Aidy Must Stay By Paul McKay
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And which is more; you'll be a Man, my son!
Coventry must keep the faith and stick with Aidy
I for one dont agree with all the calls and moans about Aidy having to go.
Bristol only had three shots in the first half! That's all. We hit the bar and James pulled off a great save.
We can't keep changing the Manager. He's had no money, run off bad injuries and it ain't his fault. Our pattern of play and change in fortune can be traced back to when we lost key players.
When Clingan was injured Doyle came in to play alongside Carsley, who then was injured and Gunnarsson was moved to the centre. Up to this point he had played out right. Doyle was then sold and the centre of midfield and heart of the team has gone. Cranie was a stop gap and Gunnar has not been as effective in the middle.
Hussey being injured didn't help, same with McPake. All have impacted on our results.
Platt is an easy target but why? We were playing to his strength before Xmas but since he has been a lone striker on too many occassions. In comparison Lukas has had 70 odd shots and 2 goals that are not from pens. That's the problem.
If Aidy had his first 11 then I think the results and a play off place would have been a real possibility.
I don't think Aidy has even played his first choice team
Westwood
Keogh
Turner
Wood
Hussey
Gunner
Carsley
Clingan
Jutkiewicz
Platt
King
Subs
McPake
Baker
McSheffrey
Bell
Eastwood
We've had bad luck with injuries & a lack of cash to bring in replacements. On top of that Aidy had to change effective football to plan B due to injuries, players being sold etc
I can see progress.
Going forward attracting players to Cov is hard but that's about wages and prospects. The players out of contract will go at the end of the season because the Club can't afford the wages of QPR etc
Yes I do think Platt is a steal. He's a genuine footballer. Because our wage budget is so low we are only likely to be able to attract players of his status. He's played more then expected but that because of injuries and poor form of others.
At the moment we are not playing long ball and our downturn in form is linked in my view to when we stopped and we started to play with wingers.
Yes Aidy has made mistakes, his subs or lack of is frustrating. But he plays to his teams strengths. I think he listened to people talking about attractive football and should have stayed with effective football.
We also lost the heart of the midfield with Sammy and Carsley for months and that has impacted on results. With Ben Turner as well the heart of the team has gone. I don't think any Manager would have done better. We even had to sell Doyle to save 8k a week.
I think Connor Thomas would have been a regular first team player next season. But he was sold against the Managers wishes.
My concern is next season unless some serious money is spent the team will be worse then this season. That's not Aidy’s fault.
I don't see how Aidy has failed at all. We have the worst goal to shot ratio then any other side I've known. Decent strikers cost money. Ours are basically free transfers. Apart from Fred but even he would not command a fee now. Who do you blame? Has to be the owners. We made chances against Bristol but didn't finish. Spend £3m on two forwards in the team with pace and an eye for goal, Hussey at left back, a fit Sammy and a season with Turner and Wood at the back then we will have a top 8 finish.
We are not that far off a decent side...
Want to blame someone? Blame the right person, blame the owners and lay off Aidy.
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