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Post by stokecity4life on Jan 6, 2018 21:05:19 GMT
It`s certainly not too late by any stretch of the imagination!
We are in a mess but a new manager appointed quickly and given funds for Jan will reinvigorate the squad which in my view isn`t a bad squad compared to a lot of teams in the bottom half!
So no way is it too late.
Agree that the sentiment from Coates that 'don`t know what the fuss is about' was very ill conceived and timed very badly.
I`m quite sure he regrets saying this now.
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Post by estp1863 on Jan 6, 2018 21:06:23 GMT
Its the penny pinching that will do for us if we go down.
Relegation by design
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 6, 2018 21:07:02 GMT
Hughes is/was the manager but you allowed this to happen. Even 3 weeks ago you publicly stated you did not know what the fuss was about Hughes was is own downfall but boy your board has a hell of a lot to answer for to allow our fall from such a strength which you created and now seem to be killing Not sure how old you are mate. Presumably not very judging by your comments. Peter Coates was hounded out in 1998 (the whys and wherefores are not relevant). His family were therefore understandably a little apprehensive about his return. Fortunately for us he did return and restored the pride back in the Potters (not to mention the wider benefits for the City). Hearing comments such as yours just might just stir some bad memories for him.....and you know what......who can blame if he said “fuck these ungrateful bastards” and sell out to the highest bidder (who will almost certainly be no fan of Stoke). Be a good chap and piss off eh before you and your ilk destroy this club. We have enough problems as it is. I don’t know why I have to qualify because if you have followed our club for 1 year or a 100 matters not a hit For the record 1971 is the first I can recall
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Jan 6, 2018 21:07:28 GMT
We may still be in the Cup if he had acted weeks,Months ago.
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 6, 2018 21:12:25 GMT
Hughes is/was the manager but you allowed this to happen. Even 3 weeks ago you publicly stated you did not know what the fuss was about Hughes was is own downfall but boy your board has a hell of a lot to answer for to allow our fall from such a strength which you created and now seem to be killing Not sure how old you are mate. Presumably not very judging by your comments. Peter Coates was hounded out in 1998 (the whys and wherefores are not relevant). His family were therefore understandably a little apprehensive about his return. Fortunately for us he did return and restored the pride back in the Potters (not to mention the wider benefits for the City). Hearing comments such as yours just might just stir some bad memories for him.....and you know what......who can blame if he said “fuck these ungrateful bastards” and sell out to the highest bidder (who will almost certainly be no fan of Stoke). Be a good chap and piss off eh before you and your ilk destroy this club. We have enough problems as it is. I would also add that I do not boo the team or join in with the Hughes Out chants and I never stormed the directors box, although I witnessed it. This is a mesageboard you total moron where people vent their frustrations
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 6, 2018 21:25:43 GMT
It`s certainly not too late by any stretch of the imagination! We are in a mess but a new manager appointed quickly and given funds for Jan will reinvigorate the squad which in my view isn`t a bad squad compared to a lot of teams in the bottom half! So no way is it too late. Agree that the sentiment from Coates that 'don`t know what the fuss is about' was very ill conceived and timed very badly. I`m quite sure he regrets saying this now. I hope I am wrong but this self sufficiency stance, which he is entitled to is heading us one way If he came out and said that’s it It would be much more acceptable However the nonesense spouted lately is beyond absurd
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Post by stokecity4life on Jan 6, 2018 21:27:07 GMT
It`s certainly not too late by any stretch of the imagination! We are in a mess but a new manager appointed quickly and given funds for Jan will reinvigorate the squad which in my view isn`t a bad squad compared to a lot of teams in the bottom half! So no way is it too late. Agree that the sentiment from Coates that 'don`t know what the fuss is about' was very ill conceived and timed very badly. I`m quite sure he regrets saying this now. I hope I am wrong but this self sufficiency stance, which he is entitled to is heading us one way If he came out and said that’s it It would be much more acceptable However the nonesense spouted lately is beyond absurd Completely agree that the bumf that`s been spoken recently has been embarrassing. Huge decisions to be made over the next 3 weeks. Make or Break.
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Post by colnepotter on Jan 6, 2018 22:14:17 GMT
Not sure how old you are mate. Presumably not very judging by your comments. Peter Coates was hounded out in 1998 (the whys and wherefores are not relevant). His family were therefore understandably a little apprehensive about his return. Fortunately for us he did return and restored the pride back in the Potters (not to mention the wider benefits for the City). Hearing comments such as yours just might just stir some bad memories for him.....and you know what......who can blame if he said “fuck these ungrateful bastards” and sell out to the highest bidder (who will almost certainly be no fan of Stoke). Be a good chap and piss off eh before you and your ilk destroy this club. We have enough problems as it is. I don’t know why I have to qualify because if you have followed our club for 1 year or a 100 matters not a hit For the record 1971 is the first I can recall With age often comes perspective and wisdom. Not always though clearly......
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 6, 2018 22:18:06 GMT
I don’t know why I have to qualify because if you have followed our club for 1 year or a 100 matters not a hit For the record 1971 is the first I can recall With age often comes perspective and wisdom. Not always though clearly...... I have no claims to this but If you bother to review the responses to my post you will find yourself in the minority
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 6, 2018 22:22:03 GMT
I don’t know why I have to qualify because if you have followed our club for 1 year or a 100 matters not a hit For the record 1971 is the first I can recall With age often comes perspective and wisdom. Not always though clearly...... It also illustrates your naivety if you think he reads this stuff No be a good chap and go to bed
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 6, 2018 22:22:17 GMT
I don’t know why I have to qualify because if you have followed our club for 1 year or a 100 matters not a hit For the record 1971 is the first I can recall With age often comes perspective and wisdom. Not always though clearly...... It also illustrates your naivety if you think he reads this stuff Now be a good chap and go to bed
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Post by swampySCFC on Jan 6, 2018 22:23:14 GMT
Hughes is/was the manager but you allowed this to happen. Even 3 weeks ago you publicly stated you did not know what the fuss was about Hughes was is own downfall but boy your board has a hell of a lot to answer for to allow our fall from such a strength which you created and now seem to be killing Totally agree, Tony Gale on sky sports saying exactly the same, bad recruitment, bad investment, bad management Who the fuck is Tony Gale. What has he ever done?
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Post by colnepotter on Jan 6, 2018 22:23:59 GMT
With age often comes perspective and wisdom. Not always though clearly...... I have no claims to this but If you bother to review the responses to my post you will find yourself in the minority The majority will be “your ilk” I referred to in my original post. Unevidenced gibberish in the main. Anyway good night...
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 6, 2018 22:26:31 GMT
The majority who followed us through thin and thinner? Who went home and away no matter what’s was served up? Yep that was us. Lord knows what camp you think you are in
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2018 22:26:35 GMT
True to say they fiddled whilst rome burned no mistake about that
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Post by stokeykez on Jan 6, 2018 22:26:36 GMT
We will stay up. Drop the negativity, get behind the team and whoever the new manager is and bring the bearpit back. We can do this !!! Exactly if this had happened after the transfer window had shut id be worried. We have time to change some personnel
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Post by chamberlain on Jan 6, 2018 22:27:08 GMT
I don’t know why I have to qualify because if you have followed our club for 1 year or a 100 matters not a hit For the record 1971 is the first I can recall With age often comes perspective and wisdom. Not always though clearly...... You have just disproved the theory
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Post by Malcolm Clarke on Jan 6, 2018 22:28:09 GMT
that is your perspective Mine is we are woeful The whole point of sacking Hughes though is they we soon won’t be woeful isn’t it? So as yet it’s neither too late nor have we been destroyed. We lost to a club today who have actually been all but destroyed, I hope to God nothing anywhere near that ever happens to us the Internet would spontaneously combust..... Indeed. If anyone wants to know what appalling ownership of a once proud club really looks like, a conversation with the fans of the club which beat us today would be as good a place as any to start.
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Post by mozzer on Jan 6, 2018 22:34:00 GMT
Totally agree, Tony Gale on sky sports saying exactly the same, bad recruitment, bad investment, bad management Who the fuck is Tony Gale. What has he ever done? Just very possibly a little more in football than the bloke behind the nickname swampyscfc Just a guess of course
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Post by stokemark on Jan 6, 2018 22:35:14 GMT
I don’t know why I have to qualify because if you have followed our club for 1 year or a 100 matters not a hit For the record 1971 is the first I can recall With age often comes perspective and wisdom. Not always though clearly...... I bet Sufolkstokie has seen more Stoke games than you ever have or will and all from a long distance He's a proper Stokie so leave well alone
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Post by StatesideStokie on Jan 6, 2018 22:36:44 GMT
Hughes is/was the manager but you allowed this to happen. Even 3 weeks ago you publicly stated you did not know what the fuss was about Hughes was is own downfall but boy your board has a hell of a lot to answer for to allow our fall from such a strength which you created and now seem to be killing What a load of old bollocks.
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 6, 2018 22:39:30 GMT
The whole point of sacking Hughes though is they we soon won’t be woeful isn’t it? So as yet it’s neither too late nor have we been destroyed. We lost to a club today who have actually been all but destroyed, I hope to God nothing anywhere near that ever happens to us the Internet would spontaneously combust..... Indeed. If anyone wants to know what appalling ownership of a once proud club really looks like, a conversation with the fans of the club which beat us today would be as good a place as any to start. Indeed My Coventry mate can give chapter and verse. Coates has done so much but for me the where we are now is of his own making
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 6, 2018 22:40:31 GMT
Hughes is/was the manager but you allowed this to happen. Even 3 weeks ago you publicly stated you did not know what the fuss was about Hughes was is own downfall but boy your board has a hell of a lot to answer for to allow our fall from such a strength which you created and now seem to be killing What a load of old bollocks. Please expand
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2018 22:43:54 GMT
There are some aspects where the clubs owners and management procrastinated made bad calls or did not act at all. To conclude that is inescapable and to deny culpability, reckless.Trick is, that all the relevant people learn from this after we plot our escape from the mess we have been left in. The mess we have created for ourselves.
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Post by StatesideStokie on Jan 6, 2018 22:47:43 GMT
What a load of old bollocks. Please expand This idea that we’re completely fucking doomed, when in reality, we’re a couple of wins away from the top half of the table. It was time for him to go, and granted, the decision should probably have been made a few weeks ago, but now it’s done and we need to look forward. Coates hasn’t destroyed us, and to suggest that is the case is, with all due respect, utter bollocks. It would seem you’ve been around the block enough to know we’ve been in far, far worse predicaments and also to know just how much Coates has done to rebuild and revitalize the club in the last 12 years or so.
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Post by stokemark on Jan 6, 2018 22:49:30 GMT
I don’t know why I have to qualify because if you have followed our club for 1 year or a 100 matters not a hit For the record 1971 is the first I can recall With age often comes perspective and wisdom. Not always though clearly...... I bet Sufolkstokie has seen more Stoke games than you ever have or will and all from a long distance He's a proper Stokie so leave well alone
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 6, 2018 22:51:25 GMT
This idea that we’re completely fucking doomed, when in reality, we’re a couple of wins away from the top half of the table. It was time for him to go, and granted, the decision should probably have been made a few weeks ago, but now it’s done and we need to look forward. Coates hasn’t destroyed us, and to suggest that is the case is, with all due respect, utter bollocks. It would seem you’ve been around the block enough to know we’ve been in far, far worse predicaments and also to know just how much Coates has done to rebuild and revitalize the club in the last 12 years or so. Totally agree. But my concern is that it to long to make the decision and it is such bad timing
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Post by StatesideStokie on Jan 6, 2018 22:54:36 GMT
A few weeks off in timing can hardly be considered “destroying the club”. Let’s see what happens over the next three weeks before castigating a man who’s done more for this club than anyone in living memory.
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Post by colnepotter on Jan 6, 2018 22:55:17 GMT
With age often comes perspective and wisdom. Not always though clearly...... I bet Sufolkstokie has seen more Stoke games than you ever have or will and all from a long distance He's a proper Stokie so leave well alone Nice one mate. If you knew who I was, you would realise just how silly you have made yourself sound.....
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 6, 2018 22:56:55 GMT
A few weeks off in timing can hardly be considered “destroying the club”. Let’s see what happens over the next three weeks before castigating a man who’s done more for this club than anyone in living memory. I really hope so
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