v Coventry City (h) - 21/01/25

[Ianrally]

Which media outlet will be the first to say ‘Frank Lampard's Coventry City’.
If for no other reason I hope we stuff ‘em. 

[Tom]

13 minutes ago, Madon said:

You know you've got an injury crisis when we've recalled Edmondson from the Evo-Stik and he's on the bench!

Does that mean he can’t be loaned out again or only if he played?

[Forever Blue]

12 months on and back to a bench of untested kids.
 

Welcome to Venkyworld, Mr Eustace. 

[lraC]

18 minutes ago, Madon said:

You know you've got an injury crisis when we've recalled Edmondson from the Evo-Stik and he's on the bench!

I don’t think he will get a sniff to be honest and think we have stuck him on the bench for experience. He will be glued to the action though, I suspect. 

[joey_big_nose]

33 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Toth starts!

(Pears is ill)

Theres an outside chance this is actually the 442 we finished against Oxford with -

                           Toth

Brittain.     Batth.  Hyam.   Beck 

JRC.       Buckley    Cantwell.    Hedges

                 Dolan.     Gueye

We did actually look much better when we did that change around 80 mins.

[Valconite]

3 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

12 months on and back to a bench of untested kids.
 

Welcome to Venkyworld, Mr Eustace. 

Rather have one of those kids come on instead of Forshaw.  Still a shocking bench though

[RevidgeBlue]

8 minutes ago, Tom said:

Does that mean he can’t be loaned out again or only if he played?

On a similar note, does Garrett's absence mean he is being loaned out again?

You'd have thought we'd have needed him at the moment.

[sharpysharps86]

Just now, RevidgeBlue said:

On a similar note, does Garrett's absence mean he is being loaned out again?

You'd have thought we'd have needed him at the moment.

Yep. Eustace said that he would be going back out on loan when asked by Andy Bayes in his pre match presser.

[BankEnd Rover]

Looking at that bench, I'm not confident at all. Expect a loss with cracks starting to show in Eustaces presser after. 

 F*cking sign some players! 

Edited January 21 by BankEnd Rover

[ItsRoverZ]

Coventry have some talent don't they, just seen their line up.

[sharpysharps86]

Just now, BankEnd Rover said:

Looking at that bench, I'm not confident at all. Expect a loss with cracks starting to show in Eustaces presser after. 

 F*cking sign some player! 

Injuries aside its an embarrassing bench for a side currently 5th in the league, and perfectly shows how well Eustace has done this season.

How anyone can think we only need a new winger and a striker this month is beyond me.

[booth]

I would have preferred Gueye for the second half but who else do we start with?

Thanks Waggott for leaving us in the shit.

[Forever Blue]

1 minute ago, ItsRoverZ said:

Coventry have some talent don't they, just seen their line up.

They’ve re-invested a lot of the money they received for the likes of Hamer and Gykores, like a proper club should and would.
 

Meanwhile at Shit Owners FC…

[BankEnd Rover]

3 minutes ago, sharpysharps86 said:

Injuries aside its an embarrassing bench for a side currently 5th in the league, and perfectly shows how well Eustace has done this season.

How anyone can think we only need a new winger and a striker this month is beyond me.

Winger & striker have always been priority but since this flurry of injuries then yes we need at least 4 signings in these next weeks

[Exiled_Rover]

34 minutes ago, superniko said:

Boy that bench sure looks very weak

We've got no chance tonight. Nobody can come off that bench to strengthen the team - and it's another mid-week game so the starting 11 will be knackered.

[Proudtobeblue&white]

Let's face it the Loons have abandoned us as a team. Whilst they try and save face by still being in existence, and they lose money every month, they don't give a shit. I'm sure they very occasionally look at the table, and think JE is the messiah. I just wish they would f*ck off, and I'd be back in an instant. I still can't fathom why they hang on, other than money laundering?

What other reason for not investing when we are in the top six coming February?

[aletheia]

DJ at the ground has a sense of humour. The Who 'Won't get fooled again'. 🙂

[G Somerset Rover]

That bench, Jesus wept.

‘We will honour the Jack Walker legacy.’

[RevidgeBlue]

6 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

We've got no chance tonight. Nobody can come off that bench to strengthen the team - and it's another mid-week game so the starting 11 will be knackered.

We're playing Coventry not Liverpool. The injuries are less than ideal and we should have had a couple of new signings starting by now but we've every chance.

[Bethnal]

3 minutes ago, Proudtobeblue&white said:

Let's face it the Loons have abandoned us as a team. Whilst they try and save face by still being in existence, and they lose money every month, they don't give a shit. I'm sure they very occasionally look at the table, and think JE is the messiah. I just wish they would f*ck off, and I'd be back in an instant. I still can't fathom why they hang on, other than money laundering?

What other reason for not investing when we are in the top six coming February?

I reckon they glance at the table and assume it’s all down to their visionary football club ownership model, before getting back to whatever whack-job, rich person hobby they’re busying themselves with that week.

[davulsukur]

3 hours ago, SpaceBarSlam said:

First time I've been lacking any enthusiasm for a match all season. It's the disheartening inevitability of JE and the team pushing beyond all expectations to be right in the heart of play-off contention only for it all to be undone by the refusal to back them from those upstairs/in India. Tronstad and Trav's injuries are just the cherry on particularly rubbish, familiar cake. 

Depressing, but right on the money.

[Proudtobeblue&white]

Very sparse crowd, not surprisingly.

[davulsukur]

Toth didn't seem particularly confident with the ball at his feet last time out, let's hope we don't piddle around with the ball at the back too much.

[Ricky]

Our home record against Coventry is shocking 

[joey_big_nose]

Looks like a 4231 with JRC playing the holding role.