Cov post match

[Corky]

Calf injury, the moand and groans coming from a few thousand Leicester fans at hearing McGivern was playing was quite extraordinary.

And his parents had flown in for the game, there was a big interview in the Mercury about it

I admit I groaned, because I haven't been impressed with McGivern and Berner, one of our best performers this season, being ruled out.

He did play better than he has previously this campaign, in fairness to the lad.

[Guest]

Calf injury, the moand and groans coming from a few thousand Leicester fans at hearing McGivern was playing was quite extraordinary.

And his parents had flown in for the game, there was a big interview in the Mercury about it

I wasn't particularly impressed with that reception for him either. We're all well aware of his limitations but I don't think booing or a collective groan is the way to inspire the lad. Won't ever catch me booing a Leicester player especially before they've even kicked off.

As Corks has said he played better than he had done in previous games.

[StanSP]

If he was good god help us definately responsible for the first goal. I know he is young but if he is poor should not be picked better someone from the academy who afterall would be our player

Surrounded by 3 Coventry players (one of them being a much taller striker), and then the player who actually got the goal was unmarked. Yeah let's make McGivern the scapegoat for everything.

[Guest DavidJCW]

RE: McGivern playing.

I groaned when I heard he was playing... I know it's not what he needs to help him along, but after seeing how he's played this season, how easily teams can pick on him and how deluded he is, I couldn't give a toss. He was still pretty crap today and didn't deal with a lot of balls as he should have and I'm sorry, he's just not good enough.

Had he said he's looking to try and improve his game here and try to learn valuable skills from being in a good team with a good manager, I might be a little more supportive of him... the fact he thinks he's going to be challenging for a Man City place next season playing the way he does just makes me lose any sort of sympathy I might have had for him.

EDIT: I think it was more than just a few thousand fans too... it was pretty much two thirds of the stadium that collectively shrunk into their seats somewhat.

[C-man]

Surrounded by 3 Coventry players (one of them being a much taller striker), and then the player who actually got the goal was unmarked. Yeah let's make McGivern the scapegoat for everything.

I know, McGivern didn't even win the header, Stead did.

He did okay today. Made 3 or 4 great tackles and interceptions that people have convieniently forgotten. To be fair to him, I honestly can't see him making a career at any level at full-back though, he just doesn't appear to have got the technique of defending there.

[lcfc_jme]

Well I think today was a fair result. You lot started as well as anyone I have seen this season. Organised, fluid and knocking it about nicely. To be fair I thought we were in for

a hiding. Your second goal, over or not, who knows. I've always said if you let the ball get that close you don't deserve any luck!

Second half I think the Foxes had let complacency slip in, and not surprsingly given that in the first half a crack team of Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles and David Blunkett could have denied our attacking intentions.

We may be nowhere near play off contenders but can play it ugly and make a nuisance of ourselves. I think we deserved a point offside goal or otherwise.

I'm not into whole "hate Leicester" thing always hated the Brummies more. Therefore I hope you achieve your consecutive promotions, playing like you did in the first half you should be fine.

Honest, decent and well put assessment, fair play.

Can't really say a lot more than what's been said to be fair, could and should have gone in 4, 5 or 6-0 at half-time but didn't, and the inability to kill them off was always going to come back and bite us. Like I was saying to Ched and Tommeh before they scored, you just knew what was going to happen and it was only a matter of time before they got their first. Our second half performance was an absolute catastrophe of the highest order.

Cov were one of the most pitiful excuses for a football team I've ever seen in the first half, we were as good as I ever remember seeing us, and then we both became complete polar opposites after the break - ridiculous.

Pearson got it hideously wrong from half-time onwards, substitutions were baffling to say the least and definitely weren't what they should have been.

Oh well, onwards and upwards (hopefully), point was certainly a fair result in the end, s'a point closer to cementing the playoffs anyway. Oh how good all 3 would have been for us, though.

[lildave3]

Surrounded by 3 Coventry players (one of them being a much taller striker), and then the player who actually got the goal was unmarked. Yeah let's make McGivern the scapegoat for everything.

Tbh, I would put my house on the fact that if Bruno was playing that would not have resulted in a goal. For starters, why has he got 3 anyway? Why's he not screaming for help? And he's never looked like winning a header in a competitive way like that.

Not that he did too bad today, it's just that Bruno is phenomenal.

[Guest DavidJCW]

I know, McGivern didn't even win the header, Stead did.

He did okay today. Made 3 or 4 great tackles and interceptions that people have convieniently forgotten. To be fair to him, I honestly can't see him making a career at any level at full-back though, he just doesn't appear to have got the technique of defending there.

Seriously?!? He made a couple of good interceptions but I can't remember seeing many great tackles... and any positives were outweighed by the negatives that were sadly still there! Hobbs had to save us quite a few times from McGivern mistakes.

I'm not making him a scapegoat for the loss or either of the goals, but he just isn't good enough.

[ozleicester]

Cracking first half, was a delight to watch us playing quality football and getting the appropriate rewards (even though that 2nd goal shouldnt have been given purely based on the benefit of the doubt).

Thought McGiverns game today was quite reasonable and goes some way to showing why NP has faith in him.

Second half was a great disapointment, they came out straight at us and we just sat back and took it. Disapointed in NP's reaction to the pressure, seemed he was siting back also, waiting to see what happened before making any decisions, which left it too late before he made the changes. Their 2nd was clearly offside.

All in all, having been 2-0 up i see it as 2 points dropped, but, 4th and a learning experience means it aint all bad.

BTW Coleman's a coont

* all of the above based on a dodgy stream.

[Basingstoke Fox]

I was gutted today, I came home during my break at work just to catch some of the game, turned on the Tv as they were showing the replays of our 2nd goal and I watched it until half time, we completely dicked on them and were unlucky not to be further in the lead. I was delighted. I then went back to work telling everyone we were winning 2-0 and looking good and all that. Then fooking that happenned. Got so much stick from like 10 different people after that . The joys of football.

Still, I'm abstolutely delighted about how the season has gone so far and we still look very good for a playoff spot. We will need to play better than we did in the 2nd half of todays game against Reading though as they really are a team on form at the moment.

Tbh, I would put my house on the fact that if Bruno was playing that would not have resulted in a goal. For starters, why has he got 3 anyway? Why's he not screaming for help? And he's never looked like winning a header in a competitive way like that.

Not that he did too bad today, it's just that Bruno is phenomenal.

I agree. I didn't watch the whole of the game so I can't say if McGivern was bad or not today but even if he had his best game in a City shirt, he would still have nothing on Bruno who adds so much to the team for us. Bruno is much more solid and we generally play better as a team when he plays IMO, so I think that would have probably have been the case today.

[marbelladave]

Decided to stay at home today, but a few thoughts on what I saw on the box.

1) Played beautifully for about half an hour then eased up and let Coventry back into it. they were already fighting back before Coleman got into them at half time, we let them back into it, for an hour we were woeful.

2) Wellen's plays far too deep, he thinks he is Xavi Hernandez, he is not! He needs a shrink!

3) Andy King will be in the Prem next season, with or without us!

4) Gallagher is easily our most creative player, he needs to be given a more pivotal role.

5) Pearson, for all his ability in other areas does not know how to change a game when things are going wrong.

6) Coventry fans drowned us out for the second half, on TV at least. Fair play to them!

7) Watching the game on TV is weird, really hard to get any feel for the game.

8) Do all BBC commentators have to wank over any side playing City, is it in their contracts?

9) I'm pissed off, we should have won, in fact we should have won by 2 or 3.

10) Err..... that's it.

[Guest DavidJCW]

Decided to stay at home today, but a few thoughts on what I saw on the box.

1) Played beautifully for about half an hour then eased up and let Coventry back into it. they were already fighting back before Coleman got into them at half time, we let them back into it, for an hour we were woeful.

2) Wellen's plays far too deep, he thinks he is Xavi Hernandez, he is not! He needs a shrink!

3) Andy King will be in the Prem next season, with or without us!

4) Gallagher is easily our most creative player, he needs to be given a more pivotal role.

5) Pearson, for all his ability in other areas does not know how to change a game when things are going wrong.

6) Coventry fans drowned us out for the second half, on TV at least. Fair play to them!

7) Watching the game on TV is weird, really hard to get any feel for the game.

8) Do all BBC commentators have to wank over any side playing City, is it in their contracts?

9) I'm pissed off, we should have won, in fact we should have won by 2 or 3.

10) Err..... that's it.

Wellens is told to play deep just in front of the back line as a sort of DM.

They didn't drown us out, we just weren't singing cause it was such a bad performance and there was nothing to sign about...

[Koke]

To be fair to the disabled fans, they were good. All standing up and in fairly good voice, albeit only having about one song that I was able to comprehend. But fair dos to them. They were better than Forest and certainly 10x better than Derby.

[Koke]

Calf injury, the moand and groans coming from a few thousand Leicester fans at hearing McGivern was playing was quite extraordinary.

And his parents had flown in for the game, there was a big interview in the Mercury about it

I thought the collective groaning was a bit uncalled for. And if it's true that his parents did fly over for this game, then I feel for them having to hear that. Thankfully, their son had a decent enough game

[shen]

I know, McGivern didn't even win the header, Stead did.

He did okay today. Made 3 or 4 great tackles and interceptions that people have convieniently forgotten. To be fair to him, I honestly can't see him making a career at any level at full-back though, he just doesn't appear to have got the technique of defending there.

In fact, I can't think of many attributes he has that fit the full back role. Which makes me wonder why Pearson brought him in as cover for that position. A guy like Powell would bring a cool head to the defense and over 20 years of experience in the position, but instead we play an on-loan unproven centerback there who has everyone on the edge of their seats when the ball approaches him McGivern wasn't dreadful yesterday, but I don't see the benefit of having him either...

[MC Prussian]

I thought the collective groaning was a bit uncalled for. And if it's true that his parents did fly over for this game, then I feel for them having to hear that. Thankfully, their son had a decent enough game

Berner's parents were over for the match, not McGivern's.

And yes, I do feel for them being unable to see their son perform in what could have been another excellent fashion.

[Guest Bilo]

I don't think so you muppet, we were shit in the first half, but in the second half it was all us, we could have taken the 3 points quite easily and we have the 2nd best form in the league since January, all I can say is see you next season, there is no way you bunch of muppets will get promoted, actually it would be funny if you did, you would finish bottom of the league with the lowest points total ever recorded, and now that would be funny.

I assume your carer did the spell-checking for you seeing as there aren't any mistakes, just a shame about the grammar really. Then again it can't be easy typing with six fingers.

Thanks for tipping us for promotion but you caught us on a bad day in the second half. The first half was a truer reflection of where our respective teams are this season; hence our being 4th and your still being well outside the play-offs after a strong run. If we do go up and come straight back down, we'll be coming back with a mountain of cash ready to bounce straight back a la West Brom. Meanwhile all that awaits you is mediocrity, spunking your alans when you hit the dizzy heights of mid-table and 15,000 in the Ricoh for Tuesday night games against Scunny. No wonder you celebrated a point behind the safety of a police line as though you'd just beaten Barcelona in the Champions League final, any point further away from the normal drudgery must be exciting for you.

Onwards and upwards, we'll see where each of our teams are come May.

[Prospero]

The difference between the two halves was that in the first we were first to the ball all over the pitch and we also picked up most of the second balls. Generally, we passed the ball well and exuded confidence. It was a pleasure to see Coventry's defenders arguing amongst themselves and Morrison's obvious frustration. Even though they were stronger towards the end of the half Coventry had no answers to our good football. We were controlling the game and should have gone in 3 or 4 up.

At half time they had obviously been told to attack and in the second half they changed their formation to match our dominant one and pushed forward. They were now winning the balls and were able to put us under pressure, which led to their two goals. We were not able to recover our rhythm. At the end I was very disappointed that we had not got all 3 points.

I felt flattered by the celebrations outside the ground by the Coventry fans. They obviously see us as a larger and more successful club where an away draw is, for them, a great victory.

It will have done us no real harm, providing we win on Wednesday and keep our form going for the remaining matches.

[lou]

Was pretty pissed off we threw 2 points (with a lot of help from the officials) but then was reminded that we were back in 4th, Cardiff had won rendering Covs point totally useless and went back to the pub for more Bacardi

Still laughing today at the sight of all those Cov fans celebrating like their Sisters had finished their period.

[Fox92]

Favourite moment of the day: Cov fans run out of the Walkers like they won the FA Cup again.....

To be honest, I think I would if Leicester had just come back from 2 goals down, ecspecially in a local derby.

That Lee Mason is a **** of the highest order.

Agreed. As soon as I saw him as referee I knew we'd struggle. He's the same man that was referee against Sheffield United the other season when Kisnorbo was sent off and before that when we conceded 2 penalties on the opening day. Disliked him ever since.

They didn't drown us out, we just weren't singing cause it was such a bad performance and there was nothing to sign about...

I thought that the Coventry fans were great, one of the best of the season, as you'd expect though.

[marbelladave]

Wellens is told to play deep just in front of the back line as a sort of DM.

They didn't drown us out, we just weren't singing cause it was such a bad performance and there was nothing to sign about...

If Wellen's is told to play that role, and it is pretty obvious that he has, then Pearson has got it wrong! He is much better bustling about and getting box to box.

We eased up after the half hour mark and let Coventry get a toe hold even before half time. We sat back and invited Coventry on to us and they took the opportunity. It was our fault and our problem, a problem that Pearson manifestly failed to fix...

[Unit]

Was pretty pissed off we threw 2 points (with a lot of help from the officials) but then was reminded that we were back in 4th, Cardiff had won rendering Covs point totally useless and went back to the pub for more Bacardi

Still laughing today at the sight of all those Cov fans celebrating like their Sisters had finished their period.

Post of the year.

[Babylon]

It's ridiculous that I fancy our chances of winning a game more when we're 0-0 than I do when we're 2-0 up. I called the final score at half time, it's so bloody obvious with us.

The first 35 was possibly some of the best football i've ever seen us play. We were so fluid in our play it really was fantastic to watch. As usual we sat back a bit and let them get into the game, our dip seemed to coincide with Waghorn and Gally taking hefty kicks that saw them struggle for a while, in truth neither of them got back into the game afterwards.

Even though Cov were obviously dominant in the second half (without ever really being brilliant), we still created some excellent chances and were so close to getting all three in the last seconds with Dyers run and shot that the keeper managed to get something on.

It's disappointing of course, but the other results did us a favour so it's as you were really.

[Corky]

I'd probably be more annoyed if Coventry had been on a six-game losing run or something like that, they were always going to offer a threat given their form.

Compared to our other home derbies this season, nowhere near as good as Forest (though the first half was a better performance) but far better than the Derby match.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Disappointing result, but I think the main positive was McGiven's performance. I thought our much vilified loanee looked very good up until the point that he got clattered, immediately after which he gave the ball away a few times and let players past him. He never really got back into the game.