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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 23, 2024 12:16:28 GMT
I think I will need to replace my car in the coming weeks & was just interested if anyone could recommend a used car dealer? I know very little about cars, don’t really want anything fancy.
I just want a good family car, from a trusted garage/dealer.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 23, 2024 8:17:18 GMT
A very early contender for nonsense post of the day. Bravo! Commenting with Plymouth game in mind not Cardiff and Swansea away for example. Promising but long way to go. An odd choice of games. He scored away at Cardiff & in both those games we were awful as a whole team. It’s pretty clear to see that he’s a special talent & will play at a higher level than the championship. As for his physicality, it’s one thing that you can’t criticise him for. He’s so much stronger than he looks. The amount of times he looks like he’s potentially going to loose possession & he uses his body (& skill) to somehow retain the ball, it’s impressive. Add the third goal on Saturday & his goal against Middlesbrough as two perfect examples where he was strong as we scored directly as a result. Not sure if you’re on a wind up.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 20, 2024 21:18:18 GMT
He scores at the beginning and the end of the season. Goes missing for 30+ games when it’s cold. No thanks. He’s been good since the start of March. I like him, he’s a very good attacking fullback. If you have a solid defence & midfield then I think he’d be a real asset, just sometimes his flaws are really exposed when we are open at the back.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 20, 2024 20:16:35 GMT
He’s a really solid Championship left back, just a shame he’s not 5 years younger. I wouldn’t be offering him a new contract though.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 20, 2024 19:34:15 GMT
If I was in charge of recruitment for a Premier league club I’d be testing us with a £10m bid in the summer, as in a few years this guy has the potential to be a top player.
20 years old, moved half way across the world, thrown into a shambles of a team & he’s been a revelation.
He’d easily get in a Crystal Palace/Brentford etc squad right now.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 20, 2024 12:18:54 GMT
Iversen Hoever McNally Wilmott Stevens Cundle Thompson Laurent Manhoef Campbell Junho
Supposedly…
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 19, 2024 8:31:47 GMT
I haven’t listened to the podcast, just seen some quotes & it’s all pretty pathetic from the club, just ignore it.
The captain of Stoke, who has scored & assisted a grand total of 2 whilst playing in an advanced midfield role, whilst we sit on perilously close to relegation, is surely expected to get some criticism.
The club & player should accept it & if they feel that it’s so wrong, do the talking on the pitch.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 17, 2024 21:49:47 GMT
Ha ha what an idiot that Man City fan was who wanted to keep hold of the ball. Delayed Bernardo Silva from taking the penalty, put unnecessary pressure on him & he absolutely fluffed it.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 17, 2024 10:11:14 GMT
The issue is that we have seen very little if any improvement since he’s been here.
He hasn’t imposed a clear philosophy or way that we play. It seems to be chopping & changes formations, styles & personnel. He had one window where it was pretty clear to everyone that we desperately needed a centre half & left back, yet he was adamant that we were fine. The failure to address this is pretty much why we don’t have a few more points & if we did, we’d be safe by now.
Compare it to Sheffield Wednesday & QPR who changed managers & have had a clear improvement. If he was a top coach, surely we’d have seen something in his time here, but I feel like it’s pretty much the same as his predecessor.
The jury is out & if we limp to safety, then questions do have to be asked. If we go down then there’s no doubt that he should be sacked.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 13, 2024 20:44:11 GMT
Just had a browse of the Sheff Wed forum and they are saying he was useless. Let us get away with loads apparently.
Other than disallowing the goal (which he’d blown for before it went in) I’m struggling to think of a 50/50 decision that we got in our favour.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 13, 2024 18:38:33 GMT
Some generous scores for Michael Rose. He was horrific.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 13, 2024 18:01:41 GMT
I wouldn’t call it weathering the storm. We were all over the place for the first 10 minutes & could’ve been 2-0 down.
We were very fortunate to go in level.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 13, 2024 17:58:24 GMT
Why is Campbell our best striker? It's like playing with 10. A great assist for the goal though! Not sure Ennis could’ve done it.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 13, 2024 17:54:53 GMT
How was a free kick not given for their keeping completely taking out Campbell off the ball?
I just don’t understand how it isn’t a foul. He completely wiped him out.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 13, 2024 16:25:45 GMT
A good point but the manager got away with one. We should’ve been a couple of goals down early on. He did nothing to stem the Sheff Wednesday joy that they were having down our left. Thompson was being completely over run & the manager just let it happen.
If I can see that changing to fullbacks & wideman infront of him would improve us, why did we wait until it could’ve potentially been game over?
Much better second half, but that happens when you play some of your better footballers.
For me he’s not the answer, but I’m very happy to walk away from Hillsborough with a point.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 11, 2024 21:12:52 GMT
The fact that we are all arguing who’s the worst out the 3 of them, and it’s pretty split, just shows the level of performance the centre halves have put in.
Time and time again the central defence has switched off, made basic goal costing errors.
It’s actually quite impressive that we are out of the relegation zone considering the state of our centre halves.
For me Rose is the worst out of the lot, but I’d find it hard to disagree with anyone who stated that Wilmott or McNally were the worst, as pretty much every game they’ve played, atleast one of them has cost us a goal or made a major error that could’ve done.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 11, 2024 9:02:56 GMT
Just seen the penalty decision again and it really is a shocking decision. It’s a foul on McNally and also not in the box. We were hopeless but at 1-0 you never know. That goal pretty much finished us off.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 10, 2024 21:40:28 GMT
You have to hope that we scoured the world & looked for the best man for the job & it just happened to be Jon Walters.
Rather than us appointing an old fan favourite as a temporary position, then the chairman becoming pally with him & just giving his the role permanently.
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Ennis
Apr 10, 2024 20:56:00 GMT
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 10, 2024 20:56:00 GMT
I can’t believe we actually paid to get him. He is so far out of his depth, it’s frightening.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 10, 2024 20:51:46 GMT
Whether we stay up or go down, I don’t want to see either of them next season.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 10, 2024 20:15:52 GMT
The manager appears to have frozen here. Needs to be proactive and try and get us back in the game.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 10, 2024 20:06:46 GMT
A bizarre substitution. Bringing on a player who has done nothing since joining. The conditions are suited for Bakers long range shooting.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 10, 2024 19:58:06 GMT
Baker for Vidigal, move Junho to the left. The weather is perfect for Baker to have a few long range efforts.
Campbell for the hopeless Ennis.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 10, 2024 19:45:42 GMT
Why is two hands even a rule? If the goalie fucks up, then the goalie fucks up. Is it even a rule? If the keeper collects a ball from a corner, then on his landing hits an opposition player and loses possession of the ball, it’s not a foul.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 10, 2024 19:30:54 GMT
If we were to get relegated because of that, it would be an absolute disgrace!
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 10, 2024 19:17:40 GMT
Unless the front 4 wake up this is going to be one long night More than just them need to wake up. Fullbacks have been very sloppy too.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 7, 2024 14:47:03 GMT
You can say exactly the same with regards to the defence. How many goals have we gifted teams or not done the basics defensively?
The league is very average & it doesn’t take much to be competing for the playoffs. Take Hull and West Brom as examples. We were comfortably the better team in both games and they are pushing at the right end of the table.
We need improvements in all positions, as we will never progress with a defence as unreliable as ours.
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Mmaee
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 6, 2024 20:05:08 GMT
WTF? He made chance after chance first half, not his fault they were not finished To be to Campbell despite missing a good chance he had a good impact Campbell pushed us up 10 yards as Cranston commented and we scored twice after Mmaee went off , I’d like to them together or Mmaee with Ennis i Mmaee was very good today, he held the ball up well & on another day would’ve got 2 assists. He linked up well and was a real handful. I do think he need to get his shots away quicker, but he’s comfortably the best lone striker we have.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 6, 2024 16:16:42 GMT
I wish I could say well done, but I just can't today. We were lucky to get a point when we should have easily scored earlier. Happy for the point though. Lucky to get a point? We absolutely deserved a point & on another day would’ve taken all 3.
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Post by stokecitydom on Apr 1, 2024 17:09:39 GMT
I’ve not heard the interview but it’s stupid to have a dig at the fans, regardless of how minor.
What we’ve watched for the past few seasons at home has been atrocious. We’ve scored the fewest goals in the whole EFL this season. Then we set up with a pretty negative looking lineup at home to a team in the relegation zone.
The fact that 22,000 plus fans turn up week in week out should be applauded.
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