It’s a shame it’s ended this way… (32 Viewers)

[SkyBlueDom26]

Unfortunately, whilst our owner has done some great things since buying our Club (none more so than acquiring the CBS), his lack of football understanding has resulted in us wasting a transfer window in the season where we had the best chance of PL promotion for a generation.

Mr King has allowed a weak recruitment team waste funds on average wingers (including one not even expected to feature this season) instead of addressing the clear need for a proper striker, a central defender and a capable left back.

He has gambled on employing a manager who will deliver despite the squad deficiencies - unfortunately that manager doesn’t appear to have a Plan B and instead of playing our new midfielder (at least for part of the game), deems it acceptable to keep going with Plan A despite the poor efforts in the previous two games.

I predict that Mr King has already experienced the highs of his ownership - in this kind of form, promotion is a forlorn hope which will inevitably be followed by a tough next season both psychologically and based on teamsuch as Birmingham and Wrexham investing, Sheffield United starting with Wilder, not to mention Notts Forest/West Ham coming down.

I hope I am wrong, but with the experience of the many disappointment of being a Coventry fan for 50 years, I bet I am not.

Mr King’s ill-timed “motivational” New Year message is highly likely to come back to haunt him - I am pretty confident he also won’t be charging £45 for a ticket if we are the Championship next season.

Cracking post that

 

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[Ccfcisparks]

Unfortunately, whilst our owner has done some great things since buying our Club (none more so than acquiring the CBS), his lack of football understanding has resulted in us wasting a transfer window in the season where we had the best chance of PL promotion for a generation.

Mr King has allowed a weak recruitment team waste funds on average wingers (including one not even expected to feature this season) instead of addressing the clear need for a proper striker, a central defender and a capable left back.

He has gambled on employing a manager who will deliver despite the squad deficiencies - unfortunately that manager doesn’t appear to have a Plan B and instead of playing our new midfielder (at least for part of the game), deems it acceptable to keep going with Plan A despite the poor efforts in the previous two games.

I predict that Mr King has already experienced the highs of his ownership - in this kind of form, promotion is a forlorn hope which will inevitably be followed by a tough next season both psychologically and based on teamsuch as Birmingham and Wrexham investing, Sheffield United starting with Wilder, not to mention Notts Forest/West Ham coming down.

I hope I am wrong, but with the experience of the many disappointment of being a Coventry fan for 50 years, I bet I am not.

Mr King’s ill-timed “motivational” New Year message is highly likely to come back to haunt him - I am pretty confident he also won’t be charging £45 for a ticket if we are the Championship next season.

Excellent post and the bootlickers won’t like it

 

[Sky Blue Heaven]

Let’s be honest, we’ve been sleepwalking into a mediocre second half of the season since Christmas. No away win since Boro, tactically inferior against the low block, players getting sent off etc etc. Feels like the team is lacking confidence across the pitch with certain players scared to play forward, MvE especially. How many times do we go back to Rushworth when the 2nd ball is cleared from our own corner? The Championship is relentless, sadly, unless things change drastically, we’re going to end up in the playoffs. I’m not sure this group has the mental strength to get us over the line. Hopefully they can step up when it matters. PUSB

 

[Matt smith]

I don't.

Why not?

 

[Wyken Sky Blue]

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[SkyblueTexan]

Mentally we are fucked and let’s just say Boro and Ipswich will take the top 2 spots. Are we capable of winning the playoffs? That’s something we have to seriously start thinking about. Can this team do a Sunderland type job from last season? Do they need to go away someplace to regroup, recharge and refocus?

 

[Snaily]

Fair play to the fans booing, spend our hard earned money to watch players on thousands a week play utterly pathetic

There may be a lack of ability, a lack of confidence, but not a lack of effort or application. Booing the team today might you feel better but it won’t give them more ability or confidence

 

[Londonccfcfan]

There are 15 games to go so it clearly hasn't ended yet.

But the last couple of months have been incredibly shit, no doubt about it, and we need to change it quickly.

Agree with this. Its absolute bullshit the players have lost the fight etc.

 

[clint van damme]

It’s not just the squad suffering from a fragile mentality looking at this forum.

Unfortunately the mentality of people on this forum is fucking irrelevant compared to that of the playing squad.

 

[clint van damme]

Mr King’s ill-timed “motivational” New Year message is highly likely to come back to haunt him - I am pretty confident he also won’t be charging £45 for a ticket if we are the Championship next season.

Not as much as his decision not to sign Bamford.

 

[StrettoBoy]

We played well enough to win the game. Oxford parked the bus. Poor finishing cost us. Hull have just lost at home to a team that lost 5 nil at home to Derby. Sheff Utd will have a good chance of beating Boro and so do we. Not too concerned tbh.

I admire your optimism but sadly I cannot share it.

 

[SeaSeeEffCee]

A lot of our fans seem to be approaching this autos fight with the same mentality as a play-offs scrap. ‘Playing well’ or ‘dominating the game’ doesn’t matter at home to 23rd in the table. You simply have to win these games. We aren’t scrapping it out for 6th place anymore, Ipswich have already capitalised on this latest slip up and it’s likely that Boro will to. We were fortunate in both our play-offs campaigns that’s the points totals needed were very low and we could afford to drop points like we did vs Stoke, Plymouth, Luton etc. but we won’t be as fortunate this time around.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Today showed that we won’t make it in the autos race.

This is not even a melodramatic post. The players don’t have the mentality, fight, passion to do this. Been evident for months.

If this is how they want to perform at home then there’s no chance for the rest of the season.

How on earth will these bunch of players be up for a battle with Boro?

Lampard you’re to blame as well as you’ve persisted with some nonsense tactics, formations even when we started the downward spiral. Don’t use injuries and fatigue as an excuse. You should have tightened us up over the last few months.

If you can’t beat Oxford who are awful at home in a promotion run in you don’t deserve anything. We don’t have any away form.

Too many so called big players picking up a wage for little return. No urgency, passion, creativity… nothing.

We won’t be going up through the autos and we haven’t a hells chance in winning any play off battles.

It’s a shame as this is the once in the blue moon chance to get out of this league. But it’s ending in a worrying style.

Oh give it a fucking rest man, it's the beginning of February there is everything to play for.

Imagine being in the trenches with a flannel like you

 

[lord_garrincha]

Imagine being in the trenches with a flannel like you

Whilst you spew your sanctimony... may as well die a hero.

 

[Super Graham Withey]

Not as much as his decision not to sign Bamford.

The turning point of our season and that’s on Doug.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Whilst you spew your sanctimony... may as well die a hero.

Sanctimonious means not declaring the season over when you are top of the table on the 7th February. I'm ok with that.

 

[lord_garrincha]

Sanctimonious means not declaring the season over when you are top of the table on the 7th February. I'm ok with that.

Good for you. I've already said it's not terminal.

 

[skybluelee]

2015/6 all over again - but worse!

Said it before, in that season people were saying the same things when the writing was on the wall.

"We'll be fine"
"It's not over yet"
"There's still 15 games to go"
" We've got X to play and if we win we'll be Above them"

Last 15 games, we're middle of the table - average Championship plodders.

What makes people think it is going to change!?

It hasn't last week, the week before, the couple of weeks before that, a month ago, a couple of months ago .....

Last 13 games we're 17th. Even middle of the table form during that period and we'd still be 5 points clear at the top.

 

[AFCCOVENTRY]

Oh give it a fucking rest man, it's the beginning of February there is everything to play for.

Imagine being in the trenches with a flannel like you

We need to get to 2PPG for the rest of the season. That’s 30 pts from the remaining 15 games. We are so off doing that. That’s demanding 10 wins out of 15.

So you’re confident we’re going to do that?

 

[lord_garrincha]

I think we're all hurting... let's hope we pull through

 

[lord_garrincha]

Sanctimonious means not declaring the season over when you are top of the table on the 7th February. I'm ok with that.

But also... fuck it... I hope we can turn it over

 

[Londonccfcfan]

Whats this thread about?????

Whats Ended...nothing.

Who says we need 89 points?

It may be as low as 84/85.

Just need to calm your tits...We will beat boro..then all good.

Might still be top on Monday! Ffs

 

[Covcraig@bury]

Playoffs again owa owa

 

[Bigelvesy]

Get the frustration, but it’s not helpful.

Two centre backs passing the ball to each other on the halfway line in added time isnt helpful either.

I didnt boo, but i am so angry and disappointed by the last 2 months. More specifically todays game, if we’d have been actually putting crosses into their box non stop for those last 18-20 minutes i’d have said we were unlucky, but we didnt, we just twatted about playing 5 yard passes to each other without anyone trying to put a ball in.
And im fucked off with the nonchalant attitude from Lampard and the players interviewed, its still so self congratulatory because “we’d have taken this in August”. August doesnt fucking matter now, nothing has been won (or lost) you all worked so hard to get where we are, why are we so content with the last 2 months being as turgid and self destructive as they’ve been? Fucking step up and show something

 

[Northants Sky Blue]

People who think we might not get promoted are in denial. This is it, you can start enjoying it now.

Dunno why people are shitting the bed, we went up in December right?

 

[Sky Blue Goblin]

On reflection, maybe we shouldn’t right us off. While they clearly didn’t have the lead we had, I still remember Leicester bottling it in 23/24 only to win the league after getting back up straight.

We need work 100% but if I was looking at it positively. We had chances to win today (looking at Wrights 1 on 1) and defence wise we did much better imo.

Likewise time is running out for us to get on a run

 

[SeaSeeEffCee]

On reflection, maybe we shouldn’t right us off. While they clearly didn’t have the lead we had, I still remember Leicester bottling it in 23/24 only to win the league after getting back up straight.

We need work 100% but if I was looking at it positively. We had chances to win today (looking at Wrights 1 on 1) and defence wise we did much better imo.

Likewise time is running out for us to get on a run

Leicester comparison is nothing like us. They were still 11 points clear at this point in the season and their PPG never dropped below 2ppg. They just had two strong teams chasing them down, but they'd done most of the hard work already and only needed to win a hanful of their last few games. We have been in bottom 8 form for 13 games and need to somehow turn it back around to top 2 form for the last 15.

 

[Londonccfcfan]

Leicester comparison is nothing like us. They were still 11 points clear at this point in the season and their PPG never dropped below 2ppg. They just had two strong teams chasing them down, but they'd done most of the hard work already and only needed to win a hanful of their last few games. We have been in bottom 8 form for 13 games and need to somehow turn it back around to top 2 form for the last 15.

Did we see or envisage the turn around this time last year?..with no little previous form.

 

[Macca]

Did we see or envisage the turn around this time last year?..with no little previous form.

Lets hope it starts soon, the "next weeks" will run out before you know it

 

[M&B Stand]

We’ve been found out, 2 banks of 4 defend and hit us on the break, brum, Norwich and qPr all did it, today Oxford were dogshit but still able to do it. The amount of people with heads buried in the sand is staggering.
It’s easy to see how this ends