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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 16, 2016 16:14:03 GMT
Well he plays for our rivals now, so let's get behind our two players you mentioned and prove you wrong! I'm behind them 100%. I just think Austin is far more clinical. And I would suggest far too static for the type of game we prefer to play these days?
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 15, 2016 23:48:40 GMT
I'm looking forward to Claude's after match rant already!!
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 15, 2016 0:00:45 GMT
You have to keep in mind we have some supporters who do not like football, Dave. That's what it is. I knew it looked familiar! The easiest way for you to recognise it is that it's the game where the ball isn't constantly level with your eyeline when you are sat in your Q Railings upper deck seat.
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Jan 14, 2016 17:24:39 GMT
Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 14, 2016 17:24:39 GMT
Thanks Tone but we saw for ourselves how well that went for the player the last time you flogged him to death. Lets stick with the Mark Leslie way. Its best for the player, best for the team and best for us supporters. Mark Leslie as in the bridal wear magnate?? Yes indeed and that is what leads to a damn good flogging
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 14, 2016 17:22:41 GMT
We were shocking against Liverpool and despite our tactics plainly not working we persisted until HT doing the same thing. Last night was similar until the sending off (not as bad). Norwich were the more effective side until then and had more urgency. We're papering over some quite obvious cracks if you ask me. It's god damn awful to watch at times. Still, we're 7th. Awful to watch? Frustrating at times yes but awful? You have to keep in mind we have some supporters who do not like football, Dave.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 14, 2016 0:26:25 GMT
Lack of a proper pre-season is catching up with him. Makes you wonder if Shaqiri's problems aren't down to that as well. And I think Ryan may be also suffering a bit for similar reasons. That is a very fair point. I'm not sure we truly appreciate the effects a lack of pre-season has on a professional player. Pro's and Ex pro's go on and on about the importance of it. It's obviously a massive factor, probably more so at this time of year with games coming thick and fast. Also agree. The Christmas schedule seems to have caught up with the players concerned. With the benefit of hindsight perhaps the squad should have been more utilised during that period.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 14, 2016 0:20:07 GMT
SJW must play every game between now and the end of the season. That is 3 goals in 4 appearances. Thanks Tone but we saw for ourselves how well that went for the player the last time you flogged him to death. Lets stick with the Mark Leslie way. Its best for the player, best for the team and best for us supporters.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 14, 2016 0:06:33 GMT
of the worst transfer windows of all time! Net spend! Indeed. If we don't show a significant deficit no transfer window can be acceptable. Regardless of the quality of player we bring in to fuel season on season improvement in results and league position! And lets not even talk about making matches a joy to watch again!
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 13, 2016 23:51:53 GMT
Thank you BM. People need to realise that until they exclaim FFS no thread referring to our league position is acceptable!
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 12, 2016 23:38:11 GMT
Was it you who politely asked Mr Scholes to raise our season ticket prices, Ange? Given that you would have supported such a move had your Tone made one of those telephone calls asking you to support the club where I would have and have written reams of complaints whenever it has being muted, that is one weird reply! Are you alright?
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 12, 2016 23:27:06 GMT
I only complain when there is something to complain about. Lets see; Quality of football being offered up? Quality of player being brought to the club? Continuously improving results? Well being of the football club I would rather like to see exist for the future? Oh yes I could fill pages of complaints couldn't I? Tony Scholes missed a trick not appointing you as Marketing Director back in the day where you could and were never caught wanting in defending everything anything and everything. He might have had to edit the script a bit though Go get 'em Ange. Boing boing
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 12, 2016 23:23:50 GMT
Is that what a succession of disastrous windows overseen by the anti-Christ and his suit clad disciples has boiled down to then? We could do with a bit of cover out wide? The club sycophant has spoken. Ever thought of joining the supporters council. Have a feeling you might be a bit too wet for them though I only complain when there is something to complain about. Lets see; Quality of football being offered up? Quality of player being brought to the club? Continuously improving results? Well being of the football club I would rather like to see exist for the future? Oh yes I could fill pages of complaints couldn't I? Tony Scholes missed a trick not appointing you as Marketing Director back in the day where you were never caught wanting in defending everything and anything in a most vociferous manner. He might have had to edit the script a bit though
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 12, 2016 23:05:32 GMT
You do understand he actually believes that shit don't you David? He is just warming up for another "disastrous window" moment. Yeah we don't even need any cover out wide in everything is moonlight and fairies, Marksman la la world Is that what a succession of disastrous windows overseen by the anti-Christ and his suit clad disciples has boiled down to then? We could do with a bit of cover out wide?
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 12, 2016 22:58:51 GMT
With respect you may have a point if we were trying to generate traffic via search engines. We aren't. To repeat Dave's remarks we are primarily trying to do is to reduce the number of threads covering the same topic. Many a good discussion get forces off the front page of the message board or doesn't even develop due to repeat topics being raised and the one liners that get posted as a separate thread during games or immediately after them. If we are reducing the number of throw away threads that get in the way of discussion we won't feel we are wasting our time, I promise you. There has been some good constructive feedback and we have changed things to accommodate people's wishes. We are always pleased to hear advice (some anyway )on how people would like to see the board operate. Thank you to those who have helped us by being more considerate and discerning in considering if a comment requires a new thread. Connoisseurs of the language and techniques of management bullshit will be delighted by this thread. Note that the moderators make no response to most of the well-made points from the users, no concession that an error has been made. Note further that the moderators' first response offers a modification to the new approach that does nothing to address any user complaint. Note finally that a further moderator response is made only when one correspondent makes a point that can be contradicted: a tangential point, raised by only one user, is responded to rapidly and head on; the central complaint, made clearly and repeatedly, that thoughtlessly merged threads are difficult to read, is consistently evaded. This is how life is in many places of work today. Administrators and managers are trained in ways to avoid dealing with legitimate complaints and justified dissatisfaction. I suspect connoisseurs of sewerage systems will be having dizzy turns by reading your post.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 12, 2016 22:43:37 GMT
What we saying then, that Hughes hasn’t been properly supported, the recruitment team aren’t the second coming and Hughes is working miracles? Some of the things you post really make me laugh, you truly are a genius ! You do understand he actually believes that shit don't you David? He is just warming up for another "disastrous window" moment.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 11, 2016 13:25:45 GMT
Yep annoying bollocks, how to piss of you readers in one easy go. Also if the person doing this understood how the logic of how forum software works, they are making the forum much less efficient technically as well as interactively. So in short you are waistng your time, our time, our pcs time and the servers time. To make the forum harder to use and less successful. You are also generating less traffic from search engines, and they when you get people here they don't stay as long because it looks like there is nothing to read. Its one decisions that may seem like a good idea to someone somewhere, but really never was even close. With respect you may have a point if we were trying to generate traffic via search engines. We aren't. To repeat Dave's remarks we are primarily trying to do is to reduce the number of threads covering the same topic. Many a good discussion get forces off the front page of the message board or doesn't even develop due to repeat topics being raised and the one liners that get posted as a separate thread during games or immediately after them. If we are reducing the number of throw away threads that get in the way of discussion we won't feel we are wasting our time, I promise you. There has been some good constructive feedback and we have changed things to accommodate people's wishes. We are always pleased to hear advice (some anyway )on how people would like to see the board operate. Thank you to those who have helped us by being more considerate and discerning in considering if a comment requires a new thread.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 9, 2016 13:45:52 GMT
They're really cancelling the top flight fixtures for fucking friendlies over one of the most traditional football weekends of the year? What a load of shit. Agree. Totally wank!
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 8, 2016 22:24:13 GMT
I wonder how many of the fickle knicker-wetting tosspots on here today were one of the 800-odd who made the trip that night? I was. And me
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 5, 2016 13:00:26 GMT
Can this be raised at the next Fans Forum meeting? Judging by recent meeting minutes this may be a bit on the controversial side! I mean, they are currently in deep discussion about the tannoy volume being too high for Ilford Dave's liking! Lets not pile big issue on big issue!
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 5, 2016 12:31:40 GMT
This is a riveting thread! All we need now is the "Tartan Blanket" thread
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 5, 2016 12:28:01 GMT
Not so long ago, we played Newcastle in a cup game and a draw was a good result (in truth we should have won). It wasn't massively disappointing when we lost the replay. Tonight, I will be genuinely disappointed if we lose - against a bigger club than Newcastle. We have earned our right to be in the semi final of a cup, to be in touching distance of the 'elite' in England and to have a team full of internationals. Personally I don't like the 'little Stoke' tag any more, and like to think that we have outgrown it. Let's beat Liverpool because we are better than them, not because we have some inferiority complex that gives us an advantage in the stands. We can be passionate without being 'little Stoke', can't we? We as a football club have earned our right, but i believe in order to get the stands rocking and rolling we need something to grate against. It's in our DNA (copyright - the capped one)
Wish it were different, but I don't think so.
Still let me be wrong and shove my words back down my throat....
You are not only knicking Pulis' phrases but you are exhibiting advanced symptoms of the disabling expectation limiting disease he spreads I'm currently surrounded at work by a number of Liverpool supporters who are fearing the worst and that is the way I like it!
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 4, 2016 21:45:27 GMT
Tony Pulis might come out and condemn Yacob WD but I don't think that would be good management, better to do it in private. I've set up a thread entitled Everything Pulis where you can share the Pulis view of the World with us, Geoff.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 4, 2016 21:39:56 GMT
I'm not especially interested Sid in West Brom, what I am interested in is keeping Stoke City players on the pitch for the entire game and that should be in our own hands. Does Tony Pulis encourage his players too cheat, I don't think I saw evidence of it when he was our manager, if you did I guess your posts on here would confirm that. I can't believe its taken 15 pages for you to add your neutral view of things! Equally surprising is that his last two significant contributions were to discuss the home game against West Brom and to suggest Mark Hughes could get the sack for a poor start to the season. He talks about Hughes inheriting a side that should finish at least tenth in the league like Tone stated Boskamp should have pushed for promotion with the handful of players he was left after Tone's first sacking. It's like having our very own Tone as a member of the message board!
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 2, 2016 13:44:52 GMT
I'm giving due credit where it is due . Yeah, you're famed for that I'd concern myself more about what you are famous for if I was you. So would you like to answer any of the list of very reasonable questions I have posed above?
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 2, 2016 13:28:45 GMT
I think we had a timely reminder of how far ahead of our previous game we now are from the WBA press conference yesterday. Their current manager who has spent £32m in the previous window on players we would generally have on our subs bench and worse was bleating that his plan of action is to wait for crumbs to drop from the table. You must be delighted we don't have to rely on such horseshit thinking and listen to such utter bollocks? m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35209738I dunno you seem to enjoy swallowing Scholes horse spunk by the bucketful these days. I'm giving due credit where it is due and will criticise when it's deserved. With regards to your previous post you will note we broke our transfer record after the remark you refer to. Have you heard any complaints from Mark Hughes with regards to last summers business?. I'm sure you will agree the excellence of the recruitment during that window becomes more evident week by week? We have seen of late the increasing contributions to our continuous improvement by the likes of Afellay, Joselu and Van Ginkel to add to the obvious star quality Shaqiri brought. Johnson has been contributing wonderfully from day one. I'm sure you would agree that the value we have had compared to the £32m spent by WBA at the same time is breathtaking and you will join with the majority of Stoke supporters in applauding Hughes and the rest of the back stage team in bringing this about.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 2, 2016 12:59:00 GMT
Correct, and when we got the professional team in yours truly got sand in his vagina about it So Pulis negotiated contracts when he was here. Ha ha ha. I've heard it fucking all now. Who are you by the way? A previous deleter who got 'sand in their vagina'? I think we had a timely reminder of how far ahead of our previous game we now are from the WBA press conference yesterday. Their current manager who has spent £32m in the previous window on players we would generally have on our subs bench and worse was bleating that his plan of action is to wait for crumbs to drop from the table. You must be delighted we don't have to rely on such horseshit thinking and listen to such utter bollocks? m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35209738
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 2, 2016 12:52:09 GMT
but I doubt he deals with the negotiations with the players club, sorts out the contract and deals with the agents. Is that the sound of goalposts moving. When a certain manager was here he was responsible for every aspect of every deal. Well the bad ones anyway. I know you may have missed it but the current team was put into place roughly three years ago. It has succeeded in completely changing the quality and value of our recruitment ever since. I guess you do not need me to tell you what the final straw was in bringing the change about. Should you not be rejoicing in the improvement?
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 2, 2016 11:32:47 GMT
What was the problem in putting this in the thread dedicated to Arnie?
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 2, 2016 11:07:57 GMT
We have come such a long way since it was decided to put into place a proper structure to support the football management team. The span of our recruitment has seen us move from chasing Carlton Cole and Lovechild Ledley to securing the likes of Shaq, Bogan and Arnie. Real teamwork between a manager who has real quality contacts, a professional recruitment team and a CEO who gets the deals over the line. Does he really get the deals over the line? To me he's like a junior car salesman i.e. having to keep running to his boss to make sure he can get the right deal. My guess it's Hughes who convinces the players to sign. I said it was teamwork. I have no doubt that Hughes impresses the players but I doubt he deals with the negotiations with the players club, sorts out the contract and deals with the agents.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 2, 2016 11:05:50 GMT
We have come such a long way since it was decided to put into place a proper structure to support the football management team. The span of our recruitment has seen us move from chasing Carlton Cole and Lovechild Ledley to securing the likes of Shaq, Bogan and Arnie. Also seen us tray and fail to get a Crystal Palace reserve midfielder at 10 to 6 on deadline day to replace Walters. Slick. I think you should try and remember where we have come from in the last three years. If you are unable to see the massive improvement secured through the professionalism of the manager and the support team you need help.
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