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Post by deliasmith on Apr 5, 2009 0:18:49 GMT
... will be writing Monday's Guardian report on our victory at WBA.
Can I propose we wait to read what he says before issuing another [glow=red,2,300]fatwa?[/glow]
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Post by FullerMagic on Apr 5, 2009 23:13:49 GMT
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Post by Baggs on Apr 6, 2009 0:48:40 GMT
that little whine aside I think it's fair to say he's taken our points on board. and mine in particular. even though he didn't reply to my email the fcuking cnut  separately, you can create a chalkboard of west brazil's passes, it's incredible! literally dominate the middle third, with hardly any into the box www.guardian.co.uk/football/chalkboards/create |
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Post by Tubes on Apr 6, 2009 2:19:49 GMT
create a chalkboard of passes made by Abdoulaye.
I think you'll find he had a pass completion rate of 100%.
Legend!
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Post by markscfc72 on Apr 6, 2009 3:08:47 GMT
Whelan
18 Successful
4 unsuccessful
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Apr 6, 2009 6:41:52 GMT
Tubes, I had just done a chalk board for Ab Faye before I saw your post. As you say a 100% success rate - amazing for a central defender. I can see why the Bolton fans say he is even better in the holding midfield role!
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Apr 6, 2009 7:01:15 GMT
I can see why the Bolton fans say he is even better in the holding midfield role! Right Mr Fornside, stop right there before you go on another trip down the road of moving a player out of a position in which he is excelling to somewhere you fantisise he would do well. ;D |
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Post by GazMcNicol on Apr 6, 2009 7:10:04 GMT
West Brom played twice as many passes as Stoke and lost 2-0
Love it!
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Apr 6, 2009 7:17:47 GMT
Mark, if I remember correctly, Ab Faye played at least as many games for Bolton in midfield as he did in defence. Certainly my Bolton supporting mate always thought Faye was EVEN better in midfield than centre back. So I don't quite see how playing him there would be playing him out of position. I wouldn't move him from centre back until we have a good replacement but once we have then we should give it a go. TP actually did try it once (against Everton?) - and we conceeded three but that was down to the poor centre back display, in my opinion.
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Post by markscfc72 on Apr 6, 2009 7:24:06 GMT
wasnt he referring to something a while back about Liam and whether he was a winger or a defensive right midfielder or something along those lines?
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Apr 6, 2009 7:34:16 GMT
Mark Wolstanton described Liam as a defender soon after we signed him. He was actually used quite often as an attacking central midfielder at Chesterfield Mansfield but never defensively.
Edit - correction thanks to Knowles! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2009 7:40:26 GMT
Precisely. Although his piece is more of a report this week and (other than the last paragraph) less 'Ernest Hemingway goes to a football match'. "...Before the end here Albion's were trooping away like mourners from a wake as the team, with the waters rising about them, went on playing their violins. Mowbray applauded them for leaving not booing. But unlike in banking, there are no rewards for failure and incompetence."Keep on trying Jeremy, you've nearly eradicated all the flowery nonsense. We'll have you hailing our chants as poetry and calling West Brom 'fucking deluded fairies' before long. |
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Post by surreystokie on Apr 6, 2009 9:18:10 GMT
Much better, this time, but for me, the most important part of his report is the header. I presume that it may be his, rather than that of the sports editor, as it answers the comment on "the worst of their chants". Attempting in vain to think of anything especially abusive, I now realise (due to the header) that it must be the one "you can shove your pretty football up your arse'. Well, if that offends, he really should stick to visiting Covent Garden or visit only the likes of the Emirates, OT etc, where inoffensive near-silence reigns. Thank God for our "appalling" supporters!   ;D |
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Post by stokemark on Apr 6, 2009 9:28:54 GMT
Ah men to that Monica
What a stupid lttle man
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Post by johnsmithsupper on Apr 6, 2009 9:38:29 GMT
Who does he think he is, Stuart Hall with a pen, there's only one Stuart Hall and he doesnt make snidey remarks with it
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Post by Kenilworth_Stokies on Apr 6, 2009 9:40:35 GMT
West Brom played twice as many passes as Stoke and lost 2-0 Love it! That's amazing, 350 successful WBA passes (so much so that the screen is almost entirely blue!) versus 129 for us. Two goals for us and no goals for them. It really is that simple. |
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Post by Timmypotter on Apr 6, 2009 10:01:46 GMT
I'd like to know who he supports, whose fans only sing polite and considerate chants. I imagine it's Harlequins.
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Post by knowles on Apr 6, 2009 10:09:59 GMT
I seem to remember Abdoulaye played a ball to Etherington in the first half which went out of play. Isn't that an unsuccessful pass?!! Forny- Liam played for Mansfield, not Chesterfield. |
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Post by ted1965 on Apr 6, 2009 10:18:24 GMT
it was a much better effort Jeremy but couldn’t help yourself about the offensive chanting, you must get out more. Though at least you haven’t attempted to patronise as you did last week and have given us some credit for being the better side or I am sure you would say the more effective side.
As I said yesterday all those passes and going nowhere it really should be called the Hokey Cokey Choky.
Possession is as good as the side using it and West Brazil maybe pass masters but they are totally ineffective above the Championship, yes which would we prefer, praised for pass completions or praised for goals scored that win games.
The Dutch played total football what the Brazilians play is totally toothless football, they remind me of Joe Bugner, looked good, moved well, punched like a limp wristed drag queen. The Brazilians under Mowbray are all frills and no substance it’s like putting a negligee, suspenders and stockings on Jo Brand it’s still Jo Brand no matter how good the outfit looks.
Football is about content, if the product looks good and the box is empty when you look inside it’s simply not good enough.
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Post by drwhom on Apr 6, 2009 10:42:29 GMT
I really don't know why I let this eejit irritate me so much but I had to respond. I think it's because he seems to be so desperate to hate us, despite the many virtues we bring to the Prem (a bit of integrity, the ethic of hard work, honesty, humour, I could go on). Plus it's just so judgemental - he's absolutely convinced his viewpoint is right - there's no room for any effing and jeffing in football, ever.
Anyway, grrrrr.
Oh dear, another Monday morning, another teeth-gnashing session as I plough through the turgid nonsense they hopefully only pay you minimum wage to churn out (http://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/blog/?p=1713).
We'll skip over the overblown pomp and missing words from this week's report (annoyed the subs, Jeremy?) because they were probably only more veiled insults and partisan nonsense. In total it was another Alexander special, a report so biased that I'm amazed you put the right score.
My favourite from this week's was the shearing noise from Alexander's Axe-grinding Service, which resumed the project of trying to get Stoke fans to stop swearing. What was it this week that somehow made it past your perfumed ear-muffs? The cries of "You should have played long ball?" a witty and self-deprecating chant that drew favourable comments from every other review? Why not mention Beattie's hilarious post-match interview - oh, but surely commenting on what someone says after the match would be pointless trivia, especially if it meant you had to issue words of praise to anyone from the Potteries.
All things considered I'll rest easy today knowing that our victory puts us one step closer to staying up and another season of annoying woefully blinkered journalists such as yourself. Almost makes you want to gnash your teeth dunnit?
Cheers,
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Apr 6, 2009 10:59:21 GMT
I seem to remember Abdoulaye played a ball to Etherington in the first half which went out of play. Isn't that an unsuccessful pass?!! Forny- Liam played for Mansfield, not Chesterfield. One field is much like another to a country lad like me James! ;D |
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Post by march4 on Apr 6, 2009 11:33:13 GMT
Of course, one thing that Jezza and his mates didn't notice was that a clash between Stoke and WBA is a repeat of a first day fixture in the history of League Football.
Oops, sorry, I forget, football only started with the inception of the Premier League.
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Post by walrus on Apr 6, 2009 11:39:40 GMT
I know he hates us so we're against him, but does anyone else think his writing as absoultely wank?
The Tony Awards are due at the start of June. Chances are there will be one for Pulis the pragmatist, none for Mowbray the philosopher. This result put Stoke six points above Newcastle in the top relegation spot and left West Brom eight below Sunderland in the lowest place of safety. No fate was sealed with seven games to go but the force with one team contrasted sharply with the lack of it in the other.
His first paragraph reads like an eight year old writing ''What I did at the weekend."
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Post by rorymscfc on Apr 6, 2009 11:40:03 GMT
TBH I thought that was a pretty fair report from Jezza this week - while making allowances for the pomposity one would expect from the Guardian.
I think the chanting that offended was probably the extended "F**k Off West Brom!" but at least he won't have to worry about hearing that next season!
RoryM
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Post by PotteringThrough on Apr 6, 2009 11:40:10 GMT
Who says we want to make friends?
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Post by Olgrligm on Apr 6, 2009 11:41:56 GMT
Much better report, pretty fair and even handed but that dig at us just seemed completely unnecessary. Depends on the emails he's been getting, I suppose.
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Post by thepremierbanksy on Apr 6, 2009 13:29:20 GMT
Regards possession, is there a single league match this season where we've had 50% or more of the ball?
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Post by PerCyfilth ....Captains Log on Apr 6, 2009 14:06:53 GMT
Lads hes an old duffer living in the past. Probably goes to games wearing a homberg and Journos double breasted mac , pencil behind his ear and a ticket on the hat saying "press" Used to fans going to games in collar and ties ala the fifties waving scarves and twirling those annoying rattles and shouting "Play up chaps". If you heard him on the Stoke Podcast he sounds like an Eton Old Boy and was probably mercilessly buggered at school. He normally writes mainly on championship games so no doubt he will be happy doing WBA games next season who play his version of the beautiful game. Bye bye Jezza.  |
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