Dr. TC Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Couldn't resist could they? "All their wins have come against teams in the bottom half" That's probably true, and we'll see what happens against The Manc teams and Chelski, but you can only play what's put in front of you. Is it our fault the fixtures came out how they did?? I'm quite optimistic about our next 6. I reckon we'll get: 3 0 0 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Couldn't resist could they? "All their wins have come against teams in the bottom half" That's probably true, and we'll see what happens against The Manc teams and Chelski, but you can only play what's put in front of you. Is it our fault the fixtures came out how they did?? We obviously should have complained and asked for all the top ten from last season away from home first. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawK Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Couldn't resist could they? "All their wins have come against teams in the bottom half" That's probably true, and we'll see what happens against The Manc teams and Chelski, but you can only play what's put in front of you. Is it our fault the fixtures came out how they did?? We obviously should have complained and asked for all the top ten from last season away from home first. Without a single home game until Boxing day, which would then be vs Man Utd. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubaricho Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Do wonder if narrowing the pitch actually helps Stoke, their wingers seems their only competent players. Dan raised a good point too earlier, the ball drifted out needlessly loads from their stylish centre backs lofting it over the top. Has to do mostly with the throw-ins, right? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mag-ic Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Absolutely ridiculous how they try to stack the deck with those pitch dimensions - hadn't realised until comparing vs the standardised Europa League lines. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. TC Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Do wonder if narrowing the pitch actually helps Stoke, their wingers seems their only competent players. Dan raised a good point too earlier, the ball drifted out needlessly loads from their stylish centre backs lofting it over the top. Has to do mostly with the throw-ins, right? The commentators kept banging on about the wind as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Couldn't resist could they? "All their wins have come against teams in the bottom half" That's probably true, and we'll see what happens against The Manc teams and Chelski, but you can only play what's put in front of you. Is it our fault the fixtures came out how they did?? We obviously should have complained and asked for all the top ten from last season away from home first. Without a single home game until Boxing day, which would then be vs Man Utd. Too easy. City? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Do wonder if narrowing the pitch actually helps Stoke, their wingers seems their only competent players. Dan raised a good point too earlier, the ball drifted out needlessly loads from their stylish centre backs lofting it over the top. Has to do mostly with the throw-ins, right? Yup, not that they'd admit it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Really satisfying win that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 how much of a cunt did pulis make himself whe he was crying about us wiping the ball :lol: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Couldn't resist could they? "All their wins have come against teams in the bottom half" That's probably true, and we'll see what happens against The Manc teams and Chelski, but you can only play what's put in front of you. Is it our fault the fixtures came out how they did?? I'm quite optimistic about our next 6. I reckon we'll get: 3 0 0 1 1 3 The best thing is now we can afford not to worry about the City, Man Utd & Chelsea games. Anything is a bonus rather than us needing points. Great stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawK Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Couldn't resist could they? "All their wins have come against teams in the bottom half" That's probably true, and we'll see what happens against The Manc teams and Chelski, but you can only play what's put in front of you. Is it our fault the fixtures came out how they did?? We obviously should have complained and asked for all the top ten from last season away from home first. Without a single home game until Boxing day, which would then be vs Man Utd. Too easy. City? Na we tend to draw vs them at home, we're hopeless against Utd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Krul 6 Raylor 6 Krul didn't really put a foot wrong tonight. His kicking wasn't great but he dealt with Stoke's long throw's/corners brilliantly. Don't really see what Raylor did wrong as well, linked well with Jonas and Pennant wasn't getting a sniff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Couldn't resist could they? "All their wins have come against teams in the bottom half" I remember last season we had that very problem though, we were a match for any of the top 4/6 but just couldn't get the results against the dross. It's going to be interesting to see this season if we're as competitive with the top teams as last season. Tottenham are probably the third best team in the league atm, their form is fantastic, and we matched them very well. Some might say we were lucky to get a draw in that game, IMO, we could easily have won it as we were at the very least as good as them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Couldn't resist could they? "All their wins have come against teams in the bottom half" That's probably true, and we'll see what happens against The Manc teams and Chelski, but you can only play what's put in front of you. Is it our fault the fixtures came out how they did?? It's already been said, but it's because we've put quite a few down there. If we didn't win today, Stoke are top half. Which is where quite a few people say they very well could end up at the end of the season (more the quality of the league than their actual quality). They talk about challenges like we're classing ourselves as an add-on to make it a top 7. We've coped with what we considered our most important challenges, fuck them. /Not that this hasn't been said a million times on here already, like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Snrub Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 What a fucking result. Sooner or later we're just gonna have to accept we're class and up where we belong. Another 'test' tonight that people expected us to fail yet we strolled through. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Krul 6 Raylor 6 Krul didn't really put a foot wrong tonight. His kicking wasn't great but he dealt with Stoke's long throw's/corners brilliantly. Don't really see what Raylor did wrong as well, linked well with Jonas and Pennant wasn't getting a sniff. Raylor was Ok and Krul did good things and bad things, as you yourself have alluded to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 yeah perch could have had a red - but stoke could have had 2 - that assault on raylor just before half time and then the cunt huth with his forearm in the second Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conjo Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 I have Demba Ba in my fantasy team Captain for my fantasy team What a fucking horrible team Stoke are. Not exactly breaking news, but fucking fuck they suck. There´ll be a few sore bodies on the team bus/plane back to Newcastle tonight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Over a quarter of the season unbeaten and over half the 'magic 40' points total. Fucking hell. What a start. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Incredible that we're doing all of this without HBA and Marveaux too, who I consider two of our better attacking players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 The fixture list stuff is bollocks as far as I'm concerned, obviously teams we've beaten are more likely to be in the bottom half anyway. Pulis talking some shite to Five Live as well, talked about the "soft penalty the referee gave them". Incredible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudwiser Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 R.Taylor 8.5 - Kept Pennant at bay most of the game, couple of good Delaps, +0.5 for towel use Towel boys 10 - wern't overawed by our lads demanding towel usage. ;D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Logic Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Excellent performance and I'm not going to find fault with any of our players over 90+ minutes. Gary Neville almost in awe of us. Stoke can have no complaints regarding penalty as it was close to identical to the one they got. Roll on Everton on Saturday. And as to that being our toughest test, in some respects I suppose, but Spurs at home were no walk in the park. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawK Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Couldn't resist could they? "All their wins have come against teams in the bottom half" That's probably true, and we'll see what happens against The Manc teams and Chelski, but you can only play what's put in front of you. Is it our fault the fixtures came out how they did?? It's already been said, but it's because we've put quite a few down there. If we didn't win today, Stoke are top half. Which is where quite a few people say they very well could end up at the end of the season (more the quality of the league than their actual quality). They talk about challenges like we're classing ourselves as an add-on to make it a top 7. We've coped with what we considered our most important challenges, f*** them. /Not that this hasn't been said a million times on here already, like. I like that viewpoint, they're bottom half cause they played Newcastle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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