| Coventry 09:12 - Oct 5 with 9268 views | nix |
What's people's views? How's it clicking for them so well? Is it the manager/players/a combination? Could they be this season's Ipswich? |  | | |  |
| Coventry on 10:46 - Oct 7 with 2796 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
It's very early so can't really call it. It will be interesting to see what Lampard does when they hit a bad patch, which everyone will. I'm not convinced he has the skill set to change it up.
As others have pointed out, this squad is inherited. |  |
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| Coventry on 11:46 - Oct 7 with 2651 views | robith |
Lampard is the new Warnock |  | | |
| Coventry on 13:18 - Oct 7 with 2505 views | TheChef |
| Coventry on 11:46 - Oct 7 by robith |
Lampard is the new Warnock |
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| Coventry on 13:37 - Oct 7 with 2446 views | robith |
| Coventry on 13:18 - Oct 7 by TheChef |
Stephen? |
haha. Neil.
Cheat code in the champ.
Not good enough for the prem | | | |
| Coventry on 14:28 - Oct 7 with 2364 views | ManinBlack |
| Coventry on 11:57 - Oct 5 by hoopstar67 |
Im no fan of Lampard but people have to give him credit,the snobbery and hatred just because he is ex Chelsea is astounding,fans have to give credit where credit is due ,he took over when Coventry were 17th,2 points above relegation zone ,took them to play offs,top the league now and scoring for fun,so he deserves praise for that,with that being said I hope it all blows up for them😆 |
Absolutely agree with you. I would like Lampard as our manager. To hell with his Chelsea connection he is a winner. Having won Champions League and Premier League titles as a player the man knows what it takes to achieve success. Lest people forget, Dave Sexton had been at Chelsea before he oversaw our best ever team and we have had good players who previously played for Chelsea.
Lampard has made Coventry an ever better team with an attack attitude. To win consecutive away games 4-0 and 5-0 a few days apart is excellent. When do we win like that at the New Den or Hillsborough? For a team with just 5 wins it is some stat to have a plus 20 GD.
Whether it will last is another matter as the parachute teams Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton are likely to be in the mix at the end of the season so too early to say if Lampard can keep them playing attacking football. |  | | |
| Coventry on 15:59 - Oct 7 with 2256 views | kensalriser |
I think Ipswich will win it and the bookies seem to agree, or do they - they're shortest odds for promotion but second favourites to win it. Figure that out. Probably an arbitrage opportunity for someone smarter than I am. [Post edited 7 Oct 16:02]
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| Coventry on 16:08 - Oct 7 with 2234 views | Rs_Holy |
| Coventry on 11:57 - Oct 5 by hoopstar67 |
Im no fan of Lampard but people have to give him credit,the snobbery and hatred just because he is ex Chelsea is astounding,fans have to give credit where credit is due ,he took over when Coventry were 17th,2 points above relegation zone ,took them to play offs,top the league now and scoring for fun,so he deserves praise for that,with that being said I hope it all blows up for them😆 |
17th yes ...(a bad start to that season yes). The previous season they lost a penalty shootout in the Playoff Final at Wembley. So yes, well done Lamps, you haven't funked it up (yet). I don't actually dislike Lampard but think coventry treated Robbins badly.
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| Coventry on 17:33 - Oct 7 with 2068 views | Myke |
Very blinkered views due to the universal hatred of Lampard, which I simply don't get. A superb player, - superb ENGLISH player. Fact is, Robins - who did a magnificent job and could easily have won an FA Cup and promotion - had levelled off and their momentum has stalled. Lampard has brought them to the 'next level' both metaphorically and literally. | | | |
| Coventry on 18:09 - Oct 7 with 1985 views | stainrods_elbow |
| Coventry on 14:28 - Oct 7 by ManinBlack |
Absolutely agree with you. I would like Lampard as our manager. To hell with his Chelsea connection he is a winner. Having won Champions League and Premier League titles as a player the man knows what it takes to achieve success. Lest people forget, Dave Sexton had been at Chelsea before he oversaw our best ever team and we have had good players who previously played for Chelsea.
Lampard has made Coventry an ever better team with an attack attitude. To win consecutive away games 4-0 and 5-0 a few days apart is excellent. When do we win like that at the New Den or Hillsborough? For a team with just 5 wins it is some stat to have a plus 20 GD.
Whether it will last is another matter as the parachute teams Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton are likely to be in the mix at the end of the season so too early to say if Lampard can keep them playing attacking football. |
I don't see any reason right now to assume that all or even any of Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton will be 'there or thereabouts' come the run-in - that's just easy/lazy prognostication for me. Cifuentes isn't a canny or clever enough manager for me to oversee a promotion push for one thing, but I also don't see anything in their opening games to suggest they're obvious pacesetters. Ipswich are decentish, but we've still overtaken them of late, whereas Southampton have had a magnificently mediocre start, drawing over half their games. In a couple more nails in the coffin of those who tediously insist on some indefeasible correlation between funds and performances (someone actually tried to tell me recently it had been 'explained' to me by some self-appointed prefects why we performed last season exactly as we 'should' - as if football were played on balance sheets rather than, the last time I looked, God's green grass), 'big-spenders' Wrexham and Birmingham are currently 16th and 18th.
It's very early days, of course, and just about everyone could potentially finish just about anywhere, so I guess we should all just sit back and try to enjoy the rollercoaster. If the resident punchbag can, I guess anyone can. [Post edited 7 Oct 18:11]
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| Coventry on 18:21 - Oct 7 with 2012 views | Spaceman_P |
In my city in Spain there are 2 English blokes... me QPR and the other you guessed it Coventry.
Absolutely hated that 7-1 thrashing. |  | | |
| Coventry on 18:29 - Oct 7 with 2000 views | flynnbo |
| Coventry on 18:21 - Oct 7 by Spaceman_P |
In my city in Spain there are 2 English blokes... me QPR and the other you guessed it Coventry.
Absolutely hated that 7-1 thrashing. |
Bring up the Ibiza Cup! |  | | |
| Coventry on 19:29 - Oct 7 with 1921 views | ManinBlack |
| Coventry on 18:09 - Oct 7 by stainrods_elbow |
I don't see any reason right now to assume that all or even any of Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton will be 'there or thereabouts' come the run-in - that's just easy/lazy prognostication for me. Cifuentes isn't a canny or clever enough manager for me to oversee a promotion push for one thing, but I also don't see anything in their opening games to suggest they're obvious pacesetters. Ipswich are decentish, but we've still overtaken them of late, whereas Southampton have had a magnificently mediocre start, drawing over half their games. In a couple more nails in the coffin of those who tediously insist on some indefeasible correlation between funds and performances (someone actually tried to tell me recently it had been 'explained' to me by some self-appointed prefects why we performed last season exactly as we 'should' - as if football were played on balance sheets rather than, the last time I looked, God's green grass), 'big-spenders' Wrexham and Birmingham are currently 16th and 18th.
It's very early days, of course, and just about everyone could potentially finish just about anywhere, so I guess we should all just sit back and try to enjoy the rollercoaster. If the resident punchbag can, I guess anyone can. [Post edited 7 Oct 18:11]
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It seems I have to apologise for being lazy suggesting the three relegated teams will be in the promotion picture at the end of the season. Maybe their starts are not brilliant albeit Ipswich are unbeaten in five and Leicester are third. The general standard of teams is not great so having financial clout will help particularly in the January transfer window if the clubs with money are not where they want to be.
With 37 games to go an awful lot will happen over the coming months. Birmingham may be below us but on Saturday morning they were above us so it is very tight for now. As for Wrexham their away form is good. Their problems lie in not winning at home which we know only too well. Anyway none of this has much to do with Frank Lampard's Coventry and this thread. [Post edited 7 Oct 19:38]
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| Coventry on 19:40 - Oct 7 with 1894 views | qpr_1968 |
at the moment they score lots of goals..... | |
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| Coventry on 06:30 - Oct 8 with 1694 views | gazza1 |
They have undoubtably started well this season....had some good results, scoring well.
Looking at their results starting with us - Lets be honest and say we gifted them the game, we were 'proper' poor individually on the day and collectively - we gave them 5 goals through our utterly amateurish performance. Sheff Wed are not very good at all and they belted them too. Not seen the Millwall game but it appears to be a decent good result. They also 'tonked' an average B'ham team at home. Beat Derby, decent(ish) win but conceded 3 goals, could not beat Oxford or Norwich and also got a creditable draw at Leicester.
Well done to them, you have got to get the points on the board and they have. They have winnable games coming up but then have 4/5 harder looking games on paper after that. | | | |
| Coventry on 06:59 - Oct 8 with 1667 views | Northernr |
It's been building for a long time at Coventry. We're a good ten years into a total rebuild of that club from the ground up and they've got steadily better and closer each year. Good luck to them. |  | | |
| Coventry on 07:38 - Oct 8 with 1603 views | EastR |
We'll beat them at ours | |
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| Coventry on 08:29 - Oct 8 with 1508 views | gazza1 |
| Coventry on 06:59 - Oct 8 by Northernr |
It's been building for a long time at Coventry. We're a good ten years into a total rebuild of that club from the ground up and they've got steadily better and closer each year. Good luck to them. |
Promotion Norf?? They have got points (& goals) on the board (& not sure there is too much to worry about in this league). | | | |
| Coventry on 08:54 - Oct 8 with 1462 views | WokingR |
| Coventry on 07:38 - Oct 8 by EastR |
We'll beat them at ours |
To be fair, we could lose 5-0 at ours and still claim an improvement. |  | | |
| Coventry on 09:10 - Oct 8 with 1418 views | Pdog |
I guess these are the moments to really savour for them. Their progress over the last 8+ years has been immense. Must be a great ride to be on, winning most weeks carrying that buzz we only get in flashes like at Bristol.
But then what? Promotion comes, and with it the almost compulsory £100m splurge on semi-random Ligue 1/bundesliga + best of champ signings.. £30m gambles who aren’t quite good enough for anyone else in the Prem. They get smacked most weeks, tumble back down, then it’s a race against the clock to bounce back before the squad gets picked apart and the better players drift away. |  | | |
| Coventry on 09:19 - Oct 8 with 1400 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Coventry on 09:10 - Oct 8 by Pdog |
I guess these are the moments to really savour for them. Their progress over the last 8+ years has been immense. Must be a great ride to be on, winning most weeks carrying that buzz we only get in flashes like at Bristol.
But then what? Promotion comes, and with it the almost compulsory £100m splurge on semi-random Ligue 1/bundesliga + best of champ signings.. £30m gambles who aren’t quite good enough for anyone else in the Prem. They get smacked most weeks, tumble back down, then it’s a race against the clock to bounce back before the squad gets picked apart and the better players drift away. |
I don't know....you'd hope that they'd be one of the sensible clubs who wouldn't over-extend.
Hope. |  |
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| Coventry on 09:21 - Oct 8 with 1389 views | Northernr |
| Coventry on 09:10 - Oct 8 by Pdog |
I guess these are the moments to really savour for them. Their progress over the last 8+ years has been immense. Must be a great ride to be on, winning most weeks carrying that buzz we only get in flashes like at Bristol.
But then what? Promotion comes, and with it the almost compulsory £100m splurge on semi-random Ligue 1/bundesliga + best of champ signings.. £30m gambles who aren’t quite good enough for anyone else in the Prem. They get smacked most weeks, tumble back down, then it’s a race against the clock to bounce back before the squad gets picked apart and the better players drift away. |
That's about it, yes. | | | |
| Coventry on 10:00 - Oct 8 with 1221 views | CamberleyR |
They went through the wringer in the 2010s certainly but a part of me still thinks "fúck 'em" for the way their scum fans reacted after the match, outside the ground in the winner takes all Eoin Jess game in '96. |  |
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| Coventry on 12:23 - Oct 8 with 1048 views | johncharles |
I think we should all give full credit to Fat Frank
But we won’t 🤣 |  |
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| Coventry on 13:57 - Oct 8 with 945 views | Northernr |
| Coventry on 08:29 - Oct 8 by gazza1 |
Promotion Norf?? They have got points (& goals) on the board (& not sure there is too much to worry about in this league). |
I had them third in the season preview and I'm starting to think that might have been conservative. | | | |
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