* The Unofficial "Official" Boro v Coventry Match-Day Thread and Review of The Year *

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

Poor play on the left. Keeper needs to do better.

 

[Red n White Dreamer]

Pathetic. Are the reserves really that bad. Academy this academy that but where are they?

 

[Ironops]

Keeper should have held on to it, comedy defending though

 

[Raul]

Engel is awful

 

[Yearbyred]

We’ve been poor second half and the goal was coming.

 

[S7DiscoDown]

God we concede some awful goals. That was horrific. The cross should never have come in.

We are starting to look a little tired and sloppy. I guess we can't do much to freshen things up.

 

[Blindschool]

Engel is awful

He's had a good game. One error doesn't make someone awful.

 

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

Players look knackered now. Second best.

 

[boringblock_21]

I think we all appreciate we “play out from the back” nowadays. And I have no issue with that 99% of the time. But sometimes, just occasionally when you’re under pressure, maybe 1% of the time, JUST F***ing HOOF IT CLEAR

 

[motownjunk]

He's had a good game. One error doesn't make someone awful.

I think he has been very good going forward been pretty poor defensively all game. Engel that is.

 

[Otto42]

Oh dear, injuries probably catching up with us

 

[Raul]

He's had a good game. One error doesn't make someone awful.

Both goals his fault

 

[boringblock_21]

Oh dear, injuries probably catching up with us

No doubt. We continue to miss Hackney terribly

 

[TheYorkshireTerrier]

Both goals his fault

He’s been poor defending today like, constantly caught out or stepping up and missing it.

 

[Otto42]

They’ve been able to rotate since Friday, we haven’t. That’s football as MC will probably say.

 

[Ipad1977]

I think we all appreciate we “play out from the back” nowadays. And I have no issue with that 99% of the time. But sometimes, just occasionally when you’re under pressure, maybe 1% of the time, JUST F***ing HOOF IT CLEAR

Playing out from the back works if you can score a large amount of goals or have the players to do so. You'll more likely edge a game 4-2 or such like.

However that is where we're falling down, due to our horrific injury list robbing us of our best finishers. Coburn, and only recently back at that, can't be expected to score a shedload by himself every game to keep that gameplay alive. All our other decent finishers, LL, Forss etc sadly are absent for a good chunk this season.

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

Look how easily they've been getting free down our left when we press them now.

 

[futureboy]

Fk football.

 

[NormanbyRed77]

1-3 thats the game gone

 

[Otto42]

I know we only have youth on the bench, but some of ours need a breather. I would give this up now.