Today was the start of our FA Cup campaign, but it was also the start of Stoke’s foray into the Premiership. I’d managed to find a live stream for the Stoke game and thought i’d watch a piece of history in the making. It turned into a first half nightmare. So I thought i’d nip over to Queensgate in the second half to see how the lads were doing.
With half hour to go we were 2-1 up, and within two minutes of arriving, Craig Palmer gets his hat trick with a smartly taken goal. 5 minutes later and the visitors pull a goal back with a goal, a bit of a soft one, but well taken none the less.
What was interesting from the half hour or so that I saw, was their number 8. He epitomized that kind of player who’s aggressive attitude borders on thuggery. It looked like his job was to stop our midfielder play maker Ash Allanson – no matter what. He was over the top with his tackles, plenty of verbals and hand gestures – and he was what, 4 foot 6 !. No doubt he had some talent but skill wins through most of the time, like it did today.
It would be interesting to know who was the last Brid player who scored back to back hat tricks in competitive games, and if only he’d put away one of those other chances at Hall Road, he’d have 3 back to back hat tricks.
