Match Thread Coventry City - Norwich City Match Thread - Saturday 7th Oct (4 Viewers)

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Can't see it. Ayari has bags of ability and is getting better each game.

I said a couple of weeks ago he looked like he should have had a season in L1, well today he didn't look out of place.
Needs to start consistently producing end product now and I think he will.
I expect we’ll see the best of him post-Christmas and we’ll end up missing him when he’s gone.
 

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Interesting scenes at the train station with 20-30 Norwich climbing over the gate to force themselves on the train. Really have to get more carriages on the service.

When you've been to the game Saturday afternoon but have to be up carrot picking at the crack of dawn Sunday...........
 

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Can't see it. Ayari has bags of ability and is getting better each game.

I said a couple of weeks ago he looked like he should have had a season in L1, well today he didn't look out of place.
Needs to start consistently producing end product now and I think he will.

Looked like a player that might take the Hamer role to me TBH.
 

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I was coming from Block 35, just picking up a train of confused and increasingly angry people trying to have a fag. I saw people give up half way and just smoke in the concourse because it was so packed nothing would be done. Would love to know the decision behind it. I bet it’s nothing more substantial than “I don’t like smokers”.
I’m an ex-smoker but don’t really understand why smoking is banned on station platforms and in football stadiums (outside) - it just leads to the inevitable where people just end up doing it indoors, which is worse.
 

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Can't see it. Ayari has bags of ability and is getting better each game.

I said a couple of weeks ago he looked like he should have had a season in L1, well today he didn't look out of place.
Needs to start consistently producing end product now and I think he will.

I think he's look OK, no better. Similar to Palmer.

Palmer had an excellent start to the season and then lost his way at Hull and Cardiff.

Ayari looked good second half today.
 
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I like Ayari, he has a bit of class about him…..now he is young and will come on with a bit of confidence and some game time. Most of it was ok today, we made them look very average but alas I stick to my views on our expensive strikers …..they will bag a few goals here and there but they are our Achilles heel I’m sure.
 

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I’m an ex-smoker but don’t really understand why smoking is banned on station platforms and in football stadiums (outside).

I can get in the ground TBH because you can’t move and I’ve had wafts of a joint or some vaping Thomas the Tank Engine impersonator. It’s not nice.

But the previous smoking areas were spot on. Enough that you aren’t causing massive traffic through the concourse and out the way. Everyone’s happy.
 
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I like Ayari, he has a bit of class about him…..now he is young and will come on with a bit of confidence and some game time. Most of it was ok today, we made them look very average but alas I stick to my views on our expensive strikers …..they will bag a few goals here and there but they are our Achilles heel I’m sure.
I'm underwhelmed with Wright , can see an player in Simms . Want to see how both perform once O'Hare and Sheaf are back
 
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Do love the brain confusion of SBT whenever we have two players good enough for one position though
Must pick a favourite and constantly call the other shit, otherwise are you even an SBT member?

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People still waving their luxury player flag, I see. He’s not even that anymore. Get nowhere near that pitch with a fully fit squad.
 

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Can't see it. Ayari has bags of ability and is getting better each game.

I said a couple of weeks ago he looked like he should have had a season in L1, well today he didn't look out of place.
Needs to start consistently producing end product now and I think he will.
Lots of improvements to be made yet too. No need to put players down so much. Young ones in particular
 

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The forwards are a huge concern and we have no Hamer replacement
I'm underwhelmed with Wright, can see a player in Simms . Want to see O' Hare and Sheaf playing before make a proper judgement .
Think we will sign a Styles/Swift in January but Ayari has loads of potential
 

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After the Cardiff game I was really struggling to see how we could look beyond midtable this season such a poor team performance, 7 points from the last three slowly but surely we're looking more of a team plenty of work still to do but massive improvements made and with players still to come back in who knows we might become good enough for a playoff hunt
 

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Not at all, just stating the obvious.
We're virtually a quarter of the way through the season, surely a decent player would be performing better by now.
People have been calling for him to start a game along side Simms, and today we saw exactly what I feared, a lack luster display.

I saw a lacklustre amount of balls being played to them. They both made some decent runs and whilst Wright still isn’t quite up to speed yet (fair comment that he should be by now) I don’t think it’s good to just wright them both off. They’re strong, quick strikers who should be feeding off through balls or quick crosses into the box. We’re doing none of that, can hardly blame them for looking quiet when we barely created a chance for them.
 

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I wish there was a tally on the number of dribbles per game, we seem so scared to try and play through any defence we come up against.
 

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I saw a lacklustre amount of balls being played to them. They both made some decent runs and whilst Wright still isn’t quite up to speed yet (fair comment that he should be by now) I don’t think it’s good to just wright them both off. They’re strong, quick strikers who should be feeding off through balls or quick crosses into the box. We’re doing none of that, can hardly blame them for looking quiet when we barely created a chance for them.

This is a fair comment. We’ve got no one who can hit them early with a decent ball and it shows. Saw so many runs that Hamer would have picked out go unnoticed today from all the strikers.
 
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I saw a lacklustre amount of balls being played to them. They both made some decent runs and whilst Wright still isn’t quite up to speed yet (fair comment that he should be by now) I don’t think it’s good to just wright them both off. They’re strong, quick strikers who should be feeding off through balls or quick crosses into the box. We’re doing none of that, can hardly blame them for looking quiet when we barely created a chance for them.

Just admit they never worked, you were wrong to bang on all week about playing them together and we can all move on with our lives.
 
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Just admit they never worked, you were wrong to bang on all week about playing them together and we can all move on with our lives.

They were as good or bad as any partnership we’ve seen this season. Wright was gash and they got no service. But that was true when him and Godden were playing too.
 

clint van damme

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They were as good or bad as any partnership we’ve seen this season. Wright was gash and they got no service. But that was true when him and Godden were playing too.

Our best striker today was Godden, that's undeniable.
He has to start v Bristol.
 

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Our best striker today was Godden, that's undeniable.
He has to start v Bristol.

I deny it. I thought he pressed well but otherwise was poor in link up and didn’t look like scoring. Thought Simms was better overall TBH. But not much in it. Both were head and shoulders above Wright.
 

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Just admit they never worked, you were wrong to bang on all week about playing them together and we can all move on with our lives.

I’ve got to hand it to you, you’re hilarious at times Clint 😂 Trying to say we should never play our £12 million strikers when they had almost no chances created for them. I don’t think a saw a solid ball created for them all afternoon, there was maybe one chance at best where you could say they should have scored. Godden comes on also got no chances created for him and for some reason he’s the answer. I’m not saying the answer is Simms or Wright or Godden or whoever else we could sign, it doesn’t matter, if we can’t create chances for our strikers then they’re never going to be able to score.

It’s not about who’s right and who’s wrong, who should we play and who we shouldn’t play, it’s about our team not creating chances for the strikers to put away, simple as that.
 

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I’ve got to hand it to you, you’re hilarious at times Clint 😂 Trying to say we should never play our £12 million strikers when they had almost no chances created for them. I don’t think a saw a solid ball created for them all afternoon, there was maybe one chance at best where you could say they should have scored. Godden comes on also got no chances created for him and for some reason he’s the answer. I’m not saying the answer is Simms or Wright or Godden or whoever else we could sign, it doesn’t matter, if we can’t create chances for our strikers then they’re never going to be able to score, simple as that.

I agree were not creating enough, that's why you play your top scorer, the one who has proven he can make the best of slim pickings.

And there you go again, mentioning price tags, it's irrelevant mate. Absolutely meaningless
 
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You know, I can actually see an argument you could make for dropping Godden and it isn't just down to goals whether he stays in the team or not. But currently the arguments for dropping him appear to be he presses too much, and didn't cost enough!
 

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An insult coming from you is just laughable.
You might be happy with their contribution, but I think you'll find your in the minority.
As per usual.
My football views are actually respected by most on here. I have actually been involved in the game at a half decent standard whereas you haven’t actually got a clue
 

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