Source: FOOTYMAD
Sorry Chris But You Had To Go
Kev Monks comment The Coventry City Board had no choice but to dismiss Chris Coleman on Tuesday morning in my book. Having witnessed every game in what was a forgetable season, the 4-0 defeat to a Watford side which had struggled all season was the final straw for me and many of the City supporters that I spoke to after the match. Now, whilst Mr Coleman, who I do have a lot of respect for and like as a person, was not actually on the field of play, it was his team, playing to his instructions. Too often this season, the Sky Blues side has been set up to not lose rather than impose our own brand of football on the opposition and even when we have found the net, the team sat back on a goal lead rather than going out for a second or third goal far too often. Playing fancy formations is all well and good if you have the players that the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal, but it does not take a master tactician to tell you that City don't have those sorts of players and we would have been better playing formations more suited to the strengths of the players we had available. It has been hard enough to get supporters into the Ricoh Arena due to one thing and another since the Sky Blues moved there in 2005 and with talk of many supporters not renewing their season tickets both in the stands and corporate areas, we were left with a situation whereby the work of various departments within the club was greatly being affected by poor results and the unrest felt by many of the Sky Blue support, which reached boiling point on Sunday following Marcus Hall disgracefully not getting a run out and the defeat. In order for the club to prosper, we do need a winning product on the pitch. It is the only way to get the 22,000 that the club needs to break even for every home match and the only way that the club can get better players who can give us the success that every Coventry City supporter so badly craves. Unfortunately, league finishes of 21st, 17th and a 19th place that would have been 20th if Crystal Palace had not been deducted ten points, are not the direction in which the club should be going and having both time and money to spend on players, Chris Coleman proved that he was no longer able to take the club any further forward and therefore his dismissal was the right thing to do .
