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Match Thread Coventry City - Middlesbrough Match Thread - Saturday 3rd May (13 Viewers)

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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #561
PVA said:
Seen quite a few mentions about how Collins is in the team because of his passing and it suits our game plan more. So I had a look at the numbers...

Wilson kicks it long 45% of the time compared to Collins 38%. Given they both average 28 passes per game that means Wilson makes two long kicks per game more.

Of those long kicks, Collins completes 5 per game and Wilson 3 per game.

They have both completed 100% of short passes. Collins averages 98% for medium length passes and Wilson is 97%.


So are we really picking the worst shot stopper in the league because he makes two more long passes per game?
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For 4 games you’d tell Wilson to immediately lay it off to a defender or Grimes, or to go long. Keep it simple and minimise the chance of an error.
 
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SBT

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #562
PVA said:
They have both completed 100% of short passes. Collins averages 98% for medium length passes and Wilson is 97%.
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Are these stats for Ben Wilson playing with a back four?
 
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SBT

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #563
Brighton Sky Blue said:
For 4 games you’d tell Wilson to immediately lay it off to a defender or Grimes, or to go long. Keep it simple and minimise the chance of an error.
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Or put another way, “Change the team’s entire tactical setup for the most important four games of the season so you can incorporate your third choice keeper”
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #564
SBT said:
Or put another way, “Change the team’s entire tactical setup for the most important four games of the season so you can incorporate your third choice keeper”
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The first choice is injured and the second choice has lost his mind. Needs must
 
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Chicken Mcgraw

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #565
Thomas and Milan are both out
 

SIR ERNIE

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #566
Ffs I just hope Collins doesn't read the stuff on this forum.
What little confidence he might have left will be totally destroyed.
 

TomRad85

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #567
Let's just fucking do this as i'm not ready for the season to be over yet. This forum always loses its mind outside of the football season.
 
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napolimp

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #568
SIR ERNIE said:
Ffs I just hope Collins doesn't read the stuff on this forum.
What little confidence he might have left will be totally destroyed.
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Collins has confidence?
 

Tommo1993

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #569
SIR ERNIE said:
Ffs I just hope Collins doesn't read the stuff on this forum.
What little confidence he might have left will be totally destroyed.
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Morale totally destroyed!…by pooh pooh!
 
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SIR ERNIE

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #570
We're going to turn it on tomorrow and win convincingly.
 
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clint van damme

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #571
SIR ERNIE said:
We're going to turn it on tomorrow and win convincingly.
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Let's hope so.
I'm quietly confident but if Dovin was playing I'd be turning up in my smoking jacket with a box of Havanas
 
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Ccfc_Addy

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #572
SIR ERNIE said:
We're going to turn it on tomorrow and win convincingly.
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I agree. I maintain Fortress CBS will see us through; actually pretty excited for tomorrow!
 
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Lionelr

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #573
Regardless of the team, we back our lads. I'll be in block 10 cheering them on, shouting at the ref for a pen every time our player is in the opposition box and gets touched....calling for everything. We've had some poor officiating and our turn for some luck is due. We know we concede goals... just have to back the lads to score one more than they do!
 

TomRad85

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #574
For all the Collins talk, i actually have major concerns about Bidwell if he's up against any kind of pace. He's been genuinely hopeless recently, the Derby performance was legit one of the worst performances i've ever seen from an individual at this club.
 
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Gynnsthetonic

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #575
 
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Ccfcsj

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #576
Chicken Mcgraw said:
Thomas and Milan are both out
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Is this just speculation or do you know 100%?
 
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Ashdown

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #577
SBT said:
Or put another way, “Change the team’s entire tactical setup for the most important four games of the season so you can incorporate your third choice keeper”
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He's only third choice by Frank Lampard and a handful of others. Most wonder how that can be ?
Unless there is something we don’t know….but I guess Saddlebrains would have told us if there was something else.
 
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Lionelr

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #578
Gynnsthetonic said:
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Early goal would be huge with that crowd! League record attendance?
 
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Viktor17

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #579
31,400 - this is whats its all about. look how far we have come.

Play off shoot out, record crowd in the sun - progress, beyond our dreams.
 
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Chicken Mcgraw

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #580
Ccfcsj said:
Is this just speculation or do you know 100%?
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100%, told by a former poster of this forum. We can all guess who
 

skybluelee

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #581
Lionelr said:
Early goal would be huge with that crowd! League record attendance?
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Potential record full-stop. 31,407 is the record v Chelsea.
 
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Skyblue Bangkok

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #582
TomRad85 said:
For all the Collins talk, i actually have major concerns about Bidwell if he's up against any kind of pace. He's been genuinely hopeless recently, the Derby performance was legit one of the worst performances i've ever seen from an individual at this club.
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Agree Bidwell has been poor this season.
 
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Otis

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #583
procdoc said:
Got a really bad feeling about this game
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Same

Might possibly end up in a draw with us both missing out. Or even result in a Boro victory.

I think we just look a little shot. Similar to last season.

Pretty confident that Millwall won't beat Burnley, but they might get a draw and I am not so sure on Sheff Utd v Blackburn.

I think that having key players back would make me a lot more confident. Thomas and MVE, especially.
 

skybluelee

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #584
31,400 would take the average for the season to over 27,800, the highest since 69/70.

Almost exactly 3 times higher than our average attendance 7 years ago.
 
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Otis

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #585
TomRad85 said:
For all the Collins talk, i actually have major concerns about Bidwell if he's up against any kind of pace. He's been genuinely hopeless recently, the Derby performance was legit one of the worst performances i've ever seen from an individual at this club.
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Yup, same here.

I think he must have mightily pissed off the Mafia, for them to put that huge amount of concrete in his boots.
 
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PVA

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #586
TomRad85 said:
For all the Collins talk, i actually have major concerns about Bidwell if he's up against any kind of pace. He's been genuinely hopeless recently, the Derby performance was legit one of the worst performances i've ever seen from an individual at this club.
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I said the other day either he's carrying an injury or his legs have just gone literally overnight.

Getting up and down the line used to be his biggest strength, but now he just looks old and slow.
 
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Flying Fokker

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #587
skybluelee said:
31,400 would take the average for the season to over 27,800, the highest since 69/70.

Almost exactly 3 times higher than our average attendance 7 years ago.
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Snap.

Should be up to 27800 average attendance by the end of the season .
Flying Fokker Post #107 Apr 20, 2025 Forum: Coventry City General Chat
 

Terry_dactyl

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #588
It’s exciting though ain’t it! I think we all knew it was gonna come down to the final day. I seem to remember folks on here predicting it more or less at the start of the season.
Whatever happens it’ll be on we remember for a long time.
My prediction is we’ll win 1-0. Brad Collins to score from a goal kick in the 93rd minute.
 

rob9872

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #589
I think whoever our LB is will always be exposed and why we look better there when we're attacking a team who sit back, which is why Dasilva looked so much better recently. Half of the problem is pace and the other half is Wright not working back so teams target and exploit that side. MVE has super pace and Tats runs all day so they hit our left.
 
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Covkid1968#

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #590
Otis said:
Shame JDS is suspended. I would stick him in there.
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Are Keepers allowed footstools? Im not sure there are any rules against it?
 

Flying Fokker

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #591
Terry_dactyl said:
It’s exciting though ain’t it! I think we all knew it was gonna come down to the final day. I seem to remember folks on here predicting it more or less at the start of the season.
Whatever happens it’ll be on we remember for a long time.
My prediction is we’ll win 1-0. Brad Collins to score from a goal kick in the 93rd minute.
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And then to another full house against The Red and White stripes.
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #592
Flying Fokker said:
And then to another full house against The Red and White stripes.
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That’d be great too.
 

skybluelee

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #593
Flying Fokker said:
Snap.

Should be up to 27800 average attendance by the end of the season .
Flying Fokker Post #107 Apr 20, 2025 Forum: Coventry City General Chat
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pusbccfc

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #594
Gynnsthetonic said:
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Would have broken the record against Chelsea if they gave Boro the full 3000. Still can't understand why we removed 200 seats from them.
 
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Gynnsthetonic

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  • May 2, 2025
  • #595
pusbccfc said:
Would have broken the record against Chelsea if they gave Boro the full 3000. Still can't understand why we removed 200 seats from them.
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Is it not for the TV cameras?
 
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