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Match Thread Coventry City - Rotherham United FC Match Thread - Tuesday 5th Mar (1 Viewer)

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fernandopartridge

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #841
Evo1883 said:
In Kelly's defence tonight , he made more passes into the final 3rd than torp did 6 compared to 4
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People see what they want to see

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shmmeee

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #842
fernandopartridge said:
People see what they want to see

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Indeed
 

stupot07

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #843
Ccfcisparks said:
Kelly lost possession once in the entire game with a 92% pass completion according to who scored.

Torp lost the ball twice and had a pass completion of 88%.

not sure where the criticism of Kelly is coming from
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Those stats are nonsense. Kelly lost the ball a lot in the first half especially, usually off a poor touch or being too slow in possession. He rarely looked like he had time on the ball.

Off the ball he was good though, he lands on a lot of second balls, which we have been missing since Sheaf got injured


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Blind-Faith

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #844
Kelly does what Kelly does, and he done it really well. He has no pace, never has done, but he knows where to be, picks up loose balls and breaks up play, keeps it’s simple and gets us going again. That’s his job, thought he played well tonight.

That Rotherham team might be the worst league team I’ve seen at the CBS since we came back up. They had nothing up top and didn’t even look bothered. No fight what so ever and look resigned to going down.

More than happy with a 5-0 win and Simms showing he can finish his dinner.
 
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Evo1883

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #845
Fotmob have Kelly at 92% too tbh
 
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Otis

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #846
Evo1883 said:
In Kelly's defence tonight , he made more passes into the final 3rd than torp did 6 compared to 4
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Yeah, Torp.was very, very quiet.
 
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enigma

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #847
shmmeee said:
Yeah he gave MvE a rest, I get why he played and it was the right game for him.
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Kelly was immense tonight. His running in midfield was so symbolic in terms of pattern (team) marking. He ran left the whole team ran left, he ran right the whole team ran right. He may be a league 1 player next year in most minds but he is the most gifted player never to make premier league in a tactical sense. He’s a cov legend and seeing him on pitch tonight was a privilege. He commands such high standards and i feel privileged to watch him at any level.
 
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CCFCSteve

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #848
Sky Blue Pete said:
It was
Absolute quality
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Also great first time ball by Kitching down the line for Bidwell which led to a goal (simms second or third) How he’s not been picked recently is beyond me

wasn’t a surprise, Collins, Kitching and Bidwell back in and we win. Poor opposition but did our jobs. Simms third was a belter. Second decent as well
 

2024/25 League 1 Champs?

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #849
fernandopartridge said:
Taken seriously by who? We literally are contenders and he's played in a 5-0 home win. He also played in the run to the play offs and the play offs themselves last season.

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we’re talking about this season, and I would say next but he won’t be here playing next season….

we’re just about hanging on to the coat tails if you’re honest with yourself, and if we had someone who wasn’t just a stop gap then maybe we’d be firmly in the top six or better
 

Evo1883

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #850
Otis said:
Yeah, Torp.was very, very quiet.
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To be honest it was like a training session from the 3rd goal onwards , hard to gauge
 
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shmmeee

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #851
enigma said:
Kelly was immense tonight. His running in midfield was so symbolic in terms of pattern (team) marking. He ran left the whole team ran left, he ran right the whole team ran right. He may be a league 1 player next year in most minds but he is the most gifted player never to make premier league in a tactical sense. He’s a cov legend and seeing him on pitch tonight was a privilege. He commands such high standards and i feel privileged to watch him at any level.
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Evening Liam
 
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Flying Fokker

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #852
Evo1883 said:
In Kelly's defence tonight , he made more passes into the final 3rd than torp did 6 compared to 4
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Kelly had a good game. These social media armchair know it alls can get it wrong.
 
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theferret

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #853
Evo1883 said:
To be honest it was like a training session from the 3rd goal onwards , hard to gauge
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This. People trying to over analyse a game like that is weird. We were under no pressure to force anything. Lots of players were taking the easy option because there was no pressure not to.
 

Evo1883

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #854
Flying Fokker said:
Kelly had a good game. These social media armchair know it alls can get it wrong.
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I thought Kelly was decent , I can't get onboard that he was exceptional or a pleasure to be in the same stadium as , as enigma has basically said .

But he did a job fairly well - 6 or 7/10
 

SeaSeeEffCee

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #855
Won 5-0 and still trying to dig out players, fucking hell

Kelly was good tonight but I guess because we didn’t spend £5m on him and sign him from abroad he must have been shit.
 
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itsabuzzard

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #856
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT said:
Simms doesn't like a Celebration does He
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Not surprised since they swapped some of the Bountys for the shittier ones.
 
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2024/25 League 1 Champs?

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #857
SeaSeeEffCee said:
Won 5-0 and still trying to dig out players, fucking hell

Kelly was good tonight but I guess because we didn’t spend £5m on him and sign him from abroad he must have been shit.
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nobody said he was shit, he was decent today

he is just very one dimensional
 
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Martin180

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #858
Otis said:
Yeah, Torp.was very, very quiet.
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Still looks to play some lovely passes , will be a big player for us next season
 
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enigma

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #859
shmmeee said:
Evening Liam
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So you agree? Or is evening Liam an insecure reply as you are a typical guilty person with a “no comment”
 

2024/25 League 1 Champs?

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #860
Martin180 said:
Still looks to play some lovely passes , will be a big player for us next season
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that driven pass to MVE on the edge of their box was outstanding
 
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enigma

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #861
Evo1883 said:
I thought Kelly was decent , I can't get onboard that he was exceptional or a pleasure to be in the same stadium as , as enigma has basically said .

But he did a job fairly well - 6 or 7/10
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Watch him from minute one and the penny will drop! He is phenomenal just not fit anymore…..
 
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SBT

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #862
Rotherham were so poor, I don’t think you can really take too much from tonight in terms of long-term findings. Can’t remember a team that useless since maybe Derby at Highfield Road.

Really happy for Simms, Bidwell and Eccles both did very well at wing-back, and we had some nice striker cameos from Godden and Tavares. But Rotherham were truly, truly awful.
 
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wingy

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #863
Simms is delivering just like I predicted!
 
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Martin180

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #864
wingy said:
Simms is delivering just like I predicted!
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You weren't alone . He's still got a way to go but the potential is there
 
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procdoc

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #865
stupot07 said:
Those stats are nonsense. Kelly lost the ball a lot in the first half especially, usually off a poor touch or being too slow in possession. He rarely looked like he had time on the ball.



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I swear you watch a completely different game to everyone else
 
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skyblue_55

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #866
Excellent Skyblues …… back to winning ways , but expected more from the opposition !
Another 5 goals & a clean sheet , now on to Watford & another 3 points
 

Nick

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #867
I thought Kelly was ok tonight, steady. What we needed.
 
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enigma

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #868
Evo1883 said:
I thought Kelly was decent , I can't get onboard that he was exceptional or a pleasure to be in the same stadium as , as enigma has basically said .

But he did a job fairly well - 6 or 7/10
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Also immense and exceptional are 2 different words…..immense is to be large and powerful. Exceptional is to be unusual and not typical? He was def not unusual or typical. He was was immense
 

skybluecam

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #869
enigma said:
He may be a league 1 player next year in most minds but he is the most gifted player never to make premier league in a tactical sense. He’s a cov legend and seeing him on pitch tonight was a privilege. He commands such high standards and i feel privileged to watch him at any level.
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what on earth have I just read
 
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enigma

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #870
skybluecam said:
what on earth have I just read
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Yay someone finally bit an enigma sarnie.
 
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SBT

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #871
Nick said:
I thought Kelly was ok tonight, steady. What we needed.
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He was very good, but he won’t get that much time on the ball against other teams in this league. Rotherham’s midfield was more static than my grandma’s old telly.
 
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enigma

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #872
skybluecam said:
what on earth have I just read
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Reply without a passive aggressive comment SkyBluescam. A proper debate that if you dare?
 

AOM

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #873
Robins mentioned there has been illness in the squad as said on here, but he's not been able to rest certain players as much as he'd like.
Might go to explain some of the poor recent performances.

Also said about people thinking they can do better than him from their computer screens
 
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shepardo01

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #874
Also - Robins did say this evening in his post match that there has been illness! Collins mentioned by name as having had it! Puts to bed some of the "row" rumours.
 
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skybluecam

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  • Mar 5, 2024
  • #875
enigma said:
Reply without a passive aggressive comment SkyBluescam. A proper debate that if you dare?
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He's not the most gifted tactical player to never play in the premier league.

I wouldn't say it's a a privilege to watch him play.

Club legend though, sure.
 
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