Sky Blues Match Thread

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:) Stanley Team news... Ross Sykes Still side lined with a groin strain, JC still to decide as to whether Jonny Maxted is able to feature after he received a mild concussion and stitches to the back of the head in Saturday's draw with Oxford. Coventry are still looking for there first win against Stanley after collecting only 1pt out 3 games played 2 Defeats last season and a draw this season. Match officials.. Ref Peter Wright Having officiated in 28 games so far during the 2018/19 campaign, Peter has given a total of 85 yellow cards and six red cards. He will be assisted by Matthew Bristow and Ian Dudley, while Martin Coy will act as fourth official. :)
 
I have to miss the Coventry match!!!!:(
Please shout and sing louder to make up for my absence!:)
COME ON STANLEY:jimbo:
 
Defo for finley to start. We might think about swapping smyth for armstrong too - unless we can entice coventry to play a higher defensive line
 
Smyth is young and inexperienced but its his pace and movement thats creating the spaces for us to play into, would be surprised to see him dropped. I like Armstrongbut he only comes in if we go 3 up top, which i doubt.

As for young Finley i think he conceded his place to Smyth. Finley tended to play off Kee more i think and drove from deep. I like that, but can only see him coming in at the expense of Barlaser
 
Should never have dropped Brown he is our only midfielder with any bite constantly gave the ball away today didn't deserve anything against a very mediocre side only player to come out with any credit was Dimi in the nets pulled a fantastic save second half cound,nt be blamed for the shocking goal we conceded need to up our game for Teusday against Blackpool cause they will have a very noisy following backing them.
 
It was dire today. Coventry were much better at the passing but couldn't capitalize on their superior technical play. We played well for the first 15 Mins, I am afraid after that we looked out of sorts. We were dragged out of position all afternoon. Somebody commented that this team is not strong enough to compete in this division. On today's Performance I couldn't disagree. Most of the players were poor. The substitutions were hard to understand. I still think we will stay in this division but some hard decisions have to be made at the end of the season.
 
To quote the Match Report on t'fishy....

"And Offrande Zanzala came on with 10 minutes to go as the Reds went all-out for the equaliser ".

Now as you know I am not one to criticise genuine efforts to acquaint me with all things ' STANLEY '.. But I really cannot abide it when people try to pull the wool over my eyes !.

Could I though be the only one to miss this reported feature towards the end of the Match and did I miss seeing the Reds actually going all out ?.. seemed to me that they had all gone out after the first quarter of the game !.

Once again our midfield was totally dominated by a very left-sided Coventry City, our much vaunted wide-men were completely bossed by their respective full backs, Billy looked like a man ready for a good rest, and no wonder after he has worked his socks off for weeks now with little support, and our unprotected defence were overworked to a point where they found the task of holdding the Coventry forwards almost too difficult to attain..

Was today then yet another 'blip '... we can hope so, and look forward to better things as the Reds take on a Blackpool team who must be seriously looking for a return to form after their last two calamities !.

ON STANLEY !... ON TO EVEN GREATER THINGS !!.
 
My overriding emotion watching the game today was boredom. Gave serious consideration to leaving early as I really wasn't having a fun time. The game plan surely can't have been to punt the ball up the pitch like we did for nearly the entire second half. Yet didn't see a reaction from the bench to try and change this. If it was the plan, why did we bother bringing on brown - so he watch the ball sail aimlessly over his head?! Unsure whether the 100 mile round trip will be worth it on Tuesday.

If you can't tell, I'm very disappointed :D
 
Thought the first half was pretty even, neither side creating much & looked like the game had nil - nil written all over it.
To my mind, their goal shouldn't have stood as our player (Barlaser I think) was felled to the ground by a blatant foul on their way through but Mr. I. M. Wright thought otherwise.
Second half wasn't good, two sides just cancelling each other out in the main although they were quicker than us at times. Good save by Evtimov near the end to stop the scoreline from flattering Coventry even more.
Good luck to them in their fight to stay in business - thought the banner was good at start of the game.
 
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