Is This a New Jay Fulton? Or Does He Need To Go?

[LeonWasTheDogs]

Grimes stops being captain, team improves. Strange. I'd always held the position that Grimes is not captain material.
But what do I know?
Grimes goes, team go forwards and are more potent with less possession
Grimes goes. Coventry go backwards and sideways
Grimes goes. Jay Fulton looks a lot better.

Really wondering what Grimes had on previous managers and the club
Even though according to some of our fonts of wisdom, we'd be screwed without Grimes and should have binned Jay

It’s not a Grimes thing. I know that’s what everyone likes to jump on, but it’s just lazy. We (and Jay) have still at times been utterly shit after Grimes left (remember Sheffield Wed away?). Meanwhile Coventry are something like 3rd or 4th in the form table since he went there and we also played plenty well plenty of times while Grimes was here. So blaming Grimes for everything doesn’t wash.

It’s great to see Jay have a good game at last though. It’s long overdue. Last time I looked at the stats for DM players in the Championship, his defensive side was about as bad as it got (he was averaging a successful tackle every 4 games). So this is long overdue. There was a player in there. That player has been missing for a few years, but hopefully he can build on the Leeds game and consistently get back to the level he was at.

 

[bakajack]

It’s not a Grimes thing. I know that’s what everyone likes to jump on, but it’s just lazy. We (and Jay) have still at times been utterly shit after Grimes left (remember Sheffield Wed away?). Meanwhile Coventry are something like 3rd or 4th in the form table since he went there and we also played plenty well plenty of times while Grimes was here. So blaming Grimes for everything doesn’t wash.

It’s great to see Jay have a good game at last though. It’s long overdue. Last time I looked at the stats for DM players in the Championship, his defensive side was about as bad as it got (he was averaging a successful tackle every 4 games). So this is long overdue. There was a player in there. That player has been missing for a few years, but hopefully he can build on the Leeds game and consistently get back to the level he was at.

Sometimes I wonder if there was any lingering mental trauma after he got sent off against Brentford in the final.

Ever since then the fire in his game has consistently been missing. People may scoff at the theory but that kind of thing can last for years, in baseball its known as the yips - for example a baseball pitcher who costs his team a critical game by hitting the batter might struggle for months or years to be able to pitch to the inside again.