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Post by stokey97 on Jan 4, 2009 19:33:28 GMT
1)Stay up. ;D
2)Buy good players. ;D
3)Pericard to leave. ;D
4)For Gary Lineaker on MOTD to talk more about Stoke. ;D
5)For the Britt to be bigger.
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Post by meirsquare on Jan 4, 2009 20:06:23 GMT
Tony Pullis to go
Tony Pullis to go
Tony Pullis to go
Tony Pullis to go
Oh and.....Tony Pullis to go
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Post by MrMagic on Jan 4, 2009 20:08:44 GMT
1) Stay up
2) Keep the ball down more
3) Kitson to score
4) Significant reduction in bar prices
5) An end to the idiotic policing that we have seen this season
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Post by euan ouzami on Jan 4, 2009 20:10:57 GMT
Drogba
Robinho
Gerrard
Terry
Boswinga
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Post by stokie25 on Jan 4, 2009 20:11:16 GMT
1. stay up 2. a striker this window 3. another striker this window 4. a left winger this window 5. pericard to fall out of a window and be out for the rest of the season  |
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Post by monkeycat on Jan 4, 2009 20:12:15 GMT
Tony Pullis to go Tony Pullis to go Tony Pullis to go Tony Pullis to go Oh and.....Tony Pullis to go What do you think of the manager |
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on Jan 4, 2009 20:14:22 GMT
Tony Pullis to go Tony Pullis to go Tony Pullis to go Tony Pullis to go Oh and.....Tony Pullis to go What do you think of the manager Any transfer gossip mate? ;D |
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Post by scfc75 on Jan 4, 2009 20:15:26 GMT
Tony Pullis to go Tony Pullis to go Tony Pullis to go Tony Pullis to go Oh and.....Tony Pullis to go ...I can see a flaw in your cunning plan.... you don't mention replacing him For me it's.. 1) Stay up 2) Get at least a new striker in before Saturday, preferably two 3) ...and no more Centre Backs or Defensive Midfielders 4) Sort out the god-awful access to the ground behind the Seddon Stand (queueing up that ramp and doing the penguin shuffle to get away after every game really p!sses me off!) 5) Stop the smoking in the bogs (*awaits barrage of abuse from smokers...) |
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on Jan 4, 2009 20:17:34 GMT
Tony Pullis to go Tony Pullis to go Tony Pullis to go Tony Pullis to go Oh and.....Tony Pullis to go ...I can see a flaw in your cunning plan.... you don't mention replacing him For me it's.. 1) Stay up 2) Get at least a new striker in before Saturday, preferably two 3) ...and no more Centre Backs or Defensive Midfielders 4) Sort out the god-awful access to the ground behind the Seddon Stand (queueing up that ramp and doing the penguin shuffle to get away after every game really p!sses me off!) 5) Stop the smoking in the bogs (*awaits barrage of abuse from smokers...) I agree with you about the bogs and I'm a smoker!  |
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Post by meirsquare on Jan 4, 2009 20:25:25 GMT
...I can see a flaw in your cunning plan.... you don't mention replacing him For me it's.. 1) Stay up 2) Get at least a new striker in before Saturday, preferably two 3) ...and no more Centre Backs or Defensive Midfielders 4) Sort out the god-awful access to the ground behind the Seddon Stand (queueing up that ramp and doing the penguin shuffle to get away after every game really p!sses me off!) 5) Stop the smoking in the bogs (*awaits barrage of abuse from smokers...) I agree with you about the bogs and I'm a smoker! What about Nigel Clough ???? We missed out ???? |
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Post by scfc75 on Jan 4, 2009 20:30:05 GMT
What about Nigel Clough ???? We missed out ???? Serious?? A non-league manager with no football league experience?? Please tell me that was tongue-in-cheek...  |
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Post by meirsquare on Jan 4, 2009 20:57:50 GMT
What about Nigel Clough ???? We missed out ???? Serious?? A non-league manager with no football league experience?? Please tell me that was tongue-in-cheek... Not at all mate !!!!! Far from it !!! Nigel has had 10 years at Burton , learning his trade in his own way and at his own pace...... It's harder to actually manage a club at that level.....he has to deal with everything , tight budgets , part time playing staff ( some of them)..... now his team are looking set for promotion to the football league. He knows all about pressure , he played for a couple of decent clubs , if I remember rightly . He is honest , straight talking and has always had a good knowledge of the game. He also used to be particularly well connected to an all time great when it came to the job of football management .....his dad.....and he must have learned a hell of a lot from him. In short Nigel has not rushed , he has served his apprenticeship and will be a far better league manager than Pulliss ever will be. And his teams will play football.....if you know what I mean..!!! |
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Post by luke45 on Jan 4, 2009 22:00:22 GMT
Serious?? A non-league manager with no football league experience?? Please tell me that was tongue-in-cheek... Not at all mate !!!!! Far from it !!! Nigel has had 10 years at Burton , learning his trade in his own way and at his own pace...... It's harder to actually manage a club at that level.....he has to deal with everything , tight budgets , part time playing staff ( some of them)..... now his team are looking set for promotion to the football league. He knows all about pressure , he played for a couple of decent clubs , if I remember rightly . He is honest , straight talking and has always had a good knowledge of the game. He also used to be particularly well connected to an all time great when it came to the job of football management .....his dad.....and he must have learned a hell of a lot from him. In short Nigel has not rushed , he has served his apprenticeship and will be a far better league manager than Pulliss ever will be. And his teams will play football.....if you know what I mean..!!! If you think because he's proven at lower league levels, he'll do well at premiership level, think again, of course it is possible, but take Paul Ince as a fine example, worked wonders at MK Dons and Macclesfield in the lower leagues, but couldn't cope with the step-up to the top flight. You say he is good on a tight budget, i can guarantee you a tight budget at Burton Albion and a tight budget a premier league are two totally different things, and part of Ince's and Keane's down-falls in the premiership have been their failures to work on a bigger budget, and invest with the right players. Pulis's may not ' play ' football, but his method of approach is proven, it took us too the premier league, a side who were competeing against many gifted with parachute payments, and through HIS style took us up, and sits us joint 16th going into our first league fixture in january. If you want too see football go to the baggies, and watch them try to go to all the big sides and play, in this league the likes of us can't out-play most of our opponents, all we can do is make sure we limit their chances, stop them from playing, and take our few chances. Personally i want to see Stoke City survive like everyone else, so i'm sticking with a manager and a method that has PROVEN itself. |
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Post by monkeycat on Jan 4, 2009 22:03:55 GMT
What do you think of the manager Any transfer gossip mate? ;D If you want gossip, ask Hackett But, there is plenty going on, with two or three very good targets being looked at, amongst others |
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Post by Pugsley on Jan 4, 2009 22:07:24 GMT
1. The manager to change the style of play
2. The manager to buy footballers
3. Some pace in the side
4. To stay up (which we will if the above 3 are sorted)
5. If we don't stay up, Pulis to personally pay back the £30million he would have wasted, pack his bags and fuck off back to Bournemouth and stay there. We could then get manager who knows how to coach players and play football.
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Post by twinedwitherlangen on Jan 4, 2009 22:07:28 GMT
To stay up, and just one other off the top of me head, sign Freddy Kanoute, have a word Mama! :-)
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Post by meirsquare on Jan 4, 2009 22:11:26 GMT
Not at all mate !!!!! Far from it !!! Nigel has had 10 years at Burton , learning his trade in his own way and at his own pace...... It's harder to actually manage a club at that level.....he has to deal with everything , tight budgets , part time playing staff ( some of them)..... now his team are looking set for promotion to the football league. He knows all about pressure , he played for a couple of decent clubs , if I remember rightly . He is honest , straight talking and has always had a good knowledge of the game. He also used to be particularly well connected to an all time great when it came to the job of football management .....his dad.....and he must have learned a hell of a lot from him. In short Nigel has not rushed , he has served his apprenticeship and will be a far better league manager than Pulliss ever will be. And his teams will play football.....if you know what I mean..!!! If you think because he's proven at lower league levels, he'll do well at premiership level, think again, of course it is possible, but take Paul Ince as a fine example, worked wonders at MK Dons and Macclesfield in the lower leagues, but couldn't cope with the step-up to the top flight. You say he is good on a tight budget, i can guarantee you a tight budget at Burton Albion and a tight budget a premier league are two totally different things, and part of Ince's and Keane's down-falls in the premiership have been their failures to work on a bigger budget, and invest with the right players. Pulis's may not ' play ' football, but his method of approach is proven, it took us too the premier league, a side who were competeing against many gifted with parachute payments, and through HIS style took us up, and sits us joint 16th going into our first league fixture in january. If you want too see football go to the baggies, and watch them try to go to all the big sides and play, in this league the likes of us can't out-play most of our opponents, all we can do is make sure we limit their chances, stop them from playing, and take our few chances. Personally i want to see Stoke City survive like everyone else, so i'm sticking with a manager and a method that has PROVEN itself. Oh mate.....you were doing so well too..... Putting your points accross in a very constuctive and well thought out manner...then you go and throw in "If you want to see football , go and watch the Baggies" NO MATE , I won't . I'll continue to hope and pray that my beloved Stoke City F.C. will one day be a team that can compete with and challenge the best in the country , and do it with a style of play that will actually entice the kind of players we really want to see adorn the Red and White Stripes. Not a bunch of Goliaths who haven't a yard of pace between them and are so predictable and mundane that it is often hard to not cringe with embarrasment when an half hearted "We;re by far the greatest team " starts up in the North stand. I won't call it the Boothen , cos there's only ever been one Boothen End. |
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Post by luke45 on Jan 4, 2009 22:17:57 GMT
If you think because he's proven at lower league levels, he'll do well at premiership level, think again, of course it is possible, but take Paul Ince as a fine example, worked wonders at MK Dons and Macclesfield in the lower leagues, but couldn't cope with the step-up to the top flight. You say he is good on a tight budget, i can guarantee you a tight budget at Burton Albion and a tight budget a premier league are two totally different things, and part of Ince's and Keane's down-falls in the premiership have been their failures to work on a bigger budget, and invest with the right players. Pulis's may not ' play ' football, but his method of approach is proven, it took us too the premier league, a side who were competeing against many gifted with parachute payments, and through HIS style took us up, and sits us joint 16th going into our first league fixture in january. If you want too see football go to the baggies, and watch them try to go to all the big sides and play, in this league the likes of us can't out-play most of our opponents, all we can do is make sure we limit their chances, stop them from playing, and take our few chances. Personally i want to see Stoke City survive like everyone else, so i'm sticking with a manager and a method that has PROVEN itself. Oh mate.....you were doing so well too..... Putting your points accross in a very constuctive and well thought out manner...then you go and throw in "If you want to see football , go and watch the Baggies" NO MATE , I won't . I'll continue to hope and pray that my beloved Stoke City F.C. will one day be a team that can compete with and challenge the best in the country , and do it with a style of play that will actually entice the kind of players we really want to see adorn the Red and White Stripes. Not a bunch of Goliaths who haven't a yard of pace between them and are so predictable and mundane that it is often hard to not cringe with embarrasment when an half hearted "We;re by far the greatest team " starts up in the North stand. I won't call it the Boothen , cos there's only ever been one Boothen End. Ive never at any point said i wouldn't want and hope we can be at the peak of football, playing flowing football, but it doesn't take a genius to work out that isn't round the corner, our task this season is to stay in the league, and the reality of it is if we ' play ' football like you want to see, we wont. |
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Post by Fred Astaire on Jan 4, 2009 22:23:26 GMT
1 The manager to replace half of the dead wood players that we have
2 The manager to change the dead wood style of play that we use
3 The manager to formulate a 'Plan B'
4 The manager try to not be so stubborn
5 The chairman to get rid of this dead duck manager
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Post by crimesy on Jan 4, 2009 22:31:19 GMT
Tony Pullis to go Tony Pullis to go Tony Pullis to go Tony Pullis to go Oh and.....Tony Pullis to go 4) Sort out the god-awful access to the ground behind the Seddon Stand (queueing up that ramp and doing the penguin shuffle to get away after every game really p!sses me off!) ;D i agree there, otherwise you have to go up the muddy bank, over barbwire and a busy rod, its like an assualt course :/ If your top 5 things are pulis to go my friend then i would question your intelligence and/or memory of life at stoke before TP's second spell here. For Me: -Stay Up -Buy some real quality into the starting 11 -cheaper food and drink inside the ground. (and to et rid of the cons such as 'pie and beer for £5.20') -pericard out/new striker in. -tunnel from the brit to the path out of the ground. |
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Post by meirsquare on Jan 4, 2009 22:34:07 GMT
Oh mate.....you were doing so well too..... Putting your points accross in a very constuctive and well thought out manner...then you go and throw in "If you want to see football , go and watch the Baggies" NO MATE , I won't . I'll continue to hope and pray that my beloved Stoke City F.C. will one day be a team that can compete with and challenge the best in the country , and do it with a style of play that will actually entice the kind of players we really want to see adorn the Red and White Stripes. Not a bunch of Goliaths who haven't a yard of pace between them and are so predictable and mundane that it is often hard to not cringe with embarrasment when an half hearted "We;re by far the greatest team " starts up in the North stand. I won't call it the Boothen , cos there's only ever been one Boothen End. Ive never at any point said i wouldn't want and hope we can be at the peak of football, playing flowing football, but it doesn't take a genius to work out that isn't round the corner, our task this season is to stay in the league, and the reality of it is if we ' play ' football like you want to see, we wont. And you seriously believe that Tony Pullis is capable of delivering this "flowing football" that you yourself have expressed a desire to see also. My argument is plain and simple mate......Pullis has taken the club as far as he can...... if we survive , it will be more of the same next season with him in charge..... |
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Post by luke45 on Jan 4, 2009 22:40:11 GMT
Ive never at any point said i wouldn't want and hope we can be at the peak of football, playing flowing football, but it doesn't take a genius to work out that isn't round the corner, our task this season is to stay in the league, and the reality of it is if we ' play ' football like you want to see, we wont. And you seriously believe that Tony Pullis is capable of delivering this"flowing football" that you yourself have expressed a desire to see also. My argument is plain and simple mate......Pullis has taken the club as far as he can...... if we survive , it will be more of the same next season with him in charge..... Did i say i hope and believe we will see ' flowing football ' under Pulis? No. what i said was that i hope we will be playing flowing football at the highest level one day under whoever is at the helm. I also said that i don't believe we can play the flowing football that west brom believe can keep them up this season and survive, and i still stand by that. Our one-dimensional approach, exploiting our physical and arial attributes on teams may not always be pretty to watch, but i fimrly believe it is likely to pick up more points than what attacking flowing football would, we don't have the ingredients, and can't attract the ingredients, to attack sides home and away. So we have to play to our strengths, and with the players with have at our club, long-ball football is a logical approach. |
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Post by meirsquare on Jan 4, 2009 22:41:34 GMT
4) Sort out the god-awful access to the ground behind the Seddon Stand (queueing up that ramp and doing the penguin shuffle to get away after every game really p!sses me off!) ;D i agree there, otherwise you have to go up the muddy bank, over barbwire and a busy rod, its like an assualt course :/ If your top 5 things are pulis to go my friend then i would question your intelligence and/or memory of life at stoke before TP's second spell here. For Me: -Stay Up -Buy some real quality into the starting 11 -cheaper food and drink inside the ground. (and to et rid of the cons such as 'pie and beer for £5.20') -pericard out/new striker in. -tunnel from the brit to the path out of the ground. I question your intelligence for questioning my intelligence and memory.......without first asking questions pertaining to the answers you were seeking....... I have loved Stoke for the best part of 40 years....having watched them since I was nine....so I have memories of periods that were worse than the era you spoke of. I have also seen better managers than Pullis come and go from the club. I repeat ....it is my opinion , and I believe I am entitled to that opinion , that Pullis has taken this club as far as he is able to. |
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