Match Thread Coventry City vs Middlesbrough Play off Semi final 1st leg Match Thread -Sunday 14th May (1 Viewer)

jordan210 · May 8, 2023

Discuss the match, tactics and predictions.

The CableGuy · May 8, 2023

Championship Play-off thread. I'd never thought I'd see the day.

Sky_Blue_Daz · May 8, 2023

Promised my dad I’ll watch it with him , he has dementia and recently had a pacemaker fitted . His short term memory is shocking but can talk about watching city through the 60s , 70s . 80s and 90s like they were yesterday
He ran pubs in Coventry for years and ran 4 coaches to Hillsborugh and Wembley in 87 Had a season ticket for years He told me once that there were only 2 players he was genuinely excited to see get the ball Tommy Hutchinson and Darren Huckerby

Just hope the lads can get a result Sunday

Wyken Sky Blue · May 8, 2023

Any idea when tickets will be on sale?

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Blind-Faith · May 8, 2023

Same team for me, with the options of Allen and Sheaf on the bench for later on in the game. Having Kelly and Eccles in gives Hamer the freedom to go and do what he did today. It’s working great atm

Greggs · May 8, 2023

bring panzo on in the 89th minute to smash akpon with one of his clumsy lunges

Houchens Head · May 8, 2023

I'm one of the older farts on here (70) and well remember us getting promotion to the old First Division under Saint Jimmy Hill, and today I felt exactly the same as I did back then. Cried my bloody eyes out in happiness. Even if we stumble and fail, (which we won't!), I have felt immense pride in the team, manager, fans and the club as a whole. At the age I am, I'd given up hope of seeing the club back in the top flight again. I genuinely believe this is our year. PUSB!!!!

Sky Blue Pete · May 8, 2023

skyblue1991 said:
Any idea when tickets will be on sale?

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Boro start selling noon tomorrow

Greggs · May 8, 2023

Houchens Head said:
I'm one of the older farts on here (70) and well remember us getting promotion to the old First Division under Saint Jimmy Hill, and today I felt exactly the same as I did back then. Cried my bloody eyes out in happiness. Even if we stumble and fail, (which we won't!), I have felt immense pride in the team, manager, fans and the club as a whole. At the age I am, I'd given up hope of seeing the club back in the top flight again. I genuinely believe this is our year. PUSB!!!!

same as my old man, seen the club through it all. fair play to you mAATE

Boosh · May 8, 2023

Houchens Head said:
I'm one of the older farts on here (70) and well remember us getting promotion to the old First Division under Saint Jimmy Hill, and today I felt exactly the same as I did back then. Cried my bloody eyes out in happiness. Even if we stumble and fail, (which we won't!), I have felt immense pride in the team, manager, fans and the club as a whole. At the age I am, I'd given up hope of seeing the club back in the top flight again. I genuinely believe this is our year. PUSB!!!!

Not a Liverpool fan anymore then?

Offhegoes · May 8, 2023

Sheaf for Eccles and Allen for Godden. Think we got overrun in midfield today after we scored. Feels harsh on Eccles but Sheaf is so essential to how we play. Still not convinced by Godden & Vik together.

covcity4life · May 8, 2023

Think may keep 2 strikers for home leg

If was away I could see a return to the box with Allen coming in

slowpoke · May 8, 2023

This was the must win game not bothered a jot about Middlesbrough in either game, Cov v Sunderland at Wembley is in the stars, ramming their 45 year old Jimmy Hill hatred right down their throats.

CovInEssex · May 8, 2023

Ship them for 4 and relax for the 2nd leg

slowpoke · May 8, 2023

Offhegoes said:
Sheaf for Eccles and Allen for Godden. Think we got overrun in midfield today after we scored. Feels harsh on Eccles but Sheaf is so essential to how we play. Still not convinced by Godden & Vik together.

This was a difficult game, we pretty well by passed midfield lots of long ball from the back. We should have scored two more goals in the first 20 minutes.
They will see a different Cov next week.

AFCCOVENTRY · May 8, 2023

Boro have confirmed they have 2000 tickets available for the game at the CBS.

clint van damme · May 8, 2023

slowpoke said:
This was a difficult game, we pretty well by passed midfield lots of long ball from the back. We should have scored two more goals in the first 20 minutes.
They will see a different Cov next week.

And we'll see a different Boro!
I know it's a lot to ask but I really want a 2 goal lead minimum to take to the riverside

pusbccfc · May 8, 2023

Middlesbrough fans are very confident because they seem to think we needed to try and score in the second half and didn't lay a glove.

Don't think they knew the script.

SleepyGinger · May 8, 2023

Want Sheaf to come back in if he’s ready but not sure who comes out, I’m sure MR will make the correct decisions

Hutch11 · May 8, 2023

Play-Off Ticket Info For Coventry Away

Selling information...

www.mfc.co.uk

Confirmed 2000 means there'll be v 29000 city , hopefully

Gynnsthetonic · May 8, 2023

Gonna get up 3 hours earlier and pretend it's a 3pm kick off

slowpoke · May 8, 2023

AFCCOVENTRY said:
Boro have confirmed they have 2000 tickets available for the game at the CBS.

Then we should give them the same, end of.

Evo1883 · May 8, 2023

Haha .. well I've said all along if coventry make the playoffs We will win them .

So I'm not backing down ... we will take a 1 goal lead to boro ..1-0 or 2-1

mark82 · May 8, 2023

Hutch11 said:
Play-Off Ticket Info For Coventry Away

Selling information...

www.mfc.co.uk

Confirmed 2000 means there'll be v 29000 city , hopefully

Hopefully they've used the last couple of weeks figuring out how to make that work.

Hutch11 · May 8, 2023

However they do it its so much better than having 4500 of them behind the goal

shmmeee · May 8, 2023

Two up at home for me. Assuming fitness I’d go Sheaf Hamer and Allen in the middle, though Kelly does allow Hamer to get forwards with great effect. Think we missed Sheaf in the middle today. I’d also think long and hard about BNC at RWB as I didn’t think he was great today.

Then for the second leg go back to 3421 with Allen and Hamer ahead of Sheaf and Kelly/Eccles. Who knows maybe Palmer will be back by then too.

Gynnsthetonic · May 8, 2023

shmmeee said:
Two up at home for me. Assuming fitness I’d go Sheaf Hamer and Allen in the middle, though Kelly does allow Hamer to get forwards with great effect. Think we missed Sheaf in the middle today. I’d also think long and hard about BNC at RWB as I didn’t think he was great today.

Then for the second leg go back to 3421 with Allen and Hamer ahead of Sheaf and Kelly/Eccles. Who knows maybe Palmer will be back by then too.

Something tells me I'm into something good 3421

Houchens Head · May 8, 2023

Boosh said:
Not a Liverpool fan anymore then?

Of course. Where in the rules does it say I can't enjoy two teams? I also have an affinity to Southampton FC because it was a local team to me when I lived on the Isle of Wight for 8 years. I also like to follow little Malvern Town who are having a great season, because I now live here.
Any more moans and gripes?

SeaSeeEffCee · May 8, 2023

Hard to know what to take from today’s game. Outside of the euphoria of making it into the play-offs and the good point on the road I actually thought we were pretty poor in the second half. I don’t know if it was nerves from us, whether they just kicked it up a notch or maybe a combination of the two but we were really struggling to keep hold of the ball for most of that second 45. So many sloppy bit of play under little pressure and a lot of panic-driven actions. Execution of the outball to Gyokeres was so poor as well. We’ve been so good at getting the ball to him on the break this season and letting him do his thing but that was really lacking today.

Like I said I think you can probably attribute a lot of it to nerves, and it felt like we noticeably relaxed and started playing better as soon as we knew Blackburn were ahead, but they also passed the ball around so well and looked very confident in doing so. We did well to limit to them to few chances, the centre backs were outstanding as usual, and Kelly was great too, but we also invited them onto us so much and it felt like if they’d had wanted it a bit more they might have been able to put us under a bit of pressure and find a winner.

How that all impacts the game on Sunday, I’m not sure. Their injuries seem to be impacting them a fair bit, especially at the back, and I think we saw today in the first half especially, that we can get at them. Not sure whether I’d start Godden or not for this one, I think he struggles to impact the game as much in these games where we don’t have much of the ball and he can be painfully slow (there was one instance in the first half today where he looked clean through and Lenihan pretty comfortably caught up with him from a worse starting position), however he has also been good in our last two home games and we might play with a bit more of the ball in this one.

Think that if we can get at least a 1 goal advantage to take to the Riverside then we should have a good chance, but it’s going to be a really tough game. Fingers crossed.

kingfield park skyblues · May 8, 2023

Robins got lucky again,his team selection and lack of subs will get coventry a thrashing.why take off Eccles defending midfielder for a attacking midfielder, Allen.godden should have been replaced by allen

skybluepm2 · May 9, 2023

kingfield park skyblues said:
Robins got lucky again,his team selection and lack of subs will get coventry a thrashing.why take off Eccles defending midfielder for a attacking midfielder, Allen.godden should have been replaced by allen

We needed a point, we got a point. Couldn’t give a monkeys how we did it…It worked. Props to Robins for getting us into 5th place in a ridiculously difficult league.

bigfatronssba · May 9, 2023

kingfield park skyblues said:
Robins got lucky again,his team selection and lack of subs will get coventry a thrashing.why take off Eccles defending midfielder for a attacking midfielder, Allen.godden should have been replaced by allen

Amazing how much luck Robins gets. Need to ask him for Lottery numbers right?

Tommo1993 · May 9, 2023

Play offs are anyone’s game. No certain winner, may the best team win.

kingfield park skyblues · May 9, 2023

Adrian viveash is the football brains of ccfc.

Ashdown · May 9, 2023

So which utter inconsiderate fucking pricks decided to make it a 12.00 kick off ?!….On a Sunday ……

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