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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 2, 2016 10:53:11 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.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 30, 2015 22:21:18 GMT
The first post on this thread is worth a re-read! A mixture of insight and bollox to be fair
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 30, 2015 22:10:20 GMT
Would you like me to recognise your interest in Mr Kevin Friend by making this the official Kevin Friend thread Captain America?
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 30, 2015 21:28:47 GMT
Would you kindly use the dedicated Kevin Friend thread and stop making our message board messy you plastic Yank wannabe!
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 29, 2015 13:16:19 GMT
Any Arsenal team managed by anyone in any season.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 29, 2015 13:14:24 GMT
Has to be John Stones. Part of a dreadful Everton defence that concedes loads of goals with a lot of them down to his mistakes yet he is the new great hope for English football? Pisses me off how commentators and pundits make excuses for him when he clearly cannot defend. Hodgson will still take him to the Euros ahead of Ryan. I enjoy a stupid post when I see one.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 28, 2015 18:09:22 GMT
He is a relegation manager, with relegation tactics who is being saved from relegation by a striker scoring almost a goal every game. March in being right shocker! He didn't mention he was a cup winner with a tinpot club from a rugby town mind. He got relegated because he stayed a season too long unlike other never been relegated experts.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 20, 2015 12:06:15 GMT
I dont see how the Rondon incident should be a sending off. Its just handbags, ref should just tell to cool down and get on with it. how the hell does that warrant the same punishment as McLeans assualt which was clearly dangerous. I hate to see sending off like this, the games gone mad He kicked the Bournemouth player, then headbutted him! But other than that; why did he get sent off?
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 13, 2015 18:04:33 GMT
Yep vintage TP Parks bus - check Player crocks oppo - check Spawny goals - check Concede at death because they can't keep the ball - check We had a SHOCKING away record under the ex-manager. Vintage my arse. Still managing in the top flight - check. Still not been relegated - check. Still driving the haters mental - double check....mate. No one hates him but the majority of us never want to have his way of playing football inflicted on us again. I guess a few wouldn't mind if it was. The difference is what makes the world go round.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 13, 2015 17:58:54 GMT
They've scored more goals from corners in 1 game than we have in 1 year ! They've also scored twice as many goals at Anfield in one game than than we managed in five games under TP Yes indeed. It was Tony Pulis who stopped Delap taking a long throw in injury time at Anfield wasn't it just in case.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 13, 2015 17:19:40 GMT
Joe. I've been thinking of creating you a thread that you can use to post all your stuff like shite Aussie soccer fixtures in. I was thinking of calling it Joe's Wonderful World of Wank Nogger What do you reckon?
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 12, 2015 14:01:08 GMT
Our recent run of success has been built on a succession of unsoiled sheets. Interesting that changing the way in which we now defend by retaining the ball is producing benefits. I thought having possession of the ball so the opponents cannot score was as irrelevant as actually scoring ourselves Marchy?? Good mention for the recruitment team and how they have helped transform the professionalism in that area of the football operation.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 11, 2015 11:58:18 GMT
It goes without saying that Rory deserves an always open door approach from the club whenever he wants to walk through it. I'm sure that is the case and he will no doubt avail himself of the opportunity to meet the supporters whenever he wishes.
In other respects he was treated superbly by the club from the moment we signed him after he had broken his leg whilst he was still on loan through to the very generous contract extensions he was granted when arguably beyond his playing sell by date. The club have in fairness looked after him very well and he is no doubt both deserving and I guess reciprocally grateful. His time with Stoke will have set him up for life.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 10, 2015 22:15:02 GMT
I'm not having it that Tone doesn't give youngsters a chance.
He paid Southampton £1m of Stoke City's hard earned to get them to take Anthony Pulis!
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 10, 2015 7:47:28 GMT
I still haven't heard why my Costa-throwing-his-bib thread was consigned to the shit bin. I'd imagine you once suggested Pulis wasn't infact the antichrist and Mark's fanny fell out. I imagine his view was fully supported by one of you other accounts that usually begin with a line such as " I think Sheikh has got this spot on ........" I do recall in fairness suspending you when one was used to abuse me and many others over a long period of time for not having the same opinion as Sheikh MoMo. You have a bloody cheek getting all indignant with me matey! As for the original question I assume one of the moderators felt that was where it belonged. I've no other idea as I've not seen the post.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 10, 2015 0:45:13 GMT
You're a fucking hypocrite who deserted your football club. You abuse people constantly and also ban people. You know a bit like a hypocrite. I can say without fear of contradiction and with a full posting history as proof that I loved Pulis and he did a great job for Stoke City and I love Hughes and he's doing a great job for Stoke City. You cant say the same because you're mired in decade long agendas but still preach from the pulpit like a blazing hypocrite. I'll take my history on this board over yours any day of the fucking week. Yours is shameful. I have called you a cunt once or twice and have never been banned, funny that That's because I am Contrary to mardarses claim I can't actually remember the last time I did anymore than suspend anyone for a day or two. Christ knows how long ago that was! I'm a serial thread merger though. Perhaps I've merged Sheikhs thread from the Guardian into the several versions already posted by others!!! How careless!
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 10, 2015 0:38:34 GMT
Still dodging the point? I promise you no one will argue with you that your support for Pulis was unblemished by a single word of criticism and your tolerance of any suggestion by anyone that every single minute of his tenure was anything less than a glorious success story was absolutely zero. Yet a story recommending a bet on Stoke for relegation that is at complete odds with anything else in print regarding the outlook for the club and it is you starting a thread and not offering a word against it. Your only observation was to inform us that the author is a jolly decent chap. I look forward to your view of the next transfer window. I imagine that's your next hope to put the boot into the club. If only it was the Icelanders controlling the purse strings you could have a field day Mr Stoke City I posted it precisely because it was preposterous and his reasoning was preposterous. You are the only one who has made this spurious association because you are a) an agenda ridden mentalist or b) just a bit thick. And again I was the first by a day to post that wonderful Guardian article so you are lying. Again. I must be a bit thick because I missed the bit where you branded it as preposterous? I spotted your defence of the author as soon as people clamoured to rubbish and pour scorn all over the proposition you had brought to everyone's attention. Are you sure it's me with the agenda? Perhaps I'm still being a bit thick.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 10, 2015 0:19:11 GMT
Still dodging the point? I promise you no one will argue with you that your support for Pulis was unblemished by a single word of criticism and your tolerance of any suggestion by anyone that every single minute of his tenure was anything less than a glorious success story was absolutely zero. Yet a story recommending a bet on Stoke for relegation that is at complete odds with anything else in print regarding the outlook for the club and it is you starting a thread and not offering a word against it. Your only observation was to inform us that the author is a jolly decent chap. I look forward to your view of the next transfer window. I imagine that's your next hope to put the boot into the club. If only it was the Icelanders controlling the purse strings you could have a field day Mr Stoke City
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 9, 2015 23:56:27 GMT
If you say I did I have no doubt I did. If it offends you so much why have you made it your standard method of operating on this message board to hurl foul mouthed abuse at anyone who has a different opinion to you or dares to point out your wildly inconsistent and irrational stance.
Just like you have above.
I was simply gobsmacked that you would start this thread and have no word of criticism for the content or author.
As I said you would never have tolerated such a view previously!
And you fucking know it!
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 9, 2015 23:43:22 GMT
I think most people know exactly where you are coming from on a continual basis. Goodness knows you have hurled enough vile abuse around this message board at people who haven't brought into you awful view of the club other than any aspect that has the stamp of Pulis on it for few to be in any doubt regarding your agenda. By your own admission then you offered no criticism of the content or the authors reasoning. Would you like to redeem yourself by demonstrating how you have taken the copious opportunities on offer in the press recently to start a thread praising the progress of the club and tipping it to progress even further? I'm sure that will reassure an old sceptic like me that you aren't actually only interested in discussion of failure at Stoke City these days. You're a fucking idiot who has dished out constant abuse to me for years and an admin who called me a cunt and then had the temerity to ban me. You're just a fucking senile, old hypocritical scrote, who isn't the worth effort anymore. Just leave me alone you mad bastard or I'll have to report your stalking, wittering lies to admin. So you do only start threads highlighting about the only piece of journalism you could find in the universe in recent times predicting failure for the football club. Further more you confirm that you don't balance that by finding and posting a thread highlighting anything positive. What am I supposed to conclude from that? Perhaps exactly the rather mild observation that I made in the first place? It's taken a while to get back to the point and a lot of tears and wriggling on your part but there we go. I'm sure you will regret your foul mouthed abuse and apologise in good time. I'll accept the apology too.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 9, 2015 23:25:05 GMT
I think most people know exactly where you are coming from on a continual basis. Goodness knows you have hurled enough vile abuse around this message board at people who haven't brought into you awful view of the club other than any aspect that has the stamp of Pulis on it for few to be in any doubt regarding your agenda.
By your own admission then you offered no criticism of the content or the authors reasoning.
Would you like to redeem yourself by demonstrating how you have taken the copious opportunities on offer in the press recently to start a thread praising the progress of the club and tipping it to progress even further?
I'm sure that will reassure an old sceptic like me that you aren't actually only interested in discussion of failure at Stoke City these days.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 9, 2015 22:55:42 GMT
So you are going to point out where you expressed disagreement with the authors notion that Stoke City were good value for a relegation bet and his reasons for recommending it before I pointed out how two faced you are.
You can carry on the smokescreen all night if you wish. The question still stands.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 9, 2015 22:35:16 GMT
Properly rattled now. The abuse is ramping up nicely.
I can hardly wait for the January window! You hatred of the people who have transformed the football club from the previous position that could only be sustained by the bankrolling of the Coated family could lead you to imploding!
I imagine you missed me discussing with you that I was keeping my powder dry and giving it time before I formed a personal opinion on our current German central defender. I guess that's because you were too busy rampaging around in fits of tears about Leicester's German central defender and accusing our management team of the biggest blunder in football history.
Of course investing in the team didn't happen during the tragedy of a summer transfer window did it?
I criticise Scholes as you well know when it is merited. Not on the basis of a vendetta born of the a pathetic conspiracy theory that would embarrass a six year old.
I can feel your hurt. It's all gone too well for the last couple of years hasn't it?
By the way I'm prepared to apologise in full if you can show me where you offered a criticism of the original article you broke your neck in haste to post up prior to my original post on the thread.
I haven't checked back. You show it to me and I shall withdraw my comment.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 9, 2015 20:06:12 GMT
Thank fuck you are alive. I was getting really worried that you had ended it all in despair at our fabulous football and improved beyond recognition club now it is run by true Premier League standard management. Either that or you had fucked off to Smethwick What am I apologising for? You, must have missed my gushing praise and posting of articles from last week and after the Southampton game then? Typical one eyed Marksman behaviour. “Do as I do not as I say” eh? I mean for consistencies sake I expected a flood of posts disregarding this cup run we’re on like you did 2011 bearing in mind its benignity? See your failure to do so marks you out a bit obvious, like! Oh and you’re apologising for suggesting that I posted this article in some way to have a go at the current regime, when even the most illiterate Pulis hating, Scholes tonguing dimlo could have read it was for quite the opposite reasons! Anyway, apology accepted now, even though it was typically late and begrudging to the point of being non-existent! As for ‘off the field’ management, I’m with Mark Hughes when he says ‘we can’t expect to keep on doing what we’re doing’, so you need to have a word with Sparky there, old chum. It was non-existent I noted you would never have posted anything vaguely suggesting the previous regime would relegate us and defended the author. You and the other three horsemen of the apocalypse would have mounted up and ridden down anyone else doing likewise too! Every Jack or Harry who has ever posted on this board knows that is absolutely bang on the button and understands your carping about our transfer windows are all about your crazed man never walked on the Moon type theories that Scholes and Cartwright conspired against Pulis. I mean, Mark Hughes looks and sounds pissed off with the support he gets from the club doesn't he? I haven't heard him crying about the front of house, have you? Especially after breaking the club transfer record! Have you apologised to our German central defender?
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 9, 2015 14:04:51 GMT
Does this cunt give you tips and advice on other things like how good was Stoke's last transfer window? It all makes sense now. Never met the cunt. I'm still waiting for my apology by the way, after you got it hopelessly wrong again. I've yet to read anything you've ever got right to be honest but agenda's like the 13 year old one you've been waging, do tend to poison the mind somewhat! I can take it you're a Stoke fan not a Newcastle Town fan again now can I? Some might call you a gloryhunting cunt Thank fuck you are alive. I was getting really worried that you had ended it all in despair at our fabulous football and improved beyond recognition club now it is run by true Premier League standard management. Either that or you had fucked off to Smethwick What am I apologising for?
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 9, 2015 13:03:48 GMT
Is that paragraph you've put on here all he wrote.If not,any chance of putting the full article up? No mate that was it. It was the talking heads bit where they ask them a series of questions. One said Swansea, three said Norwich and he said the above. His other tips were; Best Bet for weekend - Walsall - "Odds on" Walsall only made a drawMost vulnerable Fav - Millwall - Millwall "scraped" home with a vunerable 4..1 win
View on tonights big game - Man City by a goal - Got that one rightEl Clasico - Real Madrid - Barcelona dicked Madrid 4..0Bet for midweek - Draw Zenit V Valencia - Zenit strolled to a two goal victoryDoes this cunt give you tips and advice on other things like how good was Stoke's last transfer window? It all makes sense now.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 8, 2015 13:31:04 GMT
You forgot to mention that everyone else is obsessed with Tone, Foxy! Not everyone else......just a select few But certainly not you, clearly.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 8, 2015 13:01:10 GMT
People talk about ceilings? Peter Coates doesn't, Mark Hughes doesn't. The only person who banged on about ceilings and spent most time managing expectations whilst reading out his CV and talking about Steak and Chips is long gone. Thank the Lord! BM Is any discussion of MH's greatness doomed to become another opportunity to stick the knife in to our former manager who did a pretty decent job himself? Pretty sad if that's the case. You forgot to mention that everyone else is obsessed with Tone, Foxy!
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 5, 2015 15:23:52 GMT
they merged my pic of Jack into this thread which is more or less finished with. If "they" hadn't merged all the individual one and two post threads relating to todays game this would now be on page two!
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Dec 5, 2015 15:06:00 GMT
Mr B Biscuit seemed to fuck off the match thread immediately after the second goal.
Just saying.
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