Town manager Roy Keane felt a number of players were at fault for Coventry’s goal during Saturday’s 1-1 draw at the Ricoh Arena. Keeper Keiren Westwood’s long kick found Marlon King on the edge of the Blues’ box, the striker — later sent off — finding fellow frontman Freddy Eastwood, who slammed home.
Keane said disappointment didn’t adequately describe his feelings: "I could think of a stronger word than disappointed. It’s not as if we didn’t discuss it before the game. I was here on Tuesday and a lot of their attacking play came through their goalkeeper.
"You’ve got strikers to try and stop the keeper kicking it, you’ve got two centre-halves and you’ve got a keeper to try and keep the ball out, and none of them did their jobs.”
The Blues boss was similarly unhappy with his side’s continuing lack of goals: "The hardest part of the game is putting the ball in the back of the net, but we haven’t got six strikers like Cardiff, Forest and teams like that, experienced strikers. We’re bringing young boys off the bench in Connor, who has just come back from injury, and young Ronan, who got a good shot away.
"But we still had the best chance of the game in the second half [when Jack Colback shot wide] and sometimes that’s all you get away from home. Don’t think we’re going to be getting four or five clear-cut chances because even with 10 men we still had the same problems with Coventry as we had when they had 11 because they’re solid and well organised.
"You have to be clever with your play in and around the box and one or two of our players didn’t take responsibility - we were passing sideways and backwards when we could have been a bit braver.
"You need to be clinical and you need to put the ball in the back of the net. Jack should have scored, Ronan’s shot got a deflection, Jason Scotland’s got to be sharper with his touch in the box. We’ve got to be more clever, more cunning.”
Meanwhile, former Blue Mark Venus has had two of his medals stolen from his home in Edinburgh. Venus’s Championship winners medal from the 2007/08 season when he was assistant to Tony Mowbray at West Brom and his Division Three winners medal from 1989/90 during his time with Wolves went missing last Wednesday.