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Post by trickydicky73 on Apr 7, 2018 12:58:54 GMT
Don’t forget the next line in that great speech: “I may not get there with you”. Nuff said. Err...don't think so. It might have been a different speech, but I got the gist!
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Post by davyboy on Apr 8, 2018 9:43:54 GMT
I was disgusted to receive a letter from Peter Coates this week. He said, I am totally committed to the club!' Empty words when you consider that if he and the other useless board members (particularly Scholes and Cartwright) had acted quickly when the vast majority of supporters could see the problems that Hughes was creating. I do not question his passion, but his judgement has been sadly in question, leaving Lambert with a mountain to climb. We will see how committed he is when we go down to the championship and we need him to did into his deep well of coffers!! On a positive note, yesterday was the best I have seen the team play for months. With that wort of passion and commitment Lambert could do well in the championship. However, we are set to lose around seven of our players. I wonder if Mr. Coates will make all the funds from sales available for incoming quality players, particularly a striker. Joe Allen will be hard to replace and I hope Ndiaye stays
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Post by mozzer on Apr 8, 2018 10:51:41 GMT
Read it twice then put it in the bin with all the other junk mail.
Read it the second time as I thought that I had missed the line that went along the lines of
"And a thank you has to go out to all the supporters that pointed out that we were knee deep in shit and we needed to replace Mark Hughes whilst myself and all the other board members slapped each other's backs whilst wondering what all the fuss was about", thank you
Oo and whilst I am here buy a season ticket the money's drying up and I need a new helicopter as the lease is up on this tatty old one
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Post by owdestokie2 on Apr 8, 2018 10:59:32 GMT
Read it twice then put it in the bin with all the other junk mail. Read it the second time as I thought that I had missed the line that went along the lines of "And a thank you has to go out to all the supporters that pointed out that we were knee deep in shit and we needed to replace Mark Hughes whilst myself and all the other board members slapped each other's backs whilst wondering what all the fuss was about", thank you Oo and whilst I am here buy a season ticket the money's drying up and I need a new helicopter as the lease is up on this tatty old one Cynic
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Post by chayzenbacon on Apr 8, 2018 11:59:39 GMT
It wasn't meant to be that sort of letter. It was an appeal to people who hadn't renewed to renew. It's that simple. I am sure you are right Paul. A proper inquest or day of reckoning (a bit like South Africa's post Apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission) MUST wait until the end of the season. For the club to enter into that debate now, would simply distract from the ONLY IMPORTANT THING AT PRESENT - which is to maximise our slim chances of staying up.Does anyone honestly think that a public inquest involving the owners and the board AT THIS TIME would help matters? Better for the moment to do what Peter has done - ask for the fans to support the team and (by implication) try to sell as many season tickets as they can. Nothing else makes much sense at present. This is Stoke City we're talking about (Stoke City FC 1908 Ltd, a private limited company) and we've surely learned enough about their shareholders over the last couppe of decades to know that they are very unlikely to make public any information which they are not required to disclose. There won't be an inquest, just a further series of patronising comments and messages that will continue to demonstrate the massive disconnect between the shareholders and the fans.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Apr 8, 2018 15:33:01 GMT
I am sure you are right Paul. A proper inquest or day of reckoning (a bit like South Africa's post Apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission) MUST wait until the end of the season. For the club to enter into that debate now, would simply distract from the ONLY IMPORTANT THING AT PRESENT - which is to maximise our slim chances of staying up.Does anyone honestly think that a public inquest involving the owners and the board AT THIS TIME would help matters? Better for the moment to do what Peter has done - ask for the fans to support the team and (by implication) try to sell as many season tickets as they can. Nothing else makes much sense at present. This is Stoke City we're talking about (Stoke City FC 1908 Ltd, a private limited company) and we've surely learned enough about their shareholders over the last couppe of decades to know that they are very unlikely to make public any information which they are not required to disclose. There won't be an inquest, just a further series of patronising comments and messages that will continue to demonstrate the massive disconnect between the shareholders and the fans. You may well be right. But I stick to my original point that the end of the season, or when relegation is a methematical certainty, is the time for fans to press for answers. Nothing, I repeat NOTHING, is more important at present than maximising our slim chances of avoiding relegation. And that means that, as fans, getting behind the team and the manager is what we should be concentrating on and anything which distracts the players, the manager and the owners/executives from the job in hand is counter productive. Keeping your powder dry and holding fire for a few weeks is hardly difficult in the circumstances, is it?
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Post by richardparker on Apr 14, 2018 20:41:04 GMT
I think people who are expecting Coates to admit to mistakes are expecting too much. His mistake may well have been to stay loyal to Mark Hughes longer than he should have done, ... but he did it for good, honourable reasons. What honourable reasons are these then... He may well have wanted to back his man. Not saying he was right to do so for as long as he did ... but in a world where people press the panic button all too quickly, it was an honourable thing to do. Hughes undoubtedly had credit in the bank. Maybe Coates thought he had a bit more than you did. As we can see now, it doesn't always change things for the better. Whatever you think, we won't know for sure if Hughes would not have got more points on the board than the present manager has achieved.
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Apr 14, 2018 20:52:27 GMT
His mistake as many said at the time was he had to back him or sack him last summer , he was retained and as per the itv report of September 1st we were the premiers leagues lowest summer window spenders , on top of which we cashed our best asset , it was the self inflicted equivalent of blowing the Butler street roof off ,
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