Coventry City FC v Swindon Town FC Official Matchday Thread

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Absolutely.
Fucking.
Brilliant.

Most of the relevant points have already been made but what the fuck...

That goes into my all time top 10 away games. Beautiful day as it turned out, met a few chums before the game at a cracking pub called The Greyhound, right next to the Coventry canal, a couple of miles from the ground.

Fantastic support inside the ground. I have never been to a game where we have trailed for so long whilst completely out playing the opposition. Round about the 82 minute mark I was resigned to it being 'one of those days' but the boys had other ideas. I said after the Colchester game that we have the look of a promotion side and I saw nothing today to change that view.

It would be churlish to single out anyone for criticism, other than to agree with the posts stating that Simon Ferry is not a right winger. Outstanding performers for me were Wes with that save. That was one of the best saves I have seen from a Town keeper and had he not made it and they had scored, then astonishingly, Coventry would have almost certainly gone on to win. Other than that, as has already been said, Nathan had a tremendous game after a nightmare start. He didn't let it upset him and he looked really good. Well done young man. Other than that, Alan Mac was fantastic at centre mid and though he is as frustrating as hell at times, I love the way Andy Williams plays.

I've not seen this mentioned elsewhere, but I thought it was a bit of a shame that Kevin Mac didn't come over to the fans at the end. I suspect that the reason was that, not being an egotistical man, he wanted the players in general and Millward in particular to get the credit and that's fair enough. He probably did not want to be seen to be 'hogging the limelight'. If he had come over though, no one would have thought that and it would have rounded the day off perfectly. Not having a go, just an observation.

Listened a bit to BBC Coventry & Warwickshire on the way back - they are not happy fans. Many actually see administration as preferable to their current situation. All their fans who phoned in (probably not Dan as he was off celebrating 3 points as has been pointed out already!) said we were way the better team, as did Lee Carsley as did the presenter. When that happens you know you've been good.

That was beautiful.

Just beautiful.

FACT!  

P.S. Thought their little garden of remembrance with turf and soil from Highfield Road was a nice touch. Never seen that before.

[Batch]

ref: Roberts. Saw a few people say they didn't think he did too well. I though he did OK myself, some nice quick passes and interplay. But he didn't quite have the cutting edge I guess.

Also, it was kind of bizarre, Coventry had a very healthy home attendance really for league 1, 11K+. But it really did look like they were rattling around in an albeit very impressive stadium. If that sized crowd had been in the CG, it would have been full What the hell must it have been like playing Darlington!

[woolster]

[i]What? Anyone can turn up anywhere and smash up a chip shop. You claiming that as a result? From what I hear Swindon fans were running in all directions after the game.
 
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. I witnessed the tail end of the incident at their place. Deserve everything they get[/i]
what happened here i didnt see anything

[DiV]

Absolutely.
Fucking.
Brilliant.

Most of the relevant points have already been made but what the fuck...

That goes into my all time top 10 away games. Beautiful day as it turned out, met a few chums before the game at a cracking pub called The Greyhound, right next to the Coventry canal, a couple of miles from the ground.

Fantastic support inside the ground. I have never been to a game where we have trailed for so long whilst completely out playing the opposition. Round about the 82 minute mark I was resigned to it being 'one of those days' but the boys had other ideas. I said after the Colchester game that we have the look of a promotion side and I saw nothing today to change that view.

It would be churlish to single out anyone for criticism, other than to agree with the posts stating that Simon Ferry is not a right winger. Outstanding performers for me were Wes with that save. That was one of the best saves I have seen from a Town keeper and had he not made it and they had scored, then astonishingly, Coventry would have almost certainly gone on to win. Other than that, as has already been said, Nathan had a tremendous game after a nightmare start. He didn't let it upset him and he looked really good. Well done young man. Other than that, Alan Mac was fantastic at centre mid and though he is as frustrating as hell at times, I love the way Andy Williams plays.

I've not seen this mentioned elsewhere, but I thought it was a bit of a shame that Kevin Mac didn't come over to the fans at the end. I suspect that the reason was that, not being an egotistical man, he wanted the players in general and Millward in particular to get the credit and that's fair enough. He probably did not want to be seen to be 'hogging the limelight'. If he had come over though, no one would have thought that and it would have rounded the day off perfectly. Not having a go, just an observation.

Listened a bit to BBC Coventry & Warwickshire on the way back - they are not happy fans. Many actually see administration as preferable to their current situation. All their fans who phoned in (probably not Dan as he was off celebrating 3 points as has been pointed out already!) said we were way the better team, as did Lee Carsley as did the presenter. When that happens you know you've been good.

That was beautiful.

Just beautiful.

FACT! 

P.S. Thought their little garden of remembrance with turf and soil from Highfield Road was a nice touch. Never seen that before.

Wes save was top draw. Also it was about the only save he had to make and that's why he's the best keeper in the league.

He can and does pull off top class saves anytime no matter what he has or hasn't been doing.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Wes save was top draw. Also it was about the only save he had to make and that's why he's the best keeper in the league.

He can and does pull off top class saves anytime no matter what he has or hasn't been doing.

I put it down to Fraser's coaching myself

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

Great win and great way to start this new era. When you look at the table tonight it's shows how big a win that could be in a few months time. We're now 4 points ahead of 7th with a game in hand and a better goal difference.

[suttonred]

I'll read back through, but what a fucking game, had everything. Also had a chat with Jed before kickoff, when I got lost coming out of the casino. He's a nice guy, made my day.

[woolster]

It'd be genius if a new manager came in this week, got us in the play offs and we had a two legged tie with Swindon. Then you'd see liberties.
Yeah but seriously, we could trash Swindon..it's such a craphole, would anyone know any different? I suppose we could break the Magic Roundabout...

know one likes us

[janaage]

Was a big result today, a win for Coventry would have brought them right into the promotion race and left us struggling to turn the poor form around.

[Langers]

I thought Miller was quietly effective today as well.

Wes save was top draw, shouldn't be too long before he is considered for an international call up.

[china red]

I move back to china next friday after 7 months back in blighty.  This was my last game for whats probably going to be at least a year and tbh even when we were losing I was happy with the performance.  Friend who works for Cov said we had 3670 there today (not sure if theres been an official announcment yet).  I think today showed that PDC is not bigger than our club, so many fans and such a good performace from the team.

[Saxondale]

I have little constructive to say as I'm pissed in a pub on Coventry except !!! Fucking great day. For more considered responses see tomorrow.

[kerry red]

Also, the players now know that they can play and win and that it's down to them and not the 'PdC factor'.

Could be a bit of a monkey off their back.

I sensed after the Bury/Preston games a lot of fans, myself included, thought the game might be up for us this season - this result/performance has got everybody's confidence back

[Leggett]

Was listening on the radio on my phone up until about the 80th minute, then I had to start getting my little boy ready for going to the ice hockey tonight, so had to stop listening. Got into the car, expecting a droll post-match dissection of a tough loss, only to hear we'd scored two in the last 5mins. Gutted I missed the goals, but happy for the boys, sounded like an awesome match to be at!

[DiV]

I put it down to Fraser's coaching myself

Touché

Although I think Wes has been doing it for about 18 months now