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Post by biddulphchav on May 5, 2023 0:16:26 GMT
Can’t believe it’s been 5 years. We were doomed the minute that plonker walked through the door.
Still remember his interviews, they were all along the lines of ‘uhhhh we uhhhhh we had good spells uhhh in the game uhhhh but couldn’t get the win today ugghh’.
Hands down the worst manager we’ve had in my years watching Stoke, tactic was basically give the ball to Shaqiri and pray
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Post by PotterLog on May 5, 2023 1:27:13 GMT
You can say a lot of things about Paul Lambert but one thing you can’t say is that he was appointed in May
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Post by longdistancekiddie on May 5, 2023 1:34:17 GMT
He would have kept us up if he wasn't forced to play Butland and Shawcross
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Post by JoeinOz on May 5, 2023 5:41:01 GMT
He would have kept us up if he wasn't forced to play Butland and Shawcross Please expand on this |
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Post by mr on May 5, 2023 5:56:32 GMT
You can say a lot of things about Paul Lambert but one thing you can’t say is that he was appointed in May He might’ve kept us up if he was appointed in May |
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Post by prestwichpotter on May 5, 2023 6:01:21 GMT
We shouldn't have ever appointed Lambert, but he wouldn’t have set us back 4 years by spunking £60m on has beens…….
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Post by svengaliinplatforms on May 5, 2023 6:28:40 GMT
He arrived in January. Should never, ever, in a trillion years, have been a go-to option on our list, whether he was 1st, or 21st-choice.
We then inexplicably gave him a 2.5 year contract, and sacked him 4 months later, for getting relegated. FFS.
I can only imagine this was during the Coates family's little-publicised, dark, 'Crystal Meth bender' phase.
It's up there with the most ridiculous decisions the club have made in my lifetime. I still maintain that keeping Hughes would have been preferable.
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Post by flea79 on May 5, 2023 6:40:00 GMT
Paul Shambert is the worst signing in the clubs history
But it was January not may my friend
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Post by thevoid on May 5, 2023 7:04:29 GMT
He would have kept us up if he wasn't forced to play Butland and Shawcross Please expand on this I wouldn't hold your breath, that's one of his longer posts |
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Post by Staffsoatcake on May 5, 2023 8:42:15 GMT
Of the thousands of managers around the world, we picked him.
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Post by Roger Everyone on May 5, 2023 8:57:16 GMT
Isn't the country having a massive party to celebrate the occasion this weekend?
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Post by questionable on May 5, 2023 9:53:20 GMT
To this day I’ll never understand how we managed to pluck this guys name from somewhere.
Utter idiots.
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Post by dirtygary69 on May 5, 2023 9:58:08 GMT
It's not 5 years since we appointed him, it's 5 years since we were relegated. Shower of wank that was. Paul fucking Lambert.
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Post by theonlooker on May 5, 2023 10:01:49 GMT
Great, local owners. Know the club, know the area, know the game.
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Post by chigstoke on May 5, 2023 10:09:29 GMT
Ah yes
I remember the day after Hughes was sacked, Lambert was in the media saying he'd be happy to come and rescue Stoke. We collectively laughed as we looked to be appointing Flores.
Then we went and did the unthinkable, though given our track record nowadays, maybe it wasn't so unthinkable.
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on May 5, 2023 10:10:30 GMT
Great, local owners. Know the club, know the area, know the game. 👍 One mistake and you keep on about it, since appointing Lambert they've.... oh shit! |
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Post by a on May 5, 2023 10:22:47 GMT
Can’t believe it’s been 5 years. We were doomed the minute that plonker walked through the door. Still remember his interviews, they were all along the lines of ‘uhhhh we uhhhhh we had good spells uhhh in the game uhhhh but couldn’t get the win today ugghh’. Hands down the worst manager we’ve had in my years watching Stoke, tactic was basically give the ball to Shaqiri and pray 🤔 110 days out but close…. |
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Post by tommycarlsberg on May 5, 2023 10:23:48 GMT
It wasn't to the day, it was January 15th 2018. I remember it well because we raised a glass to the death of Dolores O'Riordan who died that day, before heading to Old Trafford.
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Post by spiderpuss on May 5, 2023 11:19:46 GMT
Tepid appointment at best and you could argue not doing anything and just letting "one of the backroom staff" take over as a better option. Not sure why we didn't go for a bigger name and only the Coates family can explain that. The damage had been done with the worst transfer record in the history of SCFC taking place in the summer.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on May 5, 2023 11:23:44 GMT
Astonishingly then spent 113 games in charge of Ipswich, despite taking them down like he did with us.
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Post by Bagwash on May 5, 2023 14:21:26 GMT
He arrived in January. Should never, ever, in a trillion years, have been a go-to option on our list, whether he was 1st, or 21st-choice. We then inexplicably gave him a 2.5 year contract, and sacked him 4 months later, for getting relegated. FFS. I can only imagine this was during the Coates family's little-publicised, dark, 'Crystal Meth bender' phase. It's up there with the most ridiculous decisions the club have made in my lifetime. I still maintain that keeping Hughes would have been preferable. I think we wouldn't have gone down if Hughes had not been sacked.Positive we would have got the 3/4 points we needed to survive. |
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Post by robrigo on May 5, 2023 14:25:44 GMT
Which means it’s five years to the day since I was sitting in Bathstore in Shrewsbury. I can still remember my wife and the nice lady who was designing our bathroom looking perplexed as I checked my phone and said out of the blue,
“Lambert? Paul bloody Lambert. FFS Stoke.”
And it hasn’t really got any better since. Bathroom still looks good though.
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Post by Staffsoatcake on May 5, 2023 14:30:45 GMT
Which means it’s five years to the day since I was sitting in Bathstore in Shrewsbury. I can still remember my wife and the nice lady who was designing our bathroom looking perplexed as I checked my phone and said out of the blue, “Lambert? Paul bloody Lambert. FFS Stoke.” And it hasn’t really got any better since. Bathroom still looks good though. You should have got Lambert to put it in, he would have made a better job of it than he did at Stoke. |
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Post by teenagefanclub on May 5, 2023 14:50:05 GMT
It was a great day, made loads of money that day.
There was a tweet saying Lambert was going to announced within the hour out of nowhere ( might have been from martin spinks) and skybet still had the book open so made a killing.
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Post by scfc75 on May 5, 2023 14:57:55 GMT
He arrived in January. Should never, ever, in a trillion years, have been a go-to option on our list, whether he was 1st, or 21st-choice. We then inexplicably gave him a 2.5 year contract, and sacked him 4 months later, for getting relegated. FFS. I can only imagine this was during the Coates family's little-publicised, dark, 'Crystal Meth bender' phase. It's up there with the most ridiculous decisions the club have made in my lifetime. I still maintain that keeping Hughes would have been preferable. I think we wouldn't have gone down if Hughes had not been sacked.Positive we would have got the 3/4 points we needed to survive. I think it doesn’t really matter because we were such a mess we would have gone sooner rather than later anyway. It would have just delayed it, not avoided it completely. |
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Post by potterpaul on May 5, 2023 21:45:50 GMT
Applied via Facebook post and got the job FFS Stoke. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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Post by Gods on May 5, 2023 21:54:58 GMT
Lambert won his first game in charge against Huddersfield and his final game at Swansea.
Trouble was he didn't win any games at all in between.
Still, a nice symmetry to his reign.
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 5, 2023 22:25:22 GMT
Applied via Facebook post and got the job FFS Stoke. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Come again? |
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Post by owdestokie2 on May 5, 2023 22:31:09 GMT
Can’t believe it’s been 5 years. We were doomed the minute that plonker walked through the door. Still remember his interviews, they were all along the lines of ‘uhhhh we uhhhhh we had good spells uhhh in the game uhhhh but couldn’t get the win today ugghh’. Hands down the worst manager we’ve had in my years watching Stoke, tactic was basically give the ball to Shaqiri and pray Don’t blame Lambert |
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Post by potterpaul on May 5, 2023 22:32:41 GMT
Applied via Facebook post and got the job FFS Stoke. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Come again? Wasn't it a joke at the time? Pretty sure he posted on Facebook/Twitter or Instagram that he wanted the job and next thing we knew he was installed 😂 |
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