If what the Coventry Telegaph are reporting is correct about the players retained and released by Coventry City manager Mark Robins, then we are not suprised about the numbers not being offered new deals next season.
The players might have been part of a good cup team this season but in the league, they have been part of the worst Coventry City side in the club's recent history.
One can blame the lack of money for players wages especially in the close season, those who have managed the team and those running a club which is seen as a basket case and off-putting to some players, along with a number of other reasons but at the end of the day, the players on the pitch are there to get results.
Those results has not been forthcoming in sufficent numbers in League One matches with the Sky Blues only getting an unacceptable total of 39 points from 46 matches and fnishing 23rd in what is a poor league.
The disease Coventry City have of throwing away points when leading which this season saw 26 points thrown away, which would have kept the Sky Blues in League One and well away from the relegation zone, must be arrested.
If current manager Mark Robins thinks that the downward spiral that City have been on for far too many years along with the prevention of throwing away points from winning position can be reversed by not offering new deals to Kevin Foley, Nathan Clarke, Ryan Haynes, Chris Stokes, Vladimir Ghadev, Andy Rose, Marcus Tudgay, Lee Burge, Jack Finch and Kyle Spence, then so be it.
Whilst the not offering new deals to long serving players Lee Burge and Ryan Haynes might seem harsh to some, those who have played and not done their job on the pitch properly by not scoring enough goals, not preventing enough goals or getting in tackles at the right time, leaving players unmarked etc, have to pay the price for City being in League 2 next season.
That said, we wish all those released the best of luck in finding new clubs or alternative employment.
PUSB