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Post by maine on Aug 25, 2022 16:08:21 GMT
No- not nominating him as O'Neill's replacement. I was wondering why Cotterill and Macari are the only Stoke managers someone else has actually wanted in my lifetime. Not even Waddington (others might correct me) seemed to be in demand, nor was Hughes in the Stokealona era. Any thoughts?
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Post by beerspiller on Aug 25, 2022 16:23:30 GMT
Alan Durban? Sunderland or has my aged mind got this wrong?
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Post by lennythegoose on Aug 25, 2022 16:26:37 GMT
It shows how difficult it can be to get it right and how relatively infrequent success is for a club like ours, despite us being by far the greatest team the world has ever seen.
Of course, during that time we’ve had a successful spell under TP but no-one wanted him!
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Post by potter25 on Aug 25, 2022 16:26:58 GMT
I could be wrong but I always felt Rowett was a popular appointment at the time..
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Aug 25, 2022 16:27:48 GMT
You fucking scared me then with that thread title, I thought the twat of all twats was set for a return, never do that again.
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Post by maine on Aug 25, 2022 16:33:01 GMT
To 'middleetc'-Sorry, but i couldn't resist it!
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Post by chad on Aug 25, 2022 16:34:06 GMT
I could be wrong but I always felt Rowett was a popular appointment at the time.. He definitely was
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Aug 25, 2022 16:34:44 GMT
To 'middleetc'-Sorry, but i couldn't resist it! You got me anyway 😅
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Post by terrorofturfmoor on Aug 25, 2022 16:37:46 GMT
Oddly enough, all our recent managers have been sort after........
By the board to give them their P45's!!!
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Post by march4 on Aug 25, 2022 16:59:17 GMT
Didn’t Everton try to poach Hughes?
Of course, there was that battle between Real Madrid and Barca to poach TP but he decided to stay on at Stoke to continue managing Mama.
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Aug 25, 2022 17:20:49 GMT
For the past 15 years (largely), Stoke's had a reputation of being a good and stable club to work for, so the likes of TP and Hughes were relatively settled, and where would they have realistically gone that wasn't a sidestep? We were in the Premier League, so it was very unlikely they'd get poached as an assistant like Cotterill was.
Rowett or Jones weren't here for long enough or successful enough for any other club to want them, and that's the case going back through time to Macari.
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Post by ibby on Aug 25, 2022 17:53:53 GMT
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Post by PotterLog on Aug 25, 2022 18:08:36 GMT
Weren't we worried about MON getting tapped up by Newcastle not that long ago?
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Post by kjpt140v on Aug 25, 2022 18:49:48 GMT
No- not nominating him as O'Neill's replacement. I was wondering why Cotterill and Macari are the only Stoke managers someone else has actually wanted in my lifetime. Not even Waddington (others might correct me) seemed to be in demand, nor was Hughes in the Stokealona era. Any thoughts? Durban? Waddington was a completely different era. Very rarely managers move from one club to another.
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Post by baystokie on Aug 25, 2022 19:46:22 GMT
No- not nominating him as O'Neill's replacement. I was wondering why Cotterill and Macari are the only Stoke managers someone else has actually wanted in my lifetime. Not even Waddington (others might correct me) seemed to be in demand, nor was Hughes in the Stokealona era. Any thoughts? Man Utd wanted Waddington to replace Busby round about 1969. Tony politely refused and so Man Utd appointed Wilf McGuinness. That lasted no time at all and so they appointed Frank O'Farrell - and the rest, as they say, is history. Tony was alsways rated more highly outside the Potteries but his heart was in the club. Thus we went on a fantastic few years that might never have been.
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Post by Beloved Monkfish on Aug 25, 2022 20:17:54 GMT
I could be wrong but I always felt Rowett was a popular appointment at the time.. I don't think he means that. I think he means wanted as in poached by another club.
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Post by sheds1862 on Aug 25, 2022 22:20:15 GMT
Weren't we worried about MON getting tapped up by Newcastle not that long ago? Town ?
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