So all those who are excited watching us ....

I'm available other nights too.

 

Yes, I am excited.
We are in the Play Offs and can't wait to see what awaits us if that's where we finish.
We are an excellent team and have been for months. My opinion.
We are excellent to watch, with players like Sollbauer, Sibbick, Helik, Andersen, Brittain, Mowatt, Styles, Dike, Woodrow & Morris on view, all bringing a variety of playing strengths to our successful team, ably led by Valerien Ismael.
Challenge accepted and met.

 

The closer we get, the more you can sense the stirring of those who just cant wait for us to fail, just so they can say 'i told you so'

 

Pretty sure we drew 0-0 with Palace just before that Oxford game in the fog. We lost to Swindon 3-0 around that time too. It certainly wasn’t like watching Brazil then.

A very good point well made.

I thought we looked well off it from the get-go today, and hopefully this result serves as a kick up the anus.

If not, if we aren’t to make the playoffs, it’s still been an unbelievable season, one of our very best. And above all expectations. But we live in hope. For more.

 

Two things happened today:
1: Coventry played really well, were really up for it (out worked us for 25 minutes in the first half), and had a game plan to counteract ours.
2: We didn't play very well at any point. Even when we matched them for effort and endeavour, which we did as the match wore on, our touch and passing was still well off.

We often beat teams with our fitness, our style of play, our excellent use of subs, our hard work and our skill.
Coventry matched our fitness, style of play, use of subs and hard work today. And when it mattered, they played better football. Not all that often but often enough to get the goals.

It happens. Many teams won't be capable of matching us on many of those aspects of the game. Today Coventry did, and bettered us at the business of playing football. On another day we'd play a lot better, but today the better team won.

 

Being pedantic, no team can overcome a team that out-plays, out-fights and out-thinks them. That's the recipe of losing.

We just have to accept that Coventry played exceptionally well. I haven't seen the Reds that limited of shots on target in months and months. Neither have I seen the ball being played around in Barnsley's own half for so long.

 

Mads and Halme are tall laikers,
Chaplin and Frieser are small laikers,
But today they all,
Looked tired I found

 

Good post.
As one of the critics of the style of football at times I have to say it wasn't that type of game. We had ample opportunity to play some football and mixed in a fair amount of endeavour to do so amongst the route one stuff. We just weren't very good at it.
In Brittain, Styles, Mowatt, Dike, Morris and Woodrow we have plenty of ability to beat Coventry on the floor but they just had bad games.
I was gutted to learn yesterday that Morris is carrying an injury that stops him playing a full match. That was more worrying than the result.