Today could be the differece between staying up come Chelsea! Cala's goal today was never offside in a billion years.. The 2 points dropped from "offside" would have saw us edge closer! Great to see us playing like a team again!
*Stoke fan in peace* Thanks for the good game today and I look forward to seeing it tonight on match of the day. And as the title of the thread says, a vital point; both for us and for you. Good luck for the future in the BPL and I am sure Ole will guide you to good things in the future.
From what Ive been told the 'goal' was offside. Seen the slow motion on the Stoke penalty - no way was that a pen. Havent seen the replay on ours but it look as though hes evened it out. Another 5 minutes and Stoke would have won. Better display but another point thanks to the best keeper in the League.
We looked very tired as a team that last 20 minutes - even Caulker was trudging around blowing hard. Zaha was broadly inneffective replacing Kimbo on the hour, and as fantastic as Daehli was at the start of each half, he also looked shagged well before he actually came off. If Ole was going to bring Jones on in his place, he should have made the switch earlier. That said, a solid if unspectacular performance from a side crying out for true pace to turn defenders. Campbell has all the speed and enthusiasm necessary, but lacks the quality on the ball - his first touch is very poor. Whitts is as slow as ever and Fabio showed him up in that respect big time. I didn't think I'd ever say this, but Fabio is growing on me with every game playing where he is now. A deserved point against a workmanlike Stoke, but this side is not good enough to compete at this level.
Agree with you there Sparks, Fabio in my eyes when he first got here was 'why is he here' but he has come into his own the last few games. The Sunderland match is more than a cup final next Sunday. KTF
Was it just me, or did anyone else think the Stoke fans were a vile bunch. Have had many scrapes with that lot in the past and things do not seem to have changed on their behalf.
I agree, Odemwingie made the most of the situation on our pen, I mean who wouldn't? But from what I saw on MOTD, it looked like your pen was deserved but when Campbell went down to attempt to get a penalty it was not, just like Odemwingie's pen he made the most of the situation. Good luck for the future
No it was more of an old style atmosphere. (without everyone kicking lumps out of each other). Palace fans were the noisiest - but the stripey Nigels are a bit cringeworthy. Good support from Stoke I thought. Better than all the clapping between fans over the rebrand (which I hate) - i prefer good old rivalry.
Sunderland were impressive yesterday. I've tipped them for the drop for ages but they just might do it. You'll do well to get anything up there next week but if you do you might actually make it.
I am hoping(praying) that you draw with sunderland, gives us a glimmer of a chance, cant grumble if we go down we have been awful
You have indeed traveller - just marginally worse than us. The fact that we did the double over you is scant praise. Without you in the division, we'd be down already. I still think it's all to play for, though the maths says the current bottom three will drop, Norwich and Brom are the targets for us both. If we can beat Sunderland up there next Sunday we have a decent chance. For me, the winner of that game isn't guaranteed anything, but the loser will definitely go down. Brom play at Man City tonight and that should only go one way. If both us and you lot at home to Hull next weekend can get results, and Norwich fail at Man U next Saturday, it could be blown wide open. If either of us lose our next games, the party's over for both of us in my book.
I was feeling confident before the Norwich game, we won luckily then you went and won at saints, and to top it all sunderland won at cfc, I thought it was only Norwich we had to over take, HOW WRONG WAS I? so cant predict the last 3 games, when I have watched you, you seem a decent team, but against us everyone seems decent lol
Traveller - you obviously didn't watch us against Palace, West Ham and Villa to name just three mate. Even at home against Norwich, we had more let offs than a Bonfire Night fireworks display - we were very lucky. If we go down, it'll be no surprise to any over here given some of the abject performances we've put in. Our home win over Man City in the second game of the season came far too early - we all started to think we were good.
Amazing that with three games to play, no one has been relegated yet. The whole thing will probably go to the last, very nervous, day.
Both us and Fulham are depending on 3 sides being worse than us rather than staying up on any sort of merit. Sunderland have shown with 4 points from Stamford Bridge and The Etihad that they might well earn their place for next season. We'll need the bar set at about 34 points to survive, I'm pretty sure that'll equal the all time PL low for survival. It would be typical football though for Sunderland to get those 2 incredible results then lose at home to someone **** like us though I'll be supporting Chelsea in their Semi final, I honestly think them with a CL final on the horizon could be a massive advantage for us, fly into the first few tackles and get players wondering if a dead rubber at the CCS is worth missing the biggest game of their careers for.
