You forget our sometime Millwall and Barnsley correspondents. And Swale says he supports Derby so probably doesn't 😃. Exclude the and we'd struggle to muster 10....
‘Some don’t support DCFC’? Only one to the best of my knowledge...unless you’re a Crawley fan in disguise.
Listening to Radio Derby the ‘trouble between fans’ started about ten minutes before our equaliser, in fact our equaliser seemed to help end it...seemed to distract the f’wits.
Probably right about ‘handbags between cokeheads’...or meatheads. Either way...can do without it...don’t want to give the EFL any more excuses.
Last edited by ramAnag; 23-10-2021 at 06:27 PM.
You forget our sometime Millwall and Barnsley correspondents. And Swale says he supports Derby so probably doesn't 😃. Exclude the and we'd struggle to muster 10....
In no particular order...AF, you, me, MA, Swale, mac, Adi, Rich, Eddy, Ramshank, OTR, Rams4Justice, Rats...yeah, you have a point.
A friend of mine who was there said that it kicked off when a Cov fan got into the away end and thumped a Derby fan......
For 50 of the opening 55 minutes we were, quite simply, bullied out of the game by their high and immediate pressing. I lost count of the number of times our player in possession was immediately surrounded by 2, 3 or 4 Coventry players. When they had possession they had acres of space and oodles of time which they failed to take advantage of.
For 30 of the last 35 minutes we gave them a footballing lesson. The ball circulation tempo increased and we looked to get the ball, quickly, to a player in space and Coventry didn't know how to cope with it.
Their penalty? I see a lot of comments online that it was soft. I wonder how many of those saying that would have been screaming blue murder if the roles were reversed and we hadn't been given a penalty. Probably the vast majority IMO.
They made another claim for a penalty and that was Bird's contact in the 2nd half with whichever Cov player it was. I didn't think it was a penalty. The attacker was moving left to right and Bird was moving right to left. Bird could not be expected to get out of the way and, IMO, did not initiate the contact.
There has been talk of Byrne getting away with one. In this case I disagree. He was definitely taking a risk considering the fact that seconds before, he and the Cov player had been spoken to by the ref about cutting out the pro wrestling moves. He did have hold of his opponent, which was a huge risk he shouldn't have taken, but the attacker also had Byrne in a headlock. 50/50 and no penalty IMO. I will say, though, that he will give at least one penalty away this season with his stupidity at corners, free kicks and long throws.
For all their huffing and puffing, Coventry never looked like ripping us apart. We weathered their storm and, once they tired, we took advantage. Shinnie's goal won't greatly improve the xG because there were half a dozen Cov players between him and the goal.
The ref? Not perfect, and we shouldn't expect perfection from a ref as they are human and will make mistakes, but I did get the impression that he was consistent in how he applied the Laws of the game. I'd take that any day of the week.
There you go, GP. An account from someone who was there. Still looked bad from our point of view though.
MA’s report much the same as Radio Derby, and Charlie Palmer did read it right by saying they couldn’t maintain their efforts of the first half hour, that they’d tire and we could get something out of it as long as we didn’t go 2-0 down.