Match Thread Norwich City - Coventry City Match Thread - Monday 26th Jan (70 Viewers)

[Sick Boy]

Grimes has gone which has totally cost us.

We look jaded and badly in need of re-enforcements

I don't think we should go mental but if we fuck this up how long until we get another chance?

The loanees all go back, the better players get picked off by clubs that finish lower than us but will pay them more and we're looking at a rebuild with Vin & Gus type money.

I said the other week I can see a very real possibility of us fucking this up. Not saying they will but its not that hard to see them dropping to second while people keep saying the title doesn't matter as long as we go up and then slipping into the play offs the last couple of weeks of the season. If that happens I don't see a trip to Wembley let alone winning.

We needed to actually spend money this window and it’s started to feel like we’re not going to.

 

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[robbiethemole]

get a cm who can win the fucking ball and hold on to it

 

[Londonccfcfan]

Said the same. The lead should not have covered up the poor first half performance. Lampard didn’t recognise it.

Its truly awful.


We cant keep clean sheet.

Lucky to only concede 1 vs leicester and Millwall. This formation is suicide and stupidity.

 

[skybluecam]

Dreadful defensive performance. We look better with Latibeudiere in the team. Unfortunately our better form players play in the same position - Esse and Sakamoto. I think we need the former in the 10 and Sakamoto on the right.

Esse did nothing other than one strike of the ball

 

[Ccfc_Addy]

Torp's abysmal free kick at the end summed up the entire night, I'm mad at myself for getting excited when Saka was fouled

 

[Speedies_Chips]

Surprisingly though i don't even feel angry. Fully accepting we've bottled it.
Not sure if i could hack another ST next year if we did. It's just exhausting isn't it

I know it makes me sound fickle but I’ve been thinking the same thing for a few weeks. I’m 66 soon and don’t think I have the energy to go to every game again if we balls this up.

 

[Evo1883]

Last 11 games weve got 15 points

Won 4 drew 3 lost 4

 

[Nick]

The issue was with the wings and full backs going on adventures all the time.

 

[oscillatewildly]

Oh for a Barry Bannan

 

[Marty]

send me a link and I will

@Nick

 

[quinn1971]

could have prime ramos and pepe at the back, when balls get through midfield with ease every single time, one or two will go in. Grimes is just not doing what he is there to do at the moment, and the ones next to him are not helping it neither.

Can’t blame the midfield for those goals, you wouldn’t see that defending on a Sunday, good job our home forms going to get us up

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Norwich must surely be our official bogey team. 0 wins in 16. At least we’ve actually beaten PNE a few times at home.

Miserable away day.

1-0 up to 2-1 down three years in a row.

 

[Cobi Jones's Dreads]

The scary thing is that was our best team tonight and they can’t perform away from home.

No other teams would start with 4 out and out attackers away from home that’s why.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

We needed to actually spend money this window and it’s started to feel like we’re not going to.

The owner is not going to part with any cash.

 

[Marty]

Pansy midfield. Need a Hamer FFS.

 

[David O'Day]

At least the EFL and FA will stop us playing BTA as a 10 for a few games.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Fair play Norwich, the better side and deserved that.

We really need to buck our ideas up or else it’s going to be a grim end to the season.

Nah they weren’t

 

[skybluecam]

That og by jds was fucking terrible. Why's he trying to clear with his left foot and not just putting it out the ground on his right foot?

It wasn’t an own goal

 

[AFCCOVENTRY]

That was a gutless, spineless and tactically inept performance.

We looked like we just played a 3 game week.

 

[jto123]

Its truly awful.


We cant keep clean sheet.

Lucky to only concede 1 vs leicester and Millwall. This formation is suicide and stupidity.

Lampard should see that a defence with such inexperience can’t handle this formation with the pressure of a run in.

 

[TomRad85]

JDS, Thomas and Kitch were utter utter wank. Torp and Grimes looked leggy, we desperately need more options in the middle. The save money for the Prem cucks can sit down, we'll never get a better chance than this, King should be chucking everything at it.

 

[BackRoomRummermill]

long trip back

 

[Londonccfcfan]

get a cm who can win the fucking ball and hold on to it

We had one in Eccles and Lampard chose to play Asante. Awfull.

We wont ever keep a clean sheet. Rishworth has done his best. But my goodness any thick c**t can see we are wide open when teams attack us on the break.

 

[Mr Panda]

Grimes has become a hindrance I fear, not for his ability, but for our overall reliance on him him being the one to start everything.

Teams just press him, allow him to give it to the centre backs and they’ll likely give it away when they go for a high percentage ball.

 

[jto123]

No other teams would start with 4 out and out attackers away from home that’s why.

Agreed.

 

[Evo1883]

Oh for a Barry Bannan

We need legs and power in midfield , my daughter offers more defensively in midfield than torp and grimes looks like michael doyle lately

 

[Ccfc_Addy]

I don't think we should go mental but if we fuck this up how long until we get another chance?

The loanees all go back, the better players get picked off by clubs that finish lower than us but will pay them more and we're looking at a rebuild with Vin & Gus type money.

I said the other week I can see a very real possibility of us fucking this up. Not saying they will but its not that hard to see them dropping to second while people keep saying the title doesn't matter as long as we go up and then slipping into the play offs the last couple of weeks of the season. If that happens I don't see a trip to Wembley let alone winning.

Honestly, I think a lot of us are feeling this and I get the impression the players might be starting to think it too. They look bewildered

 

[The Nomad]

These players haven't got the fight or the bottle to win over 2 legs in the play off semi's. We have blown this.

 

[Nick]

It wasn’t an own goal

Jds literally booted it in the net.

 

[Shannerz]

That was utterly fucking pathetic. Almost as bad as the Birmingham debacle.

It's like Lampard has an inability to learn from previous games. We. Cannot. Play. This. Way. Away. From. Fucking. Home!

We've had 45 minutes of decent football away from home since the Middlesbrough game, and that's simply not good enough.

Apart from MvE the defenders were individually fucking shit tonight, but even taking that away, they're constantly exposed by teams being able to break fast through the massive gaps in midfield and run at them. It's pathetically, unacceptably naïve to keep playing this way when it's fucking blatantly not working. Keep playing like this, and I see a string of defeats away from home, and little else.

It also doesn't help that we've seemingly signed a dud in Woolfenden. Kitching's bang out of form and needs dropping, but would you put Woolfenden in? Not sure I would.

 

[jto123]

Grimes has become a hindrance I fear, not for his ability, but for our overall reliance on him him being the one to start everything.

Teams just press him, allow him to give it to the centre backs and they’ll likely give it away when they go for a high percentage ball.

He’s lost some bravery too

 

[Joy Division]

Absolute dogshit. Fed up of seeing teams celebrating like they've won the world cup now.

 

[TomRad85]

Not sure that’s right
We are completely over run with grimes being the only midfielder
Emc and Esse were so poor at tracking back saka much better
1-1 we go on and win

Eh? It was 1-1? And we lost

 

[Evo1883]

Nah they weren’t

They were better than us tonight

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Who do we lose to on Saturday?

Qpr