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Post by stokecitydom on Feb 3, 2024 14:58:39 GMT
Where Junho? Injured?
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Post by stokecitydom on Jan 27, 2024 18:54:10 GMT
That's a very worrying interview. He isn't playing with two bob players that have been dragged up through the leagues from League Two now. He's dealing with players that in parts have experience in Europe, in others are experienced at this level. They need managing and not throwing under the bus in public. Two weeks in a row now. It didn't work last week, what does he think will change this week? Please Steven, don't go down the same road as the others. It didn’t sound like he was throwing anyone under the bus to me. Just pointed out some of the chances that we have to do better with. If he was going to throw them under the bus, he’d have highlighted Thompson & Gooch et al who barely did anything right. Overall I thought it was pretty restrained considering some of the stuff he’d just watched.
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Post by stokecitydom on Jan 27, 2024 16:08:25 GMT
Until we get a proper back 4, this will continue to happen time and time again. How many of the starting 4 defenders today are really upto a decent standard? Gooch and Thompson are decent utility players, but neither are quality fullbacks. Rose & Wilmott just look to have an error in them every time the ball goes near them. Saying that I think we’ve been ok as an attack, just not had the luck in front of goal. I can see us getting something from the game. Only 7 teams have a better goals conceded as us. Yet only 4 teams have scored less, The defence isn’t perfect but it’s not a big a problem as people make out, the fact we create many chances and hardly ever score is our downfall. I don’t know how anyone who’s watched us all season can say that our defence is “not a big problem.” We’ve gifted soft goals all season, and just as I’m typing this we’ve left a massive gaping hole in our penalty area for the second.
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Post by stokecitydom on Jan 27, 2024 16:00:34 GMT
Until we get a proper back 4, this will continue to happen time and time again.
How many of the starting 4 defenders today are really upto a decent standard? Gooch and Thompson are decent utility players, but neither are quality fullbacks. Rose & Wilmott just look to have an error in them every time the ball goes near them.
Saying that I think we’ve been ok as an attack, just not had the luck in front of goal.
I can see us getting something from the game.
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Post by stokecitydom on Jan 22, 2024 19:20:08 GMT
Please let's sign nobody the two turnips simply cannot be trusted lets just stagger on and whatever the fates hold remove them at 4.45 on the last day or actually now and move on getting set with a proper recruitment function for next summer. In Burger, Junho & Tchamadeu we’ve got three potentially £10million plus players. Surely even the most negative of Stoke fans can see that the process has worked to a point. Johnson & Pearson are obvious Neil picks. Vidigal a cheap gamble who looked to be a gem at the start. Big question marks now whether he’ll make it here now. Stevens looked a cheap backup. Obviously a major issue that we didn’t have a left back & clearly we we’re a CB short too in the summer. Mmaee I think has something, the big problem is that he’s our only striker who looks semi competent & it’s a big ask for him to hit the ground running and play every minute. Wesley was a gamble that has failed miserably. The process obviously hasn’t been perfect, but these things do take time & without doubt we’ll make a profit on these signings which we can reinvest. It’s the model we need, so I don’t get the negativity.
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Post by stokecitydom on Jan 15, 2024 16:04:36 GMT
Doughty didn’t get many chances, but on the few occasions he played, I thought he made little impact.
At the time we sold him it seemed good business to recoup what we paid. Fair play to the lad though, as he’s now playing Premier League football and having a good season.
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Post by stokecitydom on Jan 13, 2024 16:31:17 GMT
These Rotherham commentators aren’t half talking some drivel.
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Post by stokecitydom on Jan 13, 2024 15:54:16 GMT
Great goal & nice to quieten down the Rotherham commentators on my stream who are really irritating.
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Post by stokecitydom on Jan 13, 2024 15:44:43 GMT
Vidigal normally makes a meal out of those kind of things, but that was a clear foul. Very lucky to escape a booking. Hopefully someone does similar to Clucas.
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Post by stokecitydom on Jan 11, 2024 12:17:48 GMT
Loved it. Top tip. At night Go to eat in places you dont have time to visit. Eg If you haven’t got time to visit little Italy go out for evening meal. 911 centre is brilliant Rockagella centre has better views than empire so do both The Met was brilliant Just walk everywhere Agree with the last line. Just walk as much as you can. It’s an amazing place & just go and explore on foot. My bit of advice is related to walking, make sure you take some comfortable shoes.
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Post by stokecitydom on Jan 6, 2024 18:36:12 GMT
Hoever is awful mate, I agree. His positional sense is dogshit and players go past him as if he's a fucking hologram. He was tragic today. Even when he was the right centre back he was 5 yards at least ahead of the other two. It was honestly one of the worst individual defensive displays I’ve seen. Really? One of the worst defensive displays you’ve seen? Personally thought he did alright until McNally came on. McNally had a shocker, barely did a thing right.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 31, 2023 7:40:53 GMT
Yeah but Arnie and Chopou Moting were also clueless lazy arse fuckers that should have been shipped out according to a lot of our fans. BM Chopou Moting was dreadful for us. Granted that may have been due to circumstances at the club but let’s not paint him as a success. Arnie took a while to get going, I was in the crowd of those writing him off too early. Made a note to not write players from a foreign league off too early again. On the flip side, some of our fans couldn’t see the value of Walters and Whelan - funny old game Choupo Moting wasn’t awful for us. His biggest problem was that he wasn’t Arnautovic. Now Jesé was awful.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 30, 2023 9:27:25 GMT
He’s not mobile enough to play in a system that’s open & expansive. Probably fine in a midfield that’s deep and compact.
As soon as he loses a tackle, there’s no way he can recover as he has no pace at all. It just results in him feigning injury like tonight & what’s he’s done on numerous occasions since he joined.
I never understood the hype around him from years ago & he’s pretty much delivered what I’d expected.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 29, 2023 21:46:31 GMT
I don’t really get the negativity.
You can see the influence Schumacher has had already. We are so much more positive. Unfortunately there’s a good chunk of the squad who don’t have the required fitness levels to play how he wants . Add the fact that there’s so many games in such a short space, he obviously felt the need to look after certain players (Mmaee, Burger & Tchamadeu).
I’m on board, it’s infinitely better that what we’ve witnessed under Neil.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 29, 2023 21:16:45 GMT
Shambles at the back. A couple of really poor moments.
I’ve got no idea what Ange is on about though. Don’t think Watford are dominant here.
I like what we’re doing in attack though. First time in years we are trying quick one-twos. Obviously it will fail, but it’s really promising signs. Commentary team seem to be critical of it.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 23, 2023 18:08:07 GMT
I think Mmaee is a clever footballer. He’s never a lone striker though. He needs bodies around him.
Vidigal probably has something, but he’s not cut out for this league.
Leris is just a poor footballer.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 14, 2023 19:17:44 GMT
I’ve used them for the past 15 years and not had any major issues.
One thing I’d recommend is potentially getting a new router, then putting the virgin router they provide into modem mode. The routers provided by virgin haven’t been the best for range.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 13, 2023 10:10:04 GMT
I couldn’t work out what it was first half. But the second half looked like 3421.
You could see Johnson and Laurent were much closer to Mmaee, where as in the first half Mmaee was abandoned upfront on his own.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 12, 2023 18:48:16 GMT
Doesn’t look like a team with creativity or goals.
Could be a long night.
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Eon
Dec 11, 2023 20:19:00 GMT
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 11, 2023 20:19:00 GMT
I’m on the Octopus tracker & currently for the past week it’s been 33% cheaper than the variable tariff for electricity & 34% cheaper for gas.
Saved me a fortune over the past 12 months.
If anyone is interested, message me as if I refer you, then we both get £50 bill credit.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 10, 2023 18:54:42 GMT
It isn’t going to be Potter. We have to be ambitious & try and get the best man for the job, but Potter reportedly turned down Leicester & Lyon. I can’t see him being interested.
I’d like an up and coming younger foreign coach. Someone who I’ve never heard of but has a reputation for getting their teams to play decent football.
Please just don’t appoint Steve Bruce or someone of that type.
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Alex Neil
Dec 9, 2023 19:55:34 GMT
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 9, 2023 19:55:34 GMT
You just can’t survive a fan reaction like that, combined with horrific overall performance since being appointed.
It’s just a matter of when the axe falls (I expect it to be Monday).
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 9, 2023 18:30:25 GMT
Just what was he doing for the goal. Either stand up, or take the man/ball/everything.
He fits right in though with the rest of our very poor defenders.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 7, 2023 15:14:52 GMT
Thanks for the replies. It’s an awful lot more complicated than it used to be.
If anyone does successfully import/know a company that can help with the freight and import process, then do drop me a message.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 6, 2023 16:31:30 GMT
I’m looking at importing some business stock from Ireland. I havent done this since we left the EU.
I was wondering if anyone on here is in the business of importing/freight forwarding etc? As I could do with someone experienced in this helping.
Or if anyone imports and they can recommend someone.
Strange thread I know.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 3, 2023 11:00:19 GMT
After the farcical end to last season, it's 15 defeats in the last 26, which is almost comically bad He should be relieved of his duties on Monday morning. That’s simply unacceptable, embarrassing & surely unsurvivable.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 2, 2023 18:03:23 GMT
We’re 19 games in and the guy is saying that it’s a new team.
He’s looking for any excuse, rather than accept responsibility that he can’t coach & set up a decent team.
Neil out.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 2, 2023 17:24:58 GMT
Just get rid of him tonight. If we scrape 4 points out the next 2, it just papers over the cracks. He’s been consistently average/poor since his appointment.
A bland man who produces an even worse football team.
Get him gone before he takes us down.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 2, 2023 16:57:43 GMT
That goal all down to Gooch. He’s absolutely awful. Looks eager, but can’t defend at all.
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Post by stokecitydom on Dec 2, 2023 16:38:11 GMT
Leris has to stay on side there and he’s in, so poor.
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