While The Sky Is Blue
This one is going to be purely about football and Coventry City Football Club so you can stop reading here if you have no interest in the subject!
Supporting this team is probably not good for your health, neither is supporting most football teams in reality. Not everyone can finish 1st, win the cup or gain promotion. This is certainly the case for the Sky Blues. I think whoever you support, it is vital that you are realistic about your team's capabilities or potential. This can affect your attitude to the results you achieve.
As a Coventry fan I can say that I was happy we finished 8th in the Championship last season (2005/06). The manager, Micky Adams, undoubtedly did well. He made some useful signings and got us playing effective, match-winning football. Now for various reasons, most notably the sale of our best attacking player - Gary McSheffrey, we have not yet started to play as well as we did last year. Personally, I think our greatest problem is goal-scoring and consistency.
Seeing as we lost our third game in a row I can understand frustration that comes from following this team. But what I feel is important, is that we need to put this result and our predicament in context. Coventry got relegated from the Premierhip in 2000/01 and since then, have not looked like achieving promotion. Financially, the club are still in tens of millions of debt and the club's main assets - the players, aren't the best in the league, but are arguably good enough to finish in the top 10 of the league.
My point is this, although its great to be optimistic and desire success for the team you support, you must remain realistic. I think if we finished in the top ten this season that would be good, but to finish in the top eight would be great. If you're whinging about the manager now, I think you need to wait, at least until Christmas before making a judgement. Nothing happens straight away, I'm not defending the team or the performances, but everybody needs time. This is only Adam's 2nd season in charge and at times, you need to keep the faith. Look at Alex Ferguson; if he was sacked after a slow start to the season Manchester United would not have won their last nine league titles. So please guys, keep the faith. Play Up Sky Blues!
Supporting this team is probably not good for your health, neither is supporting most football teams in reality. Not everyone can finish 1st, win the cup or gain promotion. This is certainly the case for the Sky Blues. I think whoever you support, it is vital that you are realistic about your team's capabilities or potential. This can affect your attitude to the results you achieve.
As a Coventry fan I can say that I was happy we finished 8th in the Championship last season (2005/06). The manager, Micky Adams, undoubtedly did well. He made some useful signings and got us playing effective, match-winning football. Now for various reasons, most notably the sale of our best attacking player - Gary McSheffrey, we have not yet started to play as well as we did last year. Personally, I think our greatest problem is goal-scoring and consistency.
Seeing as we lost our third game in a row I can understand frustration that comes from following this team. But what I feel is important, is that we need to put this result and our predicament in context. Coventry got relegated from the Premierhip in 2000/01 and since then, have not looked like achieving promotion. Financially, the club are still in tens of millions of debt and the club's main assets - the players, aren't the best in the league, but are arguably good enough to finish in the top 10 of the league.
My point is this, although its great to be optimistic and desire success for the team you support, you must remain realistic. I think if we finished in the top ten this season that would be good, but to finish in the top eight would be great. If you're whinging about the manager now, I think you need to wait, at least until Christmas before making a judgement. Nothing happens straight away, I'm not defending the team or the performances, but everybody needs time. This is only Adam's 2nd season in charge and at times, you need to keep the faith. Look at Alex Ferguson; if he was sacked after a slow start to the season Manchester United would not have won their last nine league titles. So please guys, keep the faith. Play Up Sky Blues!
posted by JMCheung @ 12:01 am
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