I thought April Fool’s Day was on Sunday? Everybody knows that you can’t really predict how things will go in Sky Bet League Two, but it’s safe to say that City were expected to see off Yeovil Town on home soil. So, when I discovered that we had lost, I was understandably frustrated. However, when I heard the scoreline, it compounded my misery even more so as I attempted to fathom how we had conceded SIX times.
Defensively, the Sky Blues have looked solid all season. Given that fact, you have to believe that it was a one-off and we won’t see another match plagued with a catalogue of errors, but it will depend on what this result does to confidence. We are now almost out of the automatic promotion hunt, but we must not dwell on what was quite frankly an embarrassing afternoon – the less said about it, the better.
When we travel to Notts County on Saturday, the players have got to rectify things with three points in front of around 4,000 members of the Sky Blue Army. They know they’re better than Monday’s meltdown and so do we, but the time for talking has stopped. There are now just six games to go and we have to make them count. It would be typical Coventry City for us to go to Meadow Lane and come away with a positive result, similarly to Luton away earlier in the season.
Supporting this football club plays havoc with your emotions, that’s for sure. This time last year we were basking in the Wembley sunshine and celebrating with a few deserved beverages. As a fan base, we must hold onto that day and use it for inspiration. We weren’t expecting to lift that trophy, but we did. Football is a funny old game, and this defeat doesn’t signal an end to our campaign just yet.
As Mark Robins said post-match, it’s imperative that we don’t let one awful day shadow over us. Of course, it ramps the pressure up even more so ahead of the weekend, but what’s done is done. A few days on the training ground and some harsh exchanging of words will do us good. I’m still confident that we can at least finish in the top seven, so let’s keep backing the team and see where it takes us.
We are all desperate to see City finish the season strongly with some success to go with it, and I’m sure the players are just as disappointed as we are with Monday’s shenanigans. Fingers crossed that provides motivation and we can get back on track. It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Here’s hoping for a strong one!
Play up Sky Blues.
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This is not a one-off. The team have been had the double over them by several teams from lowly positions. It shows an attitude problem. Virtually every game sees the team making a slow start for the first half – unless they get lucky by scoring within the first 10 minutes. And this problem has been with CCFC for decades. The people change (managers and players) yet there is a fatal flaw running through the setup.
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We do seem to have an innate problem of beating teams at the wrong end of the table. Haven’t seen us defend that badly all season though.
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