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

[chaddyrovers]

8 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

😂 you are allowed your own opinions you know

Posted my opinions at half time and full time. Before Eustace's comments 

[chaddyrovers]

10 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Small squad in terms of quality. Obviously your squad players wont be as good as your first teamers but for most teams the gap isnt as big. Midfield is an obvious example, in Travis and Tronstad, you wont find muc better at this level. You wont find a worse partnership than Buckley and Forshaw. You could say we had a big squad last year but youd be counting Ennis, Telalovic, Garrett, Markanday etc. Its not just how many bodies you have. 

Exactly what you expect from mid table championship team with transfer spend over last 3 years. 6 or 7 key players, a few of first team regulars, then squad players with different quality. 

Are you 22 quality players so when you lose one key player you replace him with similar quality?.

 

10 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

What did you make to Hedges and Forshaw, 2 players you have defended a lot?

Defended a lot Forshaw? He only just arrived 2 weeks ago

Forshaw was ok. Nothing special but I'm not expect to be so. 

Hedges provided our width from the left. Did ok. 

10 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

With JRC picking up an injury and Tronstad out until March. Are you still happy just to run with Travis, Buckley and Forshaw in there?

Yes. 

10 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Do you still see us as likely to get into the top 6? And if so, do you still think we only need a left winger and striker to achieve it? Or has that number gone up?

Like I said previously our top 6 chances despond on the quality of the striker signing. 

[roversfan99]

26 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Exactly what you expect from mid table championship team with transfer spend over last 3 years. 6 or 7 key players, a few of first team regulars, then squad players with different quality. 

Are you 22 quality players so when you lose one key player you replace him with similar quality?.

 

Defended a lot Forshaw? He only just arrived 2 weeks ago

Forshaw was ok. Nothing special but I'm not expect to be so. 

Hedges provided our width from the left. Did ok. 

Yes. 

Like I said previously our top 6 chances despond on the quality of the striker signing. 

Can you remember one thing Hedges did in attack of any use? 

As I have said. I am aware that squad players wont be of the same quality as first team players. I am saying that our squad players are not good enough even as squad players, when the likes of Buckley, Forshaw and Hedges come in, they are nowhere near good enough. When someone like Baker came in, he was a downgrade on Travis, thats normal otherwise he would be playing instead of him. But he was still a decent Championship player, it wasnt as if the quality fell off a cliff. 

I am not saying that our squad players should be as good. But they need to be good enough as to not significantly weaken the team when they come in. If its Buckley and/or Forshaw in the team for the next 6 weeks, we are significantly weakened. 

[chaddyrovers]

50 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Can you remember one thing Hedges did in attack of any use? 

A header shot on target. Another header off target. 

 

[booth]

22 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

A header shot on target. Another header off target. 

 

I remember him being really slow to react to a rebound from the keeper about 2 yards out and two of their defenders getting to it despite being in line with him.

[MarkBRFC]

9 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Well Eustace's comments are it was good performance and we shouldn't have lost. Take it you disagree? 

As much as i like Eustace, he is not correct in every little thing he says, or every single player he wants.

We created chances, like a top 5 side should do at home against a side floundering in the bottom half, but we didn't take them. I'm not going to praise a side for creating a few chances at home.

It was average at best, but the fact we didn't take any chances, and conceded two poor goals, tells me that it wasn't a particularly good overall performance.

 

Edited January 23 by MarkBRFC

[roversfan99]

Also, they scored just after half time and it never felt possible that we would get back into it.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

I thought at the time that using all our subs with what must have been 20 minutes playing time to go was very, very, risky. Especially given that several of the guys still out there are injury prone. That led to JRC exacerbating his ankle injury.  I thought that a big mistake. 

Edited January 23 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[Upside Down]

On 23/01/2025 at 09:49, Mashed Potatoes said:

Agreed - and yet there are some who say the owners don't want that £100m+

That argument has the last 15 years of their very deliberate actions to back it up.

What have you seen that shows you they want to get into the premier league?

[Mattyblue]

I’ve never really gone in for some of the more outlandish theories with this lot. Occam’s Razor and all that - they just don’t give a feck, but are content enough to let a long forgotten impulse purchase half way round the world tick over on their books somewhere, especially now it’s trying to ‘wash its own face’ with a very small flannel.

But Masher’s being his usual contrarian self if he’s trying to argue that these owners ever make a decision with an eye on the Premier League.

[Mashed Potatoes]

58 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

I’ve never really gone in for some of the more outlandish theories with this lot. Occam’s Razor and all that - they just don’t give a feck, but are content enough to let a long forgotten impulse purchase half way round the world tick over on their books somewhere, especially now it’s trying to ‘wash its own face’ with a very small flannel.

But Masher’s being his usual contrarian self if he’s trying to argue that these owners ever make a decision with an eye on the Premier League.

I didn't mean it quite like that. I was focusing on what I consider to be the absurd argument that Venky's actively don't want to own a Premier League club.

[broadsword]

Who knows what venkys want? They're completely unfathomable. 

If just wish they'd piss off. It's like having a tapeworm you can't get rid of

[MarkBRFC]

3 hours ago, Mashed Potatoes said:

I didn't mean it quite like that. I was focusing on what I consider to be the absurd argument that Venky's actively don't want to own a Premier League club.

Well every action they have done since taking over proves that they don't want to own a Premier League club.

So I find it absurd that you think that they do want to own a Premier League club based on what we have seen over the past 14 years.

It's like me saying I'm absolutely desperate for a new job, but just glance at the local paper's ads every few months or so when I can be bothered.

[Upside Down]

On 24/01/2025 at 20:43, Mashed Potatoes said:

I didn't mean it quite like that. I was focusing on what I consider to be the absurd argument that Venky's actively don't want to own a Premier League club.

I'll repeat the question since you didn't answer the first time.

What have you seen over the last 14 years that would show that they want the club to be in the premier league?

[Exiled_Rover]

https://x.com/CoventryKing/status/1881819723710730528

 

Imagine being a professional commentator and making this observation.

The club has had the life strangled out of it. By rights nobody should go. 

[Upside Down]

On 29/01/2025 at 05:47, Exiled_Rover said:

https://x.com/CoventryKing/status/1881819723710730528

 

Imagine being a professional commentator and making this observation.

The club has had the life strangled out of it. By rights nobody should go. 

They're unbelievably lucky to get thirteen thousand turn up.

I can't imagine how low attendance figures will be next season after we've deliberately spunked away any chance of promotion this season. Not to mention Eustace will likely be gone in the summer and replaced with god knows what.

[Mattyblue]

Coventry not so long ago were very much in the doldrums crowds wise under an ownership that had no interest in the club… guess what happened next.

Edited January 31 by Mattyblue