Yeah this run of games over the rest of December has the potential to be pretty key for our season i think. From memory i think we have a tough run again in February or March so it would be good to see us rack a few points up prior to that so we don't leave ourselves with a massive issue going into the final stretch of the season. Everything i've seen from us so far suggests we are capable of doing just that but you never know with City!Aside from Stoke, next 8 league games are really interesting. 3 against the bottom 3 (Sheff Wed twice), 4 against the group of teams just above us in mid table.
But of luck and a following wind and we could go into mid Jan with space between us and relegation and having clawed back the gap to mid table.
Isn't it horrible the way middle age hangovers are riddled with paranoia and existential dread.I really am sorry to keep banging on about this but it is starting to seriously piss me off and all I want for my team is justice and a fair crack of the whip in games this season. This is another game against a southern based team where you can almost predict Luton getting a penalty which has us all bewildered and angry . Failing this we have a player sent off in controversial and mysterious circumstances. In fact the only surprise to me thus far this season is that we haven't had both in the same match. .
It isn't as if we are a dirty or even overtly physical side. So what is it? Why did O'Hare not get awarded a penalty against Derby but the Rotherham penalty award which was almost identical but not quite as blatant did?
Yesterday because we were so thrilled with the win we shrugged off yet another penalty award against us as the referee feeling sorry for Rotherham. There is never a referee giving us freebies because they feel sorry for us. Blackburn could have put 10 past us and the referee would not have batted an eyelid.
Last season Sunderland launched an inquiry into why they were conceding so many penalty kicks which they felt were not warranted. I have no idea what the result of this investigation was but the moral is that they signposted what they felt was an issue rather than just grin and bear it and I feel that the time has come for us to do the same.
I believe that Coventry like every other football club should be the recipient as well as the donor of penalty kicks when they are warranted and should have players sent off as well as see players from the opposition sent packing when they are involved in serious foul play. What concerns me is the phrase they were given the benefit of the doubt always seems to apply to the team we are playing and not to us.
As for this game if we get a fair crack of the whip a narrow 1 nil win.
I think we might be a bit more conservative against Luton, say Sheaf in for O'Hare, then be more aggresive vs Wycombe. Possibly swapping McCallum for Giles along with bringing O'Hare back in.
Both winnable games and would hope for 4 points.
it would not surprise me in the least were we to beat Luton and then draw against Wycombe.
No it wasntIt’s random. It was a clear penalty yesterday
It wasntIt was a stonewall penalty. He got nowhere near the ball
Hmmmm...interesting comparison...and i fully concurHmm this one is a very tricky one - Luton if memory serves me correctly are quite big and physical like Luton
Yeah but that goes against the rhetoric that the refs are plotting against us... that every club seems to have. It's funny how the refs are against every club, but no club seems to think the ref is 'for' them. It doesn't stack up...Referees aren't infallible & notoriously inconsistent, nothing more than that.
We got away with a blatant one by Hyam v Derby too.
In the spirit of ChristmasNo it wasnt
Rotherham were clueless against Biamou. At times they had 2 big defenders on him and he still created havoc.
The one embedded in his crotch or the other one?
I did chuckle afterwards when Wilson was trying to make out to the ref that he'd just done the 'Schmeichel Star'
11?All keepers who come for a high ball lead with a leg or knee, but not many get pinged for it. How many times have DeGea or Loris or even Schmeichel given away penalties for doing the same?
WasPearsons scored the last two times weve played them, and hes suspended, massive threat in the air he is.
Wrong answer but I love a quiz, don’t you?
Didn’t think so at the time but it was looking at it in that still
I did until this morningWrong answer but I love a quiz, don’t you?
Toni Schumacher - should of been prosecuted for attempted murder never mind a foulThink if you look at the strikers leg it’s pretty raised to. Wilson should have gone with his hands,
Who was the goalie that almost killed the French striker in the World Cup that time? Guess that would be a foul under the new rules too
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