Message from Keano ..... not good but 3 points in the bag.

Dear Coxhoe Branch,
I’m delighted with the win – a clean sheet, three points, and we move on.
The performance was OK. We can play better, but we’ve played better in other games and we’ve not really got anything, so that’s football, as they say.
Yorkie is different class, he has been the last few games. His performances have been good and he’s knocked in a few goals in the last few games, so I’m delighted with Yorkie, I have to say.
We’ve had to chop and change it again, we picked up a few injuries in traning, so Stern (John) came straight in, Stan (Varga) came back into the fold and it was nice to see Danny get on, I thought he looked very comfortable.
In the middle of the park he (Yorke) is a vital addition to any team, just to keep their head, keep the ball and try to dictate the pace of the game, it’s vital.
It was a great goal (Edwards) and his work-rate is never in question, we saw that when he was at Luton and he’s the type of player I like, he works his socks off for the team, and he’s scored a couple of goals in the last few weeks so we’ve got plenty of options in midfield, and we need that.
David Connolly got a nasty knock in training on Thursday. He saw a specialist on Thursday and Friday and he’s been told to rest for a few days, I gave him the weekend off. His face is very, very badly swollen, there’s a lot of bleeding around the eye area and we have to monitor him over the next few days, so it was a straight-forward decision to rest him today, it’s a very nasty injury.
Credit to Coventry they came with the extra man in the middle of the park, the fact that we scored in the first 20 minutes meant they had to come at us a little bit, obviously different to the other night (Palace), so they came and you look at the saves Wardy has made, we’ve kept a clean sheet and especially in the second half when they were bombing on and gambling, we got people in the way.
I thought Danny Collins did very well again, Nuggsy, big Stan, Danny when he came on, Deano – and again, clean sheets are very nice and I’m sure the defenders will get a lot of credit for that.
All the best,

Roy Keane
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