Why do we only turn up against Cardiff at Home

[andylong]

We play absolutely 💩 against everyone home and away

Apart from Cardiff at home

We have won 7 of the last 10 at home against them

[wgray]

Get ready for them to absolutely demolish us on Sunday now😂

I don’t know but it’s a strange one. The atmosphere for the Cardiff games is always good, they bring a lot of away fans, our fans in turn make it loud, maybe it gets our lads going. I think Cardiff like to dictate the play and this also works in our favour, makes the games more open. If you look at a team like Glasgow this season who have come to the NIC three times, played physical, let us have the majority of the puck, focused on team defence and keeping us to the outside, they’ve won all three games.

If Cardiff play in the same way as Glasgow, they’ll take the win. They’ve got that little bit of extra quality that will allow to play this way and still be a big threat offensively.

[The Flying Shirt]

Feb 10, 2022 19:17:49 GMT andylong said:

We play absolutely 💩 against everyone home and away

Apart from Cardiff at home

We have won 7 of the last 10 at home against them

Bad coaching. With their quality and a game plan we would get wiped off the ice in normal circumstances.

[Yotes]

We have seemed to match up well to Cardiff in recent seasons, even though we'd be miles off them in the final standings. Must be quite a few unexpected wins at their place in recent years?

This year's lot, maybe not so much, guess we'll find out. 3rd in 3 won't help.

[kievthegreat]

Feb 10, 2022 23:21:26 GMT Yotes said:

We have seemed to match up well to Cardiff in recent seasons, even though we'd be miles off them in the final standings. Must be quite a few unexpected wins at their place in recent years?

This year's lot, maybe not so much, guess we'll find out. 3rd in 3 won't help.

Exhibit A: 10th December 2016, beat them 8:0 away. Ended up 4th while they won the league, beating us by 23 points!

[bobness]

Feb 10, 2022 19:17:49 GMT andylong said:

We play absolutely 💩 against everyone home and away

Apart from Cardiff at home

We have won 7 of the last 10 at home against them

2016-17, 2 wins and an OT loss in that order.
2017-18, 2 wins and a loss.
All 3 in 18-19 won by the odd goal, including a 4 goal third period on 26 September 2018 to win 4-3.
19-20, 2 losses and a win.
21-22 so far, 1 game 1 win.

I think you might be looking for something that isn't really there?

Belfast's only goal vs the Panthers at the NIC in 3 games last season proper was a 6 on 3 PP goal. That wasn't the start of a trend, sadly.

[Jord v4]

It's pure circumstance, the league table at the end of every season NEVER lies.

Cardiff are a better team than us & have been for a fair few seasons.

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Panthers will be lucky to get a losers point against them this weekend..

[iginla]

Feb 11, 2022 10:19:49 GMT Jord v4 said:

It's pure circumstance, the league table at the end of every season NEVER lies.

Cardiff are a better team than us & have been for a fair few seasons.

Funny that.
Because I predicted that as exactly what would happen to Neil Black a few years ago at his last Q+A at Saltbox.
There were some Devils fans sat in the corner who I pointed to and told Black “their team will be the dominant team in the EIHL over the next few years”.
I wasn’t wrong either !

[Jord v4]

Feb 11, 2022 13:56:39 GMT iginla said:

Feb 11, 2022 10:19:49 GMT Jord v4 said:

It's pure circumstance, the league table at the end of every season NEVER lies.

Cardiff are a better team than us & have been for a fair few seasons.

Funny that.
Because I predicted that as exactly what would happen to Neil Black a few years ago at his last Q+A at Saltbox.
There were some Devils fans sat in the corner who I pointed to and told Black “their team will be the dominant team in the EIHL over the next few years”.
I wasn’t wrong either !

Good for you. There's no beginning to your talents. 

[bobness]

If you make enough "predictions", one or two of them are bound to be right, in the long term. It's a numbers game.
Media careers have been made out of a roughly similar ideas.

Don't forget, the Great Prophet Zarquon did eventually get his second coming. His followers were, eventually, right.

[iginla]

Feb 11, 2022 16:29:48 GMT Jord v4 said:

Feb 11, 2022 13:56:39 GMT iginla said:

Funny that.
Because I predicted that as exactly what would happen to Neil Black a few years ago at his last Q+A at Saltbox.
There were some Devils fans sat in the corner who I pointed to and told Black “their team will be the dominant team in the EIHL over the next few years”.
I wasn’t wrong either !

Good for you. There's no beginning to your talents. 

End you mean,I know,I can’t help it.
There were about 300 people there who heard it.
Black didn’t like it. Lol

[Jord v4]

Feb 11, 2022 17:26:51 GMT iginla said:

Feb 11, 2022 16:29:48 GMT Jord v4 said:

Good for you. There's no beginning to your talents. 

End you mean,I know,I can’t help it.
There were about 300 people there who heard it.
Black didn’t like it. Lol

Usually you have to remove a couple of ribs to blow one's own horn. 

[Caesar]

Give him stick if you want, he was right. And those of us without our head up our asses knew it too

[Yotes]

Was this after they'd been taken over by the Canadians and Kelman, and had IAW on the horizon (or already moved in)?

[iginla]

Feb 11, 2022 22:37:36 GMT Yotes said:

Was this after they'd been taken over by the Canadians and Kelman, and had IAW on the horizon (or already moved in)?

It was just around the same time as the takeover was due to happen and with Kelman in charge and hockey nut owners it wasn’t hard to see what was likely to happen.
Except Neil Black didn’t agree with me and said something like “I wouldn’t be so sure about that”.
Mmmm ok Neil if you say so ! 🙄

[Yotes]

Well in a way he was right, Belfast and Sheffield have taken their fair share of titles in those years, Cardiff haven't really dominated.

The last Q&A at SaltBox was in 2017 btw.

[bobness]

The last 7 EIHL trophies awarded since the Great Prophet Iggy proclaimed have been awarded 3 to Cardiff, 3 to Belfast and 1 to Sheffield.
So, to be fair, Devils have been joint most dominant in that time. Did he predict that?

[Deleted]

Feb 12, 2022 8:58:31 GMT bobness said:

The last 7 EIHL trophies awarded since the Great Prophet Iggy proclaimed have been awarded 3 to Cardiff, 3 to Belfast and 1 to Sheffield.
So, to be fair, Devils have been joint most dominant in that time. Did he predict that?

They've dominated over panthers in that time which what he was eluding to

[bobness]

It’s eluding me, I have to say.

[Jord v4]

Feb 11, 2022 22:06:22 GMT Caesar said:

Give him stick if you want, he was right. And those of us without our head up our asses knew it too

Predicting the best three ran teams in the country to be better than Panthers wasn't very difficult. To stand there afterwards & proclaim look how right I was takes far less humility. 

[iginla]

Feb 12, 2022 8:58:31 GMT bobness said:

The last 7 EIHL trophies awarded since the Great Prophet Iggy proclaimed have been awarded 3 to Cardiff, 3 to Belfast and 1 to Sheffield.
So, to be fair, Devils have been joint most dominant in that time. Did he predict that?

I would say that if you asked EIHL fans to pick a team who’ve been the dominant force over the last few years you’d be hard pushed to find many who wouldn’t pick Cardiff.
It certainly wasn’t Mr Blacks Nottingham that’s hot sure.

[iginla]

Feb 12, 2022 10:39:51 GMT Jord v4 said:

Feb 11, 2022 22:06:22 GMT Caesar said:

Give him stick if you want, he was right. And those of us without our head up our asses knew it too

Predicting the best three ran teams in the country to be better than Panthers wasn't very difficult. To stand there afterwards & proclaim look how right I was takes far less humility. 

You know me better than that Jord,in the wind up and sarcasm stakes you and me are most certainly in the top two. 🤣
But I didn’t predict anything about the top 3 or Panthers, just that Cardiff would become the force they are today.
There will be plenty of people who remember that night at Saltbox when Black was squirming on stage. And yes I was the bloke sat at the front who gave him a hard time.

[Jord v4]

Feb 12, 2022 10:45:21 GMT iginla said:

Feb 12, 2022 10:39:51 GMT Jord v4 said:

Predicting the best three ran teams in the country to be better than Panthers wasn't very difficult. To stand there afterwards & proclaim look how right I was takes far less humility. 

You know me better than that Jord,in the wind up and sarcasm stakes you and me are most certainly in the top two. 🤣
But I didn’t predict anything about the top 3 or Panthers, just that Cardiff would become the force they are today.
There will be plenty of people who remember that night at Saltbox when Black was squirming on stage. And yes I was the bloke sat at the front who gave him a hard time.

I'd like to think in the sarcasm/wind ups stakes I'm more open to laughing at myself than you my friend. 

[blackandgold73]

Feb 11, 2022 22:37:36 GMT Yotes said:

Was this after they'd been taken over by the Canadians and Kelman, and had IAW on the horizon (or already moved in)?

Well if it was at the last Q&A at Saltbox as maintained (Jan 2017) then it can't also been "around the same time as the takeover was *due to happen* and with Kelman in charge and hockey nut owners it wasn’t hard to see what was likely to happen".

The take over happened before the 2014-15 season right?

They'd come 3rd and 2nd in the league already (well ahead of us), won one Cup and were on their way to winning the league, playoffs and cup that season.

So they'd showed their form relative to us and their trajectory over the past 2.5 seasons.

So it's still an accurate prediction Iggy but not quite as much of a divination as it sounds if you've misremembered the dates