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Post by talentspotter on Jan 15, 2018 12:06:54 GMT
The new Lou Macari 🏴 Be positive ✊️
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Post by chiswickpotter on Jan 15, 2018 12:06:57 GMT
Becoming clearer why the board were desperate for Hughes to turn it around, the options to replace him were not great. Hughes may be close to the best, high profile manager we could attract and he was always alert to his next move to an Everton or similar, a club with slightly greater potential due to higher fan base.
The key now is bringing players in and providing organisation. From Memory Lambert is good at the latter and so can he use his knowledge and contacts in Germany to get what we need. We already have Bauer so a midfielder, a striker and ideally a pacey wide man or number 10. If the defenders stay fit it’s all to play for
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Post by andystokey on Jan 15, 2018 12:07:20 GMT
It's quite apt really it starts pissing it down of rain when he got announced My source tells me it's going to rain for 40 days and 40 nights. Any frogs or locusts?
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Post by marrer on Jan 15, 2018 12:07:35 GMT
A joke of an appointment, made by a joke of a Board.........the only trouble is - it's NOT F*CKING FUNNY
And, to cap it off..............two and a half years!!!!????? Have you called off the trip?
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Post by skelman on Jan 15, 2018 12:07:45 GMT
Obviously been tracking him for ages It wasn't 'outstanding' thoug, was it? We approached 3 managers before him. I was being sarky mate! in between sobbing!
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Post by enuntio on Jan 15, 2018 12:08:33 GMT
At least let the man fail before condemning him. OPTIMISM IS FREE Don't talk bollocks. What happened to ambition? So that's it then. We all just give in and go home, or is the plan to make it as difficult as possible for the "new" manager?
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Post by canadianmoose on Jan 15, 2018 12:09:11 GMT
Brilliant isn't It? Only at stoke could we start with a really ambitious target, move on to an exciting target, get rejected by MON and end up with Paul Lambert. I'm going to let my boys pick their own team to support. It really does feel that way. It’s always Stoke. Not just in the last 10 years but the last 40 for me at least. Somehow, no matter what, we end up with th the shitty end of the stick. There may be a few years where things go reasonably well, but generally we end up with crap on our hands.
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Post by scfc75 on Jan 15, 2018 12:09:46 GMT
I'm not sure you've fully grasped how gambling works, mate I fully agree with your last sentence though. We need 16 performances between now and May. Really? Bullshit, Coates owes me £15! haha. Bollocks, I'm getting an Easyjet to Barcelona, QSF can give me 20 Euros! So many defeatists on here. I actually think just the fact that Hughes is gone will give the squad a lift, never mind who comes in. Change of training, new chance for squad players to get into the team, new ideas, maybe a player under 35 will get a game! Maybe Saido will score a goal.... OK, I just heard that last one in my head. Never mind. Lambert has an excellent playing pedigree, like Hughes. Not sure what clout he has now with players, but there are loads of "Championship" players come up with teams and rip it up! Not everyone has to have 100 top flight games under their belt to be a success. Just a bit of organisation will be a huge improvement on the way we were going. Pick a solid formation, put the best player in each position. Get the basics right and hopefully we can finish higher than 3 of the other shit teams in this division.
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Jan 15, 2018 12:09:50 GMT
The trouble is though mate as sick as I feel now that way certain relegation lies. By all means vent your spleen on here and at the end of the season if it has all gone tits up but we now need to get behind the team if not the manager more than ever to help them if we wnat to stand any chance of getting out of this shit weve gotourselves into. Chants of Lambert out won't do that as much as we might want to. Lambert an irrelevance personally , poor bloke just been paid to take a hail storm of shit as the next 17 games unfold and is desperate enough to take it , Poor fucker probably thinks he’s got a transfer budget to The toxicity needs to focus on scholes and Cartwright they are the architects of this collapse and ther should be no hiding place . But even that should be parked for now at the game at least until we're mathematically down/safe. Then let them have it. Any kind of chant/protest/disturbance now against anyone at the club will just be massively counterproductive and will surely result in relegation even though we still have a decent chance of staying up as it stands now.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2018 12:10:57 GMT
Call me a shit fan, but that’s me done this season. See you in August. Can I have your season ticket mate saves me having to buy my lad tickets? You’re not going to be using it anyway.....
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Post by bigcashprizes on Jan 15, 2018 12:11:18 GMT
absolutely done! this feels worse than Alan Fucking Ball. Not really mate. There was a huge surge of positivity when Ballbrain got the job
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Post by stormin on Jan 15, 2018 12:11:39 GMT
I think you are all too pessimistic, lets get back to a proper team formation, new players, Jack going to Liverpool is a certainty, the money will provide for new players, only at Villa did Lambert struggle because MON had squanderd all the money.
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Jan 15, 2018 12:11:59 GMT
It's quite apt really it starts pissing it down of rain when he got announced My source tells me it's going to rain for 40 days and 40 nights. I hope he's a decent carpenter then.
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Post by Ex-term-oat-cake on Jan 15, 2018 12:13:00 GMT
Lambert has a mixed record, but certainly seems capable of putting out an organised counterattacking team, which is what we will need to stay up.
Anything post-May at this point is irrelevant.
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Post by marrer on Jan 15, 2018 12:13:01 GMT
Now that he's been appointed the only thing we can do is get behind the team and hope that we manage to sign some decent players whilst this window is still open. Get behind him and you’ve been hoodwinked by the club , that’s exactly what those responsible are preying for they shrink back into the shadows , suits and expenses and lifestyle and salary intact for 2-5 more years of incomptence while some other poor fucker takes the abuse . NomChance from me the last 48 hours have forced there incompetence with no patsy to blame out into the open and they need to chased and Harried out of our fantastic club and you think that is going to do what to aid the performance of the team.................?
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Post by PotteringThrough on Jan 15, 2018 12:14:11 GMT
Interesting part of the press release was that the club thought his biggest achievement was keeping Villa up. My overriding memory of him at Villa was the fact they went into free fall with him.
They should've focussed on his achievements with Norwich and linked it back to the local ownership again.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2018 12:14:59 GMT
I could have accepted anyone short term with big bonus to stay up, but we're stuck with Lambert. He'll be sacked and get a pay off when we finish bottom.
We're stuck with him now and we have to back him vocally but this is a very poor decision
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Post by CambodianOatcake on Jan 15, 2018 12:15:14 GMT
obviously most people would of loved to see someone like Rowett or Flores step into the job and set the world alight. even MON seems like a wet dream now. But, like it or not PL has got the job and has got 16 games to do the business and keep us up. so instead of making his job harder than it needs to be, give the bloke a chance. lets get behind him and the lads as much as possible and if we go down, atleast go down with a fight.
Paul Lamberts red and white army!
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Post by sheriffofrockridge on Jan 15, 2018 12:16:09 GMT
Brilliant isn't It? Only at stoke could we start with a really ambitious target, move on to an exciting target, get rejected by MON and end up with Paul Lambert. I'm going to let my boys pick their own team to support. It's utterly dreadful. It's a no win situation. He keeps us up he keeps his job. We go down and he still could keep his job as it wouldn't have been all his fault.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Jan 15, 2018 12:16:25 GMT
Fucking stop moaning now you bunch of girls.
I love Pete, but he can't make this decision now. John has to go and get the best man left standing
I know we won't give Lambert the job. Pete, you can't do the appointment now. Let John do it. They must be starting now. They've gone from having praise heaped on them, to being laughed at. I refuse to believe that the club will sign Lambert. Same here. No chance If it really is Lambert, the fact that we think that because he's had a couple of seasons in the Premier League makes him a better choice than someone like Jokanovic, really shows how out of touch the decision maker/s at our football club really are. Somehow thinking that Lambert is less of a risk because of his PL experience is as naive as it gets. I know we've had some shit times in the lower divisions and I've certainly experienced far worse circumstances than now, but given the extra coverage we receive these days, this is right up there with the most embarrassing few days I've experienced as a Stoke fan. Pete really has to move aside on this decision. John has to stamp his feet. There's two things that will massively help keep us up. One is a manager with a name to attract players good enough. Two is a manager that will get the bear pit back But they don't have to settle for this, and even if they do there's plenty out there. I know they didn't want to part with Hughes, but are they now punishing us?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2018 12:16:34 GMT
Now that he's been appointed the only thing we can do is get behind the team and hope that we manage to sign some decent players whilst this window is still open. Get behind him and you’ve been hoodwinked by the club , that’s exactly what those responsible are preying for they shrink back into the shadows , suits and expenses and lifestyle and salary intact for 2-5 more years of incomptence while some other poor fucker takes the abuse . NomChance from me the last 48 hours have forced there incompetence with no patsy to blame out into the open and they need to chased and Harried out of our fantastic club All I can say is if you’re thinking of bringing a protest banner let some fucker else write it for you.....
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Post by realstokebloke on Jan 15, 2018 12:17:12 GMT
Brilliant isn't It? Only at stoke could we start with a really ambitious target, move on to an exciting target, get rejected by MON and end up with Paul Lambert. I'm going to let my boys pick their own team to support. You're at it again.
The first one in your list, the "really ambitious target":
do you know there was ano or not?
and i'm guessing you can't name him either?
Unless I'm missing something, pre Lambert, we have only officially been after two haven't we (QSF ? MON)?
Help me out here, as it actually matters (to me anyway) in the final analysis because it impacts on the issue of whether the board genuinely tried.
If they tried & failed, that's one thing. If there was no plan or target (your first one, the "really ambitious" one) contacted the minute the MLH trigger was pulled, that is quite ano issue.
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Post by Danstoke82 on Jan 15, 2018 12:17:39 GMT
The club talking up ambition and following it up by appointing Paul fucking Lambert. Honestly, they've taken us down. Fuck off. 2nd biggest cock up in recent history that video. I can’t believe what is happening to this club. Very sad and depressing times mate. What on Earth are the Coates family playing at?. Im almost thinking they honestly believe we won't go down.
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Post by thevoid on Jan 15, 2018 12:17:42 GMT
Well the last few days have been the managerial appointment equivalent of heading home from the pub thinking your mrs is going to be lying on the bed in that red silk negligee you bought her, bringing herself nicely to the boil, to getting home and finding her smoking a fag in her cotton PJs with teddy bears on.
One big flop 😐
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Post by JoeinOz on Jan 15, 2018 12:18:13 GMT
The trouble is though mate as sick as I feel now that way certain relegation lies. By all means vent your spleen on here and at the end of the season if it has all gone tits up but we now need to get behind the team if not the manager more than ever to help them if we wnat to stand any chance of getting out of this shit weve gotourselves into. Chants of Lambert out won't do that as much as we might want to. Lambert an irrelevance personally , poor bloke just been paid to take a hail storm of shit as the next 17 games unfold and is desperate enough to take it , Poor fucker probably thinks he’s got a transfer budget to The toxicity needs to focus on scholes and Cartwright they are the architects of this collapse and ther should be no hiding place . YOU TALK SHIT
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Post by mcw on Jan 15, 2018 12:18:13 GMT
The proof of how much the board wanted him, will be how many signings we allow him in the next 2 weeks. If he gets none, we are basically clamouring to be relegated as the Coates family is no longer prepared to bankroll the club. Which is absolutely fine, but a little honesty and openness would go a long way. This for me is the key- no funds available then we are shafted whether he is up to the task or not. If there are no funds (having apparently told QSF there would be) then this suggests a panic decision and they are not convinced he is the right man to spend money and we are planning for the drop already...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2018 12:18:22 GMT
John Coates confirms their determination to appoint someone with PL experience. Interesting since many assumed Peter would be the stickler on this point. www.stokecityfc.com/news/welcome-paul
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2018 12:19:28 GMT
At least he's not Welsh !
Gooaaarrrnnnn Lambert !!!!
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Post by Gary Hackett on Jan 15, 2018 12:20:13 GMT
Seriously, we have to get behind him now, there's absolutely no point in us fans showing any negativity we have to be the 12th man and get the stadium rocking its up to us.
Save the blaming and finger pointing until the end of the season if we get relegated.
Have comfort that Roy fucking Keane hasn't rocked up.
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Post by doitforfrank on Jan 15, 2018 12:20:16 GMT
While I'm against this appointment as much as the next fan, checking his stats suggest he may not be quite as bad as we are leading ourselves to believe
He's been manager at 3 train crashes of clubs, but in the circumstances Villa 29.6% win rate, isnt surprising given they asset stripped the squad and made him play kids, 36.4% at Blackburn who are completely cuckoo is almost brilliant, and 42.4% a Wolves, who he only left because they wanted a change of direction, which to be fair to them has worked.
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