Cotterills tactics were woeful in the first half, but bang on in the second! The sub's worked a treat, even Greening played well.

Mcleary was taken off because he's had a slight hamstring strain - can't blame Cotterill for this surely?

I just hope this gives us some kind of momentum - we've scored in our last 3 games now, since the loanees have arrived. A draw against B'ham will be a good result!

Didn't realise McCleary had a hamstring problem so ok.
IDK if we will get anything against Birmingham, seeing as there the form team in the country, but hopefully I will be proved wrong and hopefully this is a turning point!
But im not overly confident!

Surely it is now obvious that Andy Reid must play every game from now to the end of the season?

He ran his heart out and was our only creative outlet in midfield beyond hoofing the ball into the clouds. When the palyers surrounded Cloterill in the 2nd half it looked to me as though Reidy was giving instructions to him and SoD had a couple of words with Reid during the half.

This man has more footballing knowledge in his little toe than the Clot will ever have in a million years.

A point against Brum would be massive but we need to play a lot better than we did yesterday.

Coyr

we were poor. coventry in large parts of the game controlled the game. they were passing around the midfield admittedly with nothing more than a hopeful cross at the end of it. the point is we didn't really look like having a game plan and lacked any sort of control or domination. we dominated against watford last week but yesterday we didn't at any stage apart from the first 5 minutes of the second half. i thought although findley (before his goal) didn't seem to have any sort of composure in front of goal, his all-round game is pretty good. he makes some good runs behind their defence. he dropped off and received the ball to feet a couple of times. he wins a surprising amount of headers. i like him. him and blackstock both looked pretty good yesterday. possibly a partnership for the remainder of the season.

overall it was a poor performance but what matters is we won the game. at this stage of the season thats all that matters.

Based on what you saw yesterday does anyone think that Cov are good enough to catch us or even win more than a couple of games the rest of the season? I don't

very poor but 3 points is 3 points

they have to take some confidence from that and win a few more though.

I agree with everything Philo has said
and Redfor50 makes a very good point.

Until his goal, McCleary wasn't adding anything might I add. Gunter was the player making runs and offering himself as an outlet for camp, not Gareth.

I say we won. I've only seen a video of the second half but we looked good on that. Gareth's goal was stunningly good and would have been raved about if Man United had scored it. We seem to be getting over our fear of scoring and don't hold up the ball outside the penalty area so much which prevented our players from making a run-in and gave the other team time to re-group.

I also say that we deserved points from each of the three games before and we should be looking to win our next few games.

No despondency here.

Well said Mouse

Mouse if you had gone to the match though, you might have saw different.

Yes we picked it up in the 2nd half but the 1st half was one of worse performances ever seen, all we did was hoof the ball.
However i will give Cotterill the benefit of the doubt, and now we will have to see what happens on Saturday, and can make a judgement for that then.

we play well, lose, then people complain that how we play doesnt matter, its the points.

We play shocking for half a game, win, then how we played is a massive issue.



Cant say why we went 4-5-1 at home, but the fact is he changed it and it won us the game.

We've scored 4 goals in 3 games home and away so we can atleast say the goal droughts over.
We're creating chances, and not just by walking the ball in past the goal line.
We're out of the relegation zone... for now atleast.
The bottom six teams dropped points, only millwall got a point and they were winning.
Camp wasnt fishing out of his net this week.
We've got games in hand compared with coventry and bristol.
And SC is learning you dont have to wait till 10 mins before time to sub players on and that reid is key in a starting 11.

It might be blind optimism but surely it cant be that bad of a weekend.

I'd love to see Reid play more although his lack of fitness leaves us exposed, I pity whoever plays left back when Reid is playing. I think against better opposition, like Brum, we'll be punished,

I expect we'll see 4-5-1 v Brum, Blackstock up front and a packed midfield and we'll be delighted to draw.

Reidy isn't a winger, he needs to play central.

Let's face it this was a great 3 points but doesn't really do anything in the grand scheme. McCleary did well to score from where he picked it up but Coventry's defending was criminally bad. They didn't challenge him for about half a pitch!

It was and is ugly football but remember when BD arrived we were niggly, horrible, grim games, we'd time waste, make players go to the opposite side of the pitch then sub them, etc. It was dire but what we needed to do. A good manager will adapt to suit his squad, I hate this type of football but can see why we're playing it.