predictable and we look toothless.
The only time we look dangerous is on the counter attack, which is the only time we looked dangerous when Robins was still here too.
We are unable to keep possession when we pass the ball forward into the middle of the pitch as we are both poor with our back to goal and slow to play the initial pass. The consequence is we spend way too much time going backwards or down the wings where there is space. It's too slow, it's too predictable and we look toothless.
The only time we look dangerous is on the counter attack, which is the only time we looked dangerous when Robins was still here too.
JoeCCFCPUSB
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Remember the fluid football we used to play 2 seasons ago, the transitional play from defence to attack was so well drilled, defence to midfielders then o'hare was given the ball and then we had our forwards ready to receive.
You look at it now, the defence is constantly wide open, there is no cover in the midfield and it's always a last ditch pass back to the keeper, MVE having to use his pace to win the ball back, when the ball is played from defence to attack it's always played to our wingers, it's so clunky and predictable.
Torp, Eccles, Allen are not good enough, you need someone with an engine that sits in front of our centre backs and has leadership, we need a creative player that is levels above Rudoni, someone that the opposition fears.
Joel and Binks need moving on, they struggle at this level, I hate to say that, but it's true. They aren't quite ready at this level as it stands.
To think Tanganga and Binks came through the same academy, one was shipped out to the MLS and the other was playing under Jose Mourinho. Says it all really.
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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As someone who was open to a fresh change - it does feel like we’ve wasted an opportunity here
Lampard hasn’t once shown any enthusiasm for this job.
Terry_dactyl
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Come on City!
larry_david
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Took him 5 games though to know what we knew 3 months ago