Coventry

[G Force]

Rushworth has had loads to do. We don't win the league without him.

His stats for a side who have effectively walked the league is remarkable. He's had to make 123 saves. Compare that to keepers last year. Those sort of numbers are what you'd see from sides being hammered every week.

Trafford - 88
Patterson - 91
Meslier - 65

So you’re now saying you wouldn’t even have gone up without a keeper you don’t even own?

I’m not writing you off, although you’re going to be surprised how strong the likes of Brentford, Bournemouth, Fulham, Forest are if you’re expecting quite a few of your squad to step up. You’re very unlikely to survive without a big overhaul of your squad

You’ll likely have a handful who will make the step up. I suppose no one knows until you get there, or until we know what you’ll do through the summer. It’s a bastard of a league mind.

For now, just enjoy the moment!

 

[scott934]

Rushworth has had loads to do. We don't win the league without him.

His stats for a side who have effectively walked the league is remarkable. He's had to make 123 saves. Compare that to keepers last year. Those sort of numbers are what you'd see from sides being hammered every week.

Trafford - 88
Patterson - 91
Meslier - 65

That's probably not a good sign for your defence tbh.

The bulk of this Cov squad finished 5th last season, below the SAFC squad that needed pulling to bits in preparation for the PL. They don't need to do as well as we have like, but they definitely need better than what they've got.

 

[Sbarcher]

Well, we've made it to the promised land after 25 years.

I was born at Thorpe hospital, Lived in Houghton and the rest of the family in Hetton.
I'm the 1st generation never to have worked down the pit. All my male relatives worked at Eppleton colliery.
My grandad occasionally would take me to Roker Park with my cracket on the minibus from the Three Tuns at Broomhill.
We moved down to Warwickshire when I was a nipper and started to go to Highfield Road with my mates.

So, I have a very keen interest in Sunderland being successful and hope you manage to finish above the Saudi oilers.

It's been said many times that what happened nearly 50 years ago was wrong. This was the actions of 1 man who thought he was acting in the best interest of his club. I would guess anyone in his position at whatever club would have done the same.

Of course we are likely to go straight back down next season, probably as bookies favourites.
Most fans are fully prepared for this and taking the benefit of the parachute payment with us will help in future years.

I have followed CCFC for many years, even seeing us beat Bayern Munich when Mueller, Maier, and Beckenbauer played.
Next year is for the generation of fans never to have seen us play at the top level.
Their football journey has been horrendous. Our shit owners sold Highfield road, couldn't afford the new stadium and had to be bailed out by the council, eventually selling to SISU. They were even worse, tried to buy the ground on the cheap by threatening then upping sticks to Northampton. We went bust and during this time dropped to L2. I took my grandson to his first football game at home to Yoevil - we lost 6-2. That's how far we had fallen.
Mark Robins steadied the ship and him and Ade Viveash (now at Boro) started the upward travel. This wasn't helped by the Council selling the ground to Wasps (without our knowledge) who churned up the pitch and piled on the rent and then kicked us out.
"Home" games went then to BCFC (with a one-off at Burton Albion) where the Covid year prevented us from celebrating as L1 champions.
MR and AV created some great memories at Wembley, even though Wright's big toe prevented us from making the greatest FA comeback against MU.

We finally saw off Wasps who issued a £36m bond to buy the stadium and then couldn't afford to pay it back - great news!

Welcome Doug King. - a local businessman who made a few bob and was a CCFC fan. He bought out SISU and then made the very unpopular decision to sack MR. To be honest since MR fell out with Ade and had him removed, Mark seemed a bit lost without his right hand man. King brought in Lampard with everyone thinking it's another Rooney/Gerrard appointment. Well, from 17th when he arrived to play offs was a fantastic run. No issues from me with you getting to the final.
This season King has bought the stadium, bought/loaned some key positions and despite out winter wobble have topped the league by 11 points.

King is a fan owner, who attends every match. He is not a billionaire and needs to be careful with his money and make sure we live within our means. His comments regarding Sunderland seem to have been taken out of context, not a criticism but just a way of saying that's how they did it but we can't follow that road.

Sorry for this rambling post, but we all know what a football club means to us. To me, there's no "shit", "tinpot" teams, just football clubs loved by their fans.
For Coventry I suspect the journey will be better than the destination, but at least we're there, and you never know - there's always hope.

See you next season.

 

[Gene Hunt]

Are the Coventry fans on shifts to keep this thread going? I always thought the mags were the most deluded fan base going but these whoppers take it to a new level.

Last year after the playoffs we all imagined we would be relegated from the PL before we bought a whole new team. Even then most of us just hoped for survival. Coventry fans think their team is the reincarnation of Brazil 1970.

We tried to play more expansive football recently and shipped 9 goals in 2 games. Good luck with Frankball in the Premier League lads, it will be a short stay unless you spend £100m on your defence alone. Going toe to toe with anyone in this league before you are well established is footballing suicide.

 

[LDNCCFC]

So you’re now saying you wouldn’t even have gone up without a keeper you don’t even own?

I’m not writing you off, although you’re going to be surprised how strong the likes of Brentford, Bournemouth, Fulham, Forest are if you’re expecting quite a few of your squad to step up. You’re very unlikely to survive without a big overhaul of your squad

You’ll likely have a handful who will make the step up. I suppose no one knows until you get there, or until we know what you’ll do through the summer. It’s a bastard of a league mind.

For now, just enjoy the moment!

I think we'd have finished in the play offs without him. It is why we are throwing big money to get him permanently.

You're right about the step up, we will need to invest. Frank will demand the investment.

 

[Deleted member 61339]

Wright will likely start for USA in the summer. Mason-Clark is my one to watch. Lots said about the physicality of the Premier League, he's a machine.

Rushworth will either be playing for us as number 1 or another Premier League side next season.

Absolutely no chance Wright gets in their starting 11. He's more than likely to be left out the squad than start for them.

 

[LDNCCFC]

That's probably not a good sign for your defence tbh.

The bulk of this Cov squad finished 5th last season, below the SAFC squad that needed pulling to bits in preparation for the PL. They don't need to do as well as we have like, but they definitely need better than what they've got.

Put Rushworth, Grimes and Onyeka in last seasons side from the start of the season and it finishes far higher than 5th.

 

[Deleted member 61339]

Well, we've made it to the promised land after 25 years.

I was born at Thorpe hospital, Lived in Houghton and the rest of the family in Hetton.
I'm the 1st generation never to have worked down the pit. All my male relatives worked at Eppleton colliery.
My grandad occasionally would take me to Roker Park with my cracket on the minibus from the Three Tuns at Broomhill.
We moved down to Warwickshire when I was a nipper and started to go to Highfield Road with my mates.

So, I have a very keen interest in Sunderland being successful and hope you manage to finish above the Saudi oilers.

It's been said many times that what happened nearly 50 years ago was wrong. This was the actions of 1 man who thought he was acting in the best interest of his club. I would guess anyone in his position at whatever club would have done the same.

Of course we are likely to go straight back down next season, probably as bookies favourites.
Most fans are fully prepared for this and taking the benefit of the parachute payment with us will help in future years.

I have followed CCFC for many years, even seeing us beat Bayern Munich when Mueller, Maier, and Beckenbauer played.
Next year is for the generation of fans never to have seen us play at the top level.
Their football journey has been horrendous. Our shit owners sold Highfield road, couldn't afford the new stadium and had to be bailed out by the council, eventually selling to SISU. They were even worse, tried to buy the ground on the cheap by threatening then upping sticks to Northampton. We went bust and during this time dropped to L2. I took my grandson to his first football game at home to Yoevil - we lost 6-2. That's how far we had fallen.
Mark Robins steadied the ship and him and Ade Viveash (now at Boro) started the upward travel. This wasn't helped by the Council selling the ground to Wasps (without our knowledge) who churned up the pitch and piled on the rent and then kicked us out.
"Home" games went then to BCFC (with a one-off at Burton Albion) where the Covid year prevented us from celebrating as L1 champions.
MR and AV created some great memories at Wembley, even though Wright's big toe prevented us from making the greatest FA comeback against MU.

We finally saw off Wasps who issued a £36m bond to buy the stadium and then couldn't afford to pay it back - great news!

Welcome Doug King. - a local businessman who made a few bob and was a CCFC fan. He bought out SISU and then made the very unpopular decision to sack MR. To be honest since MR fell out with Ade and had him removed, Mark seemed a bit lost without his right hand man. King brought in Lampard with everyone thinking it's another Rooney/Gerrard appointment. Well, from 17th when he arrived to play offs was a fantastic run. No issues from me with you getting to the final.
This season King has bought the stadium, bought/loaned some key positions and despite out winter wobble have topped the league by 11 points.

King is a fan owner, who attends every match. He is not a billionaire and needs to be careful with his money and make sure we live within our means. His comments regarding Sunderland seem to have been taken out of context, not a criticism but just a way of saying that's how they did it but we can't follow that road.

Sorry for this rambling post, but we all know what a football club means to us. To me, there's no "shit", "tinpot" teams, just football clubs loved by their fans.
For Coventry I suspect the journey will be better than the destination, but at least we're there, and you never know - there's always hope.

See you next season.

Good post, enjoyable read

 

[scott934]

Put Rushworth, Grimes and Onyeka in last seasons side from the start of the season and it finishes far higher than 5th.

Maybe, but from the outside looking in it looks like a weaker Championship, there is no Leeds or Burnley this season. Maybe Southampton but they left it too late to trouble the top 2.

Grimes is a 30 year old Championship lifer, Onyeka has had some PL experience a few years ago, seems he wasn't quite good enough to stay there.

Rushworth does seem highly rated, if you sign him it will probably be a tremendous signing. £20m will probably look cheap in a years time.

As I say, it needs a lot of work, hopefully the club are smart rather than emotional.

 

[Alfa]

Well, we've made it to the promised land after 25 years.

I was born at Thorpe hospital, Lived in Houghton and the rest of the family in Hetton.
I'm the 1st generation never to have worked down the pit. All my male relatives worked at Eppleton colliery.
My grandad occasionally would take me to Roker Park with my cracket on the minibus from the Three Tuns at Broomhill.
We moved down to Warwickshire when I was a nipper and started to go to Highfield Road with my mates.

So, I have a very keen interest in Sunderland being successful and hope you manage to finish above the Saudi oilers.

It's been said many times that what happened nearly 50 years ago was wrong. This was the actions of 1 man who thought he was acting in the best interest of his club. I would guess anyone in his position at whatever club would have done the same.

Of course we are likely to go straight back down next season, probably as bookies favourites.
Most fans are fully prepared for this and taking the benefit of the parachute payment with us will help in future years.

I have followed CCFC for many years, even seeing us beat Bayern Munich when Mueller, Maier, and Beckenbauer played.
Next year is for the generation of fans never to have seen us play at the top level.
Their football journey has been horrendous. Our shit owners sold Highfield road, couldn't afford the new stadium and had to be bailed out by the council, eventually selling to SISU. They were even worse, tried to buy the ground on the cheap by threatening then upping sticks to Northampton. We went bust and during this time dropped to L2. I took my grandson to his first football game at home to Yoevil - we lost 6-2. That's how far we had fallen.
Mark Robins steadied the ship and him and Ade Viveash (now at Boro) started the upward travel. This wasn't helped by the Council selling the ground to Wasps (without our knowledge) who churned up the pitch and piled on the rent and then kicked us out.
"Home" games went then to BCFC (with a one-off at Burton Albion) where the Covid year prevented us from celebrating as L1 champions.
MR and AV created some great memories at Wembley, even though Wright's big toe prevented us from making the greatest FA comeback against MU.

We finally saw off Wasps who issued a £36m bond to buy the stadium and then couldn't afford to pay it back - great news!

Welcome Doug King. - a local businessman who made a few bob and was a CCFC fan. He bought out SISU and then made the very unpopular decision to sack MR. To be honest since MR fell out with Ade and had him removed, Mark seemed a bit lost without his right hand man. King brought in Lampard with everyone thinking it's another Rooney/Gerrard appointment. Well, from 17th when he arrived to play offs was a fantastic run. No issues from me with you getting to the final.
This season King has bought the stadium, bought/loaned some key positions and despite out winter wobble have topped the league by 11 points.

King is a fan owner, who attends every match. He is not a billionaire and needs to be careful with his money and make sure we live within our means. His comments regarding Sunderland seem to have been taken out of context, not a criticism but just a way of saying that's how they did it but we can't follow that road.

Sorry for this rambling post, but we all know what a football club means to us. To me, there's no "shit", "tinpot" teams, just football clubs loved by their fans.
For Coventry I suspect the journey will be better than the destination, but at least we're there, and you never know - there's always hope.

See you next season.

Good post !

Recruitment will decide your fate. Every man and his dog predicted SAFC would be relegated and we’ve bucked the trend.

We’ll have a better idea at the end of the summer transfer window about your ambition and the chances of survival. As others have said just enjoy the moment for now.

 

[Uromastyx]

@Astute

It's great to see you're alive; I thought something terrible had happened to you.

I was going to reply to some of your latest posts but you genuinely seem unwell so I'll leave it, and wish you good luck for the season.

 

[ChrisAshley]

Rushworth has had loads to do. We don't win the league without him.

His stats for a side who have effectively walked the league is remarkable. He's had to make 123 saves. Compare that to keepers last year. Those sort of numbers are what you'd see from sides being hammered every week.

Trafford - 88
Patterson - 91
Meslier - 65

More things for you to worry about if the goalkeeper has had to do that much work in the Championship.

 

[molthemackem]

Well, we've made it to the promised land after 25 years.

I was born at Thorpe hospital, Lived in Houghton and the rest of the family in Hetton.
I'm the 1st generation never to have worked down the pit. All my male relatives worked at Eppleton colliery.
My grandad occasionally would take me to Roker Park with my cracket on the minibus from the Three Tuns at Broomhill.
We moved down to Warwickshire when I was a nipper and started to go to Highfield Road with my mates.

So, I have a very keen interest in Sunderland being successful and hope you manage to finish above the Saudi oilers.

It's been said many times that what happened nearly 50 years ago was wrong. This was the actions of 1 man who thought he was acting in the best interest of his club. I would guess anyone in his position at whatever club would have done the same.

Of course we are likely to go straight back down next season, probably as bookies favourites.
Most fans are fully prepared for this and taking the benefit of the parachute payment with us will help in future years.

I have followed CCFC for many years, even seeing us beat Bayern Munich when Mueller, Maier, and Beckenbauer played.
Next year is for the generation of fans never to have seen us play at the top level.
Their football journey has been horrendous. Our shit owners sold Highfield road, couldn't afford the new stadium and had to be bailed out by the council, eventually selling to SISU. They were even worse, tried to buy the ground on the cheap by threatening then upping sticks to Northampton. We went bust and during this time dropped to L2. I took my grandson to his first football game at home to Yoevil - we lost 6-2. That's how far we had fallen.
Mark Robins steadied the ship and him and Ade Viveash (now at Boro) started the upward travel. This wasn't helped by the Council selling the ground to Wasps (without our knowledge) who churned up the pitch and piled on the rent and then kicked us out.
"Home" games went then to BCFC (with a one-off at Burton Albion) where the Covid year prevented us from celebrating as L1 champions.
MR and AV created some great memories at Wembley, even though Wright's big toe prevented us from making the greatest FA comeback against MU.

We finally saw off Wasps who issued a £36m bond to buy the stadium and then couldn't afford to pay it back - great news!

Welcome Doug King. - a local businessman who made a few bob and was a CCFC fan. He bought out SISU and then made the very unpopular decision to sack MR. To be honest since MR fell out with Ade and had him removed, Mark seemed a bit lost without his right hand man. King brought in Lampard with everyone thinking it's another Rooney/Gerrard appointment. Well, from 17th when he arrived to play offs was a fantastic run. No issues from me with you getting to the final.
This season King has bought the stadium, bought/loaned some key positions and despite out winter wobble have topped the league by 11 points.

King is a fan owner, who attends every match. He is not a billionaire and needs to be careful with his money and make sure we live within our means. His comments regarding Sunderland seem to have been taken out of context, not a criticism but just a way of saying that's how they did it but we can't follow that road.

Sorry for this rambling post, but we all know what a football club means to us. To me, there's no "shit", "tinpot" teams, just football clubs loved by their fans.
For Coventry I suspect the journey will be better than the destination, but at least we're there, and you never know - there's always hope.

See you next season.

I'll raise you Steve Gibson who has done more for his home club (Boro) than probably any other home town Chairman . He may still yet have a last laugh.
As others have pointed out, to have any chance next season you need to totally gut the current squad and start spending.. Our stability comes from a owner who " Gets it" unlike others we've had in the past few years. As for the Chin, I for one will be looking forward to your results next season .

 

[AC Mack]

Another way of looking at it - we've built a mid-table Premier League side with the following signings:

Roefs
Mukiele
Alderete
Reinildo
Xhaka
Sadiki
Le Fee
Brobbey

Diarra
Geertruida
Angulo
Traore
Adingra

Compare the above players to Coventry at the moment - how many of the Cov lot are as good? I left a gap because the bottom five are either new signings, loaned out or haven't proven themselves yet for one reason or another.

Even those bottom five would probably be among Coventry's best players currently. That's how big the gap is.

 

[LDNCCFC]

Absolutely no chance Wright gets in their starting 11. He's more than likely to be left out the squad than start for them.

He has been in all the recent squads when he's been fit. He will definitely go, the question is if he starts. 3 goals in 5 appearances this year for the national team.

More things for you to worry about if the goalkeeper has had to do that much work in the Championship.

Although I didn't admit that some of those saves were after we took the foot off the gas when we were winning by 4 or 5 goals most weeks.

In all seriousness, we've been open in all our games but have been absolutely ruthless scoring goals. We obviously won't go as mad next season, but I still think our games will be high scoring.

 

[Deleted member 61339]

He has been in all the recent squads when he's been fit. He will definitely go, the question is if he starts. 3 goals in 5 appearances this year for the national team.


Although I didn't admit that some of those saves were after we took the foot off the gas when we were winning by 4 or 5 goals most weeks.

In all seriousness, we've been open in all our games but have been absolutely ruthless scoring goals. We obviously won't go as mad next season, but I still think our games will be high scoring.

But your point was he starts, he doesn't start for them. He may well go, but he doesn't start, very rarely starts for them

 

[Hot Since 82]

Our fans in the lower north stand can look forward to bottles of piss and pyro raining down on them again when Coventry visit no doubt. The only set of bellends to do this, although cretins from similar backward clubs like Pompey and Luton may have been guilty too, even the Saudi's don't sink to these levels of c_unt like behaviour.

 

[LDNCCFC]

But your point was he starts, he doesn't start for them. He may well go, but he doesn't start, very rarely starts for them

He hasn't started because he's missed 2 of the international breaks this season due to minor injuries. I think he's likely to start at least 1 of the 3 group games and probably as a winger.

In classic Haji Wright style, he'll either be the worst player in the tournament or somehow score more than the global superstars. He scored in the last World Cup.

Our fans in the lower north stand can look forward to bottles of piss and pyro raining down on them again when Coventry visit no doubt. The only set of bellends to do this, although cretins from similar backward clubs like Pompey and Luton may have been guilty too, even the Saudi's don't sink to these levels of c_unt like behaviour.

I'll be shocked if there's any issues. A sizeable number of those types were banned in the return fixtures.

This season has probably been the lowest amount of trouble I've ever seen following Coventry and I don't think there's been any issues between the two sides since COVID?

 

[lN5]

He hasn't started because he's missed 2 of the international breaks this season due to minor injuries. I think he's likely to start at least 1 of the 3 group games and probably as a winger.

In classic Haji Wright style, he'll either be the worst player in the tournament or somehow score more than the global superstars. He scored in the last World Cup.


I'll be shocked if there's any issues. A sizeable number of those types were banned in the return fixtures.

This season has probably been the lowest amount of trouble I've ever seen following Coventry and I don't think there's been any issues between the two sides since COVID?

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't you lose £23m the season we went up?
We can assume this year will be similar, if not worse given promotion bonuses. So how will you be funding this spending spree if Doug hasn't got the means?

 

[Deleted member 61339]

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't you lose £23m the season we went up?
We can assume this year will be similar, if not worse given promotion bonuses. So how will you be funding this spending spree if Doug hasn't got the means?

Plus 50 million spent on the stadium, plus maintenance that will need doing to bring it up to Premier league standards