Asked 6-7 people around me at half time whether at 1-0 up at home and playing the team at the very bottom of the league whether we would win and they all said NO. So this win is very much beyond expectations and great for everyone's confidence not least Slade. Magennis towers over everyone today as the man of the match for his sheer fight and endeavour and not little skill. Holmes and Lookman still remain regular creators but maybe Lookman should player more central in the forwards rather than on the wing. The game reflected the protest and whilst I have opposed protest inside the ground because there is still all to play for I also threw a pig and stood up and what have you and now even at this early stage of the season remain converted to the idea that protest inside the ground is an effective way of getting a wider audience viz. the FA. It is really only the FA who can influence these custodians in a powerful way for the sake of the club. There should be further pressure to bear especially in the light of Coventry's experience of which I knew little before this game but there are obvious others too. So yes it was good to get three points, good to see players (except Novak) play well or better and good to see a common experience shared between two sets of supporters.
Let's be real about it, if we was playing any other team in that league today we would have lost! 3-0 flattered us and Coventry deserved something from the game. Slade went to sit on a 1-0 lead at home again when he made the change putting Magennis up top on his own. If it wasn't for Magennis and Hanlon chasing lost causes then it would be a very negative 1-0 victory at home. The football and tactics by a predominantly English team and English manager are very depressing.
I'm not going to turn my nose up at three points and three goals but the scoreline certainly flattered us. A combination of dire defending and Magennis' determination and commitment eventually did for Covo. That second goal and Rudd's save at 1-0 were pivotal and spared us another nervy last 15 or 20 minutes.
Our defence was fine and Rudd is a very good keeper. The problem, as ever, is in midfield, where we lack energy, fail to press the opposition and, as a result, tend to let opponents play through us into advanced positions. Covo worked some good positions and a better team would have punished us.
Holmes had another good game and Magennis put in a magnificent shift, particularly for a guy who had ran his guts out for his country last Tuesday against Germany. Never was a goal so richly deserved.
The pigs were great and I see that, on a news feed, they beat Donald Trump and Brexit into second and third place respectively. Great work.
The promotion of the Palarse vs Wet Spam game on the screen was yet another demonstration of how the regime just do not get it. Katrien, we don't eat at that restaurant.
Cracklin result against one of the worst teams we have played in my many years. Magennis was superb. Need to improve because this was nowhere near good enough. Why he didn't take Novak off earlier is beyond me.
Haha brilliant Chris... Only good thing about Solly and Jackson leaving (If they were to go) would be finally seeing them speaking out about this period
I want to apologise for my terrible behaviour today. I know you need your space, and like your peace and quiet, so it must have been quite alarming to find someone sat within six rows of you and occassionally joining in with chants. I know you only want to come to football to enjoy a day out, and that the protesting ruins the mood and makes the team lose. I can only say how glad I am that you were able to restore the tone of civility by telling me in no uncertain terms that I was a 'fucking prick' for singing 'We Want Roland Out'. It was the perfect example to set to your two young sons.
Seen so many league one games like today. One team knocks it about with some style, but then makes costly defensive errors and end up getting beat 3-0.
Against better opposition the score might well have been different, but nice to see a win. And fair play to Slade for the formation change towards the end. I was going to slag him off, but then 2 goals go in.
Thought their number 8 was skilful, even though he was involved in losing the ball for the first goal.
Third Division fare - lots of kick and rush - but glad we won. When we went into decline under Peeters and Luzon we wouldn't have won a game like this. So: it's possible that the more dire predictions of where we end the season might not occur.
Having said that we were up against a weak and fairly young Coventry City team.
Our best players IMO were Rudd, Bauer, Holmes (absolutely tireless and a real find), Ulvestad and Magennis.
As for Lookman? Took a series of meaningless to poor to dreadful corners, ballooned a free kick over the bar and missed a sitter. Not good enough at set pieces and needs to be taken off them quickly as he is wasting chances for us by taking them. Best to keep him in open play. On his performance today he wouldn't be of interest to any serious Premiership side and would be a squad player at best in the Championship.
Team morale must have picked up a bit today - so onwards and upwards. Hopefully.........
Third Division fare - lots of kick and rush - but glad we won. When we went into decline under Peeters and Luzon we wouldn't have won a game like this. So: it's possible that the more dire predictions of where we end the season might not occur.
Having said that we were up against a weak and fairly young Coventry City team.
Our best players IMO were Rudd, Bauer, Holmes (absolutely tireless and a real find), Ulvestad and Magennis.
As for Lookman? Took a series of meaningless to poor to dreadful corners, ballooned a free kick over the bar and missed a sitter. Not good enough at set pieces and needs to be taken off them quickly as he is wasting chances for us by taking them. Best to keep him in open play. On his performance today he wouldn't be of interest to any serious Premiership side and would be a squad player at best in the Championship.
Team morale must have picked up a bit today - so onwards and upwards. Hopefully.........
Sadly though he's got three goals already this season which is what top teams will care about, i.e. a young 18-year old scoring goals in League One and for England
Thats future gold dust for them... they wont care about his positioning and set piece taking!!
The promotion of the Palarse vs Wet Spam game on the screen was yet another demonstration of how the regime just do not get it. Katrien, we don't eat at that restaurant.
3 points but not getting carried away. Coventry are dead last in this league for a reason. Was dismayed that Slade went to 5 in midfield with 20 minutes to go. Someone needs to stop Lookman's taking corners and free kicks too
Looking at our upcoming fixtures, Port Vale on Tuesday (beaten 4-0 today) and then Gills and Chesterfield, both winless in 4. If this is the turning point, real statement to be made if we get 7/9 points. I'm not getting carried away yet, they're are bottom remember, but from listening to Coventry radio it sounded like we were better than we have been and created more. Also looking at the table, we've conceded the third least amount of goals? Just need to find our shooting boots. 442 with conventional wingers, who'd have thought it? Protests seem good as well. Excellent all round.
Listen to yourself! We are 15th because we are pretty poor. Two points from the next two will be good going.
First half was a bit of a chore with Coventry creating the best move of the half which saw their effort hit the post. And typically when a team is near the bottom the opposition go up the other end and score with Ulvestad chipping the back four for Holmes to control and turn the ball past the keeper. Second half we seemed to sit back and Holmes once again gets in a great position to put a cross in for Novak but sent it straight to the keeper. As the game wore on the usual feelings of an equaliser would have kicked in were it not for some but for some poor finishing from Coventry and steady defending from us including an amazing double stop from Rudd. Cometh the hour, cometh the Mag late on as we scored a second with Magennis working hard to put the Coventry defender under pressure and then win the ball to run in to the area and set up Lookman with a perfectly timed pass to score. A third was missed when the exact same move that lead to the second was put over by Lookman. Slade brought on Hanlan who had a hand in the third setting up Ulvestad to put in a delightful cross field pass for Mag to control and weave round the defender and chip the keeper. We looked steady for most of the game and if you could merge Holmes trickery and skill with Magennis strength and eye for a pass you would have an absolute beast of a player. Feeling a bit more optimistic after this but as previous wins seem to be spread out quite thinly these days I am not going to start putting out the promotion bunting just yet.
As for the protests they were superb apart from the folks that decide to throw their pigs on one by one after the game restarted.
Rarely have I felt so unmoved by a win let alone a 3-0 win. That bl**dy regime dominated the day for understandable reasons and overshadowed any pleasure I would normally take from three welcome points.
It may well be nothing but could the lack of a tunnel jump suggest that either Katrien put the block on it as a 'punishment' for protesting or the players are themselves expressing their support for the regime by not acknowledging the fans in what has become the traditional way in the moment of victory?
Anyway the first half was a largely forgettable affair footballwise, if more memorable protestwise, and the move Ricky Holmes' goal was our only real attack of note other than a header from the excellent Magennis and another smart move involving Holmes and Solly which Big Josh just wasn't quite able to get on the end of.which may have struck the post. Other than that any attacking was all Coventry and we were very lucky not to go 1 down when their dangerous little number 8 hit the post with Rudd beaten. Somehow we held out and Ricky's goal mentioned earlier meant we went in 1-0 up at the break.
Second half Coventry came out and took the game to us and Declan Rudd made two smart saves in quick succession to preserve our lead. I'm convinced that had Coventry equalised at that point we would have lost that match.
Cometh the hour cometh the man and Big Josh Magennis grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck and by his sheer tenacity and persistence chased a lost cause, won the ball and delivered a low right wing cross to the far post where Lookman was standing waiting for the tap in. 2-0. A few minutes later Josh similarly barged his way through and pasr two or three defenders before pulling another low right wing cross to Lookman whom contrived to put his excellent chance over the bar!
After this Coventry began to threaten once more, particularly their number 10 with the bun, Jones. But Josh wasn't finished and fought his way through and past the Coventry defence yet again before lobbing the keeper for a well deserved goal of his own to settle our nerves.
Three points are welcome of course but the margin of victory frankly flattered us and as things stand fifth from bottom will be good. Today Rudd, Holmes and Magennis stood up to be counted but will they or other players manage it every week.
I do feel churlish writing in such terms after a 3-0 victory but in all honesty it's how I feel.
3 points but not getting carried away. Coventry are dead last in this league for a reason. Was dismayed that Slade went to 5 in midfield with 20 minutes to go. Someone needs to stop Lookman's taking corners and free kicks too
Absolutely spot on about RS going to 5 in midfield and Lookman taking corners. Can't someone sit on him when we get a corner so someone else can take it?.
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Our defence was fine and Rudd is a very good keeper. The problem, as ever, is in midfield, where we lack energy, fail to press the opposition and, as a result, tend to let opponents play through us into advanced positions. Covo worked some good positions and a better team would have punished us.
Holmes had another good game and Magennis put in a magnificent shift, particularly for a guy who had ran his guts out for his country last Tuesday against Germany. Never was a goal so richly deserved.
The pigs were great and I see that, on a news feed, they beat Donald Trump and Brexit into second and third place respectively. Great work.
Sat behind pig coach today. Thought he did well.
I want to apologise for my terrible behaviour today. I know you need your space, and like your peace and quiet, so it must have been quite alarming to find someone sat within six rows of you and occassionally joining in with chants. I know you only want to come to football to enjoy a day out, and that the protesting ruins the mood and makes the team lose. I can only say how glad I am that you were able to restore the tone of civility by telling me in no uncertain terms that I was a 'fucking prick' for singing 'We Want Roland Out'. It was the perfect example to set to your two young sons.
Sincerest apologies,
ateamofcorygibbs
Against better opposition the score might well have been different, but nice to see a win. And fair play to Slade for the formation change towards the end. I was going to slag him off, but then 2 goals go in.
Thought their number 8 was skilful, even though he was involved in losing the ball for the first goal.
(To be fair though it was setup better for Hanlan to come on)
Having said that we were up against a weak and fairly young Coventry City team.
Our best players IMO were Rudd, Bauer, Holmes (absolutely tireless and a real find), Ulvestad and Magennis.
As for Lookman? Took a series of meaningless to poor to dreadful corners, ballooned a free kick over the bar and missed a sitter. Not good enough at set pieces and needs to be taken off them quickly as he is wasting chances for us by taking them. Best to keep him in open play. On his performance today he wouldn't be of interest to any serious Premiership side and would be a squad player at best in the Championship.
Team morale must have picked up a bit today - so onwards and upwards. Hopefully.........
Thats future gold dust for them... they wont care about his positioning and set piece taking!!
Cometh the hour, cometh the Mag late on as we scored a second with Magennis working hard to put the Coventry defender under pressure and then win the ball to run in to the area and set up Lookman with a perfectly timed pass to score. A third was missed when the exact same move that lead to the second was put over by Lookman. Slade brought on Hanlan who had a hand in the third setting up Ulvestad to put in a delightful cross field pass for Mag to control and weave round the defender and chip the keeper. We looked steady for most of the game and if you could merge Holmes trickery and skill with Magennis strength and eye for a pass you would have an absolute beast of a player. Feeling a bit more optimistic after this but as previous wins seem to be spread out quite thinly these days I am not going to start putting out the promotion bunting just yet.
As for the protests they were superb apart from the folks that decide to throw their pigs on one by one after the game restarted.
Rarely have I felt so unmoved by a win let alone a 3-0 win. That bl**dy regime dominated the day for understandable reasons and overshadowed any pleasure I would normally take from three welcome points.
It may well be nothing but could the lack of a tunnel jump suggest that either Katrien put the block on it as a 'punishment' for protesting or the players are themselves expressing their support for the regime by not acknowledging the fans in what has become the traditional way in the moment of victory?
Anyway the first half was a largely forgettable affair footballwise, if more memorable protestwise, and the move Ricky Holmes' goal was our only real attack of note other than a header from the excellent Magennis and another smart move involving Holmes and Solly which Big Josh just wasn't quite able to get on the end of.which may have struck the post. Other than that any attacking was all Coventry and we were very lucky not to go 1 down when their dangerous little number 8 hit the post with Rudd beaten. Somehow we held out and Ricky's goal mentioned earlier meant we went in 1-0 up at the break.
Second half Coventry came out and took the game to us and Declan Rudd made two smart saves in quick succession to preserve our lead. I'm convinced that had Coventry equalised at that point we would have lost that match.
Cometh the hour cometh the man and Big Josh Magennis grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck and by his sheer tenacity and persistence chased a lost cause, won the ball and delivered a low right wing cross to the far post where Lookman was standing waiting for the tap in. 2-0. A few minutes later Josh similarly barged his way through and pasr two or three defenders before pulling another low right wing cross to Lookman whom contrived to put his excellent chance over the bar!
After this Coventry began to threaten once more, particularly their number 10 with the bun, Jones. But Josh wasn't finished and fought his way through and past the Coventry defence yet again before lobbing the keeper for a well deserved goal of his own to settle our nerves.
Three points are welcome of course but the margin of victory frankly flattered us and as things stand fifth from bottom will be good. Today Rudd, Holmes and Magennis stood up to be counted but will they or other players manage it every week.
I do feel churlish writing in such terms after a 3-0 victory but in all honesty it's how I feel.
More good coverage from the Mail. Like 'em or loathe #em, they are clearly on our side.