FT: STOKE CITY 2 - 0 CARDIFF CITY. Match Thread

[Maurice Swan]

no guile without Tomlin but no excuse for lack of pace and energy.

[bluemoon]

long throws toward a stoke player like 7ft tall... genius

but city starting to turn the screw a little bit now creating a few little efforts... a bit better but we seem to come off 2nd best to pretty much everything

[Carl Dale's Mole]

COME ON GLATZEL! SILENCE THE HATERS! BE A HERO ROBBIE!

[NYCBlue]

Come on Glatzel. Show us what you've got.

[Carl Dale's Mole]

Awful. Just awful.

[NYCBlue]

Jesus Christ. That was TERRIBLE. Everyone involved was just awful. I'm going to stop watching. My kid wants the spare computer.

[Maurice Swan]

JEEPERS.....shocking defending....Richards...Smithies doesn't hold.....Bennett doesn't block...game and season over methinks...

[Maurice Swan]

Bennett again taken to the cleaners...great save by Smithies.

[Maurice Swan]

Why on earth is Ralls not on...he is either fit or he isn't. This lot think they could get in the top six???!! Appalling quite honestly.

[ToTaL ITK]

off to watch the egg...feck this

[Shute]

We've gifted them two goals today. Absolutely shocking defending. Campbell showing us what we don't have.

[Maurice Swan]

only Vaulks can be satisfied with his shift.

[Carl Dale's Mole]

only Vaulks can be satisfied with his shift.

Was about to say the same.

[Maurice Swan]

...seems like results elsewhere are still going our way though....

[Carl Dale's Mole]

...seems like results elsewhere are still going our way though....

Don't bother. Season's definitely over after this. Forest and Brentford are going to embarrass us.

[Maurice Swan]

Richards and Bennett as poor as anytime this season.....Pack and Morrison slow and no vision.....

[Maurice Swan]

...and what's more the bloody swans are above us again...

[Maurice Swan]

What the hell is the point of putting Whyte on for Richards in the 90th minute???? (shake of head.....)

[Carl Dale's Mole]

Surely. SURELY, we see one of those new full backs next game.

[Maurice Swan]

Smithies 6
Richards 2
Morrison 3
Nelson 3
Bennett 2
Vaulks 6
Pack 3
Adomah 3
Ward 2
Murphy 2
Paterson 2

.....it WAS that bad!!!

[islandblue]

Surely. SURELY, we see one of those new full backs next game.

Both I hope, surely we can't do any worse.

[Michael Morris]

That was pretty crap to be honest.

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[Bobby Dandruff]

Smithies 6
Richards 2
Morrison 3
Nelson 3
Bennett 2
Vaulks 6
Pack 3
Adomah 3
Ward 2
Murphy 2
Paterson 2

.....it WAS that bad!!!

Oh dear :-(

Wins against 2 of the clubs near the foot of the table followed by a draw and a loss again to teams near the bottom, tell me what I already knew: we are mid table at best and without Tomlin in the team, not even that.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Oh dear :-(

Wins against 2 of the clubs near the foot of the table followed by a draw and a loss again to teams near the bottom, tell me what I already knew: we are mid table at best and without Tomlin in the team, not even that.

I'd say that Stoke and Huddersfield are two not dissimilar teams - neat passing but with little end product. That the two performances were so widely different can only be down to Tomlin's absence. Unfortunately our squad is so limited in footballing terms that without the only bit of real class we have, they struggle all over the pitch.
I'm sure Harris knows this too - he may be saying positive things about the squad, but no doubt the Stevenage manager's saying the same as well..

[Bobby Dandruff]

I'd say that Stoke and Huddersfield are two not dissimilar teams - neat passing but with little end product. That the two performances were so widely different can only be down to Tomlin's absence. Unfortunately our squad is so limited in footballing terms that without the only bit of real class we have, they struggle all over the pitch.
I'm sure Harris knows this too - he may be saying positive things about the squad, but no doubt the Stevenage manager's saying the same as well..

Lol - an interesting comparison! ;-)