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Cov Promotion - A new perspective on an old topic


Ive just read an article from April 2017 about their relegation to the 4th tier, so the drop was horrific, and the rise even more impressive. I have a couple of colleagues who are Cov fans, and they are good lads who had nothing but good wishes for us after the play-off game, even though they were gutted.

In that article, plenty of Leicester fans were lording it, wishing them into extinction. Thats come back to bite them on the arse, so the moral of the story is to be humble when you are on top, because it may not last forever.
 
Lucky1985 said:
Think you’ve misinterpreted “competing for the playoffs, as “competing in the playoffs”.

I didn’t say they were in it, but at one point they were doing really well in the league and looking likely to qualify. And at that point even being an upper mid-table, secure championship team was something I would have snapped your hand off for.
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This. At that point in time all i wanted was a steady championship side where i could watch promising kids develop in a well managed financially sound set up. I had no desire at all for PL. In fact that league had been proved to be a dangerous financial nonsense to me . All hail KLD .
DrewC said:
I despise Coventry hope they go straight back down
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And this
 
DufraisFTM said:
Isn’t Dan Neil one of their top targets? Not to start a Dan Neil argument here, but if he’s the type of player they’re going to recruit then it’s only gonna end one way and they’ll be back in the Championship after a season.
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They are after Patto too.
HearMeRoar said:
Watch them be our first game of the season..

Hopefully its at home.
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Hopefully they are well and truly relegated by the time we play at the sol. Maybe then, fewer of their neanderthal c_unt fans will make the journey north.
 
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Mackem Al said:
He'll be gutted he cant rip off away fans with extortionate ticket prices any more.

I hate everything about Coventry.
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He’ll be a Leeds or Man Utd charging under 16s 29 quid type. Was it 48 quid last season or something? It was too much for me to take the bairn in league game! Luckily the play offs were price matched throughout
 
JL1985 said:
I think Southampton will be the 3rd team promoted. I’m sure they along with Ipswich will have learned lessons from last time and make a better go at staying up.
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I think the three of them would make it a tough league. Southampton and Ipswich we know will spend money.

I suspect Coventry will have learnt from us and Leeds and attack the foreign markets to try and improve their squads. You know they’ll be up for the games against us as well.
 
LDNCCFC said:
Welcome home, James Madison... 👀
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He'd just burst out laughing
HarrogateMackem said:
I think the three of them would make it a tough league. Southampton and Ipswich we know will spend money.

I suspect Coventry will have learnt from us and Leeds and attack the foreign markets to try and improve their squads. You know they’ll be up for the games against us as well.
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Not sure where the confidence about them comes from. Last season Southampton very nearly beat Derbys record for worst ever team and ipswich spent £100m on players not good enough for the PL.

At least 2 promoted teams will go down next season. The championship is abysmal standard this season
 
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I don’t think it’s wise to assume you are miles ahead of them. You’ve had a decent season but the argument could easily be made that you guys
1. were the surprise package
2. Had momentum and the tailwind of a entire city behind you
3. Had a relatively generous opening fixture list
4. Overperformed against key metrics (if you believe in the data scientists that are running the game)

I say all this not to be a twat but just to excercise some caution. We came up under Bielsa and did brilliantly in our first season but soon fell away in 2&3. Of course we bought badly or underinvested at critical times and you seem to have a sensible owner and top DoF

It may not happen (and I actually hope it doesn’t) but 2nd season syndrome is a thing and we should both therefore look to avoid any complacency
 
Bielsas Bucket Boy said:
I don’t think it’s wise to assume you are miles ahead of them. You’ve had a decent season but the argument could easily be made that you guys
1. were the surprise package
2. Had momentum and the tailwind of a entire city behind you
3. Had a relatively generous opening fixture list
4. Overperformed against key metrics (if you believe in the data scientists that are running the game)

I say all this not to be a twat but just to excercise some caution. We came up under Bielsa and did brilliantly in our first season but soon fell away in 2&3. Of course we bought badly or underinvested at critical times and you seem to have a sensible owner and top DoF

It may not happen (and I actually hope it doesn’t) but 2nd season syndrome is a thing and we should both therefore look to avoid any complacency
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You should be more worried about them than us
 
Bielsas Bucket Boy said:
I don’t think it’s wise to assume you are miles ahead of them. You’ve had a decent season but the argument could easily be made that you guys
1. were the surprise package
2. Had momentum and the tailwind of a entire city behind you
3. Had a relatively generous opening fixture list
4. Overperformed against key metrics (if you believe in the data scientists that are running the game)

I say all this not to be a twat but just to excercise some caution. We came up under Bielsa and did brilliantly in our first season but soon fell away in 2&3. Of course we bought badly or underinvested at critical times and you seem to have a sensible owner and top DoF

It may not happen (and I actually hope it doesn’t) but 2nd season syndrome is a thing and we should both therefore look to avoid any complacency
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Ah Sunderland are only doing well because Bingo
 
Lucky1985 said:
I know many on here have no love for Coventry, but the fan I watched the playoffs semi with in paphos with last year was dead sound, and very magnanimous even after the Ballard goal and me and another MLF squeeling like school girls and jumping around the bar, so I’m actually glad for them.

But the point I came to make, was that at one point when we were in doldrums of league one, I remember looking enviously up the pyramid at Cov, with them having flown the nest and competing for the playoffs in the championship, and I remember dreaming about how one day that could be us again.

Well, they’ve done it and got promoted, and they’ve done it in a reasonable timeframe too for a team that’s worked its way up from league one. But look how far ahead of them we are now.

If you’d have told me back then, that we would be mid table in the prem this year, having taken 6 points off the mags, I wouldn’t have believed you. There is nothing you could have told me that would have made me believe you.

It’s absolutely mental how well KLD, and the team have done.

Thank you once again from all those involved, these last few years have been ace!
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"Sighs"
 
Bielsas Bucket Boy said:
I don’t think it’s wise to assume you are miles ahead of them. You’ve had a decent season but the argument could easily be made that you guys
1. were the surprise package
2. Had momentum and the tailwind of a entire city behind you
3. Had a relatively generous opening fixture list
4. Overperformed against key metrics (if you believe in the data scientists that are running the game)

I say all this not to be a twat but just to excercise some caution. We came up under Bielsa and did brilliantly in our first season but soon fell away in 2&3. Of course we bought badly or underinvested at critical times and you seem to have a sensible owner and top DoF

It may not happen (and I actually hope it doesn’t) but 2nd season syndrome is a thing and we should both therefore look to avoid any complacency
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Gan and shit in your bucket.

Coming across very much like a mag
 
HarrogateMackem said:
I think the three of them would make it a tough league. Southampton and Ipswich we know will spend money.

I suspect Coventry will have learnt from us and Leeds and attack the foreign markets to try and improve their squads. You know they’ll be up for the games against us as well.
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Might be hard to get a team of newly arrived foreign players "up" enough to take us . Fat Frank is no Regis , Coventry is no Sunderland
 
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