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Post by crouchpotato1 on Feb 12, 2019 22:26:24 GMT
Efe Ambrose signed for Derby tonight off that list
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Post by tony1234 on Feb 12, 2019 22:35:20 GMT
34 year old Assou Ekotto, probably better there than BMI The same Assou Ekotto who said he doesn't like football and said he now wants to become a pornstar? well, sounds like a good fit - means he'll be ready to get shafted every week.
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Post by larstoke on Feb 12, 2019 22:35:25 GMT
Page 5 of this list. Jermaine Pennant £0.5m. I did not realise how much of his career was spent out on loan to various clubs. Was this a sign of his bad luck or a troubled personality?. Good player when he wanted to be and I think he tried at times for us. We got some of the best, and the worst of Pennant. The best exemplified by his electric performances with Etherington in 10/11 season. We really had amazing delivery back then. The worst exemplified in his final season under Hughes, when he came on the pitch against Everton for 10 mins and hacked down Leon Osman to hand them a last minute penalty. I don't think it's bad luck with Pennant personally....a lot of it is self inflicted. 10/11 - man was that a great season, with etherington and pennant on the wings. good times. but he did always seem to be a bit of an idiot, pennant. i blame the parents.
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Post by Absolution on Feb 12, 2019 22:57:31 GMT
I thought Pennant was largely excellent for us. He got suckered into retaliating in the wrong place v Everton, but I never understood why that one incident seemed to overshadow everything he'd done in a Stoke shirt.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Feb 12, 2019 23:14:46 GMT
I thought Pennant was largely excellent for us. He got suckered into retaliating in the wrong place v Everton, but I never understood why that one incident seemed to overshadow everything he'd done in a Stoke shirt. It wasn’t so much that he got suckered into retaliating as he’d been out on the piss the night before and in the space of 10 minutes committed the most fouls of anyone in the game. This after he got himself dropped by acting the twat under Pulis. He was great for us initially but reverted to type, sadly.
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Post by Absolution on Feb 12, 2019 23:31:56 GMT
I thought Pennant was largely excellent for us. He got suckered into retaliating in the wrong place v Everton, but I never understood why that one incident seemed to overshadow everything he'd done in a Stoke shirt. It wasn’t so much that he got suckered into retaliating as he’d been out on the piss the night before and in the space of 10 minutes committed the most fouls of anyone in the game. This after he got himself dropped by acting the twat under Pulis. He was great for us initially but reverted to type, sadly. I’d not realised he’d been out the night before (not that I’m shocked at that). I just remember immediately after the match the great and the good on the Oatcake had practically declared a fatwa on him and he was never forgiven. I remember him and Etherington terrorising defences and winning games for us, then Kemp declaring that you couldn’t get away with using two wingers in the Premier League, and he was barely seen after that.
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Feb 13, 2019 7:39:11 GMT
It wasn’t so much that he got suckered into retaliating as he’d been out on the piss the night before and in the space of 10 minutes committed the most fouls of anyone in the game. This after he got himself dropped by acting the twat under Pulis. He was great for us initially but reverted to type, sadly. I’d not realised he’d been out the night before (not that I’m shocked at that). I just remember immediately after the match the great and the good on the Oatcake had practically declared a fatwa on him and he was never forgiven. I remember him and Etherington terrorising defences and winning games for us, then Kemp declaring that you couldn’t get away with using two wingers in the Premier League, and he was barely seen after that. I think Kemp argued that a fair bit later, deep into Pulis' 'Colonel Kurtz' phase. Pennant was dropped because he twice broke a club curfew, he had nobody to blame but himself. It definitely started to go wrong for Pulis when he lost his bottle about wingers and spent the money he should have invested in a good one on Crouch and Palacios.
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Post by greyman on Feb 13, 2019 8:22:58 GMT
Pennant was so good for us - as well as Etherington - in the 10/11 season that when we mullered Arsenal in that game before the Cup Final, Jack Wilshere spent the entire game trying to cripple him and one or two other players. No protection from the ref at all so good job Wilko took matters into his own hands.
Wilshere, one of the very very few players I would like to see suffer a career ending injury.
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Feb 13, 2019 11:08:54 GMT
I’d not realised he’d been out the night before (not that I’m shocked at that). I just remember immediately after the match the great and the good on the Oatcake had practically declared a fatwa on him and he was never forgiven. I remember him and Etherington terrorising defences and winning games for us, then Kemp declaring that you couldn’t get away with using two wingers in the Premier League, and he was barely seen after that. I think Kemp argued that a fair bit later, deep into Pulis' 'Colonel Kurtz' phase. Pennant was dropped because he twice broke a club curfew, he had nobody to blame but himself. It definitely started to go wrong for Pulis when he lost his bottle about wingers and spent the money he should have invested in a good one on Crouch and Palacios.
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on Feb 13, 2019 11:16:31 GMT
I thought Pennant was largely excellent for us. He got suckered into retaliating in the wrong place v Everton, but I never understood why that one incident seemed to overshadow everything he'd done in a Stoke shirt. I don't think it overshadowed his contribution, so much as it was just a very stark end of Stoke career moment. I literally said to my Dad when it happened, "that's the last we'll see of him" and so it proved. It's rare you can find such a pinpoint moment signalling the end any player's time at a club. My greatest memory of Pennant however is him completely terrorising Newcastle United in that 4-0 win, which is still one of my favourite Stoke games ever. We scarcely ever played with over flowing confidence under Pulis as we did that day.
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Post by Absolution on Feb 13, 2019 16:34:33 GMT
I thought Pennant was largely excellent for us. He got suckered into retaliating in the wrong place v Everton, but I never understood why that one incident seemed to overshadow everything he'd done in a Stoke shirt. I don't think it overshadowed his contribution, so much as it was just a very stark end of Stoke career moment. I literally said to my Dad when it happened, "that's the last we'll see of him" and so it proved. It's rare you can find such a pinpoint moment signalling the end any player's time at a club. My greatest memory of Pennant however is him completely terrorising Newcastle United in that 4-0 win, which is still one of my favourite Stoke games ever. We scarcely ever played with over flowing confidence under Pulis as we did that day. The Newcastle match where Ric upended Joey Barton who spent the rest of the match 'offering him on' which appeared to cause Ric quite some amusement, which made Barton even angrier. He was frothing by the end, particularly after Ric scored the fourth in the dying minutes. That was the start of the terrific run leading to the cup final.
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Post by Absolution on Feb 13, 2019 16:38:59 GMT
Pennant was so good for us - as well as Etherington - in the 10/11 season that when we mullered Arsenal in that game before the Cup Final, Jack Wilshere spent the entire game trying to cripple him and one or two other players. No protection from the ref at all so good job Wilko took matters into his own hands. Wilshere, one of the very very few players I would like to see suffer a career ending injury. Wilko's disappearance from the scene was almost a supernatural event.
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Feb 15, 2019 14:33:30 GMT
Efe Ambrose signed for Derby tonight off that list As I was told the other night
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