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I totally get the point you're trying to make. I guess two things stand out. 1) maybe Stockdale had a different brief to usual but it didn't go to plan. And 2) I'm not entirely sure Hughton would've sold the tactical plan in quite the manner you have, in which case "soak up pressure and hit...

I wasn't asking whether it worked for you i.e. Whether you liked the tactic, I was asking whether it was possible that his kicking was so markedly different to normal in strategy because he was acting out managerial instructions. The fact that you've practically described football right out of...

Therein lies the point... How often does Stockdale punt the ball aimlessly towards our strikers' heads usually? The point is he doesn't because usually his distribution is immaculate... And usually it's with a very clear idea to move the ball out to either the full backs or the wide men where...

For all the people marking Stockdale down for his distribution, do you think this was an intended tactic rather than his kicking being poor? This is, after all, a guy who regularly sprays passes around the pitch without so much as a worry that he may misplace one.

Stockdale 8 - made the one save he really had to make. He took a different approach to kicking tonight but generally he did what he had to do when it mattered. Bruno 7 - nice, solid, effort cleared off the line. Stayed much deeper than usual against tricky wide players but defended well. Goldson...