Cardiff Devils v Belfast Giants - Sun 26 Nov 2017 - League - FO 6pm - Chat/Updates
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I do not call out players and I tend to the optimistic side of life (so happy clappy!) - I'm still there with games in hand but in the longer run we may regret last weekend. There is a hill to climb
But Lordo
I have said it a number of times - he needs to get on the bench to fully see what is going on. This might be his preference anyway as he said in an early season interview that he did not feel he was the energy player he was. But be a!so said there were better players than him this year. This might mean going shirt benched for a while but it might be worth it in the long run - and that might be next year
After all we have been spoilt recently and the club is ahead of the owners target for trophies
Being happy clappy I would say time and end of season will tell. In the meantime I'm staying on the roller coaster
But Lordo
I have said it a number of times - he needs to get on the bench to fully see what is going on. This might be his preference anyway as he said in an early season interview that he did not feel he was the energy player he was. But be a!so said there were better players than him this year. This might mean going shirt benched for a while but it might be worth it in the long run - and that might be next year
After all we have been spoilt recently and the club is ahead of the owners target for trophies
Being happy clappy I would say time and end of season will tell. In the meantime I'm staying on the roller coaster
It's the same for me this year (wallet-wise), but i did fork-out for that one. I have to pick-n choose the games I pay for so enjoy MNL too. I have said before how difficult it can be to express what you really mean, but everytime I watch the Devils I expect a win. I can see the problems that everyone sees, yet I still feel positive. I have recieved an invtation from Specsavers but declined!
Well I have been going since game one, 31 yrs actually so I ain't no less experienced fan, and I quite enjoyed long periods of last nights game, yes we ain't physical enough, and that's a drag as physical hockey was what I was brought up on, but we were 5 secs away from beating a very good tough team, and that's fact. I certainly don't like to see my team bullied as that sucks. We sure ain't in a good place at the moment, and our club must know that, and our off ice team are winners for sure. Now we kicked arse in 3/4 of last seasons cups, but that don't give us a god given right to do that again, we play like total crap at times, as do Steelers, Panthers, Giants and the rest of them. I ain't in the market for defending a team that frustrate the shit out off us at times, but bigger clubs than us suck at times. Entertaining games for me are paramount over everything else, winning trophies are a pure joy for sure, at the moment things are certainly not right that's obvious to anyone with a brain cell, and a .6 winning % ain't what we are all about. This is just my take on things, and certainly won't be others opinion, but if we had won last night and taken a 4 point weekend, that wouldn't have made things hunky- dory, but would have gone some way to saying we are still in the mix, and believe me ( or not ) we are still in the mix. I am frustrated as much as anyone on here, but our latest history shows that when we are down we turn it around. I would like someone to say who are heads and shoulders above us, Panthers slightly better possibly, Giants probably on par with us, we beat them convincingly at theirs, Steelers a huge not, Storm no way, Clan suck, Fife good but that's it good, Blaze well their fans are not happy bunnies, and the clubs not yet mentioned are respectively not ripping the league up, and that's no disrespect to them, as they are capable of beating anyone. So getting back to us, as we are all that matters, we need improvement everyone knows that, but we certainly don't suck, I have watched quite a few Devils teams that did, and were pretty dire to watch, but never improved, this team will, we may not win this trophy or that trophy but we will be there at the end, of that I am certain. So is it time to slit wrists, commit Harry Carry, or throw ourselves into the Taff, not yet folks, lots of hockey still to play, and we are their right in the mix. For those that see it differently, we all have our opinions, and they are all valid.
Take me back to that season we had in the BBT, with Hendrikx and Mychan - ok we didn't end up as Champions but for entertainment it beats the current sterile bore-fest into a tin hat. Furthermore, for all the good about IAW, it can't hold a candle to the BBT for atmosphere.
Boring (sterile while) venue hosting a boring team. ZZZZzzzzz.
My hard earned will be going on Cardiff City from this point - a team of battlers who give 100% each week.
Perhaps Lordo needs to spend some time with Warnock.
Boring (sterile while) venue hosting a boring team. ZZZZzzzzz.
My hard earned will be going on Cardiff City from this point - a team of battlers who give 100% each week.
Perhaps Lordo needs to spend some time with Warnock.
You are right about the atmosphere at the IAW. It's as inconsistent as the team's performance. I sat in a block the other end of the arena from my usual seat during the Giants' game.....disappointing that there was literally only a handful of people chanting, shouting or reacting in that small block.
Is it the acoustics in the building that dilute the atmosphere? Is it the team performance? Or is it that virtually half the crowd are either new fans or casuals that don't get the audience participation?
The atmosphere and intensity inside the BBT is one of the few things I miss about the place.You could hear comments being shouted from all over the rink, and anyone could start a chant and the crowd would join in.
Devils' teams played to that intensity and were lifted/driven on in their performance.
The best atmosphere bar none in the IAW so far was last year's CC Final against Sheffield. And why? 1600 die hard Devils' fans packed together in close quarters around our goal end and team benches. And most of them would have been season ticket holders IIRC the ticket allocations.
Is it the acoustics in the building that dilute the atmosphere? Is it the team performance? Or is it that virtually half the crowd are either new fans or casuals that don't get the audience participation?
The atmosphere and intensity inside the BBT is one of the few things I miss about the place.You could hear comments being shouted from all over the rink, and anyone could start a chant and the crowd would join in.
Devils' teams played to that intensity and were lifted/driven on in their performance.
The best atmosphere bar none in the IAW so far was last year's CC Final against Sheffield. And why? 1600 die hard Devils' fans packed together in close quarters around our goal end and team benches. And most of them would have been season ticket holders IIRC the ticket allocations.
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Great atmosphere, but sadly in a shit hole, with lousy sight lines, toilets that stunk with huge queue's, but it was home, just a lousy home, with lousy owners. Really don't get the boring team, we certainly lack physicality, and a bit more Grit wouldn't go amiss, but some of our hockey is really good, and that's were we differ. I couldn't for the life of me pay money to watch a boring team like our neighbours down the road, to me that's 90 minutes of life that you can never get back, you can sit there freezing your Nutts off for 90 mins + and not see one goal, and a bunch of Primma Donna's rolling around on the ground, trying to cheat the ref in the name of sport, no comparison to me. As for battlers try asking those dudes to play two games in two days, they would be horrified and would think you were loopy loo. If Cardiff city had players with the skill of Martin,Hotham,Haddad,Faryna,Fournier, Ritchie, now that would be a different story. Things in our gaff ain't as good as they should be, but I believe they will be sorted,as for the battlers down the road, a bit of success wouldn't go adrift.
Take care of business at home first and foremost and please the thousands of fans who pay their hard earned cash into their own club's coffers in the process. Then pick up the odd point here and there on the road and you’ll generally have a very good season, as we did that year in 2014-15 in fairness, winning the CC and coming so close in the league, plus being very entertaining too. So we flopped in the play offs that year - that can happen to anyone in that Mickey Mouse format. Winning isn’t everything for me (although I’d still prefer us to win every game!), never has been. I’d rather go to the game and come away having been thoroughly entertained. I have to say, that’s been a rare occurrence this year I’m afraid.
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I agree and to say you cant play that way in the IAW is bull. What did belfast do to us on the weekend!?
Farayna is arguably the most entertaining player to watch. He drives the net everytime (hence why he's scoring so many goals - a few others might want to take note), gets in dirty areas, makes hits, fights his battles. You watch him and think "he's giving 100%". And that last year in bbt i thought that most home nights about almost every player. Teams are made up of many different parts. The reason we were successful last season was we had a number of different people in different roles. For me we have to many jack of all trades and masters of none in our team this year. Our pk is a prime example where brine and bordy were extreemly good, and cj played a decent role on that as well. This year martin seems to take more and more pk minutes (tiring him out more at the wrong end imo).
On a side note Id love to get mychan back but he wont be whilst lord is coach. Its plain to see he wants controlled emotions and passivness. Which is extremely frustrating when you look back to how lord himself played when he came here. Ive got 3 of his shirts i used to love watching him play so much!!
Farayna is arguably the most entertaining player to watch. He drives the net everytime (hence why he's scoring so many goals - a few others might want to take note), gets in dirty areas, makes hits, fights his battles. You watch him and think "he's giving 100%". And that last year in bbt i thought that most home nights about almost every player. Teams are made up of many different parts. The reason we were successful last season was we had a number of different people in different roles. For me we have to many jack of all trades and masters of none in our team this year. Our pk is a prime example where brine and bordy were extreemly good, and cj played a decent role on that as well. This year martin seems to take more and more pk minutes (tiring him out more at the wrong end imo).
On a side note Id love to get mychan back but he wont be whilst lord is coach. Its plain to see he wants controlled emotions and passivness. Which is extremely frustrating when you look back to how lord himself played when he came here. Ive got 3 of his shirts i used to love watching him play so much!!
