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It is a shame that it’s now trophy where many big teams play their fringe players and reserves. It’s lost any real status - you beat a big team but it might be only beating their kids and reserves Don’t the Scots have a cup where the top Welsh / Eire / NI teams also take part? Maybe non-prem...

I think he went to Bristol Rovers as did a few of our other players. But be of the coaches / scouts went there too? Some kind of link - can’t recall exactly. I do recall MR stating that BR pay high wages.

It’s about balance. WRT Keane and Doyle, IMHO they would make excellent assistant managers to more tactical / cerebral / encouraging / supportive type managers. In my lifetime, our purple patches have been managed by Sillett / Curtis and Robins / Vivash. Briefly (and I’ll stand by this) the...

Dovin 6 Good save or two but faffs about a bit with distribution. I’m sure he’ll get to grips. MVE 7 His pace tracking back is immense. Didn’t have his passing boots on going forward or drive on like he can. Lati 6 Not 100% comfortable with him there. Binks 7 Solid overall. Bidwell 6...

Some good points being made here. Personally, I’d like someone to get in amongst the other side’s bullies, be in the ear of the ref, organise the back line from free kicks and corners etc. Doyle was good in the lower leagues, Luton had Sonny Bradley on their promotion season. When Tats gets...

Was half expecting a “leader” type player to come in over this window. Fadz, Kelly and even Gus and Cal were deemed to be “big voices” in the squad. MR suggests that they are a “quiet bunch”. Off field, AV was a strong character as too, I suspect, big Dennis Lawrence. Just an observation...

And the new kit details. Maybe a family member?

Walsall = Saddlers Chris Marsh - Kit man - Walsall through and through - “saddler” Just saying.

I wonder if we’ve ever had a team that would end up with a higher eventual transfer value than the one at the end of 21/22? Gyok £75m? Maatsen £35m Hamer £15m etc. Any stat fiends on here know?

Turns out it was Bane.

I’m sure we’ve got a few quid spare, surely the cup run and better than anticipated attendances have given us a surplus over the budget last year. 20000 season tickets and the impact that has on F&B kickback and so on…. Not sure we’ll be having to sell Sheaf at a knock down price….

Cov have a new claim to fame, having the first South Asian footballer in the Premier League. Robert Rosario is of Anglo/Indian heritage (as am I FWIW). Must admit that I thought he was Italian - maybe he was from Portuguese/ Goan stock. Anyway, a first for Cov...

Tell them that it’ll be handy to have a link to East Midlands airport as well as Birmingham airport in a couple of years time when CCFC have European Football fixtures. We live and hope in these towns.

Collins 5 First goal went straight through him. He seems to get constantly caught out at the near post. His ability to release quickly seems to come up short. Bottom line is that he has concedes far more than Ben Wilson. Why not play Wilson for these dead rubber matches? MVE 6 Electric pace...

Robins great etc. But we clearly need a set-piece and throw in coach. We look clueless

(With regards to Bayliss) Wasn’t he referred to in the Jak Hickman “Pepsi” video that he (TB) was now being paid “ten bags” at Preston. I guess it means he was earning £10k / week at Preston - one would assume a huge leap from what he was on at Cov - therefore it might well be he would keen...

Collins 8 Surprised he was picked MVE 8 motm Fast all game Thomas 7 Some poor distribution Kitching 5 dotd Stupid choice to pull his man back. Dasilva 7 Lively Kelly 5 Some poor passing. Wasn’t direct enough at times Eccles 6 Quiet Palmer 7 I thought he did quite well COH 6 Though the...

-Collins 4 Opinions divided but the bottom line is that Wilson kept about 20 clean sheets last season and Collins has a fraction of that. Cost us the game and any chance of playoffs / keeping O’Hare etc. gets beaten at the near post too often. -Lati 5 Out of form or out of position - possibly...

That was ridiculous.

One thing that lets this side down is the total lack of ability with a dead ball. Throw ins? We’ve always been poor and the ball often gets turned over. Why hasn’t this been addressed in coaching? Corners and wide free kicks? Wasted more often than not. Hamer was an exception to the rule but...