villa-revolution Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 I reckon option 3 will piss it in the end. I wonder if Sky Bet wanna give me odds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto_Villan Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 I voted Yes. It's our proven ability to score from corners and throw-ins that convinced me we have turned into Stoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted September 9, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted September 9, 2013 This thread lacks GIFs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 9, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted September 9, 2013 Yes, we are the new Stoke. How I long for a return to the slick passing and sexy attacking football of the McLeish era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted September 9, 2013 Moderator Share Posted September 9, 2013 I have found proof we are the new Stoke... Look at this video, you will see Matt Lowton out Stoke'ing Stoke in Stoke while playing Stoke!!! Just look how far out he is, that is long ball football if ever I've seen it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brommy Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 At which point does the OP consider his question answered? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 I have found proof we are the new Stoke... Look at this video, you will see Matt Lowton out Stoke'ing Stoke in Stoke while playing Stoke!!! Just look how far out he is, that is long ball football if ever I've seen it. Yes it does look a lot like this doesn't it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmUXn7un-lU 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Any better evidence apart from a goal against Rotheram? Why are all our strikers big and tall? Worrying direction is it not? Well they're not. Weimann and Gabby are hardly monsters. I think we need some height anyway, our usual XI seems fairly small on average and it just worries me a bit at set peices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djamfisher Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 What gave Stoke the reputation it had (IMO) was not so much the way it played when the ball was active (ok it was bad) but it was more to do with the: Long throw ins - we just don't do that. Time wasting (5 mins for each feree kick, throw in, and goal kick), whether they were winning, losing, or drawing and no matter what time in the game. - we just don't do that. Constant dirty tackling - we're not a dirty team. Negative tactics from the manager - just not Lambert's style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KennyPowers Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 I wouldn't even care that much if we were as long as it was effective. I'm not a fan of tippy tappy football. I'm not a fan of frustrating/boring teams into submission. I am a fan of physical football, not just in terms of height and strength but speed and workrate. I am a fan of high tempo counter attacking football. We're certainly more of the second than the first. Like I've always said though you can be relatively successful just by playing differently to everyone else. We should be trying to find our own identity. There's far too much of a perception throughout football now that the Barcelona way is the future and every team should embrace it or be left behind. Of course this ignores the fact that Bayern absolutely destroyed Barcelona last season with a physical high-tempo game (of course they then quite bizarrely went on to hire one of the chief architects of tippy tappy football in Guardiola). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KjParton Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 I have found proof we are the new Stoke... Look at this video, you will see Matt Lowton out Stoke'ing Stoke in Stoke while playing Stoke!!! Just look how far out he is, that is long ball football if ever I've seen it. Goosebumps. Every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 I was stoked when Lowton scored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted September 10, 2013 Moderator Share Posted September 10, 2013 Goosebumps. Every time. I will forever believe that was the moment that saved us last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gompedyret Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 (edited) Edited September 10, 2013 by Dante_Lockhart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SikhInTrinity Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Goosebumps. Every time. I will forever believe that was the moment that saved us last season. Behind the goal was carnage for that goal, When we just seen it hit that top corner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isa Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 (edited) Constant dirty tackling - we're not a dirty team. Unfortunately, we are now thought of as a bit of a dirty team by opposition fans and we do seem to pick up quite a few bookings per match. Of course, unlike Stoke, I don't believe that this is due to instruction from the management but probably due to the fact that we have quite a few poor tacklers in the team. Edited September 10, 2013 by Isa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted September 10, 2013 Moderator Share Posted September 10, 2013 We do pick up yellows but we're not a malicious team. You won't see someone going in with a career ender. It's far more likely to be (and often is) the tenacious Delph snapping at your heels, for example. We don't have one properly dirty player in our team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 lot of our yellow cards are for stupidity. Clark, Benteke and Lowton pick up a lot of foolish bookings, Delph is just reckless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Yo mama is turning into the new Stoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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