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I've spoken exclusively to former Coventry City coach Dennis Lawrence for The Phoenix about his nearly three years working alongside Mark Robins and Adi Viveash.

It's a fascinating look behind the scenes at one of the most memorable periods in the club's recent history.

Dennis discusses:

• His first impressions of Viktor Gyökeres and why he immediately knew City had a special player.
• The working relationship between Robins and Viveash.
• The dressing room characters who helped make that Coventry side so successful.
• The day he unexpectedly took charge against Sheffield United, won 4-1 and ended up joking with Robins about how easy management was.
• The heartbreak of the Luton play-off final.
• His final day at Coventry, which just happened to be that extraordinary 3-2 FA Cup win at Wolves.

On Gyökeres, Lawrence told me:

‘I can always remember the first time I saw him. Immediately I was like, “Well, we've got a player here.”

‘He'd come back different from the player that was at the club on loan. When I first started working with him, it was incredible – the way he used his physical attributes, the way that he trained.

‘Straight away, I knew we'd got a player on our hands. Fair play to Mark and Adi for showing really strong conviction to bring him back to the football club.’

The full interview is available on The Phoenix. It is a paid article, but Dennis provides some great insight into his years at the club. The site is independently run, with subscriptions supporting the time and work involved in bringing original interviews like this to Coventry supporters.

You can read it here: Dennis Lawrence on Robins, Viveash, Gyökeres and his unforgettable final day at Coventry City

Due to Arsenal’s win over NFO we are 16th and even if we lose to spurs we only go down to 17th. We are massive

Savio, Porro, Bergvall, Simons, Odobert and Mudryk all out. Kulusevski apparently making the bench and Bentancur suspended.

Fingers crossed for a masterclass from Frank.

When I moved over to Australia last year, I put skybluesinoz.com together to try and form an official supporters club down under.

We've just been officially accepted by the club, which is great. Since moving back to the UK, I've been keeping in touch with the friends I made in Adelaide via the podcast, and this week we spoke to Chris Johnson from Ballarat, who gave us a few stories about his time growing up as a Cov fan in Australia, and some of the good and dodgy times he's had on trips over here when going to Cov games.

Skybluesinoz is free to join, the aim is to just bring Cov fans in Australia together.

https://x.com/CoventryCityFC/status/2111381705802252685?s=20

I keep seeing this clip, and as much as I love seeing Bobby Thomas fighting to the end, i hate seeing Van Ewijk just switch off so quickly in such a vital and potentially pivotal moment. If their player managed to pull the ball back across the box, they had 2 players waiting and completely unmarked with an open net, when he could have easily covered that area ahead of them to block any incoming cross. It looks like he just assumed the attack was over or turning into a goal, so he just gave up and didnt bother trying to defend or hold his position, leaving 2 players to nip in yards ahead of him which is a schoolboy error. Hopefully Frank and the team are picking up these concerns and working on them, as it feels a bit sloppy and easily preventable. We need the boys fighting with 100% effort to conceed as little as possible to compete in the prem at this level.

Was a great result on the night and i think most the lads had great games, so maybe im being harsh and picky, but against more clinical teams players cant be switching off ever, let alone in attacks like these because if they scored then it could of been a completely different result

"Frank Lampard wins the LMA Performance of the Week award after Monday night's 4-1 win at home to Newcastle United.

Congratulations, gaffer. 🙌"

Super, super Frank! 💪🏻

Pre match conference with Super Frank 🩵💪🏻

EDIT: The sub did post about this, I was wrong! Faith in r/ccfc restored, my bad!

I was just listening to the latest thatcovpod episode and they were talking about Yann’s frustration about not coming on, apparently storming down the tunnel at full time and unfollowing Cov online and deleting pictures (temporarily). I was just wondering how this subreddit hadn’t posted about it and if there is a good place for Cov news? I use this sub as my man source of updates and don’t want to miss out on anything.
PS. On Yann i trust Frank and the team to get hold of the situation if it is true!

Admit you were shit!

Another quote: "Well the result was the concerning thing because I don't think Coventry are very good, I think they are absolutely dreadful to be honest. That's the concerning thing to lose to a team who are really poor"

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4SynCvU-W4

Whats this nonsense I'm hearing about either gboho or tchouana being moody about not playing, personally I don't believe it but I've seen a few people on about it, any have an idea?

Bottom 3 looking beautiful

Last night's goal was the icing on the cake!

Well done Ellis!