Stoke (A) - League Cup Semi (First Leg)

[Bradley]

Somebody is gonna get shanked in here. Won't be pretty . No sir.

 

[moron]

Imagine Sturridge had started, he'd be dead.

LOL - fantastic. Yeah he would be but we would be probably excused from the Friday's game by the FA.

 

[Vlads Quiff]

No need to go overboard with your praise Vlads

Regards.

Credit where credit is due I say [emoji48]

 

[6TimesaRed ⭐]

Kolo and Lucas have very good game intelligence.

Fucking Hell

Straight out of the BR book of quotes that.

 

[JohnnyRocket]

Joe Allen can do it on a cold night at Stoke. We still don't know if Messi can. Just saying.

 

[manwithnoname]

Toure is usually fairly sound as a bit part player, and I think you see the same sort of return in Lucas and Allen. It's when managers get conned into playing them in a run of games that the inevitable happens. I think that's what's so fucking frustrating about those two, because they can go from performances like that where they show real fighting spirit & quality for the team, and then they return in the next game and look like a pair of amateurs. Does my head in.

Why does it do your head in? The reason for it is not the lazy old trope 'inconsistent'. Players who can't produce good performances regularly aren't inconsistent, they're just not very good.

Every player can smack one in from 30 yards, or have a streak of goals, or dominate a supposedly superior midfield or attack in the occasional game. It's what they produce over a period of years that makes a good player good.

Allen and Lucas aren't good players. Toure isn't any more either. So none of them can be relied upon, because their actual level is far below the occasional spike in performance.

 

[ILD]

Stoke can't do it on a cold wet night in Stoke.

Good win. I thought Lucas, Allen and Can were very good.

I didn't get to read the thread but are we giving Allen the benefit of the doubt with that assist to Ibe?

 

[Delinquent]

Stoke can't do it on a cold wet night in Stoke.

Good win. I thought Lucas, Allen and Can were very good.

I didn't get to read the thread but are we giving Allen the benefit of the doubt with that assist to Ibe?

I believe Brendan may have covered this.

 

[ILD]

Fuck, i'm going to have go back and read the thread aren't I?

 

[Gerry_A_Trick]

Stoke can't do it on a cold wet night in Stoke.

Good win. I thought Lucas, Allen and Can were very good.

I didn't get to read the thread but are we giving Allen the benefit of the doubt with that assist to Ibe?

Was that a pass from Allen?

For God's sake. No. No it wasn't

 

[gkmacca]

Mignolet needs telling not to time waste, because he couldn't do it more blatantly if he was wearing a sandwich board emblazoned with the words 'OI, REF, I'M TIME WASTING!' He'll be sent off one of these times if he keeps it up, because a yellow card is pretty much inevitable once he gets started, and yet still he plods on with it. It's embarrassing.

 

[manwithnoname]

Mignolet needs telling not to time waste, because he couldn't do it more blatantly if he was wearing a sandwich board emblazoned with the words 'OI, REF, I'M TIME WASTING!' He'll be sent off one of these times if he keeps it up, because a yellow card is pretty much inevitable once he gets started, and yet still he plods on with it. It's embarrassing.

Hahaha. He's certainly not cut out for skullduggery.

 

[Vlads Quiff]

Mignolet needs telling not to time waste, because he couldn't do it more blatantly if he was wearing a sandwich board emblazoned with the words 'OI, REF, I'M TIME WASTING!' He'll be sent off one of these times if he keeps it up, because a yellow card is pretty much inevitable once he gets started, and yet still he plods on with it. It's embarrassing.

You are right Macca it is embarrassing firstly, as you say, he's so fucking obvious, and secondly that we actually need to cheat.

 

[gene hughes]

His face is too flat for that sort of behavior. His eyes have nowhere to hide, no natural cover to help conceal his motives. He's too 2D for subterfuge.

 

[Squiggles]

Mignolet needs telling not to time waste, because he couldn't do it more blatantly if he was wearing a sandwich board emblazoned with the words 'OI, REF, I'M TIME WASTING!' He'll be sent off one of these times if he keeps it up, because a yellow card is pretty much inevitable once he gets started, and yet still he plods on with it. It's embarrassing.

He's got a degree you know.

 

[Mystic]

His face is too flat for that sort of behavior. His eyes have nowhere to hide, no natural cover to help conceal his motives. He's too 2D for subterfuge.

Surely he could just turn to the side and then no one would see him?

 

[FoxForceFive]

Surely he could just turn to the side and then no one would see him?

That wouldn't work. He plays in a stadium with players & fans on all sides, so people would always be able to see him.

Stuff like that only works in cartoons.

 

[moron]

That wouldn't work. He plays in a stadium with players & fans on all sides, so people would always be able to see him.

Stuff like that only works in cartoons.

And the cameras.

 

[Mystic]

That wouldn't work. He plays in a stadium with players & fans on all sides, so people would always be able to see him.

Stuff like that only works in cartoons.

Well, he only needs to hide from the ref!

 

[mark1975]

Mignolet is panface.

 

[C/O]

He'd be deadly at sneaking up for a last minute corner, though.

 

[Jack D Rips]

Even Mignolet is not stupid enough to think its worth going up for one of our corners.