Cinderford 44 Coventry 0 by John Wilkinson


By John Wilkinson, Coventry Telegraph.
April 30 2012

AS BAD days at the office go, they can’t be any worse than this.

Coventry’s up and down National League One campaign ended on the most dismal of notes as, for the second year running, they failed to register a single point in the Forest of Dean – which takes some doing in the modern game – and were pretty well outplayed in every department.

Nothing went right from the first whistle. Cov took a battering from the strong, chilling wind blowing straight down the pitch, and even more of a beating from a Cinderford side that bullied them at the breakdown, pressed up quickly to stifle them in midfield, and simply showed more desire to win.

As a result, Cov were hurried and harassed into mistakes, conceding turnover after turnover, and spent chunks of the game on the back foot as Cinderford fly-half Rory Teague played a simple but highly effective territorial kicking game – something the visitors also failed to do.

Four tries and 32-0 down, Cov lifted themselves at the start of the second half, driving the home scrum backwards, and who knows what an early score might have done?

But it didn’t come and by the end of the third quarter Cinderford were back in full control, going on to add two further tries with Cov becoming more and more dispirited.

It was a horrible way to end a season which promised much better in the first couple of months.

Results elsewhere mean that Cov end up 13th in the National League One table, just one above the relegation places although with a comfortable points cushion

And while that doesn’t fully reflect the ability within the squad if fully fit, it shows the work that has to be done for next season in a division which is only going to get tougher.

Cov conceded a try inside the first three minutes as they attempted to play their way out of their own 22 but lost possession with the home forwards then driving winger Nevarro Codlin over the line for the first of his four tries, Teague converting before adding a penalty eight minutes later.

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CharlieBravo
Cliff Bennett
01/05/2012 13:10
As with Tom's Terrace Verdict, not a single Cov player is identified or gets a mention. The report is surprisingly strongly worded from JB. He's not normally given to being so forthright in his estimates, but he clearly felt Cov were pretty awful.

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Leo_the_ram
Leo_the-Ram
01/05/2012 15:34
You can perhaps only imagine how I felt Saturday. My wife in her (mine actually, I just lent it to her for the day) Cinerford shirt and me in my Cov shirt.

I am a Coventry supporter and a Cinderford follower. Sorry every one but Cov were terrible. So light weight and void of ideas it was embarassing.

Can any one kick in the squad?

I continued to shout "Come on Cov!!" at every re-take and all I could see was pitty in the foresters eyes.

The final straw was when a Cov replacement came on and one "wag" next to me said " Zurry! they have just brought one of them Bee-Gee's on!" (you know who I mean).

In our defence I told him that we had an injury crisis and early Saturday morning we did a trawl of the clubs and pubs in Cov to make up the numbers.

Sadly I think he believed me.

Leo



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