Coventry Home First Game of the Season

[EnderbyFox]

 

 

Something like this with the players we've been linked with so far. Would get the juices flowing imo. 4-0 City

[Les-TA-Jon]

5 minutes ago, Beachyboy said:

25 wins, 11 draws, 10 defeats, we still have enough to get buy for a couple of weeks before the business all wrapped up when the transfer window closes. If it hasn't been sorted before, the main thing is we have a manager with a point to prove.

My point is, you can pluck points or a spread of results out of thin air - but what's it based on? 

 

I'm not saying there isn't reason to be optimistic ahead of a new season, but there's currently so little information to go on, given we've got a totally unproven and untested manager and there will be so many changes to the squad between now and the end of the window? 

[Beachyboy]

1 minute ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

My point is, you can pluck points or a spread of results out of thin air - but what's it based on? 

 

I'm not saying there isn't reason to be optimistic ahead of a new season, but there's currently so little information to go on, given we've got a totally unproven and untested manager and there will be so many changes to the squad between now and the end of the window? 

Nobody can predict football even when all the information is in though, Burnley weren't expected to do as well as they did. I just think players like Justin, KDH, Iverson, Souttar, Vardy and Daka will be here. Nobody would have had Fulham 10th at the end of August when the window closed, that's the beauty of football, its a low scoring game, so unpredictable. I think winning every other game near enough, losing 1 out of every 4 or 5 and drawing 1 out of every 4 or 5 doesn't seem unreasonable.

[Beachyboy]

We have 4 winnable games in August before the window shuts, win them all and the players that may be open to staying will be a lot more receptive if we are top at the end of August. I'm thinking Nacho, Vardy, KDH, Souttar, Iverson Kristiansen and Justin 

Edited 22 June 2023 by Beachyboy

[ozleicester]

2 hours ago, Costock_Fox said:

We are the carnival

dunno about carnival, but last season we were a circus

[Pliskin]

40 minutes ago, Beachyboy said:

Iverson

 

Souttar

Faes

Coady

 

Kristiansen

KDH

Choudary/ New signing 

Justin

 

Nacho

 

Vardy

Daka

 

Let's go, good enough to beat Coventry for whatever Coady costs.

 

 

If that’s the side come the start of the season, I’ll cry 😭 

[OntarioFox]

23 minutes ago, EnderbyFox said:

 

 

Something like this with the players we've been linked with so far. Would get the juices flowing imo. 4-0 City

Forgive my ignorance - who is Chair? 

[EnderbyFox]

Just now, OntarioFox said:

Forgive my ignorance - who is Chair? 

 

 

[Beachyboy]

1 hour ago, Pliskin said:

If that’s the side come the start of the season, I’ll cry 😭 

6 or 7 of them will be, its just what we do In the next 6 weeks

Edited 22 June 2023 by Beachyboy

[MattFox]

1 hour ago, Beachyboy said:

They'll soon wake up from the banter/abuse the Cov fans throw at us. An we then throw back at them from the play off loss.

It won’t just be banter thrown from the cov lot

[Leicesterpool]

34 minutes ago, EnderbyFox said:

 

 

Something like this with the players we've been linked with so far. Would get the juices flowing imo. 4-0 City

Huge possibility of Archer, so if that's the case then I'd find a place for him in the squad. 

[Unabomber]

We are going to batter these, should be a great day. Shame about the KO time though. 

[SK3Blue]

Same old sh1te with Sky. Games gone. 

[CosbehFox]

I understand the reservation about playing Cov first but I think their squad will be just as much upheaval as ours - equally their season lasted longer than ours, so pre-season will be working to a similar schedule (whereas some clubs will have been in for two weeks before us). 

[Koke]

Faes will look look like prime David Luiz in the Championship.

[Fox92]

9 minutes ago, Koke said:

Faes will look look like prime David Luiz in the Championship.

Look like in terms of hairstyle, not ability.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

49 minutes ago, SK3Blue said:

Same old sh1te with Sky. Games gone. 

Aren't there going to be 6 Saturday 12:30 kick offs across the three divisions every week with the new TV deal? Get used to it if so.

[Bert]

Just now, Mike the Metal Ed said:

Aren't there going to be 6 Saturday 12:30 kick offs across the three divisions every week with the new TV deal? Get used to it if so.

24/25 isn’t it?

[kyleolly]

[CountesthorpeFox1]

Call me skeptical but no way are these fixtures are auto generated! 
 

If I had to pick a worse possible start to the season this would be the fixture. If we are to gain promotion we need to get off to a good start and get confident early. Somebody like Rotherham at home would have been ideal. Somebody who would have been wary of us and sat back, get a good result and set the marker. 
 

Coventry will go in as a settled team who will not fear us as they will be aiming for promotion themselves so will come here to win. Against a new manager, new style of play and a set of new players who have never played a competitive game as a team. This is a very loseable fixture for us that could drain our confidence. A banana skim to say the least. 
 

oh well, we have to play everybody twice and if we do manage to get 3 points it will give me some real confidence. 

[westernpark]

5 minutes ago, kyleolly said:

Very balanced …

[Koke]

Coady and Souttar, two very slow defenders playing a highline, yay. Recipe for disaster. Especially Souttar, as I'm still not convinced by him. Coady is at least an experienced intelligent player.

[Livid]

Wrong thread. Moved! 

Edited 22 June 2023 by Livid

[CosbehFox]

17 minutes ago, CountesthorpeFox1 said:

Call me skeptical but no way are these fixtures are auto generated! 
 

If I had to pick a worse possible start to the season this would be the fixture. If we are to gain promotion we need to get off to a good start and get confident early. Somebody like Rotherham at home would have been ideal. Somebody who would have been wary of us and sat back, get a good result and set the marker. 
 

Coventry will go in as a settled team who will not fear us as they will be aiming for promotion themselves so will come here to win. Against a new manager, new style of play and a set of new players who have never played a competitive game as a team. This is a very loseable fixture for us that could drain our confidence. A banana skim to say the least. 
 

oh well, we have to play everybody twice and if we do manage to get 3 points it will give me some real confidence. 

Their two main player are heavily rumoured to be leaving this summer. As it stands they have 16 senior players on their books. 

[Tommy G]

3 hours ago, Mike the Metal Ed said:

Didn't Gelson Fernandes have an amazing game in the Cov opener one time only to drop off massively after that?

I thought we had a Patrick Viera part 2 on our hands that day