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Post by mickstupp on Jan 15, 2018 15:51:22 GMT
Incredibly underwhelming, but if he gets the defensive unit organised, gets the players fitter and sharper, and quickly identifies and recruits three players who will immediately improve the starting eleven, then he’s got my support
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Post by cheadlestokie on Jan 15, 2018 16:13:05 GMT
No,if we do go down it will be because of Hughes failures both in transfers and tactically and the dithering of the Board as this management situation should have been dealt with at the end of last season. Bollocks once club said he was going nowhere in summer club should have backed him , but gave him only the arnie money ...yes wimmer has been dross but long time injuries to Bruno and shawcross has only made the target .... The writing was on the wall for the second half of last season. i agree that if they decided to keep Hughes they had to back him and they did not do so sufficiently but Hughes was out of his depth when things stated to go wrong and was instrumental in panic buys and poor tactical decisions.
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Post by serpico on Jan 15, 2018 16:20:14 GMT
when you have players leaving citing a lack of ambition, after signing a lengthy lucrative deal (arnie), then you know there are problems at board level RE investment, i refuse to squarely blame all this on Hughes. Hughes may have left but it's entirely possible the problem still remains at the club.
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Post by heworksardtho on Jan 15, 2018 16:43:07 GMT
Cheap option , no say on transfers , wank manager , hello championship Welcome to the Paul Lambert POSITIVE thread. It’s the honest thread , the guys a walking car crash , imagine if you were out of work and a prem league club rings you up , hello Paul I know your out of work cuz your a shit dour manager , but your our 25 th choice ,we will give you 40 grand a week cuz you were on the dole , we will buy the players for you , and you have a great knowledge of the championship
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Post by heworksardtho on Jan 15, 2018 16:46:08 GMT
It’s a massive positive we actually have a manager in place now who wants to be here, going into the game tonight with nobody seemingly interested in the job could have been a disaster. Tonight may still be a tonking but it won’t be Lamberts name against it, hopefully it motivates the players to impress their new manager before he picks his first team. Well said Mrs Lambert
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Post by liamo on Jan 15, 2018 16:47:38 GMT
Welcome to the Paul Lambert POSITIVE thread. It’s the honest thread , the guys a walking car crash , imagine if you were out of work and a prem league club rings you up , hello Paul I know your out of work cuz your a shit dour manager , but your our 25 th choice ,we will give you 40 grand a week cuz you were on the dole , we will buy the players for you , and you have a great knowledge of the championship I think his only crime to most Stoke fans is that he's not QSF.. i say give him a chance to fail, he might just surprise you
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Post by Bombus on Jan 15, 2018 16:57:51 GMT
Just home from work. In my mind, the face of another possible holocaust was always the man our board chose to appoint as manager earlier today. I'm in COMPLETE disbelief.
Of course we was gonna be the club who gave "PFL" a most probable final crack at managing at this level. Who else? I should not be surprised, no, I should've seen this coming straight at us in full bastard speed. I think we all knew we were in deep shit but not until today do I myself realise how deep down in it we actually are.
But I am a couple of hours late on here and I have noticed some of these positive threads following the once unfathomable appointment that actually took place this morning (in real life). Anyway, this is the only spirit. We must stay up. Mark Hughes fucked us over and "PFL" is going to give his absolute everything to turn this around - he's got no other choice. He knows full well that this might be his very last opportunity notwithstanding him still being a young manager. This is no doubt the weakest we've been as a club since promotion but we just have got to back him and the players in the loudest ways possible now, starting tonight. And the board can fuck off at this point for all I care.
So, be our knight in shining armour, Paul Lambert. Be him for the sake of Stoke City, for the sake of your own career and for the sake of God.
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Post by heworksardtho on Jan 15, 2018 17:03:00 GMT
It’s the honest thread , the guys a walking car crash , imagine if you were out of work and a prem league club rings you up , hello Paul I know your out of work cuz your a shit dour manager , but your our 25 th choice ,we will give you 40 grand a week cuz you were on the dole , we will buy the players for you , and you have a great knowledge of the championship I think his only crime to most Stoke fans is that he's not QSF.. i say give him a chance to fail, he might just surprise you I know what your saying but the guy is a dour as joe Jordan , strachan , etc he’s as miserable as fuck ,we will be in free fall under him , his prem record is laughable but hey good luck to the lads tonight
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Jan 15, 2018 17:07:09 GMT
Anyone know where PFL lives? I don't mean his address, just the area? presume it'll be Midlands somewhere.
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Post by itsallgonepetetone on Jan 15, 2018 17:07:22 GMT
Any new manager gets my support. We will have to see what support he gets in the transfer window, but I have a feeling the board will come under a lot of fan pressure even if we stay up.
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Post by liamo on Jan 15, 2018 17:11:35 GMT
I think his only crime to most Stoke fans is that he's not QSF.. i say give him a chance to fail, he might just surprise you I know what your saying but the guy is a dour as joe Jordan , strachan , etc he’s as miserable as fuck ,we will be in free fall under him , his prem record is laughable but hey good luck to the lads tonight His prem experience is with a newly promoted Norwich and a failing penny pinching Villa, Norwich fans love him, Villa fans say he did what he could while Lerner was withdrawing all funding, he reportedly had to keep Villa afloat on £10m a year The numbers don't always tell the whole story, if you look at Hughes' win percentage and overall numbers you'd say we were nuts to get rid of him... but we all know differently
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Post by heworksardtho on Jan 15, 2018 17:13:45 GMT
I know what your saying but the guy is a dour as joe Jordan , strachan , etc he’s as miserable as fuck ,we will be in free fall under him , his prem record is laughable but hey good luck to the lads tonight His prem experience is with a newly promoted Norwich and a failing penny pinching Villa, Norwich fans love him, Villa fans say he did what he could while Lerner was withdrawing all funding, he reportedly had to keep Villa afloat on £10m a year The numbers don't always tell the whole story, if you look at Hughes' win percentage and overall numbers you'd say we were nuts to get rid of him... but we all know differently Better the devil you know
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Post by The man from Utch on Jan 15, 2018 17:14:12 GMT
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Post by Gary Hackett on Jan 15, 2018 17:14:19 GMT
Has anybody mentioned that he's better than O'Neill? Definitely
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Post by Kjones9 on Jan 15, 2018 17:17:42 GMT
I thought that was the Sherwood and 5 other managers season? Lambert was sacked in February, they employed Sherwood, he kept them up then they were relegated the year after.
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Post by nott1 on Jan 15, 2018 17:19:01 GMT
Anyone know where PFL lives? I don't mean his address, just the area? presume it'll be Midlands somewhere. I imagine a dingy flat in Dingleland with empty tinnies next to a greasy armchair, unwashed beans on toast plates in the sink and a pile of Nigerian lotto letters behind the front door. I have no idea why!
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Post by iglugluk on Jan 15, 2018 17:20:02 GMT
I can't say I'm not totally disappointed but I have a mate who's a huge Norwich fan who just said to me that Lambert was the best manager they've had in recent years and that he thinks it's a good choice ........so fingers crossed and time will tell
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Post by harryburrows on Jan 15, 2018 17:20:07 GMT
He Wouldn't have been in my top 10 possibilities but we are where we are after a shocking last few days . The club needs to hold an inquest and find out just why this recruitment process has been such a disaster . These managers on the face of it should have jumped at the chance to manage stoke . There are obviously issues behind the scenes that we don't know about . Sort it out Coates / scholes because I have a feeling we will be going through the whole process again within 18 months
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Post by goatbulgaria on Jan 15, 2018 17:20:52 GMT
There's also 3 worse teams in the league IMO. The board will also back him to the hilt. Who are the 3 teams then. we are by far the worst team in the prem
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Post by crownmeking on Jan 15, 2018 17:22:49 GMT
It’s the honest thread , the guys a walking car crash , imagine if you were out of work and a prem league club rings you up , hello Paul I know your out of work cuz your a shit dour manager , but your our 25 th choice ,we will give you 40 grand a week cuz you were on the dole , we will buy the players for you , and you have a great knowledge of the championship I think his only crime to most Stoke fans is that he's not QSF.. i say give him a chance to fail, he might just surprise you Exactly my feelings. Is Lambert my choice? No. But he has done nothing wrong, and until he does, I will fully support him.
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Post by nik80 on Jan 15, 2018 17:27:12 GMT
At the very least, he’ll get the players fitter. Of that I’m confident but it really won’t be hard.
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Post by GreaterGlasgowstokie on Jan 15, 2018 17:31:25 GMT
Hopefully he will be hurt by the criticism he has had and be determined to make a good job of it here.
I'm hoping the players are the same.
And as I said in the other thread, he was a top class holding midfielder, so hopefully he can sort out that area of our team quickly
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Post by lifelong on Jan 15, 2018 17:38:56 GMT
Hopefully he will be hurt by the criticism he has had and be determined to make a good job of it here. I'm hoping the players are the same. And as I said in the other thread, he was a top class holding midfielder, so hopefully he can sort out that area of our team quickly cant do any worse, Arnie lost a stone when he went to West Ham , Wimmer has put 2 stone on since arriving, also according to stats he's supposed to be 2nd quickest player on the books. - facts speak for themselves digitum extractum
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Post by lifelong on Jan 15, 2018 17:43:40 GMT
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Jan 15, 2018 17:53:45 GMT
Comment from a Norwich fan:
"Did wonders at Norwich and can motivate a team to go the extra mile and work hard - that grit and determination is something Stoke have been lacking for a long while - if he can restore that to Stoke then I reckon they'll be fine"
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Post by choppercherry on Jan 15, 2018 18:02:04 GMT
Remember when Burley was first choice and we ended up with Pulis. The rest is history.
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Post by blackpoolred on Jan 15, 2018 18:20:09 GMT
Was always going to be somebody cheap, cheerful, British, desperate for work and totally uninspiring - as it happens it is even worse than that Hopefully, will get out on to the training ground with the lads and get them motivated and also be a bit more hands-on than his predecessor. Might raise the spirits of all of us if can bring in 2 or 3 new faces before the Huddersfield game. That is all the positive I have
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Jan 15, 2018 18:23:42 GMT
From the Sentinel web chat: "Lambert’s knowledge of the squad has extended to youth level. He was at Stoke’s under-23s match against Norwich last week, eagle eyed observers might have noticed."
I love that! That's how you show you want a job.
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Post by armitagestokie on Jan 15, 2018 18:37:37 GMT
Tony Pulis reincarnated.....very defensive, boring football again. I remember when he wouldn't play Darren Bent even though he was leading goalscorer at the time. No love lost in the Midlands with this joker. The board are totally to blame for the mess we have plunged ourselves in. I'll give him to renewal time to see what he brings to the party.
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Post by andystokey on Jan 15, 2018 18:47:31 GMT
Well you know what they say about volunteers vs pressed men. On the positive he genuinely chased the job, wanted it at almost any price. He backed himself against relegation. I know it’s easy to undervalue these attributes but just maybe that enthusiasm, drive and desire will rub off on the team. And he’s actually been to watch an u23 game which is probably at least one more match than most people on here.
We just need 5 wins a 5 match bounce and we are safe. I’ll support the bloke, he wasn’t the one who made the choice and oversaw the last shambles. Like I say he grabbed it, regardless of which number choice he was. He has more drive to take it than anyone to this point. Good luck Paul, you’ll need it for sure.
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