Do you have dads all over the place?
Match Thread Coventry City - Norwich City Match Thread - Saturday 31st Aug (4 Viewers)
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Do you have dads all over the place?
thekidfromstrettoncamp
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Their manager outthought ours.He made changes at HT after that we were chasing shadows no where near tight enough to their players, only time we got the ball was a misplaced pass or a throw in .They must have had 65 or 70% of the ball after the changes.
Why do we still persist in pulling all 11 back? Leaves our area crowded and no outlet.
I don't know how we set up midfield in training but come Saturday and we seem to be overrun every game
Why do we still persist in pulling all 11 back? Leaves our area crowded and no outlet.
I don't know how we set up midfield in training but come Saturday and we seem to be overrun every game
Brighton Sky Blue
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I’m not convinced the changes explain what we saw second half, but the nonsense that comprises our set piece routines was exposed again. Norwich felt comfortable enough to almost put every outfield player in our box.
Interesting how much more assertive their keeper was in dealing with balls into the box too. As opposed to Dovin who is seemingly told to stay rooted to his line.
Brylowes
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I always try to look for the positives in our performance & try not to panic unduly, but I honestly can’t fathom how you’ve reached that conclusion, I‘m struggling to recall such a woefully inadequate midfield performance.
Without a cohesive ’or at the very least’ a basically organised midfield, the team will struggle all over the pitch, the forwards have nothing to show for & nothing to feed off, while the defence gets stretched & comes under constant pressure.
Our midfield today was totally inept.
With the ball (not often I know )we constantly failed to look for space and lacked any sense of urgency, imagination, craft & determination.
without the ball we were even worse, every Norwich midfielder must have felt like Zinedine Zidane today, I doubt they’ll have an easier day all season, they didn’t have to look for space ‘we just allowed it them wherever they wanted it.
I fully understand that we’re missing Sheaf & also understand that some of the midfielders we have available aren’t that comfortable doing what he does, but ffs, at the very least they have to get closer to their man, they have to try and put him under some kind of pressure, every time they received the ball in midfield, they had as much time and space as they wanted.
I dread to think what one of the top teams would have done to us today.
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Flying Fokker
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Could be worse, what must it be like to be a Sunderland fan?
Raphael??
Brighton Sky Blue
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Everton being twatted 3-0 by this lot really was a sign of things to come for them
Brighton Sky Blue
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Assume Sheaf
stupot07
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Tbf hearing Robins post match interview, it suggests that Palmer had already spoken to Hull on the Tuesday without the club knowing, and that Robins said when you look back at his performance on Tuesday it was obvious something was going on in the previous 24 hours.
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Brighton Sky Blue
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I didn’t realise Hull had been tapping him up for 2 seasonsTbf hearing Robins post match interview, it suggests that Palmer had already spoken to Hull on the Tuesday without the club knowing, and that Robins said when you look back at his performance on Tuesday it was obvious something was going on.
55:44 onwards
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pusbccfc
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Tbf, maybe Raphael is our saviour
Brighton Sky Blue
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If we’re relying on him and Stormin’ Norman…
Terry_dactyl
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Just back…
Not bothered to read any of the above but here we go…
We were pretty shite.
I thought Torp looked decent in the 1st half bar the free kick they nearly scored from and the one wayward pass. I did not think he looked decent in the 2nd half.
Our LBs are a problem. Bidwell too slow. I know he’ll get blamed for the 2nd but I’m not sure he wasn’t done by Wright being out of position. He was not good.
Dasilva came on and made 2 howlers.
Generally we couldn’t string 2 passes together in the 2nd half and looked all over the place. The formation change didn’t seem to help.
On a brighter note, we did have a few chances…simms should’ve done better with both his. Jumped waaay too early for the header.
EMC and Bassette looked good.
Itll all be ok once Sheaf comes back and never gets injured again.
Not bothered to read any of the above but here we go…
We were pretty shite.
I thought Torp looked decent in the 1st half bar the free kick they nearly scored from and the one wayward pass. I did not think he looked decent in the 2nd half.
Our LBs are a problem. Bidwell too slow. I know he’ll get blamed for the 2nd but I’m not sure he wasn’t done by Wright being out of position. He was not good.
Dasilva came on and made 2 howlers.
Generally we couldn’t string 2 passes together in the 2nd half and looked all over the place. The formation change didn’t seem to help.
On a brighter note, we did have a few chances…simms should’ve done better with both his. Jumped waaay too early for the header.
EMC and Bassette looked good.
Itll all be ok once Sheaf comes back and never gets injured again.
StrettoBoy
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SkyblueTexan
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Sheaf is going to be out for awhile it looks like (thought I saw 2 months being mentioned on X). Might be time to sell him and get 15-20M if we can and replace him with a CM that can actually play a full season.
He’ll be back training next week robins said after match
SkyblueTexan
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Hope you’re right. Will see
SkyblueTexan
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I don’t know what the current odds are but I was going by preseason pundits and almost everyone had us in their top 6 and some even had in the top 2. Maybe they were looking at things upside down..
Mad mad result.. just shows how fragile they are and how a run of bad results can rot the core of a team…
higgs
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We had 2 strikers last season who really kicked on from Christmas I thought they would be on fire this season but with trying to accommodate the new signings it seems to have upset the rhythm. I don't see the point in taking off two 20 million worth strikers
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StrettoBoy
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I think Haji Wright has been one of our better players this season.
Simms hasn’t achieved much but in fairness to him he hasn’t had great service.
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COVKIDSNEVERQUIT
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I'd love to Know what was Said at Half Time, Because What Ever Was Said, Went on Deaf Eears 
Or is it, Too Many Cook's in the Kitchen, ie Backroom Staff.
Or is it, Too Many Cook's in the Kitchen, ie Backroom Staff.
covcity4life
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No Palmer no party?
SlowerThanPlatt
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Brighton Sky Blue
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Said before, it’s like they’re pre-planned regardless of the match situation. I was surprised to see Simms hooked as early as he was though.The Wrap: Norwich City – 0-1
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shepardo01
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shepardo01
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Don't let him even train!
Brighton Sky Blue
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Congrats to Robins for keeping the score down
higgs
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Wright had the beating of his man all game on the left but then he got moved to the right and he was totally out of the game. As we saw against wolves and oxford he's a match winner but he was sitting on the bench when we the chance may have came for him to get us the winner. Simms missed a few today but he got in the positions but I think the fact he's looking like being hooked on the hour now every game he seems to be on edge and snatching at his chances
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eyesee
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i thought simms worked hard today. the problem was the piss poor service. it was the usual super slow ball across the backline and up the flanks. then back the other way...
bassette came on, and got equally poor service. not much either of them can do about that, tbh.
i wouldn't mind seeing the pair of them playing upfront together.
bassette came on, and got equally poor service. not much either of them can do about that, tbh.
i wouldn't mind seeing the pair of them playing upfront together.
Sky Blue Pete
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Yep was a nasty tackle that when you give a free kick at grassroots everyone shouts I won the ball as if that means fuck all
Worse he didn’t come over and check on him or seek him out at half time
Wanker
eyesee
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exactly this.
we know he's a confidence player, so what do we do? take him off early when the problem is in midfield. wow!!
Grendel
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He was shite