Monday, November 7, 2011

Unbelievable !!!!!!!

A business coach once told me. madness can be defined as doing the same things consistently and expecting to get a different result. On Sunday I put his words into action and made the decision to use turnstile 2 at the North Stand entrance gate. so simple but so effective a simple change transformed our fortunes.
Yes it helped that the team played with passion, intensity and no little skill. Klasnic had his best ever 90 minutes scoring 2 and creating 2 more. It has been 7 long months since Stoke steamrollered us at Wembley and just maybe that has been assigned to history by this perfomance.
Owen Coyle deserves credit for making changes, as begged for Petrov was benched, his replacement Mark Davis was excellent, Robinson was good going forward, but still looks vunerable against pace. Kevin Davies was back to his best, completely dominating Upson and Woodgate, Muamba was all over the Stoke midfield and with Reo Coker gave us the bite that has been missing for most of the season. Every player stood up and was counted, not least Joe Riley who grew into his Premiership debut, and deserved his standing ovation a minute from time. At 1-0 Jussi pulled off a great reaction save from a Cahill deflection, in recent weeks that would have beaten him and set the alarm bells ringing. Great afternoon at the Reebok, never mind whether Stoke were jet lagged or not, we battered them from minute one and deserved to win in style.
Onwards and upwards has to be the message, do not tinker with a winning formula, I wouldn't mind a different left back who can handle pace, but that is nitpicking. If we play with this intensity and passion we will climb the table, lets start at West Brom.

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