FT: CARDIFF CITY 2 - 0 COVENTRY CITY. Match thread

[J R Hartley]

Bamba confused by the substitution. Didn’t even change shape when he brought Hugill on.

[CopenhagenBlue]

Just smashing balls up to Watters and Davies. What sort of game plan was that?

Exactly. Watters the fall guy for the side being set up so poorly. He had two decent chances, one saved by luck by their keeper. Watters isn't a hold up the ball type striker like Moore or Hugill, so hauling him off after 35 minutes for not being that player we knew he isn't is absurd. Poor management and poor man management

[J R Hartley]

2 changes in midfield don't help that, but I'm not against resting players either.

Well that’s his call to rotate so many. Not an ounce of creativity in midfield. He’s only a young lad son playing safe but Eli King has passed the ball backwards more times than Marlon Pack.

[Doucas]

Atrocious decision from Morison, he's just humiliated a player who had 2 decent shots in 30 minutes, more than any other player on the pitch.

Watters has scored wherever he has been, give him game time and I'm absolutely convinced he can score 20 a season.

[dembethewarrior]

Bamba confused by the substitution. Didn’t even change shape when he brought Hugill on.

Then it can't be to change the shape. Perhaps he's not happy with Watters "passive pressing". Just made a like for like change.

[EastbourneBlue]

He's not the first manager to do it.

He saw something that needed changing, changed it, don't need a milestone to justify a sub.

He's not here to protect grown mens feelings, he's here to get results. Or at least try to the best of his ability to do so, Watters is a grown man I'm sure a half time explanation will help him get over it.

I don’t think it’s on. At all.

Do it at half time, but that’s just unnecessary.

He’s the one who chose to play him.

All this nasty guy stuff will come back and bite him in the backside in my opinion

[J R Hartley]

Exactly. Watters the fall guy for the side being set up so poorly. He had two decent chances, one saved by luck by their keeper. Watters isn't a hold up the ball type striker like Moore or Hugill, so hauling him off after 35 minutes for not being that player we knew he isn't is absurd. Poor management and poor man management

If a manager has to make first half changes not forced by injury then that’s an admission you ****ed up.

[dembethewarrior]

Atrocious decision from Morison, he's just humiliated a player who had 2 decent shots in 30 minutes, more than any other player on the pitch.

Watters has scored wherever he has been, give him game time and I'm absolutely convinced he can score 20 a season.

13 in 15 for Crawley.

4 in 17 for Grantham

1 in 6 for Mickleover sports

8 in 25 for Ashford

3 in 11 for barking.

[J R Hartley]

Then it can't be to change the shape. Perhaps he's not happy with Watters "passive pressing". Just made a like for like change.

We are not pressing as a team you can’t just blame the strikers for not pressing like a headless Revell. As Bamba also said he’s just fashioned our best chance with a lovely run and shot and then gets hauled off.

[dembethewarrior]

If a manager has to make first half changes not forced by injury then that’s an admission you ****ed up.

So a player can not perform and that falls on the manager?

[dembethewarrior]

We are not pressing as a team you can’t just blame the strikers for not pressing like a headless Revell. As Bamba also said he’s just fashioned our best chance with a lovely run and shot and then gets hauled off.

Midfield changes.

[J R Hartley]

So a player can not perform and that falls on the manager?

Not perform? He’s had our two best chances the one he completely fashioned himself.

[Joe Gillis]

So a player can not perform and that falls on the manager?

Until Vaulks and King are hooked its going to be more of the same, nothing against King but picking Vaulks is the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

[J R Hartley]

Midfield changes.

And? We’ve still got 11 players out there. Are the players who have come in midfield not capable of pressing as a team then?

[Doucas]

13 in 15 for Crawley.

4 in 17 for Grantham

1 in 6 for Mickleover sports

8 in 25 for Ashford

3 in 11 for barking.

Take out the games where he isn't a teenager, at Crawley and MK Dons he's scored 18 goals in 26 games.

[dembethewarrior]

Not perform? He’s had our two best chances the one he completely fashioned himself.

He's been pulled because of his passive pressing.

He hasn't performed in that respect.

I'm not sure how pulling him half time or when he was pulled makes much difference in the grand scheme of things, its just another thing to use to have a pop at the manager.

[dembethewarrior]

Take out the games where he isn't a teenager, at Crawley and MK Dons he's scored 18 goals in 26 games.

Oh OK.

So fix the stats to suit. OK OK

Nit the best pass to Hugil there...

[Swiss Peter]

Watters would have buried that Hugill chance

[CopenhagenBlue]

He's been pulled because of his passive pressing.

He hasn't performed in that respect.

I'm not sure how pulling him half time or when he was pulled makes much difference in the grand scheme of things, its just another thing to use to have a pop at the manager.

This passive pressing thing was said once by one of the commentators in passing. All the others thought it was a weird and completely undeserved substitution.

[Doucas]

Oh OK.

So fix the stats to suit. OK OK

Nit the best pass to Hugil there...

It's called looking at recent form.

Is Harry Kane a shit striker then because he didn't have a great spell with Leyton orient as a teenager?

[WJ99mobile]

SM never one to shy away from a honest answer. Let’s see what he says after this game

[J R Hartley]

This passive pressing thing was said once by one of the commentators in passing. All the others thought it was a weird and completely undeserved substitution.

Exactly. The guys a poacher,makes good runs, good finisher.

Smashing balls up to him from defence is not the tactic to get the best out of him.

Let’s be honest Davies and Watters is not a combination that was going to work, we knew that before a ball was kicked.

[goats]

Just got in now, why didn’t Ralls, Doyle and hugill start?

[J R Hartley]

Lovely goal by young Bagan

[Maurice Swan]

Bagan is full of confidence...getting stronger and better....
Dob't sit back now....keep going forward.