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Post by fromafar07 on Mar 5, 2008 12:37:19 GMT
I find it funny now how 2-3 weeks ago i was compalining that Stoke needed to score more goals and stop conceding as many. Of course i got the usual mindless responses of "stop criticizing Stoke" "Im never happy", "they are scoring plenty of goals" "I always have to complain about something" etc etc. well here we are dropped into 3rd place because of........GOAL DIFFERENCE. my words were we need to score more/concede less because in a tight race like this, goal difference could well be the deciding factor from automatic promotion and the play offs
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Post by Do it for bringbackthevic on Mar 5, 2008 12:46:18 GMT
But if we had scored more & conceded less then we would have picked up points and so the goal difference wouldn't matter as we'd still be above watford. ???
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Post by fromafar07 on Mar 5, 2008 12:47:46 GMT
amazing !
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Post by drwhom on Mar 5, 2008 12:48:16 GMT
I agreed with you when you said it and I remember all the people who were jumping on your back and they were saying "oh your stupid you are" and "how can goals ever amount to anything in a game like football" and I was thinking to myself that "no your wrong" he's not stupid and now here we are and youve been proven right and now where are all the mockers eh? They're licking their wounds is where. They're re-assessing their original comments about goals being important, thats where.
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Post by onemanbang on Mar 5, 2008 12:50:05 GMT
fromafar i agree wholeheartidly but youve got admit bringbackthevic had a good point
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Post by Do it for bringbackthevic on Mar 5, 2008 12:54:38 GMT
My only argument is that We did have the 2nd best goal difference in the league at the time.
If we had continued winning by 1 goal but others where winning by 3 and we'd now only got the 4th or 5th best goal difference then yes, you have a right to be smug, but the only reason we have gone below watford is because we've lost 2 games whilst watford have won 1 & drew 1.
If your a bristol fan then you'd be right to be worried about your goal difference.
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Post by algor on Mar 5, 2008 12:54:47 GMT
What a stupid post! The whole point of the game is to score more and conceed less than the other team. Do you want credit for pointing out the fucking obvious ???
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Post by fromafar07 on Mar 5, 2008 15:49:35 GMT
i wasnt pointing out the obvious, i was pointing out a fact that with a tight race, goal difference would probably be a determining factor, with everybody saying i was crazy, as long as they won who cares how many goals we gave up.. as we can see now giving up 5 goals in the last 3 games and only scoring 1, puts us in 3rd place !!! NOT 2nd
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Post by Do it for bringbackthevic on Mar 5, 2008 16:03:52 GMT
What a strange argument you are putting forward ???
Your right goal difference looks like it will play a part in deciding the top 4, however your trying to say that people who said "who cares as long as we're winning" are wrong ??? If we'd won the last 2 games 9-8 we'd still be top!
Your saying we need to win by more goals but what has cost us 2nd isn't winning by more but losing 2 games costing us -5 in goal difference. If we'd lost them both 1-0 then we'd still be above watford on goals scored. THAT'S what's cost us.
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Post by fromafar07 on Mar 5, 2008 16:06:23 GMT
I give up
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Post by kkkkken on Mar 5, 2008 16:09:42 GMT
Fromafar are you going down to watch the Battery play this season ? .A large number of English lads turn up for the games and there's the 3 Lions Pub for refreshments. ;D
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Post by kkkkken on Mar 5, 2008 16:26:08 GMT
Fromafar How come when ever I ask you anything you completely blow me off and depart the message board. ::)Is it something I said ;D. I even offered you a free Stoke shirt ,but did you respond back to me ? did you bollocks  |
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