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Post by vinecent on Jul 29, 2012 1:21:59 GMT
The big orange guy ;D
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senileoldgit
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Crouch.. On the turn goes for the - OH MY GOD!!!!!!
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Post by senileoldgit on Jul 29, 2012 1:25:11 GMT
Theyre rimming off sorro! ;-)
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Post by StokieBoy31 on Jul 29, 2012 1:26:00 GMT
Thanks guys.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jul 29, 2012 1:26:27 GMT
6-2-1 formation, love eet.
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senileoldgit
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Crouch.. On the turn goes for the - OH MY GOD!!!!!!
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Post by senileoldgit on Jul 29, 2012 1:30:15 GMT
Stoke city will do what they do well - pass back and forth!!!!! Hahaha
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Post by manchesterpotter on Jul 29, 2012 1:32:49 GMT
Not a bad performance overall, plenty of positives to take away from it.
Well done lads
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Post by skilljim on Jul 29, 2012 1:33:24 GMT
Well stream dropped out, so take it that's it. 1-0 win. Bit pathetic at the end tbh, pre season friendly match and just time wasting and corner holding for about 10 mins, 1 thing I think we need practise in, and that's shooting and scoring so just av a fackin go
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jul 29, 2012 1:33:33 GMT
Made me chuckle too.
I presume it's over and we won 1-0, the stream just died.
In the end a very decent fitness work out especially with Whelan leaving us with ten men and we won which was nice. A very good goal from Walters too. On to Kansas and better streams for all hopefully!
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Post by Vodkab1ock on Jul 29, 2012 1:39:08 GMT
good work out!
i enjoyed watching us again seems like ages since i seen stoke play. Etherington looked very sharp in the first half but we really missed JP pushing down the right wing. Walters had a few good runs in the 1st half too looked like the rest has done him good. Whelan is a idiot why he went charging in 2 times like that in a friendly i will never know hopefully the ref wont report it to the FA or he will serve a 1 game ban in the premier league.
overall good work out and good match fitness building exercise for the lads, and a very good goal.
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Post by mailman44 on Jul 29, 2012 1:43:28 GMT
Geez I know he divides opinion but if anybody was men against boys it was KJ. Won everything in the air, ran at defenders, nice layoffs .... F@ k me there has to be a "pull head out of a$$" button hidden in those dreadlocks somewhere ...
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Post by Vodkab1ock on Jul 29, 2012 1:51:49 GMT
get 2 wingers putting crosses into the box and you've then got Crocuh and Jones at there best at some point this season i hope we go back to that system! Pretty sure Jones and Crouch are both in the top 3 headed goals in the premier league and now cahil has gone they are probably 1-2.
simple plan -> 442 give it 2 the wingers who put it in to the strikers = Win goals and fun!!
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Post by sportsman on Jul 29, 2012 7:10:49 GMT
If whelan or shotton play one game for stoke next season Tone needs fucking
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2012 8:26:39 GMT
Geez I know he divides opinion but if anybody was men against boys it was KJ. Won everything in the air, ran at defenders, nice layoffs .... F@ k me there has to be a "pull head out of a$$" button hidden in those dreadlocks somewhere ... He looked up for it! Him & Cameron looked very sharp when they came on. Whelan has been a liability over the last two games - surprised he didn't get sent off v Crew96 More of the same from Kenyne please 'The Potters were dealt a further blow when Jerome pulled up sharply with what looked like a knee problem' - hopefully nothing too serious!
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jul 29, 2012 9:01:46 GMT
I think its fair to say that Cameron Jerome and KJ have become something like bussom buddies these last 12 months.
They played well together in the Europa games and looked good in the League Cup game v Tottenham until KJ got an injury.
If they looked good together yesterday, perhaps they are playing for moves?
A 1-0 win against a team whose best players are James O'Connor (god love him) and Anthony Pulis is nothing really to write home about though is it?
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Post by cheadlestokie on Jul 29, 2012 9:08:37 GMT
Ryan Shotton looked as good as ever!
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Post by FullerMagic on Jul 29, 2012 9:13:07 GMT
Only watched about an an hour before nodding off, but it was pretty dire again, wasn't it?
Pre-season, all about fitness, result completely irrelevant etc etc etc.
Fine.
But not looking more accomplished against such a dire standard of opposition is a little concerning, as is being out-shot 22-8.
The finish from Walters was an oasis of quality in a desert of garbage.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jul 29, 2012 9:16:27 GMT
No idea. I have very little interest or enthusiasm for the upcoming season as it is so I sure as hell wouldn't stay up to the early hours to watch a stream of a pre-sesaon friendly!
Pre-season is crap at the best of times...never more so than this pre-season.
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Post by dieguito88 on Jul 29, 2012 9:46:53 GMT
For what i see Shotton and Wilson are very in difficult at fullback.. Shotton doesn't read the game well and make a lot of mistakes, but phisically is very good
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2012 9:54:49 GMT
A 1-0 win against a team whose best players are James O'Connor (god love him) and Anthony Pulis is nothing really to write home about though is it? If we'd won 5-0 some people would be saying the same It was what it was. A hard work out in blistering heat on a very big artificial pitch with 10 men for large periods of the game.
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Post by BigKahunaBurger on Jul 29, 2012 9:56:03 GMT
missed the game, what position did Ness play?
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Post by stokiejoeofalsager on Jul 29, 2012 10:00:32 GMT
i laughed every time he said the ''iron lions'' ;D were intimidating. it looked like a bloody zumba class to me!
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Post by FullerMagic on Jul 29, 2012 10:02:00 GMT
A 1-0 win against a team whose best players are James O'Connor (god love him) and Anthony Pulis is nothing really to write home about though is it? If we'd won 5-0 some people would be saying the same It was what it was. A hard work out in blistering heat on a very big artificial pitch with 10 men for large periods of the game. To be fair, the same failings are on show in all weather conditions with 11 men. All the mitigation is fair - but you'd think the weather may have meant we put more of a premium on keeping the ball. As it was, the passing was as random as ever with the only tactic being to get it to Etherington to lump in a hopeful cross.
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Post by droz on Jul 29, 2012 10:06:05 GMT
It was a pretty poor stream, and we weren't particularly pretty on the plastic pitch. To be fair, Orlando weren't bad, but as others have mentioned, when their star man is a washed-up JOC, they played the day before and still out-played us; fitness or no fitness, it was not impressive. These are probably about conference level. Having said that, of course pre-season is pretty meaningless, etc. and we've done poorly after having good pre-seasons.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2012 10:06:16 GMT
Looked like the tactics to me were to go through their players! That's certainly the impression I got from Whelan & Huth It was pretty dire up until KJ & CJ came on but I only recall Sorro having a few shots to save - most were long range efforts.
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Post by march4 on Jul 29, 2012 10:15:14 GMT
missed the game, what position did Ness play? He was supposedly in his natural postion - left flank, but had a game to forget. Hopefully, the heat and a level of training he has never experienced before had taken its toll on him.
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Post by FullerMagic on Jul 29, 2012 10:19:08 GMT
missed the game, what position did Ness play? He was supposedly in his natural postion - left flank, but had a game to forget. Hopefully, the heat and a level of training he has never experienced before had taken its toll on him. 'natural position'? Baed on what, Marchy? He's only played 16 first-team games, and you could count the ones he hasn't played CM in on the fingers of one hand that'd been involved in an horrific accident in a sausage-making factory. Like Wilson, he's suffering from not playing in the position he's played 95% of his football. He may or may not be good enough in any position, but it's perplexing why we buy out-and-out central midfielders, then try and accommodate them elsewhere.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2012 11:42:16 GMT
missed the game, what position did Ness play? He was supposedly in his natural postion - left flank, but had a game to forget. Hopefully, the heat and a level of training he has never experienced before had taken its toll on him. i live and work in glasgow. a couple of mates here are Rangers fans who have followed Ness' development very closely. they laughed at the suggestion he may play left wing or left back for us. they say he has a lot of potential as a centre mid. he's a very good ball player, creative, likes to attack. why we have signed him only pulis knows, but i'd imagine it was a chance to get a promising player for no fee, on smallish wages that we can loan to a championship team and make a tidy profit from when we sell him in a year or so. he'll never play in a premier league game for stoke.
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Post by Kjones9 on Jul 29, 2012 11:47:51 GMT
He was supposedly in his natural postion - left flank, but had a game to forget. Hopefully, the heat and a level of training he has never experienced before had taken its toll on him. 'natural position'? Baed on what, Marchy? He's only played 16 first-team games, and you could count the ones he hasn't played CM in on the fingers of one hand that'd been involved in an horrific accident in a sausage-making factory. Like Wilson, he's suffering from not playing in the position he's played 95% of his football. He may or may not be good enough in any position, but it's perplexing why we buy out-and-out central midfielders, then try and accommodate them elsewhere. Leave the fool too it, he has to have a boo boy, last year it was Wilson (which he is now backpedaling on) and this year it's ness even before a ball is kicked.
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Post by mailman44 on Jul 29, 2012 12:39:17 GMT
Fair points above regarding an over all dire match but TBF Stoke looked nackered even before the kick off. It was very hot on a plastic pitch that had to be 20 yards longer and wider than The Brit. No kidding there were hands on hips leaving the field from the warm up. Ness did have a brilliant back heel to KJ that put him in on goal and I thought Ness played well. To their credit both Ness and KJ disobeyed orders and came over to the fans and signed autographs after the match despite supposed orders to get right on the bus and ignore the fans. Wilson, Walters, Crouch, Sorenson, Palacios, and Arismendi, Huth, Shawcross, and Shotton (wearing a Red Sox Cap?) made their way over too but surprisingly Tone yelled some apologies and couldn't be botherEd which seems very out of character for him and pissed a lot of us off. Many people drove or flew long distances at great personal expense for perhaps their only chance to see their beloved Potters and to not be able to take a few minutes to acknowledge them is poor. I thought Tone was better than that.
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Post by mailman44 on Jul 29, 2012 12:45:12 GMT
Oh yeah PULIS OUT!!!!!!
Just kidding .....
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