Boothroyd: We Are Nowhere Near Our Potential Yet
Last updated : 01 October 2010 By Covsupport News Service/RD
Coventry City manager Aidy Boothroyd is bemused by the form his team have shown so far this season.
In the last week City have lost a game they dominated and scraped a win in a game where they played poorly,but Boothroyd is adamant that hi steam have played nowhere near to their potential and that they will get better and better as tie passes.
Boothroyd said to the CT: "Usually you say leagues tend to sort themselves out after 12 games, but this year I think it will probably take 24 or 30 because you just don't know what's going to happen."
"That's why it's important for us to stay on the shirt tails of the leaders because I'm sure that we will get better as we go on from here. We're three points off second place, one point off the play-offs but, as everybody will tell you, it is very early days.
"It's nicer to be where we are rather than where we could be, but the really exciting thing for me and for everybody involved at the club is that we're nowhere near as good as we could become, absolutely nowhere near."
Coventry City travel to Hull on Saturday, but Boothroyd is under no illusions as to how tough the game will be.
Hull have made an indifferent start to their first season back in the Championship after their relegation having lost four of their nine games and will be keen to bounce back after a 4-0 thrashing at Burnley in midweek. They hope to be boosted by the return of midfielder Jimmy Bullard, who missed the Burnley game with injury.
Boothroyd is being wary of Hull and is not taking the trip[ lightly. He said, "Hull is a difficult place to go, because they've still got a squad that can really destroy teams on their day."
"Like Portsmouth they were in the Premier League last year and they've still got some really good players, so we've got to make sure we impose ourselves on them."
"They'll be wounded animals who will want to come out of the traps and put the record straight after Tuesday, but if we focus on them we take away from what we need to do, and we've got to make sure that we get ourselves right."
"If you look at the games on Tuesday night there were some amazing results and some amazing performances, but when it comes down to it, it's the results that count. Performances tend to take care of themselves and will even out themselves out over the course of a season, but our last two games are a real lesson in terms of how you've got to dig in when you're not playing well."
"We certainly put that theory to the test against Doncaster when we didn't play very well at all in the second half, but on Saturday we were as good as I've seen us and we lost. If anybody saw our performance against Preston they would think 'there's not too much wrong', but if they saw the way we played for half an hour on Tuesday it would take us three or four days to go through all that.
"We'll have a few more days and nights like that, but providing we can win those games we'll all be happy. We're aware of where we're not as strong as we should be and we'll work on that.
"That's why it's really important to keep calm when the opposition has the ball and vital to score during your periods of dominance, we've done that but we've also given goals away to the opposition and that's something we've got to eradicate."
"It all means that we've got six points out of nine and we've got to make sure we finish on a nice high before the international break."
