by Tippy Tappy Football » Wed Jul 28, 2021 10:54 am
I said to Part Time Pete Pete last night that there were two former Daggers players on the pitch who were playing well - Jodi Jones (Coventry City) and Oli Hawkins. Pete asked whether they had both played against the Stags in the same team. Just checked and they both played for Dagenham in the 3-2 home defeat in Feb 2016. Jodi Jones came on as a sub. Dagenham also had Coventry's Dominic Hyam, Joss Labadie; and Christian Doidge and Ashley Hemmings were on the bench.
O’Brien; Hyam, Dikamona, Worrall; Passley (Jones 79), Widdowson; Labadie, Muldoon (Richards 71), Chambers; McClure (Cureton 71), Hawkins. Subs not used: Cousins, Doidge, Hemmings, Hoyte.
Jodi Jones signed for Coventry in summer 2016 and has suffered some bad injuries. He's not started a league game for Coventry since November 2017 against Stevenage. He played against the Stags two games earlier when the Stags won 1-0 with Alex MacDonald's great goal.
It was a fairly inexperienced Coventry team last night but a good performance by the Stags. You can see we are trying to play at a quick tempo and pass the ball quickly which we successfully did with Billy Dearden/Stuart Watkiss' promotion side and DF's play off side. My only criticism last night was that we were very wasteful with our chances and probably ought to have scored 3 or 4 goals and put the game to bed much earlier.
Coventry's Championship Appearances 2020-2021
Ben Wilson (Keeper) 26(1)
Ben Sheaf 21(19)
Tyler Walker 20(11)
Julien Dacosta 10(8)
Will Bapaga 0(2)
Josh Reid, Declan Drysdale, Blaine Rowe, Aaron Evans-Harriott, Ryan Howley, Fabio Taveres and Harrison Nee are all listed as U23s.
I thought the big centre half played well for Coventry. He might have been a trialist (Rocky Bushiri).
Note: The Coventry trialists included Rocky Bushiri, a Belgian U21 international from Norwich City and Papa Souare who has played for Lille and Crystal Palace.