Why Did I Nearly Crash The Car On The Way Home Today? (2 Viewers)

Today only confirmed what I think we already knew- very light up front, and don't look like a squad with much creativity or ability to score goals

Edited the title a bit to save your blushes they all seemed very down, think it's less about on the pitch than off though

Don't agree on the creativity thing. We put together some good spells of passing at times but when you don't have a good forward to give the ball to you'll get stuck and have to go backwards.

We're lacking a natural finisher and a bit of depth. Nothing more.

I don't think it's time to write our final wills and climb the ladder with a rope just yet. The negativity of some is plain laughable.

One clown on 5live called in to say Thorn should be sacked. 

Kuklinski said:

One clown on 5live called in to say Thorn should be sacked. 

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Please tell me your kidding!

cornoccfc said:

Today only confirmed what I think we already knew- very light up front, and don't look like a squad with much creativity or ability to score goals

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Corno you rebel

We out played them in the 1st half. SISU have shot themselves in the foot, they won't be able to sack AT because he hasn't even been given a chance to strengthen. They took away the usual fall guy for their lack of football knowledge.

BTW there were far more positives than ppl realise today. One is litte big guy, he was one of our best today, outshon sammy in fact, and cyrus showed he isn't too bad a player. Juke showed as always he'll work to the bone for us. Finally 12m investment n they struggled 2 get the baall off us.

Not too bad minus the result

Most people aren't moaning about the performance,tactics,players and manager , I feel very sorry for AT he's been badly let down by Orange ken and Sisu , a blind man could see today that we badly need a striker and a couple of extra bodies in the squad , with the squad we have we will struggle badly once we have injuries and suspensions and we have a right to be worried for the future and moan at the way the club is being run
The only plus was I thought birigarmma and Christie were excellent today

I never listen to it, they annoy me and most dont go to the game, know the players or know anything about footy!

There is one guy called Ian who calls in regularly what a f***ing depressing twat. I bet he rang into say how shit we were in the 87 final!!. What makes me laugh is that he makes statements and than changes his mind when questioned by Ekin or whoever and agrees with them! And his voice!!! god i feel sorry for Mrs Ian,

Unfortunately its nailed on that the majority of the callers will be at either end of spectrum. Either a top 6 finish or sack everyone we re going down. Cwr isnt the best place for reasoned debate. I thought today was poor fayre really but if we can find an outlet for our possession i reckon we can improve. The two young lads were encouraging

Is this the CWR phone-in that only accepts calls from fans who didn't go to the game?

The same fans who won't go back to games until we "sign more players", "invest in the squad", "get SISU out", "show some ambition", "get back to the Premiership", "speculate to accumulate" ?

TommyAtkins said:

Is this the CWR phone-in that only accepts calls from fans who didn't go to the game?

The same fans who won't go back to games until we "sign more players", "invest in the squad", "get SISU out", "show some ambition", "get back to the Premiership", "speculate to accumulate" ?

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:claping hands::claping hands::claping hands:

Tbf a lot of them have been to the game they are just pissed!

pissed or just :jerkit:

Kuklinski said:

One clown on 5live called in to say Thorn should be sacked. 

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In the name of all thats holy tell me that was a wind up!!! :facepalm:

My money is on a bit of both. Emotions are always high straight after a game too

Walking Bird said:

In the name of all thats holy tell me that was a wind up!!! :facepalm:

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i think he s had enough time:-D

covey1987 said:

There is one guy called Ian who calls in regularly what a f***ing depressing twat. I bet he rang into say how shit we were in the 87 final!!. What makes me laugh is that he makes statements and than changes his mind when questioned by Ekin or whoever and agrees with them! And his voice!!! god i feel sorry for Mrs Ian,

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I recall "Ian" phoning in about 2 years ago

Eakin "Hello, Ian, what did you think"
Ian "I don't know what to say, what do you think?"
Eakin "This is a telephone call in, you are supposed to have something to say"

Ian provides entertainment value

It was a very odd phone in today, fans relieved that we weren't embarrassed too much and lost with dignity, other that kept saying 'when Hoffman takes over' and listing players or the others saying were shit and they wont return until SISU go. I was annoyed with the guy who moaned about us pushing Gael and Cristie ect into the squad saying that it wasn't because they were talented and just because we were broke. If your good enough, your old enough and those two are very good players with bags of potential.

TommyAtkins said:

I recall "Ian" phoning in about 2 years ago

Eakin "Hello, Ian, what did you think"
Ian "I don't know what to say, what do you think?"
Eakin "This is a telephone call in, you are supposed to have something to say"

Ian provides entertainment value

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He's nearly always invariably first on too. I reckon he must spend his free time listening to Leonard Cohen and watching Ingmar Bergman films. Never anything quite so ridiculous as that time when Eakin asked him what he thought of the game and he came out with "What did you think, Clive?" He very rarely offers anything insightful at all and basically it's just a moanathon. Even when we play well he's says we were dire.

Bout time they tell him he's had his quota and to let someone else talk for a change. He must have been on at least 50 times now and as i say, he's invariably the first caller every time. Must have an itchy trigger finger.

It is always the same people though! I remember once a young lad about 12 called up, didnt go to the game but said he like gunarsson and that was it!

Are they not screened?

we are all wanting the same thing success: why cant we all pull together to achieve it

There are some depressing idiots on these phone ins and i try and not listen to them as they have clearly watched a different game to me and the rest of the support (probably on the frickin radio). Is it me or is this like reviewing a film when you have read about it from a magazine???

Good Morning Torch.
So glad you didn't actually crash your car, those lada spares are becoming a bit rare and expensive.

I personally think that most fans negativity is born out of frustration with the club, rather than the manager and playing staff, if its true, then the statistic .."Coventry City FC" are the only side in the entire football league, that hasn't signed an outfield player, is enough to flatten the spirits of most diehard sky Blue Fans.

There are several, contrasting viewpoints that can be taken from the game yesterday, Firstly. Leicester,..the bookies favourite to challenge for a promotion spot, Didn't look too tasty to me, and it would be correct to say that we matched them for possession, and work rate for long periods of the game, although it is also factual to say that our better moments were when they were down to ten men and we had eleven .
The concern, is I feel that Leicester had an indifferent day, but still managed to beat us, there will be better performances from them in the remainder of the season, as they gell together as a team, I believe they fielded seven new players yesterday, which was a totally different situation to ourselves.

On the other hand, it looked to me that the sky blues gave it all they'd got, a hard working performance, punctuated with fine debuts from a couple of youngsters, with the lad with the commentators nightmare of a name, looking more than comfortable in midfield, he looked quick witted and fast footed, a real prospect for the future, but here is the rub, these lads are being played because of a wafer thin squad, and not because they are red hot hot emerging talents, and overexposure to the rigours of the Championship at such an early stage of ther careers, concerns me.

It was obvious that Marlon KIng was going to be missed, and so he was, the Hard working Juke, was left Isolated on his own for long periods, and its patently obvious that we need a striker and pretty quick, it was one of those matches that we just didn't look like scoring, and looked even less so when Mcsheffery went off.

All in all, a hard working, but a rather toothless performance, can I envisage, that this squad has more to give, than it gave yesterday,?
Well I'm afraid not, what we saw, is what we've got, and the fact that "its early days" means nothing, but those who disagree will point out where they think the improvement can come from, and I look foreward to their argument.

Respect......Tankie

A good and accurate post as usual Torchy!

I think Leicester will only get better as the get used to playing together as the season progresses. We probably has the best opportunity to turning them over yesterday but looked very toothless up front. It was a decent perfromance for the squad we currently have at present and isnt going to get better, we need to add more firepower as a matter of urgency. We surely can afford a loanee which could be offset from Carsley, Doyle and King's wages as this is a position we need to fill as matter of urgency.

gouldberg said:

Don't agree on the creativity thing. We put together some good spells of passing at times but when you don't have a good forward to give the ball to you'll get stuck and have to go backwards.

We're lacking a natural finisher and a bit of depth. Nothing more.

I don't think it's time to write our final wills and climb the ladder with a rope just yet. The negativity of some is plain laughable.

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Yea because we created lots of chances yesterday. Passing it around between the defence and Clingan whilst a good mechanism for maintaining possession is not being creative. Everytime we tried to play the ball forward the attack just broke down as our attacking midfielders were not good enough to maintain possession and either were tackled, misplaced the pass or passed backwards, they lacked sharpness and match fitness. Players like Bell and Mcsheffery were dispossessed many times because they were too slow and not up with the pace of the game.

Tankie said:

Good Morning Torch.
So glad you didn't actually crash your car, those lada spares are becoming a bit rare and expensive.

I personally think that most fans negativity is born out of frustration with the club, rather than the manager and playing staff, if its true, then the statistic .."Coventry City FC" are the only side in the entire football league, that hasn't signed an outfield player, is enough to flatten the spirits of most diehard sky Blue Fans.

There are several, contrasting viewpoints that can be taken from the game yesterday, Firstly. Leicester,..the bookies favourite to challenge for a promotion spot, Didn't look too tasty to me, and it would be correct to say that we matched them for possession, and work rate for long periods of the game, although it is also factual to say that our better moments were when they were down to ten men and we had eleven .
The concern, is I feel that Leicester had an indifferent day, but still managed to beat us, there will be better performances from them in the remainder of the season, as they gell together as a team, I believe they fielded seven new players yesterday, which was a totally different situation to ourselves.

On the other hand, it looked to me that the sky blues gave it all they'd got, a hard working performance, punctuated with fine debuts from a couple of youngsters, with the lad with the commentators nightmare of a name, looking more than comfortable in midfield, he looked quick witted and fast footed, a real prospect for the future, but here is the rub, these lads are being played because of a wafer thin squad, and not because they are red hot hot emerging talents, and overexposure to the rigours of the Championship at such an early stage of ther careers, concerns me.

It was obvious that Marlon KIng was going to be missed, and so he was, the Hard working Juke, was left Isolated on his own for long periods, and its patently obvious that we need a striker and pretty quick, it was one of those matches that we just didn't look like scoring, and looked even less so when Mcsheffery went off.

All in all, a hard working, but a rather toothless performance, can I envisage, that this squad has more to give, than it gave yesterday,?
Well I'm afraid not, what we saw, is what we've got, and the fact that "its early days" means nothing, but those who disagree will point out where they think the improvement can come from, and I look foreward to their argument.

Respect......Tankie

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Point 1 - not true Mcsheffery was our worst player and deserved to be taken off, we might as well have been playing with 9 men whilst he was on the pitch.

I believe Leicester were also very poor and didn't look anything like promotion candidates.

I believe we can improve, I believe the problem yesterday was the transition from the midfield to the attack. Nobody really played in the pocket of space between midfield and attack, so everytime a player like Clingan had the ball his options were limited as he had to pass back or sideways to the full backs as there was rarely any body in front to pass to, the one time there was he picked out Bell in this space and had probably our best shot of the match. None of our attacking players played well apart from Juke, either they have to improve or replacements are needed.