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Just had a great chat with a Coventry mate - technical technical technical 23:25 - Jun 9 with 1940 viewsunstableblue

Had a lovely chat with a hardcore Coventry mate (mates mates mates).

He's over the moon, as enthused as when he came out of the away end at Portman Road, and we joined each other for a great night out in Ipswich this season.

He's genuinely gutted for us as he knows how good the Town fans are.

Of note he never went to any 'home' games at St Andrews, just away all over the country.

We talked where it had all gone wrong for us compared to Coventry and without prompting (you know my technical obsession) he just passionately stated that as soon as Robbins came in you could see a real shift in passing quality, and the shape of the team. 4th tier, terrible squad, but promoted by the play-offs.

Anyone at that PR game this season you know that for the first period Coventry showed some real technical quality on the ball, with just great movement for the goal, moved us around lovely goal, whilst then for long periods soaking up our possession, whilst creating good chances.

I've said it once and I'll say it again, Marcus is not well advised from a footballing perspective. We have failed to hire progressive technical managers, or to put a progressive footballing structure around the manager. This includes all managers, despite Mick providing some positive respite.

I am appalled that we have finished 11th in the 3rd tier, 8 points off the play-offs. Whilst a hugely underfunded and homeless Coventry are promoted. Its simple: because our manager recruitment has,well, not considered technical attributes enough. Keane, Jewell, Hurst, jesus wept. And despite moments, Lambert just seems to the same.

Come on Marcus!

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Just had a great chat with a Coventry mate - technical technical technical on 23:36 - Jun 9 with 1853 viewsBluefish

What are these moments for Lambert? He is the worst of thenlot, stop giving him an easy ride. The whole spell has been a disaster and we have never at any point looked like a team with a strategy or a clue

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Just had a great chat with a Coventry mate - technical technical technical on 23:42 - Jun 9 with 1828 viewsunstableblue

Just had a great chat with a Coventry mate - technical technical technical on 23:36 - Jun 9 by Bluefish

What are these moments for Lambert? He is the worst of thenlot, stop giving him an easy ride. The whole spell has been a disaster and we have never at any point looked like a team with a strategy or a clue


Get the Lambert voodoo doll out Bluefish... thrust your long needles into its floppy carcass!! seek satisfaction... comfort!

Hey I'm not defending Lambert's record, but he did inherit a squad that had initially had passing and expansive football drilled out of them by Mick, and then appallingly man managed by Hurst who also depleted much of the quality that Mick had added.

Also during that 1-1 streak as we wimpered out of the Championship showed moments of shape and passing we so needed. This season there have been good performances,I know at a lower level.

But yes he has failed miserably overall.

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Just had a great chat with a Coventry mate - technical technical technical on 00:02 - Jun 10 with 1780 viewsBlueBadger

Just had a great chat with a Coventry mate - technical technical technical on 23:42 - Jun 9 by unstableblue

Get the Lambert voodoo doll out Bluefish... thrust your long needles into its floppy carcass!! seek satisfaction... comfort!

Hey I'm not defending Lambert's record, but he did inherit a squad that had initially had passing and expansive football drilled out of them by Mick, and then appallingly man managed by Hurst who also depleted much of the quality that Mick had added.

Also during that 1-1 streak as we wimpered out of the Championship showed moments of shape and passing we so needed. This season there have been good performances,I know at a lower level.

But yes he has failed miserably overall.


Ah yes, the old 'Mick didn't like good footballers' myth. Which was why he signed the likes of Fraser, Webster, Bru, Waghorn and Mcgoldrick(just on 5 seconds' thinking - and those are the successful ones) and gave the likes of Teddy Bishop, Luke Woolfenden and Flynn Downes their first starts for the club.
Every 'big' signing he made was a 'technical signing', there was the journeyman makeweights sure, but there always are - look at some of Burley or Royle's also-rans, but they were the space-fillers not the policy.

And as for the 'moments of shape and passing we so needed' - that's the problem - that's all there was - moments. There was genuinely a lot more decent proper attacking(as in 'presented an actual threat') in a half of Mick McCarthy teams than there was in Lambert's teams - you've bought the Lambert myth of 'Improved Football' - it's not 'improved' if you're still losing without a whimper.

As ever, you're obsessed with the 'technical' which is ultimately meaningless - Sam Allardyce, with his reliance on percentages and sports science is more 'technical' manger than even Lambert.

'Technical' is a term which is ultimately meaningless and worthless.
The last resort of the clueless football hipster. The real term you should be looking for is 'COMPETENT'.

Which Lambert isn't and hasn't been for a long time.

[Post edited 10 Jun 2020 9:30]

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Just had a great chat with a Coventry mate - technical technical technical on 10:04 - Jun 10 with 1411 viewsgazzer1999

Just had a great chat with a Coventry mate - technical technical technical on 00:02 - Jun 10 by BlueBadger

Ah yes, the old 'Mick didn't like good footballers' myth. Which was why he signed the likes of Fraser, Webster, Bru, Waghorn and Mcgoldrick(just on 5 seconds' thinking - and those are the successful ones) and gave the likes of Teddy Bishop, Luke Woolfenden and Flynn Downes their first starts for the club.
Every 'big' signing he made was a 'technical signing', there was the journeyman makeweights sure, but there always are - look at some of Burley or Royle's also-rans, but they were the space-fillers not the policy.

And as for the 'moments of shape and passing we so needed' - that's the problem - that's all there was - moments. There was genuinely a lot more decent proper attacking(as in 'presented an actual threat') in a half of Mick McCarthy teams than there was in Lambert's teams - you've bought the Lambert myth of 'Improved Football' - it's not 'improved' if you're still losing without a whimper.

As ever, you're obsessed with the 'technical' which is ultimately meaningless - Sam Allardyce, with his reliance on percentages and sports science is more 'technical' manger than even Lambert.

'Technical' is a term which is ultimately meaningless and worthless.
The last resort of the clueless football hipster. The real term you should be looking for is 'COMPETENT'.

Which Lambert isn't and hasn't been for a long time.

[Post edited 10 Jun 2020 9:30]


Crikey Badger thats a big condemnation of all thats wrong at PR. You have all the answers, You need to be on the board of directors, or at the very least buy the club please. Spruce is up for the managers job, Premier League here we come.
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Just had a great chat with a Coventry mate - technical technical technical on 10:07 - Jun 10 with 1391 viewsBlueBadger

Just had a great chat with a Coventry mate - technical technical technical on 10:04 - Jun 10 by gazzer1999

Crikey Badger thats a big condemnation of all thats wrong at PR. You have all the answers, You need to be on the board of directors, or at the very least buy the club please. Spruce is up for the managers job, Premier League here we come.


Well, HERE'S a hot take.

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Can you read? on 15:37 - Jun 10 with 1181 viewsunstableblue

Just had a great chat with a Coventry mate - technical technical technical on 00:02 - Jun 10 by BlueBadger

Ah yes, the old 'Mick didn't like good footballers' myth. Which was why he signed the likes of Fraser, Webster, Bru, Waghorn and Mcgoldrick(just on 5 seconds' thinking - and those are the successful ones) and gave the likes of Teddy Bishop, Luke Woolfenden and Flynn Downes their first starts for the club.
Every 'big' signing he made was a 'technical signing', there was the journeyman makeweights sure, but there always are - look at some of Burley or Royle's also-rans, but they were the space-fillers not the policy.

And as for the 'moments of shape and passing we so needed' - that's the problem - that's all there was - moments. There was genuinely a lot more decent proper attacking(as in 'presented an actual threat') in a half of Mick McCarthy teams than there was in Lambert's teams - you've bought the Lambert myth of 'Improved Football' - it's not 'improved' if you're still losing without a whimper.

As ever, you're obsessed with the 'technical' which is ultimately meaningless - Sam Allardyce, with his reliance on percentages and sports science is more 'technical' manger than even Lambert.

'Technical' is a term which is ultimately meaningless and worthless.
The last resort of the clueless football hipster. The real term you should be looking for is 'COMPETENT'.

Which Lambert isn't and hasn't been for a long time.

[Post edited 10 Jun 2020 9:30]


Mick brought in good footballers, in general, period.

"by Hurst who also depleted much of the quality that Mick had added"

Open your eyes

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Can you read? on 15:51 - Jun 10 with 1149 viewsWarkystache

Can you read? on 15:37 - Jun 10 by unstableblue

Mick brought in good footballers, in general, period.

"by Hurst who also depleted much of the quality that Mick had added"

Open your eyes


The problems were that both Keane and Hurst overpaid for mediocre talents that we couldn't then sell for a profit. £2 million for Kayden Jackson? Bloody Harrison, who can't even garner a regular spot in Pompey's first team? God knows how much for Aristote Nsiala, who makes Thetis look like Bobby Moore? Jon Nolan? The list goes on like a Star Wars title, fading into nothingness.

Then, when we DID actually have someone who could make it work and would've improved us with funds, like MM, he clams up like a dead oyster.

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Can you read? on 18:23 - Jun 10 with 996 viewspointofblue

Can you read? on 15:51 - Jun 10 by Warkystache

The problems were that both Keane and Hurst overpaid for mediocre talents that we couldn't then sell for a profit. £2 million for Kayden Jackson? Bloody Harrison, who can't even garner a regular spot in Pompey's first team? God knows how much for Aristote Nsiala, who makes Thetis look like Bobby Moore? Jon Nolan? The list goes on like a Star Wars title, fading into nothingness.

Then, when we DID actually have someone who could make it work and would've improved us with funds, like MM, he clams up like a dead oyster.


Hurst’s money came from the sales of Webster, Waghorn and Garner rather than from Evans himself though I agree with the rest of your point.

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