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  • Start date Jul 23, 2024
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BlueSkiesForever

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #36
ProfessorbyGrace said:
Bet they’re all sat around the performance data and telemetry of the players, this morning, scratching their heads and asking:

‘Ok, so what is this telemetry telling me?’

‘hushed silence’

‘When did their legs become flaky breakfast cereal?!’

‘They’ve been like that for ages…’

‘Oh.’

‘Can we…fix this, doctor?’

‘Am I bloody magician now, lady?’

‘Ok, thank you, that’s terribly helpful.’

‘Knew we should have offered Stamenic the house with the pool, ffs...’

‘Well you took eyes off him at the services in Hopswood, and those scouts from Forest just lured him into their car with a suitcase of gold bars…’

‘That’s not fair, I was having a shit, and we lost out on Browne as well, because you spouted that awful Irish stereotype about leprechauns, you tit!’

‘DONT START ON ME, I MISS ADI!!!’

‘Who asked you Mark, shush…’

Imagine it like a Naked Gun deadpan skit.
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Love this
 

Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #37
If I was running the show (be grateful I'm not) it would be a team full of fringe players and kids to face Roma on the Tuesday before the Stoke away game.I think Everton and Werder Bremen should be the work out for the main squad.
 
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ProfessorbyGrace

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #38
BlueSkiesForever said:
Love this
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Makes a change from the mindless bickering, haha.
 
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Shannerz

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #39
Sky Blue Harry H said:
a team full of fringe players and kids to face Roma on the Tuesday
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Not words I necessarily expected to ever see in relation to Coventry City.
 
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Ashdown

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #40
Sheaf is central to our success, does a lot of stuff off the ball and provides a pass when under the press.
Probably could do with being a bit more forceful with refs and oppo mouths as Captain but hey ho.
 
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Monty

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #41
Roma are playing 3 games in a week too, Olympiakos Saturday, Coventry Tuesday and Everton Saturday. It is possible that it is a B team match for both sides on the Tuesday
 

SeaSeeEffCee

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #42
The injuries are frustrating, especially when they come to key players. Clear that Robins really wants to hit the ground running this year and this isn’t going to help things.
 
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PVA

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #43
Ccfcisparks said:
Earlsdon must have been pissed last night. The ranting was extremely odd.
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It's the same every time he posts about cucks and losers and leftists and whatever else. Always been the hours of like 10pm to 1am presumably when he gets tanked up
 
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StrettoBoy

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #44
Mucca Mad Boys said:
With Torp & Sheaf down, we could be starting the Stoke game with a midfield of Eccles, Rudoni and Allen / Palmer. Which isn’t ideal.

Striker is also pretty desperate too.
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I reckon a second string midfield three of Eccles, Rudoni and Palmer with Allen and even Lati as cover isn't bad and certainly good enough for us to beat Stoke, albeit probably only by three goals rather than the expected five

I agree that we desperately need another striker.
 
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StrettoBoy

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #45
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Looks like you're worried. The stats don't lie. Looking forward to your apology and us killing the league without that shit pussy fake captain.
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I respect your right to talk complete tosh.

 

Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #46
StrettoBoy said:
I reckon a second string midfield three of Eccles, Rudoni and Palmer with Allen and even Lati as cover isn't bad and certainly good enough for us to beat Stoke, albeit probably only by three goals rather than the expected five

I agree that we desperately need another striker.
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Robins clearly doesn’t agree otherwise we wouldn’t be chasing CMs all summer; Stamenic, Browne, the ex-PSG Lausanne and Fernandes from that Swiss team?

Competition is good and even Eccles and Sheaf admitted they were running on fumes towards the end of last season. To go the distance in a 48+ game season, we need the quality to see us through.
 
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SAJ

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #47
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
History states that Sheaf out injured provides better form for us in general. Wouldn't wish it on anyone, but I'm looking forward to this forum apologising to me when we rip up the championship without him.
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It didn’t last season. Games Sheaf played in 1.62 pts per game. Games he didn’t play in 1.53 pts per game.
 
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Levship20

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #48
SAJ said:
It didn’t last season. Games Sheaf played in 1.62 pts per game. Games he didn’t play in 1.53 pts per game.
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Hang on a minute, is Sheaf out for the start of the season then????
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #49
SAJ said:
It didn’t last season. Games Sheaf played in 1.62 pts per game. Games he didn’t play in 1.53 pts per game.
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This is not correct.
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #50
SAJ said:
It didn’t last season. Games Sheaf played in 1.62 pts per game. Games he didn’t play in 1.53 pts per game.
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These need to be weighted for the final league position of the opposition.
 
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StrettoBoy

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #51
Mucca Mad Boys said:
Robins clearly doesn’t agree otherwise we wouldn’t be chasing CMs all summer; Stamenic, Browne, the ex-PSG Lausanne and Fernandes from that Swiss team?

Competition is good and even Eccles and Sheaf admitted they were running on fumes towards the end of last season. To go the distance in a 48+ game season, we need the quality to see us through.
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I don’t disagree because unless you have the midfield of a World Cup winning team - and possibly not even then - there is always room for improvement. What I said was that our second string midfield “isn’t bad” and I stand by that.

It is a sign of how far we have come that, even with some very decent midfielders and a degree of strength in depth, we are still looking to improve.

Things are better than they were financially but even so we don’t have the monetary resources of a few other Championship clubs, especially those with wealthy American or Middle Eastern backers or in receipt of parachute payments, so until we get promotion steady year-on-year incremental progress has to be the way for us.

I’m pleased with the way things are going.
 
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Hobo

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #52
Offhegoes said:
None of the injuries sound serious, and I would expect all of them will be fit by Aug 10th. Torp & Rodrigues have been missing for over a week now, so plenty of time left to get fit, and hopefully all will be available in 10 days for Werder Bremen.
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I am sure they will be doing something and not just lay in a hammock eating double cheeseburgers with chips?
 

Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #53
StrettoBoy said:
I don’t disagree because unless you have the midfield of a World Cup winning team - and possibly not even then - there is always room for improvement. What I said was that our second string midfield “isn’t bad” and I stand by that.

It is a sign of how far we have come that, even with some very decent midfielders and a degree of strength in depth, we are still looking to improve.

Things are better than they were financially but even so we don’t have the monetary resources of a few other Championship clubs, especially those with wealthy American or Middle Eastern backers or in receipt of parachute payments, so until we get promotion steady year-on-year incremental progress has to be the way for us.

I’m pleased with the way things are going.
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I agree, it’s more a symptom of how far we’ve come and the next steps of our progression as a club.

The players mentioned are decent, but would Allen get into another playoff chasing team? Probably not, given his last Championship team was relegated Burton.

The other consideration is squad and tactical management. Having the bare minimum of players gives you limited options when you get injuries and suspensions - these players need to kept as fresh as possible. On the tactical point, there will be moments in games where we need different options and profile of players.

Last season, you could see that the whole team was overworked and if we want to sustain a push to the automatics, the depth and the quality needs to be improved.
 
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WestEndAgro

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #54
PVA said:
It's the same every time he posts about cucks and losers and leftists and whatever else. Always been the hours of like 10pm to 1am presumably when he gets tanked up
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Aren't losers and Lefties the same thing
 
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biggymania

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #55
Sounds to me like we are ramping up pre-season pretty well. I'm not sure how Torp / Rapha got injured but Sheaf & Wright were both knocks, right?

Not a lot you can do about knocks in terms of avoidance. I suppose there's an argument that the Getafe game in particular was unecessarily testy... not sure about Stevenage last night.
 

Matt smith

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #56
SeaSeeEffCee said:
The injuries are frustrating, especially when they come to key players. Clear that Robins really wants to hit the ground running this year and this isn’t going to help things.
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Hopefully wright is back for the stoke game, maybe even the Werder Bremen one
 

stevefloyd

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #57
Shannerz said:
Not words I necessarily expected to ever see in relation to Coventry City.
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Not everyone has a fringe to be fair
 
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steve101

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #58
Impact injuries are unavoidable unfortunately. However, considering we are now supposedly using evidence-based approaches for injury prevention, it is concerning that Torp and Rapha's injuries have been put down to being foreign players, not used to training demands of the Championship. Surely, the whole point of evidence-based approaches is you take all of this into consideration when designing fitness and training programs.
 
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Philosoraptor

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  • Jul 25, 2024
  • #59
Ccfcisparks said:
These need to be weighted for the final league position of the opposition.
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Got a much better idea but it would take way too long to do.
 

shmmeee

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  • Jul 25, 2024
  • #60
mmttww said:
Is 'cuck' the new 'woke'? It's funny reading someone I'd guess is in their 60s trying to type like a Roadman. Ennit.
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You don’t know about the rights obsession with BBC cuck porn?

There’s a whole psychology dissertation to be had there…
 
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Balli001

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  • Jul 25, 2024
  • #61
steve101 said:
Impact injuries are unavoidable unfortunately. However, considering we are now supposedly using evidence-based approaches for injury prevention, it is concerning that Torp and Rapha's injuries have been put down to being foreign players, not used to training demands of the Championship. Surely, the whole point of evidence-based approaches is you take all of this into consideration when designing fitness and training programs.
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You have to have a blanket method of training at the club though. Its about those players adapting to it. Some will take longer than others
 
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skybluegod

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  • Jul 27, 2024
  • #62
Are all of them potentially okay?

As for whether he is likely to feature in the game in Germany on Saturday lunchtime (12.30pm), he said: “He could do, yes, as long as he’s OK. Hopefully they will all be fit and we’ll have a full complement again because we need everybody fit. There are too many people who have missed too much training.”

From the telegraph, with robins speaking about Dovin but that seems more generic to the whole squad.
 

covcity4life

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  • Jul 27, 2024
  • #63
shmmeee said:
You don’t know about the rights obsession with BBC cuck porn?

There’s a whole psychology dissertation to be had there…
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I have been researching videos for a year now. Soon I will start writing the introduction
 
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Deity

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  • Jul 27, 2024
  • #64
samccov1987 said:
Injuries happen but it’s not a great sign for the new regime that Hadji, Torp, Sheaf and Rafa are already crocked.

Let’s see how fast they get them back on the grass.
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Totally agree. No one got injured when Adi was at the club
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Jul 27, 2024
  • #65
Brett Clement said:
It was obvious that this style of pre season would end in tears. Multiple plane journeys, training on different surfaces with muddled recovery times. Sad but seems Doug's ego has taken over and he wants to share a glass of wine with directors of bigger teams rather than look after his own team.

The season starts 2 weeks today and we still have 4 tough fixtures to come before then, I can only fear the worst.
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Absolute horseshit
 
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mmttww

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  • Jul 27, 2024
  • #66
Brett Clement said:
Doug's ego has taken over and he wants to share a glass of wine with directors of bigger teams rather than look after his own team.
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"Alexa - ask ChatGPT to write me a post that says fully mental things about Doug King. Mention wine."
 
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ProfessorbyGrace

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  • Jul 27, 2024
  • #67
Brett Clement said:
It was obvious that this style of pre season would end in tears. Multiple plane journeys, training on different surfaces with muddled recovery times. Sad but seems Doug's ego has taken over and he wants to share a glass of wine with directors of bigger teams rather than look after his own team.

The season starts 2 weeks today and we still have 4 tough fixtures to come before then, I can only fear the worst.
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Ah, Boosh, I thought it was you.

How are you keeping?
 

Evo1883

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  • Jul 27, 2024
  • #68
Another slow start to the season looms unless we can get our squad back fit
 

Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Jul 27, 2024
  • #69
Evo1883 said:
Another slow start to the season looms unless we can get our squad back fit
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Michael Rose picked up a bad ankle injury for Stoke (who now have just 2 fit centre halves, as the season approaches). Opening game against us - all clubs will have issues. Hopefully our injured players are not too serious. If we can pick up 6 points from our first 3 games, I won't be unhappy. Anything less - disappointing. Anything more - happy days! Think first 2 games are key.
 
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Monty

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  • Jul 27, 2024
  • #70
Sky Blue Harry H said:
Michael Rose picked up a bad ankle injury for Stoke (who now have just 2 fit centre halves, as the season approaches). Opening game against us - all clubs will have issues. Hopefully our injured players are not too serious. If we can pick up 6 points from our first 3 games, I won't be unhappy. Anything less - disappointing. Anything more - happy days! Think first 2 games are key.
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6 points, I expect 7 or 9
 
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