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Post by mailman44 on Aug 31, 2014 11:26:02 GMT
Fair play to him and it is refreshing to read such an unbiased view from a fan,but he is wrong when he says that Man City played well,because they didn't. I'm not trying to detract anything from our win because we,as a team,made it hard for them to play well,but they were nowhere near their best yesterday,which is always what teams like us need when you go there. Yes, I see where you are coming from. On the ball, technically, Citeh were superb. Their passing (long and short) under pressure was a joy to watch for neutrals I should think, and they probably controlled 99% of the passes they received. But they were not very inventive - with 73% possession you should get more than two shots on target and a load of long range hit and hope stuff. I expected more of Silva and they do seem to lack a Suarez type of player who will run at defenders with the ball. I also thought their defence was starting to look very ponderous especially on the turn. Moses ran riot and with a bit more match sharpness could easily have bagged a goal or assist - or two! And Diouf would be happy to play them every week I think - scored a goal, should have won a penalty and just missed a second goal by an inch or two. They really did not like him running at them. Lakeland you as usual are spot on. A player who runs at defenders asks serious questions and often draws two defenders allowing a side to have a cutting solution to two rows of four defending. Bobby Wood of TSV München gave us an appreciation for that in Reit im Winkl.
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Post by stokeyscrew on Aug 31, 2014 14:42:31 GMT
I'm pretty certain Stafford Stoke isn't going to go round twatting people for comments made on here about him, or he'd be very fucking busy. Well you made sure he didn't come after you , fucking chicken shit smiley face inserting wankbag! H World class,cap doffed.
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Post by bassmaster on Aug 31, 2014 15:00:42 GMT
I hate to state the obvious but cunts are useful.
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Post by 2004 on Aug 31, 2014 15:05:13 GMT
Most seem pretty reasonable to be honest.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 16:52:19 GMT
has this board turned to gay?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 19:34:16 GMT
Actually used to work with a City fan, and used to go to City games with him one week, and he would come to Stoke with me. It was about the time Rodney Marsh signed for them. In fact I think that I actually saw his debut for them. I'm sure Jimmy Greaves played in one game I went to with him, and scored a hat trick, playing for West Ham (I think). Long time ago, if anyone can put me right on this.
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Post by pottersrule on Aug 31, 2014 20:06:50 GMT
What? - no mention of dirty Stoke? timewasting? Adam diving? Bet they're not all as complimentary... :-) Spoke to several Citeh fans coming out of the ground and on the train journey home and they all took it well I have to say. Most said what I said after the Villa game."They did a job on us"
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Post by Naughtyfarty on Aug 31, 2014 20:52:24 GMT
I liked this comment:
'I'll give Mark Hughes and this Stoke side some credit, well done, they were good foil for us today. Stifled us going forwards, dangerous on the counter. Also, fair play to the Stoke fans, decent variety of songs, they were also quite funny when they weren't being dicks.'
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Post by Naughtyfarty on Aug 31, 2014 23:32:54 GMT
This is a good comment as well
Stoke were absolutely brilliant today and I've got no complaints. They defended as a team and attacked as a team and played as if they were high on crack from minute one to minute 94.
They came with a game plan and executed it perfectly so credit where credit’s due to Hughes. The bloke I was sat next to kept making mindless comments like 'Oh come on City, its Stoke FFS’ as if we had a god given right for them to just bend over whilst we stiffed them up the crease which just sounded Raggish to me. At one point I asked him what he'd do differently if he were Pellegrini but all he could keep saying was its Stoke FFS. During one of our attacks I counted 9 Stoke players in their area and when they broke from our attack I counted 6 of their players in or around our area. This wasn't a team who just turned up to fulfill the fixture, they came for a result and got it make no mistake about that.
What was strange for me was for the first time this season we looked fit and ready to start the season proper, but we ran into a Stoke team possessed. I spoke to a Rag earlier who was expecting me to make excuses like he was about Burnley saying Stoke only came to defend. I told him straight, Stoke looked us in the eye and took us on and thoroughly deserved their win and I don't think we had an off day either. When we raised the tempo, they matched us and although we were generally better in possession, when they had the ball it was evident that the days of Pulis's Stoke had been consigned to history because Stoke attacked us in an controlled fashion and with pace as if they knew what they were doing.
There wasn't one of our players who played that didn't deserve to be on the pitch and which ever team won today would have deserved it imo. Perhap Hart could have done better for the goal and Kolorov got left dead for pace wben trying to catch Diouf, but Diouf has been tearing it up in Germany recently with a 1 in 2 goal average and is no slouch either. IIRC Ferndinho had already been booked and was the last man, so he couldn't touch Diouf or we'd have been down to 10 men.
The only thing I would have done differently today is I'd have probably brought on Navas earlier because the middle was so congested we needed the ability to change tactics in game. We were also too slow on the break. Time after time I noticed that we seemed to lack the blistering pace to get beyond them on the break and we kept holding up our own play waiting for players to join in which gave Stoke the opportunity to get back into position.
On the left they kept doubling up on Kolorov to ensure he rarely got near the by-line so he had to keep slinging in crosses from long range which was never gonna help with those column like defenders Stoke had. Perhaps an out and out left winger would have been advantageous to us today, who knows, all I say is we played well and were beaten fair and square. We just need to wipe our mouths and move on to the next match and start preparing for other teams using this Stoke template to combat us with.'
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Post by JoeinOz on Sept 1, 2014 7:55:46 GMT
Thing is they are reasonable and balanced enough to know until six years ago a result like that was the norm.
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Post by baltipiesmuggler on Sept 1, 2014 8:12:31 GMT
Our resident Arsenal fan (from Dublin) informed me this morning that it was a shocking, ugly game of football and that Stoke got battered for 90 mins and were lucky to come away with the result.
After watching it on MOTD.
Fucking no nothing cunt.
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Post by metalhead on Sept 1, 2014 9:54:51 GMT
Most Man City fans I've spoken to said we fully deserved it and we did. Great mental in the away end as well
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