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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 5, 2017 16:08:55 GMT
He was crap and shouldn't play again this season
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Boos
Apr 4, 2017 21:42:13 GMT
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 4, 2017 21:42:13 GMT
Hughes deserves a boo. Its shit metalboy. I've travelled to Leicester and Burnley and was at West Brom.... Yeah, it's shit but cast your mind back and it's been much worse. What happened back in 1998 or 1985 or whatever has nothing to do with now.
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 4, 2017 9:58:31 GMT
The stat is quite simple to understand.
December 2015 was the last time we won against a side CURRENTLY in the top half. We've beaten sides who were in the top half at that time, but that's different.
Essentially put we've haven't beaten a top side, Everton, West Brom or Southampton since December 2015.
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 4, 2017 8:12:23 GMT
People who call others 'snowflakes' getting worked up over the word 'easter' not been used somewhere. Quite a laugh really.
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 4, 2017 7:46:38 GMT
You get the feeling he could have gone to slap her and some on this board would still defend him.
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 4, 2017 7:44:01 GMT
He's a creep, a xenophobe as well as being a shit manager.
Reason as big as any why this video is important is it helps to stop this 'He's a gentleman' sort of thingy. He's not
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Imbula
Apr 4, 2017 7:40:36 GMT
Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 4, 2017 7:40:36 GMT
7 mins of game time in 3 months wouldn't have me very motivated. what about 60K a week? he earns that cash regardless of whether he plays or not so it's not really a motivating factor. And being someone's record signing (by a few £££m) and then not playing at all can be really demoralizing
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 3, 2017 10:49:37 GMT
Joe allen is a flash in the pan. Offers us absolutley fuck all He's our top scorer. This suggests he offers more than most others 2 goals in our last 22 games, or 1 in our last 13 games. The fact he's our top scorer says more about some of our other players (particularly our strikers)
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 3, 2017 9:46:15 GMT
Whilst I agree that Arnoutovic had far too many stupid bookings for dissent, his booking today was nonsense and completely undeserved. I'm not his biggest fan and I think he's too often a luxurious liability, but there is a built in unfairness regarding both colour cards in the Premiership. I can think of Costa and Fabregas who should both have had 2 red cards this season alone, and that's just off the top of my head. Imbrahimovic is serving a ban for a truly nasty elbow that the FA decided was warranted, yet the ref was close enough to see it. Herrera on Allen at Old Trafford, not even booked. I could go on, but you get the drift. We need to rid ourselves of the idea he's a 'luxurious liability', he's our best player. 90% he's one of our best players on the pitch. He's along with Martins Indi one of the two players who are truly 'undroppable' imo
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 3, 2017 9:28:28 GMT
Arsenal Crystal Palace Leicester Man City Stoke West Ham Derby Norwich Sheff Wed
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 3, 2017 9:09:40 GMT
If we're basing some of our post-brexit plans on the commonwealth we may be doomed.
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 3, 2017 9:06:51 GMT
we've regressed as a football team am I supposed to just sit there with a smile on my face and say nothing? Of course you're not..... a bit of perspective is what is being asked for. The mentality of people today is if it's broken, then fuck it off and start again. We're far from broken....... Trying to get people to understand the bigger picture on here is like nigh on impossible.... The CV of Hughes as both a professional player AND manager is regarded highly, but I stand by my words and say the thick fuckers on here can't see it Luckily Peter Coates can The reason I want him to leave is because I worry it could get worse before it gets better. We have an ageing squad that needs to be replaced sometime, and he's likely to sell the likes of Muniesa, Imbula, Bojan, Shaqiri, etc. We've been playing like this for over a year now, it's hardly a rough patch it seems to be a recurring theme. Given his transfer record of the last two years, I'm more than entitled to worry about him getting a chance to rebuild the squad (which we need as we look so uninspired) Of course Coates will look at everything, but I'm not Peter Coates I have my own opinion.
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 3, 2017 8:34:49 GMT
no not that. It's just fucking embarrassing to actively call for the head of a manager who has produced the best football the club has played in more than a quarter of a century after one bad season in which we will still finish in the top half of the best league on the planet. There's no point in posting sensible comments like that because the thick fuckers on here won't understand. Keep your sanity fella!!! we've regressed as a football team am I supposed to just sit there with a smile on my face and say nothing?
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 3, 2017 8:34:12 GMT
fans who expect a club and manager to be doing better with the resources it has? no not that. It's just fucking embarrassing to actively call for the head of a manager who has produced the best football the club has played in more than a quarter of a century after one bad season in which we will still finish in the top half of the best league on the planet. just fucking embarrassing = having an opinion 'the best football' - yeah great. Where's that gone then? The premier league is shite. And I didn't actually call for him to go in my original post, it's just we probably should set him some decent standards.
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 3, 2017 8:31:58 GMT
Because it's a lower league operation off the pitch
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 3, 2017 7:51:16 GMT
One of the most dull ones we've had in years, and given the money we've spent on some of these new players questions have to be asked.
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 3, 2017 7:49:10 GMT
Hughes out chants.... We've turned into the very fans we used to mock. Pathetic. fans who expect a club and manager to be doing better with the resources it has?
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 3, 2017 7:47:50 GMT
He is not ready. At best worth a couple of 20/30 minute sub outings. some of the more senior players have played like they're not ready these last few months
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 3, 2017 7:47:12 GMT
Good for Coventry but get the feeling it's more of a wake for them
Let's hope this big crowd doesn't convince the EFL to try this format next season
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 3, 2017 7:45:42 GMT
Bit of both
The manager has to blame for having such an unbalanced squad and uninspired team.
Some of the players that play regularly are not good enough to be doing so
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 2, 2017 9:27:59 GMT
Is this another one of you April Fool "jokes"? Said it many times Dave, a lot of fans of my generation would alternate between the Vic and VP back in the 70's, and ok, in them days there was no real rivalry, which was mainly born from their good years in the 90's, but I have nowt against them, and as an expat I like to see them do well...When we play them they can fuck right off the unwashed bunch of inbreds, but other than that I wish them well, and again, a PVFC Fan from Burslem is worth a hundred LFC,MUFC, glory hunting bandwagon changing shit pot from Kent. Every club has loyal proper supporters and I would like vale's to be watching a league 2 club next season.
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Apr 1, 2017 20:27:37 GMT
If you don't look negativity you won't like this statement
We've spent millions on a squad that looks slow and old. Our 'better' players, our most expensive players are not played or will move on in the summer. We rely on regulars who simply aren't good enough at this level anymore, in the name of 'Grit' and 'Passion'.
Most of the young players you speak of will be leaving in the summer, or the summer after that. Why are we still relying on Crouch, Walters, Whelan, Adam, etc?
We have a manager who has no plan B, and a plan A which is increasingly looking poorer and poorer.
Yes we're 9th, but this is the poorest Premier League in a long time
Yes we're not in League One, but we haven't been there for 15 years. At some point people need to move on.
Yes we've faced much worse, but all clubs have. Why are we an exception?
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Mar 31, 2017 12:06:58 GMT
Did mine online. Didn't take long.
Tbh most of the club's operation off the pitch is lower league at best. Don't mean to sound harsh, but we're nearing a decade of being a top flight club and should start acting like one off the pitch.
We're not little old stoke anymore.
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Twitter.
Mar 30, 2017 10:01:46 GMT
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Mar 30, 2017 10:01:46 GMT
The idea that Twitter is the only place where our players get abused is absurd. I've seen enough stuff on this site and at the actual games themselves to suggest otherwise. The other week somebody on here called for Imbula to be ran over Before that somebody said he had a low IQ because of his ancestry. You get the odd person in Twitter who might abuse somebody, but there aren't loads of these people. Saying that Charlie Adam had another bad game isn't abuse. I know the sort of Twitter users the thread starter is talking about. I'm one of them. He probably knows, or is one himself those fans who moan at others on there for having opinions, and saying they play too much football manager or are obsessed with stars. They'd hypocrites. The Charlie stuff isn't isolated on there at all or restricted to discussing his displays either. I've often seen him called a disgrace, shit, fat, "haggis man" etc, etc. It's pathetic, especially as Charlie has been a good player for us since arriving. To talk about a bloke in those terms who has been here a number of years and given us good service, is a joke in all reality. He's often been used as a scapegoat because people's poster boy players aren't selected and it's fucking cringeworthy. In actual fact in a lot of situations, Joe Allen has been the reason other players haven't featured but he's new and got nice hair (I like Joe by the way, he's a good player). If people's definition of support is to talk about an experienced and valued member of the squad in that way, then I'm not on that same page at all. That's up to you then. Personally it's starting to get a bit funny the amount of moaning this causes.
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Twitter.
Mar 30, 2017 9:45:13 GMT
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Mar 30, 2017 9:45:13 GMT
The idea that Twitter is the only place where our players get abused is absurd. I've seen enough stuff on this site and at the actual games themselves to suggest otherwise.
The other week somebody on here called for Imbula to be ran over Before that somebody said he had a low IQ because of his ancestry.
You get the odd person in Twitter who might abuse somebody, but there aren't loads of these people. Saying that Charlie Adam had another bad game isn't abuse.
I know the sort of Twitter users the thread starter is talking about. I'm one of them. He probably knows, or is one himself those fans who moan at others on there for having opinions, and saying they play too much football manager or are obsessed with stars. They'd hypocrites.
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Mar 29, 2017 22:25:18 GMT
For those of you used to Twitter and in particular those of you who have accounts and follow various Stoke related pages etc, you might have an idea about what I'm going to say. Quite frankly I'm sick of a select few Twitter users who seem intent on spouting so much nonsense negativity regarding our football club that it's becoming quite unreal. The likes of Charlie, Whelan, Pieters, Bardsley etc seem to be taking most of the flak in terms of players. But then I see even more slating Mark Hughes which, put in simple terms, is not on. The man has come to our football club with a point to prove and has transformed a long ball playing football club who were feared at home, to a proper footballing side able to compete against sme of the greatest sides in Europe on our day - see Chelsea at home and Manchester City away. No matter what happens, Sparky and his players get no end of grief - even on days when we win, draw or don't even have a football match! It's absurd, it really is. Calling our own players fat and tweeting them directly is not what a fan of a football club does. End of. Now, luckily, it seems to be only a fairly small number of "supporters" who act in this way online - the rest of us seem to have a sense of understanding and gratitude towards not only the man at the helm but those he puts his trust in week in week out. I, for one, wouldn't dream of non stop slating of any one of our players on a consistent basis, especially not on a form of media on which is accessible to those who don the red and white. And to persistently call for Hughes' head, to slate him on a daily basis, and spend large amounts of time researching managers they'd rather have instead of him, is totally pathetic. Like I said, thankfully this seems to be only a small number of fans who have too much time on their hands and want to spend it moaning at every decision Sparky makes. The large majority of Stoke fans I know and have met along the years show nothing but appreciation regarding the welfare of our team. There's a large difference between being ambitious and wanting your side to progress and spouting constant negativity and abuse towards those who try their hardest to push this football club onwards day in day out. Up the Potters. There is a lot of cringeworthy shite written on Twitter sadly. Don't get me wrong, there's been plenty on here down the years too but generally speaking, relative peace has broken out compared to the divisions we used to have. Basically from Stoke Twitter: Hughes should be sacked. Charlie is a disgrace. Any player that isn't Imbula is the devil (see above). Our fans don't deserve good players. Ad infinitum. yeah pretty much
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Mar 29, 2017 19:23:42 GMT
Is the thread starter on twitter? Cause I am and it's often a reasonable place to debate.
And let me tell you some of the people who are the opposite of those you describe can be just as bad / if not worse.
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Mar 29, 2017 13:27:01 GMT
Southgate invited injured players like Shrek and Jack to join up with them and hear his plans and vision for the future (yes, a vision, don't laugh). Anyway out of about 10 only Jack turned up apparently! Thats pretty terrible for the 9 that couldnt be arsed to turn up and meet their new boss. Its not like footballers have a lot of business to attend to on a Monday when theres no training usually It also makes Southgate look rather weak so early in his tenure. Good on Jack for bothering to go but the other 9 should be made to sit on the naughty step. Bloody primadonnas Tbh understandable why I wouldn't travel half way cross the country for what is essentially a chat
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Mar 24, 2017 21:04:32 GMT
Superb from Whelan. No quarter asked or given, teammates or otherwise. Magnificent. Allen needs to stop fucking whinging and get on with playing. Superb? Last word I'd use
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Mar 24, 2017 14:44:01 GMT
What other english forwards do we have that are fit and younger?
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