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I'm glad he has gone because he has looked ordinary for us, if he has potential, there is no long term gain to playing him because he is not our player and ihis leaving frees up a space to bring in Sensi who could potentially be more effective. So what am I missing ?

They would have had a point a few weeks ago but with Wilf out, he becomes first choice. Strange decision, but can't say I've been at all impressed with him.

Its an option on Yunus isn't it?

I'd just like to address this five goalies thing as it is often a stick with which opposition fans like to beat us, demonstrating our profligacy and huge resources, but it fails to take into consideration the fact that Stolarczyk and Iversen are academy products. Smithies is a glorified kit man and Mads was signed because Danny Ward turned out to be not fit for purpose. So we have signed three and one of those was probably free and the other, a necessity because we accidentally thought that Ward was a footballer.

You would think, that given what is at stake, we would find a way to strengthen, to ensure that we get over the line. Given our record of surrendering comfortable leads (CL qualification twice) and complacency (relegation), you would think we would learn. Plus, it is very, very boring.

I think he was actually signed to play first team. Many of us thought that this signing was quite a coup and certainly Chelsea would have loaned him expecting him to play, but sadly he just hasn't cut the mustard.

I don't care what his age is, from our point of view, he is not one for the future, he was signed for here and now because he will be gone in May. The Championship is littered with 21 year old loanees from PL clubs that hit the ground running. It is a tried and tested finishing school. CC has been a real disappointment.

Just to play devil's advocate for a moment, could it be that Rodgers was trying and giving of his best but the team had reached its natural end and without the required rebuild went into terminal decline? Add to that several consecutive windows of poor or next to no recruitment and the die was cast. The FT kangaroo court judge has donned his black cap but how can we ever know? From the outside, it certainly did appear to me that Rodgers had checked out and that is unforgivable. From the comments he made he always appeared to be trying to get himself off the hook at the expense of the club and players, but on the other hand, such gobshitery is scarcely believable of any professional and the players would have sniffed it out instantly. The irony is, that it Rodgers' had allowed himself to walk away when it became clear that the he wasn't going to get his way with the rebuild, instead of clinging to that golden contract for dear life, his stock would have been very high. He would only have had to take a short break and wait for a big six job vacancy. As it is, his reputation is soiled and he has slunk back to the Scottish backwaters. My only regret is that by sacking him, the relegation that he presided over will never appear on his CV.

I agree with those that say that Rodgers ran the club into the ground and affected the most needless and criminal relegation ever, helped by the ineptitude of those above him, but I would say this. If his success was down to the squad he inherited then why didn't Puel do it? Also, if you were offered two top five finishes, European football, The Charity Shield and The FA Cup but the price you must pay is relegation, selling your best players for a pittance and a total rebuild, would you take it? I would. It's better than just bobbing along like Crystal Palace. We made the era pay and that FA Cup is in the bank forever. Regardless of how we feel about Rodgers'and how many suspect him of industrial sabotage, the history books will show that he was our second best manager ever.

Oh yeah Point taken

I wish I could forgive the scamp, but I can't. Not yet.. He has apologised and we move on and all that but he cost us the game. And against Coventry no less. Bloody Cov. I mean if you;re going to get sent off do it against Rotherham or something. Anyway, I'm working on it.

As much as Rodgers is persona non grata, it is recency bias, surely, to say that he was worse than Taylor. Taylor spent relative fortunes turning O'Neill's silk purse into a sow's ear. He sowed the seeds for a decade in the wilderness. However badly it ended with Rodgers and I do believe that he had mentally checked out when he didn't get his way with transfers but refused to walk, he did give us our highest finishes in living memory, European football, The Charity Shield and (for me) the holy grail of The FA Cup. As much as it grated when he said it, we were over-achieving. I think that the scales fell from my eyes after that horrible Forest cup game and his tenure became a slow motion car crash from then on, but to compare him unfavourably with Taylor is laughable. Taylor couldn't manage a piss up in a proverbial and now ploughs his furrow in the sunday leagues or whatever it is.

I dunno. I'm just saying that on the radio, they said that the guy couldn't be sent off because we had been awarded a penalty and that was double jeopardy. I'm not saying RL are right or wrong, I honestly don't know.

It couldn't be a red because of the double jeopardy law. That's what they said on the radio anyway.

Why is this still being discussed? I mean who cares that a couple of Cov lowlifes acted like Cov lowlifes? It was a major own goal anyway as it just says to the world "We are Coventry and we are scum"

So... if you're Enzo, what now? How do we shuffle the pack?

No point blaming the ref. If Fatawu doesn't go flying in, there is no decision to make. Brainless.

The timing of it though Just had to see out another 90 seconds. I think that has cost the game.

Brainless,

Wow. If that is real, you've got to pity the pathetic creature that made it.

I know. Madness! What on earth have we done to deserve it apart from running away with the league and being the (joint)most successful Championship team ever at this stage?. its a damn fix.

Well, I've just taken a trip to the Cov forum and there is a clear winner for the most deluded fans ever. I have never seen such laughably twisted logic and for good measure they also rival The Fighting Cock for the title of most obnoxious. I feel like I need a shower now. Visiting that godforsaken corner of the internet reminds me of the famous Nietchze quote:about staring into the abyss,.

I thought that we were trying to free up squad places and wages and get rid of dead wood. I think it is a terrible idea to buy a broken footballer.

Absolute gold from the Cov forum from the esteemed Porkysmurf: It sounds crazy, but I genuinely would not swap our last 10 years for theirs. The League Two and League One promotion seasons were the most enjoyable I've had following this club ever*. Got to visit so many grounds we'd have otherwise never had the chance to. In that time our home and away support has grown massively. We get praise wherever we travel and I've lost count of the amount of fans who have said our home support is the best they've seen for many years. Compare that to Leicester's sterilised day-tripping happy clappy shit fans. 95% of their stadium was mute at their place earlier this season until they piped up for 5 minutes after their second. No thanks. *Obviously 90% of this forum were not here back then, so you'll have to trust me on this. He makes a compelling case. I mean who would want Championship title followed by the great escape, the miracle of Premier League title, Champion's League football, Europa League, The FA Cup, The Charity Shield and now HMS PTL when you could have a decade scraping around the hinterlands of the lower leagues and totally forgotten about by the footballing world at large? Life's just not fair.

Engine's running Danny, let's go...