What have Coventry done differently to us?
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Why have Coventry been lauded as the powerhouse we should be aspiring to be 
Win on Saturday and we're garunteed to finish ahead of them in a season where our first team has been decimated by injuries, we lost our best players and replaced them with unknown quantities and we didn't get going until the 8th game of the season.
Gonna make a prediction now, we'll finish ahead of them again next season and we look like we have much better foundations. 3 or 4 key assets worth a potential fortune, tons of young players starting to get a grip on the first team squad and the unknown quantities bedding in and shining.
We add some quality and get some good depth in the summer and we'll be a damn good side next season. Very confident of that
Win on Saturday and we're garunteed to finish ahead of them in a season where our first team has been decimated by injuries, we lost our best players and replaced them with unknown quantities and we didn't get going until the 8th game of the season. Gonna make a prediction now, we'll finish ahead of them again next season and we look like we have much better foundations. 3 or 4 key assets worth a potential fortune, tons of young players starting to get a grip on the first team squad and the unknown quantities bedding in and shining.
We add some quality and get some good depth in the summer and we'll be a damn good side next season. Very confident of that
HolgateCorner
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I thought Coventry looked disinterested last night if I had been a Leeds follower I would not have been happy.
Abel Tasman
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It's all a bit after the fact though now isn't it? Had VAR not been around they would be looking forward to an FA Cup Final and this conversation now possibly wouldn't be taking place. Fine margins.Why have Coventry been lauded as the powerhouse we should be aspiring to be
Gonna make a prediction now, we'll finish ahead of them again next season and we look like we have much better foundations. 3 or 4 key assets worth a potential fortune, tons of young players starting to get a grip on the first team squad and the unknown quantities bedding in and shining.
We add some quality and get some good depth in the summer and we'll be a damn good side next season. Very confident of that
LaPennaBianca
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Coventry also had a horrendous start, which I think prompted this thread - but didn't have half of our injury issues.Why have Coventry been lauded as the powerhouse we should be aspiring to be
Gonna make a prediction now, we'll finish ahead of them again next season and we look like we have much better foundations. 3 or 4 key assets worth a potential fortune, tons of young players starting to get a grip on the first team squad and the unknown quantities bedding in and shining.
We add some quality and get some good depth in the summer and we'll be a damn good side next season. Very confident of that
Our squad is better than theirs, our best players are better than theirs and they're losing one for nowt in the summer.
BoroMart
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You mean i they were allowed to have had an offside goal count, then maybe they would be in an FA Cup final, that's a moot point in that both it didn't happen, and shouldn't be allowed to happen.
BoroMart
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Yes, O'Hare will be a huge loss on a free. They'll do OK next year, but they won't have 20m to spend this time, if Gyokeres moves on they might get a 5-10m sell on fee, but I don't see any of their squad having a huge value in the future, I can't see anyone offering 15m for Haji Wright or Ellis Simms
Cardiffdaffs
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Without getting into the whole VAR argument again it is a fact that Cov were close to the big day and had they done so then we wouldn't be debating who had the more enjoyable season. That said I agree with you that it is a moot point now. We finish 8th they finish 9th or vice versa - both of us have missed the playoffs and in the end a bit disappointing given the hopes we both had in January.
Laughing
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Don's been on my ignore list for most of the season. It's not that he says anything rude, just his negative attitude I can live without.Think this is my favourite comment.
The deckchairs better than us, Jesus Christ we must be absolute fannies indeed if this was the case. You are quite correct though in saying that the league table doesn't lie. Neither does a scoreboard that says 0-4 to the away side, or even 1-1 with half the players from one side on crutches near enough.
Cardiffdaffs
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Don't think you have anything to worry about Don any more. All his records and messages seem to have been expunged.
Laughing
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Oh has he been misbehaving? Or perhaps just left.
Aye but you could also argue had they scrapped Carabao Cup second legs we'd have played in a final against Liverpool, they're scrapping them next year and it's been a debate for years. Fine margains
Aye they did I remember, but they still battered us so they still had a better start than us!
I get the whole sold Gyorkeres for £20+ million and replaced him with two expensive strikers looks good on paper but ultimately wright has scored 1 more goal in 14 more games and Simms has scored 2 goals less in 16 more games than Latte
on top of only playing 29 games due to injury, there was a 10/11 game run where Coburn was the main guy Personally I think we recruited far better and it will be proven over the coming seasons as players get better and better
festa5
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To be fair I think it was a minority - albeit a vocal one - holding Coventry up as some sort of exemplar on how we should have gone about our business and doing lots of moaning about it. Still an amusing hoof though.
Think most more fans appreciated the impact injuries have had on our season.
Robins is a very good manager but maybe not quite the second coming of Bill Shankley some were holding him up to be (I exagerrate obviously). Also turns out, as most of us have always recognised, Carrick isn't too shabby either.
Think most more fans appreciated the impact injuries have had on our season.
Robins is a very good manager but maybe not quite the second coming of Bill Shankley some were holding him up to be (I exagerrate obviously). Also turns out, as most of us have always recognised, Carrick isn't too shabby either.
Cardiffdaffs
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Apparently they are not scrapped by the way
BoroMart
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They were 'close' but rightly the goal was off side, if we are abiding the rules of association football. They weren't robbed, they could have got lucky and unintendedly cheated their way to a final in a pre-VAR era, but I'm not sure what that would have proven. Lots of teams get close, at the end of the day they weren't quite good enough, like we weren't good enough to get a draw at chelsea.
enjoyment, that's subjective, both teams had a sniff of wembley but had inconsistencies compared to the year before.
I stated in January that we would would finish 8th-10th, the injuries and starting the season without a LB and CF had already made it near impossible
Looking ahead, we have achieved this with far more upheaval than them. Our regular first XI in the play off year was: Steffen, Smith, Fry, Lenihan, Giles; Howson, Hackney; Forss, Akpom, McGree; Archer. Through injury, return from loan, or sale we lost every one of those except Howson from our regular first XI this year. We had an entirely different team and still finished close to play offs.
If we take this seasons 'nearly' side, with the returning players from last years play offs - Smith, Fry, Lenihan, Hackney, Forss, McGree (6 players) - then add a couple of players with our Rogers/Crooks windfall, then we are in a very strong place, more so than Coventry I would think.
They should be, that's an awful decision. Anything to make the bigger clubs stronger ey
Cardiffdaffs
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I agree but on their website
“As it stands there is no agreement in place to make any changes to the Carabao Cup’s two-legged semi-final format, which continues to provide significant financial benefit to EFL Clubs.
