"There was no hope left. No one even shouted at the players" (1 Viewer)

This has been the problem all season:

"Patience is a virtue, it is often said, but it is a wasted one if the ball doesn't cross the halfway line. Much of Coventry's first-half possession, though, was strung out between Clingan and the back four"

Possesion without intent, is pointless, which is why often as not that's how we finish a game.

Was going to highlight exactly the same paragraph, Lord.

As the season has wore on the opposition now have us sussed. They know we are not really going to hurt them when we're on top. Any opposition team must feel like they are always in the game and their chance will come.

The exact sentence hit home with me also! Speaks volume to what we are about, we get the ball but get a nosebleed when we get accross the half way line. Everyone has a whinge after a defeat as this suggests but we are clearly a team in trouble and the table never lies. My biggest fear is that we actually finish bottom of the pile this year.

Well, if we do go bottom and say are 10 points from safety I think I would just play the kids from that point on. Get as many getting some game time as we can.

Think once we are cast adrift we will stay adrift.

Cableguy, thanks for putting this up. The Unfortunates has been a haven of really thoughtful comment on football for a while now. A refreshing change from the media giving us nothing but the Premier league. Agree with what they say. At the moment we do looked doomed. But two thirds of the season to go. Though it does look as if only a takeover will save us. Cruelly ironic as this month marks 50 years (FIFTY YEARS!) since the great Jimmy Hill began his Sky Blue revolution. Can still feel the joy when beating Millwall to get promoted to the old 2nd Division (The Championship) way back.

Gosh is it really 50 years! I know we all tend to look back through rose coloured glasses but oh boy those were great days for us. Jimmy was a breath of fresh air not only for us but for the whole game. We of course should not forget the great Derek Robbins who bankrolled that whole happy period in our history.

Prior to Jimmy it was pretty much like it is now no hopers going no where. We lost I think to Kings Lynn in a FA cup third round and although I was just a nipper I thought this can't get any worse!

Awful as it sounds I think we may have to go down to rejuvenate ourselves. Perhaps a new Robbins/Hill combination might turn up?

Stopper