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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 8, 2024 13:49:25 GMT
He’s absolutely useless. Why on earth would we want another hopeless keeper here? I am not sure useless is a kind or a true description, but I agree with the sentiment, he doesn't exactly seem much better than Iverson/Bonham - plus we released him once! It's all relative I guess. If you had me or you in goal instead of Bachmann then clearly he isn't useless. However, if we are comparing him to a competent keeper, then he is indeed, absolutely useless. He's so bad, I'd go as far as to say he's one of very few professional goalkeepers that I've seen at this level that is worse than Jack Bonham.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 7, 2024 22:37:42 GMT
He’s absolutely useless.
Why on earth would we want another hopeless keeper here?
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 7, 2024 7:49:20 GMT
He’s not very good and he’s not a full back.
It’s not a great combination in truth.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 6, 2024 18:30:29 GMT
We have to go to Preston and win. It’s that simple. If we don’t the last 2 performances count for very little. In reality we don’t mate We could win and go down and we could lose and stay up It would be fantastic but it doesn’t hinge on Preston away We simply cannot afford a poor performance even if we can afford a defeat. A poor showing akin to Blackburn with a result to match and the good work of the last 2 games is down the pan!
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 6, 2024 11:04:47 GMT
We have to go to Preston and win. It’s that simple.
If we don’t the last 2 performances count for very little.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 6, 2024 7:17:04 GMT
Surely the teams at the bottom can’t keep this recent run of form up where they all seem to be picking points up?
Back to back wins/3 on trot is just something we don’t seem to be able to achieve and it’s hampered us for years.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 5, 2024 23:01:44 GMT
Just home, great effort from the team. The two wide men going off killed all our momentum, we wanted the two subs to drive us forward and they had the opposite effect….. Only a goal threat once Campbell was on though. Did Haks even touch the ball? 🤦♂️
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 5, 2024 22:27:21 GMT
Unless he’s played as a winger, he shouldn’t be playing at all. We’ve had tons of players like Gooch. I’ve not liked any of them. Edit - Hoever superb tonight 👍 Who do you suggest plays there instead? To be honest I initially thought him and Hoever should be on opposite sides at least but we’re hamstrung there aren’t we? I’d go Leris right back, Hoever left back. I’d stick Thompson back there v Preston for sure which is far from ideal as well
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 5, 2024 22:23:14 GMT
What do you like about him? I don’t see any redeeming qualities at all. A traffic cone would have handled James better tonight He's good in tight situations, good link play, takes his man on, and beats them, he struggled against James yes but so has every player whose been up against him this season he's not a left back, he's filling in Unless he’s played as a winger, he shouldn’t be playing at all. We’ve had tons of players like Gooch. I’ve not liked any of them. Edit - Hoever superb tonight 👍
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 5, 2024 22:16:47 GMT
Wow! Really like Gooch, good Championship player Someone’s pissed on his chips. Some wayward passing and wrong options when going forward but stuck to his task and always gives 100% 100% of nothing is still nothing!
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 5, 2024 22:16:16 GMT
I despise Gooch the footballer. I’m sure he’s a great guy but he’s a terrible footballer Wow! Really like Gooch, good Championship player What do you like about him? I don’t see any redeeming qualities at all. A traffic cone would have handled James better tonight
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 5, 2024 22:09:31 GMT
Hoever wilmot and Iversen played well. Gooch terrible Rose poor Gooch terrible for backing off I despise Gooch the footballer. I’m sure he’s a great guy but he’s a terrible footballer
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 5, 2024 22:08:13 GMT
Tin hat on but Pearson was miles more effective than Burger in that role tonight. Just a shame he's got some weird bet fixing thing going on. I thought Burger was excellent. If we want to pick out poor performances in a brave team effort look no further than Gooch and Ennis. Both were and are absolutely toss!
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 3, 2024 22:10:16 GMT
The atmosphere was much better but as I’m a moaning old bugger I still have a few gripes!
Why don’t the corner of the sentinel stand/away end listen to and then join in with what block 19 start and vice versa?
Quite a few times one section was singing one song and the other side was singing something else.
Also, corner of sentinel/away end. Don’t just start singing Delilah. You have to get the silence in first so that it works effectively. Only once did we get a proper Delilah and that was started from the corner of the boothen end/sentinel stand. Even then the away end corner had finished before everyone else. Slow the fuck down.
And finally…it’s red and white army not barmy army!
Apart from that it was much better on Saturday but still a long way to go before it’s back to what it can be!
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 3, 2024 12:01:07 GMT
Only another 10 minutes for Tezgel as well.
Not a great loan move so far.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 2, 2024 19:43:43 GMT
Refs hate us, always have. We need to say something about the number of poor decisions that go against us and as for that James Bell or whatever his name is he should never ref a Stoke game ever again 16 fouls against us v 5 for today 🤷♂️ What was the Southampton game? 17 against, 2 for? Refs definitely arrive with a mentality of having to stand up to a hostile crowd.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 2, 2024 18:55:20 GMT
If the ref today was a robot I would have tipped a bucket of water over the twat. I didn’t think he was too bad first half but 2nd half he was Middlesbroughs 12 man at times. The linesman on the sentinel stand side was fucking useless.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 2, 2024 7:15:18 GMT
Based on the few other appearances of drums ..i reckon row 30 to pitch side in two bounces .. the drum will do it in one 🤣 My only recollection of a drum appearing at a game was one single occasion. Drum and drum owner didn’t have a pleasant reaction. 🤦♂️
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 1, 2024 17:23:19 GMT
I loved Gudjon simply because he loved Stoke City. I met him a couple of times after his spell here was long since over, as did one of my mates who bumped into him on holiday, and you couldn't shut the bloke up about his time at Stoke.
I didn't think I was ever going to get away from him.
It's hard not to warm to such a person when they love the club that you love.
All the best Gudjon!
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 1, 2024 17:20:43 GMT
Comparing someone to Lee Gregory really isn’t a compliment No, it’s not. However, that’s where we are. I don’t think that the comparison is wrong and I also don’t believe we have a striker on the books who is as good for us as Gregory was for Millwall. A sad thing to be pretty sure about. Fuck me, I knew we were shit but if we don't have anyone as good as Lee Gregory, we really are even worse than I thought we were. He was wank for Millwall in the Championship (OK in League 1) and he was even worse for us. We've had some shit over the years and that fucker was right up there. As you can tell I wasn't particularly fond of Lee Gregory.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 1, 2024 15:33:17 GMT
Lets not go overboard. If Mmaee had missed those two on Saturday he'd have been strung up from the Matthews statue. He wouldn’t have been in position to miss them. He’d have either been wandering past the edge of the box as they come in or simply just outmuscled by the defender. I’d have him on the bench instead of Lowe because hopefully he has a bit of fire in his belly now, but he’s been mostly shite all season and he’s thoroughly incapable of playing up top as a solo striker. Ennis isn’t amazing. However, I imagine he’d score about 10-12 in this division if he played every game. He reminds me of Lee Gregory before he got to Stoke. I don’t think Mmaee would get the same. Comparing someone to Lee Gregory really isn’t a compliment
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 28, 2024 21:18:23 GMT
Again a lot of talk about the fans. It’s our fault we don’t cheer and fill the place with noise don’t you know. If we did the players would be amazing. Yep fans to blame🙄 At no point has he said anything resembling that. He hasn’t even gone close to saying that. He’s said everyone at the club needs to pull together to support the team. He even mentioned the receptionist by name. He’s hardly saying it’s her fault or the fans. Simply that we’ve all got a role to play and ours is to attempt to show the players and managers what our support can be like when things are heading in the right direction. He spoke brilliantly…far better than he played in fact .
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 28, 2024 20:51:40 GMT
Some very interesting comments in this interview and I’d say he’s incredibly perceptive.
Bringing everyone at the club back together was obviously a clear priority and I think we can safely assume Tricky Ricky and Alex Neil had fractured many of those internal relationships.
Interesting comments about a young squad and young manager who will each be all the better for this experience if we manage to stay up.
Note his observations about lots of things we do off the pitch and behind the scenes being top class. Sadly, as always, the travails of the first team will always overshadow those good things.
I’ve moaned with the best of them and I’m not at all convinced by this manager, but I’m happy to do as asked and will join in the “bring the noise” battecry on Saturday.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 27, 2024 11:54:22 GMT
No chance on the £5 tickets. Full house with many part timers = horrible atmosphere when as usual, it all goes horribly wrong.
I'd make tickets £100. We'll do better with no fucker there.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 25, 2024 23:03:18 GMT
What sort of wage and contract is he on. And how much would it cost us to sack him. Must be the luckiest job in the world, perform shite, get paid, and walk away minted Maybe he’s still in his probationary period 😂
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 25, 2024 20:30:33 GMT
Not at the moment no, sadly. It appears to me that the minute he’s had time to coach them the worse we’ve got. I couldn’t abide Alex Neil but even he didn’t take us to the brink of relegation. It’s hard to imagine we could find a manager worse than the previous one but we seem to have done just that 🤷♂️ When he joined us, Plymouth were 2 points ahead of us. It’s debatable if he was even doing a good job at this level when we poached him.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 25, 2024 19:53:23 GMT
That’s a shame. Maybe next week? Who would you bring in if we’ve sacked SS? I’d have been perfectly happy with Tony Mowbray or John Eustace before we appointed Schumacher but those ships have long since sailed. After them it depends how ambitious we are and how much we are willing to spend on the right man.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 25, 2024 19:40:34 GMT
From a source who have players on Stoke City books. He's not been sacked guys. That’s a shame. Maybe next week?
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 25, 2024 16:01:23 GMT
At the recent meet the manager SS defended Thompson and went on to talk about full backs wandering into midfield. He seemed to think he was some disciple of Pep . The fact is elite players on £300000 a week have the technique awareness and gravitas to achieve that . Though sometimes even Man City get caught out . So to give a guy who has plied his trade at Colchester and is still wet behind the ears that responsibility is sheer madness. At Blackburn we had the spectacle of two full backs attacking at the same time leaving just two at the back . Yesterday it was obvious from the off at the glaring space where Tchamadeau should have been . The inevitable happened. If we are to get out of this mess then someone needs a quiet word with our Head Coach . Perhaps the players are less than convinced about this system. Perhaps they are challenging it . Who knows ? But gifting the space and consequent goals is certain suicide. This gung ho style is opening the trap door. Another reason why he persists with it is our midfield of Burger Baker and Cundle is lightweight . We have a forward line of midgets too so the physicality of the team is another weakness. So let’s bolster the midfield with a full back wandering off his station . It won’t work. There is obviously logic in playing Baker as his prowess at set pieces takes penalties and is likely to score from distance is a good c.v . But he doesnt tackle . As for Cundle he too doesn’t have the physical attributes required . As for Lauren whatever his downside he has the necessary stature. At present too many of the team get muscled off the ball . So imho play a flat back four and impress upon them that they are in the team to DEFEND not charging up the pitch at every opportunity. The midfield has to have more six foot man mountains and that means Burger and Laurent . I fear we may persist with these Man City tactics . Someone tell SS he is not Pep Even Pep accepted that Kyle walker couldn’t do it so changed a little as a result. If Kyle Walker can’t do it, Lyndon Gooch and Junior don’t stand a fucking chance of doing it.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 25, 2024 10:23:00 GMT
I missed the opening goal yesterday.
I thought the 2nd one was bad but jeez. That’s a shocker from about 3 or 4 of them. In first 5 minutes as well. Talk about giving them a leg up 🤷♂️
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