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Post by roosterscomb on Feb 21, 2018 15:29:35 GMT
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Post by nottinghamstokie on Feb 21, 2018 16:34:25 GMT
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Post by jpm64 on Feb 22, 2018 11:58:31 GMT
Pretty sure we beat Bradford after the 7-0 drubbing and BEFORE Kamara arrived ??
Might be memory fading ?
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Post by roosterscomb on Feb 22, 2018 12:05:00 GMT
Pretty sure we beat Bradford after the 7-0 drubbing and BEFORE Kamara arrived ?? Might be memory fading ? Yeah, Bates was sacked after beating Bradford, who had just sacked Kamara. |
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Post by jpm64 on Feb 22, 2018 12:08:23 GMT
Pretty sure we beat Bradford after the 7-0 drubbing and BEFORE Kamara arrived ?? Might be memory fading ? Yeah, Bates was sacked after beating Bradford, who had just sacked Kamara. Thanks I thought so...... A little disingenuous of kammy to say he came after the 7-0  |
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Post by Davef on Feb 22, 2018 12:45:12 GMT
Yeah, Bates was sacked after beating Bradford, who had just sacked Kamara. Thanks I thought so...... A little disingenuous of kammy to say he came after the 7-0 Well he's not really wrong is he? We HAD just been beaten 7-0 and even though we'd beaten Bradford the week after, that was a stand out result that has proven to be remembered more than the Bradford victory. It's like saying Lambert came in just after we'd lost 1-0 to Newcastle (or even 5-0 at Chelsea)... not technically correct of course, but by no means wrong. |
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Post by pez75 on Feb 22, 2018 15:45:22 GMT
Maybe we should get him back as manager now? The last bit about Shaqiri makes more sense than anything Lambert or Hughes have come out with in the last 6 months...
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Post by metalhead on Feb 22, 2018 16:05:47 GMT
Maybe we should get him back as manager now? The last bit about Shaqiri makes more sense than anything Lambert or Hughes have come out with in the last 6 months... The weirdest photo on that article is the one with Charlie Adam. I swear Kamara is in better shape than Charlie, and that really does speak volumes about Adam's approach to fitness. |
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Post by bobdebilde on Feb 22, 2018 19:19:31 GMT
just finished reading his book last week, he reckoned we paid 350k for lightbourne, who caught a virus as soon as he signed, thought kamara was just a crap manager but it seems he got no support from anyone at the club.
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Post by prudhoe on Feb 22, 2018 23:20:13 GMT
Bring back the Pink Panthers!
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Post by cooper67 on Feb 23, 2018 1:12:08 GMT
Who were the 9 players that found out through the media that the club didn't want them?
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Post by FullerMagic on Aug 2, 2019 9:57:34 GMT
Interesting thread from Rob on the..er....chaotic Kammy era.
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Post by ChrisKamarasPerm on Aug 2, 2019 10:09:16 GMT
How did you find this old thread grapey ha ha. Good work.
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Post by metalhead on Aug 2, 2019 10:14:18 GMT
Interesting thread from Rob on the..er....chaotic Kammy era. Good old Jez Moxey.... Need I say more  |
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Post by JurgenVandeurzen on Aug 2, 2019 10:31:09 GMT
Good job really, he was worth less than fuck all  |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Aug 2, 2019 10:36:33 GMT
Interesting thread from Rob on the..er....chaotic Kammy era. Good old Jez Moxey.... Need I say more Tbh, it sounds like him and Coates and Humpty..... |
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Post by okeydokeystokie2 on Aug 2, 2019 10:37:12 GMT
As a player, I have great memories of him as a hard, combative midfielder, twirling his arms around to lift the Boothen End. His fearless sliding tackles were brilliant.
As a manager, a chaotic time. I heard stories of him him very down with the players after matches. It was all going wrong for the club at that time.
What I learned was that I think PC always wanted the best for Stoke City, but it's a whole different ball game running a football club when you've got a few quid as opposed to when the money's tight.
You're never going to make money running a football club. The best you can hope for is to get somewhere near to "sustainabilty" if the club is brilliantly run. When the club is struggling, you must have a constant battle with the losses.
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Post by heworksardtho on Aug 2, 2019 11:48:13 GMT
If we did we were robbed 😎 |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2019 13:35:05 GMT
Bring back the Pink Panthers! Shove yer panthers up yer arse  GD |
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Post by sheikhmomo on Aug 2, 2019 13:45:18 GMT
Coates really did deserve every bit of shit he got didn't he.
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Post by DC1863 on Aug 2, 2019 13:49:22 GMT
Coates really did deserve every bit of shit he got didn't he. The part about him over-ruling the manager in favour of a player, a player who was planning on leaving the club no less, is astonishing. |
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Post by rawli on Aug 2, 2019 14:19:10 GMT
I always assumed Moxey was there just to take the shit for the 2 little pigs. Sounds like he was just as bad as them.
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Post by Absolution on Aug 2, 2019 14:29:21 GMT
Coates really did deserve every bit of shit he got didn't he. The part about him over-ruling the manager in favour of a player, a player who was planning on leaving the club no less, is astonishing. Not really. The club wanted the money from the sale as desperately as Griffin wanted the move. |
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Post by DC1863 on Aug 2, 2019 15:19:28 GMT
The part about him over-ruling the manager in favour of a player, a player who was planning on leaving the club no less, is astonishing. Not really. The club wanted the money from the sale as desperately as Griffin wanted the move. Personally I don't believe any amount of incoming transfer fees justify undermining the managers authority. A chairman backing a player over a manager just creates a dangerous precedent in terms of player power and hierarchy. |
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Aug 2, 2019 15:28:27 GMT
Well there's good news and bad news.. “I’m certainly not grateful for what happened at Stoke because of the opportunity it opened up for me, certainly not. I’m still disappointed about what happened but what has happened since, for me, has been brilliant.” Ah you're still thinking about the bad news! |
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Post by lordb on Aug 2, 2019 15:51:28 GMT
The part about him over-ruling the manager in favour of a player, a player who was planning on leaving the club no less, is astonishing. Not really. The club wanted the money from the sale as desperately as Griffin wanted the move. And yet we turned a bigger bid from Arsenal down, Griffin wasn't even allowed to talk to them only Newcastle? In a completely unrelated event a certain catering firm got the gig at St James Park (not Exeter either). |
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Aug 2, 2019 16:00:05 GMT
Not really. The club wanted the money from the sale as desperately as Griffin wanted the move. And yet we turned a bigger bid from Arsenal down, Griffin wasn't even allowed to talk to them only Newcastle? In a completely unrelated event a certain catering firm got the gig at St James Park (not Exeter either). Kamara says that Griffin was only interested in going to Newcastle. |
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Post by Absolution on Aug 2, 2019 16:39:59 GMT
Not really. The club wanted the money from the sale as desperately as Griffin wanted the move. Personally I don't believe any amount of incoming transfer fees justify undermining the managers authority. A chairman backing a player over a manager just creates a dangerous precedent in terms of player power and hierarchy. Normally I'd agree, and I'm not going to quibble too much over a long gone incident, but whether the manager was undermined kind of depends how it was done. Whether Coates was feathering his own nest or not, the club's finances were clearly up the creak at that point, so it would have made sense for both the player and the club for Griffin not to have played and risked injury. It was a massively disappointing and worrying time, however you look at it. |
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Post by rawli on Aug 2, 2019 20:04:31 GMT
As a player, I have great memories of him as a hard, combative midfielder, twirling his arms around to lift the Boothen End. His fearless sliding tackles were brilliant. As a manager, a chaotic time. I heard stories of him him very down with the players after matches. It was all going wrong for the club at that time. What I learned was that I think PC always wanted the best for Stoke City, but it's a whole different ball game running a football club when you've got a few quid as opposed to when the money's tight. You're never going to make money running a football club. The best you can hope for is to get somewhere near to "sustainabilty" if the club is brilliantly run. When the club is struggling, you must have a constant battle with the losses. My feeling is that the chairman wanted what was best for him, not for Stoke City. |
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