Match Thread Coventry City vs Hull City (H) - Match Thread - Sat 29th August (3pm KO) (5 Viewers)

[quinn1971]

Do you think going two up and mixing it up might have been worth doing? EMC and JDS had joy on the flank on a couple of occasions through quick and incisive rotations. One striker in the box and their centre halves and keeper swallowing everything up was so predictable on the occasions we did play quickly.

We were never going to win that game but until we put assante and torp on we weren’t losing it either…

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

They're having their fun at the moment but ultimately they'll probably go down this season, and if they don't go this season they'll probably go next season. It's the nature of the league for clubs like theirs and clubs like ours. Everyone not named Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchetser City or Arsenal (don't think I can include Spurs anymore!) is on some form of borrowed time. Some clubs have just got longer leases than others.

They’ll put up much more of a fight than whatever we’re playing at. That’s the minimum fans of any club expect in any league.

 

[Macca]

We didn’t manage anything quick or incisive, that’s the point

This is the key. Everything needs to be done quicker than in the Championship

 

[OldBedrocker]

Wright being injured will end up fucking us over.

If you’re relying on Wright to save our season you’re seriously delusional.
Vanishes as soon as there is a battle to be fought

 

[Macca]

They’ll put up much more of a fight than whatever we’re playing at. That’s the minimum fans of any club expect in any league.

Yep if we are to go down I want to think we that we did everything we could

 

[Macca]

Well this will all be forgotten next week when BTA rises like a salmon to head in a whipped in corner from Grimes and we dispose of Man City. Shit it really must be time to sleep now

 

[Matt smith]

If you’re relying on Wright to save our season you’re seriously delusional.
Vanishes as soon as there is a battle to be fought

To be fair we are missing him at the moment

 

[Skyblueabo1111]

I think it’s plain to see quick incisive play against 5 at the back defending their 18 yard box wasn’t the way to go.

2 up top a change, mix it up clear as day awoniyi was struggling against the three centre halves.

How was he picked above Simms?

 

[Ccfcisparks]

How was he picked above Simms?

Cus simms is crap and needs to be punted off to the championship

 

[skybluecam]

How was he picked above Simms?

He’s quite clearly better than simms

 

[Diogenes]

The great conundrum of English football is 'what is the point of it all if you don't support one of the big clubs?'. I think we are going to find out this season that the reality of being one of the 'others' in the Premier League is that it's shite. In the eyes of most of the world you exist only as fodder for the big teams to play against throughout the season. The only times your results matter is when you play the big 6 and even if you have a good season, or a good few seasons, the best it'll ever get is a big win vs Man United, Liverpool or Arsenal, maybe a cup final, maybe a season in Europe if you're super lucky. But inevitbaly, either at the end of one season, or maybe after 5 years, maybe 10, your go at the big league will be over and you'll be back in the Championship with the sense 'huh, maybe it's not too bad down here after all'. The last few years for us have been the perfect purgatory of knocking on the door of the 'promised land', winning loads of games and having fun but without the recent reminder that the so-called promised land isn't really all it's built up to be.

You arent wrong but realistically none of us expected anything other than relegation. The gap between championship is all but impossible to bridge for multiple sides.

All we were hoping for is:

1) to give it a go
2) to not embarrass ourselves

If we did that and have a huge slice of luck we would have a fighting chance.

So far we dont really look like we are going to give it a go and if that continues it will be a humiliating season.

 

[SeaSeeEffCee]

He’s quite clearly better than simms

There is no point with that guy. He's either related to Simms or is the founding member, chairman, treasurer and tea lady for the Ellis Simms Appreciation Society. It's all he ever posts about on here.

 

[Skyblueabo1111]

He’s quite clearly better than simms

Not on today's performance, Simms v Arsenal. Simms is a big boy, 6 feet 3. He, 6 foot. In fairness, I would have played both and gone more direct, against Hull. I posted that this week and got accused of living in the 90s. I loved the 90s, but I also watched Hull last week.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Not on today's performance, Simms v Arsenal. Simms is a big boy, 6 feet 3. He, 6 foot.

Simms vs Arsenal is just totally scraping the barrell. He won 1 freekick and had 0 shots

 

[Winny the Bish]

My favourite part of the game was when Hull had to make a sub specifically to combat how well Yirenkyi was driving from midfield and Lampard subbed him off.

 

[Perennial Lurker]

My favourite part of the game was when Hull had to make a sub specifically to combat how well Yirenkyi was driving from midfield and Lampard subbed him off.

Was a truly bizarrre sub as Yerenkyi was doing well amongst a lot of dross

 

[skybluecam]

Not on today's performance, Simms v Arsenal. Simms is a big boy, 6 feet 3. He, 6 foot. In fairness, I would have played both and gone more direct, against Hull. I posted that this week and got accused of living in the 90s. I loved the 90s, but I also watched Hull last week.

Ok Mike Bassett

 

[Londonccfcfan]

Haji Wright might just be our saviour (clutching at straws). Will feel like a new £15m signing in October.

My god we could have done with him on the left as EMC replacement.

 

[Skyblueabo1111]

Ok Mike Bassett

What did I miss with this new guy?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Haji Wright might just be our saviour (clutching at straws). Will feel like a new £15m signing in October.

My god we could have done with him on the left as EMC replacement.

I don’t think you ever post sober

 

[PUSB-We_are_going_up]

The most similar league to the Prmeier league physicality wise is the Bundesliga. You can see it with Amenda. We should have shopped in there a lot more, and its fairly cheap too.

I said this before the window even opened, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 have the most successful transfers to the Premier League due to similar levels of physicality

 

[Ccfcisparks]

I said this before the window even opened, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 have the most successful transfers to the Premier League due to similar levels of physicality

Usually relatively cheap also

 

[PUSB-We_are_going_up]

Usually relatively cheap also

There’s still time to get a LW and or CM too, just as long as its not a panic buy

 

[Ccfcisparks]

There’s still time to get a LW and or CM too, just as long as its not a panic buy

dont get your hopes up.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

dont get your hopes up.

Sorba Thomas and Jamie Allen on their way

 

[skybluecam]

The most similar league to the Prmeier league physicality wise is the Bundesliga. You can see it with Amenda. We should have shopped in there a lot more, and its fairly cheap too.

Half our new signings are from the prem itself. I hardly think the likes of Yirenkyi lack physicality either.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Half our new signings are from the prem itself. I hardly think the likes of Yirenkyi lack physicality either.

Yet havent played recently.

Tchaouna is hardly a prem player

 

[PUSB-We_are_going_up]

dont get your hopes up.

Probably just Mfuni in and the rest outs for this window

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Probably just Mfuni in and the rest outs for this window

As I said, dependent on his A-level results

Maths: C
English: O
French: V

 

[skybluecam]

Signings are irrelevant. Personnel wasn’t the problem today, the lack of any tactical identity or understanding between the players was.

 

[PUSB-We_are_going_up]

As I said, dependent on his A-level results

Maths: C
English: O
French: V

It had to be COV

 

[covcity4life]

No you are making silly straw man arguments after we have lost to the worst team in the league. Of course we have "improved" we still are far off we require.

Are you impressed with what you have seen so far?

Not especially. But again it's only two games.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Not especially. But again it's only two games.

and you suspect we will sign players, or find a way to play?

 

[PUSB-We_are_going_up]

Signings are irrelevant. Personnel wasn’t the problem today, the lack of any tactical identity or understanding between the players was.

Personel let us down when Yirenkyi, EMC and Tchaouna went off we became so much more predictable, and easier to defend against, to me Grimes should have gone off for Torp and we should have kept Tchaouna on and moved him over to the left.

 

[stupot07]

There’s still time to get a LW and or CM too, just as long as its not a panic buy

Jaydon Sancho is a free agent, as is Amrabat and Bennacar