According Mark Hughes post match interview the ref's 'watch' wasn't working, and it was the Lino that gave the goal, which makes it even more galling that they got the other important decision soooooo wrong!
Great performance by the lads. Chester red was the right decision though he was left in a horrible position as a result of the poor passes by first McShane and then Livermore. This being the ultimate punishment for a small series of poor passes at the back over the first 15 minutes which we dominated overall. Clearly this changed the game completely but as we saw often last season all 10 men worked admirably for the remaining 75 minutes only to be robbed by poor officiating with 10 minutes to go. Hope Bruce takes a bit of a risk on Thursday and plays the best available for both this game and Villa - these guys seem proud to wear the shirt and will give it everything they have before the international break. Maybe we will have a few new faces if others are tired some Sunday. Well done lads.
I said before the game how awful John Moss is. So slow and off the pace. Constantly puts himself in ridiculous positions which leads to ridiculous decisions because half the time he can't see what's happened. Shame he cost us two points with the awarding of that throw in leading to their goal. My dad tells me Niall Quinn on Sky said the officials cost us today.
agree when Quinn came off it was one way traffic for them...also taking Jelly off meant we had no one upfront to at least try holding the ball up...Brucey got it wrong with the last 2 subs imho.
In what sense, I might of got the rule incorrect but the Stoke player could of definately missed Chester. There is no doubt in that. He was after getting Chester off and got his wish.
Quinn had both hands on his knees trying to get his wind back for the last few plays before they took him off. You could see it out of the corner of the tv durring the throw ins. Quinn had to come off unfortunately he was beyond spent. Bruce had the sub spot on when it came to Quinn.
And with Jelavic spent and no Sagbo, there weren't too many options for someone to come on and hold the ball up for us. Desperate for a striker, though Jelavic showed the instinct that we haven't seen too often from our forwards in the recent past
Just got back. Great performance from the lads. Moss ****ed up big time, it happened right in front of me. The ball didn't take a slight deflection! As soon as he pointed to a stoke throw in the north/west corner went mental! And considering people NEVER stand in that area it must have been obvious to him that he'd got it totally wrong! I'm going to have to take into account what a tubby **** Moss is cause he wasn't up with play when it went out and therefore just guessed that it was a Stoke throw. He did look to the linesman but he didn't have ****ing clue. On Stoke...very one dimensional, if plan A doesn't work bring Crouch on and hoof it up to him.
Quinn = knackered, so Meyler on for him. Wrong? Jelly off at 81 mins for Boyd. They score at 83 mins. Would Jelly have prevented that?
No he wasn't he was about 3 yards away from it. EDIT. After fast forwarding the game to the incident all I can say is WTF was the lino looking at as it CANNOT have been the play.
Thought Stoke were the worst team iv'e seen for a long while. I was disappointed with the short corner shinanigins near the end. We were ****ing about in the corner and lost it to them easily, so that they could then counter attack and put us on the back foot. A cross into the box could have provided a chance if not we would have been no worse of than we were.
Jamie Redknapp should have put a bet on this http://www1.skysports.com/watch/vid...-city/9434445/redknapp's-hull-v-stoke-preview
We put ourselves under a lot more pressure when we took Jelavic off, if he did have to come off, then Aluko would have been a better option.
The problem was not only were we left without a striker to give their defence something to think about, which in turn let them push their line much further upfield and insert even heavier pressure, he completely ****ed the team shape up by moving Meyler out to the wing with Elmo completely lost out of position. Wtf was that about? Jelavic wouldn't have stopped the goal himself but maybe without ****ing up the team shape it may never have happened.
Yeah - I did think we should have used Aluko. (I posted before really thinking. And I had no stream to help my opinion).
I thought that as well. I reckon SB's thinking was that we were just punting the ball long so having Elmo playing as the lone front man at least gave us a chance of winning a few headers. Aluko wouldn't have had a prayer unless it was played to his feet....
