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Post by trickydicky73 on Oct 1, 2019 13:18:29 GMT
Pards into 12s after the SLP link Just stuck a fiver on him I should. It will guarantee him not coming here! š
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Post by trickydicky73 on Oct 1, 2019 13:05:50 GMT
Pardew. They're better off giving it to Kevin Russell. Or a Jack Russell.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Oct 1, 2019 13:04:07 GMT
Pardew. They're better off giving it to Kevin Russell. What's his record overall? Can't say I have followed his career that closely.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Oct 1, 2019 13:00:47 GMT
What did I tell you? š
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Post by trickydicky73 on Oct 1, 2019 12:56:00 GMT
This would be peak Stoke banter era. Would almost guarantee a rebellion against the Coates' at some point too. They really haven't got a clue if they go down this route. Which route?
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Post by trickydicky73 on Oct 1, 2019 11:26:55 GMT
It's always been OK, My Grandad had bacon and eggs for breakfast at 6-30 am every morning and only lived to 86^ God gave us teeth to eat meat he did not give us three stomachs to digest greens. Nuts ,Fruit and Meat is our natural diet as hunter gatherers anyone who thinks different is ignoring all the known facts. We've been eating meat for 1.5 million years according to scientific evidence. It's what it is cooked in that is the unhealthy part. My mother always used lard to fry in a natural product Mine still does.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 30, 2019 19:10:55 GMT
"I have to take the blame because I pick the players that make errors". "I have to take responsibility for the teams I pick but you can't legislate for the things which have happened" Buggered if I know what he's on about? So contradicting himself saying he takes the blame for picking the individual but you cannot legislate for the mistakes that are happening, I take it by the individuals Well spotted.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 30, 2019 19:08:56 GMT
Has there ever EVER been a manager like this fellow? Jim Jones, Jones Town United.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 30, 2019 19:06:03 GMT
But ince as a rm is 10 times better than ince at rcm in a 41212, we arenāt currently overloaded with wingers which makes verlinden getting loaned out even more bizarre Ince is useless wherever he plays. In a Stoke shirt, maybe.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 30, 2019 18:55:03 GMT
I am thinking of pressing charges on a couple of women who touched my arse when I worked in a pot bank, and against another one when I worked in care.
The pot bank ones were twenty years ago, but I still feel violated...
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 30, 2019 17:20:41 GMT
It doesn't matter who the manager is when the players can't do the basics. He's had the chance to get players in who CAN do the basics!
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 30, 2019 17:18:59 GMT
Nobody will get this team to 12th or 13th. For that reason alone, Jones should be sacked.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 18:09:16 GMT
Seven goals if you include the one away at Leeds in the cup Butland was a very good keeper He's having the season from hell Obviously he has to be dropped for a long spell Sadly Federici isn't very good Maybe the new Manager will play Davies? Is that...is that a poem Lord? It's his response to a plaintive letter he received from Nathan Jones: Oh, Lord B my trouble so hard, Oh, Lord B my trouble so hard, Don't nobody know my trouble but God? Don't nobody know my trouble but God?
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 17:43:23 GMT
Aye, wouldnāt surprise me to see Bruce go. And moyes go there. A Newcastle fan is having a breakdown on 5 Live as we speak!
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 17:10:51 GMT
I know. I'm saying she is wavering as is the Stoke Central MP and probably would have voted for any reasonable deal had it come back. That is much less likely of Joris's performance last week. There's no logic to your idea. Any deal that Boris could bring back would be a 'harder' Brexit than the EU's WA that Smeeth has voted against 3 times. You think if Boris hadn't said the word "humbug" she would have voted for a harder Brexit and allowed Boris to take us out on 31/10 with great fanfare. ?? She gambled and lost, like Sarah Champion.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 17:06:15 GMT
There would be blood on the streets if toon appear to go for yet another flight of a British manager, they think they are entitled to a top class manager in the calibre of tuchel, allegri etc. After Bruce there is not a chance that he will be sacked to replace him with, the same. More chance of Gerrard or terry going there I hope you are right. I would have Moyes in a heartbeat.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 17:03:45 GMT
Moyes would be a better fit than Hughton, after listening to the Grant Holt episode on Undr the Cosh (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wb2hV7OipY) Iām not sure I want to watch a Hughton team every week. Heās had success in this league many times, but it could be Pulis all over again. Moyes is a very good manager, if he would be willing to come here then Iām not sure we could hope for any better. If NJ is to go (and Iām still not sure itās a certainty, pull a few wins out of nowhere and things could still turn around) then we have to go with experience. I think Lambert was a perfect fit for us in hindsight, weād be in a far better place had we stuck with him. Moyes or Hughton could be pretty damn tedious, I agree. I think at this level Hughton seems more inclined to be open, it's just in the top flight he seems to let caution get the better of him. Moyes likewise in big games seems to be quite dour but his teams can open up and play good stuff too. I'd settle for not getting twatted most weeks and having a manager who we can trust in the transfer market. I can't believe Jones is still here.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 17:00:15 GMT
If the Newcastle season continues to get very dark, I wonder how soon Bruce could be axed? Are they one of the few teams who would go for another unglamorous British manager? Can't see Hughton working for Ashley again - but it could be one of the very few openings for Moyes? Although not sure the Toon fans would buy it for a second. Beat me to it.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 16:57:22 GMT
I still don't get why Moyes would come to the bottom of the Championship? In fact, if any manager of that level was even in the mix, why does Jones keep getting another game? Where is Moyes realistically going to go though? It doesnāt look like a Burnley or a Bournemouth are getting rid of their manager any time soon. Palace was looking likely pre-season but they started well. The only Championship options are going to be strugglers like us and Boro? Waiting for Newcastle?
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 12:24:18 GMT
Twenty odd pages of speculation about our team manager. Predictable I spose but, Stoke City's problems run far,far deeper than just the team manager. My take, changing the manager now probably wont change very much at all because, the players taking the field will be drawn from the exact same squad (until January at least) and, it is such a very poor squad of football players right now Largely because of crap managers.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 12:22:46 GMT
I didn't really want either side to win, but I wanted the Welsh to lose more than the Aussies. Good game but depressing result with the Welsh hanging on for the win ! Rejoice, rejoice! š
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 11:54:21 GMT
The majority of goals we have conceded have been ridiculous and the manager can't be held responsible for them but he gets the blame. Everything else we are doing is good, we are dominating games and looking pretty solid for the most part. We score every game and miss too many and it's these small details which are destroying everything good we do. We can chop and change things but the personal isn't there because the manager needs more time to address them. I would be more worried if we were being completely outclassed but we are not, we are the team out classing our opponents and then conceding the most ridiculous goals from nothing situations. It is just individual errors costing us big time, we are basically scoring against ourselves. I still think Jones will come good given more time but he has been left in a difficult position by some experienced players letting him down and possibly costing him his job. Stats wise i bet we are doing well but results wise it's a shit read. I am gutted for Jones, i just know if he leaves he will be successful somewhere else. He has just come here too early in my view, we had too many problems that needed to be sorted out in such a short time. He has got as far as a semi complete foundation before we can build properly. Everyone wants a quick fix but there isn't one. This squad has the potential to be a very good team, but i fear it won't be Jones reaping the rewards of what he has sown. Playing well and losing while conceding 2+ goals a game. That's recipe for relegation, it shows we can't get much better. The manager can be held responsible for the goals conceded, he continues to pick the players repeatedly guilty of those mistakes. He continues with Butland who looks like a walking disaster at the moment, he continues to play both full backs even though several goals have come from the fact the LB didn't close down and the RB is a wet lettuce and can't win a header. Also both can't defend. We all know a sacrifice will be made and golden boy Allen will walk back in to the team, he simply doesn't back up his words and play people on merit. Then we can go on about his subs, rarely do they make sense just like the majority of his tactics. Such as his preaching of the diamond and how we worked on it all preseason for it to be abolished within a couple of games, simply because all the players he bought in, not one suited it (why buy them). What about the blatant lies that we would be a fast and fluid team? We look so one paced and predictable. His job is on the line simply because his record is abysmal and our worst in over 100 years, how anyone can defend that is beyond me. Hes won 4 games in what is it now? 35? 36? How long do we keep peddling the, "he will come good" nonsense when there is very little evidence to prove otherwise? Out of all the players he has signed, how many of them are actually any good and not just some plodder? Powell but he will be on the injury table as much as on the pitch, Gregory works himself in to the ground but the goal against Forest is the only time hes looked remotely like scoring, he's average. The rest are just gash. I would put my house on the fact that one of Hughes, Lambert, Rowett would have more than 2 points on the board and would have registered at least 1 win, thats how bad this guy is. Totally agree with that.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 11:50:56 GMT
Good grief he definitely made mistakes - step forward Mr Kitson for starters. However that doesnāt mean he didnāt try to produce a team that could score even if he , quite naturally, saw a strong defensive set up as the key to our survival in the PL. If thereās nothing else the past few seasons have taught us itās that we really donāt know what goes on behind the scenes and the nuances of why certain players play or donāt play are sometimes a bit of mystery ! I don't understand why he couldn't look to build on the solid but enterprising side he built in 2010-11. He went out of his way not to pick a side like that again. He hardly ever played two wingers again. He stripped all the pace out of the side. All managers make mistakes but the point is he made one after another in that last 18 months that took us backwards. That's why he was rightly sacked. Like when we beat Liverpool 3-1. Absolutely battered them. Like you say, he backed off from that approach near the end. Shame.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 11:41:12 GMT
Right in the middle of the Tory Party conference. Jelly&icecream anyoneš„®šØ I hope they go for it a coalition of remainers no one voted for, acting to stop what a majority did vote for in brexit now that is a coup. A delicious irony.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 11:35:47 GMT
Andrew Marr show, some Labour MP says Johnson must stop using language like surrender, but then goes on to use Off a Cliff, disaster, crashing out x2 within 1 minute. Just fuck off. Hypocrites. For the very reason that TDC stated earlier.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 10:27:43 GMT
Now is now then is then Both labour and Tory had record vote share in 2017. Tories largest they had had since 1983 and labour 1987 They will only be shipping support to Lib Demās in leave area and it doesnāt help the brexit cause with brexit party splitting the vote. They say the referendum is an act to sort out the euro scepticals in the Tory party. How ironic that it turns into the act that is imploding the Labour Party Corbyn has had to walk a tightrope re Brexit. To be honest I hope we no deal and the tories shaft the working class good and proper. We need the hardest of Brexits to wake people up that listening to Murdoch for 40 years might not have been the greatest of things to do. It's fuck all to do with Murdoch, it's people getting tired of having the piss taken out of them. Corbyn was warned about this before the referendum, now Labour are going back to the "let everyone in" bollocks they were spouting at the time.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 10:20:13 GMT
Itās not bollocks. If labour hadnāt campaigned to honour the referendum they would have been even worse in the last general election If labour had gone balls deep. Fully united behind brexit with a leader back to his anti Eu beliefs then Corbyn would be sat in number 10 now That's the real disgrace about it. He's managed to turn Boris Johnson into a working class hero.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 10:17:14 GMT
Tremendous Welsh victory.
Eat my egg!
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 10:14:30 GMT
Ward has been shocking Left back is a nightmare And nobody saw it coming! š
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Post by trickydicky73 on Sept 29, 2019 10:13:03 GMT
He's an attacking midfielder? What would we do with him? Put him at full back?
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