lets have a quick vote

[Elite_Pie]

You do talk some tripe! What has figure skating got to with it? It is not about points for technical merit - it is entirely about footballing ability, application & effectiveness.

To use your own phrase, what a load of tripe. In fact, make that a load of laughable tripe. You say "It is not about points for technical merit" but then base your argument entirely on the basis of technical merit!!! Football matches are won by the team that scores most goals. What part of that are you struggling to understand? The key word in your sentence is effectiveness. It's a quality we have displayed in most games this season despite not playing the 'pretty' football that you seem obsessed with. We all know we weren't good on Friday, but without the errors from officials we would have been 3-2 up when Forte scored. True or false?

The myth that at 2 - 2 we would have gone on to win it is pure speculation.

Of course it's a myth, and I've never mentioned or supported it once. It would have still been anyone's game. But you can't deny that the refereeing errors denied us the chance to make it our game. Can you?

[SwalePie]

Look at the papers, read the match report.

Just to play Devil's Advocate here, pretty much every report I have seen also notes that were clear victims of poor officiating.

[tarquinbeech]

You do talk some tripe! What has figure skating got to with it? It is not about points for technical merit - it is entirely about footballing ability, application & effectiveness. Coventry were able to control the ball and dictate the pace of the game, they walked through our defence at will.

The myth that at 2 - 2 we would have gone on to win it is pure speculation. As Sidders says, or paraphrases, "... the rest is just gossip". Look at the papers, read the match report. We got turned over, hanging on to errors by officials will get you nowhere, it simply masks our inadequacies and failure to turn up on the night. Clinging on to the forlorn hope that the referee or assts beat us is complete and utter fantasy & delusion.

Please stop talking common sense....you will only upset our resident troll even more......the majority of us could see where we were outclassed....time to move on methinks?

[i961pie]

Durham - you are right. I sat listening to a couple of people who thought we were "robbed". However, most people - particularly the discerning and less blinkered fans - accepted we were second best virtually all night and there was only ever going to be 1 winner on Friday night irrespective if any refereeing decisions. Our defence was clumsy and "leaky", the midfield until O'C appeared was non existent and the forwards were hopelessly ineffective. He was a beacon of light but was unable to compensate for some of the inept dross that surrounded him.

We had a bright spell for 10/15 mins at the start of the second half then ran out of steam and ideas again. Coventry were, quite simply, miles more composed, assured and clinical, end of story really.

I sat listening to loads of people who say we were robbed but unlike you didn't have a referendum on it, dominating for 40 mins in the first half leaves 50+ left and as we dominated the first 20 of the second and Coventry were wilting with their crowd quiet who knows what would have happened at 2-2. We aren't talking about 1 iffy decision it was 4 over the 2 games all against us.

[Elite_Pie]

If you think we deserved to win that game then you are more stupid than i thought.

I challenge you to find one single post where I have said we deserved to win the game you dumbass. You won't be able to, because it's something I've never said. What I have said is that both teams deserved the chance to win based on goals scored rather than errors from the officials. We were indisputably denied that chance, although I doubt someone as pigsh!t thick as you will ever manage to work out why.

[sidders]

"The best team always wins. The rest is gossip" like Jimmy said.

[Airborn Pie]

"The best team always wins. The rest is gossip" like Jimmy said.

Soundbite from our resident expert

[Mark_Ross]

To all fans - re: "easy on the eye" versus "hoofball"

In just a days now we have the world cup finals.

No doubt there will be some excellent footballing sides there. But if England win by paying long balls / hopeful boot & run / "hoofball" how many of you will be complaining / wailing / gnashing teeth / "what poor football we play" ?

[PedroTheFisherman66]

If you think we deserved to win that game then you are more stupid than i thought. We couldnt string 2 passes together, we hardly won any of the headers via our hoof ball and we never picked any of their players up when they were on the offensive. I suppose you think thats acceptable after reading some of your drivell..

a new low from Durham....
notts coming back from two nil down , the full stadium bouncing and turning up the noise another notch , Coventry demoralised and unable to get out their own half ( as they were already struggling to do), ........ well there would have only been one winner from this scenario ,
all this until their men of the match turned the game on its head with some awful decisions ......

[ancientpie]

I believe that City were the better team over the two games & very probably over the season but our relative league positions proved that the best team doesn't always win. To me there were 4 major mistakes by the officials' I ignore the Brisley incident because both players could have walked, 1. the stamping after 21 minutes if it had been spotted then no doubt a straight red, 2. the pen sat at the opposite end I argued with those around me that the ref was much closer than us & must have seen something that we couldn't. 3. Fortes goal, tv proved that he was onside but not by much so annoying but without VAR understandable, 4. Covs 3rd, again tv proved it offside but it was close so VAR required. Without these decisions we would probably have been going to Wembley & heavens forbid if we had been given 4 similar decisions we would definitely be booking our seats & this forum would be alive with Covo fans telling us how lucky we were.