torchomatic
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Totally agree, Otis.
He touch was poor, lost the ball easily and was frustrating to watch, but he's been out for 16 weeks. Need to cut him a little slack.
Match Thread Derby County - Coventry City Match Thread - Tuesday 11th Mar (99 Viewers)
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Totally agree, Otis.
He touch was poor, lost the ball easily and was frustrating to watch, but he's been out for 16 weeks. Need to cut him a little slack.
Lamps
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All we needed was a goal to set them into panic mode but it didn't happen. Shite officials didn't help.
Covskyblue
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Lampards non specific comments on Sheafs injury add to this, I feel.
TomRad85
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It's just venting for the most part, I'd hope most understand it's just one of those drab midweek games against poor opposition that pulled us down to their level, that can happen. Hopeless officials didn't help either.
I don't understand posts basically saying we're not good enough. Do people understand how bad everyone from West Brom downwards has to have been for us to even catch them from where we were in the first place?!
Big performance against Sunderland needed now, I'm hopeful although I think we miss Rudoni a lot.
That’s fine re the parts of his game. BUT you don’t have to be match fit to show intent, want, work rate, willingness to throw yourself into work.
Plan should have been just work hard for 45/60mins then we can bring you off.
How he stayed on, ambling about and sticking his leg out for 90mins, is frankly mind blowing.
Perennial Lurker
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It was a hugely frustrating watch but our run was always going to come to an end . I personally felt it would be Sunderland or Burnley that ended it and not Derby but they are fighting for their lives and that was the difference last night
torchomatic
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Totally agree with that. Thing is Lampard should see it. Should have taken him off after an hour. No way he was up to a full game.
torchomatic
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They can fuck off with the annoying, "The Rams are staying up" song too.
No, you're not.
No, you're not.
Covskyblue
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That’s a really good point, I hadn’t realise at the time of posting.
I was more thinking it explains Eccles lack of minutes and form over the last month or so. I thought he played well first half and was much improved.
This season as a whole he has offered so much more than Sheaf, arguably our player of the season before the Lampard tenure started (granted, a low bar). He’s improved year on year for us and is very good option to have in the squad, still only 24.
AFCCOVENTRY
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Players need to treat each game as a cup game if they’re not going to match the fight of the opposition. Maybe this was a good thing to give them a dose of reality and go again.
What did Lampard say? I’ve missed these comments?
torchomatic
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Nine wins in eleven still sounds great. Forget this game now and move on to a tough challenge on Saturday.
Still think it'll be us and WBA in the play offs. We're better than Bristol City and Middlesbrough.
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Perennial Lurker
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Totally agree .
We always knew there would be a big reaction when we lost a game, and if we're honest we've ridden our luck a little bit over the last few games, but the main thing now is not to over react too much, I still think we have a great chance of beating Sunderland on Saturday, then we have 2 weeks for players to recover and hopefully get Rudoni back in.
Just on Wright - yes he was bloody shocking last night, but it's clear he needs more time, and there is no way he would've started last night if EMC didn't have the issue with his toe. I would expect him to be starting on Saturday and Wright to be back on the bench.
The conundrum for FL is whether to now revert to a back 5, there is no question we look more solid defensively, but he clearly prefers 4-3-3, he has a big decision to make on this, particularly when it comes to the game at Bramall Lane.
Just on Wright - yes he was bloody shocking last night, but it's clear he needs more time, and there is no way he would've started last night if EMC didn't have the issue with his toe. I would expect him to be starting on Saturday and Wright to be back on the bench.
The conundrum for FL is whether to now revert to a back 5, there is no question we look more solid defensively, but he clearly prefers 4-3-3, he has a big decision to make on this, particularly when it comes to the game at Bramall Lane.
Otis
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TomRad85
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Agreed, Boro look a very poor team atm. I wish Bristol would just fuck off, like a turd nugget that won't shake off.
edgy
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"What's it like to see a crowd?" ....... not the brightest bunch are they?
torchomatic
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Ha. Yeah, that was a good one.
Gynnsthetonic
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It's football. Take it!
Bad Boy
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Have a fag someone will be along in a day or two to collect you and your bike.
Covskyblue
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On CWR pre game he said Eccles had been playing with / managing and injury for some time he’s a good player, offers lots, knows when to press etc.
The post game he mentions Sheaf’s injury.
Ben has had a little bit of an issue,” he said. “It isn’t the issue he had before but a different issue that ruled him out today. I won’t go into the details of it but hopefully he’ll be back very soon. We’ll see for the weekend.”
covcity4life
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Blimey 2nd loss in 11 and people panicking we must change formation
I do wonder if you guys ever enjoy supporting cov or watching football?
I do wonder if you guys ever enjoy supporting cov or watching football?
Sky Blue Goblin
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To be fair it’s not like all wins have been playing the same formation. We’ve played at least three in this period. No harm in going back and being adaptable.
covcity4life
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No there isn't but it's not a necessity either
Earlsdon_Skyblue1
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I understand the reaction to the performance, because it was shocking. I don't understand the panic or claims that we're playing with a particularly weakened team and will bomb out the playoffs.
Yes, it was a total shitshow yesterday and some players looked like they won charity awards to take part, but it's one game. Plenty of time to put it right, and as Brighton said, find a way win at the weekend and it will all be forgotten about.
Evo1883
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In fairness alot of the good form came with another formation too but the reality is we conceded less .
I'm not fussed either way but I think its a fair shout
pusbccfc
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Haji has always been like this. A bit like Simms, they have a lot of limitations.
However, on his day, Haji can bully full backs. He needs open and expansive games like we saw against Wolves and United.
Haji against a low block can really struggle. In general, we struggle to break down low blocks. We saw it at Cardiff and even Pompey after they scored their 4th. I worry that teams will look at last night and recognise that weakness.
covcity4life
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We won with 433 too. I don't mind people raising it as a possibility it's just the panic and assumption that 352 is a change that simply must be made asap
Nick
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He needs to play a couple in the u21s then.
Fuck knows why we don't bother in general to help get players a bit closwr to match fit
torchomatic
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In the "old" days that what the Central League (reserve team) was for. You'd see quite a few big name players playing in the reserves at HR getting back to fitness. We've done it before. Remember seeing Hamer at the Higgs after his four match ban.
torchomatic
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What did he say about Sheaf?
AFCCOVENTRY
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didn’t want to go into detail about it which probably explains Saddles comment how he’s a petal…
torchomatic
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To be fair, those Sunday newspapers can get a little weighty. Pick one of those up the wrong way and - boom! - there goes the hamstring.