The official Coventry City v Bristol Rovers Match Thread 7/4

I don’t think we were as bad as everyone is making out. True they should have put one or two opportunities away. But so we should have two. It’s a game of fine lines.

We’re in the same situation, three from bottom with improved goal difference, that we were this time last week otherwise with a game less to go.

The next few games should determine our fate. But two wins and we should be more or less safe.

As for their stadium we need to get a stadium with facilities like that ASAP so we can mug people off for a tenner a match in the car park. If we were to have a new stadium I’d like something like that, but a little smaller (albeit with room for expansion) because I can’t be handling an atmosphere like theirs with it being borderline empty with entire stands shut off. Also it was a little bit like a graveyard with a memorial garden in one of the stands and the big mural of Jimmy Hill. Sign of a club stuck in the past?

Also nice facilities but they’re not looking after them very well. Anyone who questions the Al Qadis commitment should have a look at how that stadium is being treated to get an idea as to what joy looking after a stadium is like.

It's equally possible that Barnsley will have nothing to play for and will rest players for the play offs. Will wait and see.

Got to the ground at 12 today, ripped off for a tenner to park but getting out after was probably worth it. Anyway, won my tenner back on the roulette wheel plus some beer tokens. As for the game I thought our supporters were first class again, started really vocal in the Ricoh library and all we needed with that backing was a goal. Oh well!

How Coventry didn't score at least three with the chances and good positions they created was down to awful misses.
Our defence was pulled to pieces out wide on both flanks.
That clean sheet was down to wastefulness on their part not our good defending.
Still take a point and move on.

We lack real quality both on and off the pitch.Been a fan since the fifties but the lack of quality ain't easy to take.Upson , Ollie Clarke Reilly and maybe others simply lacking sufficient quality.Love James Clarke.Never lets us down.Please Rovers ,jettison the mediocrity,show us some leadership and sort out the stadium. Upson ,Sinclair,Kelly,Reilly simply not up to it.How can Lines not play with so little quality? Big changes needed but without money think our future is uncertain.Mr Wael,we need leadership,no good hiding behind confidentiality clauses.What is our future??

Cannot for the life of me fathom why he refuses to play Lines. On his day he has that creative spark that we desperately missed today. True when he has played earlier in the season he has been generally crap, but if he isn’t getting the chances to play, how can he amend that? 3 defensive midfielders starting today alongside an indifferent Sercombe? Ridiculous.

Silent G i’ll Bet, it’s got a nice ring to it though.

Anybody else wondering if Lines has got a clause in his contract that if he plays a certain number of games we have to offer him a new contract, as it seems odd to drag him to every away game but never even give him a 10 minutes run out? We may as well leave him in Bristol and give a youngster some 1st team squad experience.

Aren't we still in a decent position in Coughlan's league table? If we had been managed by him all season, I don't think we'd even be in this position at all. Next year we need to have a clear out of the players that have been sitting on the bench and those sent out on loan and recruit 4-5 additions to push the current squad, not a complete overhaul. For me that would be Bonham or a new keeper, a right back, box to box midfielder, left winger and a new striker. Get this right and I think we will push on and not be in another relegation battle for next season, we're not as far from being a good outfit in this league as people think.