First half embarrassment (4 Viewers)

speedie87 · Jan 25, 2014

Can't help but be embarrassed firs half last night. Completely the wrong tactics didn't give us a chance. Fans with half and half scarves / having to protest because we don't play in our city.

Second half much better

theferret · Jan 25, 2014

We were a bit star-struck, and I agree about the half and half scarves, but at no point did I feel embarrassed last night. Actually felt proud on and off the pitch.

Otis · Jan 25, 2014

Hard to embarrass yourself against probably the best passing and possession team in the entire Premiership.

Flying Fokker · Jan 25, 2014

Arsenal should have been well clear, but they weren't. How embarrassing.

Samo · Jan 25, 2014

Not embarrassed no. Shame about first half tactics but still proud of manager, players and fans.

Wyken Sky Blue · Jan 25, 2014

They're top of the Premier League playing a near full strength squad and you're embarrassed by our showing in the first half?

Unbelievable.

SkyBlueScottie · Jan 25, 2014

They faded in the last 10 minutes after playing a deeper press. Had we played our normal game we would have faded a lot earlier. The main problem in the 1st half is that our forwards didn't look after the ball well enough.

speedie87 · Jan 25, 2014

I spent 20 years going to lop flight games away with us being able to compete.

Going last night and not being able too with fans treating it as just a day out, and having to protest at wanting to just play in coventry was embarrassing for me .... Yes.

Nothing against the players or manager

thaiskyblue · Jan 25, 2014

come on scottie we just played one of the best teams in europe, we did our best with what we've got.

Samo · Jan 25, 2014

SkyBlueScottie said:
They faded in the last 10 minutes after playing a deeper press. Had we played our normal game we would have faded a lot earlier. The main problem in the 1st half is that our forwards didn't look after the ball well enough.

We faded because we'd spent 45 minutes chasing shadows. If we'd pressed higher we'd have spent more time with ball.

wingy · Jan 25, 2014

Would CW have made the difference ,was a bit of a risk given that the players could'nt adapt the last time we tried It,but like suggested would have faded earlier ,may have retained It better though ??

hutch1972 · Jan 25, 2014

speedie87 said:
Can't help but be embarrassed firs half last night. Completely the wrong tactics didn't give us a chance. Fans with half and half scarves / having to protest because we don't play in our city.

Second half much better

Cant see peoples problems with the scarves , they are just mementos the same as the programme or a match badge.

Lorksalordy · Jan 25, 2014

Embarrassed ? Our cobbled together, seriously young and inexperienced bargain basement squad against top of the Premier League at their place ? The subs told a story - they bought on Giroud / Corzola and we bought on Jordan Clarke as a centre forward !!

RoboCCFC90 · Jan 25, 2014

I think Arsenal executed their tactics well which was get a comfortable lead and then sit back..

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Astute · Jan 25, 2014

speedie87 said:
Can't help but be embarrassed firs half last night. Completely the wrong tactics didn't give us a chance. Fans with half and half scarves / having to protest because we don't play in our city.

Second half much better

Are you being serious?

We are a 3rd division club. We played with academy lads. We were playing against world class players. Some of them are worth more than SISU would accept to sell up. I watched the game with a Gooner. He said that we played better than a lot of Prem sides have against them this season. Did you expect us to attack them all game?

For the first time in ages I am proud of my football club. I hope that this will give them more belief in themselves and we have a great second half of the season.

thaiskyblue · Jan 25, 2014

Arsenal showed us a lot of respect, they picked a strong team, and they were at it from the first whistle, first 30 minutes we were chasing shadows, credit to our lads for hanging in and improving , Thomas and Fleck got better and better as the game went on against a top class midfield .

mds · Jan 25, 2014

How anyone could feel anything but pride after last night showing i dont know, the team, the management and the support top class, what more could we expect!

skybluesam66 · Jan 25, 2014

speedie87 said:
I spent 20 years going to lop flight games away with us being able to compete.

Going last night and not being able too with fans treating it as just a day out, and having to protest at wanting to just play in coventry was embarrassing for me .... Yes.

Nothing against the players or manager

Speedie - how the memory fades with time - I also went to many top flight away games - including old trafford/anfield etc - some of those games we did not manage a shot all game

At least last night - we did try to attack the opposition
Baker/Daniels/Clarke x 3 + numerous times Christie and moussa got into good positions

and the standard of the opposition is also much better than the premiership teams when we were there

ExmouthNeil · Jan 25, 2014

I watched the match at my local with a bunch of mates(none of them City fans) and they where all very complementary about our style of play and the effort we put in. And trust me it's generally very difficult to get that from these guys(West Ham, Leeds, Liverpool and Wolves fans)

I'm VERY proud of my team for last nights performance.... :claping hands:

kg82 · Jan 25, 2014

This serious, yeah? Just because we were once a top flight club doesn't mean that when we play one now we're suddenly going to play like a premiership team! We are where we are for a reason and last night was no embarrassment.

mds · Jan 25, 2014

kg82 said:
Just because we were once a top flight club doesn't mean that when we play one now we're suddenly going to play like a premiership team!

We could of passed as a poor prem team last night, looked miles away from being a league 1 team!

kg82 · Jan 25, 2014

mds said:
We could of passed as a poor prem team last night, looked miles away from being a league 1 team!

And that's credit to SP and the team! Not an embarrassment, agreed?

Macca · Jan 25, 2014

What's a half and half scarf?

wingy · Jan 25, 2014

Macca said:
What's a half and half scarf?

Not what you're thinking .

speedie87 · Jan 25, 2014

Half arsenal half cov

I accept I'm in the minority on this one but I go to games like this and can't help but just see how far we have fallen. I can't and won't ever except seeing us as a lge one team playing outside coventry.

You may see that as a bad thing and I need to let it go, I see it as a good thing.

covmark · Jan 25, 2014

Astute said:
Are you being serious?

We are a 3rd division club. We played with academy lads. We were playing against world class players. Some of them are worth more than SISU would accept to sell up. I watched the game with a Gooner. He said that we played better than a lot of Prem sides have against them this season. Did you expect us to attack them all game?

For the first time in ages I am proud of my football club. I hope that this will give them more belief in themselves and we have a great second half of the season.

Great post.
Was chatting to my arsenal pal, he said he saw them against Norwich, Fulham, Cardiff and west ham, and we were more of a threat and put up a much better game than any of those.

mds · Jan 25, 2014

kg82 said:
And that's credit to SP and the team! Not an embarrassment, agreed?

Agreed completely, post 17!!!!

JWC · Jan 25, 2014

speedie87 said:
Half arsenal half cov

I accept I'm in the minority on this one but I go to games like this and can't help but just see how far we have fallen. I can't and won't ever except seeing us as a lge one team playing outside coventry.

You may see that as a bad thing and I need to let it go, I see it as a good thing.

I know where you're coming from with this, I can't help but think that we were playing games like this regularly a while back and it does wrangle a bit that we get so excited about these games. Although I get pissed off with the 'plucky little Coventry' type remarks in situations like this from pundits, it does help to accept and take a realistic view of where we are. We really showed our capacity as a decent football team despite the circumstances and the result.

I'm pretty sure most people feel this way, but I guess we should enjoy the good feelings and decent coverage, we get so little!

Hoping we can take this optimism to Orient on Tuesday!

kg82 · Jan 25, 2014

mds said:
Agreed completely, post 17!!!!

Haha, just checking!

SkyBlueHomer · Jan 25, 2014

speedie87 said:
Can't help but be embarrassed firs half last night. Completely the wrong tactics didn't give us a chance. Fans with half and half scarves / having to protest because we don't play in our city.

Second half much better

speedie87 said:
Half arsenal half cov

I accept I'm in the minority on this one but I go to games like this and can't help but just see how far we have fallen. I can't and won't ever except seeing us as a lge one team playing outside coventry.

You may see that as a bad thing and I need to let it go, I see it as a good thing.

This isn't met as a dig at you but I can't help think its how far we have fallen and not last night's performance your disappointed with and that I agree with but fact is we are where we are for a reason.
This club even before SISU arrived have been badly run off the pitch and underperformed on it. There is hope now on the pitch provided we can sort out things somehow off it.
I have also been there like many other to witness the days when we went to Highbury, Old Trafford and Anfield and not only compete but beat these teams and now we are proud dispite losing 4-0, yes it hurts.

I, along with many other were immensely proud of the shift the players put in last night. If you take Ozil for example he will be earning more per week than the rest of our team put together.
The fact that in the 2nd half we were the better team for periods and had 2 very good chances at 2-0. If we had scored 1 of these who knows what may have been.

corkbarry · Jan 25, 2014

As a Gooner who lived in Coventry for Two Years in the Sixties and indeed went to every home game at Highfield Road i went to the Emirates from Ireland to show my support for the fans. In fact i have been to The Ricoh a few times since ye moved there.
I was amazed before the game to meet some fellow Gooners who had no idea of what is happening in Coventry?
I for one was delighted with the display and and also with the dignified protest which the Arsenal fans joined in.
Let's all sing together PUSB

Hobo · Jan 25, 2014

Arsenal started on fire showing us what Pressley means by pressing a game. They pressed us high up the field and attacked with slick passing, hardly giving us a look in. Moussa battled hard to try and hold the ball up and get us out but Clarke offered no support and chose to spectate on the half way line.

Wrong tactics? I don't think it was Pressleys tactics he kept waving them out trying to get them to hold a higher line! Sometimes it's a lot easier to see what is wrong from the side of the pitch than to rectify what is wrong when you are on it. Arsenal gave us a prime example of the football Pressley is trying to preach.

A half time talk brought us out to hold our own in the second half. If Leon had took one of the excellent chances his teams mates grafted for we might have had a grand finale.

Skyblueweeman · Jan 25, 2014

The first half was a little scary but we were up against a team top of the best league in the world, with world class players. When we did have the ball, they used it very well I though. Particularly bringing the ball out of defence. To see the defence and midfield passing the ball in triangles around the likes of Wilshere, Ozil, Oxlade-Chamberlain etc, made me bloody proud!

I think the sign of a good manager is one who make changes when things aren't going well. He went there with a plan and it didn't work in the first half so he changed it at half time and we were much better in the second half.

Certainly no embarrassment for me. In fact last night was probably the proudest I've been in years as a Cov fan. Our team, our manager and our fans all helped paint a wonderful picture of our club last night. Things like that can help our cause massively going forward. Well done all. Proud as punch.

WM

letsallsingtogether · Jan 25, 2014

I was there proud of the players and proud of the fans.
Oh and proud of how we were treated by arsenal......

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