Non AMP
Sky Blues Talk
  • Home
  • Forums
  • Coventry City Football Club
  • Coventry City General Chat
This is a mobile optimized page that loads fast, if you want to load the real page, click this text.

Match Thread Coventry City - Port Vale Match Thread - Saturday 9th Sep (3 Viewers)

  • Thread starter Nick
  • Start date Sep 5, 2017
Forums New posts
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
Next
First Prev 13 of 14 Next Last

Mucca Mad Boys

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #421
Otis said:
And we look solid at the back. We've given two goals away to really awful goalkeeping errors. Besides that we have hardly been under much threat. That has to be a good sign.

Bit worried on the striking front. If Andreu is injured and Biamou and McNulty and Thomas is on loan, that only leaves Beavon, Nazon and Ponticelli doesn't it?
Click to expand...

Well, I for one prefer this new look defence. In 6 games we've conceded 1 goal that hasn't come from a GK mistake. That's fantastic. We can go into games knowing we can win 1-0 and in past Cov teams we were nervy in those situations. Defence wins games and I don't care if it's a drab affair, it's the 3pts that matters.

That depth is still impressive, might not be ideal, but this could be Ponticelli's and Nazon's foot in the door!
 
Reactions: oucho

no_loyalty

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #422
Otis said:
I certainly didn't feel it was a red. I thought he definitely did bring him down, but that there were other defenders covering, so should have been a yellow.
Click to expand...

I thought it was a definite red, but I didn't understand why the ref consulted with the assistant who was covering the other half of the pitch
 
Reactions: Otis

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #423
Otis said:
I certainly didn't feel it was a red. I thought he definitely did bring him down, but that there were other defenders covering, so should have been a yellow.
Click to expand...

He denied him a goalscoring opportunity. That's the law
 

Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #424
Coventry City 1-0 Port Vale

I'm not sure we're very balanced
 
D

dongonzalos

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #425
Great to get a win, but how badly do we need a goal scorer
We are creating chances we just can't score
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #426
dongonzalos said:
Great to get a win, but how badly do we need a goal scorer
We are creating chances we just can't score
Click to expand...

How many chances did we create today? Seriously!
 

skybluegod

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #427
Adge said:
Been watching too much match of the day I'm afraid and listening to the pundits. There is no such thing as "last man" which is a term banded about every week. The definition is "denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity" of which there could be 5 or 7 men in the vicinity.
Click to expand...

Yes but as part of denying a goal scoring opportunity, the location and number of players between the attacker and the goal is one of the key determining factors in deciding it. Which is why the term is used, about 'last man'.
 
K

Kingokings204

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #428
Coventry 1-0 Port Vale
 

skybluepm2

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #429
Coventry 1-0 Port Vale

Highlights from today
 

skybluegod

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #430
However wasn't the rule relaxed last season? To the extent that if it looked like an accident that it was no longer a sending off? It doesn't seem like it was definitely on purpose?
 
Reactions: Otis

skybluegod

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #431
Good finish by Jodi, but that is some of the worst defending I have seen, how can you give that much space to anybody that close to your goal.
If I was Brown, I would be ripping my players heads off, absolutely no pressure on Jodi for that goal.
 
Last edited: Sep 9, 2017
Reactions: lifeskyblue
D

dongonzalos

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #432
Grendel said:
How many chances did we create today? Seriously!
Click to expand...

I would hope the BBC don't wear sky blue tinted glasses....

Coventry City 1-0 Port Vale
 
S

skybluesam66

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #433
Andreu - he actually said something along the lines of
it seems bad, but lets hope its not as bad as it seems
 
D

dongonzalos

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #434
Grendel said:
How many chances did we create today? Seriously!
Click to expand...
Or sky for that matter
Coventry 1-0 Port Vale: Jodi Jones' superb goal enough for Sky Blues
 
D

dongonzalos

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #435
Problem is we need Jodi to score exceptional goals for us to get anywhere.
Still very puzzled at the last minute signing involving a transfer of a CB.
Don't get me wrong I welcome any signing but if you can only make one and you have a transfer fee. When you are dominating games but not scoring, a new CB isn't the answer
 
D

dongonzalos

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #436
stupot07 said:
Very disappointed with the attendance today.

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

Fact of life unfortunately. If you keep cutting costs and offering a less and less attractive product. Your customer base will naturally fall.
Still I am sure it will become part of a justification as to why we no longer suit playing at the Ricoh.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #437
Watching it back, stokes was also there and could have got there
 
Reactions: oucho

mark82

Super Moderator
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #438
Nick said:
Watching it back, stokes was also there and could have got there
Click to expand...

I'm not sure about that. To be fair, the foul could have saved the win for us.
 

skybluegod

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #439
Nick said:
Watching it back, stokes was also there and could have got there
Click to expand...

Disagree, I think if Rod doesn't foul him, stokes wasn't closing him down fast enough to stop him getting 1vs1 and getting a shot away. And even if he gets across, it's a simple pass across for a tap in.
However as I said, it looks like an accident to me, so not sure it it's a sending off by the Letter of the law.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #440
dongonzalos said:
Or sky for that matter
Coventry 1-0 Port Vale: Jodi Jones' superb goal enough for Sky Blues
Click to expand...

We created no chances a striker would score thanks for confirming.
 

higgs

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #441
Rod took one for the team just took him out before he reached d penalty area

Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #442
skybluegod said:
Disagree, I think if Rod doesn't foul him, stokes wasn't closing him down fast enough to stop him getting 1vs1 and getting a shot away. And even if he gets across, it's a simple pass across for a tap in.
However as I said, it looks like an accident to me, so not sure it it's a sending off by the Letter of the law.
Click to expand...
At the time it looked like he made it look accidental and used his trailing leg as he was beaten
 

Mcbean

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #443
No penalty he ran across the front of the player who tripped - he did not have control of the ball
 

chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #444
Denial of an obvious goal scoring opportunity has the following criteria:
  • distance between the offence and the goal
  • general direction of the play
  • likelihood of keeping or gaining control of the ball
  • location and number of defenders
On that basis this fails on at least two and possible all four. The direction of play was away from the goal and there was another defender moving in to cover.

You could also argue on distance to goal and the likelihood of the forward keeping control of the ball had the foul not been committed.
 
Reactions: singers_pore

skybluegod

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #445
Nick said:
At the time it looked like he made it look accidental and used his trailing leg as he was beaten
Click to expand...
Can't really tell from that angle, but you probably have a better idea than I do
 
D

dongonzalos

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #446
Grendel said:
We created no chances a striker would score thanks for confirming.
Click to expand...

It should have been a much more emphatic victory, with the Sky Blues failing to convert a number of second-half chances.

Not failing to create

Do keep up

Sky and BBC said the same.

Most people are also in agreement that we need a decent goal scorer.
 
D

dongonzalos

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #447
chiefdave said:
Denial of an obvious goal scoring opportunity has the following criteria:
  • distance between the offence and the goal
  • general direction of the play
  • likelihood of keeping or gaining control of the ball
  • location and number of defenders
On that basis this fails on at least two and possible all four. The direction of play was away from the goal and there was another defender moving in to cover.

You could also argue on distance to goal and the likelihood of the forward keeping control of the ball had the foul not been committed.
Click to expand...

We are suffering from a different issue we are getting goal scoring opportunities and our transfer business this summer has denied us from taking goal scoring opportunities
McDonald did to them what our last signing of the transfer window did to us
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #448
dongonzalos said:
Fact of life unfortunately. If you keep cutting costs and offering a less and less attractive product. Your customer base will naturally fall.
Still I am sure it will become part of a justification as to why we no longer suit playing at the Ricoh.
Click to expand...
You contradict yourself all the time you clown. So football isn't about the fans after all

Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
 
Reactions: Grendel

covcity4life

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 9, 2017
  • #449
dongonzalos said:
Great to get a win, but how badly do we need a goal scorer
We are creating chances we just can't score
Click to expand...
Thats not true at all

We sont make many chsnces per game thus not much for strikers to go on

When we do likes of mcnulty will finish them.off i have no doubt
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 10, 2017
  • #450
dongonzalos said:
It should have been a much more emphatic victory, with the Sky Blues failing to convert a number of second-half chances.

Not failing to create

Do keep up

Sky and BBC said the same.

Most people are also in agreement that we need a decent goal scorer.
Click to expand...

Our chances were predominantly from midfielders moving into advanced positions. The only shot I can recall in the area was from Beavon

As FP says you are a clown
 

singers_pore

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 10, 2017
  • #451
We are failing to create many chances and we also waste most of the decent opportunities that we get, especially free kicks on the edge of the box.
 
D

dongonzalos

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 10, 2017
  • #452
Grendel said:
Our chances were predominantly from midfielders moving into advanced positions. The only shot I can recall in the area was from Beavon

As FP says you are a clown
Click to expand...

Got FP on block have done for a while he is a just a mere wum. Once he bottled a charity bet over one of his wumming comments. That was enough to expose the weasel for what he really is.
 

Adge

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 10, 2017
  • #453
skybluegod said:
However wasn't the rule relaxed last season? To the extent that if it looked like an accident that it was no longer a sending off? It doesn't seem like it was definitely on purpose?
Click to expand...
No, to put it simply from the start of this season if a challenge to win the ball in the penalty area was a "genuine attempt to play the ball" in the opinion of the referee, a penalty is awarded and a caution. Whereas last season it would be a double whammy i.e. penalty and red card.
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 10, 2017
  • #454
dongonzalos said:
Got FP on block have done for a while he is a just a mere wum. Once he bottled a charity bet over one of his wumming comments. That was enough to expose the weasel for what he really is.
Click to expand...
I said I'd take the bet you lying dickhead

Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
 
Reactions: Grendel
D

dongonzalos

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 10, 2017
  • #455
Grendel said:
Our chances were predominantly from midfielders moving into advanced positions. The only shot I can recall in the area was from Beavon

As FP says you are a clown
Click to expand...

While you are here have you answered that question yet. In the CCFC club in crisis thread?
You know the one you were asked a question where it completely destroyed your stupid point?
At the time I predicted that because you were made to look like a fool you would ignore the question hoping it would go away.
Guess what you did exactly that.
So I will bump the thread for you.
Look forward to the amusing attempt by you to answer me the question. That you think will shows you were not once again wrong. Yet we all know you are wrong as usual and we will be laughing at the attempt.....
 
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
Next
First Prev 13 of 14 Next Last
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 4 (members: 0, guests: 4)
Share:
Facebook Twitter Reddit Pinterest Tumblr WhatsApp Email
  • Home
  • Forums
  • Coventry City Football Club
  • Coventry City General Chat
  • Default Style
  • Contact us
  • Terms and rules
  • Privacy policy
  • Help
  • Home
Community platform by XenForo® © 2010-2021 XenForo Ltd.
Menu
Log in

Register

  • Home
  • Forums
    • New posts
    • Search forums
  • What's new
    • New posts
    • Latest activity
  • Members
    • Current visitors
  • Donate to the Season Ticket Fund
X

Privacy & Transparency

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • Personalized ads and content
  • Content measurement and audience insights

Do you accept cookies and these technologies?

X

Privacy & Transparency

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • Personalized ads and content
  • Content measurement and audience insights

Do you accept cookies and these technologies?