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Post by slother on Sept 25, 2019 5:28:59 GMT
At no other club in the country would this idiot still be in a job with his record. 3 league wins in 28 I think? Cup defeats to Shrewsbury and Crawley? Failure to act is quite simply dereliction of duty by the board. Perfectly in agreement The board is shit. Worse at their job than Nathan Jones is at his, for sure.
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Post by slother on Sept 24, 2019 17:14:53 GMT
Pieters and Bojan didn't want to be here so they were rightly let go. We do not have the money to sign good players. He has to "target" promotion, of course he does. The money we've wasted will come home to roost. We will be in League 1 before long and it won't be Jones fault. I can't believe Mr Scholes still has a suit and tie let alone a job at Stoke City Football Club. Look at Sunderland. Who would we get to come in now? Even Chris Kamara would decide it's not worth the embarrassment. Chris fucking Kamara. He paid £9m for Vokes FFS, £3m for Batth and £4m for a fullback we didn't need, the rest of his signings are free or loans (which he stated he wouldn't do), who do you blame for signing the dross Jones brought here ? Wage budget. Years of ruinous economics. And if/when he goes, who picks his replacement? The same sorry band of incompetents. All of you shouting at the manager on the bench need to lift your eyes to the box 50 feet above his head.
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Post by slother on Sept 24, 2019 10:46:37 GMT
So why did Rowett fail and what has the next guy got?
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Post by slother on Sept 24, 2019 9:39:27 GMT
After 3 (or 4) good managers have failed to arrest this club's slide, we have to look beyond the manager. I get it. Everyone's hurting. Everyone's sick of the dull grind of it. But are you honestly telling me Nathan Jones has made a bunch of horrendous mistakes? That he's clearly out of his depth? "Blame the manager" "Blame the manager" - it's just a thoughtless reaction. It's a route one solution, as if the only thing standing between Stoke and the sunny uplands is a tactical tweak or 2 or 3 free transfers who turn out to be the next Robert Huth, Rory Delap and Ricardo Fuller. You're dreaming if you think firing Nathan Jones is the answer. Absolutely dreaming. So the answer is we stick with a manager who has won 3 out of nearly 30 league games 10% win rate, has brought in 12 of his own players, spent millions on players, ousted Pieters and Bojan and replaced them with an OAP and a perennial walking sick note, chops and changes his team on a regular basis, chops and changes systems on a regular basis, brings in players who do not fit his preferred system, fails to sign a LB at all, signs a pub player as DM, signs a GK who the disappears, promises an athletic, young, hungry team, fast attacking football a team to be proud of, asks to be judged after assembling his own team then plays only three of his own signings, targets promotion pre season and as we are we are second from bottom of the Championship after 8 games with no League win (bravo)
I now see why you think we should keep Jones, you are barking.
Pieters and Bojan didn't want to be here so they were rightly let go. We do not have the money to sign good players. He has to "target" promotion, of course he does. The money we've wasted will come home to roost. We will be in League 1 before long and it won't be Jones fault. I can't believe Mr Scholes still has a suit and tie let alone a job at Stoke City Football Club. Look at Sunderland. Who would we get to come in now? Even Chris Kamara would decide it's not worth the embarrassment. Chris fucking Kamara.
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Post by slother on Sept 24, 2019 9:31:50 GMT
This union was announced in the summer of 2017. Maybe it's too soon to have borne any fruit but I was just wondering whether anyone could put point to anything tangible it has achieved?
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Post by slother on Sept 24, 2019 9:14:03 GMT
After 3 (or 4) good managers have failed to arrest this club's slide, we have to look beyond the manager.
I get it. Everyone's hurting. Everyone's sick of the dull grind of it. But are you honestly telling me Nathan Jones has made a bunch of horrendous mistakes? That he's clearly out of his depth? "Blame the manager" "Blame the manager" - it's just a thoughtless reaction. It's a route one solution, as if the only thing standing between Stoke and the sunny uplands is a tactical tweak or 2 or 3 free transfers who turn out to be the next Robert Huth, Rory Delap and Ricardo Fuller. You're dreaming if you think firing Nathan Jones is the answer. Absolutely dreaming.
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Post by slother on Sept 23, 2019 23:22:31 GMT
I know what she is doing is good but for me its gone on too long. She is being exploited and being dragged around the world constantly as a the voice for change. If that was your daughter would you be worried about her mental health? Unfortunately i think her message will eventually get lost and she will just be that kid protester. She looked genuinely distressed. I agree with DaveF on here, it's troubling. She is genuinely distressed!
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Post by slother on Sept 23, 2019 22:24:54 GMT
We spent £6m in the summer. Recouped £1m for Pieters. Written off millions on Saido. Millions on Wimmer. Millions on Imbula. Millions on Afobe. Millions on Bauer.
And people have the idiocy to blame Nathan Jones for recruiting shite.
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Post by slother on Sept 23, 2019 22:15:28 GMT
That's assuming that 12 months is the maximum time that input can influence output isn't it.
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Post by slother on Sept 23, 2019 22:01:53 GMT
Same individuals and systems who were to blame for the failure under Mark Hughes, Paul Lambert and Gary Rowett? The off-pitch affects the on-pitch: it's a football club. Have the off pitch issues worsened since last season to match the on pitch implosion this season? I don't know. Maybe? Have they improved?
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Post by slother on Sept 23, 2019 21:54:50 GMT
I do find it strange the way in which Nathan Jones is blamed for the performance of this club. Our problems obviously go deeper than just the manager but who else is to blame for on the pitch matters ? Same individuals and systems who were to blame for the failure under Mark Hughes, Paul Lambert and Gary Rowett? The off-pitch affects the on-pitch: it's a football club.
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Post by slother on Sept 23, 2019 21:46:15 GMT
I'm sure he'd have bought better players if he could. I'm sure the hundred million negative net spend in the last ten years hasn't helped.
Ah well. I think I'll open a pitchfork emporium up outside the ground. I expect we'll be hounding increasingly poor managers out for years to come. Who'd want the job of a lifeguard trying to save a drowning man with lead boots on?
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Post by slother on Sept 23, 2019 21:33:30 GMT
I do find it strange the way in which Nathan Jones is blamed for the performance of this club.
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Post by slother on Aug 21, 2019 20:49:51 GMT
Benitez.
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Post by slother on Aug 21, 2019 20:47:02 GMT
I thought Edwards was excellent.
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Post by slother on Aug 21, 2019 19:51:17 GMT
Happy to see Edwards back. Streets ahead of Smith as far as I can tell, even in a abject 45 minute performance as a team.
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Post by slother on Aug 10, 2019 15:56:33 GMT
No, he's a very naughty boy.
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Post by slother on Aug 10, 2019 15:55:09 GMT
We can't just boo the team forevermore. We're supposed to be fans. What better manager could we get?
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Post by slother on Aug 3, 2019 9:34:10 GMT
Scholes out. What is he good at?
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Post by slother on Aug 3, 2019 7:07:48 GMT
9th at Christmas, 3rd at the end of the season.
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Post by slother on Jul 31, 2019 20:15:12 GMT
Lovely words from Paul Hart about the people of the city. All polite, all smiling, all wanting to help the club do well. What a rare and wonderful place the potteries are.
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Post by slother on Jul 8, 2019 21:58:19 GMT
Many people have reacted with a "who cares" and I understand that many people really couldn't give the slightest toss. However, spare a thought for the young lad who might be coming to terms with a different sexuality. Being young is hard enough for most people. Living with feelings of confusion or shame or embarrassment or simply loneliness on top of that every day must be really hard. The fact that football and football culture hasn't yet come to terms with homosexuality is tragic. The day it is normalised will be a boon to the mental wellbeing of millions of people: to see that someone "abnormal" can be accepted and celebrated by everyone for their talent and their character alone. It does matter.
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Post by slother on Jun 12, 2019 9:05:52 GMT
Everything is worth what the purchaser will pay for it.
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Post by slother on Jun 1, 2019 21:08:47 GMT
Congratulations Shaq. A little bit of potter on the European Cup, to go with Zonz's World Cup medal. ;-)
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Post by slother on May 17, 2019 20:48:30 GMT
Andy Robertson?
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Post by slother on May 11, 2019 19:50:08 GMT
Liverpool, they've earned their success as opposed to bought it. I can't see why anyone would say otherwise to be honest, other than it's really quite funny that they haven't won owt for so long.
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Post by slother on May 6, 2019 18:44:42 GMT
He's been a cracking player for Chelsea over the years, but he can't really complain about not figuring week in week out anymore. He's owed an explanation though, that's pretty shoddy from Sarri. I'm mean, it's not like I actually give a fuck or owt.
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Post by slother on May 6, 2019 18:20:48 GMT
Teemu Pukki is 29, would you have taken his goals this season??
Age is only a factor when you start throwing big transfer fees and long and expensive contracts in. None of this will apply to Lee Gregory. If Jones wants him, trust him. It's literally his job.
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Post by slother on Apr 22, 2019 15:31:26 GMT
Tom Edwards' goal: biggest smile of the season.
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Post by slother on Apr 16, 2019 22:21:22 GMT
I swear there's some kind of canned template the club staff use for these messages, just tweaking the odd word. "A little less conversation, a little more action" to quote the King.
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