Match Thread Coventry City - Norwich City Match Thread - Saturday 13th Sep (33 Viewers)

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mrfr

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If we play like that all season we finish in the top two. 9 times out of 10 that performance gets you a comfortable 3 points and a couple more goals. I thought Simms did well when he came on, I thought we looked a more threatening attacking proposition with Sakamoto back in the starting XI. I'd drop Thomas for the next game and bring in Woolfenden, Thomas' distribution was poor today and I thought we were fortunate a couple of times not to be punished by his decision making and positional indiscipline.

On the ref, this is why they don't often go early with yellow cards for timewasting - once he sets that standard he has to maintain it, and he didn't. He'd have been better off ignoring it until the 75th minute like they usually do. Also I'd love someone to explain the maths for the added time in both halves. Do they just draw a number out of a hat now and play that many minutes?
 
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long way home

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If they are happy with watching that shit fair play to them. I also don't think it was good defending more poor finishing 4 times we missed the ball with the GK stranded
 
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SBT

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SeaSeeEffCee said:
Performances have been better than the results so far I would say. Need to figure out the defence though as both Thomas and Kitching are prone to insane moments of brainlessness.
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I’m going to assume/hope that Woolfenden is better than both of them, in which case it’s all about finding which of the two complements him best. Thomas does at least offer something in the opposition’s box, while Kitching has a good passing range.
 
AFCCOVENTRY

AFCCOVENTRY

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Different angle for the goal and shows it’s a good finish from Haji. Ball came in from Simms saved shot behind him and he adjusted his body well to finish it.

 
shmmeee

shmmeee

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SBT said:
I’m going to assume/hope that Woolfenden is better than both of them, in which case it’s all about finding which of the two complements him best. Thomas does at least offer something in the opposition’s box, while Kitching has a good passing range.
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I thought Kitching would drop for that reason as the word on Woolf was he’s a passer. But Thomas is trying hard to make that choice it seems.
 
AFCCOVENTRY

AFCCOVENTRY

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Different angle for the goal and shows it’s a good finish from Haji. Ball came in from Simms saved shot behind him and he adjusted his body well to finish it.

 
Evo1883

Evo1883

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You'd have to say this is a mental take from this Norwich supporter Screenshot_20250913_175706_Chrome.jpg

But then this fan saves their fanbase with some reality


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stevefloyd

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SkyblueTexan said:
Though I’ve been very critical of Simms, I think he might need more game time. He got an assist for Wright’s goal and can be a handful for defenders if he plays with some. grit
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The trouble with Simms is that when he tries to be aggresive he is just clumsy/ungainly apart from a first touch of a sledgehammer, not being able to control the ball, not being great at heading the ball, seems reactive instead of anticipating play and certainly nowhere near clinical enough. He seems a likeable chap but we don't want likeable we want nasty and powerful but we are stuck with him until January at least so hopefully Frank can discover a way to get more out of him while he is here....not holding my breath though!
 
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scubasteve

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Not sure if it's been said but I went today expecting a good game of attacking football. But it was 99mins of shit house, reminded me of the burnley game last season. Frustrating, but atleast we got a point out of it today.
 
Paxman II

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A lot could be said about today, but on reflection a side like Norwich who normally have a lot of the ball were outplayed today. We have definately become a much better team. We have a lot of quality, and but for some strange drop of the ball, lack of final third finish, and teriffic defending by Norwich we win trhat easily. One critique would be when we reached a crossing position, instead of a first ball in we often passed it out wide again. Hit it in first time. We never stopped going forward all game and sides will fear our energy. Wright had a stone wall penalty denied only minutes before he scored. But, for all our stats we never really troubled their keeper did we? I think the ref was terrible. They can definately affect a game and today he certainly did. Fair play to Norwich, they didn't crumble and fought hard all game and got some reward. For us, we are unbeaten and in the hunt. Can't help a small chuckle at Stoke...who would have thought? Lots of results went or way today so onward and upward.
 
CovInEssex

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Paxman II said:
A lot could be said about today, but on reflection a side like Norwich who normally have a lot of the ball were outplayed today. We have definately become a much better team. We have a lot of quality, and but for some strange drop of the ball, lack of final third finish, and teriffic defending by Norwich we win trhat easily. One critique would be when we reached a crossing position, instead of a first ball in we often passed it out wide again. Hit it in first time. We never stopped going forward all game and sides will fear our energy. Wright had a stone wall penalty denied only minutes before he scored. But, for all our stats we never really troubled their keeper did we? I think the ref was terrible. They can definately affect a game and today he certainly did. Fair play to Norwich, they didn't crumble and fought hard all game and got some reward. For us, we are unbeaten and in the hunt. Can't help a small chuckle at Stoke...who would have thought? Lots of results went or way today so onward and upward.
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Their GK had nothing to do because they threw themselves at the ball every time. Never seen anything like it. 16 blocked shots!
 
Adge

Adge

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Justice prevailed in the end! It would have been a disaster to not get anything out of the game in the end and even more sweet that after all Norwich’s shenanigans, we scored at the death. Don’t really buy all this cobblers of “I couldn’t watch that every week”. Norwich wont play like that every week and it wont just be them who come to the CBS and do what they did today. They were delighted with a point even though they conceded at the death.
They will be completely different at Carrow Rd.
 
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Skybluekyle

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My brother and I were talking on the way out of the ground, I think the most frustrating thing about today is I always found Norwich to be a better team than to stoop to the low that they did today.

I get breaking up the play and making the game difficult away from home, you don't wan to allow it to flow and get the ground fired up, but today was an utter joke. There is no subtlety or art to shithousing anymore.

Sound a bit like my mum growing up, I'm not mad I'm just disappointed, but Norwich took the piss and the referee made a mug of him in the process.
 
Paul Anthony

Paul Anthony

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Just back from the game.

If you're going to time waste from about 17 minutes and concede an equaliser in added time, then you've got nobody to blame but yourself.

The ref was a total plonker, he could have started dishing out yellows for time wasting ten/fifteen minutes before he finally did, it was obvious what was going on. And how on earth he didn't twig their player hadn't gone off after treatment, unless there's been a change to the rules I've missed?

Had the chances to win comfortably really, still wondering how we missed a couple of them. Can only really remember them having the once chance and that was the one they scored from. Thought overall we played OK, just out finishing let us down.
 
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