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Post by riponstokie on May 2, 2018 14:55:56 GMT
Find it farcical and deeply troublesome when watching PMQs & simply of utter contempt the tories have for British people. When questioned about serious problems like increasing poverty, homelessness, food bank usage etc. they merely disregard the issue. Rather than genuinely recognising their failings and holding their hands up & saying this is wrong, lets find a solution, they instead switch the conversation to different fact, like about employment increasing (due to 0 hrs contracts and their changing definition of employment). The total ignorance and lack of any compassion or economic engagement in these issues from the government never ceases to disturb me. Its almost as if they don't care, and that these little side affects are merely the accepted consequences of the broken economic system they have created, to aid their wealthy friends.
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Post by riponstokie on Jan 31, 2018 21:23:48 GMT
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Pulis
Dec 24, 2017 22:00:43 GMT
Post by riponstokie on Dec 24, 2017 22:00:43 GMT
If you don't think there's any animosity towards Pulis, you should read a number of the posts on here about him. There's definitely hostility from some of the fanbase, adulation from others and respect from the rest I have animosity no bones here can't stand the twat. Weird
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Post by riponstokie on Dec 24, 2017 21:58:29 GMT
Is this the self same Tony Pulis getting lambasted here who took Stoke City from the Championship to the Premier League and on to an FA Cup Final and Europe after 15 other managers had tried and failed over the previous quarter of a century? It can't be... Yes it is. Amazing isn't it that only a crackpot minority want him back? That should make you stop and think about the bloke himself. Surprised you're still allowed on here Pugs after your sick pathetic lower than a snake's belly comments last week about TP not grieving for his mum because he would rather earn a seven figure bonus. Admin should ban scum like you. When I stop and think (as opposed to you Pugs who is incapable of such a thing)about the man, the legend, the most successful manager (along with Tony Waddington)in the History of Stoke City, I feel enormous warmth, pride and gratitude to Tony Pulis. You along with Onlooker, Alster etc are the crackpots. Do you have a problem with successful people, men in authority Pugs? Real leaders? Because you sure are screwed up to harbour such hatred, such bitternes? GGOD LUCK TP!!! ONE TONY PULIS THERE'S ONLY ONE TONY PULIS!!!! Thanks for the memories Tony and your immeasurable success - Promotion, safety with consummate ease, cup runs, Cup Final, Europe! Forever grateful, always remembered, never forgotten. And a very Happy Christmas to you and your family.
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Post by riponstokie on Dec 19, 2017 22:53:10 GMT
Someone who took Tone’s players and finished higher in the table than he ever could? What do I win? For sure Hughes got a tune out of Tone's players for 3 seasons, encouraging good players to be more expansive, and it worked, very well in fact and I salute him for that. Trouble has been the squad building/regeneration/attempts to move to the fabled 'next level'. This January will be his 10th window, in that time I'm guessing we have signed an average of 3 players per window and a few on loan too so I guess we are looking at a minimum of 30 signings and perhaps 8 or 10 players on loan. Hand on heart, how many of those can you honestly say have been an unqualified success? I'm struggling to come up with one! Shaqiri, the Moses loan, perhaps the Zouma loan, arguably Joe Allen, anyone else? All managers get a few hits and a few misses but our miss rate must be the highest ever recorded?! During his first two seasons Hughes dined out on the foundations left him by TP. To begin with he added a little flair, however each and every time we were in the shit he went back to TP's old boys to get us out of it and it's worked until now. I always questioned whether Sparky could build his own spine, his own core? Answer - NO! His attempts to to replace Robert Huth have been embarrassing, Whelan still has been replaced and Jonnie Walters goals, commitment, desire certainly haven't been replaced and now predictably we have a manager who is clueless with a team (his team!)bereft of organisation, commitment, energy, flair, guts, pride as well as a team that can't score goals and can't defend! We need to act quickly or else the Championship beckons. Coates needs to bring in a manager who can hit the ground running and get a grip of the shambolic mess MH has created .And if it is TP then I for one will welcome him back with open arms.
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Post by riponstokie on Dec 19, 2017 18:55:48 GMT
Actually Pugsley, You need help. You're full of anger & bitterness that is simply beyond any rational. You have overstepped the mark in my opinion and you need to take a long hard look at yourself.
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Post by riponstokie on Dec 19, 2017 18:44:59 GMT
So tony pulis is a twat to still turn up to game when his mother has died? you sick twisted horrible man. Yep, that bastard couldn't even grieve for his mother, he had to get back to the ground to shore up his seven figure bonus. OMG just how low can you stoop, You vile, vile pathetic piece of shit. I hope that Tony comes back and saves our sinking ship of a club and that Hughes disappears and you and people like you disappear with him.
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Post by riponstokie on Oct 21, 2017 22:22:16 GMT
Aaaagh but did you stick up for TP in his hour of need?
The difference is that after a bad day at the office under TP there was always a reaction more often than not.
Anyway, you sleep well and I'll have relegation nightmares!!!
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Post by riponstokie on Oct 21, 2017 22:00:31 GMT
Ps It is certainly not better quality shit and how you can reach such a conclusion is beyond me. It's just SHIT!
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Post by riponstokie on Oct 21, 2017 21:58:47 GMT
Being positive is great and I'm a positive person too but a dose of the here & now and reality is needed. However, your defence of MH and criticism of TP is verging on blind positivity & loyalty. Win next time out? Based upon what exactly? Loyalty and hope but it's OK I might be wrong that's what makes it fun. Now if you think TP provided better stuff than LMH fine I happen to think the negative sterlile turgid shit seen under TP was awful. But yes some of the stuff lately is poor I just happen to see it differently let's say a better quality shit. You are deluded. Tony Pulis (along with Waddo)gave us the best years in our history. Sometimes it wasn't the prettiest but how you can talk such shit is alarming. I watch Burnley, Huddersfield, Brighton , Watford etc and I am actually jealous because they have spirit, endeavour, desire, a plan & that all important togetherness and a real identity. Hughes as taken our identity and trodden into the ground. Gone! Promotion to the prem - exciting Staying up against the odds - Exciting Stand out moments - too numerous to mention....... Rics goals, Crouchy v Shitty, 10 men v Shitty winning 1-0 FA Cup Semi - 5-0 Europe Numerous cup runs I think there's certainly far more exciting times within that lot for a positive person like you to remember and enjoy........ You do sound very bitter & angry about the success TP brought? And I'm fuming angry at how Hughes has dismantled the foundations of it all and where we may be heading if action isn't taken soon..... By lately you must mean the past two or more years?.......surely?
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Post by riponstokie on Oct 21, 2017 21:32:05 GMT
His time is up.......Taxi!
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Post by riponstokie on Oct 21, 2017 21:31:16 GMT
Agree 100%
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Post by riponstokie on Oct 21, 2017 21:20:10 GMT
I'm not negative either the majority of the time but I simply can't see how you can even begin to justify today's "performance" I've not justified it it was poor but I don't dwell on it move on life is too short pal. We will win next time out ☺ Being positive is great and I'm a positive person too but a dose of the here & now and reality is needed. However, your defence of MH and criticism of TP is verging on blind positivity & loyalty. Win next time out? Based upon what exactly?
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Post by riponstokie on Oct 21, 2017 20:49:38 GMT
No I'm fine mate I know we have issues I just don't piss myself at the first sign of trouble. Erm.........like two years of ineptitude.....hardly the first sign is it..... You are right that we have issues.....the biggest issue being the manager I'm afraid
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Post by riponstokie on Oct 21, 2017 20:48:22 GMT
Keep burying your head in the sand mate No I'm fine mate I know we have issues I just don't piss myself at the first sign of trouble. Erm.........like two years of ineptitude.....hardly the first sign is it.....
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Post by riponstokie on Oct 21, 2017 20:46:17 GMT
Hughes has been serving this shit up for two seasons now. Get real! You clearly have no concept of what shit is. Having witnessed absolute, abject shit since Jan 2015. Regular 4 goal thrashings, regular stuffings at home, white flags of surrender blowing in the wind, boredom, MH yet again stating 'Clearly we need to be better'....'Clearly, we didn't turn up'......'we talked about the threats of the opposition'.......no shit Mark, how about fucking working hard on the training ground rather than talking. Maybe work on a few on basics, shape, set pieces and anything vaguely fucking useful in the pursuit of gaining valuable Premier league points. I'm well versed in what shit looks like my friend and have a true & reality based concept of it....thanks all the same. You on the other hand CLEARLY CLEARLY CLEARLY.... do not! However, it's not really about your concept of shit or my concept of shit, more to do with MH's & PC's concept of it. Unquestionably tho' we are as shit as we ever have been in the Prem and we are in it big time.
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Post by riponstokie on Oct 21, 2017 20:11:17 GMT
I disagree. Today was as bad as anything Pulis served up at home. We must look for different things to entertain us. Hughes has been serving this shit up for two seasons now. Get real!
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Post by riponstokie on Oct 21, 2017 20:09:25 GMT
"We know what we need to do." No, Mark, you clearly don't or you would already be doing it. He hasn't got a clue what to do to put it right, now the old guard have gone he won't have them to pull his useless arse out of the shit now either. Spot on and my thoughts exactly. I personally believe that Hughes dined out on the foundations left by TP, adding some creativity to it but when that didn't work he looked to the old guard, the spine/core of the dressing room (TP's spine)to get us out of the shit and actually that has been the pattern of his tenure. My question has always been 'can Hughes build his own spine, his own DNA?' Answer - No he can't. We're going backwards at an alarming rate and this has been coming for two years or more. He is arrogant, complacent, deluded, lazy and after today's post match interview with Nigel Johnson he's demonstrating negligence of the highest order. Player for player we may have a superior squad to most of our closest rivals but as we proved for years & years under Tp it's about the team (and we are not a team), a plan (we don't have one), desire & commitment (non of that on display) fitness (????) and togetherness and we are certainly not together as one and now the squad doesn't possess the right characters to fight and scrap for the badge of our beloved Stoke City. Action is required from Peter Coates and swiftly. I think we certainly going to need someone with fire fighting credentials....................................................................................................
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Post by riponstokie on Oct 14, 2017 20:06:18 GMT
Were people calling for Pulis's head after getting battered 7-0 at Chelsea? Today was horrendous. Enough for the manager to lose his job? Not sure. Certainly not but I am more than confident that you would have been calling for TP's head after that particular one off result at the end of a very hard and successful season. The point is that it's not just about today, it's about the abject managerial performance of Mark Hughes over the past two years or more. This is not a one off stuffing, it's yet another absolute stuffing in an ever increasing line of stuffing's, where we pathetically and naievely take to the field with no plan, no fight, no desire, no passion and quite frankly with an expectation of receiving a royal shafting and a manager who is inept, lazy and arrogant. You would have been screaming and crying from the rooftop's for TP to go if he'd have received half the stuffing's that Hughes has .And you'd have created thread after thread if £50 m worth of so called talent was wasted by TP as it has been with Hughes. Not sure? I'm sure.........Time to go Mr Hughes
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Post by riponstokie on Oct 14, 2017 19:49:57 GMT
Were people calling for Pulis's head after getting battered 7-0 at Chelsea? Today was horrendous. Enough for the manager to lose his job? Not sure.
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Post by riponstokie on Sept 10, 2017 9:43:06 GMT
Intelligent player, works hard, terrifying skill and seems a cracking bloke. Definitely has a look of Ric about him, and I think he deserves the City'a number ten chant..heir to Ricardo's throne.
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Berahino
Aug 19, 2017 20:26:16 GMT
via mobile
Post by riponstokie on Aug 19, 2017 20:26:16 GMT
When i read stuff like this I realise there are some people who simply don't know football. He came on and as soon as we scored we parked the bus. For most of his time on the pitch we didn't have another player within 40 yards of him. Didn't press? What did you expect him do, run across the whole back for and midfield chasing players when everyone else was on the edge of our box? Is he the right man to lead the line? Probably not but this post is drivel at best. How is this drivel, even Diouf had a real go at him for not being available for an out ball. Fair do's saying that, he needs to learn to run the channels. However, his hold up was better than previously, great ball for the goal, and he filled in and cut the passing lanes very well today. A lot of your criticism seems to unfairly ignore the shift he put in. Buzzing for Saudi today, hopefully that'll keep him on. UTMP
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Post by riponstokie on Aug 16, 2017 17:34:34 GMT
I'm surprised how people are rubbishing the criticism we are currently under. We have been in decline for 2 seasons, playing increasingly poorly and the good progress Hughes made has been undone. The sporadic transfer dealings have been bizarre, with Hughes being like a kid in a toy shop, buying all the players he likes, with no idea how to play them together.
Now, having sold much of the old guard, who Hughes always leans on when in trouble, and selling Arnie, I am concerned. I genuinely don't believe Hughes can get our squad playing the way he wants, and get results. We will look planless, lacking any identity and have to rely on going direct to Crouch.
What moron plays a wingback system without one wingback, and the fact we haven't already got a couple in by the second game of the season, is just pathetic.
Don't wanna be too negative, but I do fear for us, we are in decline, and we need at least another 3/4 to turn our sorry state around.
Hope I'm proved wrong and sparky makes it work.
UTMP.
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Post by riponstokie on Aug 12, 2017 20:49:16 GMT
It's not one game though is it pal? It's the last two seasons? Yes, i agree last two seasons, but we start this one a new slate, the past is the past. I agree we still have some same issues, but like i said the window is well and truly open for a while yet and we all know they're trying to bring in hopefully good players. Until the end of August we should just keep our fingers crossed for those players and back the boys. Well I admire your optimism pal. I'm desperate for us to succeed, and with that back three of Kurt Ryan and Bruno I've hope we will have enough. We need to spend big money, and hopefully it'll turn the whole energy around.
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Post by riponstokie on Aug 12, 2017 20:36:19 GMT
The facts are this; the last 2 seasons we have been in decline. Hughes has had to keep relying on the old guard and going direct to get us out the shit. We haven't been able to score goals and get results playing the way he wants to play. Instead he's had to revert to going long. The facts are, he can't get the best out the squad, can't play the way he wants, and leans on plan B time and time again. This season, Hughes favours a wingback system when we don't have specialist wing backs, and the same system prevents the striker he favours thriving. He is utterly clueless. We haven't learnt, and whilst I was encouraged by the performance of Zouma and the midfield 2, with this manager, we will go down. That isn't hoping for him to fail, I wish we could play the flowing football he wants, but it won't happen, he is shite and makes the same mistakes time and time again. There's only two facts you need to concern yourself with. 1) The window is still well and truly open 2) One difficult away game in and not all doom and gloom as you make out. It's not one game though is it pal? It's the last two seasons?
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Post by riponstokie on Aug 12, 2017 20:35:45 GMT
The facts are this; the last 2 seasons we have been in decline. Hughes has had to keep relying on the old guard and going direct to get us out the shit. We haven't been able to score goals and get results playing the way he wants to play. Instead he's had to revert to going long. The facts are, he can't get the best out the squad, can't play the way he wants, and leans on plan B time and time again. This season, Hughes favours a wingback system when we don't have specialist wing backs, and the same system prevents the striker he favours thriving. He is utterly clueless. We haven't learnt, and whilst I was encouraged by the performance of Zouma and the midfield 2, with this manager, we will go down. That isn't hoping for him to fail, I wish we could play the flowing football he wants, but it won't happen, he is shite and makes the same mistakes time and time again. I vehemently disagree. That's fine, opinions are welcomed. May I ask why you disagree?
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Post by riponstokie on Aug 12, 2017 20:29:45 GMT
The facts are this; the last 2 seasons we have been in decline. Hughes has had to keep relying on the old guard and going direct to get us out the shit. We haven't been able to score goals and get results playing the way he wants to play. Instead he's had to revert to going long. The facts are, he can't get the best out the squad, can't play the way he wants, and leans on plan B time and time again.
This season, Hughes favours a wingback system when we don't have specialist wing backs, and the same system prevents the striker he favours, from thriving. He is utterly clueless. We haven't learnt, and whilst I was encouraged by the performance of Zouma and the midfield 2, with this manager, we will go down. That isn't hoping for him to fail, I wish we could play the flowing football he wants, but it won't happen, he is shite and makes the same mistakes time and time again.
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Post by riponstokie on Aug 12, 2017 19:25:20 GMT
First half we looked solid, so credit for that. But we have no plan, he doesn't know how the get the best out of players, we evidently haven't worked on attacking set pieces and we never looked like scoring.
We will go down if he is our manager st Christmas, let alone May
4/10.
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Post by riponstokie on Aug 12, 2017 19:02:22 GMT
Joe was superb today..my motm behind zouma
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Post by riponstokie on Aug 12, 2017 14:55:28 GMT
Impressive half, looked solid and all the players have looked really on it. Typical lapse of concentration leads to a piss poor goal conceded. Need to change it a half time, I'd take off Gcam for Sobhi, go 4231 and try get round the outside of their back 3.
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