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