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Post by greyman on Oct 9, 2014 10:56:00 GMT
Should Mark Hughes take us through thirty three games this season and have a record of Winning 17 Drawing 11 and only losing Five with a goal difference of +28 I believe he would be exalted and cherished as a legend in the history of Stoke City! And yet Hodgson is constantly berated by silly Stoke fans because he has chosen not to select a Stoke player that not many other fans from other clubs would select. Get real! Roy Hodgson has a speech impediment. Imagine this was your child! I'm sure you would be in school with something to say about bullies! Let the man get on with his job which is difficult at worst! If LMH took us through 33 PL games with that record, you're quite correct to say he'd be exalted for it. If he led us through 33 games against a random selection of teams from every league from the PL to the conference, only beating teams from the lower reaches, struggling to draw against championship teams and losing every time he was faced with a PL team, he'd be hounded out of the city as a complete joke I think you're being generous to Hodgson suggesting the comparison only extends to playing Conference teams. With San Marino, you're talking North West Counties League and if Hughes told us a game against Runcorn Linnets was 'all about the performance' I'd hope he'd be hung from a lamppost.
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Post by greyman on Oct 8, 2014 12:26:08 GMT
He deserves slagging. If Hodgson stayed home and we put my border terrier in his place for the day, we'd still beat them comfortably.
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Post by greyman on Oct 7, 2014 18:54:57 GMT
If we were playing the English equivalent of San Marino and Slovakia every other game i'd expect a much better record. San Marino has a population roughly equivalent to Lichfield. So any cretin like the OP who thinks it would be a 'difficult job' to coach a squad of Premier League players to beat a team of people who must only be born in Lichfield needs their head examined.
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Post by greyman on Oct 7, 2014 9:49:25 GMT
I'm not going to voice my opinion on this, because I've already done it enough times already. However, what I will say is if this many people (i.e. the majority of the thread) feel so passionless and detached from the England set up that they feel it would be beneficial for them to lose, then the only people you can look at and blame is the people at the FA. I agree. It's not just Stoke fans who are disenchanted with the England team. Pretty much nobody gives a toss anymore, as you can see from the reaction to the farce at the World Cup and the sight of a half empty Wembley the other week. If people did care, Hodgson would be out of a job. It's there to see but from what I can tell the FA hasn't woken up to the profound apathy and disdain people have for England and their absolute waste of a space of a manager.
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Post by greyman on Oct 3, 2014 10:42:12 GMT
I do hope that no Stoke fan is seen at an England match whilst Woy is in charge. Hodgson out! Most Childish post on the thread? Sorry bexhill but it's a bit like 'I'm taking my ball home as I don't like you lot anymore' Just because you don't agree with the squad selection, Stoke fans shouldn't go an watch their country? I was already disillusioned with England and realised during the World Cup that I no longer care what they do. This situation with Shawcross has just cemented that view. Hodgson could easily have picked Ryan (or Curtis Davies) for the squad because he had the places and because they have proven to be better defenders than the likes of Chris Smalling, but chose to let them know he thinks they aren't even good enough to sit on the bench. Given the calamitous form of England recently and the mediocre opposition we are up against in this qualifying group, that just shows what a prick the bloke is. Fuck him and everybody to do with the England setup. If he ever deigns to come to watch a Stoke game, I hope he is given dog's abuse.
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Post by greyman on Oct 1, 2014 19:50:39 GMT
That's a shocking bit of writing.
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Post by greyman on Sept 30, 2014 9:21:07 GMT
8 from me team selection was correct (apart from I would of liked to see the return of Das Panzer)..... tons of chances once again should of been out of site. Der Panzer.
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Post by greyman on Sept 29, 2014 8:53:05 GMT
Is this still going on?
The sheikh's problem with Tony Scholes is obviously down to some repressed childhood trauma, probably some besuited corporate drone stranger leaning into his buggy. There's no other explanation for his cravatophobia.
Maybe Tony Scholes did say more about Pulis than is reported here, including crediting him with a job well done, but didn't want to go into details about his relationship with him. In any interview a lot of stuff has to be left out and anybody who isn't aware of Pulis's ability to fall out with the people who own and run a club so aren't going anywhere needs to read up. He's like a budgie with a mirror with all that stuff.
Apart from that, this is really tedious and is all just part of some undercurrent of the Pulis love/hate thing we all need to let go.
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Post by greyman on Sept 12, 2014 4:05:06 GMT
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Post by greyman on Sept 3, 2014 10:21:07 GMT
I remember that mad rumour that went round that Lakeland Potter wasn't married to Monica Hartland when, in fact, their diamond anniversary is just around the corner. I just hope the club has something lined up to mark the occasion for John and Monica, surely the club's most devoted, long-standing and prominent supporting couple.
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Post by greyman on Aug 22, 2014 19:29:47 GMT
No. Nor am I sucked in by a bunch of PC pussies who have nothing better to do than make a mountain out of a mole hill. Ever likely this country is fucked. Ok what was said was not pc but it isn't the end of the bastard world is it. Anyone that says they have never laughed at a joke about blacks, gays or women are fuckin liars or just very sad! It's hilarious how angry you get at these things. You're damn right I've laughed at those sorts of jokes - when they've been funny. Mackay's texts weren't even jokes, just fucking bizarre 1950's style bigotry written in earnest, not to make someone laugh. I'm not even sure who these "PC pussies" you refer to are supposed to be - the FA? news agencies? a few people on the internet? - and how their views are ruining the country. Maybe me. Well here's the opinion of this pussy - since when did you give a flying fuck about what happens to Malkay fucking Mackay's livelihood? The only reason you're outraged is because it's the sort of stone age bollocks you like to talk and you think the world is out to get you for it - hopefully you're right. I don't think anybody can top that.
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Post by greyman on Aug 22, 2014 11:54:28 GMT
The LMA have messed up as well. Fans are banned from grounds for persistent racist abuse but when managers do it, they claim it's just 'banter'. Who have Mackay & Moody hurled abuse at though? Fans usually get 'banned from grounds' for being openly racist in a public setting, which is nothing similar to this situation. They were private texts between two friends, what is so hard to understand? We may not all agree with certain things they've wrote in said texts (I certainly don't condone it) but it's not like they were abusing people to make anyone's life uncomfortable or to bully them. If we can't have our private discussions with people we trust actually kept private, we truly are in a bad place. In this case, in my opinion, it's nothing more than a stitch up job but whatever, it's a price you pay in an industry that is so diverse. No. They were texts made in a work context. Like I said before, he can say and think what he likes outside of a work context for all I care, but that isn't the case here.
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Post by greyman on Aug 22, 2014 11:50:23 GMT
Two texts out of 10,000 texts and 70,000 documents. Storm and tea cup comes to mind, particularly as the contents are unknown at this stage. Someone has had to look very hard to uncover anything. So it's OK if it's only 2 out of, well it doesn't matter how many does it? The point is it reveals the mindset of the individual. I try an run someone over every time I go out, that's thousands of times, in the car! I have only killed two so far, so that's ok, right? I like Harry Redknapp's take on it. Basically 'at least he's not a paedophile'. So we can do anything we like so long as we're not paedophiles? Great news.
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Post by greyman on Aug 22, 2014 11:49:26 GMT
If anybody working for me had - in a work context - referred to Chinese people as 'fucking chinkys' and said of employees that there 'weren't enough white faces' and a few other things in a similar mould, they'd be on their way and rightly so. They can say what they like to mates and at home, but work is different. It's not about being shocked, it's about being decent. Never said you are going for/having a chinky for tea then? Never looked up the word 'context'? I'm wasting my time with you, I know that, but feel free to dribble on as much as you like.
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Post by greyman on Aug 22, 2014 11:09:11 GMT
The LMA have messed up as well. Fans are banned from grounds for persistent racist abuse but when managers do it, they claim it's just 'banter'.
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Post by greyman on Aug 22, 2014 10:36:32 GMT
In no way condoning it. One of the things that annoys me about these things is how people jump on the bandwagon, playing the holier than thou card, when in reality no one is whiter than white. You can't tell me that everyone coming out to condemn it, journalists and other people within football, have never said anything remotely racist or homophobic in their lifes? The difference is that M&M were caught red handed. Another modern aspect of the media that gets up my nose is that they try to tell us what we should be shocked and appalled by too.. If anybody working for me had - in a work context - referred to Chinese people as 'fucking chinkys' and said of employees that there 'weren't enough white faces' and a few other things in a similar mould, they'd be on their way and rightly so. They can say what they like to mates and at home, but work is different. It's not about being shocked, it's about being decent.
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Post by greyman on Aug 14, 2014 20:29:41 GMT
But that would suggest he's engineered his own departure. Oh. I'm fairly sure he was swiftly and brutally culled from his previous position without a word of warning by his supposed mates wasn't he? I have no idea. Do you know anybody who really knows what happened between the Cup Final and his departure?
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Post by greyman on Aug 14, 2014 20:23:27 GMT
On the Palace forum they seem to think Pulis has gone because he's been offered another job.. the plot thickens But that would suggest he's engineered his own departure. Oh.
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Post by greyman on Aug 14, 2014 13:10:51 GMT
Maybe it's because The Guardian has just published its tactical guide for all Premier League clubs. Pulis hates it when his tactics are leaked obviously. So the news that Palace will play with a flat. narrow back four, a rigid midfield, one winger and a target man with a focus on discipline, hard work and moving it forward quickly must have thrown his pre-season preparations into turmoil.
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Post by greyman on Aug 12, 2014 8:01:34 GMT
Found it funny myself. I dont really care what other people think of Ryan. Careful or Merk will break your legs.
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Post by greyman on Aug 11, 2014 12:28:18 GMT
When I read it, I just thought it was boring. No need to go writing letters but if I met the person responsible I'd give them the sighing of their lives.
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Post by greyman on Jun 25, 2014 11:14:43 GMT
Sure you are. Get this deleted
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Post by greyman on Jun 23, 2014 2:05:31 GMT
Not been injured most of the time he has been there and we should sign him to test hodgson. If he gets back on track at Stoke as the classy defensive midfielder he should have become will woy pick him? He'd be about the only English defensive midfielder in the prem and we'll finally have an England player! Roy picked him last summer. Ward-Prowse is the other player who should be brought through by England. Roswell at Stoke? Why not? Roswell?
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Post by greyman on Jun 12, 2014 14:58:51 GMT
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Post by greyman on Jun 12, 2014 12:44:42 GMT
I always picture him with a carrier bag for all his stuff. He needs a nice bag too.
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Post by greyman on Jun 9, 2014 14:32:35 GMT
I haven't seen evidence of this being discussed much in the rest of the country. Regarding injuries to Jagielka and Cahill, then I don't believe you can put a guy in there who has no international experience, in that respect if you want a specialist centre half as cover, perhaps Lescott would have been an option. So you think if they need a centre half to play centre half they should take a centre half rather than four right backs? Has it taken you 12 pages to work that out?
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Post by greyman on Jun 6, 2014 19:17:18 GMT
The problem with this thread and the majority of posts is the belief, held by the majority of Stoke fans, that Ryan is in direct competition with Smalling and Jones, in my view he isn't. Ryan was competing for a place against Cahill and Jagielka, who I think have around 50 caps between them, compared to Ryan's one. He had no chance of selection for this World Cup, the decision seems to have been taken 18 months ago. If anyone on here thinks Ryan is better than Cahill and Jagielka then that at least is a reasonable argument and point of view, what isn't reasonable is to think he could have gone instead of Jones or Smalling. Hodgson by selecting Jones and Smalling has got the balance of the squad right, the debate about whether Ryan is the better centre half than those two is not the issue. Yes it is because they are the next choice centre backs and both have proved this season they are worse centre backs than Shawcross and Davies. They haven't covered themselves in glory at right back either. An injury to Cahill or Jagielka will be disastrous because the manager has fucked up his selection.
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Post by greyman on Jun 6, 2014 10:07:01 GMT
This debate about Shawcross would be redundant if Hodgson hadn't taken Chris Smalling who has been nothing short of woeful all season and looked all at sea against Ecuador (FFS). Hodgson has made a rod for his own back with his choice of Smalling as far as I'm concerned so fuck him.
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Post by greyman on Jun 3, 2014 6:14:38 GMT
A recurring point of discussion throughout Euro 2012was Vincente del Bosque’s decision to pick his team without a recognised forward. Surprising though it was, it hardy merited the incredulous responses it generated. Several years ago Carlos Alberto Parreira predicted that in the future football teams would be deployed without strikers. His words resulted in raised eyebrows. It suggested a dull defensive future where rigid shape would exceed invention. In reality, if Spain’s dazzling display of kaleidoscopic movement is a template, we may have a lot to look forward to. And Parreira’s words will be proved to be prophetic. It was an idea also suggested in the book Inverting the Pyramid
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Post by greyman on May 30, 2014 9:30:35 GMT
I've met loads of people from here in real life and each and every one of them has been a crushing disappointment to me. You seemed quite in awe of Ilford Dave that time he was sick on his shoes after watching that game in Tufnell Park. Very disappointing for such a legend. Especially after the landlord had laid on oatcakes for the ungrateful bastard.
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