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Post by phil51 on Sept 4, 2012 16:43:17 GMT
and since when did what happened on Saturday become something this board has to take responsibility for? you said that the negativity of this board "Luckily, these people are NOT representative of the vast majority of people who go to the games" are you now saying that the minority that are unhappy at matches are negative because of this board? you really have lost me Not sure I am saying that exactly. Probably saying that they are both symptoms of the same thing. I also find it difficult to believe that all those who perpetually vilify the manager for every decision then go to games and are positive and vociferous in their support and encouragement. Guess what: I might be wrong (but I don't thinks so). Still, what do I know?
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Post by phil51 on Sept 4, 2012 16:47:40 GMT
It's about time someone had the balls to start a thread like this because I don't care what anyone says this board is at times a depressing place to be, basically down to most of the regular posters bein right miserable b******s, who immediately anyone start a positive thread gets completely beseiged by negativity or the thread gets binned because there not in the gang ! if you just look at the history of the most regular posters they are by far the worst for it. I like the first paragraph because it is the most inaccurate bunch of twaddle and made up horseshit I have read since I saw the last report from the marketing department. A few rather well know TP diehards will be keeping their heads down when the read the bit about the most regular posters! ;D Where this kind of media tends to drive people to express more extreme standpoints than they actually intend by its very nature to try and pretend that the level of discontent is being driven from here and is somehow at odds with the overall feelings of Stoke supporters is in my view Lah-Lah land stuff. Given that accurate calls on General Elections are made from infinately smaller sample sizes of the voting public than the % number of actual number of posters % of Stoke's total support it is a little tricky to dismiss the general tone expressed. That's even if it doesn't happen to represent your particular viewpoint. I'm not pretending it is a totally accrate guage but to dismiss the site and blame the site in the same breath is well...erm..breathtaking. General election sampling is done in various ways: random sampling and representative sampling being two of them. Are you really trying to tell us that the moaning on this message board is either a random sample or is an accurate representation of our support as a whole? Evidence please, 'cos I don't believe it is either.
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Post by Kjones9 on Sept 4, 2012 16:52:31 GMT
Phil, momo, tazi and match are just as bad if not worse than hudsongod, spiderman, bbm etc,etc.. For these pathetic posts.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Sept 4, 2012 16:59:42 GMT
Phil, momo, tazi and match are just as bad if not worse than hudsongod, spiderman, bbm etc,etc.. For these pathetic posts. Coming from a know nothing, predictable, tedious, baboon like you, that hurts.
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Post by phil51 on Sept 4, 2012 17:57:41 GMT
Phil, momo, tazi and match are just as bad if not worse than hudsongod, spiderman, bbm etc,etc.. For these pathetic posts. Wow! Now I really do feel as though I've made it. Dissed by kjones9.
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Post by Kjones9 on Sept 7, 2012 15:28:50 GMT
Your welcome oh mindless ones.
Yes tone, no tone, I know we got to an fa cup final tone....... Pathetic, get your own thoughts tards.
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Post by yogibear78 on Sept 7, 2012 15:39:56 GMT
Your welcome oh mindless ones. Yes tone, no tone, I know we got to an fa cup final tone....... Pathetic, get your own thoughts tards. ;D Yeah preferably like mine.
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Post by stackman on Sept 7, 2012 16:28:14 GMT
Pulis plays the game to the strength of squad he has at his disposal. With Whelan and Whitehead in midfield he had to play direct football cause they cannot dominate a midfield. I do think he will try to change the style with the new signings, still direct at times but will have more confidence with Adam, Nzonzi etc to play football. Just my opinion but that's how I see it progressing
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Post by kitkatkev on Sept 7, 2012 17:03:29 GMT
Hi I have been a regular reader of this board over many years, and have lived through the bad years of being a Stoke supporter and taking the rough with the smooth. I feel compelled to say a few words to the anti Pulis brigade. This forum can be used as a vehicle to vent frustrations as to the way we play and the way we deal with winning and losing, it should not be a personal vendetta against either the manager the chairman or the players. Just lately I have been amazed at the negativity and the back biting from so called Stoke supporters who are slating the manager in a derogative manner. OK criticising is fine and promotes healthy debates but not in a way which is offensive and borders on slander. I can only assume that the anti Pulis brigade which have slated him since his arrival were not around in the dark days of the 80s when we were changing managers almost every season. I have been priveliged to be a Stoke supporter all my life, my first game was in 1959, so I guess you can work out that I have seen many comings and goings in this time. Please get behind the team and SUPPORT them through the good and the bad times, Tony Pulis has done wonders for our club, and Peter Coates has put his money where his mouth is, give them both the respect they deserve, and yes criticise them and have your say but PLEASE do not make it into a personal rant. BE LOYAL BE PROUD BE STOKE DAVE Trying to educate some on here is a hard task
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Post by RAF on Sept 7, 2012 17:40:50 GMT
Hi I have been a regular reader of this board over many years, and have lived through the bad years of being a Stoke supporter and taking the rough with the smooth. I feel compelled to say a few words to the anti Pulis brigade. This forum can be used as a vehicle to vent frustrations as to the way we play and the way we deal with winning and losing, it should not be a personal vendetta against either the manager the chairman or the players. Just lately I have been amazed at the negativity and the back biting from so called Stoke supporters who are slating the manager in a derogative manner. OK criticising is fine and promotes healthy debates but not in a way which is offensive and borders on slander. I can only assume that the anti Pulis brigade which have slated him since his arrival were not around in the dark days of the 80s when we were changing managers almost every season. I have been priveliged to be a Stoke supporter all my life, my first game was in 1959, so I guess you can work out that I have seen many comings and goings in this time. Please get behind the team and SUPPORT them through the good and the bad times, Tony Pulis has done wonders for our club, and Peter Coates has put his money where his mouth is, give them both the respect they deserve, and yes criticise them and have your say but PLEASE do not make it into a personal rant. BE LOYAL BE PROUD BE STOKE DAVE Trying to educate some on here is a hard task Trying to educate is one thing. Being patronising , condescending and supercilious is another thing altogether. H
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Post by neilscfc on Sept 8, 2012 16:43:22 GMT
Are you Pulis in disguise, are you Pulis in disguise ???
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Post by OldStokie on Sept 8, 2012 20:44:20 GMT
Pulis has given us some great moments as manager. He's also served up some of the most negative shit I've ever seen. As for questioning whether I'm a Stoke supporter ... well, let's put it this way. When he played the last fifteen minutes against Reading defending a slender lead for us to give away two points in the last minute, I called him for everything under the sun; the bastard! And he deserved it. However, when we played Wigan away and he went for it instead of sitting back, I said to myself: Well done Pulis! That's what we want! Keep it up!
So, criticism AND praise, and if it happens that he gets more criticism than praise then it's nothing to with me not being a Stoke supporter, but more to his attitude of how he sees the game. I can stand losing. One of the greatest games I've ever watched was a night game against Sheffield United back in the old days. We lost 2-3, but I came away feeling as if we'd won.
Right now I'm looking forward to seeing how he develops the team with his new signings, and because I think he's bought well this close season, I'm optimistic. But, if he does his usual thing of ruining potentially good players by stifling their natural talents and playing his favourites rather than the better players he has at his disposal, I'll be pissed off. Again! And I'll let him know it via this board.
But I'll still be a Stoke supporter.
OS.
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