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Post by Scrotnig on May 6, 2024 12:22:13 GMT
is this why Benji keeps hinting at massive changes even though ask him name them but he can’t He seems to have changed himself in a massive way. More optimistic and funny and lighter, much less gloomy and morose. I like it, well done benji keep it up 👍🏻 Coincides with a few excellent performances from the team. It’s wonderful what that can do for the mind. Being a Stoke fan is not for the fragile.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 6, 2024 9:58:52 GMT
10. Best thrashing in a long time.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 5, 2024 13:35:01 GMT
That's very magnanimous of you Nick. Have you had a change of heart? I thought he had lost the dressing room like many. But he seemed to turn it around, and won them back somehow, which does show there's something about him. But... Both our record for transfers on recent history and his own leave a lot of room for improvement. I mean Cundle was on in the end but took forever to get going, and Ennis? Didn't do much...manhoef took a long time but I don't think he was his either. We seem to be in a bit of a limbo whether he's the manager or he's the head coach, are the signings his or recommendations to him, and are we going to be able to get 50-70% of transfers right instead of what...10%? We still need like 12 players minimum I think on a very small budget. Its going to be tough, but if we are realistic and just aim for top half next season I think he could do ok. If it's another train wreck start we could just see another repeat season of the last. Great end to the season tho. We can’t look back, only forward. He’s won me over and I think we will have a decent season. The mood music coming out of the club now seems right.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 5, 2024 13:33:29 GMT
Afew fucking clowns on there. Fuck em, i love S.O.T, the people and the club. And proud. Same here. Brizzle’s a dump anyhow and the locals are even less intelligible than Geordies.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 5, 2024 13:31:30 GMT
With all due respect, he was absolutely shite up for us up until April. So was everyone.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 5, 2024 13:00:30 GMT
So would've Watford, Sunderland, QPR, Blackburn, Sheffield Wednesday, Plymouth.... I think their point is that after Plymouth, we thought that was it. Even with two losses, we’d have been fine. Well it turns out that wasn’t quite true. We’d have been relegated if we’d downed tools. Credit to the manager for making sure we didn’t. I was very worried we would. Indeed we didn’t even once we were 100% safe.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 5, 2024 12:58:19 GMT
What a boring quartet of non-entity teams!
There’s usually one in the playoffs that I can neutrally say “I hope they go up, they’re ok”. But not this year. Ugh.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 5, 2024 12:52:10 GMT
I have to say, two months back I’d have said we needed another near-complete clear out, but now I think it’s nowhere near as drastic as that. We’ve some players who are way better than I thought, and for the most part I no longer think it’s necessarily their fault they struggled to showcase that. It has been, once again, mostly our beloved club at fault.
That’s now clearly changed, and I’m more optimistic than at any point since we came down. We’ve the right manager, the right technical director, and some of the right players. We just need to right pieces to complete the jigsaw!
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Post by Scrotnig on May 5, 2024 12:42:34 GMT
It’s recently become clear we’ve a small core of very good players who have struggled to show their skills due to some poor players around them, along with a toxic atmosphere at the club.
Something has clicked since Walters came along and with Schuey in charge we’ve gradually started to see these players shine.
I think if the good management continues, and the right additions and subtractions are made in the squad, we could be looking much better next season. Finally I feel it is possible.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 5, 2024 12:38:21 GMT
As fans, we have a manager we can get behind and players that we are starting to love. Bae Jun Ho, Manhoef, Burger, ... (Makes a massive difference when you compare to some of the scrawny lightweight 'sick-note Messiahs we have had in the recent past). Spot on. And we have Walters in the background as well, I think he’s made a big difference. I think he and Schuey will make next season far better than the dire shite we’ve had since relegation.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 4, 2024 22:17:52 GMT
Sometimes I wonder what Stoke fans want. The results have improved a hell of a lot. The last 15 games would give us 24 points which if replicated for the season would give us a play off spot. I think he maybe tried to implement too many of his ideas at once which is why we had that bad spell. He realised and changed it to suit. Over the last few games he has slowly added a few more of his methods and the entertainment has improved as well. We’ve been nowhere near this form since we got relegated. It’s also clear there was something a bit toxic going on surrounding Ricky Martin. Things have felt a lot better since then, albeit with the odd blip.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 4, 2024 18:50:57 GMT
New fanzone Safe standing Away fans moved SJW’s at the helm A Likeable young manager who plays attacking football Some great young players to build around (Burger, Bae Junho, Million, tchamadeu and hopefully cundle and Hoever) A competitive budget for recruitment Have I missed anything? UTMP I agree. What could possibly go wrong?
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Post by Scrotnig on May 4, 2024 14:10:51 GMT
Should definitely sign him, he’s come good.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 4, 2024 14:04:13 GMT
Peter Handyside. God bless you. Yes. Very fitting to include him. Reminded me just how sad it is that he is no longer with us, at such a young age. Fine footballer and person.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 4, 2024 14:01:54 GMT
Top half, possible playoffs. I genuinely think that’s realistic.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 4, 2024 13:59:40 GMT
FFS are we really still arguing about whether he should be sacked?
I will admit I wanted him gone at one point but it’s clear he and Walters could do something good here.
Clearly there were big problems when Martin was still around.
It took King Tone a good while to improve things when he first came here. Similar to now, a lot of it wasn’t his fault.
It might not work but it has a better chance than anyone else I can think of and I feel oddly optimistic that we will do much better next season. I believe we now have the right team running things, we just need the right players, though it’s clear we do already have a few of them.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 4, 2024 13:53:27 GMT
I feel slightly bad wishing ill on Brum given Tony Mowbray’s clearly very unwell.
However, having put some effort into it, I’m determined not to let it stop me.
Bye bye Brum. Hahahahahahahaha!
*But….get well soon Tony Mowbray.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 4, 2024 12:40:55 GMT
You can't possibly think that just on the basis of Walters being appointed and his interviews since Of course you can. Who has the authority? Who’s being listened to? I don’t think Walters should have said the stuff he did in those interviews rallying the fans etc. That shouldn’t be his job and imo absolutely undermines the manager. It was needed and it worked. Long may it continue.
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Post by Scrotnig on May 4, 2024 12:38:52 GMT
Well. This is….unusual.
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Post by Scrotnig on Apr 28, 2024 22:18:48 GMT
Southampton did it yesterday and many times before. Ourselves, Sunderland, Sheffield United and Brentford pretty much red and white stripe purists? We did the red backs in our FA Cup final season and the pin-stripe arrangement in the 1984 holocaust season but mostly we stick to the script. Pinstripes!!!
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Post by Scrotnig on Apr 26, 2024 17:10:48 GMT
Maybe SJW is the man.
I can sense a partnership building between him and SS.
I’m perfectly ready for it to be yet another false dawn, but something does feel different this time.
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Post by Scrotnig on Apr 20, 2024 17:19:28 GMT
10 without a doubt.
Right team, right tactics, right game, right time.
We’ve probably not been able to line up all four for years!
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Post by Scrotnig on Apr 20, 2024 16:15:02 GMT
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Post by Scrotnig on Apr 20, 2024 16:11:31 GMT
I know I get flamed for this but Vale going down isn’t good for the city. I’d rather have two thriving clubs, like wot proper cities often have. I’d have preferred them to survive. There, I’ve said it. I’m a Stoke fan, obviously, but also I will defend the city as a whole against the crap that gets thrown at it by the media and ignorant people. Stoke on Trent is a good city with good people and having two clubs makes us all stronger. Flame away, I’ve had worse. Defend the city all you like mate but I can guarantee there would be no and I mean NO Vale fans "defending the city" if the tables were turned! I agree, but that’s on them. I won’t lower myself to their standards.
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Post by Scrotnig on Apr 20, 2024 16:10:25 GMT
Well I guess today probably settles it. He’s here next season.
I don’t know if that’s the right choice but hopefully after yet another woeful season of stress and anxiety, maybe we should just get behind him and see what he can do for us. I’ve reservations but I’m prepared to put them aside and see if we can go forwards instead of backwards now.
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Post by Scrotnig on Apr 20, 2024 16:07:40 GMT
I know I get flamed for this but Vale going down isn’t good for the city. I’d rather have two thriving clubs, like wot proper cities often have. I’d have preferred them to survive. There, I’ve said it.
I’m a Stoke fan, obviously, but also I will defend the city as a whole against the crap that gets thrown at it by the media and ignorant people. Stoke on Trent is a good city with good people and having two clubs makes us all stronger.
Flame away, I’ve had worse.
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Post by Scrotnig on Apr 20, 2024 15:59:27 GMT
An outstanding, controlled, dominant performance Words seldom used round these parts….
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Post by Scrotnig on Apr 15, 2024 20:24:10 GMT
Is that what we’ve become to some ‘fans’, a joke? If so, you can do what my avatar suggests. We’ve had a bad, real bad, season yes but red and white blood still flows my veins at least. Yeah. My first season as a fan was the “holocaust” season. I can honestly say it will never get as bad as that. Utterly demoralising in every possible way. If I can survive that, I can survive anything. I still wake up screaming.
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Post by Scrotnig on Apr 15, 2024 17:56:46 GMT
Not sure he's divided the fan base that badly. Not judging from the Schumacher barmy armies I keep hearing sung very loudly and for prolonged periods of time. Well the fact we’re singing THAT certainly ought to divide the fan base. Stoke City NEVER has a “barmy army”. Ugh. May as well have some half and half scarves as well.
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Post by Scrotnig on Apr 13, 2024 16:17:26 GMT
Was skeptical when he was appointed and he’s done little to make me a believer but who else is there ? I think we’re going to have to give him a a summer to bring in a few faces and see how he fairs during the first 10-12 games. Like we did with the last manager.
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