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Post by Pugsley on Feb 28, 2017 18:47:05 GMT
Not all transfers will work out - not even for the very best managers in the world. For every Wollscheid there is a Martins Indi. For every Joselu there is a Bojan. For every Imbula there is an Arnautovic. I think that Hughes has got more transfers right than wrong whilst at Stoke. And don't forget that Alex Ferguson once spunked £40,000,000 on Veron! Right lets compare the good the bad and the ugly of Hughes transfers in my opinion:
The Good- Arnie, Grant, Indi (loan), Allen, Bardsley, Piters (could have been Pulis before he was sacked) The Bad- Imbula, Johnson (sicknote), Shaq (sicknote), Bojan(fucked off on loan), Tex, MVG (loan), Given, Hagred, Wolfy(fucked off on loan), Guidettie (loan), Ireland, Joselu(fucked off on loan), Muniesa (sick note), Diouf (as a striker), Bony (loan) The Ugly- Imbula, Hagred, Wolfy and Tex.
You're embarrassing yourself son, give it up.
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Post by Pugsley on Feb 28, 2017 18:48:15 GMT
You think if it wasn't for the money in football we'd be in the Premier League right now? Pulis had one of the highest net spends in his tenure, big money in football is the primary reason we are where we are now so don't make me laugh. If it wasn't for all the money in the game, people like you wouldn't even be following Stoke. He's admitted to being a Man Utd fan.
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Post by crapslinger on Feb 28, 2017 18:48:25 GMT
Has imbula really been that shit for us? Fuck renewing if im going to be seeing adam whelan and crouch start every week next season and imbula and bojan out. Both were appalling against Wolves, a team not even in our division. The manager who brought them here doesn't trust either of them, Bojan fucked off on loan and our record signing sitting on his arse every game, so the answer appears to be yes he has been that shit, along with Joselu and Wolfy both of whom he has discarded after one season.
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Post by crapslinger on Feb 28, 2017 18:50:35 GMT
Right lets compare the good the bad and the ugly of Hughes transfers in my opinion:
The Good- Arnie, Grant, Indi (loan), Allen, Bardsley, Piters (could have been Pulis before he was sacked) The Bad- Imbula, Johnson (sicknote), Shaq (sicknote), Bojan(fucked off on loan), Tex, MVG (loan), Given, Hagred, Wolfy(fucked off on loan), Guidettie (loan), Ireland, Joselu(fucked off on loan), Muniesa (sick note), Diouf (as a striker), Bony (loan) The Ugly- Imbula, Hagred, Wolfy and Tex.
You're embarrassing yourself son, give it up. ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/800541/images/wMWjB17JNiCK5pUPtfmL.gif) priceless coming from a poster who has admitted he has forgotten more about football than I have.
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Post by Pugsley on Feb 28, 2017 18:52:20 GMT
You're embarrassing yourself son, give it up. ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/800541/images/wMWjB17JNiCK5pUPtfmL.gif) priceless coming from a poster who has admitted he has forgotten more about football than I have. Lol, you're that fucking thick you don't understand the comment. What a whopper.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Feb 28, 2017 18:53:17 GMT
Has imbula really been that shit for us? Fuck renewing if im going to be seeing adam whelan and crouch start every week next season and imbula and bojan out. Some are allowed to be shit on a regular basis, and some are not.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2017 19:02:25 GMT
If it wasn't for all the money in the game, people like you wouldn't even be following Stoke. So you changed the subject because you realise I'm right? You're right about nothing. And you know nothing. Money has ruined football. Ask the thousand upon thousand of proper fans who've walked away from the game to be replaced by clueless popcorn eating muppets.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2017 19:03:24 GMT
If it wasn't for all the money in the game, people like you wouldn't even be following Stoke. He's admitted to being a Man Utd fan. What a proper twat. Waste of skin.
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Post by edaboagenawo on Feb 28, 2017 19:06:04 GMT
Boyan for 9-10M. Are you on something ? Erm no. Its simple Bojan was wanted by about 4 or 5 clubs in January including some in the Premier League. He WILL be in demand and that means a bidding war as he doesnt have a release clause and has 4 years left on his contract. The only problem is that Barca might still have a sell-on clause to receive some money. He is wanted in Spain, by a couple of Prem clubs plus possibly in Germany & back in Italy. If we cant sell Bojan for around 10M (considering the going rate for creative players) then the transfer team want putting out of their misery Read more: oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/thread/266002/percy-imbula-bojan-sold?page=5#ixzz4a0YJ0JzwHe might help his and Stoke's cause if he could get a regular place and do well in a poor to mediocre German Bundesliga team called Mainz. It happened yet. The transfer team wants putting out of their misery looks favourite.
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Post by crapslinger on Feb 28, 2017 19:09:11 GMT
![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/800541/images/wMWjB17JNiCK5pUPtfmL.gif) priceless coming from a poster who has admitted he has forgotten more about football than I have. Lol, you're that fucking thick you don't understand the comment. What a whopper. You have admitted that you have forgotten more about football than me, that means you know less than I do you really are a 10 watt bulb.
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Post by Pugsley on Feb 28, 2017 19:10:32 GMT
Lol, you're that fucking thick you don't understand the comment. What a whopper. You have admitted that you have forgotten more about football than me, that means you know less than I do you really are a 10 watt bulb. Ha ha ha ha, someone put this halfwit out of his misery.
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Post by crapslinger on Feb 28, 2017 19:14:02 GMT
You have admitted that you have forgotten more about football than me, that means you know less than I do you really are a 10 watt bulb. Ha ha ha ha, someone put this halfwit out of his misery. ![::)](//storage.proboards.com/800541/images/cj7bsBj2jOTuEAUVaPt5.gif) , ![(lol)](//storage.proboards.com/800541/images/lvpvZ64EmrkLcuVniUmo.gif) ,
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Post by adi on Feb 28, 2017 19:38:29 GMT
Well wages and fees are part of football so deal with it. So you like that grotesque fees and wages are ruining football? You sound like a really smart person. I don't think he said he likes it. He stated that it's part of football now. Which it is.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2017 20:03:24 GMT
So you changed the subject because you realise I'm right? You're right about nothing. And you know nothing. Money has ruined football. Ask the thousand upon thousand of proper fans who've walked away from the game to be replaced by clueless popcorn eating muppets. If it wasn't for the money in football Stoke wouldn't be in the Premier League, we'd have a shite academy, we'd never fill the corner and we'd be playing for nothing with thoughts of a cup or Europe never even entering our fucking minds. No, you yearn for no money in football so you'd much rather go on a cold away day to Swindon, have a team full of loanees from clubs that actually compete and throw parties when we draw clubs anyone gives a shit about away in the cup. But hey, atleast there'd be no money in football eh?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2017 20:05:08 GMT
So you like that grotesque fees and wages are ruining football? You sound like a really smart person. I don't think he said he likes it. He stated that it's part of football now. Which it is. Aye, and I'm making the point that money in football has actually benefitted our club in particular immensely. I'd love there to be no money in football with teams swapping places in the league each season, and a load of local stoke lads competing in the league. But that's not reality is it.
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Post by chesterfieldstokie on Feb 28, 2017 20:09:08 GMT
I don't think he said he likes it. He stated that it's part of football now. Which it is. Aye, and I'm making the point that money in football has actually benefitted our club in particular immensely. I'd love there to be no money in football with teams swapping places in the league each season, and a load of local stoke lads competing in the league. But that's not reality is it. You taking about the shit as your team or Stoke??
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2017 20:15:17 GMT
Aye, and I'm making the point that money in football has actually benefitted our club in particular immensely. I'd love there to be no money in football with teams swapping places in the league each season, and a load of local stoke lads competing in the league. But that's not reality is it. You taking about the shit as your team or Stoke?? I've never, ever said I supported United or described myself as a fan in any way. I did however say, and I continue to say, I thought they were a fucking great team under Fergie who played exciting fast paced football in a style I'd love to see Stoke try and emulate.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 3:10:36 GMT
I'm making the point that money in football has actually benefitted our club in particular immensely.Good for you. Good for SCFC. Good for JCL's. You know what? Before the Prem there was football. It was often dull. It was often boring. It was often tragically hilarious. Some of our players were embarrassingly entertaining. Managers, entertaining in a similar incompetent manner. But.... you could buy a pint and a pie anytime you wanted. You could pay on the gate. You could sit pretty much anywhere (unless you took one of the owd codgers seats). You could get cheap Lads an Dads tickets. You could decide whether to go to an awayday on the morning, depending on the weather, how bad your hangover was, if the lads were going, or if you just randomly felt like it. You could shout and bawl abuse and the worst you;d probably get is a word in the ear from a fat steward or a bored copper. The oatcake was a paper copy that you rolled up into the arse pocket of your jeans to read when you were sober. You didn't have to put up with fuckwittery, twittery, and morons spouting off their "vast intellectual knowledge" (the like of which would barely fit into a gnat's cranium). There were some witty characters down the match but your random clueless fuckwit wouldn't risk bawling and shouting. They'd get straightened out. Or drowned in the Boothen bogs. We didn't have multimillionaire players, glove wearing ponces, and we weren't propping up the lifestyles of the rich and famous and the black credit card accounts of WAGS. The Brit made twice the noise it does now with barely a half of the crowd. But then there wasn't half a crowd of popcorn eating, tweeting, texting, goggle eyed replica shirted halfwits shouting and bawling for one of our most successful managers to be fired. The Brit was a horrible cauldron and many teams feared coming here. Some were seen off in good fashion, and they lived to tell the tale of what a horrible place Stoke was. We could grab the last bus to the game after necking a few pints, untroubled by crowds. Same after. Hop off and into a few pubs to do the rounds. It wasn't cool and trendy. Football wasn't the place to be seen. It was a sport for the dedicated. The hardcore. The devoted. But now you've got your multimillionaires, your live streams, your global brands, you global followings. So easy to follow football. Buy replica shirts, click and buy season tickets. Create the pretence that you were there back in the day. Everyone is SCFC's #1 fan. Good luck. Football used to be fun. It was a good bawdy laugh with your mates. Now all I read is complaining and whining from spoiled dyslexic halfwits. Modern football is rubbish. Forgive me if I don't give a fuck about your opinion of it.
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Post by kustokie on Mar 1, 2017 3:23:27 GMT
I'm making the point that money in football has actually benefitted our club in particular immensely.Good for you. Good for SCFC. Good for JCL's. You know what? Before the Prem there was football. It was often dull. It was often boring. It was often tragically hilarious. Some of our players were embarrassingly entertaining. Managers, entertaining in a similar incompetent manner. But.... you could buy a pint and a pie anytime you wanted. You could pay on the gate. You could sit pretty much anywhere (unless you took one of the owd codgers seats). You could get cheap Lads an Dads tickets. You could decide whether to go to an awayday on the morning, depending on the weather, how bad your hangover was, if the lads were going, or if you just randomly felt like it. You could shout and bawl abuse and the worst you;d probably get is a word in the ear from a fat steward or a bored copper. The oatcake was a paper copy that you rolled up into the arse pocket of your jeans to read when you were sober. You didn't have to put up with fuckwittery, twittery, and morons spouting off their "vast intellectual knowledge" (the like of which would barely fit into a gnat's cranium). There were some witty characters down the match but your random clueless fuckwit wouldn't risk bawling and shouting. They'd get straightened out. Or drowned in the Boothen bogs. We didn't have multimillionaire players, glove wearing ponces, and we weren't propping up the lifestyles of the rich and famous and the black credit card accounts of WAGS. The Brit made twice the noise it does now with barely a half of the crowd. But then there wasn't half a crowd of popcorn eating, tweeting, texting, goggle eyed replica shirted halfwits shouting and bawling for one of our most successful managers to be fired. The Brit was a horrible cauldron and many teams feared coming here. Some were seen off in good fashion, and they lived to tell the tale of what a horrible place Stoke was. We could grab the last bus to the game after necking a few pints, untroubled by crowds. Same after. Hop off and into a few pubs to do the rounds. It wasn't cool and trendy. Football wasn't the place to be seen. It was a sport for the dedicated. The hardcore. The devoted. But now you've got your multimillionaires, your live streams, your global brands, you global followings. So easy to follow football. Buy replica shirts, click and buy season tickets. Create the pretence that you were there back in the day. Everyone is SCFC's #1 fan. Good luck. Football used to be fun. It was a good bawdy laugh with your mates. Now all I read is complaining and whining from spoiled dyslexic halfwits. Modern football is rubbish. Forgive me if I don't give a fuck about your opinion of it. That's quite a rant for someone who doesn't give a f*** about his opinion. Actually, Ivy is correct. Get over it. All teams have to spend lots of money just to stay in place. Unfortunately, it's come down to who can do the best deal and who has an eye for a bargain.
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Post by heworksardtho on Mar 1, 2017 6:20:47 GMT
I'm making the point that money in football has actually benefitted our club in particular immensely.Good for you. Good for SCFC. Good for JCL's. You know what? Before the Prem there was football. It was often dull. It was often boring. It was often tragically hilarious. Some of our players were embarrassingly entertaining. Managers, entertaining in a similar incompetent manner. But.... you could buy a pint and a pie anytime you wanted. You could pay on the gate. You could sit pretty much anywhere (unless you took one of the owd codgers seats). You could get cheap Lads an Dads tickets. You could decide whether to go to an awayday on the morning, depending on the weather, how bad your hangover was, if the lads were going, or if you just randomly felt like it. You could shout and bawl abuse and the worst you;d probably get is a word in the ear from a fat steward or a bored copper. The oatcake was a paper copy that you rolled up into the arse pocket of your jeans to read when you were sober. You didn't have to put up with fuckwittery, twittery, and morons spouting off their "vast intellectual knowledge" (the like of which would barely fit into a gnat's cranium). There were some witty characters down the match but your random clueless fuckwit wouldn't risk bawling and shouting. They'd get straightened out. Or drowned in the Boothen bogs. We didn't have multimillionaire players, glove wearing ponces, and we weren't propping up the lifestyles of the rich and famous and the black credit card accounts of WAGS. The Brit made twice the noise it does now with barely a half of the crowd. But then there wasn't half a crowd of popcorn eating, tweeting, texting, goggle eyed replica shirted halfwits shouting and bawling for one of our most successful managers to be fired. The Brit was a horrible cauldron and many teams feared coming here. Some were seen off in good fashion, and they lived to tell the tale of what a horrible place Stoke was. We could grab the last bus to the game after necking a few pints, untroubled by crowds. Same after. Hop off and into a few pubs to do the rounds. It wasn't cool and trendy. Football wasn't the place to be seen. It was a sport for the dedicated. The hardcore. The devoted. But now you've got your multimillionaires, your live streams, your global brands, you global followings. So easy to follow football. Buy replica shirts, click and buy season tickets. Create the pretence that you were there back in the day. Everyone is SCFC's #1 fan. Good luck. Football used to be fun. It was a good bawdy laugh with your mates. Now all I read is complaining and whining from spoiled dyslexic halfwits. Modern football is rubbish. Forgive me if I don't give a fuck about your opinion of it. Your spot on with nearly all you say , modern premier league football is just a money making machine for all these mercenaries who just turn up play how they want and take there wedge , there's no loyalty that's why players like imbula , bojan etc will be moved on and replaced with the next player , it's like a conveyer belt , the game is rotten but what's the answer I really don't know
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 7:33:19 GMT
If this is true about Imbula leaving,then serious questions need to be put to the management team! I'm more concerned that we had a chance to offload him to Torino then moved the goalposts at the last minute. We're going to get stuck with a player on a huge contract that gives absolutely no benefit to the team. We really need Bojan to come good at Mainz otherwise we'll be in the same boat as Imbula. Two players on huge long term contracts who offer next to nothing. The management team/recruitment team needs looking at. I wouldn't be bothered if they all went.
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Post by scfcwebby on Mar 1, 2017 7:51:50 GMT
If you're going through his whole policy of transfers I reckon they're mostly average with a few good and a few bad, same as anyone else. Done/did well for us for extended periods - Arnie, Bojan, Grant, Pieters, Indi, Odemwingie Looked like good players in patches - Ramadan, Johnson, Shaq, Bardsley, Allen, Diouf, Muni, Afellay, Moses, Imbula average or not given proper chances - Ireland, Joselu, Wollscheid, Assaidi, Van Ginkel, Guidetti Looked poor - Bony, Haugaard, Teixeira, Sidwell, Given Not included Saido cause he's only just joined. Doesnt look too bad really, couple of the 'looked good in patches' could be moved down i suppose. But it's definitely not an awful policy in terms of individuals. The biggest genuine failure is that we haven't been able to replace Whelan or Nzonzi, and we've tried a lot. Fix whelan's position with a proper pacey, strong sitting midfielder and we'd be in a much better position I think. Ramadan "looked good in places" is a bit harsh! He has looked good every time he has been given a chance...
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Post by wagsastokie on Mar 1, 2017 8:00:47 GMT
I'm making the point that money in football has actually benefitted our club in particular immensely.Good for you. Good for SCFC. Good for JCL's. You know what? Before the Prem there was football. It was often dull. It was often boring. It was often tragically hilarious. Some of our players were embarrassingly entertaining. Managers, entertaining in a similar incompetent manner. But.... you could buy a pint and a pie anytime you wanted. You could pay on the gate. You could sit pretty much anywhere (unless you took one of the owd codgers seats). You could get cheap Lads an Dads tickets. You could decide whether to go to an awayday on the morning, depending on the weather, how bad your hangover was, if the lads were going, or if you just randomly felt like it. You could shout and bawl abuse and the worst you;d probably get is a word in the ear from a fat steward or a bored copper. The oatcake was a paper copy that you rolled up into the arse pocket of your jeans to read when you were sober. You didn't have to put up with fuckwittery, twittery, and morons spouting off their "vast intellectual knowledge" (the like of which would barely fit into a gnat's cranium). There were some witty characters down the match but your random clueless fuckwit wouldn't risk bawling and shouting. They'd get straightened out. Or drowned in the Boothen bogs. We didn't have multimillionaire players, glove wearing ponces, and we weren't propping up the lifestyles of the rich and famous and the black credit card accounts of WAGS. The Brit made twice the noise it does now with barely a half of the crowd. But then there wasn't half a crowd of popcorn eating, tweeting, texting, goggle eyed replica shirted halfwits shouting and bawling for one of our most successful managers to be fired. The Brit was a horrible cauldron and many teams feared coming here. Some were seen off in good fashion, and they lived to tell the tale of what a horrible place Stoke was. We could grab the last bus to the game after necking a few pints, untroubled by crowds. Same after. Hop off and into a few pubs to do the rounds. It wasn't cool and trendy. Football wasn't the place to be seen. It was a sport for the dedicated. The hardcore. The devoted. But now you've got your multimillionaires, your live streams, your global brands, you global followings. So easy to follow football. Buy replica shirts, click and buy season tickets. Create the pretence that you were there back in the day. Everyone is SCFC's #1 fan. Good luck. Football used to be fun. It was a good bawdy laugh with your mates. Now all I read is complaining and whining from spoiled dyslexic halfwits. Modern football is rubbish. Forgive me if I don't give a fuck about your opinion of it. That my man is the post of the year When i watch my local team I stand there with my lads I feel sorry for them that they have never stood on a terrace with thousands of people from different races different jobs all united in wanting THEIR team to win Unfortunately nobody under forty can really comprehend that feeling It is not their fault if they don't understand what football was like before money ruined the game We just have to be grateful we have seen and experienced what we have Though it doesn't make the loss easier to tolerate
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Post by cheekymatt71 on Mar 1, 2017 8:45:35 GMT
I'm making the point that money in football has actually benefitted our club in particular immensely.Good for you. Good for SCFC. Good for JCL's. You know what? Before the Prem there was football. It was often dull. It was often boring. It was often tragically hilarious. Some of our players were embarrassingly entertaining. Managers, entertaining in a similar incompetent manner. But.... you could buy a pint and a pie anytime you wanted. You could pay on the gate. You could sit pretty much anywhere (unless you took one of the owd codgers seats). You could get cheap Lads an Dads tickets. You could decide whether to go to an awayday on the morning, depending on the weather, how bad your hangover was, if the lads were going, or if you just randomly felt like it. You could shout and bawl abuse and the worst you;d probably get is a word in the ear from a fat steward or a bored copper. The oatcake was a paper copy that you rolled up into the arse pocket of your jeans to read when you were sober. You didn't have to put up with fuckwittery, twittery, and morons spouting off their "vast intellectual knowledge" (the like of which would barely fit into a gnat's cranium). There were some witty characters down the match but your random clueless fuckwit wouldn't risk bawling and shouting. They'd get straightened out. Or drowned in the Boothen bogs. We didn't have multimillionaire players, glove wearing ponces, and we weren't propping up the lifestyles of the rich and famous and the black credit card accounts of WAGS. The Brit made twice the noise it does now with barely a half of the crowd. But then there wasn't half a crowd of popcorn eating, tweeting, texting, goggle eyed replica shirted halfwits shouting and bawling for one of our most successful managers to be fired. The Brit was a horrible cauldron and many teams feared coming here. Some were seen off in good fashion, and they lived to tell the tale of what a horrible place Stoke was. We could grab the last bus to the game after necking a few pints, untroubled by crowds. Same after. Hop off and into a few pubs to do the rounds. It wasn't cool and trendy. Football wasn't the place to be seen. It was a sport for the dedicated. The hardcore. The devoted. But now you've got your multimillionaires, your live streams, your global brands, you global followings. So easy to follow football. Buy replica shirts, click and buy season tickets. Create the pretence that you were there back in the day. Everyone is SCFC's #1 fan. Good luck. Football used to be fun. It was a good bawdy laugh with your mates. Now all I read is complaining and whining from spoiled dyslexic halfwits. Modern football is rubbish. Forgive me if I don't give a fuck about your opinion of it. Top post Old Stokie. This isnt just about looking at the past through rose-tinted spectacles. Football has been ruined by money and we've lost the tribalism and camaraderie that used to come from standing together in the terraces and supporting our team through thick and thin. Is it because we've been 10 years in the Prem and we have become the plastic fans we used to detest at clubs like Arsenal? Or is this a general english wide malaise. We should look to Germany for a model of how to connect the clubs back to the local fanbase and get good atmospheres back.
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Post by superheroantonius on Mar 1, 2017 9:10:21 GMT
I can't remember shawcross quote exactly but something like... I am not sure exactly what the problem is but it's probably our attitude.
Jeez He might be right but that is sad
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 10:18:15 GMT
I've always hated us losing, but that at weekend was abysmal. I've been a Stoke fan for a long time, and I repeat, capitulation like that, is soul destroying, no matter who you are.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 11:18:29 GMT
If you're going through his whole policy of transfers I reckon they're mostly average with a few good and a few bad, same as anyone else. Done/did well for us for extended periods - Arnie, Bojan, Grant, Pieters, Indi, Odemwingie Looked like good players in patches - Ramadan, Johnson, Shaq, Bardsley, Allen, Diouf, Muni, Afellay, Moses, Imbula average or not given proper chances - Ireland, Joselu, Wollscheid, Assaidi, Van Ginkel, Guidetti Looked poor - Bony, Haugaard, Teixeira, Sidwell, Given Not included Saido cause he's only just joined. Doesnt look too bad really, couple of the 'looked good in patches' could be moved down i suppose. But it's definitely not an awful policy in terms of individuals. The biggest genuine failure is that we haven't been able to replace Whelan or Nzonzi, and we've tried a lot. Fix whelan's position with a proper pacey, strong sitting midfielder and we'd be in a much better position I think. Ramadan "looked good in places" is a bit harsh! He has looked good every time he has been given a chance... Agreed but I couldn't say he's been good for an extended period yet ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/800541/images/kwfoKwtHI0jglJZ4qZf6.gif)
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Post by Davef on Mar 1, 2017 12:37:24 GMT
I'm making the point that money in football has actually benefitted our club in particular immensely.Good for you. Good for SCFC. Good for JCL's. You know what? Before the Prem there was football. It was often dull. It was often boring. It was often tragically hilarious. Some of our players were embarrassingly entertaining. Managers, entertaining in a similar incompetent manner. But.... you could buy a pint and a pie anytime you wanted. You could pay on the gate. You could sit pretty much anywhere (unless you took one of the owd codgers seats). You could get cheap Lads an Dads tickets. You could decide whether to go to an awayday on the morning, depending on the weather, how bad your hangover was, if the lads were going, or if you just randomly felt like it. You could shout and bawl abuse and the worst you;d probably get is a word in the ear from a fat steward or a bored copper. The oatcake was a paper copy that you rolled up into the arse pocket of your jeans to read when you were sober. You didn't have to put up with fuckwittery, twittery, and morons spouting off their "vast intellectual knowledge" (the like of which would barely fit into a gnat's cranium). There were some witty characters down the match but your random clueless fuckwit wouldn't risk bawling and shouting. They'd get straightened out. Or drowned in the Boothen bogs. We didn't have multimillionaire players, glove wearing ponces, and we weren't propping up the lifestyles of the rich and famous and the black credit card accounts of WAGS. The Brit made twice the noise it does now with barely a half of the crowd. But then there wasn't half a crowd of popcorn eating, tweeting, texting, goggle eyed replica shirted halfwits shouting and bawling for one of our most successful managers to be fired. The Brit was a horrible cauldron and many teams feared coming here. Some were seen off in good fashion, and they lived to tell the tale of what a horrible place Stoke was. We could grab the last bus to the game after necking a few pints, untroubled by crowds. Same after. Hop off and into a few pubs to do the rounds. It wasn't cool and trendy. Football wasn't the place to be seen. It was a sport for the dedicated. The hardcore. The devoted. But now you've got your multimillionaires, your live streams, your global brands, you global followings. So easy to follow football. Buy replica shirts, click and buy season tickets. Create the pretence that you were there back in the day. Everyone is SCFC's #1 fan. Good luck. Football used to be fun. It was a good bawdy laugh with your mates. Now all I read is complaining and whining from spoiled dyslexic halfwits. Modern football is rubbish. Forgive me if I don't give a fuck about your opinion of it. Still is.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 12:54:21 GMT
I'm making the point that money in football has actually benefitted our club in particular immensely.Good for you. Good for SCFC. Good for JCL's. You know what? Before the Prem there was football. It was often dull. It was often boring. It was often tragically hilarious. Some of our players were embarrassingly entertaining. Managers, entertaining in a similar incompetent manner. But.... you could buy a pint and a pie anytime you wanted. You could pay on the gate. You could sit pretty much anywhere (unless you took one of the owd codgers seats). You could get cheap Lads an Dads tickets. You could decide whether to go to an awayday on the morning, depending on the weather, how bad your hangover was, if the lads were going, or if you just randomly felt like it. You could shout and bawl abuse and the worst you;d probably get is a word in the ear from a fat steward or a bored copper. The oatcake was a paper copy that you rolled up into the arse pocket of your jeans to read when you were sober. You didn't have to put up with fuckwittery, twittery, and morons spouting off their "vast intellectual knowledge" (the like of which would barely fit into a gnat's cranium). There were some witty characters down the match but your random clueless fuckwit wouldn't risk bawling and shouting. They'd get straightened out. Or drowned in the Boothen bogs. We didn't have multimillionaire players, glove wearing ponces, and we weren't propping up the lifestyles of the rich and famous and the black credit card accounts of WAGS. The Brit made twice the noise it does now with barely a half of the crowd. But then there wasn't half a crowd of popcorn eating, tweeting, texting, goggle eyed replica shirted halfwits shouting and bawling for one of our most successful managers to be fired. The Brit was a horrible cauldron and many teams feared coming here. Some were seen off in good fashion, and they lived to tell the tale of what a horrible place Stoke was. We could grab the last bus to the game after necking a few pints, untroubled by crowds. Same after. Hop off and into a few pubs to do the rounds. It wasn't cool and trendy. Football wasn't the place to be seen. It was a sport for the dedicated. The hardcore. The devoted. But now you've got your multimillionaires, your live streams, your global brands, you global followings. So easy to follow football. Buy replica shirts, click and buy season tickets. Create the pretence that you were there back in the day. Everyone is SCFC's #1 fan. Good luck. Football used to be fun. It was a good bawdy laugh with your mates. Now all I read is complaining and whining from spoiled dyslexic halfwits. Modern football is rubbish. Forgive me if I don't give a fuck about your opinion of it. I don't go to the football for a drink, I don't go for a pie, I don't go there to be 'deciated, hardcore and devoted'. I go because I love watching football, I love the team, the game and personally I'd rather see us compete and beat the Arsenels, Uniteds, Citys and Chelseas then watch a shit standard of football for the sake of getting into the concourse earlier for a pie. I go to the match to support my team and I want to see us play to the highest standard possible, and money has helped make us a better footballing team. You enjoy the football for a 'bawdy laugh with your mates' I enjoy it for the seeing our team compete and play at the highest standard achievable. Lower league football has its charms, I had a ST for Chesterfield when they were in League 2 and I watch Sheffield United in League 1 now, but their football doesn't compare to what we see for Stoke and it's the money which allows that to happen.
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Post by alster on Mar 1, 2017 13:05:25 GMT
You taking about the shit as your team or Stoke?? I've never, ever said I supported United or described myself as a fan in any way. I did however say, and I continue to say, I thought they were a fucking great team under Fergie who played exciting fast paced football in a style I'd love to see Stoke try and emulate. Fuck if that makes you a Man Utd fan I must be one too, I've attended god knows how many Stoke games in my 30 odd years as a Stoke Supporter and I've never once attended a game with Man Utd which did not also have Stoke City but you're bang on I loved watching Fergies teams.
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