Coventry v Notts - Play Off Semi-Final 1st Leg

[Agombar stool]

Fortes goal looks a square pass to me. Doesn’t look offside

Correct, he’s behind the ball as it’s crossed in so can’t be offside. Lovely finish as well.

 

[Luke Imp]

Fortes goal looks a square pass to me. Doesn’t look offside

Didn't realise there were any suggestions he was offside?!

 

[valefan16]

Jones played well... when he isn’t making national headlines trying to end team mates careers or more fussed about his hair than putting in a tackle is can actually play.

Like a Vale veterans side Notts Co with Duffy, Occy, Jones and Dicko. Had a half decent league one outfit with Duffy, Occy and Dicko in... shame the chairman lost his marbles and forced most of that squad apart for his foreign experiment

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

I’m a big fan of O’Connor , Jones is more than good enough in many aspects but his positional sense and concentration at times is lacking but physcially very good. Duffy I’ve always been happy with , Dicko I haven’t, very limited. Overall we thank PVFC for this quartet.

Agree very smart finish from Forte

 

[PiedPiper]

Fortes goal looks a square pass to me. Doesn’t look offside

Yeah, ball was pulled back, there is an angle you can see it really clearly but don't have it to share unfortunately. It's on Twitter though

 

[Youpies]

Didn't realise there were any suggestions he was offside?!

Mentioned earlier in the thread!

 

[Wooderson]

Not much more to add than has been said really, it was simply the worst penalty decision I've seen against us since Brian Hill awarded one to Wolves for handball in 94 in a hugely important game at Meadow Lane moments after Paul Cook had blatantly handled in the build-up.

Hopefully it will act as a galvanising factor in the 2nd leg. Davies might get away with the 'stamp', hard to prove if it was deliberate or just clumsy, his kick on Forte was worse IMO.

Still, a great result and in a funny way perhaps better than if we'd been 1-0 up - I could have seen us trying to sit on the lead if that was the case and getting punished whereas now I think we'll go for it.

Hopefully be almost as many in the ground at ML as in the first leg - never would have predicted that. Couple of changes for me - O'Connor for Noble, and Shola for Stead.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Hoping for 15,000+

 

[Optipez]

Wouldn't argue that Coventry deserved a draw, but it shouldn't be down to the ref to decide it. Quite simply one of the worst penalty decisions I've ever seen given to any team.
In all fairness to the player, he didn't dive, make a meal of the tackle or even appeal for more than a corner, just the ref was an utter disgrace to the game.

Looking forwards to Friday, hopeful but like all us Notts fans , not overly confident, it really is finely balanced.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Bookies basically have both teams at the same odds to win, which sounds right to me

 

[jacobncfc]

Hopefully Forte is fit for Friday, he’s really hit form at the right time, didn’t look great though. I am at least more confident with Stead and Ameobi as the front two at home than I am away.

Reckon we’ll try and drag it into the trenches and back ourselves to come out on top if we can just make it into a battle. I expect we’ll be training on and watering the pitch all week.

 

[william death]

Didn't hear it myself but saw someone said Nolan told interviewer after the game that Forte was ok, just knackered? Looked like he had a touch of cramp

 

[SkyBlueElephant]

I don’t think Bayliss dived (and nor does anyone at Notts really), was just a terrible decision, but he’s still going to get absolutely hammered for it on Friday because football.

So how did that work out? Did he get every coin and bottle thrown at him, looks like our lad Bayliss played your boys off the park.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Ok so it’s officially dipped lol