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Match Thread Coventry v Sunderland Championship Playoff 1st Leg Friday 9th May (23 Viewers)

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  • Start date May 4, 2025
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Evo1883

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  • Saturday at 12:19 AM
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Brighton Sky Blue said:
I thought it was just a clinical finish and still do watching it. Wilson isn’t the fall guy for the goal in any case
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Nah hes not anywhere near good enough there as a keeper thats shite
 
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SkyBlueAussie

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  • Saturday at 12:20 AM
  • #1,472
Good team effort, apart from Wright and Sheaf.
Does anyone remember Wright actually passing the ball recently?
As a City supporter, life's like that..you sort of get used to it.
Anyway, only half-time, and we can score anywhere at anytime.
PUSB.
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Saturday at 12:21 AM
  • #1,473
Evo1883 said:
Nah hes not anywhere near good enough there as a keeper thats shite
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The forward was only ever going far post , Wilson seemed to be the only one in the stadium who didn't anticipate it
 
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Otis

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  • Saturday at 12:23 AM
  • #1,474
SkyBlueAussie said:
Good team effort, apart from Wright and Sheaf.
Does anyone remember Wright actually passing the ball recently?
As a City supporter, life's like that..you sort of get used to it.
Anyway, only half-time, and we can score anywhere at anytime.
PUSB.
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I would rather we did it on Tuesday to be honest
 
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clint van damme

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  • Saturday at 12:23 AM
  • #1,475
Evo1883 said:
@Brighton Sky Blue

Have no idea what this kid is saying but this video shows how poor wilson was

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Fucking awful keeping.
As usual its preceded by other fuck ups.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Saturday at 12:25 AM
  • #1,476
Evo1883 said:
BTW

What the actual fuck is Wilson doing for their first goal
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Saturday at 12:28 AM
  • #1,477
Evo1883 said:
Nah hes not anywhere near good enough there as a keeper thats shite
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I’m not necessarily disagreeing but I just think there’s others more at fault.
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Saturday at 12:30 AM
  • #1,478
Brighton Sky Blue said:
I’m not necessarily disagreeing but I just think there’s others more at fault.
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I don't disagree that the lead up to the goal was pretty abject but it wasn't a good effort to keep the ball out
 
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SkyblueTexan

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  • Saturday at 12:32 AM
  • #1,479
Super Frank said:
Need 1 goal and suddenly all is new.
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If they sit in a low block, they’re more likely to get that 1 goal. All they have to do is wait for our inevitable mistake.
 

Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Saturday at 12:32 AM
  • #1,480
Ccfcisparks said:
Its not, its just not sky blue tinted lenses like you have.

We've done well to get where we are, but there are negative sides too coming to fruitition.

We were warned by a Derby fan that a lot of Lampards game is hoping on a bit of magic from individuals to make the difference. Theres a clear pattern of that happening recently. When Rudoni isn't on it, we dont really look great attacking wise.
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How can you look at our results and conclude we’ve relied on individual magic. It’s like saying Robins relied on Hamer and Vik to just ‘do something’ back in 22/23… No would hold Robins to that double standard. Big players win you matches at all levels.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Saturday at 12:43 AM
  • #1,481
Perennial Lurker said:
I don't disagree that the lead up to the goal was pretty abject but it wasn't a good effort to keep the ball out
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It is what it is. The alternative decides to clean out his own defence as well as letting in half the shots he faces.

Wilson isn’t good enough either, we’re not covering new ground on that.
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Saturday at 12:46 AM
  • #1,482
Brighton Sky Blue said:
It is what it is. The alternative decides to clean out his own defence as well as letting in half the shots he faces.

Wilson isn’t good enough either, we’re not covering new ground on that.
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Agreed
 

Warwickhunt

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  • Saturday at 12:54 AM
  • #1,483
Sunderland setup and play that away at and the crowd will be baying for attack, those famous words of "forward and shoot" will be ringing out across the SOL
 
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quinn1971

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  • Saturday at 12:58 AM
  • #1,484
Grendel said:
You said we’d win at Luton and Plymouth as well
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I did, acant ccount. For shit. Defending.
 
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skybluearmy7

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  • Saturday at 12:58 AM
  • #1,485
Disappointing result. Lots still to play for. Another half to go. Players owe us a better performance in final third. We can do this!
 
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quinn1971

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  • Saturday at 1:01 AM
  • #1,486
Grendel said:
You said we’d win at Luton and Plymouth as well
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Not my fault we never turned. Up
 

Frostie

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  • Saturday at 1:04 AM
  • #1,487
Frustrating.

It's well known that we always struggle when teams come & park the bus & then you've always got a chance of an error within you.

Fwiw, I thought Sunderland got it spot on tactically, 2 incredibly solid banks of 4 then 2 pacy strikers on the counter.

On the other hand, I think Lampard misjudged it.
I understand the idea of rewarding BTA with a start but it was absolutely not what was needed tonight.
Additionally, Grimes dropping into defence to collect & build from deep usually works but was not the move tonight imo. Sunderland didn't even engage us until we reached the halfway line & we'd effectively left Sheaf on his own vs their midfield 4 by that point. As such, we were always unlikely to create through the middle which made us very predictable as we just tossed in crosses from wide areas & the phenomenal Ballard just lapped them up.

We didn't deserve to lose the game obviously & we're still well in the tie but definitely should be kicking ourselves this evening.
 
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quinn1971

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  • Saturday at 1:08 AM
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just like to say to the fans who’ve slagged off simms Collins and bidwell, we picked our strlongest team and sheaf, wright and grimes went missing, big. Games need big players and ours went missing
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Saturday at 1:11 AM
  • #1,489
quinn1971 said:
just like to say to the fans who’ve slagged off simms Collins and bidwell, we picked our strlongest team and sheaf, wright and grimes went missing, big. Games need big players and ours went missing
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Grimes was superb tonight
 
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quinn1971

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  • Saturday at 1:15 AM
  • #1,490
Perennial Lurker said:
Grimes was superb tonight
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He really wasn’t, all our big players bottled it
 
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quinn1971

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  • Saturday at 1:21 AM
  • #1,491
They came for a nil nil and went hom with a 2-1
, like Bristol city one mistake has done us, we set up wrong fhe start,
 

alexccfc99

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  • Saturday at 1:22 AM
  • #1,492
Evo1883 said:
We only need to win 1-0
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I just can’t see it mate - Vociferous home support of 40k+ whilst we’re tucked away up in the gods it’s gonna be hard to get behind the lads but we’ll do our best

It’s my gut instinct that whilst we have had some fantastic away days to get to Wembley over the last few years, I think this one may be one step too far for us

Realistically, I think whoever does go on in from here has their work cut out against Sheff U in the final anyway
 
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quinn1971

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  • Saturday at 1:23 AM
  • #1,493
There’s no coming back from that, set up,wrong, that’s down to the manager
 
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quinn1971

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  • Saturday at 1:25 AM
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As much as you’ve slated Collins all season, MVE’s cost us exactly the same , that was shocking, but nobody mentions that ?
 
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alexccfc99

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  • Saturday at 1:31 AM
  • #1,495
quinn1971 said:
As much as you’ve slated Collins all season, MVE’s cost us exactly the same , that was shocking, but nobody mentions that ?
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Because quite frankly you can forgive Milan a mistake, he’s played near enough every game and barely put a foot wrong

Collins has played much less and been an absolute embarrassment
 
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quinn1971

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  • Saturday at 1:32 AM
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So you’ve got the player who scored a hatrick against them last game out on the left ? As soon as our team sheet went in we’d were done, had to be wright down the middle from the stat, sorry frank but tonight was a massive fuck up
 
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quinn1971

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  • Saturday at 1:32 AM
  • #1,497
alexccfc99 said:
Because quite frankly you can forgive Milan a mistake, he’s played near enough every game and barely put a foot wrong

Collins has played much less and been an absolute embarrassment
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He’s made the same mistakes as.Collins
 
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quinn1971

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  • Saturday at 1:35 AM
  • #1,498
Said from the start, if we turn up,tonight we win that , all our big players went missing, people crying out for Asante instead of simms. Made no difference, sheaf was nowhere and rudoni, we bottled it
 
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quinn1971

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  • Saturday at 1:47 AM
  • #1,499
That was so easy for them tonight, sit back and we can’t break teams down and catch us on the break, worst thing was they’re not even a good side , can we go there and get a 1-0:.? Of course we can bu we’ve bottled that tonight
 
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play_in_skyblue_stripes

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  • Saturday at 1:48 AM
  • #1,500
I am a long way away and listened to second half on Talksport. A disappointing result but we sounded the better team so don't get too downhearted everyone and that's from a pessimist. We can only gain from now on tie.

Super proud to be a Coventry City fan. The dark days from SISU are over and we are now starting to recover from that . On my calculation we are the most successful club in last three seasons that are not Parachute payment funded. 5th,9th and 5th and lets not forgot we earnt an FA cup final spot last year.

Attendances 5th best in league and nothing we can do to match Sunderland and Leeds with capacity of CBS. We have the best atmosphere in stadium bar none I would suggest in championship .
Evidenced tonight by my wife travelling to game from Manchester, her first game at stadium since Reading in 2005/06 season. She said atmosphere was really very good .

Go for it City on Tuesday and even if its ultimately unsuccessfully this season, we are getting stronger and stronger. Just need to improve in some areas. If you ignore 'wage demands'(difficult I know) but Coventry City is a hot destination for quality players.
Definitely in my opinion, a hugely attractive club for richer investors also.
 
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quinn1971

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  • Saturday at 1:52 AM
  • #1,501
play_in_skyblue_stripes said:
I am a long way away and listened to second half on Talksport. A disappointing result but we sounded the better team so don't get too downhearted everyone and that's from a pessimist. We can only gain from now on tie.

Super proud to be a Coventry City fan. The dark days from SISU are over and we are now starting to recover from that . On my calculation we are the most successful club in last three seasons that are not Parachute payment funded. 5th,9th and 5th and lets not forgot we earnt an FA cup final spot last year.

Attendances 5th best in league and nothing we can do to match Sunderland and Leeds with capacity of CBS. We have the best atmosphere in stadium bar none I would suggest in championship .
Evidenced tonight by my wife travelling to game from Manchester, her first game at stadium since Reading in 2005/06 season. She said atmosphere was really very good .

Go for it City on Tuesday and even if its ultimately unsuccessfully this season, we are getting stronger and stronger. Just need to improve in some areas. If you ignore 'wage demands'(difficult I know) but Coventry City is a hot destination for quality players.
Definitely in my opinion, a hugely attractive club for richer investors also.
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Spot on, as dissapointing as that was they’re not brilliant,might of actually done us a favour, we have to go there now and win, early goal and the Pressures back on them
 
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HJones23

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  • Saturday at 5:28 AM
  • #1,502
Paxman II said:
Disappointing for sure but when you shoot yourself in the foot you have to accept it, move on and recover.
The mistake from MVE was uncharacteristic and one he will recover quickly from, becuase he is a very god player.
But Sunderland played well defensively, and never looked like doing anything bar a mistake from us.
Credit to Sunderland for getting away with it though, and having the good fortune of our own mistakes.

But while we bossed possesion we did little with it. Their two banks of 4 made life difficult and needed someone to open up their defensive lines, and play through them. Torp is a miss in this area. For us Sheaf was just not contributing enough, and on Tuesday I would make a change there. Asante proved to be a bad decision against a strong centre back, and Simms would have given him more concern and added ariel power on crosses. Tuesday we have to look for goals and EMC must start with Wright and Simms down the middle. A busy Allen can give Sako and Rudoni time to create. Grimes is excellent. I'm just not sure about Kitching. Would Latibeaudiere be the energy to clean up and have pace alongside Thomas and give Grimes more opportunity to stamp out their midfield?

Not over by a long shot. We got it wrong, and we have a chance to put it right. I really don't think Sunderland are tough oposition if we bring our A game.
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Spot on with Torp, exactly the type of game we are missing him for. Sheaf was back to his best Saturday as it suited him being end to end, but games like tonight he’s almost given too much possession and not effective progressing the ball
 
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Hincha

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  • Saturday at 5:40 AM
  • #1,503
Dovin definitely saves the first - that injury really has fucked us

Agree we need to find a way to play through the lines more - do think its a personnel issue though
 
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Jamesimus

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  • Saturday at 6:18 AM
  • #1,504
SkyblueTexan said:
They won and calling their midfield ghosts doesn't make sense. They executed their game plan well and won. We were the ghosts as we didn't show up. Hope we come to life in the second leg.
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I mean anyone that watches football regularly could see we did show up. Did we do enough in the final third? No. Second leg is the important one anyway!
 
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torchomatic

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  • Saturday at 6:36 AM
  • #1,505
Brighton Sky Blue said:
I’m not necessarily disagreeing but I just think there’s others more at fault.
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Funny ain't it? Others fuck up (Binks for example) but it's 100% Collins'fault. Wilson shows how poor he is, yet it's others what done it.

Neither keeper is better than the other IMHO.
 
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