The former Sky Blues player complained about being bullied by the City players on Tuesday night and Aidy Boothroyd told the CT: "Do I want us to be battle hardened?
"Do I want people to come here thinking they are going to be in for a tough game? Absolutely, because I do think that if you go to a stadium as good as ours, people think it is a nice place to play where the groundsman has done a wonderful job and they can't wait to get out there.
"But we don't want to make it nice. We want to make it awful and want them getting on the bus thinking we are a tough team. So I am glad they have said that. In fact, I am delighted because I think that is a mark of respect. And the comments Jay has made in his very own strange way are respectful as well.
"I am not really familiar with Twitter and twits and people who go on it. I am not a technophobe by any means but I think sometimes these ways of communications can be used by the wrong people and if you change a vowel you probably get what he is. He can say what he wants and we will just carry on and do what we are doing and come Boxing Day perhaps we will remind him of that in the right way."