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Post by tootootrain on Mar 12, 2014 19:38:30 GMT
The obsession some Belfast fans have with Panthers is quite laughable given many Panthers fans can offer up little in the way of such passion the other way. The seeming desperation to have someone to 'hate' and have it returned is puzzling. Perhaps there is something in the water over there.
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Post by tootootrain on Mar 9, 2014 19:24:47 GMT
Nope.
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Post by tootootrain on Mar 8, 2014 12:44:36 GMT
This is what Dundee have been crying out for all season, NHL systems.
:rolleyes:
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Post by tootootrain on Mar 7, 2014 20:07:16 GMT
Yes Yotes, thankyou. Just seems a bit dodgy to me, i was always suspicious that Steelers seemed to get decisions in their favour most the time even before i was told Tony Smith had connections to them and the EIHL! I know the EIHL don't have a great reputation for being the most professionally run league but when you have an owner of a club also the Chairman of the League!? Seems suspect to me. I love to kick Steelers as much as anyone but..... Neil Black has also held the position of Chairman of the EIHL too.
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Post by tootootrain on Mar 7, 2014 11:04:40 GMT
Well be has a few good points there.
No doubt the ABP brigade will scream "sour grapes" though, regardless of the points he raises affecting all teams.
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Post by tootootrain on Mar 1, 2014 12:32:37 GMT
I feel that taking so many injuries and the revolving door was far worse than the CC when you look at all the seasons play. Not sure that the two are separate issues. How many injuries did Panthers pick up in the CC and how many of those players that went through the revolving door were brought in for/because of the CC? BTW, does anyone know if BBC Radio Nottingham are covering the game tonight?
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 24, 2014 8:39:38 GMT
I believe she doesn't ref EIHL games because she lives down south and thus the travelling distances involved.
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 23, 2014 14:36:34 GMT
I'm pretty sure you can turn twitter off Yes indeed. Its one of those "live by the sword, die by the sword" things. Whilst I don't agree with wholesale 'bullying' of anyone via the internet Darnell (and his supporters) need to realise that as an ice hockey ref he will occassionally make unpopular decisions and, as I'm sure many of us are aware, sports fans can be very irrational at times. Yes its nice that Darnell occassionally explains calls etc so those out there who aren't so clued up about ice hockey can get a better understanding but he doesn't need to and, as has been seen, by having such a 'net presence' he leaves himself open to abuse. Once again, I don't agree with such abuse but there is a very easy way to avoid it.
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 18, 2014 12:04:57 GMT
Do people think it is still a calamity at Cardiff? They've still got Paul Ragan there... But he is a secret millionaire, surely that counts for something?
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 18, 2014 9:49:33 GMT
Sounds like the perfect dancing partner for Jason "The British Mincer" Hewitt. I would PMSL at that fight Conincidental Delay of Game penalties.
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 17, 2014 19:28:46 GMT
The others maybe.....but Farmer!!!! He couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag. Sounds like the perfect dancing partner for Jason "The British Mincer" Hewitt.
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 14, 2014 7:38:19 GMT
Yes, because he was part of that hype. andrew....I'm going to say something horrible and nasty and really really naughty about you. And your responsible because your part of it. And that would be a valid comparison had DC not himself created much of the hype but..... Seems he was happy to build it from day one.
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 13, 2014 21:24:59 GMT
The timing is all about money saving Is that a fact, as in verifiable fact rather than made up fact? Link to source?
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 13, 2014 18:20:57 GMT
He wouldn't have gotten rid mid season though. He was likely gone if he didn't turn things around in 2010/11 when we were awful for months. The difference was he was allowed to turn it around. And it may be that the team he was coaching for was the difference. Sheffield are a team built solely on success, gained through fair means or foul. They need success to survive because their fans have what could be considered as being unreasonable expectations and are quick to up sticks if it doesn't come. This means coaches at Sheffield are invariably disposable assets, easily binned if things aren't going their way.
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 13, 2014 17:46:20 GMT
This is a coach that has won trophies in this league... Trophies?
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 13, 2014 17:03:25 GMT
Cant be good for Team GB surely? Not that I care about GB hockey but this is a good point. Unless DC gets offered another job in the UK I can't see him hanging around and his acceptance of the GB job was likely no more than a vanity 'in addition to' project. Hopefully Neilson will stay well clear if he is offered the step up.
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 8, 2014 10:34:29 GMT
..i genuinely wouldnt swap theFIA for any other arena... I never asked if you'd swap the FIA for any other arena. I posted to counter your assumption that the arena teams have a say on other events that are booked for the venues at which they play and whom said teams have to compete commercially with for ice time. I also posted it as an example of how 'arena teams' don't have it handed to them on a plate, having many concerns that 'little teams' don't have and as such their fans might not comprehend.
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 7, 2014 12:34:58 GMT
if arena teams find it difficult to schedule matches..so what they should the play their home games 'away' and stop booking Strictly and fracking Disney on ice! Arena teams don't book "Strictly and fracking Disney on ice" (sic), arena owners do. Sorry, does the reality that 'big teams' have to compete at a commercial level with the various other users of said arenas not tally up with your little team image of arena teams having success handed to them on a platter?
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 5, 2014 12:05:19 GMT
I would suggest they keep the sold out signs somewhere else. They seem to get dusty very quickly! Given how frequently 'Europe's Biggest Rivalry' occurs these days I'm surprised they have time to get dusty.
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 4, 2014 19:53:42 GMT
Stick him on first shift. Run their goalie, hard. No choice one of their better players. Sit down for rest of game. You don't need Sharpe for that. There are any number of local rec players kicking about the NIC who are fairly handy with their fists. Build a goon line of people who would be happy to have the opportunity to pull on a Panthers jersey just for the pride, rather than buy in some journeyman skate filler.
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 3, 2014 19:54:40 GMT
Sadly I can only see more money being thrown after all that thrown before at this comically bad idea whilst Bettman stays at the helm.
Once he has gone (if not sooner) the NHL should put the dogs down and move the franchise back north of the border, give it to locals who will appreciate what they've got.
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 3, 2014 19:45:32 GMT
Ahem. Technically it was all the trophies on offer. Such is the 'prestige' of the likely to disappear soon conference titles that Belfast had to pop down to Elizabeth Duke to pick out their own Mickey Mouse trophy post-season. Once again, Panthers won all the trophies on offer. Hence my smiley. The 'nearly' is completely superfluous then, given the facts, smiley or not.
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 3, 2014 19:43:37 GMT
First Panthers/Steelers game that I won't be going to this season.
Bored already.
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 3, 2014 19:37:38 GMT
Think I'd agree with many other posters on here. Once you've won "nearly" all the trophies on offer the year before then this season was always likely to be a let down. Ahem. Technically it was all the trophies on offer. Such is the 'prestige' of the likely to disappear soon conference titles that Belfast had to pop down to Elizabeth Duke to pick out their own Mickey Mouse trophy post-season. Once again, Panthers won all the trophies on offer.
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Post by tootootrain on Feb 3, 2014 18:19:09 GMT
A goon line would be nice least it would be more entertaining, offer kelsey wilson all of the money sign penner and colt king, send mcmorrow a cake with a file in it and a plane ticket I'd rather the money was saved and a load of 'up for it' local Brits were signed for a goon line. After all, banned imports hit the team harder. There are a few 'punchy' rec players around who I'm sure would lap up the chance to be let loose in an EIHL game.
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