Thank
you to Tony again for his contribution to FSB, All Credit for this piece goes
to him so any queries you can contact Tony on Twitter @DISGU15ED.
Another quiet week with very little to talk about in my five things this week…
1>
CheerUpLoveGate – Encouraging fans of one club to take the pi$$ out of
an individual fan from another club, and refusing to apologise when
correctly sanctioned by the league, was taking €rap social media
management to another level. It’s hard to be a Steelers fan sometimes
when Simmsey’s dinosaur approach to 21st Century life
continues to provide other clubs fans with the bricks to throw at us. He
does much more good than bad, but more bad than he should do.
2>
1DGate – We know our sport is minority, but when the SSE / Odyssey
trust decide to bank their £££ and favour a transient boy-band over the
regular tenants in the hockey club it does stick in the craw. I
sympathise with any travelling fan who took extra time-off and had
wasted time and costs, but I’d be amazed if there was any sanction or
compensation. How about a 5:0 default loss for the Giants, based on it
being a short-notice commercial decision, rather than an emergency
measure?
3>
LawrenceGate – Crisis time already – I understand he went 60 minutes
without scoring in Belfast, and then another 59:21 dry spell last night,
which simply isn’t good enough! That takes him to third in our Elite
league goal scoring charts, 3 behind Mosi and Roy (who are both in the
top 5 goalscorers in the league) with 10 games in hand. I hope we don’t
need to release someone when we add him to the regular roster.
4>
PlanBGate – Which was the bigger surprise on Sunday: The first period
where we played fast flowing hockey and could have been 6 or 7 up; or
the second period where we fell apart to so many breakaways I worried
about Plante having a nervous breakdown? Did Pacha outsmart Thommo by
switching to a more defensive / counterattacking Plan B before we did,
or were we hung out by some individual lapses (Yes, I’m looking at you
Mr Moyer). Guess we will find out in the Small Grey Tin-Shelter on
Wednesday.
5>
PowerplayGate – It’s official, we are now worst in the league on the
PowerPlay with 7 goals from 61 opportunities an 11.5% strike-rate, and
that’s before you count the 2 we’ve given up!
A
final thought for you, have you noticed that the Clan are languishing
at 6th in the league after 15 games. Many have them top of their
predictions, but with Dundee already above them, and losing to the likes
of Edinburgh already (cough) many are beginning to write-them-off a
little. To those people can I remind them that Disney have stolen many
of their home games, and they’ve played 11 games away (to our six) and
only 4 games at home (to our 9) so expect a late charge from the boys in
Purple.
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