v Coventry (a) - 1/11/22 - at CBS Arena (the Ricoh in old money)

[jim mk2]

Vale of despair. The lad can’t do the basics 

[roverandout]

Get Vale off ffs. Hes useless 

[simongarnerisgod]

vale looks very much like rankin costello in the way neither of them look like they belong at this level

[CambridgeRover]

I like Wharton's selection of passes, not too defensive

[BigBar]

Just now, Displaced Rover said:

The fact we’re currently second says an awful lot about this league…

My thoughts exactly. It's hard not to enjoy but it's hard not to criticise most weeks and it's not being negative. This is awful and the team selection was all wrong.

[Miller11]

Pickering on for Vale. Get Brittain in his proper position and Travis in the middle to hopefully cut out some of those through balls.

[moerpho]

This will surely come back to bite me but it is still 0-0

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

Pretty sure we'll lose this one 

[LDRover]

Vale really has to do better here, he's been very poor so far

[yankfan]

Seen this script before. On the back foot. Playing too deep, square in the middle, isolated up top. Lucky to be even 

[Armchair supporter supremo]

really don't understand what the manager sees in Vale! just so ordinary and doesn't seem a threat at all ever! I can only think JDT sees him as some kind of blank slate that he can mould into the kind of forward he became.

I want the lad to do well, but if he doesn't do anything of note tonight then he needs to be out of the 1st team and shipped out on loan as soon as poss

 

Edited November 1, 2022 by Armchair supporter supremo

[DE.]

1 minute ago, CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber said:

Vale doesn't look up to it 

Not even close to being at the required level, if we're being honest. Will just have to hope he can nick a goal from somewhere to boost his confidence a little. 

[CambridgeRover]

Dear me Vale is cack

[Tugay-is-God]

Gut away with that one, looks like it should've been a pen. 

[ItsRoverZ]

Coventry battering us at the minute  only a matter of time, this could be another reading, Wigan and Cardiff type game  ..we look poor at the minute 

Really don't know how we play like this sometimes

[Silas]

Our tactics are what I do on PlayStation. 

Keep smashing the through ball button and hope one comes off eventually. 🤞

[BigBar]

Average teams have gotten promoted from this league many times...maybe it's our time? We've had alot if luck so far this season and won games that could have gone either way. Funny old game.

[yankfan]

We can’t find an outlet. Vale incapable of holding the play up. Szmodics very deep to get involved. Like playing with 9 in the back. 

[chaddyrovers]

Our passing is very sloppy, and we can't keep the ball. We can't control the centre midfield area. 

The Pitch is awful btw. 

[BigBar]

Scott Wharton's passing has been atrocious.

[roverandout]

Get Travis I'm the middle.  Bring on pickering for vale

[booth]

2 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

really don't understand what the manager sees in Vale! just so ordinary and doesn't seem a threat at all ever! I can only think JDT sees him as some kind of blank slate that he can mould into the kind of forward he became

 

He probably sees about as much as you do but he's not spoilt for choice is he.

The ghost of Tony Mowbray and his dislike of centre forwards still haunts the club (along with Gregg Broughton's bizarre belief that Hirst is the answer).

[Tugay-is-God]

Hyam bailing us out there, what was Ayala doing?

[chaddyrovers]

Hyam would a great challenge there otherwise O'Hara would probably score 

[superniko]

No idea how they didn’t score there. We look a bit all over the show (said that so many times this season despite being 2nd).

Defence giving it away a lot passing it about and Szmodics a few times with risky cross fields passes.

Dack on for Vale and Pickering for Morton and switch full backs around with Travis in the middle