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Post by Premiership for hutchstokie on Feb 14, 2008 11:03:17 GMT
Sick of people pundits and commentators saying Stoke are big physical and long ball team , and thrive on set pieces, well read on todays sun Ryan Giggs says we`re happy to win ugly at all costs so lets see if Man Ure get slated like the mighty potters do!!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2008 11:11:16 GMT
We’re a direct team and make no apologies about it.
It’s up to other teams to beat us. I’d take criticism all day long and happily walk away smiling with the 3 points in the bag.
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Post by kinnell on Feb 14, 2008 11:16:02 GMT
Sick of people like you celebrating anti football. You should be ashamed.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2008 11:17:31 GMT
Anti-football?
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Post by nonameface on Feb 14, 2008 11:32:09 GMT
We are the best team in the league, the table will show this shortly. If people want to dog us because we are winning alot of our games and doing it differently to how they want us to play then I take that as a compliment. Not only can we win, we can do it playing ugly and old fashioned, that shows how good we really are!
And to be fair this season we haven't hoofed how we used too. We are direct and mixing it now!
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Post by plummy on Feb 14, 2008 11:36:45 GMT
From BBC website: Manchester United's Ryan Giggs says the team are prepared to win ugly to catch Arsenal and claim the Premier League title. If it brings success who cares! But I guess if Man Poo win ugly it will go down as a resilient show, but when Stoke do it its hoofball  |
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 14, 2008 11:39:20 GMT
But I guess if Man Poo win ugly it will go down as a resilient show, but when Stoke do it its hoofball
Yes spot on. Its all perception.
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Post by kinnell on Feb 14, 2008 12:03:22 GMT
Brian Clough talks in his autobiography about his hatred for this sort of football, as propounded by the FA coach Charles Hughes but maybe, as someone suggested back in August, we've now bred a species of footballer whose physicality really can overcome a far greater level of skill. Add this to a tactic of 'hurling it into the mixer' as often as possible and you appear to have a successful formula.But if this formula does kill skill in the game, if everyone starts playing that way, who the hell is going to want to watch that? I had hoped that with Whelan and Gally on board we might start to play slightly differently but it doesn't look that way right now. So there you have it. We might go up playing this brand of football, scoring most of our goals through big defenders getting on the end of long throws, and 99.9% will be happy with that. I guess I'd be in the 0.1%. Cue the abuse. But that's my view. And I believe I'm entitled to it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2008 12:14:39 GMT
How are we anti-football?
I'm not against football, i'm all for winning games like we are now and in with a chance of promotion.
If others choose to play in a different way then fair enough.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Feb 14, 2008 12:16:36 GMT
It’s about bloody time we won ugly for a change rather than the life shortening performances of the past few weeks!
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