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Post by wuzza on Feb 14, 2024 19:21:17 GMT
I’ve developed a niggling suspicion that SS might not know what his best / least bad team is.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 14, 2024 19:13:50 GMT
Can’t see that team scoring, can’t see us keeping a clean sheet ......I’m off down the pub.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 13, 2024 14:25:34 GMT
It defies belief. We are up to our collective necks in crap and all some people want to do is have a pop at someone who did nothing but good for this club. No one is really having a pop are they, just calling out the silliness of wanting him to come back every time our backs are up against the wall. It's dull and boring, it pollutes the message board and it probably won't stop until a certain age group who witnessed his era die out.[/quote Why John Coates wouldn’t have picked the phone up and asked for his advice numerous times in the past decade is unfathomable.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 13, 2024 14:11:54 GMT
It defies belief. We are up to our collective necks in crap and all some people want to do is have a pop at someone who did nothing but good for this club.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 21:36:53 GMT
Folk talking about the team selection being wrong, but when it was announced nearly everybody on this forum agreed with it!!!!! Weird bunch. There’s only ever one outcome when the line up is met with general approval !
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 19:02:11 GMT
Thought that was a good effort tonight by Radio Stoke. Always better when Ange is involved and to be fair the commentator bloke (give me about 10 more seasons and I’ll get his name sorted) made some valid points too.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 18:31:55 GMT
More than understandable but very depressing scenes those videos. What price on a Waddington redecoration before the end of the season? What's more depressing is some of the charlatans in yellow shirts clapping the fans singing it. Read the room lads. Just fuck off the pitch. You are right but let’s be honest they would have been slaughtered if they done that too. Lose lose.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 18:28:33 GMT
This club desperately needed the summer window to provide a solid base to build from - more than likely UK based. Unfortunately we went for a scattergun approach for bits and pieces players from here there and everywhere. With the honourable exception of Burger it’s been a bit of a disaster.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 18:01:51 GMT
It’s been the root of our problems for years. Can you imagine TP putting up with some of jokers we have had filling this position ?
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 17:45:39 GMT
On many levels it’s not his fault but it’s doubtful he has the skill set to deal with the current scenario. I’d stick with him though - sooner or later we will be in a position to use the ability he has clearly shown at his previous club.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 17:31:17 GMT
Everything is abysmal. Have we reached the crest of the slump?
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 17:18:26 GMT
Definitely will be moving on ... and rightly so.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 10, 2024 17:03:27 GMT
I think we are reaching the point where you just have to accept the inevitability of relegation and try to make little bits of progress through getting whichever players that may have a long term future at the club out on the park and giving them all the backing we can. Give SS support and hope for the best whilst being prepared for the worst. The time for getting angry has sadly passed.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 7, 2024 16:49:05 GMT
The amount of clubs interested in taking him on suggests there is a growing belief in football that everyone fails at SCFC and it’s no black mark on your career.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 3, 2024 19:09:25 GMT
All the above having been said I think we all suspect he’ll probably do quite well as soon as he goes elsewhere.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 3, 2024 17:09:45 GMT
The tactics, personnel and shape today were bordering on a sackable offence today. Seriously what the fuck was Schumacher thinking? He’s trying to get players who struggle to walk and chew gum at the same time to do things they are not intelligent or capable enough of doing…….. Anyone would think they were professional footballers getting paid many thousands of pounds a week !! .......but I know what you mean.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 3, 2024 16:48:30 GMT
Fundamentally it’s Stoke doing what Stoke does. History tells us we are, more often than not, bleedin’ useless.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 2, 2024 15:31:38 GMT
Been reading this sort of stuff constantly for the past few days - why are we desperate to sell players ? ...... and how the hell are you supposed to motivate a group that is seemingly being made aware their employers would rather they weren’t here ? All very odd.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 30, 2024 18:53:03 GMT
I think it would be advisable for anyone of a nervous disposition to avoid any contact with the league table after about 5pm next Saturday.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 30, 2024 10:06:58 GMT
In this day and age I think his responses at the game and afterwards to the social media comments (stupid as they may be) were a bit naive at best. Frankly if he was going to comment I wish he sounded a bit more embarrassed that a bang average Sunderland side were the ‘better team’. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.. Tell it how it is: Get stick for not saying the right things.. Tip Toe around questions: Get stick for not saying the right things.. Blatantly lie: Get stick for not saying the right things.. By the way, this average Sunderland team finished in the playoffs last season and probably will finish in the playoffs this season, where have we finished in the last 6? You are probably right with your first point but it really didn’t sit well milking applause when you have just contributed to a dire result for the side you are paid to play for and as for your second issue the fact another team has finished above us in the league does not make them any good and our new players should be aspiring to be miles better (or not be employed by the club).
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Post by wuzza on Jan 30, 2024 8:08:40 GMT
In this day and age I think his responses at the game and afterwards to the social media comments (stupid as they may be) were a bit naive at best. Frankly if he was going to comment I wish he sounded a bit more embarrassed that a bang average Sunderland side were the ‘better team’.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 28, 2024 12:16:45 GMT
Change of goalkeeper was never a major issue - people were kidding themselves. Our problems are far deeper.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 28, 2024 12:12:02 GMT
Magical Test match - reminds you how great sport can be after SCFC have delivered their usual bout of depression for the weekend !!
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Post by wuzza on Jan 27, 2024 18:41:35 GMT
Well he seems to have reached the Alex Neil ‘sick and tired of saying the same thing’ level of frustration with the players very quickly. This place is a graveyard for up and coming managers perhaps we should have gone for a cynical old git who just knows how to grind out a result or two.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 27, 2024 10:22:05 GMT
Impressive knock. He’s got that touch of quality that means you stick with him despite any dips in form.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 26, 2024 20:13:20 GMT
She became the ‘Agricultural Adviser’ to The Archers ..... now there’s a glamorous show biz role ! Really? 😁 I saw Sybil in her swimming costume at the local pool...some very nice ploughable land on view Apologies ladies Yep she used to get a credit every week on the omnibus edition ...............not that I ever listened to it of course it was just on in the house , honest.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 26, 2024 17:23:56 GMT
Sybil and Hazel Ruscoe used to get into the Post Office pub in Wem with their Dad. Often in Stoke regalia. Very nice the pair of them. Remember Sybil presenting TOTP when she was on the Simon Mayo breakfast show. Always impressed that a Stoke fan was presenting it She became the ‘Agricultural Adviser’ to The Archers ..... now there’s a glamorous show biz role !
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Post by wuzza on Jan 16, 2024 11:01:16 GMT
It’s motives were were fundamentally flawed - simply to maintain the balance of power with certain clubs. It is overly complex and clearly open to abuse - as with most things in life the more power and influence you have the more likely you are to get away with wrong doing. If the aim is to keep clubs solvent and have a FAIR system simply have a rigorously enforced salary cap for every tier of the game across the football world. If that isn’t possible just forget the whole thing and let the free market run wild - the results wouldn’t be much different to what we have now , just less accountancy jiggery pokery. The results would be very different without some form of FFP. The big clubs would spend more than they do now in order to force the smaller clubs to spend even more in order to deliberately bankrupt them - which is precisely what would happen. In other business sectors run on free market principles businesses going bankrupt is seen as an essential feature of the market - it is the most efficient companies getting rid of their weaker rivals making the provision of goods and services cheaper and better quality for the consumer. Apply free market principles to football and the result will be the same - football clubs who overspend to try to compete with the big boys (which is what they would have to do) will cease to exist. Even the Tory government have accepted this and setting up the new body to oversee football financing they have deliberately prevented football being run on free market principles because everyone who actually understands how a free market works knows that it will decimate the football pyramid. Those on here banging on about getting rid of FFP believe it will allow our owners to plough in more money to compete with the big boys but they either don't understand how a free market works or don't care about the fact it will drive clubs out of existence. The thing is they are also wrong about our owners ploughing money into the club to compete with the big boys. The owners won't do that. They will ensure the club lives within it's means so that when clubs do go under by getting sucked into a spending war they can't win we will be among those left standing. We will be at a higher level than we are now because there will be less teams but we will be further from the big boys than we are now - the top leagues will be just like those in the rest of Europe with 2/3/4 big hitters and the rest in a couple of professional leagues. To be honest in a totally free market a dozen or so clubs would have buggered off and formed their own league leaving the rest of us to compete at more manageable levels which will probably be the outcome of things anyway (and none the worse for that).
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Post by wuzza on Jan 16, 2024 8:05:40 GMT
It’s motives were were fundamentally flawed - simply to maintain the balance of power with certain clubs. It is overly complex and clearly open to abuse - as with most things in life the more power and influence you have the more likely you are to get away with wrong doing. If the aim is to keep clubs solvent and have a FAIR system simply have a rigorously enforced salary cap for every tier of the game across the football world. If that isn’t possible just forget the whole thing and let the free market run wild - the results wouldn’t be much different to what we have now , just less accountancy jiggery pokery.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 12, 2024 12:21:09 GMT
However he is used it’s now or never for Campbell. I fear he really needs a move to get his career back on any sort of track - been treading water for far too long.
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