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Post by wagsastokie on Jan 3, 2017 22:44:12 GMT
Can see our "star players" wanting out Spoke to my number two son he's a West Ham fan bloody mother he watched the kodi stream and said crouch was great and stokes second best was the lad that came on as sub I automatically said the Stoke toure he said not whelan this affelay fellow Can't see crouch and whelan going anywhere
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Post by edaboagenawo on Jan 3, 2017 22:44:15 GMT
Dunna talk pissed youth.Eddie Howe? He,s favourite to take over at the Arse ...why would he leave Bournemouth for Stoke? Arsenal is a step too far at this stage but Stoke is a progression. Great young manager who did the impossible with little Bournemouth. Failing him, that geezer at Burnley. Hughes has lost the plot, I'm sure of that.
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Post by prudhoessafehands on Jan 3, 2017 22:48:25 GMT
Dunna talk pissed youth.Eddie Howe? He,s favourite to take over at the Arse ...why would he leave Bournemouth for Stoke? Arsenal is a step too far at this stage but Stoke is a progression. Great young manager who did the impossible with little Bournemouth. Failing him, that geezer at Burnley. Hughes has lost the plot, I'm sure of that. He,s only got eyes on Arsenal mate. You mean Dyche? if he was that good why arn,t bigger clubs sniffing for him? Why do you think Hughes has lost the plot? solid team performance 2 goals a clean sheet,was it pretty? no but it was effective and weve gone upto 11th in arguably the toughest league in the world
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 22:50:33 GMT
I think it's fairly obvious to say that there is something of a split between opinions tonight which appears to have been growing for some time following some recent results, performances and team selections.
Whilst appreciating that posters have different viewpoints hopefully these differences can be posted and debated in a normal civilized manner without resorting to aggressive responses and name calling as has been seen already this evening.
We all love Stoke City FC and can hopefully avoid a return to the vitriolic atmosphere that existed between fans when our previous manager was in charge.
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Post by WhyDelilah on Jan 3, 2017 22:52:22 GMT
It wasn't particularly pretty but I'm dumbfounded as to what was lucky about tonight. Was it the 13 shots to 6, the 55% posession to their 45% or that they didn't score a goal from their massive two shots on target? We played a shit team. All our results come against shit team. It's what make Hughes thinks he's getting it right. The second we play a half decent team we get beat. Look at who we have beat over the past 12 months. Beating shit teams is papering over the cracks. A goal off a shin will delude Hughes for a few more weeks now.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 22:53:09 GMT
Looook aaaat meeeeee ...... You got home and opened up your laptop pretty quick. I'll tell yer what Void - Technology is an absolutely fabulous fuckin thing. In my day we never had a phone, never mind an internet service provider. Oh my Lord, how times have changed. Void - a little word in your ear, me old fruit .... Give this new tech stuff a try ... nobody will laugh at you....honest .....
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Post by Scrotnig on Jan 3, 2017 22:53:26 GMT
I've never got the need for 'pretty' wins. A win is a win. You don't get more points if you win prettily.
Football is all about the results - and we won tonight. I am only interested in that.
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Post by GoBoks on Jan 3, 2017 22:53:38 GMT
I've felt better after losses. The result can't cloud over how much of a shocking game that was. We won that because Watford practically scored the goals for us. If Watford played like that every week they'd struggle in League 1 (has there been a worse premier league side come to the Brit?) and if we'd decided to use any of our skill that was sat on the bench in that game I'm confident we would've hit them for 5/6. Shocking that Hughes, with a comfortable 2-0 lead and the opposition doing nothing doesn't think to kill the game off by bringing Bojan or Shaq on, what on earth must they be thinking? Shocking that they weren't starting to be honest. Dreadful, dire football and if we play like that against anyone who can play a bit of football we'll get thrashed. Yes, there have been worse sides to come to the BET365 (Stupid fans can't even get the stadium name right and they expect the manager to listen to them?). At least according to the usual bunch of moaners on her, it seems that every time we win that question is raised. I've got news for you .... The song is "We're Stoke, We're Stoke, We're Stoke" not we're Real Madrid! If you want entertainment go to the circus. I';ll settle for the 3 points, Crouchie on 98 PL goals, finally a goal from ShawX, and 11th spot. Just to be clear ... that's 6 points off 6th spot (and probable UEFA place) but 9 points of 18th spot (and certain relegation). It wasn't pretty, could have been more, but at the end of the day, we have a lot to be happy about! What do they say about good teams can "win ugly"?
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Post by WhyDelilah on Jan 3, 2017 22:54:34 GMT
Wrong team. Fucking awful performance. Les is standing there clueless. Dead man walking. There's something you'd usually say to someone when they've made a massive arse of themselves... What was it? Ah yes, that's it... Daft cunt. We'll all look forward to seeing you when you return... I'm assuming you'll do your usual trick & delete your account after making a dick of yourself for the, Christ, how many times is it now? Excellent retort. It was a shit team selection tonight and we got away with it because we played a dire team at home. Some might delude themselves that everything is fine if that's what they choose. Hughes has lost his way.
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Post by boskampsflaps on Jan 3, 2017 22:54:38 GMT
I think peoples expectations have got a little out of hand. That was a pretty crap first half and drab affair overal. BUT still a higher quality that watching Stoke in the lower divisions. People need to give themselves a wobble I think its more down to the reason Hughes was brought in in the first place, we won, which is always good but he was mean't to move us on from Walters and Crouch being our main strikers and players way out of position, I don't see Doiuf being stuck out at wing back as being any different to playing Shotton on the wing.
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Post by Scrotnig on Jan 3, 2017 22:54:54 GMT
It was like watching a shit Championship game. Maybe, but it was a shit championship game that we won convincingly. At the moment, the priority is points on the board. Mission accomplished tonight, so no complaints from my side.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Jan 3, 2017 22:55:52 GMT
It wasn't particularly pretty but I'm dumbfounded as to what was lucky about tonight. Was it the 13 shots to 6, the 55% posession to their 45% or that they didn't score a goal from their massive two shots on target? We played a shit team. All our results come against shit team. It's what make Hughes thinks he's getting it right. The second we play a half decent team we get beat. Look at who we have beat over the past 12 months. Beating shit teams is papering over the cracks. A goal off a shin will delude Hughes for a few more weeks now. Well documented problems and I didn't like the team at all but after as routine a win as you're ever going to get with no luck involved in the slightest, the manager has every right to tell everyone to fuck off tonight.
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Post by Scrotnig on Jan 3, 2017 22:56:20 GMT
The song is "We're Stoke, We're Stoke, We're Stoke" not we're Real Madrid! Bugger! I *thought* I was getting some funny looks at the last match I went to.
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Post by GoBoks on Jan 3, 2017 22:56:52 GMT
I couldn't be bothered to get out of my seat when shawcross scored. It was the worst first half I've seen in a long time. Worst performance from a "fan" too by the sound of it.
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Post by WhyDelilah on Jan 3, 2017 22:57:24 GMT
We played a shit team. All our results come against shit team. It's what make Hughes thinks he's getting it right. The second we play a half decent team we get beat. Look at who we have beat over the past 12 months. Beating shit teams is papering over the cracks. A goal off a shin will delude Hughes for a few more weeks now. Well documented problems and I didn't like the team at all but after as routine a win as you're ever going to get with no luck involved in the slightest, the manager has every right to tell everyone to fuck off tonight. That's papering over the cracks though. That isn't progress. He's getting results based on the players he inherited over 3 years ago.
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Post by thevoid on Jan 3, 2017 22:57:52 GMT
You got home and opened up your laptop pretty quick. I'll tell yer what Void - Technology is an absolutely fabulous fuckin thing. Â In my day we never had a phone, never mind an internet service provider. Oh my Lord, how times have changed. Void - a little word in your ear, me old fruit .... Give this new tech stuff a try ... nobody will laugh at you....honest ..... Strange how I can never get a reception on my phone in the stadium and your earlier posts seem have been logged when the match was still in progress. What tech have you got, a teleporter?
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Post by GoBoks on Jan 3, 2017 23:00:36 GMT
It wasn't a fabulous performance but we weren't lucky. We won the game outright. No questions asked. We took Watford down a dark alley and kneed them in the groin. Or to be more precise ... Crouch kneed them in the goal!
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Post by Stoke711 on Jan 3, 2017 23:00:43 GMT
Shocking game of football. That is both games of football I've said Watford are the worst team I've seen this season.
Anyone better and I think we were there for the taking.
No inspiration at all and as soon as I got the ground seeing the line-up knocked a lot of enthusiasm out of me.
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Post by Pugsley on Jan 3, 2017 23:01:18 GMT
No complaints from the champions of hoofball. Only Arnie (when he stayed on his feet) maybe Adam offered anything like PL football offensively. No surprise that all around me in Block 12 they were shouting for Marko to come off.
We're back to the Pulis days of percentage football and square pegs in round holes. Empty seats are a testament to that. Sad really when we have some real talent in the squad.
Time to drop the 3 at the back - felt for Diouf tonight.
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Jan 3, 2017 23:01:23 GMT
Just back home,happy with the 3 points but God was that a shit game from 2 very poor teams.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Jan 3, 2017 23:01:41 GMT
Well documented problems and I didn't like the team at all but after as routine a win as you're ever going to get with no luck involved in the slightest, the manager has every right to tell everyone to fuck off tonight. That's papering over the cracks though. That isn't progress. He's getting results based on the players he inherited over 3 years ago. It doesn't particularly matter which players he gets results with does it? I seem to remember a few of the star players on the bench today pitching up in Croydon against a side shitter than Watford four months ago and that didn't work too well. I don't disagree that he's lost his way this past year but it seems a particularly strange time to 'lose it' after a routine win.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 23:01:59 GMT
Nice thread guys.
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Post by maninasuitcase on Jan 3, 2017 23:03:17 GMT
I couldn't be bothered to get out of my seat when shawcross scored. It was the worst first half I've seen in a long time. Worst performance from a "fan" too by the sound of it. Yep.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 23:03:34 GMT
I've honestly never been so bored in my life. After 9 years it's resorted to launching balls to 35 year old Peter Crouch for 33 year old Jon Walters to chase into the channels?
I'll take any win that comes our way but come on! This ain't football Hughes and you know it.
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Post by butlerstbob on Jan 3, 2017 23:04:13 GMT
This thread proves one thing, that most of the moaners don't actually go to the games! Yes it was poor, yes things ain't right but fuck we have a lot of internet fans! Nearly as many as Man U!
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jan 3, 2017 23:04:21 GMT
It was like watching a shit Championship game. Maybe, but it was a shit championship game that we won convincingly. At the moment, the priority is points on the board. Mission accomplished tonight, so no complaints from my side. I don't think it was convincing at all. It convinced me that we have lots of problems. And it convinced me that if Watford stay up then they're one of the luckiest clubs alive.
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Post by Royal Donut on Jan 3, 2017 23:04:34 GMT
3points I'm happy
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Jan 3, 2017 23:04:53 GMT
No complaints from the champions of hoofball. Only Arnie (when he stayed on his feet) maybe Adam offered anything like PL football offensively. No surprise that all around me in Block 12 they were shouting for Marko to come off. We're back to the Pulis days of percentage football and square pegs in round holes. Empty seats are a testament to that. Sad really when we have some real talent in the squad. Time to drop the 3 at the back - felt for Diouf tonight. Yeah, it had nothing to do with it being a night match & for the vast majority of people the first day of 'normality' after the Christmas holidays.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 23:05:19 GMT
Couldn't give a rats arse if Hughes left tomorrow. Who you bringing in then? He's probably not bringing anyone in. If it was his responsibility, he'd be able to do a lot of research. Doesn't mean he can't have an opinion though
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 23:05:35 GMT
Wrong team. Fucking awful performance. Les is standing there clueless. Dead man walking. You are are a joke
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