There’s gonna be a day… When your standing in the hall of fame And the world’s gonna know your name ‘Cause you burn with the brightest flame And the world’s gonna know […]
The Olney 7s – sh*t shirts and champagne rugby
Friendlies Season 3 – Episode 1: the one with the 7s
Don’t stop, never give up Hold your head high and reach the top Let the world see what you have got Bring it all back to you Hold on to what you […]
Promotion Talk? Despicable…? Me, too
Here come bad news talking this and that Yeah, give me all you got, don’t hold back Yeah, well I should probably warn you I’ll be just fine Yeah, no offense to […]
Chairman of the Board – You Got Me Dangling On A String
Yes, I’m wrapped in a Dream of needing you so The feeling is strong And I can’t let go You’ve got me dangling on a string Please don’t let me drop My […]
Old Albanian v Coventry – the Deadwood stage is a-rollin’… a beautiful sky, a wonderful day.
Oh the Deadwood Stage is a-rollin’ on over the plains With the curtains flappin’ and the driver slappin’ the reins A beautiful sky, a wonderful day Whip crack-away, whip crack-away, whip crack-away […]
Coventry v Rosslyn Park – pick a game, any game…
Were I asked to pick any of the games this season to represent the difference in the Coventry of this season to that of last, then this is the one I would […]
Rosslyn Park and training ground news…
And so to Rosslyn Park on Saturday. Sixth in the league at home to fifth and a win for Cov leapfrogs us above Park and just that little bit closer to Moseley […]
Deacon Blue (and White)…This Train Will Take You Anywhere
This is bigger than anything That’ll ever go past you It drowns out what you say And it blows the dust away And it makes it’s own way We can’t stop it […]
Cov Squad 2017/18 – the gaps, the guesses…Rob Knox…Cov’s best signing so far…?
Just my imagination once again runnin’ way with me. Tell you it was just my imagination runnin’ away with me. no, no, no, no, no, no, no, can’t forget (them) Just my […]
Coventry v Ampthill – a real team effort (all 20 of them)
29-19. Four tries, a bonus point and another one of the top teams in the league that has come to the BPA full of expectation and left with nothing other than the […]
Who’ll Stop The Rain?
Long as I remember the rain been coming down Clouds of myst’ry pouring confusion on the ground Good men through the ages, trying to find the sun And I wonder, still I […]
Crow Trees, scarecrows and the beginnings of an away day renaissance…
Your lucky days are over Your lucky days are gone The bells have all stopped their ringing The music sounded wrong And now the only song worth the singing Is the sad […]
Taking the lead…older heads on older shoulders
One of the recurring themes in post-match reports and weekly ‘Coach’s Views’ is the lack of experienced heads on the pitch, especially in the kinds of situations we saw on Saturday when the more […]
88 points, 12 tries in the game, up into 6th and now the second highest points scorers in the league – well, I enjoyed it anyway.
There have only been a couple of occasions since I started this blog where I knew, even before I’d started a post, that what I was about to write would be really out of […]
Game day…boom but no bust…MoM poll….Twitter
Game day. And after an interesting week in which discussions over Cov’s encouraging performance against Plymouth and the announcement of the first of the summer signings have held centre stage, it will […]
Albion v Coventry – a showdown not a (Plymouth) Hoe-down…
Back in 1558, on the news that the Spanish Armada was approaching the English coastline and England appeared to be in imminent danger, Francis Drake is said to have uttered something along […]
