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Post by xchpotter on Dec 6, 2018 18:06:28 GMT
Wrong man at the wrong time. However, I do think he has a little more dignity and will be more respectful to the occasion as a returning manager.
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Post by sheds1862 on Dec 6, 2018 18:12:05 GMT
my reception..underwhelmed and nonplussed. Ok as a bloke, as a manager, thanks but no thanks
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Post by owdestokie2 on Dec 6, 2018 18:12:52 GMT
A polite reception which is appreciate and respectful of his attempts to stop the Titanic on route to the iceberg.
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Post by wakefieldstokie on Dec 6, 2018 18:20:58 GMT
I'm deeply concerned, all views on Gary Rowett aside than some people on here wish that Paul Lambert was still our manager. The guy has been on a career tail-spin for the past 5 years, he took over at Wolves quite early in 16/17 and moved them from 19th...to 15th, when they spent 30 mil that year. I don't get what evidence suggests he would be doing a better job now, when he did exactly the same as what Rowett gets (rightly) criticised for...sit back on leads, men behind the ball, players out of position et cetera. Don’t let facts get in the way, he was brilliant 😂
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Post by numpty40 on Dec 6, 2018 18:28:43 GMT
Lambert was a disastrous appointment. His appointment confirmed just what a mess the club were in at that time and still are. I won't even acknowledge him to be honest.
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Post by WhyDelilah on Dec 6, 2018 18:41:00 GMT
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Post by Mint Berry Barks on Dec 6, 2018 18:41:09 GMT
In true Paul Lambert style, I will tell him everything he wants to hear but fail my job when attempting to clap, or stand, or breathe, or exist.
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Post by stokiejoe on Dec 6, 2018 18:43:07 GMT
To damn him with faint praise, he tried his best and it allowed Hughes to continue to claim not to have been relegated.
Overwhelmingly ambivalent about him but glad he was replaced.
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Post by milky on Dec 6, 2018 18:49:45 GMT
Polite applause , no more no less. Way way out of his depth but wasnt his fault that Coates practically crawled over hot coals to get him as, in the end , he was the only one to fit the Stoke City managerial criteia ( British , experienced ) who said he wanted the job !
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Post by spitthedog on Dec 6, 2018 18:50:46 GMT
Whatever you think of him you no-one can say he didn't give 100%
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on Dec 6, 2018 19:09:57 GMT
Whatever you think of him you no-one can say he didn't give 100% 110% surely? - he's a manager after all.
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Post by Mint Berry Barks on Dec 6, 2018 19:10:36 GMT
Whatever you think of him you no-one can say he didn't give 100% And isn't that the problem? We appointed someone who would give it their best rather than someone with ability? I'm not having a go by the way, I just think it's a pretty nail on head description of Lambert's managerial ability in 2018.
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Post by numpty40 on Dec 6, 2018 19:14:49 GMT
Lambert was appointed with 15 games of the season left and we were relegated after 14 of those games. During those 14 games we gathered a total of 10 points and that included home games against Watford, Everton, Burnley and Crystal Palace. We had away games at Bournemouth, Leicester, Southampton and West Ham and we got a total of 10 points!! He may be a nice bloke but he was a disaster as Stoke manager and I really don't think he deserves any sort of applause, polite or otherwise.
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Post by BristolMick on Dec 6, 2018 19:21:47 GMT
I imagine he'll get a round of applause. Perhaps a cake? He will get a better reception no doubt than the bloke who took us to three 9th place Premier League finishes in a row would if he ever came back. Bizarre. BM
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Post by Championship Potter on Dec 6, 2018 19:35:37 GMT
I think the biggest indictment of Rowett's tenure is that part of me still wishes we had Lambert as manager.
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Post by boskampsflaps on Dec 6, 2018 20:03:35 GMT
Meh.
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Post by Gob Bluth on Dec 6, 2018 20:18:20 GMT
World class interviewee, second class manager.
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Post by mrteddysalad on Dec 6, 2018 22:47:39 GMT
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Post by PotterLog on Dec 7, 2018 3:22:41 GMT
A polite reception which is appreciate and respectful of his attempts to stop the Titanic on route to the iceberg. Debatable, when his attempts amounted to picking up a few knots while maintaining a steady course straight into the fucking thing
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Post by PotterLog on Dec 7, 2018 3:34:34 GMT
I can't see why anyone would actively dislike Lambert. The guy was clearly passionate about keeping us up and was left with an absolutely diabolical set of players to work with. He tightened up a leaky as fuck defence (something Rowett has reversed) but was unable to get a limp as fuck strike-force to work like Lennon and fucking McCartney. Shock horror, Peter Crouch and Saido Berahino didn't morph into Gabriel Batistuta and Claudio Caniggia. You could easily call Lambert a mug for taking the job in the first place. It was a lose lose situation for him. Keep us up? "Well Stoke really shouldn't be in the bottom half of the table anyway". Relegated? "Lambert's a terrible manager". I won't be dancing in the stands for him, but there's nothing wrong with a polite applause for a guy who genuinely did his very best for our club. Paul Lambert a mug for accepting the offer of a 2.5 year contract with a Premier League club that landed in his lap out of nowhere?? Paul Lambert? He’s the mug in that transaction?
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Post by scfc75 on Dec 7, 2018 6:58:46 GMT
Rapturous.
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Post by metalhead on Dec 7, 2018 7:19:50 GMT
I can't see why anyone would actively dislike Lambert. The guy was clearly passionate about keeping us up and was left with an absolutely diabolical set of players to work with. He tightened up a leaky as fuck defence (something Rowett has reversed) but was unable to get a limp as fuck strike-force to work like Lennon and fucking McCartney. Shock horror, Peter Crouch and Saido Berahino didn't morph into Gabriel Batistuta and Claudio Caniggia. You could easily call Lambert a mug for taking the job in the first place. It was a lose lose situation for him. Keep us up? "Well Stoke really shouldn't be in the bottom half of the table anyway". Relegated? "Lambert's a terrible manager". I won't be dancing in the stands for him, but there's nothing wrong with a polite applause for a guy who genuinely did his very best for our club. Paul Lambert a mug for accepting the offer of a 2.5 year contract with a Premier League club that landed in his lap out of nowhere?? Paul Lambert? He’s the mug in that transaction? all I'm saying is, if you take away the financial aspect of it, there wasn't a whole load of reasons to take it....
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 7, 2018 7:55:58 GMT
Lambert is just as culpable for our relegation as Hughes and the jokers that have massively screwed up the fortunes of the club over the past 2/3 years. His record was a disaster with only the even shittier Kamara below him. He won 2 games! The Huddersfield game where he had very little influence over the side and a dead rubber against Swansea. He had enough games and had a stronger squad than Hughes to work with but couldn't get even close. That the board could only find Lambert in the whole of world football to take over beggars belief. The was a decision made with 10's of millions at stake....and they appointed someone probably because as many have said on here 'He seemed like a nice guy' And to repeat a previous poster Lambert will get a better reception than the guy who gave us 9th place finishes and delivered the best football since the 1970's....indeed truly truly bizarre!
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Post by rhub on Dec 7, 2018 11:18:49 GMT
He came in and tried his best. Players let us down. Get a 2 sec clap then forgotten about. We usually roll over for teams in this position 😒. Hope we are in the mood tomorrow.
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Post by PotterLog on Dec 7, 2018 11:34:59 GMT
Paul Lambert a mug for accepting the offer of a 2.5 year contract with a Premier League club that landed in his lap out of nowhere?? Paul Lambert? He’s the mug in that transaction? all I'm saying is, if you take away the financial aspect of it, there wasn't a whole load of reasons to take it.... Yeah and all I’m wondering is what planet you’re on to come to that conclusion! 😁
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Post by stokeson on Dec 7, 2018 11:48:54 GMT
Who is he? The bloke that manages Derby? I have no memory of him .(only nightmares!!!)
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Post by boothenender on Dec 7, 2018 12:53:13 GMT
I will show him the respect that he deserves and the respect that he showed to all of us Stoke fans. Sadly it did not work out for him. He inherited a rotting pile of manure. I honestly do not think that Jesus Christ could have saved us from relegation last season. He tried and failed, let down Hughes and Co. Hi Paul and bye Paul.
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Post by dirtygary69 on Dec 7, 2018 13:40:08 GMT
I'm booing fuck out of him.
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Post by metalhead on Dec 7, 2018 14:13:33 GMT
all I'm saying is, if you take away the financial aspect of it, there wasn't a whole load of reasons to take it.... Yeah and all I’m wondering is what planet you’re on to come to that conclusion! 😁 Why? If you're going to call me out on my valid points, come back with some equally valid ones..... you've given me nothing so far.
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Post by PotterLog on Dec 7, 2018 15:10:01 GMT
Yeah and all I’m wondering is what planet you’re on to come to that conclusion! 😁 Why? If you're going to call me out on my valid points, come back with some equally valid ones..... you've given me nothing so far. Mate at that point in Lambert's career a 2+ year contract with any Premier League club was double lottery-win stuff. Didn't his most recent effort to get back into the game culminate in a rejection from Hull? Out of nowhere he's offered a crack at keeping up a club that had only just slipped into the relegation zone of the Prem: Best-case scenario: maintain marginally better than relegation form and have a previously unthinkable chance to resurrect his career in the PL Second best-case scenario: go down but the board keep faith and have a pretty improbable chance to resurrect his career with the biggest-spending club in the Champ Worst-case scenario: go down, gets the sack, good pay-off but doesn't get too much blame attached to him, back in the managerial picture a bit, hopefully gets a job with another Champ club I can't imagine he thought about it for more than about .25 of a second. You could tell he couldn't quite believe his luck from the multiple times he expressed that he couldn't quite believe his luck in bewildered tones in the press. Like I say, I really can't fathom how you can see his eager acceptance of our gift horse as a mistake on *his* part.
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