Match Thread Coventry City - Oxford United Match Thread - Saturday 7th Feb (10 Viewers)

OldBedrocker · 2026-02-07T19:19:52+0000

Rodders1 said:
Just got back. Passive, slow, devoid of ideas. If only Wright had slotted his one on one home we have scrapped a win.

Weird thing is we’re fine at home usually so why were the full backs held back. Thats what we need to do away.

I’d say insipid rather than passive. Too many players taking the safe option

oscillatewildly · 2026-02-07T19:19:54+0000

Otis said:
Bookmarked!!

Librarian!

Skyblueabo1111 · 2026-02-07T19:20:07+0000

Terry Gibson's perm said:
I thought we made changes to late, you could see at half time that Eccles was having one of those days and it felt the three in midfield were not progressive enough.

I would like us to have taken off Eccles and brought on Simms and gone two up as they were just defending.

Towards the end I would like us to have really changed it and replaced Grimes with Onyeka just so the players can’t keep cheating and giving it to Grimes.

Frank doesn't do subs..The cov fans can see it, why not Frank?

Skyblueabo1111 · 2026-02-07T19:21:45+0000

OldBedrocker said:
I’d say insipid rather than passive. Too many players taking the safe option

Wright , 2 in 18, but hey! He is out star striker! Same against Sunderland. Don't question Frank.

Brighton Sky Blue · 2026-02-07T19:25:35+0000

nicksar said:
You will not find a betting market for that with any bookmaker.

You will if you go into a shop and ask.

CCFCSteve · 2026-02-07T19:30:02+0000

SkyBlue_Bear83 said:
Yea, said lots of positives. Dominated in every way but was just one of those days when the ball wouldn't go in. Oxford sit in a low block and give very few chances away in their recent matches o we actually created more clear chances than he thought we might do before the match.

However frustrating the game was, especially the speed of getting ball into the box, we still created more than enough to win. We’re just not getting the rub of the green in and around the area, or anywhere near as clinical as we were earlier in the season.

Players confidence looks to have dropped and a load of our fans have just given up. Bizarre as we’re still well in the mix

eyesee · 2026-02-07T19:33:04+0000

i assume there's no one left on here who thinks wright is a striker.
he can't head the ball, hold off defenders, or shoot without touching the ball 3 times. oh, and he's PERMANENTLY OFFFUCKINGSIDE.

can we please stick him on the wing where he belongs? or sell him, either is fine by me at the moment. but no more of this striker nonsense, please. it's killing us.

StrettoBoy · 2026-02-07T19:34:42+0000

I posted this nearly two months ago; on 12th December to be precise:

StrettoBoy said:
. . . after being top for quite a while with a ten point gap, I'm worried that suddenly finding ourselves trailing Middlesborough will cause a loss of confidence and a drop in form that could see us out of the top two. I don't want to see a repeat of what happened under Tony Mowbray.

I got a fair bit of stick for it at the time and some were laughing at me. I bet they're not laughing now.

It's all very depressing

PVA · 2026-02-07T19:37:54+0000

On the odds talk, we're still joint favourites to win the league and favourites for a top 2 finish.

Brighton Sky Blue · 2026-02-07T19:41:29+0000

PVA said:
On the odds talk, we're still joint favourites to win the league and favourites for a top 2 finish.

Let’s revisit this at the end of the month.

nicksar · 2026-02-07T19:44:31+0000

Brighton Sky Blue said:
You will if you go into a shop and ask.

I've just checked on my Betfair exchange account and there is a market (with only £45k volume traded all season so far) we are 1.14 to make the top Six , obviously decimal odds but 1/86 on if you use fractional odds.

AFCCOVENTRY · 2026-02-07T19:45:42+0000

I don’t get why Onyeka didn’t get some minutes today.

What is the point in signing these players for 15/16 games and they don’t get game time especially someone like the tank.

PVA · 2026-02-07T19:45:44+0000

nicksar said:
I've just checked on my Betfair exchange account and there is a market (with only £45k volume traded all season so far) we are 1.14 to make the top Six , obviously decimal odds but 1/86 on if you use fractional odds.

That's an implied probability of 98.9%!

Tommo1993 · 2026-02-07T19:46:35+0000

PVA said:
On the odds talk, we're still joint favourites to win the league and favourites for a top 2 finish.

They can’t watch a lot of football.

Skyblueabo1111 · 2026-02-07T19:46:47+0000

Simms 10 in 13 starts.Wright, 2 in 17. Apparently I am a knob, for posting this.

Finham · 2026-02-07T19:47:22+0000

Brighton Sky Blue said:
Lampard post match interview bingo:

'We're in a tough moment'
'Hard work is the only way I know out of this'

We must be getting close to "I don't have a magic wand" territory.

Otis · 2026-02-07T19:47:42+0000

Ian1779 said:
We didn’t lose. 15 games to go everyone needs to chill the fuck out.

Time for Onyeka to start and the attackers to
step the fuck up.

Yup

That's it in a nutshell.

xcraigx · 2026-02-07T19:49:20+0000

nicksar said:
I've just checked on my Betfair exchange account and there is a market (with only £45k volume traded all season so far) we are 1.14 to make the top Six , obviously decimal odds but 1/86 on if you use fractional odds.

1.14 is 1/7.

nicksar · 2026-02-07T19:50:24+0000

xcraigx said:
1.14 is 1/7.

Decimal odds include your stake mate

Otis · 2026-02-07T19:52:04+0000

The one thing I would have done today at the end, was to throw Thomas on up front. Just for the last 10 mins.

Oxford were zero threat at that point and they had been winning headers in their own box all day long

I would have just sent Thomas into the box to be a threat, ruffle a few feathers and be something else for their defence to think about

We had nothing to lose. Simms offered nothing when he came on unfortunately.

nicksar · 2026-02-07T19:53:17+0000

PVA said:
That's an implied probability of 98.9%!

Decimal odds on the BF exchange include your stake

PVA · 2026-02-07T19:55:37+0000

nicksar said:
Decimal odds on the BF exchange include your stake

I know, 1/86 = 98.9% implied probability!

Finham · 2026-02-07T19:56:26+0000

mark82 said:
Yes, can't see anything other than a comfortable Boro win.

However, if we manage to be them (and that's a massive if at the moment), surely it gives us a massive boost.

AFCCOVENTRY · 2026-02-07T19:56:56+0000

Otis said:
The one thing I would have done today at the end, was to throw Thomas on up front. Just for the last 10 mins.

Oxford were zero threat at that point and they had been winning headers in their own box all day long

I would have just sent Thomas into the box to be a threat, ruffle a few feathers and be something else for their defence to think about

We had nothing to lose. Simms offered nothing when he came on unfortunately.

We were too slow to get the ball into the danger area. We’re literally playing it about. Wouldn’t matter who we had in the box.

Londonccfcfan · 2026-02-07T20:00:10+0000

M

Brighton Sky Blue said:
There's 3 minutes of him talking to CWR posted not long ago.

Where that posted?

Londonccfcfan · 2026-02-07T20:01:50+0000

We cant slate the team today ..im certainly not. Frustrated isnt the word.

But it happens ....we played well. Lacked vital ingredient luck.

ProfessorbyGrace · 2026-02-07T20:03:05+0000

eyesee said:
i assume there's no one left on here who thinks wright is a striker.
he can't head the ball, hold off defenders, or shoot without touching the ball 3 times. oh, and he's PERMANENTLY OFFFUCKINGSIDE.

can we please stick him on the wing where he belongs? or sell him, either is fine by me at the moment. but no more of this striker nonsense, please. it's killing us.

I generally agree with Wright playing from a wider position, as it worked for him at Antalyaspor. He seems more of a ‘wide forward’ as such, and not a traditional striker.

I don’t think this will happen under Lampard, though.

Otis · 2026-02-07T20:03:30+0000

AFCCOVENTRY said:
We were too slow to get the ball into the danger area. We’re literally playing it about. Wouldn’t matter who we had in the box.

Disagree.

We were slow getting it into the box BECAUSE they were winning every header, so we were trying to work it to the byline for cutbacks into the box most of the time , rather than just lump it in.

This was why we were reluctant to just throw high balls in there.

Thomas would have enabled us to do that

Otis · 2026-02-07T20:04:38+0000

Londonccfcfan said:
We cant slate the team today ..im certainly not. Frustrated isnt the word.

But it happens ....we played well. Lacked vital ingredient luck.

Agree.

The ball was pinging about their 5 yard box quite a bit and it always seemed to fall to them so they could clear the danger.

We weren't good enough, but we lacked that bit of luck too

AFCCOVENTRY · 2026-02-07T20:06:56+0000

Otis said:
Disagree.

We were slow getting it into the box BECAUSE they were winning every header, so we were trying to work it to the byline for cutbacks into the box most of the time , rather than just lump it in.

This was why we were reluctant to just throw high balls in there.

Thomas would have enabled us to do that

Agree to disagree. In the last 10mins we should have been peppering that box. It went sideways, forward, back, sideways…. We just didn’t throw the kitchen sink at them.

long way home · 2026-02-07T20:07:31+0000

Watching today you can see the players are not confident they are searching for form. And are looking around for someone to do something to charge the game. . Only one way you get out of this and its hard work and sticking together keeping positive around each other.

15 games, lots of points on offer and a few players to come back in. We got to look forward and get Emc and BTA back in the squad and get the Tank in the 11 to give it everything.

Londonccfcfan · 2026-02-07T20:07:50+0000

Otis said:
Agree.

The ball was pinging about their 5 yard box quite a bit and it always seemed to fake to them so they could clear the danger.

We weren't good enough, but we lacked that bit of luck too

I think we all knew after 70 mins this wasnt going to be our day.

Every 50/50 in their box fell kindly to them. And there was about 15 of them!

Even their defendwrs tried to score an own goal and it hit their keeper who knew about it from point blank. Jeez it was one of those days.

The referee was abysmal. We should have been playing against 9 players.

Londonccfcfan · 2026-02-07T20:08:49+0000

AFCCOVENTRY said:
Agree to disagree. In the last 10mins we should have been peppering that box. It went sideways, forward, back, sideways…. We just didn’t throw the kitchen sink at them.

We missed a trick with Thomas not being thrown on. They never laid a glove on us we coukd have maybe risked it a bit more.

play_in_skyblue_stripes · 2026-02-07T20:11:12+0000

Otis said:
The one thing I would have done today at the end, was to throw Thomas on up front. Just for the last 10 mins.

Oxford were zero threat at that point and they had been winning headers in their own box all day long

I would have just sent Thomas into the box to be a threat, ruffle a few feathers and be something else for their defence to think about

We had nothing to lose. Simms offered nothing when he came on unfortunately.

Totally understand your thinking.

Not sure what that message that would send out though. Hugely disappointing but with 15 games left no need to absolutely panic.

We are floundering for sure. Strangely almost more positive after today than in some other home games recently. Have to say though, Oxford do not look championship standard and its a poor result.

A lot of pressure on us to win today. That's not an excuse. At least we got a clean sheet.

StrettoBoy · 2026-02-07T20:13:36+0000

PVA said:
On the odds talk, we're still joint favourites to win the league and favourites for a top 2 finish.

To finish in the top two we are going to have to perform at virtually the level of Middlesbrough and Ipswich for the rest of the season. I'd love to think we will but, given the way we have played for over two months, I can't see it.

I'd love to be wrong.

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