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.

Coventry City v Luton Town - Championship playoff final - 27th May 2023 - Wembley Stadium (13 Viewers)

  • Thread starter Evo1883
  • Start date May 17, 2023
Forums New posts
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • …
  • 69
Next
First Prev 11 of 69 Next Last

COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

Well-Known Member
  • May 21, 2023
  • #351
robbiethemole said:
are we classed as the home team for this?
Click to expand...
Saddlebrains said:
Read somewhere we are, fuck knows why
Click to expand...


Alphabetical my be.
 
Reactions: Saddlebrains

Ccfcisparks

Well-Known Member
  • May 21, 2023
  • #352
Saddlebrains said:
Im fully shitting myself.

Im confident and i think we can win it but fuck me its going to be the worst feeling i think any of us have experienced as a supporter if we lose

I genuinely feel sick imagining the journey back if we lose
Click to expand...
I think I'm more confident for this than I was for Boro
 
Reactions: Saddlebrains and San Francisco

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • May 21, 2023
  • #353
Ccfcisparks said:
I think I'm more confident for this than I was for Boro
Click to expand...

That what makes me so nervous. Was convinced we were out at Boro. Stupid brain keeps telling me we could do this now. And it’s the hope that kills you.
 
Reactions: geoffherbert92, skybluelee, DazzleTommyDazzle and 8 others

SkyBlueSoul

Well-Known Member
  • May 21, 2023
  • #354
I'm terrified, everyone talks about wanting to get to finals but they're the worst games to have to sit through. I keep daydreaming about winning and having to rein it in, a defeat would be horrific.

Genuinely not sure which way it'll go which makes it worse.
 
Reactions: withnail and Sky Blue Pete

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • May 21, 2023
  • #355
Article today said it’s £240 million for the winner and nothing for the loser
 
Reactions: procdoc

SkyBlueSoul

Well-Known Member
  • May 21, 2023
  • #356
There's normally an agreement between the teams that the loser keeps the ticket money seeing as it would be peanuts to the winner.
 
T

Tile Hill Phil

Well-Known Member
  • May 21, 2023
  • #357
Sky Blue Harry H said:
Off piste Luton story, but I went there once when we won 4-1 (iirc) mid 70s, the days of silk scarves, and pinching them from opposition fans, like badges of honour. My main memory of the game there was a very drunk, very angry Scottish City fan on the terracing by me, incensed that we had just sold Colin Stein (hope the timeline makes sense, otherwise my brain needs a visit to the doctor).
Click to expand...
Think that was one of my first away games as a kid. I remember a load of us running past a load of shops and throwing stones at the windows. A woman copper in the ground said we were worse than the Chelsea lot that were there the previous week.
 
P

play_in_skyblue_stripes

Well-Known Member
  • May 21, 2023
  • #358
DannyThomas_1981 said:
In my opinion - this game is far bigger than 87 given the implications for the future of this club (and that's not diminishing anything about the memories of 87 either).
Click to expand...

I agree with you Danny Thomas on the vast majority of your posts but not this one.
That was a real trophy and very significant at the time and of course a brilliant match.

Financially this is more significant of course. If we did make up it would setup us up for a few years as a stronger club. We would very ,very likely to go straight back down unless someone else buys Doug out almost immediately.
 
Reactions: fernandopartridge, Finham and DannyThomas_1981

San Francisco

Well-Known Member
  • May 21, 2023
  • #359
Ccfcisparks said:
I think I'm more confident for this than I was for Boro
Click to expand...

So am I. Still think it'll be close though.
 
Reactions: Sky Blue Pete
I

its a buzzard

Well-Known Member
  • May 21, 2023
  • #360
San Francisco said:
So am I. Still think it'll be close though.
Click to expand...
Country mile close. 3-0.

Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk
 
Reactions: San Francisco

Mucca Mad Boys

Well-Known Member
  • May 21, 2023
  • #361
shmmeee said:
Biggest game in the clubs history?
Click to expand...
With the riches of the premier league at stake, I think it is.

Older fans will disagree, but I never had the privilege of watching us in the Prem when I was younger. Next Saturday means everything to me.
 
Reactions: Saddlebrains
D

Deleted member 9744

Guest
  • May 21, 2023
  • #362
play_in_skyblue_stripes said:
I agree with you Danny Thomas on the vast majority of your posts but not this one.
That was a real trophy and very significant at the time and of course a brilliant match.

Financially this is more significant of course. If we did make up it would setup us up for a few years as a stronger club. We would very ,very likely to go straight back down unless someone else buys Doug out almost immediately.
Click to expand...
My initial reaction was not to agree with Danny Thomas on this. However the more I have thought about it, the more I am convinced he is right.

Winning the FA Cup was great. However, I would have given up that amazing day to have stayed in the Premier League over the last 20+ years. So getting back to the Premier League would mean more to me than winning the Cup ever did.
 
Reactions: Sky Blue Pete
D

Deleted member 5849

Guest
  • May 21, 2023
  • #363
Winning a major trophy taking second place to collecting some cash. Have we sunk so low?
 
Reactions: Calista, fernandopartridge, MusicDating and 6 others

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • May 21, 2023
  • #364
Deleted member 5849 said:
Winning a major trophy taking second place to collecting some cash. Have we sunk so low?
Click to expand...

The Championship Play Off is a pretty major trophy.
 
Reactions: matesx
B

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • May 21, 2023
  • #365
The waiting is the worst part.
 
D

Deleted member 5849

Guest
  • May 21, 2023
  • #366
shmmeee said:
The Championship Play Off is a pretty major trophy.
Click to expand...
No it isn't
 
Reactions: skybluelee and Finham
D

Deleted member 9744

Guest
  • May 21, 2023
  • #367
shmmeee said:
The Championship Play Off is a pretty major trophy.
Click to expand...
The trophy itself is not the important thing. It's that opportunity to compete every week in the top league against some of the best players in the world.
 

fatso

Well-Known Member
  • May 21, 2023
  • #368
Guys Guys Guys......
......Relax!

Just cast your minds back to the end of last September and the beginning of October, we were bottom of the league, people were talking about possible points deductions and even relegation.

If someone would of told you back then that we'd be in the play off final, you'd of thought they were mad .....

And yet here we are!
We have nothing to lose, victory would be a massive bonus of course, but whatever happens we've had our most successful season for years.

Sisu gone!
Wasps gone!
New owner in!
New tenancy agreement inplace!
Loads more season tickets sold!
Leicester going down!

Whatever happens on Saturday, we're already winners
 
Reactions: Tile Hill Phil, Old Warwickshire lad, mhuntcov1989 and 9 others

San Francisco

Well-Known Member
  • May 21, 2023
  • #369
The possibility of being actually able to shit on the v*lla is reason enough.
 
Last edited: May 21, 2023

CovInEssex

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #370
Still can't fathom this is actually happening
 
Reactions: Sky Blue Pete and shmmeee
B

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #371
San Francisco said:
The possibility of being actually able to shit on the v*lla is reason enough.
Click to expand...

€50 fine. Each time!
 
Reactions: Boosh

CCFC_Irish

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #372
The stars have aligned in the last 18 months for Coventry. It is going to come down to who wants in more.
 

slowpoke

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #373
Don’t care what the so called experts say pound for pound we the better team, of course Luton have their strengths but we have the ability to counter act that and the forwards to get at them at the business end of the pitch. Weeks rest to get our lot fitter than they might have been the last match and importantly a decent bench which may include Palmer you never know.
 
Reactions: San Francisco
B

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #374
slowpoke said:
Don’t care what the so called experts say pound for pound we the better team, of course Luton have their strengths but we have the ability to counter act that and the forwards to get at them at the business end of the pitch. Weeks rest to get our lot fitter than they might have been the last match and importantly a decent bench which may include Palmer you never know.
Click to expand...

Over 46 games they were clearly better
 
Reactions: Otis, clint van damme, mhuntcov1989 and 4 others

slowpoke

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #375
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Over 46 games they were clearly better
Click to expand...
You continue with your on going negativity, would you swap squads then ?
 
P

procdoc

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #376
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Over 46 games they were clearly bette
Click to expand...
slowpoke said:
You continue with your on going negativity, would you swap squads then ?
Click to expand...
The league table doesn’t lie though, they’re the favourites and we will need to be at our very best.
 
Reactions: Otis and Sky Blue Pete
B

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #377
slowpoke said:
You continue with your on going negativity, would you swap squads then ?
Click to expand...

What negativity it’s a fact over the whole season they did better. Get back in your Pokéball
 
Reactions: SkyBlueSoul, Otis, clint van damme and 1 other person

Tommo1993

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #378
Brother in law likes to think he supports Man Utd. Says we’ll beat Luton because they’re shit. Assured him that no team gets to a final or the cusp of promotion on the count of being shit. But I suppose he’s already completely ignorant of football as a sport.
 
Reactions: 100 miles from Cov. and Sky Blue Pete

DazzleTommyDazzle

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #379
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Over 46 games they were clearly better
Click to expand...
That's statistically true, but doesn't take into account the fact that they had a pitch they could play on from the start of the season.

I think that form over the last few months is pretty similar between the two teams and I think that that's more relevant.
 
Reactions: curly_tom, Irish Sky Blue, olderskyblue and 1 other person
T

theferret

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #380
slowpoke said:
You continue with your on going negativity, would you swap squads then ?
Click to expand...

It's not being negative, it's just reality. They are a very good side and very difficult to beat. To only have lost 8 of 46 Championship games all season says that quite clearly.

Of course we can beat them, but they are rightly favourites.
 
Reactions: Otis, fernandopartridge and Deleted member 5849

SeaSeeEffCee

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #381
Expecting us to lose, not because of anything to do with the game really just because it’s seemed such an impossibility that we’d ever get back for so long. Hard to believe that we could actually be a Premier League club in five days time.
 
Reactions: Evo1883 and shmmeee
C

croatskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #382
It’s not negativity..

in the last 10 years the team finishing 3rd has won 4 times, the teams in 4th and 5th 3 times, and the team in 6th never won.

Lots gets written about ‘momentum’ but unless one of the teams was on a really crazily good/ bad run that doesn’t seem to matter either according to the stats.

anyway it’s a one-off football match with not too much difference in form going into it- and as they finished significantly higher of course they’re favourites.

there’s a bit too much complacency creeping in which I don’t like- just because the name “Luton Town” doesn’t instill as much nervousness as other names we could have faced, they’re still a really strong, effective, well drilled side and we will have to be bang on form to win this.

we CAN win, but it’s probably going to be really tough and tense and they’re favourites for a very good reason.
 
Reactions: BlacktownSkyBlue, Finham, Saddlebrains and 1 other person
C

croatskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #383
Deleted member 5849 said:
Winning a major trophy taking second place to collecting some cash. Have we sunk so low?
Click to expand...

There are a whole generation of people who don’t care about the FA Cup and don’t understand how big it was then. It’s very understandable for them to say that this is bigger than the FA Cup

I would not swap that day for a win on Saturday myself but it’s very over the top to say this is a low and run down it’s importance when it’s by a massive distance the biggest match a load of our supporters have and maybe will ever experience.
 

Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #384
croatskyblue said:
There are a whole generation of people who don’t care about the FA Cup and don’t understand how big it was then. It’s very understandable for them to say that this is bigger than the FA Cup

I would not swap that day for a win on Saturday myself but it’s very over the top to say this is a low and run down it’s importance when it’s by a massive distance the biggest match a load of our supporters have and maybe will ever experience.
Click to expand...
I would but only cause Saturday is now and 1987 was then
 
Reactions: Johhny Blue
C

croatskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • May 22, 2023
  • #385
Sky Blue Pete said:
I would but only cause Saturday is now and 1987 was then
Click to expand...

I don’t understand why BOTH can’t be seen as our biggest matches, they are part of our history and we had two decades of garbage. A club is the product of its heritage so by trying to say one isn’t worth as much as another is stupid.

Mourinho valued league cup wins as much as champions league wins and I remember Clough talking about how he’d sent out full strength teams for a local cup final. That is surely the mentality, we want to win everything we can.

we are not a team led by those guys but we should savour every big match and every big occasion as that’s how tradition and support is built, not say some are not as important as others

I still wouldn’t swap 87 for this Saturday though !!
 
Reactions: Sky Blue Pete
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • …
  • 69
Next
First Prev 11 of 69 Next Last
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 14 (members: 0, guests: 14)
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?