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Pulis happy to stick with misfiring City sriker!

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  1. Smithers

    Smithers Well-Known Member
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    Article in the Sentinel:

    TP is keeping faith with Stoke striker Jon Walters - despite seeing him miss a hat-trick of chances......


    "Jon could of had a hat-rick - and not a very difficult hat-trick" said Pulis. "I'm not picking on him because he's done fantastic for us and kept going. The BEST thing about him is that he will never stop getting into positions. His attitude and stregth of charachter is fantastic and thats why we pick him every week"

    Not scored in open play since November 2011 and his 2 goals in his last 21 games for Stoke! He has also only scored 10 in all competitions this year (50+ games) and most were penalties!

    Thoughts, because I'm lost for words on the logic? As someone said once said.... "my dog can run but he cant score either"!
     
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  2. Sandor Clegane

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    Walters is an important part of our game, even with his lack of goals, most of our counters come from Jonny pressing and hassling defenders, but TP is bigging him up too much here, I'd like to see Jerome get run in for a few matches, he can always drop him for Walters again if it ain't working.

    I agree about Ba though, with hindsight, yeah we should have signed him, but Newcaslte probably wouldn't have signed for 7-8 million either.
     
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    Agreed, I do like Jonny he's a confidence player and it's clearly lacking with him at the minute - the quicker this season is over the better, a lot of the players are suffering from the pure amount of games played. No Europe next year, get some fresh blood in and onwards and upwards next year KTF
     
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    Problem is Johnny wont get a rest, he's going the euros.isnt.he?
     
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  5. Pottermouth 328

    Pottermouth 328 Well-Known Member

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    I would think there is a good chance he will be going.

    Pulis you really are now taking the **** IF it was ANY other Manager I would say this was a wind up.

    I'm SPEECHLESS WHY did YOU sign JEROME?
     
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  6. Agent Bruce

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    For anybody that might have been in the crowd on Saturday.
     

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  7. Pottermouth 328

    Pottermouth 328 Well-Known Member

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    Agent Bruce

    I was sittng with the Newcastle fans <laugh>

    Great weekend = up North
    Great fans = Necastle fans I met.
    Great performance = Necastle.



    Really hope you make the top 4 good luck you can do it.
     
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  8. Smithers

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    I understand that he is VERY important to the way we (or should I say) TP approaches the game, but maybe thats one of the problems? His poor goal record (and we all know that Walters is not a true Prem striker) and our awful stat as the lowest scorers in the prem would would sort of sit hand in hand! This is not an attack on Walters he is an exceptional servant to the cause, but he is being ruined by TP and inturn the situation is affecting our prospects as a team to be an offensive threat!
     
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  9. Agent Bruce

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    Cheers Pottermouth 328, pleased you enjoyed your visit. Just thought I'd post the pic as a souvenir for anybody that was there. It's been reduced a hell of a lot for posting, it would be bigger than your monitor if it was full size.

    Good luck for the rest of the season, you won't come across many teams in the kind of form we're in at the moment. <cheers>
     
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    I guess we won't.. great all round team performance well done.

    Must say, the atmosphere around me was top notch too!

    <cheers>
     
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    Another 90 minutes and no return! You cant rely on Crouch to score all your goals!
     
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