I live and work in Birmingham and my boss is a Coventry season ticket holder. As a bit of "fun" we went tot he game last night and sat in the Cov end. We will be in the Ponty end for the return fixutre. As you can all imagine being sat in the Cov fans in the first half was painful. We were as inept as I have seen us this season. They were full of confidence, the crowd was bouncing and the result seemed a matter of how many. When the team came out for the second half and there were no changes at all from us I thought LJ had sealed his own fate. I understand Cov coming out and naturally sitting back with a two goal lead, making it seem like we were in control and on the front foot, but that wasn't the case. They just could not deal with what we were doing in the second half. (other than the two times they scored obviously!) The main point I wanted to make and get other people's opinions on was the style of football we played in the second half. We pushed much further up the pitch and moved the ball around neatly until there was a man in space out wide. As soon as this happened we got it to him quickly and he delivered into the box. We must have crossed the ball 20-30 times in 45 minutes and there were actually midfield players in there to aim for! Even when Cov won the first ball it would drop to the edge of the box for a Barnsley shirt and the ball was moved out wide to be chucked back in the box. This was a million miles away from the tippy tappy football we have seen so far and penned Coventry back in their own box for most of the half. I've found it very strange that LJ hasn't mentioned this as a concious change of tactic at half time. Lastly a special mention to Josh Scowen - what a player. By the end of the game the Cov fans wanted his blood! It did make me smile when he scored the penalty and then threw their player into the back of the net to take a quick restart.
Maybe it wasn't. Maybe that's what they're supposed to be doing all the time, but they're not good/experienced enough to do it consistently.
Good assessment. We got plenty of balls into the box but no-one attacked or got on the end of them, other than from set pieces. Was better, but final ball has to improve and players have to actually attack them if we're to break this losing run.
The other two times we've played in that manner were Swindon and Gillingham. 6 scored, one conceded and 6 points. Both described as ugly wins by the coaching staff
True. It was certainly not Barcelona, but it did get my on the edge of my seat believing that we could actually score a goal. I'd take that every week rather than the best pass completion in the league, scoring the odd corner.
There's inconsistent and then there's inconsistent. They've not done it for anything more than about 3 halves. You can't blame that on inexperience alone. Tactics to blame.
Or maybe the players thought '**** it lets play the way we want instead of listening to that ****ing clown' Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
All everyone needs to know. WE LOST AND THAT'S THE 7TH STRAIGHT DEFEAT Spin it up down and all around and it don't change a thing! Have they gone yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers for taking the time to write this mate. Interesting observations always welcome when I don't go myself.
I used to work in Coventry. Think it was 2009. I worked with a cov fan and i went to a few games with him on Tuesday night. Saw a great 3-4 game v Newcastle in the cup - Michael Owen scoring the winner in extra time. One of Kev Keegans final games. And saw a really good Swansea team with Jason Scotland playing up front draw 1-1. What a display of great passing football from Swansea. And I saw Barnsley draw 1-1. I think Jim O Brian scored for us but might be wrong. My mate was raving about our left winger with flash boots but cant remember who it was. Would it have been Hammill?
