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Post by retired1 on Aug 22, 2019 14:12:52 GMT
I blame it on the boogie
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Post by westgatelakes on Aug 22, 2019 14:18:35 GMT
In no particular order : 1. Very poor recruitment. 2. Complacency at the very top. 3. Schoolboy defending. 4. Lack of a consistent goalscorer. 5. Lucrative contracts handed out to very ordinary players.
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Post by thevoid on Aug 22, 2019 14:58:28 GMT
That'll be why the subsequent three seasons saw higher league placings, better footballers coming in and some pretty impressive performances Season 1 - Flirted with relegation until around February. We actually started the Manchester United game on 1 February in 18th spot, but with that game in hand. Got a roll on after that. It was the start of a pretty good eighteen months. Season 2 - That was a good season. And the only one we finished with a positive GD Season 3 - A poor season, where the cracks were obvious but covered by some very fortunate wins. We didn't get those fortunate wins the following season. A number of fans were always concerned we would go the way of QPR, loading the club with overpaid mercenaries who wouldn't gel. And whilst it didn't happen immediately, it kicked like a horse when it did finally happen.... But I'm just one of those Pulis loonies, hey So Season 3 being not that different to Pulis' final season then. Remember the 1-3 home capitulation to Villa in the March? The knives were out for TP after that shambles when relegation was a real possibility.
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Post by Godo on Aug 22, 2019 15:13:26 GMT
The problem is recruitment from the moment when we tried to replace players like Arnie with free transfer journeymen. Pulis going was absolutely right (he is a manager who has an absolute ceiling on what his team's can achieve), Hughes was a surprisingly good appointment but the cracks were obvious to everyone and he should have been sacked 6 months earlier than he was. From the point at which Hughes was belatedly sacked almost every decision the executive has made has been questionable or poor. So complacency, arrogance or stupidity at the top has cost us and Stoke will become a watchword for how not to run a club.
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Post by serpico on Aug 22, 2019 15:17:54 GMT
The reason Coates gave Hughes so much time is because we’d been on bad runs previously and Hughes always managed to turn us around.
With the benefit of hindsight he might as well have stuck with Hughes till the bitter end.
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Post by wuzza on Aug 22, 2019 15:22:06 GMT
Playing a system that doesn’t work higher up the leagues. Having an exposed defence may not get punished too often in League 1 or 2 but in the Championship we are just getting picked off by decent strikers taking their chances - in the Prem the mind boggles what would happen.
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Post by dastokie on Aug 22, 2019 15:25:00 GMT
1. McClean 2. Allen 3. Ince 4. The bastards who are milking the club wanting away. 5. Hughes,Rowett recruitment.
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Post by Pugsley on Aug 22, 2019 15:26:48 GMT
1. Complacency 2. Ignorance 3. Lazy Arsed approach 4. lack of football knowledge at the top 5. Recruitment
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2019 16:00:47 GMT
Ever since Pottermus got a Pottermrs we’ve gone to shit.
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Post by serpico on Aug 22, 2019 16:17:45 GMT
In that last season I also think BMI was out for long periods with an injury ? People may scoff but before that injury he was one of our key players.
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