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Post by Sergeant Muttley on May 29, 2015 19:55:27 GMT
Mark Hughes was appointed our manager and i have to be honest and say i was totally unimpressed at the time BUT how wrong i was.The progress we have made in the 2 years is something i couldn't have dreamed of tbh.Some of the football we've played this season has been great and imo has taken us on the verge of something very special again.Long may it continue.
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Post by ravey123 on May 29, 2015 19:57:31 GMT
Here here
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2015 19:58:05 GMT
I'm saying nothing.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2015 19:58:46 GMT
Well said Mutts. I hope he's ours in 2 more  |
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Post by march4 on May 29, 2015 19:59:49 GMT
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Post by citynumberten on May 29, 2015 20:00:25 GMT
Mark Hughes was appointed our manager and i have to be honest and say i was totally unimpressed at the time BUT how wrong i was.The progress we have made in the 2 years is something i couldn't have dreamed of tbh.Some of the football we've played this season has been great and imo has taken us on the verge of something very special again.Long may it continue. This. Proved all the doubters, myself included, completely wrong. Conducted himself with absolute integrity and class and has performed minor miracles with the style of football. Long may it continue. Mark Hughes' Barmy Army |
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Post by stokemanusa on May 29, 2015 20:01:31 GMT
I don't think I said anything on him but I knew his style would be miles better to watch and even if it was half as good as it is now, I'd still think were going in the right direction.  |
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Post by foster on May 29, 2015 20:06:14 GMT
2 years.... Time flys.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2015 20:15:42 GMT
Pulis out
GD
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Post by kidsgroveboxxy on May 29, 2015 20:49:53 GMT
To be fair, when I finished work and found out that Pulis had left, I felt like I had been dumped by a girlfriend. I was totally gutted, and could only see the gutter for Stoke. But as the old saying goes, 'There's plenty more fish in the sea' Some comfort eh?. Then when I heard that Hughes had taken the helm, I felt like that girlfriend who left me had jumped into bed with someone else and I was even more gutted. Flash forward two years later, and I can honestly now say that if Hughes was fucking my ex, I'd be at the bedside, giving him a cheeky hi-5, and getting the beers ready for when he's done. Elated ... Yes!
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Post by Kjones9 on May 29, 2015 21:10:05 GMT
Great, well done.
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Post by salopstick on May 29, 2015 21:20:59 GMT
Mark Hughes was appointed our manager and i have to be honest and say i was totally unimpressed at the time BUT how wrong i was.The progress we have made in the 2 years is something i couldn't have dreamed of tbh.Some of the football we've played this season has been great and imo has taken us on the verge of something very special again.Long may it continue. Fucking hell mutts. This was calling out for a significant anniversary thread from Joe Spoil bastard everything |
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Post by Pugsley on May 29, 2015 21:22:34 GMT
Mark Hughes was appointed our manager and i have to be honest and say i was totally unimpressed at the time BUT how wrong i was.The progress we have made in the 2 years is something i couldn't have dreamed of tbh.Some of the football we've played this season has been great and imo has taken us on the verge of something very special again.Long may it continue. |
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Post by Billybigbollox on May 29, 2015 21:25:36 GMT
2 years since I could park my yellow fucking pick up anywhere near the Brit !
Fucking stroll on.
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Post by Bojan Mackey on May 29, 2015 21:40:23 GMT
I was overjoyed at Pulis leaving and was underwhelmed at Hughes's appointment, however two years down the line I wouldn't want anyone else managing my football club, the way Hughes has conducted himself after many, including me thought he was finished at this level has been nothing short of exemplary, he turned a team which I thought was incapable of playing football into a fine side, we've sacrificed some of our reknowned defensive solidity but we'be been rewarded with much more expansive play, a complete turnaround in the approach to our away games and the belief that on our day we truly can beat anyone in this league, as Liverpool so emphatically found out.
He's also been told to work on a shoestring, and has bought in Marko Arnautovic, Erik Pieters, Marc Muniesa, Mame Biram Diouf, Victor Moses, Philipp Wollscheid (Who I'm not writing off yet) and, I still can't belive it to this day, Bojan Krkic, Bojan, to Stoke. This calibre of player for the small outlay we've paid is nothing short of remarkable, and Sparky deserves all the plaudits he gets for pulling off these quite brilliant bits of business which in turn, has allowed a certain crop of our existing players, Shawcross, N'Zonzi, Adam and even Whelan & Walters to flourish.
He's also bought an element of togetherness to this club, you get the feeling everyone at the club gets on, and how he's managed to contain the supposed ego's and attitudes of players like N'Zonzi, Arnautovic, Begovic and others whilst still retaining our competitiveness on the pitch is superb.
Goarn Hughesy, I hope you can take this football club to the very top, as it would befit a man of your decorum perfectly.
Thank you for re-igniting my burning passion for Stoke City FC, a passion that was ever so slowly dying.
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Post by JoeinOz on May 29, 2015 22:15:15 GMT
I was quietly pleased with his appointment. The person with that daft Hughes out van is our equivalent of the shit fans who had the 4 years of excuses and we are still shit banner.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2015 22:52:39 GMT
I guessed this was about Hughes!
Like most folks, I wallowed in a three day depression, punctuated with bouts of anger over TP's dismissal, on hearing the news. But within the week somehow I really came round to the idea, it was a bit odd as it was a real turnaround in my mind, thinking about it now. Within 6 months he'd almost re-galvanized our club and particularly the support which had been split down the middle under TP.
In the end a wonderful appointment was made. And to think we were hoping for a Poyet or a Martinez...Mark Hughes is the man and Stoke City is a very happy club to be around these days, I cant remember a more optimistic time to be a Stoke fan.
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Post by Linx on May 30, 2015 5:33:01 GMT
Like many of us, I had reservations about Hughes' appointment, largely based on his time at QPR. I was reassured, however, by PC's direct answers to questions about the appointment, when he admitted that there would be question marks but that Hughes' career over the whole was the prime consideration, not just QPR. I think Hughes also appreciated the challenge of progressing the club on a limited budget, re-capturing his skills honed at Blackburn, to disprove any further accusations of chequebook management. The ongoing problems at QPR demonstrate that the issues there go deeper than Hughes' short tenure, although many R's fans still like to blame him for everything.
Peter Coates is surely one of the steadiest hands at the tiller that any club has. We are truly blessed with a superb combination of executive and operational management, the best that I have ever known in nearly fifty years of following Stoke.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 5:41:00 GMT
Like many of us, I had reservations about Hughes' appointment, largely based on his time at QPR. I was reassured, however, by PC's direct answers to questions about the appointment, when he admitted that there would be question marks but that Hughes' career over the whole was the prime consideration, not just QPR. I think Hughes also appreciated the challenge of progressing the club on a limited budget, re-capturing his skills honed at Blackburn, to disprove any further accusations of chequebook management. The ongoing problems at QPR demonstrate that the issues there go deeper than Hughes' short tenure, although many R's fans still like to blame him for everything. Peter Coates is surely one of the steadiest hands at the tiller that any club has. We are truly blessed with a superb combination of executive and operational management, the best that I have ever known in nearly fifty years of following Stoke. Rangers fans surely have to concede their anti Hughes stance now, he kept them up as well. QPR just dont seem to belong in the Premiership, whatever they do. |
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Post by roostershair on May 30, 2015 7:12:47 GMT
Mark Hughes was appointed our manager and i have to be honest and say i was totally unimpressed at the time BUT how wrong i was.The progress we have made in the 2 years is something i couldn't have dreamed of tbh.Some of the football we've played this season has been great and imo has taken us on the verge of something very special again.Long may it continue. Hughes out!! haha. I didn't want him either!!!! He has been brilliant for this club. When the lads did their walk round after the "lucky" close result on Sunday you could feel that "We are all in this together" mode. Role on next season! |
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Post by tony harrison on May 30, 2015 10:54:17 GMT
The time when Stoke City returned to being a team that plays football how it should be played????
A breathe of fresh air, after all the Pulis none football and excuses and slow progress bullshit!
Thank you Mark Hughes and your support team for giving us back our football team????
Goan Stoke!
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Post by Stokie Mcpot on May 30, 2015 11:44:58 GMT
I think a lot of us were sceptical. His time at qpr will probably haunt him for some time.
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Post by andylgr on May 30, 2015 12:40:32 GMT
I think his overall record stands up well and anyone with common sense can see QPR is down to how it's run behind the scenes and not solely down to a managers performance.
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Post by riccyfuller93 on May 30, 2015 12:42:55 GMT
2 years has gone quick. Thanks Hughes let's hope it continues.
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Post by Clayton Wood on May 30, 2015 12:51:52 GMT
40 points Nige became 50 points now becoming 55 points+. Can't say fairer than that.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 13:31:08 GMT
It was only over the past two to three weeks where it suddenly hit me how united the fanbase (or at least this board) has become. There are still arguments to be had over Pulis if you want to challenge his managerial style, his record or how he spent the money. But overall, the vast majority seem convinced that the right decisions were made by the club two years ago.
We really were a divided bunch before.
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Post by jstoke7 on May 30, 2015 16:42:16 GMT
It was only over the past two to three weeks where it suddenly hit me how united the fanbase (or at least this board) has become. There are still arguments to be had over Pulis if you want to challenge his managerial style, his record or how he spent the money. But overall, the vast majority seem convinced that the right decisions were made by the club two years ago. We really were a divided bunch before. Happens everywhere he goes unfortunately. |
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Post by generationex on May 30, 2015 17:38:20 GMT
Yes, that and turning smaller clubs into premier league mainstays.
Hughes has been a fabulous appointment but I wouldn't be so ungracious as to not recognise the fantastic foundation that Pulis and Coates created for him either.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 19:10:09 GMT
I'm working on the assumption he knows we rescued him - we have more honorable owners than most, with an integrity rarely seen these-days and, he sees getting Stoke City in the upper quartile of the premier league as:- a 'good project' with little chance of being 'unappreciated' even if he does not achieve this.
Elsewhere, there is greater expectation and the massive pressure that comes with it - Hughesy surely realises he does not really need this
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2015 8:15:52 GMT
The one thing Hughes and the club aren't getting is the recognition both richly deserve. I'm sure that this imbalance is going to be firmly addressed next season. Watch out world!
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