Wednesday 25 March 2009

Strachan said

With the departure of Rick Strachan as coach of the Excel Hull Stingrays, we give you some of F Block Blogs favourite Strachan quotes from the past six years.

Unfortunately he said some of his best, involving parking buses in front of the net, growing players from trees and circling wagons, to the Hull Daily Mail and they don't keep an archive from previous seasons. However here are some of the best from the Stingrays official website.
"We have taken 20 steps forwards in recent weeks but took five steps back on Saturday."
6-1 loss v Coventry (10/11/08)
"Rome wasn't built in a day and over the past three weeks I have seen so many positive things"
6-3 win over Belfast 6-3 and 2-1 loss to Sheffield
"They threw everything they had at us and when that didn't work, Steve Thornton decides to take my goalie out. It was a gutless thing to do. He wonders why he is the most hated guy in the league. The guys battled hard but I am really angry. The only way they could beat us was to take out my goalie."
8-2 loss v Belfast, which saw Curtis Cruickshank receive a concussion (18/12/08)
"What are ‘D’ doing dumping the puck and chasing it? I don’t care if it’s a powerplay, we were winning. All you have to do is dump it in and let the forwards chase it."
4-3 overtime loss v Newcastle Vipers (12/01/09)
"The guys have worked their nuts off for the last 12 games to get to where we are but until we are mathematically there nothing matters."
2-1 win v Newcastle, with the team claiming 12 points from 13 games following New Year (08/02/09)
"What went wrong? Everything. Every time we did something wrong they scored and every time we had a scoring chance we either hit the post or the crossbar. When things go bad here they go bad and when we are good we are really good."
Stingrays 7-1 loss to the Sheffield Steelers (18/11/07)
"We are going to have to play a textbook road game. We have to eliminate their chances and lull them to sleep."
Prior to the Stingrays visit to Belfast after the Giants had racked up their 15th consecutive win (29/01/08)
"He drives the net hard, he goes in the corners and gets crashed, smashed, whacked and hacked and he can score goals"
After Jeff Glowa had scored three goals in two assists in five games (29/12/06)
"This thing is far from over. There is going to be more twists and turns than a Stephen King novel."

"If we score first, the crowd will be up and they will be thinking 'Oh god, here they come'."
Before the Stingrays second leg of the Challenge Cup, trailing 5-3 to Sheffield (23/01/07)
"This is the biggest night for Stingrays in their history. I am so proud of all the guys. We are going to the dance and we are going to savour this moment."
After making the EPL Cup Final, their only ever final, with a win over Guildford Flames (22/01/06)
"It was a comprehensive win. We dominated them and the Zamboni really only needed to do half the ice as we were in their half all the time."
5-1 win over Telford (05/02/06)
"We went to Nottingham and played really, really well. We were not supposed to win, no BNL team is supposed to win.

"Luton are not expected to beat Manchester United but it was encouraging for the sport of hockey because it showed BNL teams can go into the big rinks and play with them"
After away Crossover Cup win v Nottingham (13/09/04)

"The referee was out of his league. It was a circus out there."
6-6 tie with Bracknell Bees (20/10/04)
"Boothroyd did a great job. He got thrown in. It was a case of 'there you go kid, go and play."
5-4 Winter Cup win v Peterborough (6/10/04)
"Luke got thrown in at the deep end and told 'there you go, swim' and I think he did an admirable job."
After Luke Boothyoyd recieved a GB U20 call up (19/11/04)
"At least I will be back in Canada and there is a team in town. Who knows there might be a guy there on the roster and not playing."
After Scott Wray and Craig Minard quit the team, and before he visited Canada (22/12/04)
"Why wouldn't they [play their back-up goalie]? It's kind of a written rule here that in a nothing game you play your back-up because they never get to play. Why didn't they?"
5-2 loss v Fife (19/12/04)