saintwbu

One thing I noticed with all the youngsters is that with probably the exception of Bragg, they all look quite physically imposing - even Jay Robinson is a big lad too. Clearly something the club has been focusing on beyond just the senior team. Bragg was superb, so clearly being a bit smaller isn’t going to stop him!

Been a hell of a week for us this. Wrexham v Bristol City mid week too. Some huge games next weekend too. It’s all hotting up!!

Similar to his goal against Hull too if I remember rightly - Scienza heading back towards his own goal slightly to then put it into that space between defence and goalkeeper, Stewart there to guide it in.

Birmingham and Stoke now ‘officially’ below us after the last two night’s results. That Leicester result really could be season defining. Preston v Watford this weekend meaning either Preston remain in touching distance, or Watford stay below us.

Surely with the money we’ve invested in him already, he’s worth another contract on reduced terms - he’s shown he’s clearly a good footballer, he’s obviously not completely broken even if he has to be carefully managed. Would feel like an even more stupid transfer if we let him go for free after finally seeing what we bought.

Equally though Bree knows better than anyone the risks of joining a club because of who the manager is at the time

For some context, Coventry would be 5th in the table right now in the season we went up with Ipswich and Leicester. This league is not at the level of what it was two seasons ago. 5 teams between us and the playoffs have dropped points this weekend. If we keep winning games, we make the play offs.

5 of the teams between us and 6th place dropped points this weekend alone, and only Bristol City in that list have more than one win more than us. We also play 5 of those teams still. Absolutely no reason why we can’t make the play offs if, it’ll only be our own failings that stop us.

Personally think Fellows is the most likely of our current squad to have a good Prem career - Only 22, 6 foot and rapid with the ability to carry the ball forward. He needs some work, but i’d be surprised if he’s not a steady PL player at a mid table club. I love Scienza, but I get Anthony Knockaert vibes with him, outstanding in the Championship but maybe physically wouldn’t cope with the top flight.

Watching Archer has been thoroughly unenjoyable for the past 2 seasons, so i’m not sure why you’d like to see that.

People talking about the price of Armstrong have to appreciate that the whole world knows that this league is his ceiling. I am trying to see this new guy as a signing by the people who brought us Scienza, Azaz, Fellows, Jander, Peretz - as opposed to the ones who brought us Downs and Roerslev…

1 goal conceded in 3 games (keeper error for the 1 as well) with a back 4 - more crap defenders on at one time does not make you more defensively solid. Play the good players and the defence will have less to do.

His lack of physical presence is a huge hindrance - same size as Arma but offers nothing against a CB. Mind blowing that we turned to him after missing out on Delap last summer, what on earth was the profile we were looking for if we ended up in that position - presumably ‘young and English’ was the only specification, couldn’t get two more different forwards.

Desperately need a RB, at the moment we don’t have anyone to play there so are stuck with this formation no matter what - fine for now but need a plan B. If Jelert’s loan is to be cancelled as has been rumoured, it leaves just Roerslev who is crap. A physical forward also would be great as an option to change things.

He absolutely hammered Manning yesterday in the second half, can’t remember what for, but really went at him. Manning waved him away as clearly wasn’t happy about it. Does seem a bit better the last few games, maybe it’s the beard he’s growing.

Feels weird to be picking holes in what was a very good goal. Not sure many goals are truly ‘unsaveable’, keepers would probably find fault in almost all goals they concede - today was a brilliant goal, no one would look for any fault if it wasn’t Bazunu in goal. We’re in this weird zone now of desperately trying to find issue in literally every goal he concedes - reality is he’s pulled off great save(s) in almost every game under Eckert, which is improvement.

I don’t know whether he’ll be good enough for the Premier League, feels a bit Knockaert-esque, but expect he’ll make it there with or without us. But i’d stay in this league forever if it meant we got to watch him every week.

He must still really love Villa because it was like he was playing for them when we played at Villa Park last year.

I hope that being wedded to 3 CB’s is in part due to not having a right back to use. Having said that, even if Roerslev was fit I wouldn’t want him to play - we really need someone in January to play RB, or use Bree if he returns.

Terrible, terrible signing, was apparent very early too. Essentially down to one striker now, so desperately need a physical forward in January even more.

Personally think the fan base reaction to him just because he fell out with one of the worst managers we’ve ever had (Juric), is really weird. Even Juric brought him back in after a couple of games after realising how poor the alternatives were. He’s been injury and illness prone since we got him, he nearly didn’t sign for us because he was ill - he hasn’t suddenly decided to down tools just because Juric was shit.

I’d expect we will revert to the Charlton lineup, Bragg back in for Downes and Stephens in for Quarshie as expect his pace not such a requirement.

All he needed was just a bit more time…

He would have a field day with an aerial threat in the box, he is such a good crosser of the ball in so many different ways. Absolutely superb from the first whistle tonight, best performance by far.

You can only play it out once the gap occurs - sometimes it’ll happen quickly, sometimes it’ll take time. I don’t remember us struggling to play it forward under Russell when we put 4 and 5 past Blackburn, Swansea, Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield, Birmingham, Sunderland that season.