Stars Vs Devils - League - 16th Feb 22
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Well fortunately for us we didn’t have to watch a very poor performance all night, only for 55mins. What probably would have been worse would have been having your Migraine and watching this game, the final score flattered us big time, and to be honest that performance could have given a statue migraine,but hey ho we now move on. It’s not the losing it’s the way you lose,hope everyone gets home safe that’s the most important thing.
Left 55 mins on a luxury plane ride as well, suppose they can claim jet lag , time to start having bus rides to scotland, look at fife last week 11 hour journey with stops to guildford and won 5....1, why? because they wanted that win so they could have a jolly on the bus home for another 11 hour ride..
I guess the reality of 21/22 season just washes over some fans, they watch willing the woes of the weeks & months before to magically disappear in a cloud of pink smoke. Oh well, nothing like optimism, the glass half full and his cash are quickly departed.
It’s blatantly obvious which games are important & which aren’t, l know the boss has stated we always aim for success, im not so sure he’s told the team or has he. See the league was going to be a long hard slog from day one, for reason I’ve repeated many, many, many times. Sheffield are still salty about the ending of last season, their fans, owner, everyone will have demanded they hit this season hard and they have & we haven’t, simple, this year was never going to be our league year, it was never our aim, not this year, sorry EDS, such is life.
We can challenge for the Cup, we can certainly compete for the play offs, fingers crossed we come away with something. If we don’t w don’t, that’s the reality of life, aim high, expect nothing.
It’s blatantly obvious which games are important & which aren’t, l know the boss has stated we always aim for success, im not so sure he’s told the team or has he. See the league was going to be a long hard slog from day one, for reason I’ve repeated many, many, many times. Sheffield are still salty about the ending of last season, their fans, owner, everyone will have demanded they hit this season hard and they have & we haven’t, simple, this year was never going to be our league year, it was never our aim, not this year, sorry EDS, such is life.
We can challenge for the Cup, we can certainly compete for the play offs, fingers crossed we come away with something. If we don’t w don’t, that’s the reality of life, aim high, expect nothing.
Realistically our league challenge was over when we lost 4 in 5 before Christmas.
Sheffield went out recruited well & put a really strong team together, so did Belfast.
Let's be honest our recruitment didn't go as well & it was a always going to be an uphill task this season.
I think our team is in a much stronger position now but I still don't think we're quite the finished article. Scoring wise we are not up there with Sheffield while D wise we are bit weaker than Belfast. I think most of players are good enough to come back next season. I would like to someone knew brought in for the D & I still think we need some more size up front.
Sheffield went out recruited well & put a really strong team together, so did Belfast.
Let's be honest our recruitment didn't go as well & it was a always going to be an uphill task this season.
I think our team is in a much stronger position now but I still don't think we're quite the finished article. Scoring wise we are not up there with Sheffield while D wise we are bit weaker than Belfast. I think most of players are good enough to come back next season. I would like to someone knew brought in for the D & I still think we need some more size up front.
The frustrating thing is we’ve actually got a good record against the top two. I think we are played 10 won 6 against Belfast/Sheffield. Unfortunately it’s our record against teams like Dundee and a poor Nottingham side that have killed us. I think we’re played 5 lost 3 against both of those teams in all comps.
As far as last night is concerned I think it’s difficult for anybody to defend that. Had they watched it of course. Fair play to Skalde he was pretty scathing in his post match interview. The loss didn’t bother me so much, we were out of the title race before the game in my opinion so I wasn’t worried about losing. The performance was abysmal tho. 31 minutes into the match the shots on goal were 21-6 to Dundee. Just the 6 shots on goal halfway through the match and we’d had 3 powerplays!! It was awful. We were a bit all over the place defensively as well. The scoreline should have been 5-0 to Dundee going into the last 5 minutes of that game. I’m not worried about the loss, the manner of the defeat was very concerning tho with a huge match against Sheffield coming up next Wednesday.
As far as last night is concerned I think it’s difficult for anybody to defend that. Had they watched it of course. Fair play to Skalde he was pretty scathing in his post match interview. The loss didn’t bother me so much, we were out of the title race before the game in my opinion so I wasn’t worried about losing. The performance was abysmal tho. 31 minutes into the match the shots on goal were 21-6 to Dundee. Just the 6 shots on goal halfway through the match and we’d had 3 powerplays!! It was awful. We were a bit all over the place defensively as well. The scoreline should have been 5-0 to Dundee going into the last 5 minutes of that game. I’m not worried about the loss, the manner of the defeat was very concerning tho with a huge match against Sheffield coming up next Wednesday.
We’ve lost games that didn’t matter and won games that did, and when l say games that matter, let’s be honest upcoming games are more important than yesterday.
Our league challenge was never an option, loosing 4 in 5 was probably close to expectation, heck it may even have been better than expected considering a major factor in our recruitment capability pissed off to the USA, with some great players.
Our league challenge was never an option, loosing 4 in 5 was probably close to expectation, heck it may even have been better than expected considering a major factor in our recruitment capability pissed off to the USA, with some great players.
You are too cute. Thank you for thinking of me Sweetheart but there's no need to apologise to me for the Devils not winning the league. I'm ok with it. It's been great reading your posts though and to hear how you are on the inside and know with 100% certainty that our aim was not to win the league this year, even when one of the owners set the record straight on that one. You knew best. I'm definitely inclined to believe you more though. I mean what would Steve King know? Thankfully next year we'll smash it as we won't have those factors that have only impacted us like "Brexit" and "Covid" to deny us and we definitely won't be a rebuild team. It'll be easy.
I bet Steve didn't know that Todd told Louis not to fight as he wanted to create a family environment at the rink. That was another belting insight from you. Although my personal favourite was when you called Pride a "PR Stunt" but then back tracked massively to gloss over your highly offensive summary of Pride being a fad, when Lloyd gave a very personal and powerful account of what Pride meant to him and how important it was. That one was awesome.
Keep up the good work kiddo. You are the gift that keeps on giving and I bloody love you.
Thank you for the apology. You're ace.
Much love
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I bet Steve didn't know that Todd told Louis not to fight as he wanted to create a family environment at the rink. That was another belting insight from you. Although my personal favourite was when you called Pride a "PR Stunt" but then back tracked massively to gloss over your highly offensive summary of Pride being a fad, when Lloyd gave a very personal and powerful account of what Pride meant to him and how important it was. That one was awesome.
Keep up the good work kiddo. You are the gift that keeps on giving and I bloody love you.
Thank you for the apology. You're ace.
Much love
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