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Post by markscfc72 on Mar 8, 2011 15:12:51 GMT
Sat behind Niall Quinn and Tony Scholes
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Post by redblue on Mar 8, 2011 15:32:59 GMT
Yes
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Post by mystokebadge on Mar 8, 2011 16:10:55 GMT
Yes it was her,stokies here stokies there  |
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Post by surreystokie on Mar 9, 2011 0:07:06 GMT
Afraid it was. Will comment tomorrow. A very proud Stokie, listening to someone (PC) finally telling it like it is, with regard to the FA. |
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Post by markscfc72 on Mar 9, 2011 0:34:02 GMT
good stuff hopefully some interesting stuff you can share  |
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Post by Malcolm Clarke on Mar 9, 2011 10:18:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2011 10:23:24 GMT
............mmm...
Just let us know what they're going to do about it,as Tommy Docherty famously likes to say....
P.S ...Could you also let us know what it's all costing and if anything is likely to be achieved.
I've heard Wayne Rooney EARNS £ 250,000 a week but still can't spell prostitute..!
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Post by surreystokie on Mar 9, 2011 11:30:47 GMT
Mark, now that the meeting has been covered in the newspapers (including the Sentinel, presumably?) and you have the web address, given by Malc, today, I think that those who are interested in the game, as opposed merely to Stoke City FC (the two should be synonymous, of course, but insularity too often prevails) can now easily find out the details. The first part of the meeting (PL club administrators) lasts for one hour and twenty minutes and the second part, with the FL and SFL, lasts for just under an hour. Lord Mawhinney, FL president who, as its chairman, had put forward several new ideas, speaks much sense, though I don't agree with all of his comments. I had hoped to speak to him afterwards as I had done before the meeting, but a further appointment precluded that. My main query was why, when yesterday repeating his pride in the fact that it was the FL who had introduced transparency with regard to club ownership, they (FL) now know who is the owner of Leeds UFC but are not allowed to tell anyone else! So that's for another day. PC is very much on our side and, if the extra two places on the FA council materialise, let us not forget that it was he, overwhelmingly in the minority when the initial vote was taken, at the last council meeting, together with Malc, who introduced the very idea, on behalf of FSF, who would be due congratulations. Still much work to be done but good to know that PC is in our camp, on this one. David Gill (Man Utd chairman) deserves A medal for Straight Face of the Year, goes to Mn Utd chairmran, David Gill, when in his response to truth and logic, brazenly defied both, on several occasions. As there was a need for communication with its supporters, at any FC, he was asked by Tom Watson how a club could possibly communicate with its fans, when it its manager couldn't even communicate with the media. He opined that their two groups, IMUSA and MUST, could not belong in any talks, when their aim was to be rid of the owners. That the word democracy was a missing link, fazed him not one bit. PC was so incredibly honest, re the FA, and especially its part, or rather non-part, in the recent W.Cup bid debacle. His prime point was not the actual bid or any problem with the credibility of the eventual winners, (assuming that the Qatar WC was held in Summer) but the fact that the FA, despite its involvement with FIFA, had no wind of it, whatsoever, with the resultant one vote so incredibly committed to England. He spoke from the heart, and with candour, too often an unlikely concept throughout the higher echelons of the game. My only concern with PC and TS, was that they too easily accepted the part of agents in the game. A good day for SCFC, however, and I know from my chat with TS, afterwards, how concerned the club is with our present situation. Sadly but predictably, not too many of us (inlcuding press) stayed to listen to the latter part of the meeting. Lack of interest in the wider game, was probably a greater reason for exiting room 15, than a lack of stamina. No problem here. As a lifelong Stokie, stamina is part of the deal.  |
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Post by surreystokie on Mar 9, 2011 12:15:53 GMT
Oops! Re the Fa, when I said council, I meant the much smaller and influential board.
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Post by lordb on Mar 9, 2011 12:24:21 GMT
Peter Coates:
the peoples champion
who would have thought that?
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Post by Malcolm Clarke on Mar 9, 2011 14:41:02 GMT
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Post by stokemaro on Mar 9, 2011 14:47:04 GMT
"I know from my chat with TS, afterwards, how concerned the club is with our present situation."
Any chance you could expand on what was said exactly?
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Post by Etain Tur-Mukan on Mar 9, 2011 18:14:15 GMT
Many thanks!
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Post by surreystokie on Mar 9, 2011 23:21:34 GMT
maro, let me confirm that there was no inside info (eg what he thinks of TP etc) and I would never have asked him or have spoken of or alluded to it, if there had been, in a private conversation.
Briefly, it was normal stuff, about the importance of the next few matches. We know that it would impact on him, for obvious (business) reasons and that he could not fully understand the feelings of a lifelong supporter, but I was pleased that he did not feign mock optimisim and did share my worries.
Yes we are indeed all in this revival or trauma, together, starting on Sunday.
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Post by nicholasjalcock on Mar 10, 2011 9:43:22 GMT
maro, let me confirm that there was no inside info (eg what he thinks of TP etc) and I would never have asked him or have spoken of or alluded to it, if there had been, in a private conversation. Briefly, it was normal stuff, about the importance of the next few matches. We know that it would impact on him, for obvious (business) reasons and that he could not fully understand the feelings of a lifelong supporter, but I was pleased that he did not feign mock optimisim and did share my worries. Yes we are indeed all in this revival or trauma, together, starting on Sunday. It appears from the players comments in the media that everyone at the Club understands our increasingly precarious position. Sunday is critical! The performance is far more important than the result! We need to create more chances and then the goals will follow! |
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Post by stokerambler on Mar 10, 2011 14:29:48 GMT
There's a good piece on the inquiry on the BBC site, which quotes Peter Coates at length. I think journo David Bond is right when he says the inquiry will likely miss the mark... I agree 100% with Coates on the world Cup bid. A shocking lack of intelligence on who was likely to vote for England. www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/davidbond/2011/03/inquiry_into_football_governan.html |
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