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Post by jimmygscfc on Jul 15, 2010 16:10:30 GMT
For Sidibe to be anywhere near the bloody first team as we enter our third season in the Prem is verging on mis-management! Let's hope that as we get rid of Beattie and Kitson, two more come in to push for a starting place.
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Post by icarus on Jul 15, 2010 16:19:16 GMT
And big fat cod eyes aka Daves Views Hahahaha.... That has really tickled me!! I didn't realise Earl was Davesviews. I'm pretty sure of it.. I was in the Bellringer not long ago and a few lads were having it out with him.. The man on the inside.. Of a KFC bucket
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Post by knowles on Jul 15, 2010 16:20:38 GMT
It's fair to say there were far more positives to be taken from the first half (despite the poor goal).
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jul 15, 2010 16:24:04 GMT
It's fair to say there were far more positives to be taken from the first half (despite the poor goal). Really? I thought the second half team looked miles better. Tonge and Marshall being the only 2 positives playing wise I can think of.
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Post by liathroid on Jul 15, 2010 16:23:44 GMT
How did the new kiddie Carlo do.
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Post by knowles on Jul 15, 2010 16:29:21 GMT
I thought we played better stuff as a team first half. We resorted to long ball tactics in the second half (because of Sidibe). Marshall looked promising on the left (and showed he is two footed), while Tonge looked tidy. Did Lund touch the ball apart from his shot?!!
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Post by stokelad84 on Jul 15, 2010 16:30:39 GMT
Just got home from work, what did I miss chaps?
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Post by salifdiao on Jul 15, 2010 16:34:19 GMT
I thought the tempo was better 2nd half and Marshall had a good game.
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Post by Clem Fandango on Jul 15, 2010 16:37:47 GMT
I thought we played better stuff as a team first half. We resorted to long ball tactics in the second half (because of Sidibe). Marshall looked promising on the left (and showed he is two footed), while Tonge looked tidy. Did Lund touch the ball apart from his shot?!! I thought he saw quite a bit of the ball and he kept picking out small simple passes. I only saw most of the second half but I think some of the second string appeared to be quite strong. Thought Pugh, Marshall and Lund all looked okay and can't really work out why Tonge hasn't played more in central midfield for us and he seems to be able to pass with both feet
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Post by lew86 on Jul 15, 2010 16:38:50 GMT
1st friendly of the season and I'm sick to the shit of Sidibe and the tactics that come with it.
Says a lot when our best players are ones that have played for us once and never.
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Post by knowles on Jul 15, 2010 16:39:33 GMT
Tonge is our most creative player in my opinion. He hasn't really let us down too much in the first team, so I too don't understand why he hasn't been picked more.
By the way, this is the description of the goal on the official site: 33 mins: GOAL! Bursaspor take the lead through Ibrahim Ozturk as he rises highest to meet a corner and powers it into the bottom corner from 4-yards.
Number one, the bloke was allowed to run unchallenged. Number two, Begovic chucked the thing in his own net!
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Post by GeneralFaye on Jul 15, 2010 16:44:15 GMT
Mama was amazing!
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Post by FullerMagic on Jul 15, 2010 16:45:47 GMT
Tonge was a class act.
He's a victim of our style, more than anything else.
It's unclear why we ever bought him. He's so out of place in a Pulis midfield
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Post by lew86 on Jul 15, 2010 16:51:15 GMT
Maybe he's the the catalyst of a shift in our style of play...
No me neither
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Post by stokemark on Jul 15, 2010 16:55:17 GMT
For Sidibe to be anywhere near the bloody first team as we enter our third season in the Prem is verging on mis-management! Let's hope that as we get rid of Beattie and Kitson, two more come in to push for a starting place. Totally agree
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Post by roro on Jul 15, 2010 17:11:38 GMT
I'd loan Begovic out myself and let him gain both experience and confidence. Nash looked very comfortable and confident.
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Post by Roy Cropper on Jul 15, 2010 17:40:14 GMT
Can anyone give me a quick summary of the game?
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Jul 15, 2010 17:41:09 GMT
Bogovic gives me the eebi jeebies any time the ball goes in our box.
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Post by mistersausage on Jul 15, 2010 17:48:14 GMT
We played about ten minutes of passing football in the first half, but Tuncay was too far away from Fuller for it to work, often supplementing the midfield.
Midway through the first half we just started to lump it up and it went nowhere, with Shawcross more guilty than most for this.
Second half, we just lumped it. Tonge and Marshall tried but more often than not the ball just got pumped up to the immobile wheely bin that is mama, who, if he did get to the ball, sent it to the usual invisible man.
The Turkish side played some half decent football for most of the game, sharper and quicker than us.
We got what we deserved ... Nowt.
Hopefully this is not a snapshot of the forthcoming season, but with mama, I wouldn't hold your breath.
Moult reminds me of Goodfellow in that he gets knocked off the ball far too easily.
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Post by Roy Cropper on Jul 15, 2010 18:02:04 GMT
We played about ten minutes of passing football in the first half, but Tuncay was too far away from Fuller for it to work, often supplementing the midfield. Midway through the first half we just started to lump it up and it went nowhere, with Shawcross more guilty than most for this. Second half, we just lumped it. Tonge and Marshall tried but more often than not the ball just got pumped up to the immobile wheely bin that is mama, who, if he did get to the ball, sent it to the usual invisible man. The Turkish side played some half decent football for most of the game, sharper and quicker than us. We got what we deserved ... Nowt. Hopefully this is not a snapshot of the forthcoming season, but with mama, I wouldn't hold your breath. Moult reminds me of Goodfellow in that he gets knocked off the ball far too easily. Cheers mate.
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Post by sportsman on Jul 15, 2010 18:16:12 GMT
This is the reason why Ryan will not leave stoke for a while. He just can't pass wind.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2010 18:16:37 GMT
Can anyone give me a quick summary of the game? we lost 1 - 0 or as the missus would say - "don't know why you are bothering to watch that as stoke dont score anyway"
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Post by onemanbang on Jul 15, 2010 18:16:57 GMT
1st pre season friendly and some poster are ridiculing the team as though it was the last match of the season and we needed a win to stay up.
Jesus guys were always shit in friendlies! in fact didn't we lose to Newcastle town last year? Some people read into it far too much.
generally we are crap pre season and we dont sign anyone until very late on and its been that way for years! yet year after year people think it will change.
"this is a calling to all stoke fans sitting high up 'there' do yourself a favour and come back down to earth"
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Post by mailman44 on Jul 15, 2010 18:19:25 GMT
They were probably so knackered from the heat and the "hill" that they hoped by lumping it someone else would do the running. I do that all the time in Sunday League. "I'm wasted, here chase this moonball you munters."
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Post by luke2u on Jul 15, 2010 18:25:59 GMT
No chance of scoring a goal during the whole match says it all.
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Post by torquaypotter on Jul 15, 2010 18:39:41 GMT
skilljim same here used flash all last season apart from maybe 3 games where the pic froze i found the picture top quality and spot on i also well be using them again this season
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Post by Roy Cropper on Jul 15, 2010 18:44:56 GMT
Agree that friendly's mean nothing, was it Hull that lost 4-0 to Crewe just before that amzing start they had when they were first promoted?
And didn't this team win the Turkish League last year? Beating the likes of Galatasary, Fenerbache and Besiktas to the title?
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Post by onlyonesirstan on Jul 15, 2010 19:27:27 GMT
So another season of lumping the ball forward, fcuking wonderful.
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Post by lordb on Jul 15, 2010 19:28:59 GMT
all pre-season friendly results & even performances mean diddly squat
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Post by PerCyfilth ....Captains Log on Jul 15, 2010 19:32:08 GMT
Sorry, friendly or not we were absolute shit from back to front. We could have played till the season starts and not scored or created a decent chance. I cant face another season of Sidibe missing chance after chance(not that he will get any) and Pulis Ball again. Sod it i am off to watch paint dry.
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