After Hamer jumped ship back to us he has done the same and gone to Wrexham and they have played between £6.5m and £7m

Just wondering if there are any fan WhatsApp groups! Would love to join one! If not, shall we make one?

There is a world in which Spurs, Palace and Fulham are all poor enough to be relegated. I think we could certainly have a chance against all of the teams on 0 points, except maybe Villa but it’s hard to judge them, and I think including spurs is fair because spurs. It’s too early to judge our season because it’s too early to judge anyone’s season. For example, everyone saying Hull is basically safe, while not unreasonable, ignores the fact that 10 years ago in the 16/17 season they beat a Champions league team on the first day of the season and a relegation rival on the second and went down anyway, and in just the past 3 years here are the teams that have lost their first two games and survived:

25/26: None
24/25: Crystal Palace (12th), Everton (13th), Wolves (16th)
23/24: Wolves (14th), Everton (15th)

The point is, there’s 3 teams we are above, 4 others in the same situation as us points-wise and there are 36 games to go. So there’s no need to worry that things can’t improve.

It’s going to be the end of an era tomorrow as the squad that carried us through the last three seasons breaks up. Pretty clear that Kitch and Lati are off. Bidders, Eccles and Simms too I suspect. That’s basically half the side from the FA Cup semi-final. We’re drawing a line and moving on.

Thoughts?

Rumour going around we have agreed to send him out on loan for the rest of the season

I like to buy a game day jersey for the teams I like to follow in the EPL. As this will be the first time I watch Coventry in the EPL, I'm unfamiliar with the players. Can someone suggest a player I can wear proudly for the 26/27 season?

Deadline day tomorrow! Do we feel we need any more bodies? I personally think Doug has invested a lot, and while I would have loved our LB acquisition to have a bit more experience than Mfuni I’m glad we have someone. I would be happy with the squad as is tbh, and time to let Frank really go to work getting a tune out of them. Been a disappointing start but we’ve had plenty of them in recent years. Get Man City out the way and we can start picking points up on the regular

Birmingham City after coming up in 2002/03 lost their first 2 games first was away to an Arsenal side that were champions and lost their first home game 0-1 to Blackburn and they ended up finishing 13th

Now 4-1... absolutely getting destroyed. Long way to go peeps

Two matches into the Premier League season and it’s two defeats for Coventry City. But a win is around the corner. Let’s have a look... oh bloody hell, it’s away to Manchester City next.

At The Phoenix, I spoke to Leo Ostigard recently. A full feature on the former Sky Blues loanee is coming for subscribers soon, but while I had him I asked a simple question - How can Frank Lampard stop Erling Haaland?

Ostigard knows Haaland well as an international teammate. I figured we could use all the help we could get so it was worth asking.

You can see what he had to say in this piece on the site now, which I have made free for all to read. Here it is:

Leo Østigård on how Coventry City can stop Erling Haaland: ‘If you make him angry, you’re f***ed!’

Like I said, the full Ostigard interview will be available for subscribers soon.

Please do take a look and if you like what you see, please consider subscribing.

Thanks all,
Richard

Founder, The Phoenix

Bloody hell, that was a disappointing one, wasn't it? Important to keep perspective and remember there's 36 games left and all that, but still - we played a must-win match against a side that came for a draw and we ended up losing.

One point for me - I thought we looked far more threatening when Tats came on. He attacked directly down the line and either crossed or when he did cut back he then put a cross in with his left. I know Loum is taking some pelters at the minute (and I do think there is a decent player in there) but he was too passive too often.

Saying that, Sakamoto had to make that foul in the build up to the Hull goal. He was just too nice to do that, unlike Hull who were full of nastiness and would happily take a yellow card to stop an attack (that's not a criticism, we need a bit of that).

But, for me, Sakamoto has to start. What do you guys think?

Oh, and don't worry, it may be Man City next but I interviewed Leo Ostigard on Friday and he's given me some advice on how Cov can stop Haaland. That will be up on ThePhoenix.news today!

I know us football fans are infamously fickle, and that we have not got off to a good start, but after 25 years waiting for this…FUCK ME…the negativity.

We are only two games in. Can we please stop acting like this is some kind of team implosion?

Opta rated our first five games as the joint hardest set of opening fixtures for any team in premier league history, ever.

Yes we should have beaten Hull at home, but we drew 0-0 with Hull at home last season too. We also drew at relegated Oxford and failed to beat bottom-of-the-league Sheffield Wednesday at home. We still won the league by 11 points.

Opta previously analysed teams that lost their first three premier league games.

34 teams have done that and 12 were relegated. So about 65% survived despite beginning with three straight defeats.

If we are on 0 points at 5 or 6 games, then we have a problem.

We’re playing a lot of unfamiliar opponents this season due to the promotion and I thought it would be interesting to discuss opponents who are also relegation candidates or who we are due to play next (or all games) with other fans who are watching the game.

Honestly, I would not be fussed at all about being relegated if we can all honest-to-god say that the team gave it their all and made it difficult for the opposition to come away with a result.

That’s the one thing I think has been disappointing to me. They’ve been playing without conviction and belief. You can see it in the way the team plays safe passes, takes too many touches and makes basic mistakes at key moments in the game. If they fix that, you’ll see this team pick up some points.

Not as bad as Spurs! We’re not as bad as Spurs!

If WE are negative then what the fuck are the players going to do? We can be disappointed, angry, but we can’t be hopeless. Obviously a poor result but let’s not believe that the season’s already over. Empty seats today, for whatever reason, definitely didn’t help. We 100% have the ability to survive as long as we have that belief. We REALLY need to get behind the team. We have worked for decades to get back here, climbed out of the trenches to reach the summit, but we can’t jump off the side of it because of a patch of ice. 2 games is all it took for us to start slating the players, slating the manager, when we need to BACK them.

As the chant goes, where were we when we were shit, and where will we be if we’re shit? What good does complaining do? You’re a supporter of Coventry City, fucking support the team.

Okay so we’ve lost the first two not a disaster but people would have wanted us to pick up points at home to Hull.

So now knowing what we know where is our first win.

Next away is Man City
Then Brighton at Home
Villa in the cup.