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    Match Thread Leeds U23 v Coventry City U23

    I take it you only watched extra time. In the first half Addai was bringing the ball out like he thought he was Beckenbauer :)
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    Match Thread Leeds U23 v Coventry City U23

    Leeds are a strong team, but our discipline has been excellent. I like Drysdale & Burroughs. Both are definite prospects.
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    Match Thread Leeds U23 v Coventry City U23

    While I get that for development purposes this team are encouraged to play their football on the deck and from the back, it does result in playing some dangerous stuff at the back. When these lads make it into the first team against hard nosed League 1 footballers where the result is everything...
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    Don Mackay

    He was Bobby Gould's assistant during his first spell and took over from him. He managed us through the following season until he was sacked just before the end of the season, when Curtis & Sillett then took over and kept us up in another last game escape when we beat QPR.
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    Hiwula on target

    Fair enough, yes he is top scorer with 12 goals. If that is a statistic precious to you though, then 18 players have scored more league 1 goals than him, which kind of puts him in his rightful place in the league 1 pecking order, for this season at least. That said he has finished the season...
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    Bright Enobakhare

    Was that the group he sent training on their own at the memorial park? Trying to rack my brain about who else was in that bomb squad. Got a feeling Eustace and Joachim were among them, but can't remember exactly.
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    Hiwula on target

    This is a pretty good example for not taking stats at face value. Hiwula has had a strange season. He definitely has quality, and has contributed positively at times to the teams cause, but in certain games he offered very little, and missed a number of easy chances, some of which he hit...
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    Your Bad Days At A Match

    Just looked it up and yes I think you're right, the Birmingham game was 1983/84 season. I remember we won and Terry Gibson scored, which also happened in the 1985/86 season, but the clincher was the report saying that Sam Allardyce broke Mick Harford's jaw. Until I read it again it was an...
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    Your Bad Days At A Match

    The two I remember most were the midweek Cup Semi at West Ham in 1981. I was just turned 16, not very worldly wise & travelled by train from Rugby. They got a late winner & we left the ground thinking their fans would all be celebrating, but instead we had to run a gauntlet of flying fists and...
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    Shipley or Bayliss at CM

    Except for his poor tracking back for Sunderland's first goal, Shipley was excellent yesterday. It's only one game though, so deciding he is a better long term option than Bayliss is extremely premature.
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    Match Thread Sunderland vs. Coventry City Match Thread - Saturday 13th Apr

    By my reckoning our record against the 7 teams above us so far is Played 12, Won 7, Draw 3, Lost 2. If only we could have replicated that against the poorer teams in the league!!
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    What attendances will we get at "shared" home grounds ?

    Why would more away fans go to Northampton than Birmingham? Northampton's maximum away capacity is 1,350 while St Andrews could fit up to 6,000 if needed.
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    What attendances will we get at "shared" home grounds ?

    Don't know the maximum capacity feasible if it was Rugby but if it were say 6,000 I think we would pretty much sell that out.
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    If we move

    Incidentally I remember when the previous move to Northampton came around there was some talk about playing in Hinckley, as their ground was ok by non league standards. I know nothing about the ground, or whether it still exists as I think the club itself went bust but that would fall into an...
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    If we move

    Yes to Nuneaton, Rugby or St Andrews. Maybe to Alexander Stadium or Walsall. No to anywhere else.
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    David Busst article

    Are 2 footed challenges allowed in walking football?
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    Match Thread Sunderland vs. Coventry City Match Thread - Saturday 13th Apr

    If we do win at Sunderland we will probably follow it up by failing to beat Bradford!
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    Player ratings

    Not sure - don't get the Kelly love in that you & others participate in. What comments do you think I have deleted? He certainly hasn't let us down and has performed to a consistently good level since Doyle's departure, and I have marked him accordingly. He isn't as good as you think he is...
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    Player ratings

    Its a game that has been typical of our season. Dominating the game, with good football, up to he final 3rd with poor decision making & no cutting edge. Burge - 7 not much to do, but one good save Sterling - 7 got forward well with a couple of half decent crosses Davies - 8 good solid game...
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