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Post by sufolkstokie on Feb 6, 2018 8:38:50 GMT
With our GD that is another minus point - I am afraid we have gone
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Post by sufolkstokie on Feb 5, 2018 16:10:04 GMT
Why do people seem to think Bet365 is associated with Stoke? For the majority of gamblers/fans around the world it is associated with football sponsorship as a whole not just Stoke. Well we play at the Bet365 Stadium Our shirt sponsor is Bet365 All Bet365 adverts feature a team in red and white stripes and the club is owned by Bet365 Other than that there is no link at all Of course all that is true - my point is the Bet 365 brand is also at most sporting grounds and key TV events. It is much bigger than its association with Stoke City FC
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Post by sufolkstokie on Feb 4, 2018 18:27:39 GMT
Why do people seem to think Bet365 is associated with Stoke? For the majority of gamblers/fans around the world it is associated with football sponsorship as a whole not just Stoke.
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Post by sufolkstokie on Feb 4, 2018 16:16:00 GMT
I forgot about the top 10 in November
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Post by sufolkstokie on Feb 4, 2018 15:22:58 GMT
Yes. In fact they're currently in negotiations with North Korea for their first nuclear missile to target the stadium so they can just claim the insurance and use nuclear fallout as the reason why they have to shut the club down. Small print in the season tickets though means even though there is no club, you will still be charged each year and the money will go to a fund for the player you complain about most. Finally the truth is out in the public domain
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Post by sufolkstokie on Feb 4, 2018 11:49:52 GMT
Agree with FM's summary
However where we are now, it is all about points Nothing else and we got zero yesterday. We are running out of games
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Post by sufolkstokie on Feb 4, 2018 10:00:57 GMT
It's ok having a go at Lambert for some crazy decisions but this whole situation is on the board and their dithering. If we had a board who could think clearly and strategically we wouldn't be in this mess. At every turn we left sacking Hughes too late and that really is the issue here. It all stems from that awful decision. He wasn't going to wave a magic wand over night and he hasn't been backed as I would have hoped with no striker or another midfielder coming in. But with the time he had in the window that wasn't really going to happen. We can moan all we like about where it looks like we're heading and it does look grim but it's on the boards head and no one else's. Cant argue with this. At the end of last season it was obvious and after the walk of shame to an empty stadium I was amazed he was not asked to leave But that sums the board up and where we are at. Lambert is not our 1st, 2nd or even 3rd choice - but we left it too late and that he was what we got. Why he clearly is giving it a go, his tactics (or lack of) after Howe changed his, point to a very poor scenario, as does the first half agaisnt Huddersfield and the whole of the Watford game the board got us to the Prem and they are the ones taking us down. It will be interesting to see what, if anything changes next season. There is no point them walking away because I doubt there will be a many takers re investment. Still they probably still dont get what the fuss is about
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Post by sufolkstokie on Feb 3, 2018 23:47:20 GMT
He is an experienced manager. He did not respond to their change in formation when they ended the first half very strong. Crouch was isolated and his knock downs were going to them every time as they just sat off and waited for them. AT half time it was crying our for Diouf up front. By 55 mins it was screaming for it
Does not matter if it is one game or three or thirty - he should be able to see what was happening
We don't have the time to give him and break or a chance as we need points
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Post by sufolkstokie on Feb 3, 2018 21:51:08 GMT
Well you got that totally wrong Lambert Crouch should have be n off at half time You left it way too late Get what the fuss is about yet Mr Coates Wrong. Excellent first half. Ran out of steam after 70 mins and gave away a daft goal from a set piece. Lambert did not get it ‘totally wrong ‘ at all It was an excellent 30 mins I grant you. But even at half time many were calling no for Crouch to be subbed So to clarify Lambert got his subs totally wrong
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Post by sufolkstokie on Feb 3, 2018 17:01:20 GMT
Well you got that totally wrong Lambert
Crouch should have be n off at half time
You left it way too late
Get what the fuss is about yet Mr Coates
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Post by sufolkstokie on Feb 2, 2018 16:22:58 GMT
How stupid by the club
But no surprise given how we are run these days
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Post by sufolkstokie on Feb 1, 2018 12:19:27 GMT
In isolation it was a 6 for me
However it gets marked down to a 3 because the owners let the club slide in to a predicament all of their own making
We have ended up with not our 1st, 2nd or probably 3rd choice manager. We are still playing with Adam and Fletcher in the Middle of the park, although at least one should now be dropped
We are stil playing Shaq in the wrong position for him and the team.
Our only planB is to bring Crouch on, and whilst a great servant he looks gone and our new hoofball style gets errrrr even more hoofball
And now due to the oh so obvious predicament we have dropped all the emerging kids from the bench
We will do well to get out of this
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 31, 2018 22:00:35 GMT
It was shockingly bad from us
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 31, 2018 21:55:47 GMT
Is Fletcher one of the worst midfielders we have ever had? He’s terrible! Shockingly bad
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 31, 2018 21:53:42 GMT
Appalling in fact
We are in the deep stuff
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 25, 2018 19:18:45 GMT
Interesting that the feeling there seems to be that it's an unturndownable deal at that kind of fee. Suppose it's all about perception and the fees that you're used to seeing flying around in your league So now this message board is hanging its hat on some bloke with potential for 4 or 5 or even 6 million??? It is obvious the board have locked up the purse strings and given our current status we will reap what we sow Would be good if they came clean to the fans for once and stated their objectives for the club they are minding Something really does not add up here. Or maybe it does I am lost re their ambitions for club other than hoping we may stay up I was lost when our chairman just a few weeks ago stated he did not understand what all the fuss was about He still doesn’t
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 17, 2018 19:24:38 GMT
I am just observing that in my opinion there is more to blame than our ex manager, albeit he was his own downfall, The honest answer fella is yes they are all too blame. They sleepwalked in to this And you want what to happen? A bit more money to be invested in teh club. Who is too blame beyond Hughes will have to wait until the summer but any busness hsould look at what we need to do right now and then review why we got where we are
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 17, 2018 19:12:16 GMT
Hughes lost his way but the whole club seems in denial and continues to pursue an ancient strategy Seems to me that the family have done what they need to d and now it is bare minimum to maybe keep us up It will be interesting to see if we spend any proper money this window. We simply have to really. We do indeed need to but I doubt it
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 17, 2018 19:10:52 GMT
Oh I am - change was needed but suddenly no one at the top appears accoutbale for the mess we are in. Right now it looks like steady as she goes. Not defending Hughes because I saw first hand his mistakes, but the root lies far deeper than just a manager who has lost his way So, who else do you think we should get rid of this month? The Chief Exec? The Director of Football? The Chairman? You can have too much change at one time. Well, I think you can. I am just observing that in my opinion there is more to blame than our ex manager, albeit he was his own downfall, The honest answer fella is yes they are all too blame. They sleepwalked in to this
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 17, 2018 19:05:14 GMT
So we are all over looking the lack of any investment in full time players? Everything is now fine is it? Indeed! On the face of it this is the same cheap bollocks that has harmed us in the last few years. It seems he was decent last year at Augsburg which is nice. The striker links though added to this. Hughes lost his way but the whole club seems in denial and continues to pursue an ancient strategy Seems to me that the family have done what they need to d and now it is bare minimum to maybe keep us up
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 17, 2018 19:02:15 GMT
So we are all over looking the lack of any investment in full time players? Everything is now fine is it? Lighten up! Oh I am - change was needed but suddenly no one at the top appears accoutbale for the mess we are in. Right now it looks like steady as she goes. Not defending Hughes because I saw first hand his mistakes, but the root lies far deeper than just a manager who has lost his way
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 17, 2018 18:49:35 GMT
So we are all over looking the lack of any investment in full time players? Everything is now fine is it?
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 17, 2018 10:00:09 GMT
Why? They are both shot? Screams little money in the old kitty
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 14, 2018 21:53:32 GMT
When are we marching from the old ground to the new ground or storming the directors box? That’s too far for me nowadays fella. Can’t we just tut in unison?
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 14, 2018 21:25:42 GMT
Oh for heaven’s sake. Every year 3 teams get relegated. Even if we do, (and that is still far from certain), it is not the end of the world. Anyone who seriously believes that any of the club leadership want us to go down needs to go see a shrink. Do you honestly believe that any of the Coates family wants to throw hundreds of millions away by seeing us relegated? Or for their name to be dragged through the mud? By over-reacting (suggestions of storming the executive suite), you are doing the things that have the best possible chance of alienating the owners who then say “right, that’s it. I’m not putting a penny in and we can just sink back to the third tier.” At least they’re trying. We may never have approached Rowett, Flores & MON turned us down. What do you want, to offer it to some bozo who would 100% accept? I’ d rather they take a few days to regroup, identify the next targets and, if they’re currently available approach them, (AVB anyone) and if they’re not, sign the deal now for next season and bring in someone on a temporary basis. The real thing that makes us a laughing stock is the massive over-reaction on here. 😂😳😂😳😂
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 14, 2018 21:06:41 GMT
I will support my club wherever they may be but my goodness what a shit shower of collective management has seen us come to MON refusing us Thanks Coates family but how did you allow this? Easy how quick people blame someone else when they’ve got rid of who they wanted to get rid off. Wake up and smell the coffee the people who wanted change have got it. Give yourselves a big clap for making us a laughing stock 👍 Did you really type that 😳😳😳
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 14, 2018 19:50:05 GMT
Thanks Coates for the memories but what a cluster fuck you have walked us in to Not much of a legacy eh?
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 14, 2018 19:46:50 GMT
What a cluster fuck of a club we have become Well done Coates well done
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 14, 2018 19:36:37 GMT
I will support my club wherever they may be but my goodness what a shit shower of collective management has seen us come to MON refusing us
Thanks Coates family but how did you allow this?
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 14, 2018 18:21:03 GMT
Best supporters in the world Intersting statement - who are the best supporters in the world? You only find out whe the world turns to shit So what club has gone sod it, were are down but we will accept it without a murmur and carry on happy clapping of the fans Name me a club who sat there and wet thanks?
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