Match Thread Stoke City - Coventry City [FA] Match Thread - Saturday 10th Jan (4 Viewers)
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Sky Blue Pete
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Lots of options and competition
Should improve performances
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT
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He doesn't know how to head a ball, he just lets it hit him instead of directing the ball into the goal.
A Mick Ferguson or Colin Stein would have buried that.
He's cost us a playoff final and now a result today.
Mucca Mad Boys
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It was a bad miss and definitely should’ve scored, but to think there were 2 bigger missed chances is crazy.
I can’t complain at the result, Stoke on another day could’ve scored 3-4 in the 1st half.
Although I get the frustration from Lampard, we were the better team in the second half!
skybluegod
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I think us playing 4 additional games than everyone might be considered a disadvantage
Ccfcisparks
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It was certainly a much easier header to score than the one Simms had previously that produced a good save that he got pelters for on here.
Think he’s back for Saturday
SeaSeeEffCee
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Told myself I didn’t really care about this result before kick off but getting a bit sick of not winning and the severe lack of goals.
We’ll be fine, Leicester won’t know what’s hit them Saturday
StrettoBoy
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I agree. The goals have dried up and it's a big concern.
In the early part of the season we were scoring around 3 goals a game. If we could have kept that up we would have scored 25-27 goals in the nine games since the beginning of December. We have actually scored 7.
Only in the Birmingham match, which we lost 3-2, have we scored more than one in any game in that period.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Why is bad form more likely to stick around than good form?
We look completely toothless….the culprits….the flu/ Covid/ injuries , Ipswich, good team, punished us and damaged confidence, our strikers are pretty damn shite and this obsession with playing everything through Rudoni who takes too many touches and then loses the ball. He’s screaming for the ball all the time and we’ve become too one dimensional by giving him it.
StrettoBoy
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It won't necessarily but it's been going on for nine games and there is currently not much sign of things improving. The hope is that, with Torp and BTA back and the new signings, we will soon turn the corner.
Brighton Sky Blue
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The form will stay as it is if we have a relegation quality squad, we don't have one so it won't. Our earlier season form of winning nearly every game would stick around if we had a team stacked with top class players, we don't have one so it didn't.
What we have is a top 6 squad that really outdid itself for a big chunk of the season. Performing like one will be enough to get us over the line.
mmttww
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this made me LOL pretty hard - liking your work. Might use Fark Rompard as a nom de plume.
We had a bad run last Xmas and we were always going to struggle again with the amount of games and squad size, we added grimes last January and it gave us a boost, looks like the new lads will do the same, not sure we’ll be back to battering teams but expect us to start winning again,
mmttww
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so we could start with Torp, Asante, Wright, Sakamoto and Minni all on the bench. Not too shabby.
oscillatewildly
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A King Charles 1st post decapitation would show more heading prowess than Hadji.He doesn't know how to head a ball, he just lets it hit him instead of directing the ball into the goal.
A Mick Ferguson or Colin Stein would have buried that.
He's cost us a playoff final and now a result today.
David O'Day
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certainly a lot better than it has been
Shannerz
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It's easier to be crap.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Guess we're going down then.
Shannerz
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There was a bit of flippancy there, but I reckon some truth, too.
It's definitely harder to regain good form.
StrettoBoy
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We will have to wait and see. Teams can overperform or underperform compared with their expected level and so far we have managed to do both this season.
Leicester was an example of a team that overperformed for a whole season when they won the Premier League and history is littered with relegated teams that were "too good to go down".
We must hope that (a) our recent poor run hasn't dented confidence and thus made a continuance of our poor form more likely and (b) the new signings - hopefully with one or two more to come - and the return of Torp and BTA kickstart another good run.
Balli001
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He also earned us an fa cup semi final if your are highlighting single moments in games. It is becoming a witch hunt now among the fans. A section behind me slagging him off all game then sing his song after he hits the post. It's at the point now I wouldnt blame him if he gives the ssssh sign to the fans after he scores.He doesn't know how to head a ball, he just lets it hit him instead of directing the ball into the goal.
A Mick Ferguson or Colin Stein would have buried that.
He's cost us a playoff final and now a result today.
Tommo1993
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If he scored 10 more goals between now and May and shushed the fans every time, I’d take it.
Hobo
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We have some very fickle fans with certain lines they trot out about certain players at the first opportunity.
Balli001
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Even after Lampard explained why we press teams like we do, we still have idiot fans demanding Wright chase after every single player who has the ball.
Wasn’t that only after the Ipswich game ? we sat off them a bit, other games we’ve pressed really high and quick and it’s worked, like our centre halves if you put them under pressure they struggle,
Balli001
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He said it after that game but it stands for them all. Why would we waste energy constantly chasing a goalkeeper when they just pass it round the striker to their defender. Utterly pointless.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Because teams shit at playing out from the back will give you the ball close to goal.
robbiethemole
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Now we're finished with the Cup, it looks like Ipswich are going to be the only ones in the top 6 to play extra games in the Cup.
It means the likes of Preston, Millwall and Watford could put more pressure on them, having been knocked out like Boro and us.
I know Ipswich have a bigger squad, but we know only too well how a Cup run can impact the League form, so hopefully it can happen to them.
It means the likes of Preston, Millwall and Watford could put more pressure on them, having been knocked out like Boro and us.
I know Ipswich have a bigger squad, but we know only too well how a Cup run can impact the League form, so hopefully it can happen to them.
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SkyBlueMatt
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Had a good day out yesterday, the result didn't really bother me. Enjoyed the crowd, LEFT SIDE 4 EVA.
Players were rested and we didn't have to do ET. On to Leicester.
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Players were rested and we didn't have to do ET. On to Leicester.
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AFCCOVENTRY
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Also they’ve got that game in hand to play in the league which means 22 games for them at least to go v 20 for us. They put a strong team out yesterday as well.