May 15
A year ago tonight the roof came off the Covered End. By common agreement The Valley was one of the loudest, if not the loudest it had ever been, and on 81 minutes the wonderful old place exploded.
Godden again, ole ole.
Please click for moreWe are such a hard watch. There was absolutely nothing praiseworthy about that, and we were second best all over the pitch.
It is like every game is on a loop and we’ve been playing the same match for weeks. We are simply incapable of taking care of ourselves.
Please click for moreThe Thursday weekly pre-match Nathan Jones club presser follows a similar format each week. It is obviously heavily managed and at best we get a look back at how well last week’s oppositon were coached, how well this coming week’s team are coached, and injury news consisting of updates that players are a week less injured than they were last Thursday.
However, Rich Cawley asks the questions that we want answers to.
Please click for morePeople that appear to have knowledge of the situation are suggesting that Matt Godden has had another set back to his knee injury.
Remember, Godden had calcification form on tissue around his knee, this stemming from the original surgery in the summer and still gives him discomfort when he trains. His return has kept getting pushed back.
Please click for moreNathan Jones does like to run with a smaller squad, a unified group where every player feels part of it, and believe they will have their chance. This season he’s running with 25 players.
As of today we have Godden, Burke, Bell and Edwards at various stages of recovery. Ramsey and Lloyd Jones have had an illness, likely the same and had to isolate before playing under the weather on Saturday.
Please click for moreRarely a game goes by when Josh Edwards is not in the wars. The likable Scottish ball of energy doesn’t have the word shirk in his dictionary.
Today Nathan Jones said that Edwards’ ankle damage is going to mean he “will probably be out a little bit longer than a few weeks.”
Please click for moreRich Cawley has found out a little more on the summer absence of Matt Godden in an interview with Nathan Jones.
“It was a minor procedure on the knee, just a clean-up type of thing” that has kept last season’s top scorer out of pre-season. (more)
Please click for moreA magical night at The Valley, plenty of sore heads and rasping voices this morning.
A remarkable achievement to get to this point, and The Valley last night was a special place.
Please click for moreI didn’t really enjoy that. Northampton gave us a real run for their money, and never backed off, but we found a way to win, and win we did.
A play-off place is now secured with three games remaining and we move into 4th.
Please click for moreAbsolute dominance for 84 minutes then it all got a bit panicky.
For the first half and almost the entirety of the second we played like a juggernaut running downhill, we were quality, but we weren’t able to completely snuffle out our visitors who had a new manager in the dugout.
Please click for moreFor 30 first half minutes our play was strewn with silly mistakes, one almost gave Stevenage the lead but for a fantastic stop from AMB.
Then AMB fell ‘injured’ and Nathan Jones called the team over to the touch line and we never looked back.
Please click for moreI blindly thought we’d see a reaction tonight, how wrong was I? How wrong was Nathan Jones?
The difference being Jones had his fingers all over that performance, and I just live in a world of false optimism.
Please click for moreI’m sure we will rue comparing Matt Godden with Alfie May, so I will try not too.
33 years old in a few weeks, Coventry striker Matt Godden has signed a two-year contract with a club option of a further year. He passed a medical today and is expected to be unveiled tomorrow.
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