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Post by robinplumpton on Feb 25, 2023 22:40:41 GMT
Genuinely feel sorry for the bloke. He is obviously trying his nuts off, trying to hold the line, press etc, buts its going wrong. On his own, he is woefully exposed and his demise is accentuated. Today was as saddening as it was maddening. He needs a break, put him on the bench and bring him on as an impact sub. The manager's comments about a lack of a tall striker/target man are galling, when there was an unused option on the bench, but equally galling is the persistence with which we hoof it up to a little bloke, who has even littler chance of winning it in the air. In short, we set him up to fail, he fails and is so shot to pieces, he fails at the things he was once successful at. Either play him as part of two up front (with a tall striker, we seemingly don't have...on the bench) or dont play him. For God sake put him and us out of his and our misery
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Post by pushon on Feb 25, 2023 22:47:16 GMT
Genuinely feel sorry for the bloke. He is obviously trying his nuts off, trying to hold the line, press etc, buts its going wrong. On his own, he is woefully exposed and his demise is accentuated. Today was as saddening as it was maddening. He needs a break, put him on the bench and bring him on as an impact sub. The manager's comments about a lack of a tall striker/target man are galling, when there was an unused option on the bench, but equally galling is the persistence with which we hoof it up to a little bloke, who has even littler chance of winning it in the air. In short, we set him up to fail, he fails and is so shot to pieces, he fails at the things he was once successful at. Either play him as part of two up front (with a tall striker, we seemingly don't have...on the bench) or dont play him. For God sake put him and us out of his and our misery Can't agree more, but that is only comfort for Gayle and not a solution for the teams goal-scoring worries.
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Post by smallthorner on Feb 25, 2023 22:49:50 GMT
No chance going down this season. A couple of injuries and poor results and we will be right in the thick of it again. We will be ok mate.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2023 22:51:48 GMT
Thank god I love football in general and can get some enjoyment out of games I'm a neutral in, 'cause Stoke's season is effectively over.
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Post by robinplumpton on Feb 25, 2023 23:00:53 GMT
Genuinely feel sorry for the bloke. He is obviously trying his nuts off, trying to hold the line, press etc, buts its going wrong. On his own, he is woefully exposed and his demise is accentuated. Today was as saddening as it was maddening. He needs a break, put him on the bench and bring him on as an impact sub. The manager's comments about a lack of a tall striker/target man are galling, when there was an unused option on the bench, but equally galling is the persistence with which we hoof it up to a little bloke, who has even littler chance of winning it in the air. In short, we set him up to fail, he fails and is so shot to pieces, he fails at the things he was once successful at. Either play him as part of two up front (with a tall striker, we seemingly don't have...on the bench) or dont play him. For God sake put him and us out of his and our misery Can't agree more, but that is only comfort for Gayle and not a solution for the teams goal-scoring worries. 100% agree, but if we just continue to hang out Gayle to dry up front, we will continue to have an ineffective strikeforce, trying something different might benefit him and us, sticking with something that clearly isnt working is intransigence and poor, poor management. If this continues we might as well provide anyone and everyone sticks to poke him with. I am not defending his failures, but I am questioning why we continue to expose and perpetuate those failures
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Post by owdestokie2 on Feb 25, 2023 23:03:20 GMT
Genuinely feel sorry for the bloke. He is obviously trying his nuts off, trying to hold the line, press etc, buts its going wrong. On his own, he is woefully exposed and his demise is accentuated. Today was as saddening as it was maddening. He needs a break, put him on the bench and bring him on as an impact sub. The manager's comments about a lack of a tall striker/target man are galling, when there was an unused option on the bench, but equally galling is the persistence with which we hoof it up to a little bloke, who has even littler chance of winning it in the air. In short, we set him up to fail, he fails and is so shot to pieces, he fails at the things he was once successful at. Either play him as part of two up front (with a tall striker, we seemingly don't have...on the bench) or dont play him. For God sake put him and us out of his and our misery Not quite the words I’d use but the sentiments are bob on. Today we played against three at the back whose collective strength was “in the air” and the vast majority of our play was to play aimless balls “in the air”. How many times did we (1) get to the bye line an provide enticing balls into the box, (2) actually drive onto individual defenders to create chances, fouls etc. Very few, instead players shirked responsibility on numerous occasions by making 3/5m passes to someone else. Collectively the quality match day squad is at best average on a good day
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Post by robwahlmann on Feb 25, 2023 23:05:57 GMT
Please stop playing him! It's not fair to the rest of the team playing him as it's like being 10 men on the pitch! He has become completely useless despite all his effort!
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Post by silsdenstokie on Feb 25, 2023 23:08:30 GMT
A signing that highlights all that is wrong with our recruitment policy
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Post by Mystic Stokie on Feb 25, 2023 23:17:02 GMT
I hate to speak negatively towards anyone, but Dwight has completely lost it. I keep hoping that he gets the goal that kick starts a goal rush(in off your arse doesn't count). If he took his chances he could have had 20 goals by now. Only 2 years ago we all know that he would have put all his chances away. I suppose it's not about what he's done when you sign a player, but is he still doing it
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Post by rambo61 on Feb 25, 2023 23:42:36 GMT
He's wank but we've got 2 yrs of his wankness costing us a minimum of 20000 a week. Another 'tremendous' signing!!😡😡
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Post by lordb on Feb 25, 2023 23:44:58 GMT
Dreadful today
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Post by theblackdeath on Feb 25, 2023 23:57:25 GMT
That performance by gayle was worse than anything I've seen in my 40 years of following stoke..perricard, lightbourne, kitson daddason Parkin greenacre berahinio included
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Post by silsdenstokie on Feb 26, 2023 0:05:09 GMT
That performance by gayle was worse than anything I've seen in my 40 years of following stoke..perricard, lightbourne, kitson daddason Parkin greenacre berahinio included Wouldnt include Parkin within that lot, thought he did alright for us
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Post by elystokie on Feb 26, 2023 8:17:20 GMT
He can barely walk at times never mind sprint, astonishing he's chosen to lead the line game after game, this surely can't go on, it's not fair on him or the people paying to watch him.
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Post by loosestools on Feb 26, 2023 8:24:38 GMT
He reminds me of a string puppet, after the strings have been cut.
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Post by Veritas on Feb 26, 2023 8:27:01 GMT
That performance by gayle was worse than anything I've seen in my 40 years of following stoke..perricard, lightbourne, kitson daddason Parkin greenacre berahinio included No it wasn't
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Post by raythesailor on Feb 26, 2023 8:45:50 GMT
I have been saying for some time why persist with Dwight? It is simply a criminal waste of a team position that just about anybody else could take to make the eleven. Personally I would play Baker there but there are plenty of other candidates. Compounded yesterday by the managers post match interview re “We knew they had 6’6”” defenders against our 5’9” striker”. If he knew why not play some one else or differently?
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Post by stokie1947 on Feb 26, 2023 8:49:19 GMT
been a very good championship player in his day sadly that's it IN HIS DAY
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2023 10:59:13 GMT
there is such a thing as blind hatred and also not being able to stand someone .
I detest the bloke . It's getting to the stage , if he is playing , I don't want to watch the match .
He is certainly universally disliked by Stoke fans , who need a break from him , as much as is own team mates.
There must be something else he can do , anything that keeps him off the pitch , is fine by me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2023 11:02:34 GMT
That performance by gayle was worse than anything I've seen in my 40 years of following stoke..perricard, lightbourne, kitson daddason Parkin greenacre berahinio included Berahino was rank bad , but I agree , dwight is the worse I have ever seen .
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Post by FullerMagic on Feb 26, 2023 11:05:17 GMT
Maybe we could swap him for Mike Sheron? www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/stoke-city-dwight-gayle-goals-8189907Fewest goals from Stoke strikers with more than 20 league appearances Dwight Gayle: 23 (3) apps, 1 goal Vincent Pericard: 20 (18) apps, 2 goals Len Benbow: 21 (0) apps, 2 goals Saido Berahino: 27 (24) apps, 3 goals Keith Scott: 22 (3) apps, 3 goals David Gregory: 22 (1) apps, 3 goals Paul Stewart: 22 (0) apps, 3 goals Jack Nibloe: 20 (0) apps, 4 goals Willie McIntosh: 26 (0) apps, 5 goals
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Post by GreaterGlasgowstokie on Feb 26, 2023 11:07:38 GMT
So he's the worst striker we've ever had then?
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Post by mickstupp on Feb 26, 2023 11:11:36 GMT
It feels like there’s some kind of strange curse on this football club. Where else would a striker, who’s scored a goal every 2.3 games throughout his whole career at numerous clubs, then produce one (fluke) goal in 29 appearances. It defies all logic.
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Post by GreaterGlasgowstokie on Feb 26, 2023 11:16:42 GMT
It feels like there’s some kind of strange curse on this football club. Where else would a striker, who’s scored a goal every 2.3 games throughout his whole career at numerous clubs, then produce one (fluke) goal in 29 appearances. It defies all logic. He'd barely played for about 4 years when we signed him though 😂
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Post by bayernoatcake on Feb 26, 2023 11:17:41 GMT
It feels like there’s some kind of strange curse on this football club. Where else would a striker, who’s scored a goal every 2.3 games throughout his whole career at numerous clubs, then produce one (fluke) goal in 29 appearances. It defies all logic. He’s scored 6 in 4 seasons. Let’s not sugar coat the shit recruitment by blaming witchcraft.
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Post by mickstupp on Feb 26, 2023 11:22:01 GMT
It feels like there’s some kind of strange curse on this football club. Where else would a striker, who’s scored a goal every 2.3 games throughout his whole career at numerous clubs, then produce one (fluke) goal in 29 appearances. It defies all logic. He’s scored 6 in 4 seasons. Let’s not sugar coat the shit recruitment by blaming witchcraft. Nevertheless, he should still have been good enough to score 8-10 by now.
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Post by mickstupp on Feb 26, 2023 11:22:32 GMT
It feels like there’s some kind of strange curse on this football club. Where else would a striker, who’s scored a goal every 2.3 games throughout his whole career at numerous clubs, then produce one (fluke) goal in 29 appearances. It defies all logic. He'd barely played for about 4 years when we signed him though 😂 Plenty left in the tank then. It’s unfathomable.
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Post by Gary Hackett on Feb 26, 2023 11:26:13 GMT
What's become obvious is he can no longer play as a centre forward.
Still think he can be useful though off the bench wide left or as a 10.
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Post by lordb on Feb 26, 2023 11:28:34 GMT
He’s scored 6 in 4 seasons. Let’s not sugar coat the shit recruitment by blaming witchcraft. Nevertheless, he should still have been good enough to score 8-10 by now. He's had lots of chances With average finishing he'd have about 8 by now He's had good games but he was signed to score goals he was terrible yesterday
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Post by bayernoatcake on Feb 26, 2023 11:28:48 GMT
He’s scored 6 in 4 seasons. Let’s not sugar coat the shit recruitment by blaming witchcraft. Nevertheless, he should still have been good enough to score 8-10 by now. Nothing suggested he would be.
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