Match Thread Bristol City FC - Coventry City [LC] Match Thread - Tuesday 13th Aug (5 Viewers)

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COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

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Nick said:
Am I the only one who wants to win?
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No after Saturday's shit show, it's a Must Win. 🤪
 
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Seamus1

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With Sheaf out for a number of weeks to come, and with no incoming midfielder on the horizon, I would hope that Torp and Eccles would be paired together.

I’m no fan of Eccles, and it does concern me slightly that despite playing over 100 games, he does not (yet) seem to have been someone to take a game by the scruff of the neck and impose himself on it. It’s time he stepped up to take some seniority.

Although, given how people rave about his passing, and the seeming inability of being able to keep a clean sheet with him as Centre Back (1 clean sheet in all his starts), how about trying Binks as a number 6? Might as well use this game as a free hit to try something different
 
AFCCOVENTRY

AFCCOVENTRY

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I would play the bench with some starters from yesterday. We need the best 11 ready for next Friday against Oxford in the league. The players won’t be at it if they play Sat, Tues and then Fri. Fully expect Robins to make plenty of changes.
 
pusbccfc

pusbccfc

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Win and we get the chance of a big team in the next round.

Would love Newcastle, West Ham or Everton home or away.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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Always a good away day to be fair and great half time entertainment if it’s the same as last season
 
Sky Blue Harry H

Sky Blue Harry H

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pusbccfc said:
www.otib.co.uk

Team for Coventry tomorrow

Have sold out their 2,500 allocation for cup game!! Fair play!! Given that they come in the league shortly after that’s a unreal effort.
www.otib.co.uk www.otib.co.uk

Very friendly bunch
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Had just been on the OTIB forum. Knowledgeable, and not full of angry folk trying to score internet points. Actually talk about the forthcoming game, plus observations on the opposition, together with historic games between the clubs.
 
blunted

blunted

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Agree with the observation that with Oxford on Friday we will field a mainly second string team. Bristol will have a longer recovery time (I assume) before their next match so will play a slightly stronger side. Will be interesting to see how the "second choice" players perform.
As Eccles alluded to, we are playing a different game plan this season with wingers and a smaller central midfield. That turned out to be a bit of a disaster at Stoke. Bristol, with a fitter squad, on paper, are better than Stoke.
We need to turn up and tweak the tactics.
 
BlueSkiesForever

BlueSkiesForever

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Saddlebrains said:
Hope we play the reserves and go out tbh, couldn't give 2 fucks

League has to be priority
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Absolute same, couldn’t give a shit about cups this season, okay maybe there’s something “magical” about certain competitions like the FA cup but to me it’s about getting promotion. Wouldn’t usually care either way but I feel like this season I’d rather go out early and get rests/coaching into the squad rather than have to play an extra load of games.
 
Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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Had we put in a decent performance against Stoke I'd have said play the back-ups and give them a chance to say they should be involved.

But we didn't and we need to put that performance out of our system so I'd play the same starting XI. If they put in a similar showing as Saturday thern big chances for Friday, especially in midfield. Torp and Allen must be close to being dropped.

Having said that with a league game on Fri we need to use all the subs available and give the main players 60mins at the most, then give squad players so game time in the legs. IMO result isn't that important - we need to use this game as an opportunity to work out the things that went wrong Saturday.
 
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Perennial Lurker

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Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Had we put in a decent performance against Stoke I'd have said play the back-ups and give them a chance to say they should be involved.

But we didn't and we need to put that performance out of our system so I'd play the same starting XI. If they put in a similar showing as Saturday thern big chances for Friday, especially in midfield. Torp and Allen must be close to being dropped.

Having said that with a league game on Fri we need to use all the subs available and give the main players 60mins at the most, then give squad players so game time in the legs. IMO result isn't that important - we need to use this game as an opportunity to work out the things that went wrong Saturday.
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Totally agree but I would give minutes to players like Wright , BTA , DaSilva ,Kitching and even Tavares
 
SkyblueTexan

SkyblueTexan

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We have a league game vs Bristol C coming up after Oxford. So we play them a couple of times in quick succession. If I had to choose between the 2 games vs Bristol C, I'd obviously priortise winning the league match over the cup game. It would also be wise not to show all our cards in the cup game and beat them in the league. Also with the Oxford game coming up on Friday, I think we definitely need to rotate the players.
 
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alexccfc99

alexccfc99

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lord_garrincha said:
Weren't there a recent season when this was played the weekend before the start of season (covid perhaps)?

Better to go back to that.
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Yeah we played MK Dons away and won 1-0 which was our first competitive game back since we won at Ipswich in March 2020

First year in League One we also we played Dagenham in the League Cup before the season started a few days later - Won 1-0 Kilbane last min penalty, was an awful match and half the away end was almost embarrassed that we won
 
alexccfc99

alexccfc99

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Whilst I can understand not being as bothered if we get beat, I certainly can't wrap my head around wanting us to lose either - Success breeds success and it really annoyed me last season that if we held on against Wimbledon we'd have got an away day at Stamford Bridge out of it

I am going, I wasn't going to bother considering in years gone by he has played a glorified U23s side in this stage of the competition but got suckered in by being off work, a £10 ticket for 30pts, a decent away day and the fact that now we have got more of a squad these days we will hopefully make more of a fist of it as opposed to our usual 1st round exits with a whimper

Bristol City usually a sticky game for us, can see it going penalties
 
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