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when was the darkest era for the club? (1 Viewer)

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Domo

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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boring Wednesday thoughts

2011/2012 has to be the worst season ive seen.
 
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Flying Fokker

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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SISU era. Up to the return to the stadium.
 
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Skyblue Bangkok

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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Flying Fokker said:
SISU era. Up to the return to the stadium.
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Sisu a cancer on the club.
 
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Skyblue Bangkok

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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Flying Fokker said:
SISU era. Up to the return to the stadium.
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Bei
Flying Fokker said:
SISU era. Up to the return to the stadium.
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Plus being in Seoul and Osaka and finding out we had lost to Exeter / Accrington Stanley etc
 
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Senior Vick from Alicante

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #5
Your probably right, the season orange Ken sat on the bench.
 

Terry_dactyl

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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There’s been a few.
Rather than just a season, the slow inevitable decline from the championship was pretty grim.
Some individual defeats were very painful.

Despite how shit it was I took almost a weird sense of pride from how bad we had it. Watching people wince when you told them who you supported.
Other than actually going out of business, like Bury, who has had it worse? Maybe Pompey? Maybe Luton? I don’t know that either of them had to move grounds…twice.
 
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Bad Boy

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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The realisation that we could drop out of league football.

Not playing in Coventry.

Administration.

Inability to see any light at the end of the tunnel

Finally, almost giving up hope.
 
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Domo

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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Bad Boy said:
The realisation that we could drop out of league football.

Not playing in Coventry.

Administration.

Inability to see any light at the end of the tunnel

Finally, almost giving up hope.
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with everything, wasps, sixfields etc, i remember having chats with other cov 'Fans' in the dark days where it was nearly all over and they said "ill prob go and support burton, another would say he would try northampton" really hit home how dire it all was.
 
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Tommo1993

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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Maybe Sixfields. The divide in fans seemed far bigger than any of the Birmingham seasons - which were also very low points, regardless of pitch product.

The 17/18 season I renewed very very late because I was angry and reluctant to accept they’d dragged us to tier four.
 
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JimmyHillsbeard

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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Bothroyd, employing Marlon King, building a fence around the training ground… playing in the worst kit in our history (stupid double collar, horizontal pinstripes, white socks).
 
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Skyblue Bangkok

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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Terry_dactyl said:
There’s been a few.
Rather than just a season, the slow inevitable decline from the championship was pretty grim.
Some individual defeats were very painful.

Despite how shit it was I took almost a weird sense of pride from how bad we had it. Watching people wince when you told them who you supported.
Other than actually going out of business, like Bury, who has had it worse? Maybe Pompey? Maybe Luton? I don’t know that either of them had to move grounds…twice.
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Well Luton went out of the league , somewhere we might have gone if we hadn't got promoted in our one season down there .
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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Flying Fokker said:
SISU era. Up to the return to the stadium.
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Which time
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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Skyblue Bangkok said:
Well Luton went out of the league , somewhere we might have gone if we hadn't got promoted in our one season down there .
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True. I didn’t begrudge them their playoff final win.
 
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JimmyHillsbeard

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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JimmyHillsbeard said:
Bothroyd, employing Marlon King, building a fence around the training ground… playing in the worst kit in our history (stupid double collar, horizontal pinstripes, white socks).
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So bad that Andy Thorn seemed an improvement.
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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Tommo1993 said:
Maybe Sixfields. The divide in fans seemed far bigger than any of the Birmingham seasons - which were also very low points, regardless of pitch product.

The 17/18 season I renewed very very late because I was angry and reluctant to accept they’d dragged us to tier four.
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Yep sixfields. I’d lost my football club
 
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CBS16

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #16
It was bad, very very bad, for about 10 years. The rest of it wasn't good, just not quite as catastrophically bad. This is what makes the Mark Robins era all the more remarkable. He's not just turned it around and steadied the ship, he's given us moments this city will never, ever forget. I would never in a million year have believed we could do what we did to united 6 years ago and the club be where it is now
 
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ajsccfc

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #17
Any point of 2016-17 where we had Nathan Clarke wearing number 7 in the worst kit in our history while Russell Slade is sat in the dugout
 
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Covkid1968#

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #18
The Northampton episode....I stood on that hill and had lost all hope and enthusiasm for the club. I couldn't see a way back and started to get behind the idea of a Phoenix club as any club playing outside the City even if called Coventry City...does not represent my city. The wife saying she had cramp in her finger by how far she had to scroll down on her phone to find us in a league...it all stopped being enjoyable and I stopped telling people who I supported because I just couldn't stand the pity and the...What league are you in these days?
 
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Joy Division

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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Since Robins arrived for the 2nd time the club feels like a new era altogether, like a complete detachment from what existed before. A whole different club.

I look back on all our time in Championship era 1 after relegation from the Premier League with no real sense of great memories, pride or players that I think back fondly of.

I can look back on all the teams Robins has created from League 2 with a fondness for most of those players, like a hall of fame created entirely of those who have helped us back to where we are now.
 
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Gint11

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #20
Andy Thorn and Mark Venus the worst managers we’ve had surely
 
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skybluecam

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #21
When Slade came in and ensured relegation to L2. So little quality in that squad, especially going forwards and I didn’t see how we’d get back up any time soon.

Seasons in Northampton/Brum were obviously bad but there were some positives on the pitch at least.
 
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bawtryneal

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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Every minute that Fisher was involved with the club.
 
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skybluegod

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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skybluecam said:
When Slade came in and ensured relegation to L2. So little quality in that squad, especially going forwards and I didn’t see how we’d get back up any time soon.

Seasons in Northampton/Brum were obviously bad but there were some positives on the pitch at least.
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Has to be this. Those 4/5 months under Venus and then slade were horrendous.
 
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SkyBlueSam01

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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ajsccfc said:
Any point of 2016-17 where we had Nathan Clarke wearing number 7 in the worst kit in our history while Russell Slade is sat in the dugout
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This for me... Didn't even play in sky blue that year ffs!

I remember saying the Checkatrade final would be my last game because it had all just got too heartbreaking and depressing (bear in mind my first game was Keane/Oggy's final game and it had literally just got worse and worse every year since then).

But that day at Wembley gave me just enough hope to get invested in the L2 season and Robins has set the club alight ever since
 
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eastwoodsdustman

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #25
I can pinpoint it to a specific game. That was the night I realised we would be playing in League 2 the following season.

Bury 2-1 Coventry City

Resurgent Bury hold on for victory over rock-bottom Coventry to take another step away from the League One drop zone.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
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JSL

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #26
Relegation from the premier league. It was the start of everything since then and only now are we getting closer to getting back there
 
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SkyBluePower

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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The League One relegation season without a doubt. Back from Sixfields but small crowds rattling round a 30000 seat Arena, Wasps gloating and on the face of it doing well, pinching our supporters.
The club being run on a seemingly non league basis. Constant money issues. The club shop was essentially a trestle table wheeled out on matchdays and the inevitably of relegation from about Xmas onwards and nobody at the club appeared to be bothered.


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Domo

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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SkyBlueSam01 said:
This for me... Didn't even play in sky blue that year ffs!

I remember saying the Checkatrade final would be my last game because it had all just got too heartbreaking and depressing (bear in mind my first game was Keane/Oggy's final game and it had literally just got worse and worse every year since then).

But that day at Wembley gave me just enough hope to get invested in the L2 season and Robins has set the club alight ever since
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i dont know how the kit got through all the checks, it was 95% white, all it needed was the colours to be flipped around.
 
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skybluelee

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #29
11/12 - 16/17 inclusive. I've erased them from existence in my mind. I have an almost photographic memory of players that have played for us since I started supporting the club in 1983 but I'm frequently amazed when I see the name of some of the players that played for us in this period that I have no recall of whatsoever.

Just googled some of those squads. Who in the actual fuck are Grant Ward, Seb Hines, Blair Turgott, Nathan Eccleston, Dylan McGeouch and Jordan Stewart amongst others.

And David Prutton play for us?!

What a time to be alive that was.
 
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junglej13

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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@edgy Definitely McCormick and Dulieu
 
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play_in_skyblue_stripes

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #31
Sisu tactics to move us out of the City. An absolute disgrace.
 

Sick Boy

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #32
When we had ‘fans’ openly saying they hoped the club went out of business and supporting the council in doing so.
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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skybluecam said:
When Slade came in and ensured relegation to L2. So little quality in that squad, especially going forwards and I didn’t see how we’d get back up any time soon.

Seasons in Northampton/Brum were obviously bad but there were some positives on the pitch at least.
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His son was in my daughter’s year at school at this time.
I had to remain very tight lipped.
 
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Travs

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  • Jul 24, 2024
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Getting smashed 4-0 or 4-1 away to Shrewsbury on a tuesday night in our first season down in League 1, and realising we hadn't quite hit the bottom yet.

Although i had a season ticket, the whole Sixfields episode was grim.

Wasps coming in and so many people seemingly backing it.

The game after the GIllingham return, when we went straight back to a piss-poor crowd of around 11000, and our own corner singing "your support is f***ing shit" at the rest of the ground.

They were the worst for me, but the Shrewsbury game stands out.
 
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Saddlebrains

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  • Jul 24, 2024
  • #35
From what I was told it was all bleak under sisu but there was a point from the L1 relegation season to the first season back at the CBS so 2017 - 2021 where it was that bad the basics weren't done

There was no training equipment, no food or chefs onsite at Ryton, even things like lucozade sport, bottled water, no money for stays and travel before away games.

This was all fronted by Overson

On top of the shit attendances and fact we were only allowed (when we played there) in the CBS for 4 hours on a matchday, I'd say that was the lowest point
 
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