Match Thread Coventry v Sunderland Championship Playoff 1st Leg Friday 9th May (93 Viewers)

[Gint11]

ITS.NOT.OVER

 

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[DT-R]

He was onside

He was onside, Kitch was playing him on.

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[higgs]

We are still only 90 mins away from Wembley we need a bit.of luck none of the second balls fell our way in and around the box didn't deserve to lose tonight football is a cruel game

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[skyblu3sk]

Jesus Christ there's more piss stained mattresses on here than during a beer downing competition. It hasn't gone our way tonight but we have another chance to put it right on Tuesday.

 

[HJones23]

Heads up boys, these are shite make no bones about. They will be over confident Tuesday and come press and we will tear the pricks apart.
Set up beautiful for a famous City win Tuesday

PUSB

 

[LilleSkyBlue]

Probably one of the worst ref performances recently and that's saying something.

Gave them an extra 40 seconds at the end when they were time wasting much the whole second half.

Sakamoto fouled professionally by both O'Nien and Siskin multiple times (latter really should have been sent off a few times during that match).

Rudoni in one of the free kicks was being handled by the neck and nothing was given.

Sure there are some other decisions but these were the ones that stood out the most really.

The ref was all right overall, I thought.

 

[Macca]

Kind of summed us up this season. We are a decent team but a limited one

 

[clint van damme]

Genuinely really fucking annoyed about that performance. Playing a team who are in the bin from a confidence perspective and we showed no killer instinct at all.

Or not bothering for 2 months then turning it on in may is a Le Bris master stroke!

 

[Grendel]

We haven't got a useful striker, that is the main problem.

Wright is neither a winger or striker and needs space to run into to be effective. His performances are almost as inconsistent as his first touch. BTA is similar, but without the height advantage, certainly not a lone striker. Simms doesn't use his frame nearly well enough, seems to lack the natural confidence you want in a striker, and his purple patches don't come around nearly often enough.

Spot on - we have no decent striker and it’s cost us

 

[Ashdown]

I don’t want to hear criticism of Rudoni in any shape or form, him and Grimes and a handful of others have carried some bang average players for a while now. Disaster for MVE but he’s still a good player and fair play to DaSilva too.
Simms, BTA, Bidwell, Latibeaudiere, Collins etc ….See you laters !
Bizarrely we are still only a 2-0 win away from Wembley though. An early goal and Sunderland will shit themselves.

 

[shmmeee]

Still not opened the fucking roads. What are they playing at?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

One bad decision too many. Countless times players made the wrong decision with the ball and the clown O9 didn’t have to break sweat in that defence.

Yet again it’s a fucking farce of a goal to give away the result. I didn’t expect them to turn their playing style on its head in a matter of days, we have to do the same.

Don’t see it happening to be honest. Hopefully Sheff Utd beat them in the final and we have one less parachute team next season.

 

[stupot07]

Kind of summed us up this season. We are a decent team but a limited one

Yep, every time we play a team that sits back in a block and is happy just to try and hit us on the counter we get found out. Lampard has never managed to find a plan b

 

[The CableGuy]

Not sure what the attacking plan was tonight. Playing long balls to BTA, and credit to Sunderland, Wright never had a sniff tonight.

Bottom line is, their strikers were more of a threat than ours. With only 25% possession.

 

[Chris1987]

They'll sit deep at home and win 1-0, we'll huff and puff

Some will never accept that the Robins era can't be surpassed and defend it to oblivion

 

[Ccfcisparks]

It’s odd the fans who thought we would win 3/4-0 tonight are writing the tie off when there’s still 90 to play and we only have a 1 goal defecit

 

[jto123]

Kind of summed us up this season. We are a decent team but a limited one

Who are always capable of bad mistakes. Feel it’ll just be a stretch too far to turn this round.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Some will never accept that the Robins era can't be surpassed and defend it to oblivion

Unlikely we will surpass it this season

 

[SkyblueTexan]

I think FL picked the team based on how we ended the Boro match. But one thing he has not been able to figure out all season long is how to unlock teams playing the low block. That is his and the team's downfall. No incisive passing at all. Too many sideways and backward passing. Also I think the team was complacent and expected to win just by showing up. Wright hardly resembled the hattrick hero and BTA was piss-poor. They played their game plan well and counter attacked effectively and got their rewards. They'll be hard to break at their home and will resort to a similar tactic in the second leg. Now that we are going to be chasing them for the equalising goal, it'll be easier for them to counter attack and their crowd will spur them on.

 

[SkyBlue_Adam]

Tie over

1000%

next season we go again

Matt.. for once in your life, stop being over dramatic

 

[Matt smith]

Fuck off.

Let’s see how next Tuesday plays out

guaranteed we lose

 

[shmmeee]

Yep, every time we play a team that sits back in a block and is happy just to try and hit us on the counter we get found out. Lampard has never managed to find a plan b

The plan A doesn’t seem to be tried properly either. He’s supposed to be about crosses into the box with player attacking. Most of today it was three players pissing about in triangles by the corner of the area while shortarse BTA gets drowned in defenders.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Some will never accept that the Robins era can't be surpassed and defend it to oblivion

What?

 

[Matt smith]

Matt.. for once in your life, stop being over dramatic

Mate

hull D

luton L

Plymouth L

derby L

beating Sunderland? Nah you be delusional though pal

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Let’s see how next Tuesday plays out

guaranteed we lose

Please bring the CC84 account back just for tonight to cheer us up

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

It’s odd the fans who thought we would win 3/4-0 tonight are writing the tie off when there’s still 90 to play and we only have a 1 goal defecit

Unless we come up with a radically different way of playing we can’t break them down. Tie over.

 

[Matt smith]

Please bring the CC84 account back just for tonight to cheer us up

Fuck off parks, like a bad smell just hovering over my posts

 

[procdoc]

We will do them at their place. Bookmark this comment

 

[Evo1883]

I think FL picked the team based on how we ended the Boro match. But one thing he has not been able to figure out all season long is how to unlock teams playing the low block. That is his and the team's downfall. No incisive passing at all. Too many sideways and backward passing. Also I think the team was complacent and expected to win just by showing up. Wright hardly resembled the hattrick hero and BTA was piss-poor. They played their game plan well and counter attacked effectively and got their rewards. They'll be hard to break at their home and will resort to a similar tactic in the second leg. Now that we are going to be chasing them for the equalising goal, it'll be easier for them to counter attack and their crowd will spur them on.

What our fans are failing to realise is that every single time frank lampard has the chance to take ellis our of the team he does so , this isnt the first time .

He talked about asante not being fully fit and then he brings him on and has a good 30 against boro and ellis is dropped again .

 

[Saddlebrains]

I think we shit the bed tbh


Final third was poor all evening, and that was mainly due to the inept performances of Haji Wright and BTA

We didn't win enough second balls for a start also

It was clear 20 minutes in BTA down the middle and Haji wide wasn't working, why not swap them over until half time? Think Lampard was poor with that, alongside changing a winning side

Can't get on Milans back hes saved us way more than hes let us down

 

[Matt smith]

I think we shit the bed tbh


Final third was poor all evening, and that was mainly due to the inept performances of Haji Wright and BTA

We didn't win enough second balls for a start also

It was clear 20 minutes in BTA down the middle and Haji wide wasn't working, why not swap them over until half time? Think Lampard was poor with that, alongside changing a winning side

Can't get on Milans back hes saved us way more than hes let us down

Our forward line is shite

discuss

sell BTA simms and Bassette and just get a high quality loan in

 

[Shannerz]

Let’s see how next Tuesday plays out

guaranteed we lose

See my previous post.

 

[procdoc]

Unless we come up with a radically different way of playing we can’t break them down. Tie over.

Stop being so pessimistic. It’s all to play for still

 

[Nick]

What our fans are failing to realise is that every single time frank lampard has the chance to take ellis our of the team he does so , this isnt the first time .

He talked about asante not being fully fit and then he brings him on and has a good 30 against boro and ellis is dropped again .

Bta was playing against a team who had 5 up front and desperately needed goals.

It was madness to think that would be the same tonight.

 

[Matt smith]

See my previous post.

See my post