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

Loads could go wrong that’s for sure.
But despite the general feeling about our board since they’ve arrived we’ve actually done alright haven’t we considering we’d spent most of the last 15 years in a division 4 relegation battle to stay in the league before they arrived.

Mark Robbins said in his pre match interview there was lots of talk of JCH leaving and he wonder if he'd still be here today, I assume he knows what's going on transfer wise better than most. Although as things stand losing JCH now seems no great loss, not even sure he's even worthy of a starting place anymore. 

That's a brilliant point. Sometimes, perhaps we forget where we've come from in our recent history.

Yes it is, the hope came from the AQ's not from our history.

Was fantastic for us when we went direct high and central and the players Coughlan brought in to work with him were perfectly picked to compliment him but there’s a time and a place for everyone.

Haven’t read the thread but have just got back and fwiw...
Jordi played very well, very safe and commanding and some very good saves. But for him we’d be out of the cup now. My MOM. Rodman the best of the rest and did well. The back 3 did well and gave good performances. Rollin had a better second half than first but nearly gave them a goal with a mistaken header. Craig was very good.
Our midfield were dominated by Coventry and only came into it in the second half. This put us under pressure all the match No one had a bad match, although Upson missed a tackle to let them in for their first, it was just we gave them too much room and they dominated the middle but weren’t good enough to make it count. Upson was ok but Hargreaves was pretty lightweight and struggled to make an impact and Sercombe played very few, if any, forward passes. Tom N and JCH were too isolated without support and we’re getting frustrated. The shame was Coventry looked vulnerable at the back and had we pressed them more we could have got a result. Overall we didn’t press and allowed them to look better than they were. When we did we scored from the penalty and a few other occasions we did press and made them make mistakes.
No one could question the determination of the team and the fact that they gave everything but with all the injuries it was hard to see where the match-winners were. It was a performance like so many this season, we could have won it, we should have lost it but we battled to a draw. Fine lines as always. We are an honest team who will give everything but we don’t have many players of real quality.
For all this, it was my first match for over a month and I really enjoyed it. Good to see the players get a good reception from the crowd.

UTG!

Without doubt I’d say.
A player who had been around league 1 and the championship loads without setting either alight then suddenly he’s the main target man at a league 1 club , his manager is a close friend and builds a team and tactic around him and it clicked.

Great that he scored the pen today keeps his value up but I don’t think he’s got a future here now Cogs has gone.

Nichols was playing as the link man between JCH and the midfield, he was only isolated as he either had a shocker or simply can't play that role. Bennett and Tomlinson seem better suited to that role.

Fair play to your club I thought that although your defenders didn’t look very comfortable with playing out from the back your midfield and attacking players were all very comfortable on the Ball, played with pace and organisation , the one touch passing up the field on the counter will cause every team in this division trouble if today was anything to go by.