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Post by greyman on Feb 18, 2020 13:54:09 GMT
Probably, but I do know how to express myself and I don't resort to personal abuse. We got there in the end though didn't we? You don't want heads to roll. You just think the manager should choose a different team. All sorted. Oh wow you thought I meant literally?! No. And you don't know the meaning of the word literally either.
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Post by greyman on Feb 17, 2020 10:57:09 GMT
So no heads rolling then? He needs to change some players. Got you Sorry did you think I meant literally? Wow what a chump Probably, but I do know how to express myself and I don't resort to personal abuse. We got there in the end though didn't we? You don't want heads to roll. You just think the manager should choose a different team. All sorted.
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Post by greyman on Feb 15, 2020 17:18:56 GMT
So you want us to sack players? I think (pretty sure) we can drop players, but please correct me if I am wrong. So no heads rolling then? He needs to change some players. Got you
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Post by greyman on Feb 15, 2020 17:10:32 GMT
To be clear, are you saying the manager should be sacked? No. No no no. The gutless players and awful performances So you want us to sack players?
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Post by greyman on Feb 15, 2020 16:56:33 GMT
Heads must roll? Not seen the goals but another 4 conceded so somebody’s gone surely? Or stay the course and pay the price? To be clear, are you saying the manager should be sacked?
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Post by greyman on Feb 12, 2020 11:22:31 GMT
I’m sure tug on Thompson late on was red at the time. He looked to be pretty much in the clear to me. There were two other Charlton defenders coming across. It is tricky What's really needed is for the ref to tell the player that he's doing them a favour with a yellow but that anything else and they're gone. Like I said above, their number 2 should have gone later in the game on that basis.
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Post by greyman on Feb 12, 2020 9:29:21 GMT
Neither were a straight red, but then their number 2 later in the game hauls back a player who'd beaten him without getting a second yellow. Given the cynicism of the first foul, that should have been his day over.
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Post by greyman on Feb 3, 2020 18:28:45 GMT
You should also cut down on bayern's Internet use. It's not good for him and must be costing a fortune. There are times when only a stern word from a father will do. Unplug the wifi and get the Scrabble out for an old-fashioned family night in. I'm sure someone must have posted this before, but your post prompted me to do a quick calculation. Since he registered Bayern has averaged 22 posts per day - that includes every day - match days, work days, holidays, illness days - for 13 and a half years. Quite extraordinary. I think my total of 3.7k posts is very large and quite sad, but I'm not remotely in the same league. How does he do it . How many hours per day does he spend reading this Board ? I am told by somebody who's met him that he's not quite as mad as this behaviour suggests. I think the real challenge is having so many opinions on every conceivable subject. But if you're having dozens of opinions a day, you'll be right now and then I suppose.
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Post by greyman on Feb 3, 2020 11:12:12 GMT
Is it true that bayernoatcake has been cast as "young Nello" in the play - with Monica as his mum? You should ask her. You're married to her. You should also cut down on bayern's Internet use. It's not good for him and must be costing a fortune. There are times when only a stern word from a father will do. Unplug the wifi and get the Scrabble out for an old-fashioned family night in.
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Post by greyman on Feb 3, 2020 9:26:45 GMT
Firstly - Fantastic word! Going straight into my vocabulary. Secondly - Go and look into Bojans career at Stoke. Mainly how it started before slowly coming into form where a purple patch was definitely hit before the injury. Then go and look at what happened after the injury in the back end of 2015 when after coming into the team and playing as a false 9. And then look at how he was treated following Hughes shitting himself into the new year. Yes he was brilliant before his injury in the run up to that Rochdale game but he was exceptional post injury when we looked like we would beat absolutely anybody. Did the injury have a set back at a time when he was looking promising? Definitely. But please don't rewrite history as he was much better after coming back into the team post injury. You're not the only one though, it's easy to think those performances came pre-injry but they quite simply did not. Please feel elucidated. This post should be etched with a sharp stone into the flesh of anybody who ever again says 'Bojan was never the same after his injury'. How many times does it need to be corrected?
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Post by greyman on Feb 3, 2020 9:20:51 GMT
Is it true that bayernoatcake has been cast as "young Nello" in the play - with Monica as his mum? You should ask her. You're married to her.
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Post by greyman on Jan 24, 2020 18:38:56 GMT
Great effort to get him to sign by all involved. A little word to his fuckwit of a father though... Nobody is interested in anything you have got to say, you were a dreadfully average footballer and you talk a right load of shit, so leave Twitter to the audience it is aimed at who are at least 20 years your junior, because a bloke of your age should know better, and the majority of the people who you are speaking to haven't got the first clue who you are, which perhaps isn't a bad thing otherwise they'd know that you were fucking shit. Have you seen what he's said today before pulling all that out of your backside?
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FFP
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Post by greyman on Jan 17, 2020 14:12:51 GMT
Oh i know and if your in the premier league it's a blessing however once you get relegated it becomes virtually impossible to work around it unless like WBA you bounce back up. Long term as we're finding out it stops our owners from spending regardless of how much they want to spend their money. FFP would have stopped Blackburn from spending so their history would never happen nowadays. I don't actually agree with the statement I have underlined. If a club runs itself properly during its time in the Prem then relegation should not be overly difficult to cope with. See my post above this one - basically it was the numbers of players who were bought in our later years in the Prem who were worth well below what we paid for them and on wages which meant that they became virtually unsaleable. That meant that there was no chance that we could avoid FFP problems after relegation. Several clubs in recent years have not hit huge problems after relegation from the Prem and many of them have bounced back fairly quickly. At one time I would have put money on us being able to do the same - but the serial problems of overpaying for moderate players (and putting those moderate players on long & expensive contracts)at the tail end of Hughes' reign scuppered any chance of an easy time (as regards FFP) in the first few years of the Championship for as long as those long and expensive contracts remain in force. Couldn't agree more. All we're experiencing right now is chickens coming home to roost.
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Post by greyman on Jan 13, 2020 19:36:35 GMT
Thats a proper red card. I have recollections of a Stoke player doing in the early years of the Brit... Mackenzie, Mohan? Ben Petty I think in a play off game against Walsall
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Post by greyman on Jan 9, 2020 17:02:41 GMT
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Post by greyman on Dec 17, 2019 10:48:13 GMT
This more than anything tells the story of why we are, where we are today. Pathetic complacency and the owners getting the full reward their incompetence deserves. It's not just the playing side either, I spent a grand for some club services recently, the people were nice but the processes and journey was as painful as fuck. Twice I nearly told them to shove it up their arse. Maybe the booing and jeering needs to be redirected next time we play, so that an individual who appears to have got away scott-free from the supporters (apart from some whinging online and over a pint) knows where he stands.
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Post by greyman on Dec 11, 2019 8:59:25 GMT
The cupping of the ears thing just shows them up for what they are, and it should leave us in no doubt as fans as to why we've gone through so many managers recently. I could understand and would support it if we were in and around the top 6 or even top half, and they had been given both barrels for an isolated bad performance. In that instance it would have been unfair and unjust. In which case, as fans you have to hold your hands up and suck it up. But as a group they are possibly the most expensive in Championship history and definitely one of the most highest paid in Championship history and they've chronically underperformed for 18 months, seeing off two managers in the process. Again, I could understand it if they've been attacked even deservedly most weeks but they haven't. The fans have been very patient, more than I've ever known a group of Stoke fans to be, in the face of some appalling performances. We're rooted in the bottom three and even a 3 nil win against an appalling side still leaves us in the bottom three. Last night was just our 5th win of the season and we're almost halfway through the season, having lost two thirds of our games. At a time when the fans and players need each other last night was an opportunity to rebuild bridges and enforce the bond between terraces and players, and this could have been easily achieved by subdued, almost apologetic goal celebrations which would have got them a lot of respect from fans who braced appalling weather to turn up, after witnessing poor performances at this level for 18 months. I speak as someone who has never booed or chanted derogatory comments at our players, but I fear last night has just delayed an even more fierce reaction should we start throwing in poor performances and results in the near future. The fans that paid out hundreds of pounds and a good 8 hours of their day at Hull didn't deserve it and nor did the fans that turned out last night. Sums up my feelings precisely.
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Post by greyman on Nov 27, 2019 15:20:40 GMT
Don’t suppose Tom Ince is in the running this time He'd get it, switch back on to his left foot, then give it to Danny Batth and point.
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Post by greyman on Nov 19, 2019 16:32:14 GMT
What's your email address so everybody can send comments to you for approval before posting them? Hilarious. But it's an opinion rightly or wrongly that it is boring. Is Francis selling a book or something? He'd do better sorting out his ridiculous barnet These days are long gone , yes they are great memories but too many of our support hanker for ' those days ' . In the real world they are long gone. Also i don't think any game now v Arsenal whether it is Emery or whoever will hold the same intensity. No Wenger, No Ramsay . The thing with Arsenal predates Wenger by over 30 years. It won't go away and their fans still have the same defects.
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Post by greyman on Nov 19, 2019 16:06:41 GMT
When will we ever put this to bed ? You could say well why are you commenting then. But i tire of some stuff being raked over all the time, often read about Charlie Adams penalty miss still. Move on people. What's your email address so everybody can send comments to you for approval before posting them?
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Post by greyman on Nov 19, 2019 12:31:50 GMT
The 3-1 victory in May 2011 (the week before the Cup Final) was, for me, the single best performance of a Pulis Stoke team, and the crowd goaded Wenger like they'd never goaded anyone before. If ever there was a moment where a team and its supporters were in perfect sync with each other then this was it. Wilko vanishing quietly out of view after sending the loathsome Wilshere up in the air was a notable highlight. Brilliant stuff. For all of the stuff Wenger used to say about us, there was only one player out to cripple an opponent that day ahead of the cup final and it was Jack Wilshere. He didn't have much to say about Fabregas's scissor tackle for no reason on Danny Pugh either.
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Post by greyman on Nov 19, 2019 12:25:04 GMT
Of course Benji is wrong. Any post about a relatively minor injury to one of our current players that begins "Catastrophic blow to O’Neil" already contains so much hyperbole that the rest of the post is irrelevant. If it said it is unfortunate, disappointing, an added difficulty or something of that ilk then there would be no issue. He is our best finisher at the moment and I am sure the manager would like to have him available but with or without Clucas we lack any real creativity in our midfield. If Benji had been around in the time of King Zedekiah I think he might have been lowered down the well instead of Jeremiah. You know yer bible you do Alli. Can you slip Methusala in anywhere so I can get a mention? OS. I've warned you about this you old fraud. You've been calling yourself OldStokie for 20 odd years now, as far as I can tell. Which means you started it when you were about 38.
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Post by greyman on Nov 6, 2019 20:02:30 GMT
I have been eagerly watching the SentiVale's website since Friday for news of who the new Messiah is going to be. All there has been is speculation about this, that and the other. It's embarrassing. All these names being put forward and no end result. Quite clearly no one with any sense wants to take on this poisoned chalice, well no-one who wants to keep their reputation intact. Whatever has gone wrong at this club has been going wrong for a long time. I reckon it started with the Hughes Era, bringing in the big names Arnoutovic, Shaqiri, etc, who, whilst they were clearly very talented footballers, they brought a toxicity into the club that has spread like a cancer. It is not going to be a quick fix. I think there will be more pain before we see an improvement, even a relegation, which breaks my heart to even think about. Many years ago when Charlton Athletic were in the Premiership managed by Alan Corbishley, they sacked him because they were no longer satisfied with mid-lower table finishes. I cannot recall who they brought in to replace him, but look what happened to them. When Stoke dispensed with the services of one Tony Pulis, for similar reasons I began to feel uneasy. Look what has happened to Stoke. There is the old adage: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". When Pulis went I said we could have another thirty years in the top flight, win a cup final and qualify for the Champions League. Then when we got relegated somebody would come on here and say I knew this would happen when we sacked Pulis. Remember Charlton.
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Post by greyman on Oct 6, 2019 11:02:25 GMT
You are unhappy that we won. Nothing could be more obvious. You are asking a question I answered before you even thought of the question. I will be so much happier if the the owners and manager could sort themselves out. If not then yesterday is only a blip in what will end in relegation. And yet some people haven't stopped whinging since the final whistle yesterday. Why not just have 24 hours off? You haven't stopped bitching and moaning, so the fact you have to deny that you're unhappy while bitching and moaning on says it all. You can genuinely answer the question by stopping whinging for a bit.
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Post by greyman on Oct 5, 2019 21:27:53 GMT
Apart from the first suicidal minutes you can’t really fault that performance. A deserved win and some strong spirit. What do you want ? There’s a long way to go yet, we all know that but let’s enjoy a good solid performance. It seems some are disappointed we’ve won🙄 I'm not unhappy that we won. I just see through all of this. This is not the start of a revolution. We need 'kin huge changes before we can start getting giddy. Sure, enjoy yourself tonight. We'll catch up next month. You are unhappy that we won. Nothing could be more obvious.
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Post by greyman on Sept 30, 2019 12:16:25 GMT
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Post by greyman on Sept 19, 2019 19:36:50 GMT
great - I'm feeling so inferior now dick measuring ? ( I have been guilty too) Im posting my opinions you dont like them -- get over it It's not that I don't like them. I don't think you're entitled to them. Hope that's clear.
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Post by greyman on Sept 19, 2019 19:13:57 GMT
Hello - as usual, your rhetoric is a bleak and as bland as your posted image thanks for yet another incisive and valued contribution 'like I give a flying flamingo' - as someone recently said I can tell you some actual contributions I make to the club that you don't, if you like.
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Post by greyman on Sept 19, 2019 19:09:08 GMT
As I said before, they must be quaking at the 'hammering' they're taking on an Internet messageboard from somebody who can't be bothered to drive the 30 odd miles from South Lancashire to watch a game but is now the self-proclaimed voice of the silent majority. I don't know how Peter Coates can sleep with the worry of what you'll say next.
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Post by greyman on Sept 17, 2019 21:08:07 GMT
Before your time no doubt but the old Odeon in the town centre was fine and the ABC was a lovely building before it became Mr Smiths and subsequently burnt down in very dubious circumstances. Yes. They started demolishing it before the fire brigade arrived! Like The old Ship Inn. Just fell down apparently while nobody was doing anything.
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