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Match Thread Coventry City - Ipswich Town Match Thread - Monday 29th Dec (51 Viewers)

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shmmeee

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  • Yesterday at 8:18 PM
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skybluegod said:
Did I say you did?

I would hope you wouldn't wish a severe injury on somebody that could derail their career however.
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Nah I think he’s a nasty little shite and I couldn’t care less if he only earns a couple of million and not tens of millions tbh. i don’t have to wish every millionaire continues to be a millionaire.
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Yesterday at 8:18 PM
  • #1,262
I still think we'll win the league and this is a blip.

We're lucky that we have 1 game until the window opens. Make the signings we so clearly need and we'll be fine.

The league is so inconsistent this year that we only need to go on 1 more decent winning run and it should do it.
 
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baldy

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  • Yesterday at 8:18 PM
  • #1,263
Otis said:
Tell Sky then. They agreed with me.
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We really didn't dominate at all - we upped the huffing & puffing a bit 2nd half that's all
Did we even have a shot?
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Yesterday at 8:19 PM
  • #1,264
shmmeee said:
We’ve played teams with bigger budgets and given good accounts of ourselves pre-Lampard. Not done it once since. Generally we beat teams worse than us and lose to teams better than us and that’s not great for a newly promoted side. We need huge amounts spending and I hope King realises that.
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Our only home league defeats under him have come against two runaway automatic promotion sides and one that is just as strong as those on paper.
 
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Gint11

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  • Yesterday at 8:20 PM
  • #1,265
Otis said:
I disagree.

Let's leave it there.

Lots of overreaction again on here, as there always is when we lose. I get it.

It wasn't just 10 mins. Watch it back, that's all I will say.
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Stats aren’t everything but take a look
 

usskyblue

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  • Yesterday at 8:20 PM
  • #1,266
Jesus H, some people need to get a grip.

Up until now we’ve over achieved and Ipswich have massively underachieved (given their superior resources), it’s not a fuckinghuge surprise that they’re better than us is it?

How we react is more important than this game in isolation.
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Yesterday at 8:20 PM
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Should have turned the floodlights off at 85 minutes and made them play us again
 
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Evo1883

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  • Yesterday at 8:20 PM
  • #1,268
Brau had a 52% pass completion
 
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SkyBlue_Bear83

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  • Yesterday at 8:20 PM
  • #1,269
Evo1883 said:
Rudoni having a free role appears ro be the main issue .. he has no fucking idea what hes doing half the time , completely slows us down
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Rudoni isn't good enough to have a free role imo which might upset some, his best performances/moment for us were from him timing late runs into the box and finishing moves off, as Lampard made his own career out of.

I've never viewed him as a particularly someone who is going to unlock a defence with some silky dribbling or great vision.
 
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PUSB-We_are_going_up

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  • Yesterday at 8:21 PM
  • #1,270
Felt like having Julien Dacosta back on the left hand side tonight, van Ewijk clupable of not tracking back, Grimes was off it, no hunger to win any loose balls, of we showed up today we would have won Ipswich nothing special just had more desire and felt like they had an extra man the way they moved the ball around us. Really missing BTA in that 10, whats happening with Rudoni we cant be having passengers
 
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shmmeee

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  • Yesterday at 8:21 PM
  • #1,271
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Our only home league defeats under him have come against two runaway automatic promotion sides and one that is just as strong as those on paper.
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Which kind of proves me point?
 

skybluecam

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  • Yesterday at 8:21 PM
  • #1,272
shmmeee said:
We’ve played teams with bigger budgets and given good accounts of ourselves pre-Lampard. Not done it once since. Generally we beat teams worse than us and lose to teams better than us and that’s not great for a newly promoted side. We need huge amounts spending and I hope King realises that.
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Strange comment

The key to being a top side is regularly beating worse teams- the handful of games against other contenders are less important.

And everyone knows we need to spend if we go up, our performance this year doesn’t change that either way.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Yesterday at 8:21 PM
  • #1,273
That one bonus point they got at Blackburn’s going to get them up isn’t it.
 
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Deity

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  • Yesterday at 8:22 PM
  • #1,274
I didn’t like our subs today. Lacked ambition.

You are losing 0-1 and not creating much. Keep wright EMC, Tats on and add Simms ….. give them a different problem to solve …. Yes you might concede but you give yourself a better chance of changing the momentum in the match
 
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oscillatewildly

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  • Yesterday at 8:22 PM
  • #1,275
Over to you, Doug.
The good ship Sky Blue has clearly run aground.
We are in need of a little refloat in January.
 
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steve101

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  • Yesterday at 8:22 PM
  • #1,276
Very below par. Really need Rudoni to step up now. He should be match fit. Missing the fluidity that Thomas-Asante brings to us offensively.
Ipswich looked far and away the best team we have played. Referee was just terrible.
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Yesterday at 8:22 PM
  • #1,277
shmmeee said:
Which kind of proves me point?
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I’m not sure it does but crack on.
 
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jto123

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  • Yesterday at 8:22 PM
  • #1,278
SkyBlue_Bear83 said:
Rudoni isn't good enough to have a free role imo which might upset some, his best performances/moment for us were from him timing late runs into the box and finishing moves off, as Lampard made his own career out of.

I've never viewed him as a particularly someone who is going to unlock a defence with some silky dribbling or great vision.
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Yeah I think tonight has just slightly broken the illusion of Rudoni. He’s a great player, but he’s not undroppable. He’s has to provide himself as far as I’m concerned and get back to basics.
 

SkyBlue_Bear83

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  • Yesterday at 8:22 PM
  • #1,279
Torp and Rudoni only completed 11 and 14 passes. Sakamoto 4, EMC 3
 

baldy

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  • Yesterday at 8:23 PM
  • #1,280
PUSB-We_are_going_up said:
Felt like having Julien Dacosta back on the left hand side tonight, van Ewijk clupable of not tracking back, Grimes was off it, no hunger to win any loose balls, of we showed up today we would have won Ipswich nothing special just had more desire and felt like they had an extra man the way they moved the ball around us. Really missing BTA in that 10, whats happening with Rudoni we cant be having passengers
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Rudoni tries to do too much & looks like he thinks he's the main man on the pitch - his fuckin frizzy new haircut doesn't help either
 
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Tommo1993

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  • Yesterday at 8:23 PM
  • #1,281
They could take tonight and go into a blinding form such as ours earlier this season. I wouldn’t pooh-pooh anything yet.
 
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AFCCOVENTRY

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  • Yesterday at 8:23 PM
  • #1,282
Well at least Boro are losing to Hull
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Yesterday at 8:23 PM
  • #1,283
Tommo1993 said:
They could take tonight and go into a blinding form such as ours earlier this season. I wouldn’t pooh-pooh anything yet.
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They would need to beat our form early this season to get to 88 points.
 

Shannerz

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  • Yesterday at 8:24 PM
  • #1,284
shmmeee said:
Generally we beat teams worse than us and lose to teams better than us
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How are you defining who's worse than us and who is better than us based on anything other than league position?

Everyone is worse than us this season; significantly so.

As has been pointed out in this thread, Ipswich spaffed their Premier League windfall on a Championship mega-squad. It did them no good in the Premier League, but they are by far the strongest squad in the division at the moment. The fact that we are 10 points ahead of them is testament to how good we have been so far this season.

What's true now is that we have to see how good Lampard really is, as we're not currently in form, and we need to regain that.
 

Skybluefaz

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  • Yesterday at 8:25 PM
  • #1,285
Evo1883 said:
Brau had a 52% pass completion
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You can see why he's barely played all season. Shite.
 

Grendel

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  • Yesterday at 8:25 PM
  • #1,286
Shannerz said:
Simms was on a goal-scoring run, though.

Wright shouldn't have just been handed the shirt, he should have had to earn it back.
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Simms started against Ipswich there and did nothing. He was awful against Bristol. The argument is pointless - it’s pretty obvious the management team don’t think he is good enough and we probably need a better alternative in January
 
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Tommo1993

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  • Yesterday at 8:25 PM
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Ccfcisparks said:
They would need to beat our form early this season to get to 88 points.
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If we can get back to behaving ourselves it won’t be a problem
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Yesterday at 8:26 PM
  • #1,288
Grendel said:
Simms started against Ipswich there and did nothing. He was awful against Bristol. The argument is pointless - it’s pretty obvious the management team don’t think he is good enough and we probably need a better alternative in January
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Wright was much much worse tonight than Simms at Bristol.

Wright hasn't scored in 11, Simms is in goalscoring form. It is crazy to drop him.
 
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Matt smith

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  • Yesterday at 8:26 PM
  • #1,289
Shannerz said:
How are you defining who's worse than us and who is better than us based on anything other than league position?

Everyone is worse than us this season; significantly so.

As has been pointed out in this thread, Ipswich spaffed their Premier League windfall on a Championship mega-squad. It did them no good in the Premier League, but they are by far the strongest squad in the division at the moment. The fact that we are 10 points ahead of them is testament to how good we have been so far this season.

What's true now is that we have to see how good Lampard really is, as we're not currently in form, and we need to regain that.
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I think we’ll probably finish 3rd or fourth now which will be a superb season

Ipswich are miles better and will win it and Middlesbrough will get their revenge by pipping us to second
 
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hinckley cov

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  • Yesterday at 8:27 PM
  • #1,290
Ccfcisparks said:
It wasn't the game for him at all.
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I wouldn’t blame Brau our midfield was out fought all game virtually, and with wright not breaking sweat there was no out ball as Clark was in Furlongs pocket all game .
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Yesterday at 8:28 PM
  • #1,291
Matt smith said:
I think we’ll probably finish 3rd or fourth now which will be a superb season

Ipswich are miles better and will win it and Middlesbrough will get their revenge by pipping us to second
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This is just an over reaction Matt.
 
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Matt smith

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  • Yesterday at 8:28 PM
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Ccfcisparks said:
Wright was much much worse tonight than Simms at Bristol.

Wright hasn't scored in 11, Simms is in goalscoring form. It is crazy to drop him.
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Why Simms isn’t playing I’ll never know
 

Matt smith

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  • Yesterday at 8:28 PM
  • #1,293
Brighton Sky Blue said:
This is just an over reaction Matt.
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Probably I’m fucked off
 

Shannerz

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  • Yesterday at 8:28 PM
  • #1,294
Otis said:
I didn't say "just one lucky deflection."

I said the lucky deflection changed the game
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That lucky deflection doesn't happen without dreadful decision making; that was my point.

We were on for a very dangerous break, and from that, they score.

That summed up the performance. That there was an element of fortune in the goal is neither here nor there. We should have been breaking away down the left.

So rather than a lucky deflection changing the game, our poor play changed the game.
 
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Jimmy87

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  • Yesterday at 8:28 PM
  • #1,295
Not a great night. Ipswich (like most teams) seem to really turn up against us, after some not so great performances away from home. However we should be used to that by now. They were far more up for the fight than we were, simple as that.

I feel that is twice now that Lampard has been outsmarted by McKenna. Just an opinion but i feel we need to be able to pull out a different formation now and again, and surprise teams because we are incredibly predictable. I understand we may be able to do that more when we bring in reinforcements, but we still could've managed it with what we have.
Ipswich find it really difficult to break down a low block, there's no shame in switching things up to make things difficult for them, even if we are at home. That is only an advantage if you play without fear. We didn't do that tonight.

Feel the referee lost control of the game, possibly two penalties we should have had too, but that isn't the reason for the defeat.
Rushworth unlucky tonight, two great saves and got done by 2 deflections.

Interested to see what team / formation Lampard responds with at Charlton.
 
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