Robins looks for an eighth win at home
about. They have muscular injuries so unless you get them scanned it is hard to know a specific time-frame.
“Dion Kelly-Evans has been out too, but he is back on the field now.”
Deadline day signing Jonson Clarke-Harris and Kyel Reid both turned out for City’s under-23s this week.
Reid scored to pull the side level against a strong Millwall side as the winger looks to get back into the first team picture following five months out on loan at Colchester United.
Robins has previously suggested the door is open for Reid to return to contention.
He said: “They were both fighting for the goal.”
City are searching for their eighth home win as they set their sights on the automatic promotion places once more but Robins is well aware of the threat Accrington will pose.
Stanley have won six of their last seven games and Robins was in attendance to run the rule over their 2-1 home victory against Swindon Town midweek.
“There are a capable team,” he said. “They have a way of playing that’s effective.
“They will eke every little bit out of every game. They’re a wily group of players.
“They are very professional and for me watching them on Tuesday night it was an interesting watch and they deserved the win.”
Around 27,000 supporters are expected to turn out to back Robins’ men.
City have run a special promotion for the match by offering thousands of free tickets to Coventry school children as well as discounted prices throughout the stadium.
The attendance is expected to be the highest Sky Blues crowd since 27,306 turned out for the club’s return to the Ricoh against Gillingham in September 2014, following just over a year in exile at Northampton Town’s Sixfields.
“Some clubs have tried different methods of attracting supporters and reducing tickets, and have had success.
“This is a great initiative. It’s over to the players now and they have to make sure they have a good time.
“Nothing changes for us though. It’s just a good atmosphere in the stadium.
“Regardless, it’s tremendous backing again from the supporters.” COVENTRY City history maker Claus Jorgensen has revealed the real truth behind the club’s fired up first ever game at the Ricoh Arena.
The former Sky Blues midfielder left his mark on the club that day with the first goal – a magnificent flying header – as Micky Adams’s men put QPR to the sword in a performance driven by mis-guided retribution.
Jorgensen, who made 52 league appearances and scored six goals for City, recalls how it kicked off in the tunnel with a certain Michael Doyle lighting the touchpaper to set the tone for a memorable first half thrashing thanks to Dele Adebola wading in with two more.
“We played Huddersfield in a preseason tournament in Ibiza and beat them to play QPR in the final,” said the 41-year-old Dane, who now works as a coach at non-league Tamworth.
“I think we were 2-0 up and there was some trouble in the stands so the game stopped and Ian Holloway, the QPR manager, got hold of the microphone and was trying to calm things down but it didn’t help that the security people were battering our fans around the head with batons.
“Anyway, the game started up again and they ended up winning 3-2 and they were running round like they’d won the FA Cup, and that got us a bit annoyed.”
He added: “I have since found out, having played with some of the QPR players, that the reason they were celebrating so much was because if they beat us Ian Holloway was going to let them have a night out.
“So that’s why they were so happy, not to rub it in our faces.
“But that’s how we interpreted it and what we remembered when they turned up to play us a few months later in the first game at the Ricoh.”
Reflecting on the big day in front of 23,000 fans in August 2005, Jorgensen said: “It was a nice sunny day and there was lots of expectation because of the build-up to playing in the new stadium,whichcertainlyhelped t h e team towards a great performance.
“What happened in Ibiza was mentioned among the lads, but not overly focused on until Doyler started a little scuffle in the tunnel which got everyone fired up.
“I think h e was just stirring up some trouble so that got us started as we were lining up ready to go out.
“A few things were said and furniture rearranged and it sort of set the tone because we were really up for it and we went 3-0 up in the first half. Their behaviour in the pre-season was also a factor, even though we now know why.”
Just 11 minutes in Jorgensen became the unlikely hero who put himself in the Sky Blue history books.
Taking up the story, he said: “So I was playing central midfield alongside Michael Doyle and I was allowed to run forward a bit more, although we were covering each other.
“I think we had a counter attack and Marcus Hall kicked the ball forward to James Scowcroft, who was holding it up down the left-hand side, and it sort of rolled back to Gary McSheffrey who, for once, put a first time cross in rather than wanting to go and get a goal himself.
“He put a fantastic ball in and I just made a late run in between the centrebacks.
“The goalkeeper completely mistimed it and I didn’t actually see the ball until late, and I realised I needed to jump for it to get on the end of it.
“So I jumped and headed it and I could just see the ball going in. That’s the best moment, because you are the only one in the whole stadium who knows before anyone else that it’s going in. That little split second is such a great feeling.
“And then I was laughing because I was thinking in my head, ‘why should that be me getting that goal?’ It should be someone like Gary McSheffrey.
“I knew and was aware that it was the first goal but I wasn’t even in the team the previous week, I was on the bench.
“And I only started that game because Stephen Hughes had got a red card at Burnley and I had gone on and done well and earned a start.
“I wasn’t even sure I was going to get a new contract before that season so there were a lot of doubts, so having been given the chance and getting the goal I couldn’t believe it.”
He added: “No-one mentioned before the game who was going to get