Nuneaton Town v Coventry City friendly (2 Viewers)

Just read the game finished 0-0. Anyone on here go to the game? According to the CCFC Mad live text the City fans started getting frustrated with the team, doesn't sound too good. Still better to get bad results out of the way and it was only a friendly. Sounds like we were unlucky not to score and dominated the game nevertheless. Apparantly a chap wearing only a baseball cap and boxer shorts invaded the pitch!!! Hahahahaha

Although a little disappointed with the result, it's still only a friendly for the players to get some match fitness without getting injured and practice different formations and tactics. I can see the doom and gloom merchants coming out in full force after this one...

For people that went what kind of football did we play? Did we play the hoof ball style everyone labelled Aidy with or did we pass the ball around... And how was our new Keeper who was on trial? Smeekes have a good game?

Didn't Newcastle lose 7-1 or something to Darlington in pre-season this time last year? Doesn't mean anything, our situation will become clearer when the season starts and even then you can't tell where you will end up until about 4 or 5 games from the end! This is a tight league, gotta say I love the Championship and I like being in this league. Would be nice to go to all the big grounds in the Premiership but I think the Championship is more exciting then the Prem in terms of who will finish where and dodgy results here there and everywhere! Love the banter as well, and I think there is always a mutual respect in a way between Championship fans because we are all loyal to our team and are 'proper' supporters unlike those who have jumped on the 'big 4' bandwagon. Much rather travel around the country in good voice cheering on the Sky Blues than watch Man U play on tele wearing slippers and sitting on the sofa.. All good fun.

By comparing us to Newcastle, I wasn't implying that we were going to go on and win the league or anything, just showing people that pre-season results don't mean a lot - on the official CCFC facebook page a lot of people seemed upset and worried by the 0-0 draw!! I personally think we will finish around 14th if we make a couple more shrewd signings. I think we should go for a 4-2-3-1 formation, I think Clingan and Doyle/Deegan would make a perfect holding midfield pairing with Doyle/Deegan doing the rough work and Clingan dictating play. Then McSheffrey LAM, Baker CAM/CF and O'Donovan RAM. People might think this is a bit defensive but when we're on the ball I think having McSheffrey, Baker and O'Donovan in and around the box we could do some damage going forward. Not sure who the striker should be, depends who we sign. This formation also makes way for the full backs to bomb forward which AB has said he wants and if we lose the ball and the full backs are far up the pitch, Doyle and Clingan will track back to help defence. Seeing as now Deegan is injured and Doyle has been playing in the pre-season games, looks like Doyle will be staying with us this season. This is just my humble opinion anyway, I know a lot of people won't agree with a 5-man midfield but I just think 4-4-2 is too predictable.

CookieCCFC said:

I was suprised with the amount of Cov fans there, i was expecting 200/300 tops but around 300 were queing outside the ground when the terrance (holds 1,500) was 2 thirds full.

I really enjoyed watching us pass the ball around, pass and move, pass and move.

Not fussed with the result one bit.

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Yeah. I read on a match report of the game that some Cov fans were getting impatient with us passing the ball around and were urging City to get the ball forward! I bet the fans that moaned all the time about using longball are the same ones urging the team to get the ball to get to the other end of the pitch ASAP when we do pass the ball around!