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Post by Pugsley on Apr 3, 2024 14:12:52 GMT
Rowett sees Brum safe IMO. Better manager than our current one- fact. Rubbish. Not one single promotion. Given one of the largest budgets ever seen in the Championship and blew it.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 3, 2024 13:13:18 GMT
Idiots used to boo when we were in the top half of the PL if we weren't winning at half time, it will never change.
In general the club is very well supported with a vociferous backing, especially away. If the players can't handle a few boos then they are in the wrong profession.
Play better or at least look as though you give a shit.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 3, 2024 11:41:14 GMT
Wow You are normally a voice of reason. SS might still achieve the relatively rare feat of coaching 2 teams for 20 games in a season in the same division and both get relegated. Which does suggest something about our selection of personnel. Plymouth were OK before he left and we're doing marginally better since he arrived. Plymouth will go down, we won't.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 2, 2024 9:00:29 GMT
See the season out,then have a long chat with Mmaee,if he isn't going to toe the line,then get rid. Just get rid. This rabble will say anything to get the next pay check.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 2, 2024 8:41:34 GMT
None are up to it, as proved all season. He's had numerous chances and he's proven to be garbage. I think Mmaee has been handled woefully though. There’s clearly a bloody good striker in there imo. One week he's OK the next 4 he's rubbish. Like the rest of them bar one or two, they are bang average footballers with terrible attitudes who put it in when they feel like it. Anyone who thinks otherwise about these players clearly knows nothing about football. We're in the current position due to Alex Neil and his chronies. The current manager has a devils own job getting a result from one week to the next.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 2, 2024 8:08:34 GMT
It’s unacceptable behaviour from a mediocre player that doesn’t get rewarded with a start. Totally disagree. We need to win games and you do what you need to, to get that done. Ennis isn’t that. None are up to it, as proved all season. He's had numerous chances and he's proven to be garbage.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 1, 2024 19:11:37 GMT
Where’s your bet slip from today? You being convinced and all. 🤣🤣🤣 Can’t do it can you. Hilarious You’ve proved that you thought it was a good team so fair play. You backed it up with a £1 bet. You’re in a roll son, should have gone with another today as you knew for certain what would happen. I agree with a lot you say about the club, I’ve said the same but saying he’s a coward is pathetic nonsense.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 1, 2024 19:05:09 GMT
That does have a slight whiff of misplaced defiance about it to me. It's actually more worrying how satisfied and upbeat he sounds about a scraped point at home to one of the division's worst teams. It’s called staying positive when everyone is against you, including your own supporters. We are also one of the worst teams in the league.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 1, 2024 17:39:02 GMT
A £1 single. Yep, you were convinced. Oh dear. The goalposts being moved 🤣🤣 I don’t bet more than that for reasons mentioned. Again that team on Friday looked set for a result away just as much as the one today didn’t. You can sorry I was wrong…..🤣 Where’s your bet slip from today? You being convinced and all.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 1, 2024 17:32:11 GMT
Some of the absolute throbbers on here need to grow up, SS and the players getting dogs abuse at HT during a relegation battle ffs. I honestly believe some of you would love us to go down, SS has inherited another shite group of players, Ricky Martin has left. Give the bloke some time to build a squad for Christ's sake. Our only aim now is to stay in this league, sick and tired of absolute throbbers thinking they are the next pep. Grow up. home form has been wank because we make it intimidating for our own player, clowns on here can’t seem to grasp that concept and think that these last 5 years have just been a coincidence and it’s never our fault, these past 5 managers and 100s of players must all be the problem Our form is wank because we've had a succession of wank managers and even wankier players.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 1, 2024 17:29:24 GMT
A £1 single. Yep, you were convinced. Oh dear.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 1, 2024 17:26:52 GMT
Same was said on Friday. We won at a canter. Not by me it wasn’t. I liked the team and thought we’d win and yes I bet on it and it wasn’t hindsight etc. Also just like I knew the team he put out today wouldn’t win. It’s so obvious. It’s so frustrating. Course you did.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 1, 2024 17:24:04 GMT
Maybe he is out of his depth, that doesn't make him a coward. He's picked a team he thinks can win a game while managing two games in 3 days. That's all. He's going to keep us up despite inheriting one of the worst squads in the league. If he thinks that side could win the game then he’s delusional and doesn’t know a thing about football. Same was said on Friday. We won at a canter.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 1, 2024 17:19:58 GMT
Everyone would have been satisfied with 4 points from the last two games. The fact we couldn't beat Huddersfield has the usual suspects spouting their drivel. Calling the manager a coward is beyond pathetic. He’s showed he is one though. It was a negative team selection designed to not lose at home to Huddersfield. He’s so far out of his depth it’s untrue. Maybe he is out of his depth, that doesn't make him a coward. He's picked a team he thinks can win a game while managing two games in 3 days. That's all. He's going to keep us up despite inheriting one of the worst squads in the league.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 1, 2024 17:15:36 GMT
Everyone would have been satisfied with 4 points from the last two games. The fact we couldn't beat Huddersfield has the usual suspects spouting their drivel. Calling the manager a coward is beyond pathetic.
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Post by Pugsley on Apr 1, 2024 15:09:09 GMT
Nice
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 28, 2024 22:08:16 GMT
Maybe they did, you don't know. The Coates's have never responded to these kind of points in detail ever as far as I can remember and that's going back years. "We're disappointed... We support the club... we're committed" is the best you can hope for. Fair enough, it's their prerogative and can do as they please. Facts can be seen on the pitch. I watched it on-line and the questions I would have asked weren't put - I don't know whether that was because nobody wanted to ask them, or whether the questions were filtered. I think when the new arrangements come in, it will be more difficult not to address those questions. I think it's wishful thinking expecting the owners answering the kind of questions posed from this article in any kind of detail. They will straight bat them away.
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 28, 2024 13:20:42 GMT
“Gallie” and “Schuey” both gonners come end of May anyway, whatever the outcome I reckon. ( hopefully Jared too). Morris are we shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic 🤔. Nothing to lose I guess. We look worse now than when AN was here and that’s saying something. Think we’ll survive……….just, but no one’s coming out of this season with any glory. Schumacher will be here at the start of next season 100%. Whatever division. John Coates will lose the very last minuscule of credibility he has left if he gets rid of yet another manager.
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 28, 2024 12:52:24 GMT
Or they've lost faith in Gallagher as a coach and need someone in who knows what they are doing to help the Manager. If that was the case I'd expect a joint announcement that he's left the club. Sadly for Schumacher we looked a lot better structured in the two games that were looked after by Morris, Gallagher and Shawcross in the interim and I suspect the owners and Walters have thought the same. Two games? Come on. It sounds like it's all hands to the pump, nothing more than that. Gallagher will be gone in the summer - good riddance.
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 28, 2024 12:48:28 GMT
It does sound a bit like, Schumacher is on probation, with Morris waiting in the wings doesn't it?. It reads to me like they've lost faith in Schumacher already, have tried and failed to replace him outside of the ludicrous Adrian Heath suggestion, so the last throw of the dice is to lob another warm body at it and hope the Stoke fan in him connects somehow. I guess we'll soon see, starting tomorrow. Or they've lost faith in Gallagher as a coach and need someone in who knows what they are doing to help the Manager.
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 28, 2024 12:25:42 GMT
The best quote in the article, can’t be arsed to find it, goes something like this……….its like buying your lad the most expensive top of the range sledge then it doesn’t snow for 6 years. A perfect analogy imo. What have we brought that is top of the range? We've brought mainly rubbish.
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 28, 2024 12:15:54 GMT
Everything that's happened on the pitch since we have been relegated (and the season before truth be told) points to this article being spot on. Why approach the owners? What could they possibly contribute to this article? They haven't got a leg to stand on. That's your opinion but it's just good journalism to give people who are questioned or criticised, the opportunity to respond and give their perspective. But more than that, as a reader and Stoke fan, I would very much like to know how the Chairman responds to some of these points and issues. I couldn't make the Q & A he attended a short while back. Had I been able to do so, and had my question(s) been selected, I would have asked him. I very much want to know what he thinks, and more specifically, what is his strategic plan for the future. Maybe they did, you don't know. The Coates's have never responded to these kind of points in detail ever as far as I can remember and that's going back years. "We're disappointed... We support the club... we're committed" is the best you can hope for. Fair enough, it's their prerogative and can do as they please. Facts can be seen on the pitch.
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 28, 2024 11:52:30 GMT
It's certainly an interesting read. Quite a lot of it is telling the Athletic readers things which we, as Stoke fans, already know. I just add a couple of notes of caution. Quite a lot of it cites the views of anonymous "former senior employees" and "former players". We don't know who these people are, what role they had at the club, how long they were at Stoke for, how good they were at their job, why they left, why they have to remain anonymous and whether they have any personal agendas. I am always a little wary of articles which present such anonymous opinions as "fact". Second, the author(s) cite no evidence of having approached the owners for comment on any of the topics they cover, or responses to any of the assessments made of the owners by their anonymous interviewees. If that is so, it's poor journalism. Of course, when Stoke City Connect is set up, monitored by the new Regulator, it will be able to explore with the owners some of these issues, particularly the financial ones and the strategic direction of the Club. Bring it on ! Everything that's happened on the pitch since we have been relegated (and the season before truth be told) points to this article being spot on. Why approach the owners? What could they possibly contribute to this article? They haven't got a leg to stand on.
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 28, 2024 10:57:48 GMT
It's clear John Coates is far too close to the day to day football matters... lunch in the canteen with footballers doesn't sound right to me. Is he just one of the lads or the bloke who is running the club and expecting results? There is also an arrogance around throwing money at 'problems' and expecting things to magically change. Said it for years - we're lazy arsed.
As for the rest, christ on a bike. All to obvious, everything is manifested on the pitch.
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 27, 2024 14:34:18 GMT
Predicting Stoke City and the Championship in general is a lottery. We'll pick up points when unexpected and vice-versa.
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 27, 2024 14:04:01 GMT
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 27, 2024 13:24:38 GMT
You 100% sure? Will he not play Grealish on the left, Foden on the right and leave Saka on the bench? Certainly those 3 are the choices for the wide roles That leaves Rashford, Gordon, Palmer and even Sterling competing for one spot in the squad I think he will take Rashford I'd have Palmer in the squad instead of Maddison 100% sure, there is absolutely no chance Saka doesn't start and certainly not to accommodate Grealish. Saka is one of the first names on the team sheet and I'll be gobsmacked if Grealish even goes, he's had a poor season this season (when he's actually played that is). For me, it would be Kane Toney Saka Palmer Foden Rashford Isn't the squad now 26 instead of the 23 we've seen in the past? If so there might be more wiggle room to include the likes of Grealish, Watkins or Bowen. I like Grealish, he can beat a man and draws fouls BUT he has an average season. EDIT - looks like training squad can be bigger but final squad is 23. Tricky one for the manager in every position.
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 27, 2024 12:21:25 GMT
As it stands at the moment, for me, it'd be ... Pickford Walker Stones Branthwaite (possibly Colwill) Trippier (possibly Chilwell) Rice Bellingham (possibly Mainoo) Saka Foden (possibly Bellingham) Rashford (possibly Foden) Kane Against B&H, I'd like to see Trippier, Branthwaite, Colwill, Rashford and Palmer, all given serious minutes and Bellingham played as an 8. Yeah, don't think you can chain Bellingham to a role. He wants to be involved everywhere and it would be counter productive to restrict him. He's just too good for that. Let him roam like Messi. I agree with your team but would have Maguire at the back alongside Stones. Massive threat from set plays and better than most alternatives. If we lose Stones, Rice, Walker or Kane then we're largely fucked. Agree. Although a lot played OK last night, we lacked international quality in forward areas. Toney and Bowen in particular. They did OK but weight of pass, awareness, touch wasn't top quality. I'd take Toney over Watkins for penalties if there was a choice.
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 26, 2024 14:11:04 GMT
After us spending 16m and bringing in 18 players.... what we were meant to do bring another 10 in.... This was the quietest Jan window to date, FFP is killing everyone! Oh come on. He had a big enough budget to bring in several new players, including a pretty expensive winger. He decided to prioritise signing Cundle, Manhoef and Ennis rather than sign a centre-back or left-back. How's that decision worked out? One thing I will say is that Neil and his Chronies had a number of months to put together the squad. He failed dismally. To expect StS to repair all that damage and transform the teams' fortune in a few weeks, despite the budget, is a tough ask.
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Post by Pugsley on Mar 26, 2024 11:52:49 GMT
He brought in 5 more footballers. Can't really do much more especially after Neil bringing in 18 new footballers in the summer. We're paying for the damage done by Neil and his chronies - as predicted. The man was never right for the job. Exactly - 5 footballers and not one of them a left-back or centre-back. The largest amount of money went on a luxury winger he doesn't even pick most of the time. None of that is to take away from the abysmal job Neil did. Neil constructed a shitty house that was falling down before he'd even finished building it. Schumacher came in and looked at the crumbling foundations, said it'll be all right, I'll spend the rest of the budget on some fancy curtains. Can't argue with any of that. Recruitment has been desperately poor for over a decade.
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