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Coventry V Gillingham (At The Ricoh Arena)

paulie8290
paulie8290 Posts: 23,345
edited September 2014 in Other Football and Sports
Coventry's first game at The Ricoh Arena for 27 Home matches
expecting 28,000 tonight looks like a great atmosphere
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,033
    Looks like a full house.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    Hope they lose.
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,199
    For a very brief moment I remembered the feeling when Walshy did that.
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,441
    edited September 2014
    How good are Coventry looking!
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,345
    cafcnick1992 said:

    How good are Coventry looking!

    They look good going forward
    Nouble looks a handful
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,488
    Coventry look very good.

    Haynes on the left is only 18, might be worth a look next summer.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Can't wait for them to go bust and I will build a warehouse on that shit place
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Score?
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,967
    1-0. Nouble.
  • stonewallpenalty
    stonewallpenalty Posts: 3,842
    Jim O'Brian looks decent.

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  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,967
    Looks like they had a monster truck cutting the grass.
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Was due to go to this tonight c/o my Cov supporting mate - had tickets but he blew out in the week.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,850
    I never thought that, in my lifetime, I would see Frank Nouble score a goal.

    Just goes to show that every day brings something new to this planet.
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,345
    1StevieG said:

    Looks like they had a monster truck cutting the grass.

    the had a games fair or something when it was all gone they noticed there was no grass left
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,991
    I really don't miss League One football.

    My god its shite.
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,967
    Fair play for getting 27,306 in.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,133
    Tudgay and Nouble up front for Coventry. Two of the worst forwards to play for us in recent years.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,373
    Very harsh on Tudgay, he only played about 60 minutes in total and had a decent impact against QPR.
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,656
    That Nouble fella looks quite good, maybe we could get him on loan..,.
  • BeckenhamAddick
    BeckenhamAddick Posts: 69
    Bring Nouble back! That tap in at dagenham will live long in the memory

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  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,991
    second time I've seen the ginger nut and he's impressed me both times
  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,314
    Annoys me

    When we left charlton we (well me anyway) supported the club through thin and thinner

    But cov fans don't follow the club to Northampton but suddenly buy a ticket are seen as heroes for supporting the club

    But they didn't, their home crowds were awful

    We are a similar sized club to Coventry but I would argue that our passion between 1985-1992 far outweighs the press 'banter'' that cov fans are the best in the world just because they boycotted the team

    If I/we boycotted charlton in 1985 would we still be here ?

    That sounds bitter but we are far better than any cov fan other than the loyal 1000 that went to Northampton every week
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,617
    Erm. Not all Coventry boycotted their games and some travelled to Northampton. No different to us really. Many of our fans boycotted Selhurst.
  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,744
    My mate nearly got on a cross in the last few mins for Gillingham :( ... Shame.

    That said, good to see Coventry back at the Ricoh.

  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    The vast majority of our core support went to Selhurst Park, we weren`t exactly getting big crowds at the time we left The Valley were we? Coventry were getting around 1,000 or less of their fans at Northampton, a massive drop in the crowds they were getting before they left The Ricoh.
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,750
    If we had moved 30 odd miles from the valley Im sure Charlton fans would of boycotted as well. The fact that they are back at the Ricoh shows that this has worked.
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,633
    Shrew said:

    If we had moved 30 odd miles from the valley Im sure Charlton fans would of boycotted as well. The fact that they are back at the Ricoh shows that this has worked.

    30 miles from london can be a 2 hour journey or more...30 miles from coventry can be a 30 min trip...
  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,314
    Coventry fans gave up, 10% of their support went to Northampton, 80% of ours went to selhurst and upton park
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,750
    edited September 2014
    letthegoodtimesroll said:

    Shrew said:

    If we had moved 30 odd miles from the valley Im sure Charlton fans would of boycotted as well. The fact that they are back at the Ricoh shows that this has worked.

    30 miles from london can be a 2 hour journey or more...30 miles from coventry can be a 30 min trip...
    Yep I see that completely, I don't really want to get into defending Coventry supporters , no affinity to the club at all, (and I find the Ricoh pretty soulless) but I think it is very different in towns outside of London, i.e. most Charlton supporters come from quite a wide area of south london and north kent, a big majority of coventry supports come from the town itself. If you walk in Coventry you see a lot of Coventry tops just as if you walk in Wolverhampton the colours of Wolverhampton are everywhere. You don't get this walking in Charlton, Blackheath, or Plumstead. Clubs in more regional towns do have a bigger identity to the actual town they are based in.I see Charlton's affinity is with The Valley itself .

  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,771
    i watched about ten minutes of that game before I got so sick of the commentary going on about how great the Coventry fans were and how they've gone through so much. Nauseating. it was only a bloody year they were away and they moved from their home ground highfields only a few years previous to go to their "Home" the soulless Ricoh arena.

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