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Johnson played in the last four or five games of Mowbray's first season (end of the 14/15 season). During his two years at the club Johnson played in (as far as I can see) 32 league games. We had a record in those games of won 15 lost 6 drawn 11 giving a points total of 56, equalling 1.75 points...

And he would be able to have that quality of player, just waiting for Reda to fail , happily sitting on the bench, on the budget we have? Also, up to the point that Reda was injured, as I have mentioned he played almost every game for Mowbray. If you remember the injury that did for him wasn't a...

So he should have had a player waiting in the wings? Ben Turner arriving not an adequate replacement?

I was at that game. As with most of the season, we played well and deserved the win.

He inherited Reda Johnson. At the end of his first season here I think Johnson played in all of, certainly most of Mowbray's games in charge as TM turned things around and saved the club from relegation. He wasn't in and out of the team. Reda then played in all of the games at the start of the...

Stephens and Cargill were both signed together more or less as we had been hit badly by injuries to centre halves, both good players and both signed by Mowbray. Maddison was certainly off the boil in the second half of the season after he had been sold to Norwich. Not the same player, who was...

The fact is that it indicates the luck or lack of it that season that 4 centre halves, 5 if you count Stokes who did play centre half around Christmas time, were injured. Mowbray mentions this in the interview and it's true.

I don't like playing weakened teams. It is the mentality that people like Eddie Howe had last season when he said how he respected the FA Cup but made 11 changes from the previous league game and promptly lost to lower league opposition. They then went on to lose the next 4 or 5 league games. A...

Lost 4 Centre halfs over the course of the season, Willis, Reda, Turner and Carrgil. I would say they were all pretty vital. Stokes was injured around February time and didn't play again properly until the end of last season. We also had Maddison out for 4 months after he made a major impact...

The incident where McNulty was hurt was close to where we were sitting. It was a 50/50 ball and I think was more a case of McNulty being prepared to put his head in where it hurts rather than it being a foul by the County player. (I think he may have been down injured too).

If you have two small guys up front then there is no aerial ball option (although that didn't stop Slade persevering with this last season). I thought it was a clever way of using Vincenti's attributes as he was there to win the ball in the air and start attacks that way. Without him we lose...

I was surprised how tall he is. He marked Ameobi at a throw in the second half and was taller than him. It is interesting the way that he is played. As the two forwards are quite small, a lot of the long forward balls are to Vincenti's head. He won most of the heading contests in the game. He is...

They certainly need to get the ticketing sorted out as I am sure it will put people off. We bought our season tickets in May. Mine came on Thursday but no sign of my son's. No paper ticket through the post either so he went to the tickret office about 2.20 on Saturday. There were two queues one...

In the past week I have come across three companies that have Sky Blue as part of their name, Sky Blue Pizzas, Sky Blue Fixings, a company in Stoke Coventry and Sky Blue Roofing. You would think that being in Coventry all of these are named in honour of our team. I wondered how many other Sky...

Same for me last season. Missed the first few games as I was on holiday and would have passed my tickets on to a friend. (Had they liked what they had seen might have convinced them to go again). As they didn't arrive I wasn't able to. I booked two tickets for a show at the Birmingham Hippodrome...

Apologies if I mentioned this before. One Sunday when I was a kid I was playing football with my mates on Binley Rec. Someone came running up to say that Bill Glazier was outside Binley Club. We all ran over to the club and sure enough there was Bill and also the CET football writer Derek...

Great goalkeeper loved watching him play.

Yes think you are right. Memory not what it was!

One of the most memorable first days for me was the 3-0 win at Goodison Park in the seventies. David Cross scored a hat trick. On the last day of the season at Burnley we won again with another David Cross hat trick. The thing that stands out for me from the 2-1 win against Spurs was the way...

Our two not arrived yet.