Steelers v Flyers :GAME THREAD : Sat 16th Dec

[Jayboy]

I've been banging on about teams in the EIHL this season to anyone who will listen...

Me too Jay, if you are just a little off your game you are likely to lose. Although there was a Fife fan on Facebook claiming the only reason they were bottom is because of poor refereeing, probably that part where they point at the Fife net and signal another goal against them....

And it may be a great deal more if it wasn't for Shane Owen, he kept them in it at times last night... that along with the Steelers forwards inability to shoot for the corners...

[Doom]

Fife play Cardiff tonight, so maybe that will give us a better indication as to whether we've made hard work of a poor team or Fife are better than some of us give them credit for.

Hopefully the latter.

Regards

Doom

I do love this sort of humble pie.....more please with plenty of thick cream on.

Regards

Doom

[Jayboy]

I've been banging on about teams in the EIHL this season to anyone who will listen... I really do think some fans expect to much... as a example my lad brought along his mate to this game and I overheard him telling him we would demolish Fife, I had to put him right and explain a few things! for a start the bottom five teams have just 4/5 points between them a couple of wins and losses puts any one of them mid pack! Then you look at the top 5 and it's a similar story they have 6/7 points from top down to 5th.. over Christmas you could lose a couple and your fighting team that were bottom a few week back.. this top versus bottom is utter nonsense to me, every team can win or lose on any given night especially if one has an off night or has injury problems and the other is on a good run of form....

I will just leave this here... but I did Say...

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[ginger]

Well it is a win, made hard work of it though, credit to a short benched fife, would like us to get back to the early few games of the season type hockey where we had that physical edge

Just looked at the player stats, Fife only had one less player than us so not that short benched I guess?

I do think losing Petgrave then Jones has unbalanced our defence even if we do have the numbers overall. I'd much rather have Shudra up front with the form he was in.

Our D is better without Petgrave imo.

Massively disagree. Petgrave was in absolutely phenomenal form and not putting a foot wrong. Luckily Cormier has been a gem of a pick up so we haven't dropped off team D wise after losing Petgrave.

[Brian]

You were right Jayboy. Results seem to show that Fife are a better and more entertaining team than they get credit for at the moment.

[ginger]

I've been banging on about teams in the EIHL this season to anyone who will listen... I really do think some fans expect to much... as a example my lad brought along his mate to this game and I overheard him telling him we would demolish Fife, I had to put him right and explain a few things! for a start the bottom five teams have just 4/5 points between them a couple of wins and losses puts any one of them mid pack! Then you look at the top 5 and it's a similar story they have 6/7 points from top down to 5th.. over Christmas you could lose a couple and your fighting team that were bottom a few week back.. this top versus bottom is utter nonsense to me, every team can win or lose on any given night especially if one has an off night or has injury problems and the other is on a good run of form....

Definitely agree. The standard of the league is a lot tighter top to bottom this year. Only takes an off night or a couple of bounces to go one way for an 'underdog' to win.

Also think our D is probably playing a little bit more restrained physically with Jones being out - we don't need further injuries or suspensions. I don't believe it's being coached out of them - honestly it's just nonsense. Tansey will always be physical, but he's picking his opportunities rather than making 50/50 hits that could result in penalties. Think when Jones is back we'll see it step back up a bit to early season levels, especially as we get in to the stretch

[Nathan]

Well it is a win, made hard work of it though, credit to a short benched fife, would like us to get back to the early few games of the season type hockey where we had that physical edge

Just looked at the player stats, Fife only had one less player than us so not that short benched I guess?

I do think losing Petgrave then Jones has unbalanced our defence even if we do have the numbers overall. I'd much rather have Shudra up front with the form he was in.

Our D is better without Petgrave imo.

Massively disagree. Petgrave was in absolutely phenomenal form and not putting a foot wrong. Luckily Cormier has been a gem of a pick up so we haven't dropped off team D wise after losing Petgrave.

Only my opinion.

[smbmetal]

Anyone seen any highlights published for this game? Just the teddy bear toss shown on Steelers TV YouTube.

[mark]

Just appeared. Highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkAPm5BMMpE