Matt smith
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You also think we’ll be in a battle?
You also think we’ll be in a battle?The Andy Thorn relegation season all over this despite having spent far far more. That team also threw leads away for fun
I have said that elsewhere on this thread, yes I do. This is the worst midfield we’ve had in this division full stop and what’s looking like the worst attack since our debut season. Palmer will not be missed but Sheaf and MVE really will with a very heavy fixture schedule between now and January. It is clearly not a happy camp either and as results get worse so will morale.You also think we’ll be in a battle?
Apparently Milan isn’t as bad as first thought, think he said it on cwrI have said that elsewhere on this thread, yes I do. This is the worst midfield we’ve had in this division full stop and what’s looking like the worst attack since our debut season. Palmer will not be missed but Sheaf and MVE really will with a very heavy fixture schedule between now and January. It is clearly not a happy camp either and as results get worse so will morale.
Beat QPR on Saturday and it papers over a few cracks but I don’t see us winning there frankly if we can’t see off Huddersfield at home.
It will still be months surely?Apparently Milan isn’t as bad as first thought, think he said it on cwr
Allen started 34 games last season and came on as sub 3 times. He was out injured otherwise. He basically made an appearance in every game he was available for.Our best performers are all players from L1 and that should shame a bunch of multi million pound signings. Doesn’t change that those players often weren’t even first team last season so clearly shouldn’t be out stand out players this year. £20m spent or not.
Thomas is awful. Over-confident. Poor.Booed off. Can't blame people. Disgraceful. Haji and Thomas never again.
I don’t think so.It will still be months surely?
Irrelevant, it wasn’t justified
Allen started 34 games last season and came on as sub 3 times. He was out injured otherwise. He basically made an appearance in every game he was available for.
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It was. We're shit, and people have paid good money this year
To be fair, if they’d have equalized when say they were on top and it didn’t end how it did, I doubt they’d have been boosDoesn’t matter. You don’t boo the players. It makes us play worse. It’s the dumbest shit.
To be fair, if they’d have equalized when say they were on top and it didn’t end how it did, I doubt they’d have been boos
I think he said could not would. Either way none of them will be playing before the international break at least.I don’t think so.
Robins said Palmer was 4-8 weeks but Milan would be back quicker than that.
Agree about the pointsDecided against posting last night as was so frustrated with the performance even before the equaliser. At least 3 points would have made up for it. First half was reasonable but with no end product. Second half embarrassing hanging on against a very very average team. Simms is the better bet up front but still needs to show more movement, Wright I’m still hugely puzzled about. We look worse in all areas of the pitch from last year and though there may be improvement, it’s a bottom half team at best
City almost wrapped up all three points three minutes from time, but Lee Nicholls produced a stunning save to keep out Bobby Thomas.REPORT: Coventry City 1-1 Huddersfield Town
Yasin Ayari’s first goal for the Sky Blues helped to secure a point against Huddersfield Town at the Coventry Building Society Arena.www.ccfc.co.uk
Yasin Ayari’s first goal for the Sky Blues helped to secure a point against Huddersfield Town at the Coventry Building Society Arena.
Ellis Simms unleashed a ferocious effort which was tipped onto the bar by Lee Nicholls and came off Ayari and went into the back of the net.
Ben Wilson produced some fine saves in the second half to help secure the points and keep a third clean sheet of the season.
Quality reporting from the club
Agree about the points
I don’t think we look worse all over the pitch
da silva better than Bidwell
It was very poor play from wright to be offside but we shouldn’t have been outnumbered in the box and Thomas should have bloody cleared the ball
That seems to be the case.I do wonder if at the time the strikers were brought in we were very confident that Gus was staying. Otherwise strange choice of style of forwards.
Palmer needs moving on in January.Very slim margins , 30 more seconds or so and a home win and 3 points and the forum posters trudge off to bed somewhat happier. My biggest concern is the fragility of a lot of players , Godden, Kelly, Sheaf, Ohare, Palmer, Fadz. ( only because of his age ) Allen, MVE……none of the above will do a full season. We need to find our best 11 as soon as possible and stick to it for a few games but it’s not going to happen until everyone is fit
If you encourage the wing backs to get far forward then you have 5 attacking players on and 5 defensive plus the keeper, the issue has often been MR using his wing backs in ultra defensive mode so it becomes effectively a 7 defender system. Ryan Giles last season was exactly the kind of wing back I’m on about being used much more aggressivelyI’m stil not convinced 5 at the back works for us, I mentioned it a couple of games ago, look at all the best teams in the world (not saying we’re anywhere near that of course) hardly any of them play 5 at the back. It’s all 4-3-3 and you have to ask why is that?
Why are Man City and Liverpool and Arsenal and Newcastle and Barcelona and Bayern etc etc all playing with 4 at the back with one central striker? Maybe the best managers have figured out that if you have more defenders than attackers it’s hard to score goals.
I think Robins is a good manager but when it’s not working he never changes it up, that team sheet has been the same old shit every week (bar injuries) and every week it becomes clearer and clearer that it’s not working. The two striker thing isn’t working, the wingbacks can’t ever seem to put a decent cross in, the midfield is slow as fuck, the defenders still can’t defend when there’s 3 of them there. It’s getting beyond a joke now, there’s only so many weeks you can go on saying “give it time to gel” before it sounds like you’ve ran out of ideas.
The team sheet needs starting again and we need to seriously look at what our play style is because atm it’s score one weird, dodgy goal, try to hang on to a lead and then inevitably concede. Really really pissed off with that whole performance, it’s frankly embarrassing.
If you encourage the wing backs to get far forward then you have 5 attacking players on and 5 defensive plus the keeper, the issue has often been MR using his wing backs in ultra defensive mode so it becomes effectively a 7 defender system. Ryan Giles last season was exactly the kind of wing back I’m on about being used much more aggressively
If he goes one up too he’ll have Simms and Wright sitting on the bench, which is going to lead to Douglas asking some questions.I’m stil not convinced 5 at the back works for us, I mentioned it a couple of games ago, look at all the best teams in the world (not saying we’re anywhere near that of course) hardly any of them play 5 at the back. It’s all 4-3-3 and you have to ask why is that?
Why are Man City and Liverpool and Arsenal and Barcelona and Bayern etc etc all playing with 4 at the back with one central striker? Maybe the best managers have figured out that if you have more defenders than attackers it’s hard to score goals.
I think Robins is a good manager but when it’s not working he never changes it up, that team sheet has been the same old shit every week (bar injuries) and every week it becomes clearer and clearer that it’s not working. The two striker thing isn’t working, the wingbacks can’t ever seem to put a decent cross in, the midfield is slow as fuck, the defenders still can’t defend when there’s 3 of them there. It’s getting beyond a joke now, there’s only so many weeks you can go on saying “give it time to gel” before it sounds like you’ve ran out of ideas.
The team sheet needs starting again and we need to seriously look at what our play style is because atm it’s score one weird, dodgy goal, try to hang on to a lead and then inevitably concede. Really really pissed off with that whole performance, even if we would have won 1-0 it wouldn’t have been anything to cheer about, it’s frankly embarrassing.
If “the old guard” think they can try and get ahead of the criticism of their own declining performances by leaking rumours to sympathetic ears then they can fuck off as well tbh
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