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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2018 19:59:54 GMT
Wapiti is actually Swahili for "cool story bro"
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Post by alster on Jan 11, 2018 20:01:50 GMT
Currently, the Mighty Potters stand on 20 points from 22 games, with 16 left to play. The Maths show them scoring 18 points from the remaining 16 games, for a season's total of 38 points. Losses: Man U, Leicester, Man City, Everton, Arse, Spurs, Burnley, Liverpool......0 points. Wins: Bournemouth, Southampton, West Ham, Crystal Palace, Swansea........15 points. Draws: Huddersfield, Watford, Brighton.......3 points. Of course, there could be a "new manager bounce" which could slightly throw off calculations, but it will be close to this prediction. The question becomes, will Stoke be able to squeak by and remain in the Prem with 38 points. Most telling is Stoke's goal difference which is the worst in the league and points to massive problems in defense and goal keeping. The new manager had better be a bloody genius. The good news is that their is some great talent in the squad......time will tell if it can be utilized. Glad you're optimistic about us winning 5. I think we'll do it too but I also think your predictions are way off, in fact if we fail to win at the very least 1 preferably all 3 against Huddersfield, Watford and Brighton at home I'm sorry to say I think we're down.
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Post by wapiti on Jan 11, 2018 20:04:50 GMT
Have you had a go at the football pools, there's good money to be made. I played them once, I think Sept 1973......was in Stone visiting me Gran, when the "pools" man knocked on the door. Just guessed and didn't spend a lot on my guesses. That was a weekend with lots of draws......went over to The Continent for two weeks and a check for 100 quid was waiting for me when I came back.
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Post by claytonscrubs on Jan 11, 2018 20:07:47 GMT
We need 39 points to stay up. Well that’s us fucked then....
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Post by alster on Jan 11, 2018 20:13:24 GMT
Currently, the Mighty Potters stand on 20 points from 22 games, with 16 left to play. The Maths show them scoring 18 points from the remaining 16 games, for a season's total of 38 points. Losses: Man U, Leicester, Man City, Everton, Arse, Spurs, Burnley, Liverpool......0 points. Wins: Bournemouth, Southampton, West Ham, Crystal Palace, Swansea........15 points. Draws: Huddersfield, Watford, Brighton.......3 points. Of course, there could be a "new manager bounce" which could slightly throw off calculations, but it will be close to this prediction. The question becomes, will Stoke be able to squeak by and remain in the Prem with 38 points. Most telling is Stoke's goal difference which is the worst in the league and points to massive problems in defense and goal keeping. The new manager had better be a bloody genius. The good news is that their is some great talent in the squad......time will tell if it can be utilized. Glad you're optimistic about us winning 5. I think we'll do it too but I also think your predictions are way off, in fact if we fail to win at the very least 1 preferably all 3 against Huddersfield, Watford and Brighton at home I'm sorry to say I think we're down. For the record I think we'll beat Huddersfield, Watford, Brighton, Burnley and Crystal Palace. draw with Bournemouth, Everton, Swansea and Southampton. Lose to Man Utd, Leicester, Man City, Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool, West Ham.
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Post by alster on Jan 11, 2018 20:14:27 GMT
We need 39 points to stay up. Well that’s us fucked then.... Doubt it I think 36 will do the trick this season.
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Post by GoBoks on Jan 11, 2018 20:14:58 GMT
How does a team with a potential #1 England keeper concede 47 goals in 22 games. At that rate, Stoke City has to score 2 goals in the first minute, to even have a chance at winning the game. Maybe a 5-3-2 formation. If we’re trying to score 2 in the first minute, perhaps 2-3-5 would be a better bet.
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Post by claytonscrubs on Jan 11, 2018 20:16:48 GMT
Glad you're optimistic about us winning 5. I think we'll do it too but I also think your predictions are way off, in fact if we fail to win at the very least 1 preferably all 3 against Huddersfield, Watford and Brighton at home I'm sorry to say I think we're down. For the record I think we'll beat Huddersfield, Watford, Brighton, Burnley and Crystal Palace. draw with Bournemouth, Everton, Swansea and Southampton. Lose to Man Utd, Leicester, Man City, Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool, West Ham. That makes 39 points....Bingo ! 👍
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Post by Paul Spencer on Jan 11, 2018 20:24:10 GMT
Currently, the Mighty Potters stand on 20 points from 22 games, with 16 left to play. The Maths show them scoring 18 points from the remaining 16 games, for a season's total of 38 points. Losses: Man U, Leicester, Man City, Everton, Arse, Spurs, Burnley, Liverpool......0 points. Wins: Bournemouth, Southampton, West Ham, Crystal Palace, Swansea........15 points. Draws: Huddersfield, Watford, Brighton.......3 points. Of course, there could be a "new manager bounce" which could slightly throw off calculations, but it will be close to this prediction. The question becomes, will Stoke be able to squeak by and remain in the Prem with 38 points. Most telling is Stoke's goal difference which is the worst in the league and points to massive problems in defense and goal keeping. The new manager had better be a bloody genius. The good news is that their is some great talent in the squad......time will tell if it can be utilized. That's not maths mate, that's just pure speculation. The maths say that we're averaging 0.9 points a game this season, if that was to continue over the remaining 16 games we would finish with 34.5. Of course we can't finish with half a point and there are a ton of actual variables that will ultimately contribute to our final points tally but that's as near as you're going to get to actual 'maths' at the minute.
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Post by stokiejoe on Jan 11, 2018 20:24:18 GMT
How does a team with a potential #1 England keeper concede 47 goals in 22 games. At that rate, Stoke City has to score 2 goals in the first minute, to even have a chance at winning the game. Maybe a 5-3-2 formation. The problem is we are not a team. We have a bunch of individuals who meet on the pitch, selected by the previous on many occasions to play in positions other than their own. To add interest he introduced the substitution raffle ecxactly on 70 minutes. The idea seemed to have been to put the team numbers of those on the bench and on the pitch in two hats and select one from each, one off and one on With a manager like Flores who can get them to play as a team, organise the defence and make sensible substitutions we have every chance of surviving Nect sesson onwards and upwards.
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Post by alster on Jan 11, 2018 20:28:07 GMT
For the record I think we'll beat Huddersfield, Watford, Brighton, Burnley and Crystal Palace. draw with Bournemouth, Everton, Swansea and Southampton. Lose to Man Utd, Leicester, Man City, Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool, West Ham. That makes 39 points....Bingo ! 👍 Keep saying the same thing if we win 5 we'll be ok, its the winning 5 that's the hard bit.
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Post by StokeTudoGuy on Jan 11, 2018 20:44:27 GMT
We beat Leicester, Watford and Brighton
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Post by kidcrewbob on Jan 11, 2018 23:13:44 GMT
Our GD makes it effectively -1 as well......they've got to put a real shift in starting Monday where the objective will be a cheeky point but showing some fight and avoiding humiliation will do for me - especially if it's in front of a new boss....
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Post by darksideofthemoon on Jan 11, 2018 23:58:47 GMT
We need 39 points to stay up. Well that’s us fucked then.... Doubt it I think 36 will do the trick this season. I tend to agree - 35/36 given the parlous state of the league in general...I hope you're right!!
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Post by kustokie on Jan 12, 2018 3:49:36 GMT
Doubt it I think 36 will do the trick this season. I tend to agree - 35/36 given the parlous state of the league in general...I hope you're right!! It’s very tight at the bottom and I can see several teams finishing equal 18th on points but we would go down on GD unless we make big improvements at the back.
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Post by mozzer on Jan 12, 2018 7:34:33 GMT
No chance, you would be hoping 3rd from bottom only gets 37 points.....41 points should be our minimum target with our gd
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Post by ohbottom on Jan 12, 2018 7:55:14 GMT
That's not maths, it's guesswork
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Post by foster on Jan 12, 2018 9:26:39 GMT
What's 'the maths'?
If you mean the average points per game so far multiplied by the remaining games and added to the current total then I disagree.
No way we will continue like this for the remainder of the season.
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Post by foster on Jan 12, 2018 9:27:46 GMT
What's 'the maths'? If you mean the average points per game so far multiplied by the remaining games and added to the current total then I disagree. No way we will continue like this for the remainder of the season. Ok, just saw you attempted to predict the remaining results. That's not really maths is it. Anyway, waste of time. 1 game at a time.
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Post by thebet365 on Jan 12, 2018 10:24:46 GMT
No chance, you would be hoping 3rd from bottom only gets 37 points.....41 points should be our minimum target with our gd Why no Chance considering 3rd bottom has only got more than 37 points 4 times in the last 20 years.
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Post by mozzer on Jan 12, 2018 12:00:51 GMT
No chance, you would be hoping 3rd from bottom only gets 37 points.....41 points should be our minimum target with our gd Why no Chance considering 3rd bottom has only got more than 37 points 4 times in the last 20 years. Well lets just hope that this is not the 5th time then.
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Post by stokiemart83 on Jan 12, 2018 23:42:01 GMT
Just been through the remaining fixtures, and I'm pretty certain we'll get 20 points out of them, that takes us Bang on the big 40!!! Hopefully that will be enough, should be!!!🤞
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Post by StokeTudoGuy on Jan 12, 2018 23:46:10 GMT
I see 29 points as being well within our grasp, the rest would need witchcraft .... We won't get all those 29, but they are there for the taking.
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Post by stokiemart83 on Jan 12, 2018 23:46:37 GMT
But with Quique in charge, hopefully he gets us 25+!!! Gooooooo oooonnnn!!!!
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Post by stokiemart83 on Jan 12, 2018 23:50:32 GMT
I see 29 points as being well within our grasp, the rest would need witchcraft .... We won't get all those 29, but they are there for the taking. Yeah, well I've put us to lose away at Leicester, draw away at Swansea and at home to Everton, but definitely 3 games we could get atleast 6 points out of!
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Post by StokeTudoGuy on Jan 12, 2018 23:56:10 GMT
I see 29 points as being well within our grasp, the rest would need witchcraft .... We won't get all those 29, but they are there for the taking. Yeah, well I've put us to lose away at Leicester, draw away at Swansea and at home to Everton, but definitely 3 games we could get atleast 6 points out of! We beat Swansea unless we feel safe and relaxed by then...if we don't by that point we are close to fucked and half way round the U bend anyway.
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Post by blackpoolred on Jan 13, 2018 0:04:57 GMT
Really depends on who we get in the window, the current squad of players are not good enough to get another 20pts. We have 7 homes left, 1 of those is against City, so effectively 6 and to get to 40pts we would probably need to win 5 of those 6 - not sure that the current crop are anywhere near good enough to do that.
Our own players are saying we lack character and are mentally weak, add slow, unfit and not a great deal of ability or pace and I really don't see how we are getting to 40pts - we also have no confidence at the moment.
If something does not change drastically in terms of playing staff before the Huddersfield game then we could be saying goodbye to yet another home game and a potential 3pts.
Waited way too long to get a new manger, I really do hope that we are not going to wait until the last day of the window to bring in any potential new signings. Now is the time to get the cheque book out and just go for it and take a punt before the Hud game - if anything, at the moment, we reek of a team that may struggle to win another game let alone get to 40pts
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Post by Dr Hesham on Jan 13, 2018 1:08:14 GMT
I predict 21 points in the upcoming games (Total 41), with 10 points in the upcoming 5 games.
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Post by djduncanjames on Jan 13, 2018 2:47:15 GMT
I predict 21 points in the upcoming games (Total 41), with 10 points in the upcoming 5 games. Nice one Doc 😎💪
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Post by magliarosa on Jan 13, 2018 3:08:29 GMT
Just looked at the fixtures myself and on current form I predict we'll achieve another 18 points taking us to 38 which should be enough. I've been quite pessimistic with my predictions but with a new manager and if we pick up some good form could easily nick a few more results I just hope we don't get stung on our terrible goal difference.
Manchester United v Stoke City - 0 Stoke City v Huddersfield Town - 3 Stoke City v Watford - 1 Bournemouth v Stoke City - 0 Stoke City v Brighton and Hove Albion - 3 Leicester City v Stoke City - 0 Southampton v Stoke City - 1 Stoke City v Manchester City - 0 Stoke City v Everton - 1 Arsenal v Stoke City - 0 Stoke City v Tottenham Hotspur - 0 West Ham United v Stoke City - 0 Stoke City v Burnley - 3 Liverpool v Stoke City - 0 Stoke City v Crystal Palace - 3 Swansea City v Stoke City - 3
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