Size is not important...

..but it could be next week! We must be the smallest team in the Premiership playing the largest. Can anyone confirm? (I am off to bed now so I haven't got the time!!)

 

Am I bored enough to work out some stats? Is work quiet enough?

The following are in centimetres;

Crouch 198

191 Caulker​

Begovic 196

190 Tremmel​

Sorensen 196

188 Rangel​

Huth 191

185 Graham​

Shawcross 191

185 Jazz​

Shotton 191

185 Tate​

Arismendi 189

183 Williams​

Wilson 188

183 Monk​

Jerome 185

183 Vorm​

Upson 185

180 Gower​

Delap 183

180 Lucas​

Diao 183

180 Moore​

Pugh 183

180 Orlandi​

Soares 183

178 Augustien​

Walters 183

178 Bessone​

Whitehead 183

177 Sinclair​

Woodgate 183

176 Lita​

Whelan 180

175 Taylor​

Wilkinson 180

173 Dobbie​

Palacios 178

170 Routledge​

Etherington 178

168 Allen​

Pennant 173

168 Britton
165 Dyer​

As you can see, we're a much smaller team on the whole. Across the board, Stoke's average height is 185.4cm, so about 6'1" across the squad. The Swans, on the other hand, come in at 179.1cm.

Their starting lineup against the Swans(with allowance for artistic interpretation) will probably be something like Begovic, Huth, Shawcross, Wilson, Wilkinson, Whelan, Pennant, Palacios, Etherington, Walters and Crouch. These players average height is 185.1cm, but this is deceiving as Crouch and Begovic skew the figures somewhat. I think it's a sign of Stoke's changing tactics that there are a lot of their shortest players in their "best 11", as they are moving away from physicality and looking to play more football on the ground. Their good showing in the fair play table so far is worth noting too.

The Swans starting eleven is likely to be, in my opinion, the same as at Chelsea but with Dobbie and Graham replacing Gower and Lita. This'll give us an average height of 177.0cm

Fairly big difference! Be interesting to see what happens on the field...

 

My god - shouldn't you be out diving?

 

Size is not everything , it's how you use it that is important - are we talking about football here ?

 

I sent Gav in

 

Thanks Scott - Our tallest player who is likely to play is Rangel - Stoke have 8 players the same size or taller

 

Interesting that pretty much all of their shortest players are likely to feature though. Sign of a changing style I think.

 

The taller they are, the harder they fall. That coming from someone who`s 78 inches tall.

 

Lanky bastard Trumps my 74!

 

dont give corners away is the key or chop crouch's legs off..

 

He'd probably still be taller than a few of our boys...