The Little General
Midfield
I guess we will never know. My thoughts are he just didn't see eye to eye with Beale (tactics) or Speakman (contract). Strange to refuse to play though.
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Frank_1976
Central Defender
Pierre man of the match for me
enjoyed that. the best we've played in a while and the best individual performances from quite a few players for a while.
pleased i went as well unlike some of the fannies on here this morning who appeared to be almost boasting about not going in protest.
pleased i went as well unlike some of the fannies on here this morning who appeared to be almost boasting about not going in protest.
dave hedgehog
Winger
Biggest difference today was all the midfielders looking to make forward passes as a 1st option. Alot more misplaced passes because of it but ultimately meant we were better to watch and less pedestrian.
Praise to the coach for addressing it. Like chalk and cheese compared to hull city game.
Was extremely apprehensive about going today and with the pritch news before kick off i was expecting utter chaos if we lost.
Imo beale needs to apologise to fans for being a bit of a dick cos he needs them on side if he is to succeed.
We are a quality striker away from being top 6. Other additions welcome also!
Praise to the coach for addressing it. Like chalk and cheese compared to hull city game.
Was extremely apprehensive about going today and with the pritch news before kick off i was expecting utter chaos if we lost.
Imo beale needs to apologise to fans for being a bit of a dick cos he needs them on side if he is to succeed.
We are a quality striker away from being top 6. Other additions welcome also!
Shit he's had some of us should apologise aswell then ,
Howard the Duck
Striker
Where do you get these please mate? Also, what was the xG in our game against Hull?
Bossworld
Midfield
I'm still not entirely sure what I watched today! 35 minutes of the usual huff and puff without much of a direct effort on goal, then a timely goal followed by very good second half. Ekwah and Seelt adding some much needed height and finally felt like crosses into the box and longer balls were actually having an effect.
Have to say I thought the referee was very good and had two of theirs in the book reasonably early on. They tried diving for pens and fouls and he just wasn't interested. Only gripe would be the seven minutes at the end, not least because it's taken me an hour back to Whitley Bay due to those temp lights through Boldon.
Stoke had their chances and couldn't help but watch their #10 who was incredibly fast and think how different the season could be for SAFC, with an out and out striker.
Absolute comedy own goal, my lad was in the middle of saying 'I don't mind if they score because it's 3-0' literally 5 seconds before it ended up in the net. But didn't feel like Stoke would find anything else by that point.
Have to say I thought the referee was very good and had two of theirs in the book reasonably early on. They tried diving for pens and fouls and he just wasn't interested. Only gripe would be the seven minutes at the end, not least because it's taken me an hour back to Whitley Bay due to those temp lights through Boldon.
Stoke had their chances and couldn't help but watch their #10 who was incredibly fast and think how different the season could be for SAFC, with an out and out striker.
Absolute comedy own goal, my lad was in the middle of saying 'I don't mind if they score because it's 3-0' literally 5 seconds before it ended up in the net. But didn't feel like Stoke would find anything else by that point.
Ahhh Bistrow…
dave hedgehog
Winger
He'll get the support if he delivers. But he could do with not creating a divide between him and us.
Imo the negativity is actually aimed at the club as much as him. Even that chant last week was sarcastic towards the club sacking TM for no good reason imo.
Plus beale's football was awful prior to today and fans could see us going backwards.
Today, hopefully is a turning point butnif i were him and wanted this to work id do a public apology and ask them for the backing he probably deserves
Did alright
Did alrightBurstow
Did alrightBurstow
Beale is begging for the sack at this point like. Zero doubt in my mind
Did alright
Did alright
Thankfully you were wrong
Did alrightWTF is he playing burstow
what a disaster Beale is turning out to be.
Did alrightBurstow
Did alright and we won.
Both did alright
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wrighty
Striker
Mate you could do this every week. Will drive yourself mad if you want to go back picking up all the posts that turn out to be hysterical overreaction!
No way was there 41k in attendance today. That might be the gate but the stadium was less busy than recently.
Couldn’t be arsed after the first 3 pages. We are a negative bunch sometimes though.
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Haswell Makem
Winger
Thought we were up for it from minute one today, credit to Beale and the team for that. Midfield were excellent today and the play and standard of football was back to what we expect. No negatives from me today, take this into the smoggies game next week and I will be more than happy.
ChrisAshley
Striker
Ballard testing Patterson's reflexes.
