A Coventry View of the Game.(Player ratings)

I found this on their main board. Seems very reminiscent of this board a month ago.

1. Seems they've sussed JOB out

2: Particularly like the nickname for Proschwitz . . .

Well, that was grim. Freezing cold and ice age football to match. First half was honours even, second we lost the midfield - just for a change - and as a result lost a very winnable game. Pretty much agree with the OP, but for what it's worth...

Burge 5: blameless for the goal, but doesn't inspire confidence in anyone, hence the mix-ups with defenders. Has learnt the Schmeichel strategy of charging out to berate the back four when things go wrong. Wish he'd been so keen to leave his line to get the ball.

Philips 6: did his job; tried to overlap, didn't work, though we rarely had the ball long enough to play him in.

Stokes 6: ditto. He looked up to this level, and wasn't caught out of position as often as some our of FBs

Pennington 6: looks so much more convincing as CB than RB

Martin 4: he's a carthorse. Surely we should have known that from the first time round?

Barton 4: pings crisp passes round the centre circle for a bit, then loses it, or plays it to someone else who does. Pseudo-creative.

Fleck 5: the least bad of our identikit midfield lightweights in that he tries to drive forward with the ball and even finds a team-mate with a forward pass very occasionally. Could look much better with a proper ball-winner alongside (or v. 10 men, as at Bramall Lane).

JOB 3: drives me nuts. Plays like he's in a U-9s game where they all follow the ball, leaving his defenders to guess whether he might cover or not. Tries to buy cheap free-kicks all the time, and gives so many silly ones away, as per the goal. Pseudo-leader; should be the first one TB takes behind the bike sheds for a friendly chat.

Odelusi 3: not a man for a relegation scrap on tonight's evidence; the odd creative moment, but ducked out a couple of times too

Samuel 3: piss-poor tonight, sadly. Can't hold the ball up, and has so much pace that there's no excuse or logic for being caught offside so often, especially when we were playing into the wind first half, and any sensible team would have knocked it into the channels for him.

Tudgay 4: tries to link the play, gets no service. Hard to assess when the midfield gives him nothing to work with.

Subs: Prosthetic 2: why oh why?
Nouble 6: made things happen, however accidentally. With a bit of luck he'll be spared the wing in future.
Turgott 5: at least we know he exists, and he can run

Macfarlane: go now, save time.
Pressley: still to blame for this hopelessly unbalanced and leaderless 'groop'

Best chant: 'one more striker', an effective comment on the clueless twosome above

Mowbray: Thanks for taking it on, and best of luck. We have some capable individuals - maybe - but nothing like a team, and not much time to create one

 

Any comments on the lines of "how poor Barnsley are"? That's what most away fans say when they get beaten by us. Yes we've been poor often enough, but not last night. That was a good performance to go with plenty others this season.