You've all seen it by now I am sure. Steve Thornton descending to the level of dumb caveman and clubbing the leagues most popular player over the head. Unfortunately to date we only have the one camera angle to go on filmed by a private citizen named Abraham Zapruder.
The Zapruder film is a silent 8 mm color home movie of the clubbing of Andre Payette through centre ice in Newcastle, England, on September 21, 2008. The film is the most complete visual recording of the assassination attempt on Enforcer Andre Payette.
Word has it the Giants had men in black coats remove all other video footage, but accidently looked over this one angle which has now leaked out.
Steve Thornton has not been seen since and the Elite League disciplinary wing are appealing to anyone who knows of his where abouts.
A mole deep within the web of the Elite League hierarchy, at a location he would only describe as a 'large underground network of offices' had this to say,
"The bosses are not happy and are demanding the return of all other video angles so that proper analysis of the incident can be made. Mr. Thornton can run but he cannot hide forever".
Giants GM Todd Kelman would not return calls but was seen dropping a brown envelope into a bag carried by referee Mike Hicks as he passed by him in a Newcastle street the following morning. Hicks assessed Thornton 2+2 for accidental high sticks and has not included the incident in his match report to the league.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
What Have We Learned?
Well kids, the first weekend of fixtures has been and gone, and not without incident.
The Forums are ablaze with wailing and knashing of teeth. Mainly the Cage Forum who are up in arms about Hull one idiot even shouting for the franchise to be shut down, the ironic hypocrisy is not lost on other forums thankfully.
The Snow Plough does not give opinions on mattes such as that which took place at the Novice Ice Centre last Sunday, and there is no indication of schadenfreude here for the actions were reprehensible. Yet a touch of self-relaisation may be needed for the Panthers fans who in the past shrugged their shoulders and celebrated similar actions of those in black and canary yellow…. Ho-hum.
Meanwhile, the other half of the failing marriage, Sheffield, have been once again bawling their eyes out about Brad Voth. I mean seriously. It’s even immerged that Matsos tried to take Voth to Sheffield over the summer. So it all stinks of sour grapes, the Sheffield PR machine watching Voth’s every move in order to continue their on going poor attempt at a smear campaign.
Voth is one of the great players of the Elite League, and whining like this, and constant childish vendettas serve no purpose other than to drive a streak between the league and players of Voths standard. We already have few of these as there is, yet Sheffield feel adamant in their moaning that Voth should be “banned”. Probably for the simple reason that not one man in the Sheffield side is fit to lace the boots of Brad Voth. Poor show by all involved in Sheffield.
But hey, what have we learned.
Well I wouldn’t really call it learning, but once again the EIHL showed their inept capability to organise a pish up in a brewery, on two fronts.
1. Showing all the wit of a drunk playing pool. The EIHL referees weren’t sure whether they were to wear stripes or solids! In Sheffield and Newcastle you had the good old “Stripies” back, while in Belfast and Basingstoke, the new pointless solid shirts.
The cynic in me would say, well why would Mike Hicks not wear the stripe shirt, but favour the CH Sports made new shirt?
But apparently, in a sign of great forethought, the decision to scrap both the shirts (which The Plough highlighted as pointless only 4 short weeks ago) and the 4 man system was communicated to the referees, by e-mail, at about 4pm on Saturday. So of course those who had to travel didn’t see it.
2. In Manchester on Sunday night the game was abandoned after 2 periods due to the ice in one half of the rink being thin, and sand coming through making playing conditions dangerous.
Of course as this has happened before the precendent has been laid down by the EIHL, Basingstoke and Sheffield ended after 2 periods in a draw. However they decided the fixture at the next meeting of the pari, with a 5 minute OT period of play before the game.
So this should be what took place here isn’t it?
Of course not. They had a penalty shootout on the “good ice”.
If you pick up a dictionary in EIHL HQ you’ll find a missing page, this page contained the word consistency, so it’s no wonder they’ve got confused.
The EIHL, what can I say.
The Forums are ablaze with wailing and knashing of teeth. Mainly the Cage Forum who are up in arms about Hull one idiot even shouting for the franchise to be shut down, the ironic hypocrisy is not lost on other forums thankfully.
The Snow Plough does not give opinions on mattes such as that which took place at the Novice Ice Centre last Sunday, and there is no indication of schadenfreude here for the actions were reprehensible. Yet a touch of self-relaisation may be needed for the Panthers fans who in the past shrugged their shoulders and celebrated similar actions of those in black and canary yellow…. Ho-hum.
Meanwhile, the other half of the failing marriage, Sheffield, have been once again bawling their eyes out about Brad Voth. I mean seriously. It’s even immerged that Matsos tried to take Voth to Sheffield over the summer. So it all stinks of sour grapes, the Sheffield PR machine watching Voth’s every move in order to continue their on going poor attempt at a smear campaign.
Voth is one of the great players of the Elite League, and whining like this, and constant childish vendettas serve no purpose other than to drive a streak between the league and players of Voths standard. We already have few of these as there is, yet Sheffield feel adamant in their moaning that Voth should be “banned”. Probably for the simple reason that not one man in the Sheffield side is fit to lace the boots of Brad Voth. Poor show by all involved in Sheffield.
But hey, what have we learned.
Well I wouldn’t really call it learning, but once again the EIHL showed their inept capability to organise a pish up in a brewery, on two fronts.
1. Showing all the wit of a drunk playing pool. The EIHL referees weren’t sure whether they were to wear stripes or solids! In Sheffield and Newcastle you had the good old “Stripies” back, while in Belfast and Basingstoke, the new pointless solid shirts.
The cynic in me would say, well why would Mike Hicks not wear the stripe shirt, but favour the CH Sports made new shirt?
But apparently, in a sign of great forethought, the decision to scrap both the shirts (which The Plough highlighted as pointless only 4 short weeks ago) and the 4 man system was communicated to the referees, by e-mail, at about 4pm on Saturday. So of course those who had to travel didn’t see it.
2. In Manchester on Sunday night the game was abandoned after 2 periods due to the ice in one half of the rink being thin, and sand coming through making playing conditions dangerous.
Of course as this has happened before the precendent has been laid down by the EIHL, Basingstoke and Sheffield ended after 2 periods in a draw. However they decided the fixture at the next meeting of the pari, with a 5 minute OT period of play before the game.
So this should be what took place here isn’t it?
Of course not. They had a penalty shootout on the “good ice”.
If you pick up a dictionary in EIHL HQ you’ll find a missing page, this page contained the word consistency, so it’s no wonder they’ve got confused.
The EIHL, what can I say.
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