26th Dec 2015, Coventry C v Port Vale, pre-match comments and the match itself

[Black and white]

Tweet Smurthwaite, Black and white, and tell him how you feel.

 

Not on Twitter unless u want to do it for me?

[cheshirevaliant]

PM him on here. I stopped following him on Twitter when he said he wasn't doing it any more. I suppose I should have known better.

[cheshirevaliant]

Final point, and not one that particularly affects us, but what was going on with that minute silence for Don Howe?!? 20 seconds of silence, 20 seconds of slightly sporadic, awkward applause, then another 20 seconds of bemused quiet?

[whotobeakiller]

Vale need a new slate i'm afraid. We aren't creating enough chances nor putting the rare ones away we do get...it's the same story week after week...As they say..What is the definition of insanity?

 

Answer...Doing the same thing over and over again...and expecting different results. Go now Page

[DistantVale]

Message from a Coventry fan who was at the game, sent to a mate of mine:

 

"You should have won today. Vale missed two gold-plated chances in the first half and had a good penalty shout turned down. Second half another clear penalty waved aside. We were very, very lucky."

 

I can only guess that like your mate of a mate , you weren't at the game

[TylerB]

Merely offering an opinion on what I see, much like what you are (allegedly) doing :)

 

Away from the views of people who were watching a different game to me, I thought we did ok against a team who will finish top 4. Had AJ's shot gone in during the first few minutes, I suspect we would have gone on to win. We looked sharper with Foley in the centre and Daniel out on the left, although Moore was dreadful and offered no support to either Purkiss or AJ. As usual, we looked worse when the subs were made. I suspect we have seen the last of Uche. Looks to go down rather than heading towards goal or laying the ball off.

 

We did okay yet still lost, and predictably. Coventry may be high up in the league but today, on the day, they were awful, and any good side would have been out of sight against them by half-time. If the opposition score first I don't have any belief Vale will go on to win the game, none whatsoever, and even more so away from home. Without Leitch-Smith's purple patch we'd be absolutely hopeless in front of goal of late. The club as the whole at moment is going through the motions, and for me a major downslide looks just around the corner.

[cheshirevaliant]

We did okay yet still lost, and predictably. Coventry may be high up in the league but today, on the day, they were awful, and any good side would have been out of sight against them by half-time. If the opposition score first I don't have any belief Vale will go on to win the game, none whatsoever, and even more so away from home. Without Leitch-Smith's purple patch we'd be absolutely hopeless in front of goal of late. The club as the whole at moment is going through the motions, and for me a major downslide looks just around the corner.

 

I agree with all of that, apart from the last 10 words. We will still win more at home than we lose, we will still lose more away than we win.

 

We miss Andoh and someone who AJ can play off.

[TylerB]

Who do you support just out of interest?

 

Port Vale, bizarrely. I also take a keen interest in Liverpool's results, and have done since I was a kid.

 

Would you like to know my shoe size? Favourite beverage?

[mcfin]

Having been to Exeter and Coventry in recent weeks amongst other away fixtures, I know will only be going 1 more and that will be wigan away , only due to the fact I have not been to that stadium before. WE never get slaughtered away from home except Exeter. But same tactics and same poor results have made my mind up.

[Jacko51]

Means nothing! We didn't have a shot on target! Pages tactics are literally the worst I've ever witnessed! DISGRACEFUL

 

You mean the tactics that saw Coventry barely cross the half way line in the first half?

[fairportnick]

You mean the tactics that saw Coventry barely cross the half way line in the first half?

 

So if the ball was in the Coventry half all the time why did we have so few efforts on goal? Was Ray Wilkins involved?

[elav trop 1876]

Think we played some nice neat football just need to open defences more and support AJ we seem to give the ball then sit rather than support especially when he runs out wide.

 

 

coventry blog on their website

 

 

http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/62277-My-Port-Vale-report-huge-win!

 

and an extra one about our fans,

 

http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/62273-Port-Vale-Fans

[Jacko51]

So if the ball was in the Coventry half all the time why did we have so few efforts on goal? Was Ray Wilkins involved?

 

Just a mo, I'm off to get the Preparation H.

[Vital Spark]

You mean the tactics that saw Coventry barely cross the half way line in the first half?

 

No, the tactics that once again resulted in a soft away defeat to a another mediocre team. Tactics, luck, effort, possession etc.. don't get recorded, it's goals and points that are important.

[Jacko51]

No, the tactics that once again resulted in a soft away defeat to a another mediocre team. Tactics, luck, effort, possession etc.. don't get recorded, it's goals and points that are important.

 

Really? I didn't know that.