[theo_luddite]

The Coventry goal, analysed.

We can blame Careless all we want but this is piss poor defending and decision making by our two so called "experienced" centre backs (or at least one of them). You can't coach stupidity.

Image 1 - Nicholls has just thumped the ball away from goal due to indecisiveness in our back line. Knocking it for a corner might have been a better idea but it gave the 9 outfield players hanging around our box like a bad smell a chance to regroup, or file their finger nails. Only one chases the ball, two do from Coventry. Everyone else watches the ball, including players near the edge of the box. Nobody goes to cover the runner coming down the right wing for the pass from the corner flag.

They have two in the middle and we have two central defenders capable of picking them up plus their No. 6 is lurking on the edge of the box.



Image 2 - Coventry central attacker starts to lean on one of our defender (Lees?) is it a block or an attempt to get to a cross due to be coming in? Our other one (Pearson?), despite seeing Godden in front of him, makes no move to get near him, he actually moves the wrong way, towards goal. Additionally all the ball watchers are not picking up their No. 6.



Image 3 - Our central defenders run up each others backsides, I'll say Pearson ran into Lees despite (if you watch the video, Lees tells Pearson to take him, but I may be wrong), for reasons only they can decide and leave Godden with a free header. If my grandma could have saved most of Coventry's shots, my grandad, who was about 5'6" on tiptoes and wearing my grans high heels, could have scored that one, though to be honest, I never saw him leap like a salmon, a trout, or a goldfish for that matter or wear my grans shoes. I'm also not sure if he ever headed or kicked a football in his life.



I'm not a great fan of Careless (as if you hadn't worked it out ), we've had one good manager way too far back for us to remember that came from L666s, but you can't coach nut jobs that can't see what is in front of their own eyes to do the job they are paid to do, if they deliberately decide to do it wrong or not do it at all.

So in addition to that goal scorer and that midfielder that can provide the ammo, we need another central defender that can organise and do the central defensive job properly. How much do you think Deano will have to loan us to get those 3 in then?

So that's my Gary Neville/Jamie Carragher coaching master class done for the weekend, who's up next?

Do I get paid by Sky for this analysis, or is it free again?

PAH!!!