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1 hour ago, MelksRed said:

Getting it out of Max's gloves before the opposition reset is an issue too. 

Agreed that it’s slow, but sometimes it’s the right thing to do when teams are attacking and you want to calm things down, last few minutes prime example tonight.
 

It’s when we break forward  and no one to pass too/sometimes pass is on and the ball is taken backwards and momentum is lost and opposition recover. The tempo is so slow in the final third. I like the style of football we are playing but against Huddersfield the space was there to run at them and put them under pressure. Second half we just didn’t do it effectively at all. 
Be interesting again blackpool sat, who will be better counter attacking than Huddersfield, who could have won that game tonight at the end tonight 

Frustrating game that. Lucky to get a point the last few minutes of the game. 
Transition getting the ball into the final third is so slow, I thought bringing mehmeti on would change it and give us the pace but I didn’t work out

Plenty of chances to win that and a frustrating point on the road. Still building though. COYR

Been out best players for weeks. Superb today 

5 minutes ago, GTFABM said:

I have felt that he has been doing that for a while with some of his decisions and tactics. I know he isn’t here to be liked but he is highly unlikable.

S*ithouse tactics. Blaming everyone but himself. Playing people out of position is not his fault, it’s because he doesn’t trust said players in that position. Absolute zero accountability every bad performance. Shambles 

That was a hard watch tonight.

Semenyo missing that shot wide when clean through to get a goal back when 2-0 down and then blazing over early second half. After getting some goals he has gone back to having zero composure infront of goal again.

Even when 3-0 down the urgency of getting the ball forward was totally non existent, slow ball out the flanks giving Lincoln plenty of time to get their shape back and let’s be honest, defend pretty easily against us second half

Lose to Watford on sat and I think that might be it for Pearson.

Just now, italian dave said:

Thought exactly the same about their right back. Impressed. Who was he. He seemed very pally with two or three of our players at the end. 

Number 23? Dabo, looking at the team sheet. Class player.

Thought he had a good game apart from the cross when it clearly came of the Coventry defender and he gave a goal kick. Tbh his view was prob blocked. Linesman good with the offsides, a lot better than the shower of sht against qpr 

How good was the Coventry right wing back! Well done Andy king stepping up when Naismith went off injured. Wrong sub for me bringing on Conway for Semenyo, should have been for Weimann. At least didn’t lose, points like this show end of season 

Remember we did this before the man United game back in 2017. Have we done half season cards since then?

We could have the same foul for our penalty today in this seasons championship and not one would be given!

Good win though and clean sheet. Looking forward to first game against Sunderland 

Finally goodbye Kasey. Some magic but mostly no effort, slight argument you didn’t get a fair spin of the wheel but there was absolute 0% ***** given last season. What a waste of a talent 

I seen 3 skirmishes between different groups about midday. Young lad got smacked in the nose on duckmoor road, trouble on the entrance next to the park opposite the shop and someone looked like they had taken a hiding by the entrance way to the dolman stand from Ashton way. Lots of police presence aswell 

16 minutes ago, bris red said:

He’s a decent enough striker at this level when used properly. You can’t flog the bloke and play him twice a week

Exactly. Easy scapegoat when the goals aren’t going in. 

If he scores a brace he will send us all to paradise 

Make that hat trick actually……

Were Palmer and O’dowda really the subs to make in the closing stages of the game? 
surely Pring and Bakinson would be better to close the game out? Just seemed like strange subs to me. 

2 minutes ago, tin said:

Tanner is exactly the type of player Nige wants to us to have — young, hungry, potential for growth, versatile. Great signing, and I hope we make more signings like him (eg Prem schooled, released, desire, resale if we don’t match his growth etc).

Bang on. Atkinson is another example of this. Great signing.  Massengo coming on at a rate of knots. You would think with the balance we have of youth and experience brought in we would be lighting up the league……

Hell of a player. That double tackle in the first half was immense. Going to be a city legend. 

The writing was on the wall as soon as we came out after half time. Sitting so deep and letting forest pass at will. Luckily the forest attack was so shit it took for a calamitous challenge from baker to gift them the goal from the penalty . What followed was one of the most spineless moments I have ever seen following city. 
 

Why on earth would you bring on O’Dowda for wells? The bloke just doesn’t want to know defensively, he played the last few minutes uninteresting in pressing/challenging forest for the ball.

Let’s hope we can work some magic on the road again, hope the manner of that defeat doesn’t knock the stuffing out the team. 

Cracking point today. Cardiff at Home and Wednesday away. 2 games that never return many points. Another 4 points from next weeks fixtures would be fantastic! Looking hard to beat, something I haven’t been able to say since 2007-2008! COYR