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Post by 1tinypulis on Mar 23, 2009 13:55:12 GMT
After we got a much needed win on saturday, i was pleased to see kelly doing quite well when called upon. Although nothing spectacular, he did at least seem to play more meaningfull balls forward than wilko does at times, he also mixed it up by playing balls inside whenever possible ,to build up play from those areas to. Good competion for places me thinks ! GOOOOAAAARRRRNNNN STOKE ! Keep it up !  |
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Post by wembley4372 on Mar 23, 2009 13:56:17 GMT
Wilko better look out he has competition
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Post by Danstoke82 on Mar 23, 2009 13:56:40 GMT
As long as he does his job thats all that matters. The fact that he got in over our Club Captain makes me think that Griff will be off very soon then.
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Post by knowles on Mar 23, 2009 13:58:19 GMT
A far better display than up at Sunderland. Well done Stephen.
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Post by northstokie on Mar 23, 2009 14:03:56 GMT
Anyone else notice his effortless gargantuan throw?!
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Post by vestanpance on Mar 23, 2009 14:07:33 GMT
Ned was top drawer when he came on. Very dependable.
Good for him i say.
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Post by OldStokie on Mar 23, 2009 14:26:18 GMT
He looked like a proper fullback. And that was not an easy game to slot into. Well played, lad.
OS.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 23, 2009 14:32:58 GMT
Not discernibly any better or worse than Wilkinson from where I sat.
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Post by luke45 on Mar 23, 2009 15:08:29 GMT
I also thought he had a decent half, i like the way he is constantly over-lapping and giving the winger another option, seems to have a decent turn of pace and is a solid distributor, hopefully he can put in some more good performances when called upon, and then at the end of the season we could look at possibly signing him permanently as a squad depth player.
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Post by rorymscfc on Mar 23, 2009 16:47:40 GMT
I thought that considering he hasn't played in a while and was making his home debut in a difficult game he did very well. He made everything he did look easy which is always a mark of a decent player. More to come, hopefully.
RoryM
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Post by bobafett on Mar 23, 2009 17:00:50 GMT
I was impressed.
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Post by robchicken on Mar 23, 2009 17:19:26 GMT
he looked really good, solid defending but even better going forward
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Post by tazi on Mar 23, 2009 17:26:30 GMT
Had a decent enough match but he didn't half give their left winger a hell of alot of space at times by leaving him unmarked.
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Post by grayscfc on Mar 23, 2009 18:23:55 GMT
he looks more than capable.
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Post by DentySCFC on Mar 23, 2009 18:25:57 GMT
I think we've signed him permanently or at least taken over his contract. I think this because usually when you sign a loan player, the player normally keeps his squad number at his parent club which is not the case with Kelly as Stephen Carr has his number 2 shirt.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Mar 23, 2009 18:31:46 GMT
If we had signed him permanently or taken over his contract , why not say so? We did when we signed Diao for the second time a couple of season's back. I think his number was reassigned because we have loaned him to the end of the season - they can't recall him.
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Post by walrus on Mar 23, 2009 19:01:14 GMT
I think we've signed him permanently or at least taken over his contract. I think this because usually when you sign a loan player, the player normally keeps his squad number at his parent club which is not the case with Kelly as Stephen Carr has his number 2 shirt. It's an interesting point that, but it doesn't confirm that we've signed him permanently. They could just have decided to give Carr his number as they know he'll be here until the end of the season (he can't be recalled) and they've already decided they won't be offering him a new contract. I was pleasantly surprised by him on Saturday after his mare at Sunderland. he did all he had to defensively well, and also got forward quite well. |
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Post by jarhead on Mar 23, 2009 19:07:05 GMT
He did very well.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 23, 2009 19:08:57 GMT
We have agreed to sign him if we stay up, according to Karen Brady, which I presume we will stick to?
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Post by whelan_6 on Mar 23, 2009 19:15:00 GMT
i thought wilko had his best half so far tbh, his distribution was a lot better.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 23, 2009 19:18:40 GMT
The quote was,
"And something does come of deadline day, after all. We’re allowed to take up a loan offer from Stoke for full-back Stephen Kelly, who couldn’t reach the Britannia Stadium because of the snow.
We receive £500,000 now with £250,000 at the end of the season if they don’t sign him and £1million if they do. Good business, I think."
So not dependant on us staying up but it will probably be the deciding factor.
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