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Post by potterblade on Sept 1, 2015 15:24:34 GMT
I think when Hughes switched to 4-1-4-1 last season, it was precisely because he realised this was the best formation to get the maximum out of Adam. Unfortunately for Charles, you've got to think that by the time he's free to play again, Bojan could easily be fit and we'll be back to 4-2-3-1. Possibly Paul. I think we could see different systems for different games it certainly looked good for 20 minutes on Saturday. I think we can all agree that the last thing we need is to throw Michu in there to complicate things further though. Agreed! Adam though really should have known better than to get sent, especially if the system is indeed set up to accommodate him. Stupid and selfish if it was a deliberate stamp. Also risky from hughes to start him given charlies well established tempremant and the predictable opposition tactics on saturday.
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Post by greyman on Sept 1, 2015 15:40:30 GMT
I've already said Rob's report was really good but in my view he went over the top with his remarks on Oliver. The officials face four issues that weren't present in the game some years ago: The amended offside rule. Diving Feigning injury Shirt pulling/grappling. On top of this they have huge scrutiny by the media, indeed MOTD gives significant coverage to refereeing decisions. When I watch a game I like to see as little as possible of the ref, all players staying on the pitch and the game allowed to flow. Football players and coaches have worked on new methods to con the officials, some of which I have listed above, this has made the officials jobs more difficult and resulted in some unfair criticism as in the case in Rob's report. Just in response to greyman, I'm on a couple of financial and political message boards which are far more abusive/controversial than the Oatcake, the key though in any debate is that different views are accepted and tolerated, it would be pretty boring if we all agreed on the same things. I'll tell you what's boring. You, you cunt.
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Post by geoff321 on Sept 1, 2015 16:08:55 GMT
You have the choice not to read or reply greyman, suggest you try it.
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Post by greyman on Sept 1, 2015 16:51:32 GMT
Just fuck off you pompous ignorant twat. I assume the political message boards on which you post are in countries you don't vote and about news stories you haven't read. You're the biggest bloody idiot on here because none of it has anything to do with you.
Everything anybody needs to know about what a complete arse you are comes down to the fact that you think you can somehow tell a Stoke fan on a Stoke message board who attends Stoke games to stop reading threads about Stoke City when you have nothing to do with the club and haven't even watched the game you are dribbling on about. You are possibly the biggest wanker ever to commit anything to this board and that is really saying something.
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Post by swampmongrel on Sept 1, 2015 18:44:39 GMT
Just fuck off you pompous ignorant twat. I assume the political message boards on which you post are in countries you don't vote and about news stories you haven't read. You're the biggest bloody idiot on here because none of it has anything to do with you. Everything anybody needs to know about what a complete arse you are comes down to the fact that you think you can somehow tell a Stoke fan on a Stoke message board who attends Stoke games to stop reading threads about Stoke City when you have nothing to do with the club and haven't even watched the game you are dribbling on about. You are possibly the biggest wanker ever to commit anything to this board and that is really saying something. There's no need for this is there?
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Post by Rick Grimes on Sept 1, 2015 19:05:41 GMT
Excellent summary.
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Post by greyman on Sept 1, 2015 19:36:12 GMT
Just fuck off you pompous ignorant twat. I assume the political message boards on which you post are in countries you don't vote and about news stories you haven't read. You're the biggest bloody idiot on here because none of it has anything to do with you. Everything anybody needs to know about what a complete arse you are comes down to the fact that you think you can somehow tell a Stoke fan on a Stoke message board who attends Stoke games to stop reading threads about Stoke City when you have nothing to do with the club and haven't even watched the game you are dribbling on about. You are possibly the biggest wanker ever to commit anything to this board and that is really saying something. There's no need for this is there? Not normally, no. But this arsehole is a real special case. You have to be to incessantly troll the fans of a club that you don't support about games you haven't even watched on their own messageboard before proving what a complete twat you are by telling them they don't have to read a website dedicated to the club they support.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 19:56:55 GMT
We were the bigger club! Bollocks! The Afellay incident was handbags, and should have been treated as so. Why did Robert Huth get away with two sending off incidents in one go. He doesn't now play for Stoke, that's why! Charlie deserved to go IMHO. As I've said on another post, he knew what he'd done, and really needs to get that side out of his game. Hopefully Afellay will have learned his lesson from that ridiculous sending off, but Charlie should know better by now. We need him (when picked) to stay on the pitch, where he's obviously far more useful than back in the changing room. As I said the Gardner Afellay incident was nothing more than two big girls slapping each other at playtime, and despite what the rules say, common sense should prevail, but that pillock of a ref made it into something it wasn't! I must say in agreement, Glenn Whelan was absolutely magnificent!
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