October 1991 Vetch Field 0-0 Friday night, awful game, fairly sure it was Dean Windass league debut and only memorable as I counted 33 away fans in the caged corner terrace and a handful in the seats, and so it is the lowest number of City fans I've attended a competitive fixture.
While our recent form is more important, generating a table for matches since Selles took over, we are 10th and above the likes of Middlesboro and Norwich. More importantly our final 4 opponents are 11th (Preston, identical points, one less goal difference), 14th (Portsmouth), 17th (Swansea) and 23rd (Derby).
Drameh is one of those players who's always highly rated when he's not playing. On Monday, Coyle made a bad miss at a point in the game where people were already frustrated and it immediately became easy to scapegoat him and write off his entire performance. When he went off for the last 10 minutes it was inevitable that Drameh would be well received in contrast.
Drameh looked very decent when he first came, then got injured and when he came back was stuck on the left where he struggled and unfortunately that seemed to continue when he had a brief spell back on the right. All players are going to have good and bad spells and Coyle is no different. I’d like to see Drameh get some minutes on the right, if not as a starter then if Coyle starts to tire or is struggling against a quick skilful wide man.
Rumour has it Strictly Come Dancing are after signing Coyle up for their next series, they've very impressed at his dancing with various wingers recently. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Drameh is really useful second half when Couke tires and oppo wingers take advantage . Drameh is v quick and stops then getting behind us. It’s just tactical
I don’t understand the bashing of Drameh. He’s 23 – younger than players like Kyle Joseph and Matty Jacob – and still improving his game. Coyle is 29 now. We can’t expect him to be as good as he has been every week, so we need to start thinking about how and when he’s replaced by Drameh – who should be playing on that side.
I expect us to stay up but take it to the last day. So not expecting anything from today’s game unless the Swansea players really are on the beach.
I think we'll either survive with a game or two to spare, or go down on the last day. These next two games will go a long way to deciding which it is.
No idea how today will go, but thought Swans were one of the poorer teams we've played at our place this season, no real stand out players and only the 2nd team all season to lose at our place to boot. They've done us some favours in past few weeks beating derby and Plymouth let's hope they do us another favour and play like they did at our place today
Looking forward to this one. I’d like to see Pedro with Gelhardt behind him. Kamara right side and Lincoln left side. I just think that 9&10 combo gets the best out of both of them.
Really hoping that at about 16:55 the 4 words that come out off my mouth are Thank F For That and not whats for tea today!!
