|
Post by greyman on Mar 3, 2014 23:20:29 GMT
Actually grey man I think that's a grey area but I'm out of here, way too much anger in this thread. It's not a grey area at all. You're not allowed to libel people. Most gets left but the law says you can't do it
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Mar 3, 2014 22:59:17 GMT
We all dislike Ramsey because he snubbed Ryan's apology - still denies there ever was one even. There's no need for Stokies to be as ungracious as that though surely. The right to free speech includes the right to offend people and his tweet was very offensive but not illegal. He's apologised eventually so is there any need for us to carry it on? Let's show that we're better than them. Actually it was libel so is illegal. He could be subject to an action.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Feb 27, 2014 8:46:23 GMT
I am that guy and to be honest I think it was good at the time but would have gone on too long. Better to stop before people get bored or the joke wears thin. You should have seen some of the abuse I got.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Feb 20, 2014 7:47:49 GMT
What this thread proves (and there are plenty of others like it) is that if a chimpanzee made it's debut on Saturday and spent the entire 90 minutes jumping up and down in the centre circle shouting "oo-oo-oo" and flinging its own excrement around, there would still be some people on here saying that we had to give it a chance because it wasn't match fit or some other bollocks. It would still have been a far more productive 90 minutes than the five years we had Anthony Pulis on a contract.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Feb 13, 2014 13:23:50 GMT
...I wish that were my pole ... Subjunctive.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Feb 10, 2014 10:08:00 GMT
I don't remember the wankstains saying that we would get battered playing 442. I do remember them basically saying that it was an old school formation however that only dinosaurs like Pulis used while Hughes was merely following the techniques of the modern world. There were a few wankstains that definitely said that Adam couldn't play in a 442 though and that Walters and Crouch were basically wank no matter what. I have no idea why Hughes changed after 23 games to this formation and more direct approach (maybe it was 1 point from 7, the players having a word or just a general realisation of what was unfolding under his very eyes) but I'm just pleased that he has. Hopefully you can carry on in this vein for another four or five years. Wake me up when you're done Merk.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Feb 5, 2014 16:54:06 GMT
RAF is right. The time to address the poor design of the Stadium with regard to the positioning of away fans, the narrow concourses and the corners etc was before it was built, not after.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jan 20, 2014 17:35:22 GMT
So currently mid table but flirting with relegation? Exactly like last season then? I have no problem with where we are in the table but I do have a problem with the attitude of the team on Saturday and our manager agrees with me The legacy was fine had Hughes been given enough cash to add the pace and quality that his formation needs. He has brought in 7 players which should have been enough - unfortunately we haven't gone for quality and I suspect that is more down to the club than the manager. It is certainly nowt to do with our former manager It has a lot to do with our former manager who left precisely because, however much money he was given, maintained a complete blind spot about certain positions. That is also why the squad had several glaring holes for a number of years and also was completely devoid of pace. My view is that Pulis cooked his own goose with the signing of Crouch and it typified the way we were going backwards after 2010. The time to judge Hughes is when it is his team and I don't think that's the case yet.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jan 20, 2014 12:11:17 GMT
It was there today... the players that he spent almost 100 million on, who were utterly pathetic and who couldn't score against a ragbag of players Pulis inherited. Never mind fucking flags for him... he should hang his head in shame. OS. What a load of claptrap Mick - you should know better at your age Hughes has quite correctly praised the squad on many occasions saying that he wouldn't have changed the style if the players couldn't cope. HE changed the style so Hughes has backed up his comments accepting that they can play 'football'. Hughes gets the compliments for the Chelsea win and even the Liverpool loss. Not Pulis's fault that Huth got injured or that Hughes replaced Wilson at right back with a player who is often inferior. Does Hughes get the credit for Wilson at centre back? Hughes did sign a centre back and he was sitting on the bench. Five of Hughes's six other signings played on Saturday and the other one, Pennant, didn't even make the bench after pissing away two points during the Everton game Every man and his dog knows that Stoke's squad is vastly superior to the motley crew that Pulis sent out on Saturday. The difference on Saturday, as Hughes has stated this morning, is that several of the Stoke team didn't turn up on Saturday ( he could have said most of them). Hughes also stated that Stoke were off the pace of the game and that is the key point - one team wanted the win more than the other and that team (the motley crew) happens to be set up by our former manager Palace are a poor outfit and will still struggle to avoid the drop. Too many performances like ours on Saturday and Stoke too will be competing for a place in the bottom three So currently mid table but flirting with relegation? Exactly like last season then?
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jan 19, 2014 20:50:51 GMT
I think Hughes needs to work to a three year plan with fans having no opinion except they need to get behind the lads. Then at the end of that three years, say no more about it and instead spend six months preparing a dossier. Can we all agree on that, at least?
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jan 19, 2014 20:04:41 GMT
Oh yes, that squad he managed get mid table with. Yeah. The same squad currently in mid table with the ongoing threat of relegation. Same as last season.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jan 13, 2014 11:19:39 GMT
'Work in Progress' How fucking long are we going to be churning out this line? I dunno. Maybe we should allow him a 'three year plan'. What do you reckon? Then after three years, if we still have huge holes in the squad and an unresolved inability to score goals maybe we should let him have another one. Sounds reasonable, surely.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jan 13, 2014 11:06:41 GMT
Yes. But I'm more interested in how Stafford Stokie thinks. I know he's put quite some thought into what he would feel if naked in a shower with A Gay, but what about those situations?
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jan 12, 2014 14:52:36 GMT
You're allowed have your own opinion on here, but other people are allowed theirs as well. And if their opinion is that you're dead wrong in your attitude towards gay people, then they have just as much right to express it as you do yours. I agree but it won't change mine. I'm certainly interested in your opinions. I know you don't like the scenario in which you are in a shower naked with a gay man because you've told us a few times, but what about these scenarios? Ever crossed your mind? 1. You're at home doing some jobs when the gay plumber wearing just dungarees arrives to fix the sink. 2. You're at home watching telly when the gay pizza delivery boy arrives. You haven't got the correct change so invite him in while you get it. 3. You're in hospital and the gay nurse comes to give you a bed bath. 4. You're in a sauna with the entire England gay rugby squad. Talk us through how you feel.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jan 12, 2014 13:45:10 GMT
That doesn't make any sense. Any fule kno that The Gays just want to have sex all the time and with absolutely anybody. Show them a fat middle-aged man's bare arse and they just can't help themselves.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jan 12, 2014 11:29:31 GMT
Oh, get her.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jan 12, 2014 11:26:33 GMT
I don't care a fuck about research. If you think it is fine to want to shag a bloke then fine but I really don't. I know you don't. But I'm interested in the reasons why you don't think it's fine. I'm particularly interested in why you have specific images in your mind of being naked in showers with gay men and anal sex. Is that something you've seen somewhere or from your own imagination?
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jan 12, 2014 11:21:33 GMT
I love how you are not allowed your own opinion on here. Hahaha. You are, obviously. I'm intrigued by your opinion that you'd be very uncomfortable knowing you were in the same room as a naked gay man. Because I know what that suggests, according to research.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jan 12, 2014 11:12:20 GMT
I think Stafford Stokie and a few others would benefit from some tests with a plethysmograph. Claiming to be uncomfortable around naked homosexuals in a shower might indicate something else entirely, according to the research.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jan 9, 2014 13:31:48 GMT
I don't see how this is worthy of a thread never mind the news. What difference does it make? If I'm employed to fix a boiler in somebody else's house should I have to declare my sexuality or religion before hand or even afterwards for that matter! No I shouldn't! It makes no difference. Still that won't stop the childish silly little unfunny remarks. Shit like this winds me up I tell yer! I think if you spent 90 minutes fixing their boiler while they were calling you a "fucking queer bastard" or whatever over and over again the whole time you were doing it, then it would matter.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Nov 26, 2013 14:05:07 GMT
IMHO we fall into that part of the Midlands featured in Shane Meadows films- not quite Northern, definitely not West Mids. Like I said, dialect-wise, we've more in common with them than all that 'am yer' bollocks. Watched Saturday Night and Sunday Morning last night, set in Nottingham, and they say 'duck' a hell of a lot. It's not unique to 'Stowk'. Shane Meadows films are Deby and Nottingham = East Midlands Uttoxeter and Derbyshire is where Shane Meadow's films are based. Where he grew up
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Nov 26, 2013 13:50:16 GMT
I've said many times - The North starts at Scholar Green, the Midlands at Darlaston. Everything in between is The People's Republic of Stoke on Trent. Except for Newcastle which is like Andorra.
Forget Scotland, Stoke needs its independence.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Sept 20, 2013 7:09:50 GMT
Get used to it? I've already watched as the FA devalued their own cup - which was once arguably just as important as the League Championship - to something that clubs would like to win but aren't all that bothered about. Now we see this shit and we're just expected to suck it up? FIFA appear to have awarded this competition to a country knowing it was unable to fulfil the bid criteria. In doing so they have committed Leagues around the world to change their schedules for years, face the prospect of clubs suing them for compensation, not to mention the countries who bid in good faith but didn't realise the process was rigged and FIFA had lied to them about what they needed to do to win the tournament. It's a mess and I hope they are sued for so much money by Leagues, bidding associations, clubs, broadcasters and fans that FIFA chucks the corrupt Platini off his little gravy train and look again at what it will do in 2022.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Sept 16, 2013 7:11:06 GMT
What fornside said
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Sept 11, 2013 15:31:32 GMT
"Fifa had intended for the Qatar one to be held in summer as well. They only want to hold it in winter because they're belatedly starting to think about the practicalities that the money blinded them to."
Or they knew all along they'd have to switch but decided to bluff it through without spooking anybody during the bids.
It was a farcical decision and did nothing to make FIFA look less corrupt. Paul Spencer has it bang to rights further up the thread
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Sept 2, 2013 7:30:46 GMT
I think it's going to be worse for West ham because they're moving into a venue not intended for football. I know they're installing retractable seating to get people closer to the pitch, but it's still essentially an athletics stadium with a capacity of 54,000. They run the risk of killing the atmosphere
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jul 25, 2013 9:37:55 GMT
Go get him Tone Les.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jul 2, 2013 15:47:59 GMT
dave, " Ultimately Pulis forgot what our area was all about when he set out producing the most dire, turgid football known to football fans." Nothing like a good bit of exaggeration dave to try and make your point. Nevertheless your attempts, along with some others, to rewrite the history books will fail. Long after we are all gone the records will show Tony Pulis and Stoke City enjoyed one of the most successful periods in their history. I am mystified why some posters, who are without doubt committed supporters of the club, wish to try and undermine these great achievements by the club. Are you still on here, neither a fan or supporter, telling those who commit their time and money to the club what they should think? Go find something else to do.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jul 1, 2013 6:38:23 GMT
They'd be good signings. I don't see what the problem is.
|
|
|
Post by greyman on Jun 26, 2013 10:22:09 GMT
The article conveniently fails to mention his lacklustre loan spell at Wolves and the fact that you can count the number of good games he's had since 2011 on one hand. Which would be up to 5 games more than Matty Etherington
|
|