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Match Thread West Bromwich Albion - Coventry City Match Thread - Saturday 21st Feb (3 Viewers)

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stevefloyd

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #316
clint van damme said:
Is KKH fit?
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I don't fancy him to be fair
 
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coop

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #317
stevefloyd said:
I don't fancy him to be fair
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Definitely a good player not had the chance to settle would probably play him tomorrow and give Milan a rest but FL doesn't trust him so Milan will play.
 

covcity4life

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #318
This game is massive. No one should be rested for sheff utd FFS
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #319
covcity4life said:
This game is massive. No one should be rested for sheff utd FFS
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Yep 14 cup finals to go
 
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wingy

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #320
Going to feel quite balmy I think, certainly not cold.
 

AFCCOVENTRY

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #321
Fully fit squad with BTA back. Who’s dropping from the bench?
 
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quinn1971

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #322
AFCCOVENTRY said:
Fully fit squad with BTA back. Who’s dropping from the bench?
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Guessing Markelo, not a bad problem to have is it
 
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quinn1971

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #323
covcity4life said:
This game is massive. No one should be rested for sheff utd FFS
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Exactly, make sure we win this one then sheff utds a free hit,
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #324
quinn1971 said:
Exactly, make sure we win this one then sheff utds a free hit,
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At this stage of the season, and in this league position, no game is a free hit.
 
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quinn1971

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #325
Brighton Sky Blue said:
At this stage of the season, and in this league position, no game is a free hit.
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It is, win Tomorrow and that’s 6 points from 2, we need 2 ppg, takes the pressure of having to get a result at sheff Utd although I’d be disappointed if we didn’t get all 3,
 
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SBbucks

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #326
AFCCOVENTRY said:
Fully fit squad with BTA back. Who’s dropping from the bench?
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Do we need 2 CBs on the bench, plus Bidwell who could also cover? It wouldn’t surprise me to see one of Woolfenden or Kitching left out of the squad.
I’m sure KKH also isn’t happy not making the match day squad at the moment.
 
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SBbucks

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #327
clint van damme said:
Is KKH fit?
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He was very active on City Unseen and there hasn’t been a mention of him picking up a knock, so assume so.
 
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quinn1971

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #328
We’ll win tomorrow, then get something from the sheff Utd game then it’s the next 3 out of 4 at home, perfect chance for us to put a bit more daylight between us and 3rd
 
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Speedies_Chips

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #329
coop said:
Definitely a good player not had the chance to settle would probably play him tomorrow and give Milan a rest but FL doesn't trust him so Milan will play.
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Missed the joke I think.
 

Otis

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #330
covcity4life said:
This game is massive. No one should be rested for sheff utd FFS
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If we rested players and lost, we'd never hear the end of it on here.
 
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covcity4life

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #331
Otis said:
If we rested players and lost, we'd never hear the end of it on here.
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It's also worrying that some fans still don't understand how the championship works and think that there are guaranteed win fixtures where you can afford to rest players
 
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quinn1971

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #332
We’ll have to rest players but now we’ve got quality back up for when we do
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #333
covcity4life said:
It's also worrying that some fans still don't understand how the championship works and think that there are guaranteed win fixtures where you can afford to rest players
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It's not like they're saying rest the first teamers for the academy kids.

KKH last year swept the boards for Preston's post-season awards and played pretty much every match for them. To suggest he wouldn't be good enough to come in for MvE against teams such as Oxford, Wednesday etc. is ludicrous. Or be able to replace MvE when he's suffering from the flu and throwing up on the pitch. Eccles is an established midfielder at Championship level and more than capable of holding his own against most teams. Admittedly others like Bidwell and Allen would be more of a risk as despite their experience and professionalism age is now making it harder for them to perform at promotion level, and especially with any consistency.

Instead we should be asking could we afford not to rest players, as our poor run of form coincided with players like Grimes looking tired because games were coming thick and fast and they'd played so many minutes without being rested.
 

covcity4life

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #334
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
It's not like they're saying rest the first teamers for the academy kids.

KKH last year swept the boards for Preston's post-season awards and played pretty much every match for them. To suggest he wouldn't be good enough to come in for MvE against teams such as Oxford, Wednesday etc. is ludicrous. Or be able to replace MvE when he's suffering from the flu and throwing up on the pitch. Eccles is an established midfielder at Championship level and more than capable of holding his own against most teams. Admittedly others like Bidwell and Allen would be more of a risk as despite their experience and professionalism age is now making it harder for them to perform at promotion level, and especially with any consistency.

Instead we should be asking could we afford not to rest players, as our poor run of form coincided with players like Grimes looking tired because games were coming thick and fast and they'd played so many minutes without being rested.
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KKH hasn't even made squad in ages though. Milan is one of our top 5 players. It's not time to rest him now we have only 5 games in a month

I'm not saying KKH isn't capable but he might need a game or two to get going and we can't really afford that right now
 
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Nick

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #335
covcity4life said:
KKH hasn't even made squad in ages though. Milan is one of our top 5 players. It's not time to rest him now we have only 5 games in a month

I'm not saying KKH isn't capable but he might need a game or two to get going and we can't really afford that right now
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Wasn't he injured?
 
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covcity4life

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #336
Nick said:
Wasn't he injured?
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Ya. So tough as to throw him in for a start soon as he returns to squad
 
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quinn1971

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #337
covcity4life said:
KKH hasn't even made squad in ages though. Milan is one of our top 5 players. It's not time to rest him now we have only 5 games in a month

I'm not saying KKH isn't capable but he might need a game or two to get going and we can't really afford that right now
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Would of thought Hayden comes in for bidwell, cover for LB & RB,
 

Cov98

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #338
Genuinely don't understand how people can be suggesting resting players for Sheff Utd...

We need to build a gap to 3rd, resting players and expecting a win is not how you do it.

Full strength, get a result. And if when Sheff Utd comes along we have to rest 1 or 2, then we have to.
West Brom are shit but it's not like it's a case of playing Allen, Bidwell and half the bench and still coming out with 3 points, we have to put 100% in.
 
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RoysterE17

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #339
3 0 win think the boys will be bouncing after that win on monday and again will be looking to turn this away form around. Think lamps has seen we dont need to go gun-ho and we can still score! Same 11 for me to keep that momentum rolling
 
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SBbucks

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #340
covcity4life said:
KKH hasn't even made squad in ages though. Milan is one of our top 5 players. It's not time to rest him now we have only 5 games in a month

I'm not saying KKH isn't capable but he might need a game or two to get going and we can't really afford that right now
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KKH was in the squad for the Oxford game, it’s hardly ages.
 

covcity4life

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  • Feb 20, 2026
  • #341
SBbucks said:
KKH was in the squad for the Oxford game, it’s hardly ages.
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It was his first time back in ages right? We shouldn't be resting mve to give KKH a start right now
 

Otis

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  • Feb 21, 2026
  • #342
covcity4life said:
It was his first time back in ages right? We shouldn't be resting mve to give KKH a start right now
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You would have to think he'd be very rusty right now, with that lack of game time and mins on the pitch.

I'd be a lot more comfortable if he'd been getting the odd 15-20 mins here and there, but he hasn't.

I think his last appearance was on 1st Jan and he played about 60 mins, so I would worry a bit about his sharpness
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Feb 21, 2026
  • #343
Otis said:
You would have to think he'd be very rusty right now, with that lack of game time and mins on the pitch.

I'd be a lot more comfortable if he'd been getting the odd 15-20 mins here and there, but he hasn't.

I think his last appearance was on 1st Jan and he played about 60 mins, so I would worry a bit about his sharpness
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Not giving him minutes has meant putting MVE through the grinder with no real back up.
 

Lamps

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  • Feb 21, 2026
  • #344
Otis said:
If we rested players and lost, we'd never hear the end of it on here.
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We won't hear the end of it if we don't win whatever side we put out even if we hammer them for 90 minutes and somehow we don't score
 
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Lamps

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  • Feb 21, 2026
  • #345
quinn1971 said:
We’ll have to rest players but now we’ve got quality back up for when we do
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We don't have to rest players yet. The big difference now is we don't have to play our best players for 90 minutes every game like we've had to most of this season.
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Feb 21, 2026
  • #346
Lamps said:
We don't have to rest players yet. The big difference now is we don't have to play our best players for 90 minutes every game like we've had to most of this season.
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In the full back positions it looks like we do.
 

Lamps

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  • Feb 21, 2026
  • #347
Brighton Sky Blue said:
In the full back positions it looks like we do.
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Different players for different opponents and style of play? We didn't have our defenders going forward at every opportunity and Middlesborough are not a side full of big players.
 
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SBbucks

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  • Feb 21, 2026
  • #348
covcity4life said:
It was his first time back in ages right? We shouldn't be resting mve to give KKH a start right now
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I’m not saying we should start him over MVE, but it’s simply not true that KKH has been out for ages - he was in the Norwich and Oxford squads (so 2 out of the last 4).
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Feb 21, 2026
  • #349
Must win today. Don’t want the happy clappers saying a draw is fine
 
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Skybluekyle

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  • Feb 21, 2026
  • #350
I think a draw would be fine
 
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