Devils Vs steelers - Pre-Season - 17th Sept 23 - FO 18:00
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Congrats @moggy#9 you've made it to Twitter. A proud day for you I'm sure.
Just embarrassing that people need to do that. Come on here and debate. Keep it sensible and light hearted and help build the inferno community. Posting on Twitter is just pathetic. They are the classic people who post a picture of themselves outside a Doctors or hospital waiting for the attention.
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So it’s gone from Batch should’ve done something about the hit, to Batch now having a bad game. Interested to see a breakdown of why he had such a bad game, other than the obvious expectation of him needing to jump the bench and murder Steelers #6 as he was being thrown out (and get his 6363748 game ban).
Why do you always need a scapegoat? Batch had a decent game. Nothing flashy but was good enough. He couldn’t have done anything about the hit, he was off the ice. Should he have jumped on and given the Sheffield player a second fight? Formed a queue maybe? Of course not. But this is from people who’ve never been near a contact game.
Regardless of what tough guy we had the Sheffield player was still making that play. Brandt fought him immediately and he got thrown out, justice served - carry on with the game. Should players (Batch in everyone’s eyes) start going out and injuring people?
And are we really going to get the whole “if Louis was here this wouldn’t have happened” all season? Because it would’ve, and did, many things times over the past few years.
Why do you always need a scapegoat? Batch had a decent game. Nothing flashy but was good enough. He couldn’t have done anything about the hit, he was off the ice. Should he have jumped on and given the Sheffield player a second fight? Formed a queue maybe? Of course not. But this is from people who’ve never been near a contact game.
Regardless of what tough guy we had the Sheffield player was still making that play. Brandt fought him immediately and he got thrown out, justice served - carry on with the game. Should players (Batch in everyone’s eyes) start going out and injuring people?
And are we really going to get the whole “if Louis was here this wouldn’t have happened” all season? Because it would’ve, and did, many things times over the past few years.
My issue with batch in that game was clearly being at fault with one Sheffield goal. Aside from that, as I mentioned earlier, he seemed be targeted for pressure as the Steelers seemed to see him as the weak link.
As one of the few big bodies on the team, I think a lot of people here expect him to use that size more effectively. Not necessarily dropping the gloves at every opportunity, but certainly playing the man.
As one of the few big bodies on the team, I think a lot of people here expect him to use that size more effectively. Not necessarily dropping the gloves at every opportunity, but certainly playing the man.
Batch is not really going to do anything about the hit after the event and will never be the physical presence that this team is crying out for. It’s not in his nature and you can’t force it and make him do it. For me, it keeps him in a job next year if he takes on that role but it’s just not him. I didn’t think he was great last night and I thought he should have taken the body before the shot was away that went through Booth, or at least made it more difficult to get a clean shot away, but he's a 6th D man and a British one at that. It’s a little unfair to expect more than that from him. There’s not that many better options around in that role.
