Match Day Thread Hull City v Coventry

You know the drill! Pick your team and formation!
Mcanns team

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Coyle Bernard greaves elder
Doc smallwood
Wilks honeyman klp
Magennis

my team
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Bernard McLoughlin greaves
Emmanuel Elder
Doc. Smallwood
Moncur
Klp. Eaves
my team city win 3-1

 

Coventry's a bit of a dump. Went on a pub crawl there couple of years ago, only found 2 pubs we'd ever want to go back to.
Football team's doing ok although they have been dropping points recently, it's the sort of game we could get something out of. No idea what team Terry'll put out, sometimes wonder if it really matters while he persists in starting Magennis and Wilks when they're both way off their game.
Chazz's lineup looks ok, but still not convinced by Smallwood.

 

State of that pitch!

 

Was there ! great day got a whack when we scored , wasn’t bothered

 

So what's happened at Cov that seems to have changed their fortunes?

They're currently 4th in the league, averaging more than 18,000 at home, and taking good numbers away, so everything appears rosy.

As far as I know they're still owned by Sisu, who they hate(d) with a passion.

What's changed, have they suddenly turned into good owners?

 

So was I, behind the goal. Had to run all the way to the station chased by the Coventry lot, they didn't seem happy. lol

 

Coventry was the first City in the UK to have an Ikea.

Fed up with her husband’s high taxes on the people of Coventry, Lady Godiva rode through the town naked so he would revoke them. No-one looked at her, apart from some fellow called Tom, and this is where the term Peeping Tom comes from. Although in reality, it never happened, and the story was invented by Benedictine monks 250 years after her death.

The name Coventry originated from the word Coventre. The word Coventre is derived from the two words ‘Covent’, which stands in for Convent, and ‘tre’, which stands for settlement.

Britain's car industry was founded by Daimler in a disused Coventry cotton mill in 1896.

All modern bicycles are descended from John Kemp Starley's Rover safety cycle, invented in Coventry in 1885.

The first £5 note in a worker's peacetime wage was paid in Coventry during the 1950's.

The city was the birthplace of jet pioneer Sir Frank Whittle, the poet Philip Larkin and the pop impresario Pete Waterman.

The expression 'true blue' has Coventry origins and dates from the 14th century, when cloth dyed Coventry blue became very fashionable and expensive.

The first tank, the first traffic indicators for cars and the first dumper truck were built in Coventry. The first motorised funeral was held in the city.

The phrase 'sent to Coventry' originated during the English Civil War, when captured Royalists were imprisoned in the heavily fortified and strongly pro-Parliament city. They were given a hard time by the local people.

Dick Whittington was member of one of Coventry's mediaeval craft guilds.

Chuck Berry recorded his number one hit 'My Ding-A-Ling' at a Coventry dance hall.

Coventry Transport Museum has the biggest collection of British made cars, motorcycles and bicycles in the world.

The minis in the sewer scenes in The Italian Job, were filmed in Coventry.

Two-Tone music, British Ska, came out of Coventry in the late 1970s, through bands like The Specials and Selecter. Ghost Town, the Specials’ biggest hit, was actually written about Glasgow, not Coventry.

In 1948, work started on Coventry’s traffic-free shopping centre, the first in Europe. Rotterdam’s opened for business months later.

Legend has it the dragon-slayer and patron saint of England was born in Coventry and was a central figure for the city.

 

Gerry Harrison...,"Hull City are doing the impossible. They are ahead."

This man was light years before his time.

Ps...City of culture 2017... 0-2...CoC 2021

 

4-0 Cov.

 

Can’t see beyond a heavy home defeat. Coventry are playing very well and we aren’t. We are incapable of defending and keeping a clean sheet.

Hull 1-5 Coventry.

 

3-0. Somebody is going to get the battering our performances have merited.

 

I was there too. We were in the long stand on the far side of the pitch. I think it was called the Sky Blue Stand. No problems at all. The year Later we were in the one behind the goal which was called the Hillman Avenger Stand then.

 

They've had their moment of fame... the Carr/Hunt combo...

 

I'm sorry to say I can't see anything changing. It will largely be the same team and same formation and probably the same outcome. Well, we all live in hope, so let's hope we get something from the game.

 

agree, same manager + same 4-3-3 formation + same substitutions = same result

 

Thanks, I was just asking about this yesterday to someone at work!

 

OMG I thought I was on a downer at 0-4.

 

Is there a video of the Jay Tabb war cry?