Match Day Thread Coventry v Hull City

I wouldn’t call it a brilliant ability personally. Maybe for the opposition.

 

A few standout moments for me.

2 late Connolly goals to beat Blackburn away.

Delap's goal at Leicester to take the win.

Tufan late winner away at M'boro.

Carvalho winner away at Sunderland.

Beating Soton away.

3 away wins on the trot in Feb.

2 late Ohio goals to beat Coventry and Rotherham.

Without those points we'd likely be closer to relegation than top 6 and the moaners would really have summat to moan about.

 

At least half a yard out. (That’s almost half a meter in proper measurements)

 

Not just 'city fans'. Football fans in general. The blame game also goes down the football ladder, from Premier League to schoolboy level, no player ever takes the pitch to purposely have a bad/poor game. Everyone thinks they are better then they are at everything., when quite simply, no-one is.

 

I'm hoping QPR cement their place in the Championship for next season on Friday. Whatever happens in that game will not change Ipswich's attitude for our game on Saturday. From what I've seen of them (only on TV) they go out to win every game and play an attacking style, which should, in turn, suit us. All the pressure is on Norwich and WBA to cement their play-off spots and I doubt if many people outside of Hull are expecting us to sneak in at the last minute.

Towels seem to have a bit of momentum and I can see them getting at least a point on Saturday. Not as confident about Swansea going to Norwich as they might be on the beach with a comfortable mid table finish assured. Although if Norwich do choke, you will then have their fans cheering for Ipswich on Saturday night! Providing we are still alive come 5pm Saturday - and we then beat Ipswich - taking it to the last game of the season will be some turn around after the debacle against Stoke a few weeks ago.

 

I haven't seen their 2nd goal last night so don't know if he was at fault. However, he has been culpable several times this season and is particularly poor at his near post.

 

Of course over a season, there are those key moments. Nor is there any guarantee either team’s season would have panned out exactly the same way had we held on at Norwich, so there’s no way I am suggesting that’s the reason we didn’t make the play offs
For me, that moment was particularly significant because it was amongst the worst refereeing decisions I have witnessed in over half a century of watching football. There were several very reasonable reasons why that goal, shouldn’t have stood. I can’t recall the detail, but I believe it was beyond added time (with no obvious further stoppages); the ball had gone out of play so should have been a goal kick; a City player was fouled in the melee; it should have been offside). It was practically the last kick of the game, the ref actually did the right thing in having a discussion with his linesman. He was very justified in disallowing it for any of those reasons. Unfortunately there were 35,000 Norwich fans celebrating a last minute winner, so he bottled it and allowed the goal. Yes, we’ve all seen worse bowlers, but I’ve not seen multiple bowlers in one incident. It was an extraordinary decision, there we had a season’s poor decisions going against us in one incident, costing us points and in the first game of the season, AGAINST NORWICH. It’s ironic that had that not gone in, we would now be level on points with two games to go.
I recall we were absolutely shocking that first half and played off the park, so hardly deserved anything from the game, but that is totally irrelevant.
Anyone got a clip of the goal.

 

Not sure that’s the most ‘iffy’ moment though? A split second before or after that, the ball was off the ground when it appeared to be well out. Could be an illusion.
Anyone got the foul on Delap for the penalty? Initially I thought it was outside, but saw it again and it did look in.

 

On balls going over the dead ball line.....I always knew that miss by the lino and Keith Stroud at Narwich that led to the corner that led to their winning goal on the opening day, would come back to bite us in the'arris. And so it could prove to be the case.

 

Oh come on! What about that Banks save from Pele? Proves Allsop is the worst goalie evah ....

 

The Coventry commentators on Ifollow claimed Rosenior made the decision for Carvahio to take the penalty after Philo kidnapped the ball. I didn’t realise at the time he wasn’t on the bench (iI don’t think they did either). Did they get that wrong or was he exerting his influence even from the stand?

 

You can only laugh...

 

Mmmm. Was going to crack a really hilarious joke saying Mr ****? (same surname as the owner suggesting it was a relative? but it wouldn’t really work with Smith. Oddly, Delia’s hubby is named Jones, which wouldn’t work either.
Was the fourth official involved in the decision making at the end against Norwich?

 

What was the deal with Ohio after scoring....seemed all emotional!

The mighty tigers mean that much.

 

A young lad pleased to get his chance and see his hard work pay off

 

Wonder if he has a future with us.

 

Yeah that’s the flip side of it definitely, it is what it is in the end, it’s been a good season