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Championship thread 25/26! (98 Viewers)

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Otis

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,746
Anyone know if we have QPR next after the Norwich game?
 
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skybluegod

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,747
DazzleTommyDazzle said:
BTA?
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BTA has a lot of energy but I'm not sure he is as tactically intelligent as O'Hare in his pressing ability. Definitely as useful a player but just not in the same way for me.
 
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BaldyJ

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,748
Bored of reading how every game ‘we must win’. Some folk seem to think we need 54 points from the final 18 games
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,749
covcity4life said:
The relegation , playoff and title races are all exciting.

Great league but I never ever want to be in it again ideally!
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Given how much you're rimming Wrexham, there's a reasonable chance you'll be watching it again next year.
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,750
Norwich isn’t a must win in that it’ll have a huge impact on the season necessarily but it’s a fantastic opportunity to give us the sort of cushion we haven’t had since the start of December.
 
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Mercian In Anglia

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,751
mark82 said:
That has to have rocked QPR ready for next week.
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yeah, if you are QPR who's the last team you want to see next after a result like that?
 

covcity4life

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,752
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Given how much you're rimming Wrexham, there's a reasonable chance you'll be watching it again next year.
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Don't be a cuck
 
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sc1940

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,753
AFCCOVENTRY said:
I forgot they have a game in hand as well. Who’s that against?
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Played the same games as us ATM, If we win on Monday we will be 11 points ahead of them
 

SkyblueTexan

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,754
AFCCOVENTRY said:
Big result this. Beats the wind out of Ipswich sails and shows others they’re vulnerable and can be beaten.
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Hope they have a wobble now
 
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mark82

Super Moderator
  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,755
BaldyJ said:
Bored of reading how every game ‘we must win’. Some folk seem to think we need 54 points from the final 18 games
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That'd be nice, and a lot less stressful.
 
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covcity4life

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,756
SkyblueTexan said:
Hope they have a wobble now
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No philogene no points!
 
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Tommo1993

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,757
TomRad85 said:
We were running out of steam too tbf. The break after the Blues game was just what we needed.
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Think the contrast was stark. We were admittedly low on juice but I do think they looked good anyway.
 

mark82

Super Moderator
  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,758
SkyblueTexan said:
Hope they have a wobble now
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Don't see it. But it's in our hands, just need to keep doing our own job well.
 
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BaldyJ

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,759
mark82 said:
That's be nice, and a lot less stressful.
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It just wouldn’t be Coventry City though would it. We don’t tend to do things the easy way.
 

AFCCOVENTRY

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,760
SkyblueTexan said:
Hope they have a wobble now
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After Preston at home they’ve got 5 away games in a row.
 
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SkyblueTexan

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,761
AFCCOVENTRY said:
I forgot they have a game in hand as well. Who’s that against?
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Think it’s against Ipswich. Nice. Hope they cancel each other out with a draw.
 
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bigfatronssba

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,762
AFCCOVENTRY said:
After Preston at home they’ve got 5 away games in a row.
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Away for pretty much the whole of February
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,763
Why the talk of the Leicester manager being sacked?

I thought everybody knew they couldn’t afford to pay him off.
 

alexccfc99

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,764
Do Norwich fancy playing the Under 14s being as we’re in direct competitions with their rivals?
 
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quinn1971

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,765
Liquid Gold said:
Norwich isn’t a must win in that it’ll have a huge impact on the season necessarily but it’s a fantastic opportunity to give us the sort of cushion we haven’t had since the start of December.
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Def not a must win but when mboro & Ipswich slip up you have to take advantage, win and it gives us a bit of space again, we win 10 out of 18 then ipswich have to win 14 out 18 to catch us, that’s some gap to make up,
 

Liquid Gold

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,766
quinn1971 said:
Def not a must win but when mboro & Ipswich slip up you have to take advantage, win and it gives us a bit of space again, we win 10 out of 18 then ipswich have to win 14 out 18 to catch us, that’s some gap to make up,
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It’s a ga that’s been made more important than usual because of the impact 3 points could have.

Some people call that a must win.

Some people like to say there no such thing as a must win and the league is decided over 46 games not one.

I’d rather just go with the former.
 

jordan210

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,767
BaldyJ said:
Bored of reading how every game ‘we must win’. Some folk seem to think we need 54 points from the final 18 games
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Im not going to complain if we get 54 more points
 

Fergusons_Beard

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,768
Went to Utd Ipswich game (got given corporate tickets).

Ipswich awful but Sheffield Utd played well.

Great result for us.


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fernandopartridge

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,769
David O'Day said:
if BTA was fit for the home we probably would have
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He isn't imo, O'Hare's pressing won us those games against Fulham and Sheffield United the season before his injury
 
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jordan210

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,770
Every game is a must win until we have done the job. Then we can lose them all
 
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RoboCCFC90

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,771
SkyblueTexan said:
Think it’s against Ipswich. Nice. Hope they cancel each other out with a draw.
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Ipswich’s game in hand is against Pompey as it got postponed due to the weather.
 
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mark82

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,772
SkyblueTexan said:
Think it’s against Ipswich. Nice. Hope they cancel each other out with a draw.
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Ipswich have Portsmouth, Hull have Watford (which may have been a much more difficult game in the original slot).
 
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JSL

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,773
Just look how important beating Boro away was! If we had lost, we would now be second, allbeit with a game in hand
 
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Ipad Boro

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,774
RoysterE17 said:
Don't really care what boro or ipswich do we focus on ourselves and win games. We beat Norwich monday boro will think they won a game 3 0 and gained no ground that will start playing on there brains
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Nah, tbh you could win 10-nil on Monday and we'd still be over the moon with this weekend.

The point is, we don't think we're catching you. You do what we do in our away games of late, grind out a result, and the points will keep coming for you. Perhaps not at the rate that you were racking them up earlier in the season, but enough. Plus you might only be 3 points ahead at the mo, but aside from the game in hand now, you have have the biggest gimme going of the Hoodoo game against us AND the massively superior GD which means we'd feasibly need to gain an extra point? So in our minds, wiping off the game at the CBS we need to get 7-10 more points than you in 16 games, depending on your result on Monday. We're very good...but not overhaul you by up to 10 points in a third of a season Good!

Ipswich on the other hand are a different matter entirely. The 5 point gap now wipes out their game in hand nicely and we're also beginning to claw back the GD too, only 4 goals off them now. Our remaining fixture list is also a good chunk better than theirs. As for our head to head with them, we're up for it, ideally we want to do the double over them this year in the whole "parachute club my ar$e" vein. True, they could beat us, they're at home, but unlike our game against yourselves we have no fear of them whatsoever.

True, we could have done without Hull & Millwall winning, but Ipswich are still the main threat in our eyes.

Promotion is everything. As for the title, not many of us could actually give a monkeys.
 
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jordan210

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,775
JSL said:
Just look how important beating Boro away was! If we had lost, we would now be second, allbeit with a game in hand
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Thats why the two loses to Ipswich was a pain. As both 6 pointers.
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,776
covcity4life said:
Don't be a cuck
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I'm not the one sucking off other teams!
 
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ProfessorbyGrace

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,777
The way I see it, we are playing for 2nd right now. I just really, truly hope we don’t fall away and end up in the playoffs, it’d be disastrous.

Ipswich or ‘Boro are not going to let up, and unless we dig in and rediscover that dazzling form, 1st is a pipe dream and 2nd is unrealistic. The pack will be closing in, but onwards and upwards.
 
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Gint11

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,778
ProfessorbyGrace said:
The way I see it, we are playing for 2nd right now. I just really, truly hope we don’t fall away and end up in the playoffs, it’d be disastrous.

Ipswich or ‘Boro are not going to let up, and unless we dig in and rediscover that dazzling form, 1st is a pipe dream and 2nd is unrealistic. The pack will be closing in, but onwards and upwards.
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Playing for 2nd or do you mean as long as we’re top 2.

I mean, I’ve said recently I think Ipswich will win the league but they lost today and we can go 11 clear of them if we win Monday. I’m not so sure now.
 
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quinn1971

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,779
Liquid Gold said:
It’s a ga that’s been made more important than usual because of the impact 3 points could have.

Some people call that a must win.

Some people like to say there no such thing as a must win and the league is decided over 46 games not one.

I’d rather just go with the former.
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Exactly, until we’re up that gap will never be big enough but winning Monday would be huge, if we’d of beaten Ipswich think the gap would of been 16, could be 11 after Monday, considering some were saying we’d bottle it, that shows some character,
 

Jamesimus

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  • Jan 24, 2026
  • #10,780
Ipad Boro said:
Nah, tbh you could win 10-nil on Monday and we'd still be over the moon with this weekend.

The point is, we don't think we're catching you. You do what we do in our away games of late, grind out a result, and the points will keep coming for you. Perhaps not at the rate that you were racking them up earlier in the season, but enough. Plus you might only be 3 points ahead at the mo, but aside from the game in hand now, you have have the biggest gimme going of the Hoodoo game against us AND the massively superior GD which means we'd feasibly need to gain an extra point? So in our minds, wiping off the game at the CBS we need to get 7-10 more points than you in 16 games, depending on your result on Monday. We're very good...but not overhaul you by up to 10 points in a third of a season Good!

Ipswich on the other hand are a different matter entirely. The 5 point gap now wipes out their game in hand nicely and we're also beginning to claw back the GD too, only 4 goals off them now. Our remaining fixture list is also a good chunk better than theirs. As for our head to head with them, we're up for it, ideally we want to do the double over them this year in the whole "parachute club my ar$e" vein. True, they could beat us, they're at home, but unlike our game against yourselves we have no fear of them whatsoever.

True, we could have done without Hull & Millwall winning, but Ipswich are still the main threat in our eyes.

Promotion is everything. As for the title, not many of us could actually give a monkeys.
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Seems as though Smellball is working out for you after all!

I’d gladly snap your hand off for 2nd, but 1st is also acceptable.
 
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