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12-05-2016 05:18 PM #3
Why the need to publish this? Most of the guys I know agree with this. Just keep at it and your play will do the talking. Start by smashing a hatrick tomorrow Tony.
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12-05-2016 07:55 PM #4
He should read Rambo II the book. The boy is trying to learn how to shoot a bow and arrow, the more he thinks about it the more frustrated he becomes. One day he just shoots and hey presto its a bullseye.
Stokes: You are GOING to score a hat trick on Friday (and then the Cup final, and then against Killie.)
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12-05-2016 10:28 PM #6
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He's on to about 1 goal in 10 in the second tier.
Sorry, but I expected a bit more than running about a lot and having some nice touches 40 yards from goal.
If he hadn't been here before and came with the hype he did he would have been ripped apart so far.
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12-05-2016 10:51 PM #8
I think he has played some outstanding games recently!. was a bit off form on Wed. but still had a hand in a goal. I was totally gobsmacked that night, when this guy leaving the game with about 8 minutes to go said: Stokes, your the worst player I've ever seen!!!!!! ?
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12-05-2016 11:22 PM #11
Just has not scored enough. Him & Jason together just doesn't work!
Hope he finds his scoring form soon.
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13-05-2016 12:18 AM #12
I think he is just about to explode and become an absolute Hibs legend.
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13-05-2016 12:22 AM #13
Bizarre that our club feels the need to talk up and highlight Stokes contribution. The talking should be done on the pitch.
Stokes has put in a good shift for our team, but to date the goals simply have not arrived at the rate I had hoped for way back in January. I want so much for him to get that hat trick to make up for (in part) his relative dearth of goals. He really should be banging them in left, right and centre at this level.
It's also hard not to mention his pairing with Cummings. They simply have not delivered or clicked often enough. Unless he or Cummings or both together in the same game put teams like Falkirk to the sword (with goals to spare) then they will forever be talked of in terms of "failed partnership" and Alan Stubbs legacy will forever be tainted for stubbornly persisting with playing them together and not finding the right formula up front.
Come on Stokesy, please knock in a hat trick against Houstons Hammer throwers!!
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13-05-2016 05:58 AM #15
Enough of this cowering and inward reflection every time we say something.
It's time to be bold.
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13-05-2016 06:06 AM #16This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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13-05-2016 07:26 AM #20
I'm sure it wasn't Stubbs' idea to have yet another player miles from goal showing some nice touches but rarely doing anything decisive and very rarely scoring. His miss against Falkirk was criminal as well. I'd like to have seen the reaction on here had Fyvie missed that.
So far Stokes has been the complete opposite of what I expected. I thought he'd turn up and hardly get out of second gear, looking half-arsd but banging in the goals. Instead he puts in a real shift, defends from the front, fights our corner well but has scored 1 in the last 10 games. Still time to be a hero though.
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13-05-2016 07:51 AM #21
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A good example was him ripping us apart in the cip final playing celtic and setting up their first two goals.
Of course i would have like him to score more, but he is quality.
Incidentally, malongas goal return this season was fairly disappointing too was it not?
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13-05-2016 08:06 AM #22
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This is what I don't get - Stokes scores 1 in 10 but runs about a lot and has some nice touches miles from goal and he is a wonderful footballer. Malonga was frustrating by all accounts despite being far more effective.
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13-05-2016 08:20 AM #24
They have both scored 6 I think and played a similar amount of games.
Dom never came close to contributing the kind of work rate and quality we are seeing from Stokes now though.
And we know from the rest of Stokes career that he normally scores more. With Dom, we were the most prolific part of his career.
The goals are coming. Hopefully starting tonight.
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13-05-2016 08:27 AM #25
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That's nonsense about Dom never contributing quality. That's fine but when those same people see something in Stokes recent play with us, that's a bit odd.
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13-05-2016 08:27 AM #26This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Our problem is we replaced a striker who had struggled for goals this season with another striker who has struggled to score.
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13-05-2016 08:32 AM #27This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Malonga averaged 1 in 3. Stokes has 5 in 14. Nothing to choose between them in ratio, although I strongly suspect Stokes would score more if he was fully match fit
On that basis what makes you think Malonga was more effective?
Just admit it Andy, your relentlessly anti Stokes, I can't imagine why?
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13-05-2016 09:17 AM #28
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He is playing well at the moment hopefully we see more end product in next few games. For the record Dom was a very good player also but more inconsistent than Stokes overall IMO.
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13-05-2016 11:01 AM #30
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I'm just a bit puzzled as to how we come to the conclusion that he is being that effective for us despite not scoring. I'd fully expect him to set up some goals and chances as well as score them at this level - doing so once or twice every few weeks is disappointing.
I think if you watched Malonga at all you would be able to see what he brought to the team in holding the ball up, creating things and allowing others players to come into the game.
Folk disagree on that, which is fine, but I don't follow how those same people could assess Stokes' contribution as being any better. It's worse.
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