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Coventry City captain Michael Doyle has claimed that Notts County's attitude prior to the League Two playoff semi-final second leg effectively did the team talk for his side.

The Sky Blues coasted to a 4-1 win on Friday night, putting them into the playoff final 5-2 on aggregate at the expense of the Magpies.

Doyle felt County gave Coventry an extra incentive because of things like the specially printed Wembley T-shirts and comments made by Alan Hardy.

β€œI just felt that they thought that before the game they were through,” he told Coventry Telegraph, referring to the chairman’s programme column in which he talked about planning for the final.

β€œI read the programme notes from their chairman before the game and I just felt – and I am not having a pop – but I thought they thought they were already there.

β€œWe were told they had T-shirts in the dressing room for Wembley, so we weren’t going down without a fight.

"The lads were unbelievable and they deserve it. It just goes to show what happens when we get that consistency in the biggest game of the season, when there’s so much pressure and so much at stake, and we go and play like that.”

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ARLukomski

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Absolute balls. It was a campaign telling the Notts fanbase and the people of Nottingham to get behind Notts to help us get to Wembley by beating Coventry. He tries to twist the words to suit his argument.Β 

upthepies

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Michael Doyle doesn't know what hes talking about clearly!

To be honest I think a lot of Notts fans thought we were already there, I saw people talking about plans for Wembley, you should never count your chickens in this game as I have found out in the past.

Magic magpie

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What a load of crap .. this guy is a total idiot.Β 

Edited by UnitedPie

This talk about team talks is generally nonsense, if you're not motivated for a play-off semi it's time to give up the game. Lots of teams do the pre-printed T-shirts, there's nothing unusual about it. Might be worth checking ebay for them, could come in handy when we reach the FA Cup final next season :D

Michael Doyle was playing for Coventry way back when I lived there. Thought he was crap back then ;)

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