Goal fest at the Macron.

 

6-6 draw.

 

Steve Ogrizovic with a Johnny Fart Pants wind assisted effort, Brian Kilcline, Keith Houchen with a diving header circa 1987,Cyril Regis,Lady Godiva gets off her high horse setting one up for China Hill and one from Dion Dublin's knob about a foot out....

 

They play in the turd brown Admiral away strip but are rattled with our comeback, all six scored by Peter Beardsley.

 

12,978 brace the conditions.

Could do without many nights like that, 3 points but made bloody hard work of it in the end, really looked like we would hammer them at the start, game of two halves etc.

 

Alnwick makes me nervous as buggery, hope he improves with more game time.

Home , Happy with 3 points , first half great but should have been 2 or 3 up by HT  , second half was poor we are our own worst enemy at times misplaced passes created all the pressure on ourselves.

Satisfied with that result.

Derik was the pick of ours tonight, he defended well but just needs to work on his distribution

We'd be some side if the rest of the team were struggling with their distribution as much as he does.

 

On a different note, his tackle in the box in the first half was sublime.

Another bogey team taken down

 

Great news

We'd be some side if the rest of the team were struggling with their distribution as much as he does.

 

On a different note, his tackle in the box in the first half was sublime.

Yes, that tackle was mark fish-esque!

Yes, that tackle was mark fish-esque!

Perfectly timed

 

I feared a pen when he dived in

 

Speaking of which, it was the other side to me but Ameobi's challenge that left that lad in a heap in our box looked v dodgy from where I was. Anyone closer to it with a view?

Good win that solid professional performance of spearing went in Jan hope he doesn't but I'd take there number 5 as replacement

I don't care what anyone says, that corner on 90 mins where he plays it short and it goes out for a throw-in is the best thing I've ever seen.

This. They were reallly really poor at times. Relegation candidates.

We were flying into some tackles last night. Derik, Vela and Spearing especially. Brilliant when it comes off!

 

Cracking first half but lost out way in the second. Coventry came back out much better organised and fired up and were unlucky not to get something out of the game to be honest.

 

Right subs by Parky as Clough and Ameobi were doing nowt second half and our subs did a good job and taking the pressure off by keeping them penned in the corners for the last 5 mins.

 

Alnwick had a few jittery moments - but he's also not had much football of late so I'm going to cut him some slack. Made a few decent saves and a couple which he kept out but were less convincing. One potentially major fuck up which he got away with - but I'm happy to put that down to the conditions and the fact that he had the world's brightest floodlight shining I to his eyes.

 

Their keeper was excellent and I thought they number 5 was good as well.

 

It was set up for Sordell last night and he still spent the majority of the game sulking and generally just being a bit shit. How the hell did we ever spend money on him?

I don't believe In Chris Taylor. Clayton must not be fit or playing like dogshit in training. Or training like dogshit in training.

This. They were reallly really poor at times. Relegation candidates.

I'm not sure, they looked dangerous. Then again early season so did everyone. I still can't work out where Sordell was playing. Certainly if you had no idea who he was, you wouldn't have noticed him.

Vela was superb looks a player in this position

Perfectly timed

 

I feared a pen when he dived in

 

Speaking of which, it was the other side to me but Ameobi's challenge that left that lad in a heap in our box looked v dodgy from where I was. Anyone closer to it with a view?

Views were a bit mixed around me (NSL) when it happened; I'm putting it in the 'seen them given' category. Ameobi lost the flight of the ball and so tried to wrap his arms around their mon's shoulders to limit his jump as he knew he had no chance of winning it from a standing start.

i did like the look of their number 5.

 

would certainly be an improvement on mr thorpe.

i did like the look of their number 5.

 

would certainly be an improvement on mr thorpe.

Gael Bigirimana - ex Newcastle. I thought he was excellent as well. Although I've nothing against Thorpe.

They pressed high second half & we put pressure on ourselves by trying to pass it around square & backwards with two near disasters between Beevers & keeper .That combined with the fact Clough & Ameobi stopped coming short for the ball meant we just started launching it to a tiring

Madine.As bad as Taylor © is he still set up Henry (very dissapointing) with a guilt edged chance to seal the victory & he blazed over yet again.Vela was good again he certainly has stamina that lad.

Anyway wins matter COYW.

They pressed us very well in the second half and we really struggled with it, that was the difference. I thought Derik was the pick of ours tonight, he defended well but just needs to work on his distribution. Having said that, the ball was coming back very quickly in the second half and I don't blame him for going long

 

Aye, Coventry upped their game 2ndhalf & we didn't deal with it very well,

 

but, i disagree about Derik who is a horrible mistake waiting to happen in defence, with wild Campo-type hacks at the ball & misplaced clearances, I don't think he's a natural defender & it's no coincidence that Beavers had his shakiest game for us & the whole defence was unsettled.

 

I'd shift Derik forward to alongside Spearing - where i think he's very good - & play either Buxton or the ponytailed munich at centre half.

Trouble with that is Thorpe had a shocker at centre half against Rochdale for much the same reasons that Derik looks shaky.

No need to chop & change .Losing Howard & Wheater is bad enough .Give the 'new' defence a chance to gel .

Anyway two clean sheets.

Derik it the new campo. Classy but potentially a mistake in there. A great foil in front of two solid no nonsense centre halves.

Speaking of which, it was the other side to me but Ameobi's challenge that left that lad in a heap in our box looked v dodgy from where I was. Anyone closer to it with a view?

 

He just slipped and lost his feet from under him, the ref was close by and got the decision spot on.

Derik it the new David Luiz

They were far from the worst team we've seen; considering they were with a caretaker Manager they were very well organised and when they hunted in packs we only kept the ball when we were at our best and found Clough or Vela in those pockets of space