FA Cup 3rd Round: Gas vs The Sky Blues Match Thread

Not sure Shrewsbury played any better football when they came within one game of getting promoted? On a similar note I'm not sure Wycombe or Oxford are worrying about life in the Championship next season by the looks of things

But Shrewsbury didn't go up. I suspect Wycombe will fade and whilst Oxford look very good for promotion, they do play a bit of football and appear to have the backing to have a good go at staying there if they do.

There's no point going up only to come straight back down. Let's say we'd kept GC and been promoted (highly unlikely IMO but let's go with it). The agricultural style of play would likely have been sussed out at that level. There's far more passing football played at all levels these days - there has to be a reason for that. Assuming we did then come down again, we would have been on a downward slide and calling for GC's head.

Surely it's preferable to look at what style works in that league (and this, for that matter, as most promoted sides play good football) and build an identity and style of play that can be used in that league. This isn't just about the first team either. We should have the entire club looking to play in the Rovers way, so those players coming through are able to step into that team in time.

It is ambitious, but we've decried the club for having no ambition before. Surely we should support an appointment that has clearly been made with the long term progression of the club in mind?

Total drivel.
Cardiff got into the premier league playing similar football to the coughlan team only 2 seasons ago.
Its wael and garners fantasy island football show to so say change a team built to play in the coughlan way with players signed specifically for that.
We cannot sustain a promotion with any style because of finances but to throw a high position away is daft.

I thought that as well.

I'm not sure were outplayed today but I know I enjoyed the game more than I did the football we played under Coughlan. We'll never know, of course, but I just couldn't see that brand of football taking us up, or even being sustained into a serious play off challenge. That's not a criticism of Coughlan, who, despite the brand of football, I believe did a bloody good job here, but it's a realistic assessment IMO of how far the predominantly long ball game can take a team.

I agree though, the board have to support Garner in this vision (within the realms of what is reasonable and viable for the club's finances) otherwise you're right, why appoint him?

As you say, it's a watch this space situation.
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Have we thrown away that high position? We're still level on points with the play offs don't forget. This is a tight league, where teams as low as 11th or 12th are still in the race.

How can you say we weren't outplayed today? JVS must have brought for 5 or 6 briliant saves but I can't recall Cov's goalie even catching a cross let along making a save, in fact the way he played he may as well have been an outfield player playing in goal. We got a fortunate pen and a goal from a dead ball, apart from Upson's shot we created virtually nothing all game.

Garner's got a massive job on his hands making us into a footballing side, to do it he will need a decent playing budget in order to bring in quailty L1 players but if GC had already topped out on his playing budget then I'm not sure how he's going to do it, although fair play to him taking on the task.  

How was the penalty fortunate? Don't dead ball goals count?

I agree they created the better and more frequent chances, but we were always in that game and it could easily have gone either way.

Yes, we need more quality but that will take time and a few windows. The time to judge Garner will be the end of next season. I just hope that as a fanbase, we are patient enough to do that.

No,not yet.
But unless something is broken maybe don't take it apart and repair it.
Too late now anyway in his pre match interview he told us all he is going to change the whole club even if it mean 2 steps back and one forward.
Plus he had a long conversation with wael all about it so what could possibly go wrong?