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Classic siege mentality. Even if they’d brought it back to 2-2, we still would have won. They came out all guns blazing and we weathered the storm and after that they had nothing. If he’s truthful, which I hope he will be in private, their defence was poor. They gave us far too much space and...

Burge, 8 - pulled off some very good saves, handled everything that came his way with ease Grimmer, 7 - culpable for their first, but was a good attacking threat and made a good slide tackle on their LB to prevent a repeat of last week Hyam, 8 - very well played, he's unlucky to have not started...

I wonder if you were amongst the County fans singing 'the Notts are going up' when you went 1-0 up at the RICOH... Feel silly? Also, shame about the Hilton, at least now you can advertise them now you're on a Coventry City fans forum! Any takers for this man's hotel booking? p.s. next time, do...

The referee had a good game imo. The same cannot be said for his assistants...

Grimmer is very suspect defensively, and for some reason, it goes under the radar. Even for Biamou's goal, he was marginally offside when he got the ball on the wing, the rest was shocking defending, he had three defenders around him giving him all the time in the world to get his shot off his...

I think Nolan will be righteously frustrated with the match officials, the penalty, disallowed goal and our 3rd shouldn’t have been. However, over two legs, we were good value for the draw and were certainly head and shoulders above them tonight. The linesmen were terrible, and thankfully that...

Probably the best half I’ve seen us play this season, such a shame we conceded that goal at the end of the half. We were in complete control, on every 2nd ball, Biamou winning most flick ons, McNulty looks on fire and the midfield has bossed this game. Let’s get a third and end this game.

McNulty did provoke their player by giving him a shove. That said, it was a completely unnecessary response.

Yeah, and if we took away Accrington’s Kee, or Wycombe’s Akinfenwa neither would have made automatics... We’ve been missing our best player for most of the season, Jodi Jones. All it takes is a glance at our record against the top 9 or so with and without him to demonstrate that. Whilst we...

I agree with you there. But, historical facts can play a psychological role in performance I think and the best example in football of this is, penalty shootout. England and Spain (well, used to) have a penalty shootout hoodoo hanging over them. Meanwhile, Germany and Italy were renowned for...

Shocking math officials works both ways. A very bad refereeing decision has kept our season alive, because I couldn’t see us winning the tie had we lost on Saturday.

But haven’t won in the playoffs since before I was born, think it was around 1990 if I remember what I read correctly. I’m just going to enjoy the game, think we’ve got a decent chance of winning, if not, we prepare for autos next season (hopefully).

You’re bound to be disappointed losing in the playoffs, it’s knock out football and all teams in it to win it. Finishing 6th is not a bad season by anyone’s standards. I don’t think we deserved to be in the automatics, and I think we’re missing that bit extra to be an automatic promotion...

Doyle and McNulty are dead certainties. If JCH is on the pitch, he will be too as well as Kelly. They’d be my top 4. Then a toss up between Bayliss, Shipley and a defender for the 5th.

Meh, in the grand scheme of things, we did nick a penalty, that shouldn’t have been, which levelled a game, and I believe, has kept us the tie. Big loss though, I thought Davies was our best player on Saturday. Willis and Hyam will be able to cope. We need to score first.

I personally wouldn’t, because it is an arbitrary punishment. The referee can’t spot every bit of foul play, but, that’s why other sports have citing committees, such as rugby. There is a clear due process whereas in this scenario, there is none. This is a trial by mob, because it’s on sky...

We may as well appeal it. If we don't, he misses the next game and the final if we get there. What an arbitrary decision. If this was a normal league fixture nothing would have happened. It's a sham trial of public opinion.

If we take the lead, we'll see it through, if not we'll probably lose. As per our regular season record.

That’s precisely my point. Players have all the incentives to dive, because referees apply the word of the law too literally... Football isn’t a non-contact sport like basketball, so I find it pretty ridiculous that the sport now basically says any contact and it’s a foul. It worked in our...

That’s taking away what was a fantastic bit of skill. What if Forte kept his back towards goal, Burge comes out to claim the ball and fouls him, giving away a penalty... he becomes the villa again. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and that’s why our ‘job’ as fans is so easy. It’s Grimmer’s...