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Post by Robo10 on Sept 25, 2019 16:03:06 GMT
If you can be arsed
On after a Spurs pasting thats on next.
At least we are still talked about....
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Post by PolPotter on Sept 25, 2019 16:04:42 GMT
If you can be arsed On after a Spurs pasting thats on next. At least we are still talked about.... I'm surprised we are news. A totally insignificant club in football with nothing going for it.
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Post by mickmillslovechild on Sept 25, 2019 16:08:12 GMT
Durham was never that bad or unfair about us to be fair, he just never liked our "hard man" physical attitude when he thought we should be trying to play actual football after being in the Prem about 5 years (which most on here agreed with at the time).
Now that we have the physical hardness of a disabled gnat larvae, he's actually pretty balanced and fair.
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Post by mickstupp on Sept 25, 2019 16:15:13 GMT
I hope he gives it to us with both barrels. The club deserves every bit of criticism it’s currently getting and then some.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2019 16:22:53 GMT
If you can be arsed On after a Spurs pasting thats on next. At least we are still talked about.... I'm surprised we are news. A totally insignificant club in football with nothing going for it. On the contrary. We are the horrible club that every club in the country, or in the Premier League at least, will take great delight in seeing fail.
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Post by serpico on Sept 25, 2019 16:40:32 GMT
on now.
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Post by badger1863 on Sept 25, 2019 16:43:33 GMT
Can't argue with any of that.
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Post by Goonie on Sept 25, 2019 16:50:39 GMT
Not heard it so let me guess
DURHAM What is going on at Stoke? Since hughes left they've had 3 further managers, 2 highly praised up-and-coming managers in Rowett and Jones, spent £60m on transfers, offloaded a huge amount of talent in loans and sit joint bottom of the Championship. Just what is going on? Stoke fans call in and tell us what the hell is happening to your once great club. Three 9th place finishes under hughes and you sack him! Dear or dear
GOUGH Heads gone, heads gone
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2019 16:51:15 GMT
Was that it?
That was a tummy tickling.
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Post by FrankButcher on Sept 25, 2019 16:57:27 GMT
I'm sure he said that NJ would be gone sooner rather than later regardless of what happens I'll have to give it another listen.
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Post by Robo10 on Sept 25, 2019 17:01:20 GMT
Was that it? That was a tummy tickling. No still ongoing Both callers spot on - nothing dramatic, all wanted him to do well, false promises, too many squad, team and formation changes. Time to go. Nothing incendiary, just the facts
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Post by FullerMagic on Sept 25, 2019 17:14:29 GMT
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Post by PolPotter on Sept 25, 2019 17:42:02 GMT
I'm surprised we are news. A totally insignificant club in football with nothing going for it. On the contrary. We are the horrible club that every club in the country, or in the Premier League at least, will take great delight in seeing fail. I was thinking more about the media but you are right.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2019 18:55:49 GMT
On the contrary. We are the horrible club that every club in the country, or in the Premier League at least, will take great delight in seeing fail. I was thinking more about the media but you are right. It holds true for parts of the media too. Some did have a hey day when the twinkletoed three had their brief moments, but on the whole large sections of the media are still angry about the football we played, certainly at the beginning and the end of the PL years.
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Post by zelem on Sept 25, 2019 19:10:27 GMT
There are two people on this planet pinching a living; one is Dianne Abbott and the other Adrian Durham!
Love talk sport but whenever his show comes on i turn off!, the most talentless prick i have ever known. Just makes up stupid and rediculous things to get a bite and reaction so people phone in , which basically keeps himself in a job!
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Post by silsdenstokie on Sept 25, 2019 19:39:30 GMT
A knob he may be but he's very good at what he does which is causing controversy and getting people to ring in.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2019 19:41:15 GMT
To most people Stoke City are still the long throw,long ball, tough tackling rugby team with fans who boo the opposition for no apparent reason. The stigma of the Pulis years will take some shifting.....and yet some of you fuckers want him back !!!
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Post by thevoid on Sept 25, 2019 19:42:07 GMT
Can't argue with that. They're not slagging the club off, they seem as surprised as anyone at the fall from grace and that we shoukd be doing much better.
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Post by stokeykez on Sept 25, 2019 19:42:08 GMT
Hes hit the nail right on the head tonight and told it how it is, from a completely unbiased point of view unlike thebsentinel and radio stoke who are that deep in the pockets of stoke they darent say anything of any controversy against the club
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2019 19:43:19 GMT
To most people Stoke City are still the long throw,long ball, tough tackling rugby team with fans who boo the opposition for no apparent reason. The stigma of the Pulis years will take some shifting.....and yet some of you fuckers want him back !!! Yeah getting promoted and to the FA cup final and having opposition teams hating coming to the Brit was really fucking shit wasn’t it...
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Post by teenagefanclub on Sept 25, 2019 19:49:27 GMT
Did he mention Trump and impeachment?
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Post by Gods on Sept 25, 2019 19:51:24 GMT
To most people Stoke City are still the long throw,long ball, tough tackling rugby team with fans who boo the opposition for no apparent reason. The stigma of the Pulis years will take some shifting.....and yet some of you fuckers want him back !!! What!?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2019 20:00:18 GMT
I like Durham, always have. He's the best at what he does, but he also is a football nut and knows a lot more about the game than he's given credit for.
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Post by RF10 on Sept 25, 2019 20:01:38 GMT
I'm not surprised we are talked about. There are 7 teams (top 6 plus Everton) who have been in the Premier league for 10 seasons which we were. We were considered a normal Premier League team and expected to be there.
The fall we have endured has been nothing short from a complete and utter disgrace. Normally clubs drop like we have done when there has been zero investment not 100's million spent. Given the way we spent last season we should have ripped the league to bits, instead we throw away the money on utter garbage.
The whole stragedy of the club is so so wrong with no real forward thinking. Although Newcastle have there problems with Ashley one interesting point came to light when Rafa went is the club would not sign players over a certain age which he wanted removing in order to get Rondon on a a permanent deal. Now there's got to be some kind of middle ground but that's the kind of philosophy we should be aiming for. Jones promised a policy in signing players similar to this yet he threw this out the window in his first two signings! If the board brought his vision then why did they allow him to sign these players? It's completely lunacy.
I've supported Jones so much up to this point but it's pretty hard to avoid the fact he looks completely out of his depth right now, which pains me to say.
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Sept 25, 2019 20:04:51 GMT
Was it sponsored by Paddy Power?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2019 20:06:58 GMT
I'm not surprised we are talked about. There are 7 teams (top 6 plus Everton) who have been in the Premier league for 10 seasons which we were. We were considered a normal Premier League team and expected to be there. The fall we have endured has been nothing short from a complete and utter disgrace. Normally clubs drop like we have done when there has been zero investment not 100's million spent. Given the way we spent last season we should have ripped the league to bits, instead we throw away the money on utter garbage. The whole stragedy of the club is so so wrong with no real forward thinking. Although Newcastle have there problems with Ashley one interesting point came to light when Rafa went is the club would not sign players over a certain age which he wanted removing in order to get Rondon on a a permanent deal. Now there's got to be some kind of middle ground but that's the kind of philosophy we should be aiming for. Jones promised a policy in signing players similar to this yet he threw this out the window in his first two signings! If the board brought his vision then why did they allow him to sign these players? It's completely lunacy. I've supported Jones so much up to this point but it's pretty hard to avoid the fact he looks completely out of his depth right now, which pains me to say. "Jones promised a policy in signing players similar to this yet he threw this out the window in his first two signings! If the board brought his vision then why did they allow him to sign these players? It's completely lunacy." This is absolutely spot on. Our owners are more culpable in our demise than any fucking manager. I keep getting told that the owners have to back their managers and let them get on with signing whoever they want. Its bullshit and always has been.
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Post by chad on Sept 25, 2019 20:08:20 GMT
To most people Stoke City are still the long throw,long ball, tough tackling rugby team with fans who boo the opposition for no apparent reason. The stigma of the Pulis years will take some shifting.....and yet some of you fuckers want him back !!! Well I for one long for the days of the long throw, players that battled like fuck, an electric atmosphere and a team that won football games Real shit them Pulis years weren’t they "......... and some people seem to forget them
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Post by RF10 on Sept 25, 2019 20:14:51 GMT
I'm not surprised we are talked about. There are 7 teams (top 6 plus Everton) who have been in the Premier league for 10 seasons which we were. We were considered a normal Premier League team and expected to be there. The fall we have endured has been nothing short from a complete and utter disgrace. Normally clubs drop like we have done when there has been zero investment not 100's million spent. Given the way we spent last season we should have ripped the league to bits, instead we throw away the money on utter garbage. The whole stragedy of the club is so so wrong with no real forward thinking. Although Newcastle have there problems with Ashley one interesting point came to light when Rafa went is the club would not sign players over a certain age which he wanted removing in order to get Rondon on a a permanent deal. Now there's got to be some kind of middle ground but that's the kind of philosophy we should be aiming for. Jones promised a policy in signing players similar to this yet he threw this out the window in his first two signings! If the board brought his vision then why did they allow him to sign these players? It's completely lunacy. I've supported Jones so much up to this point but it's pretty hard to avoid the fact he looks completely out of his depth right now, which pains me to say. "Jones promised a policy in signing players similar to this yet he threw this out the window in his first two signings! If the board brought his vision then why did they allow him to sign these players? It's completely lunacy." This is absolutely spot on. Our owners are more culpable in our demise than any fucking manager. I keep getting told that the owners have to back their managers and let them get on with signing whoever they want. Its bullshit and always has been. What the Coates family have done for us in terms of money spent and improving stadium, training ground etc has been brilliant and forever grateful but the throwing money at managers without people in the background implementing a stragedy has proven and continuing to be a hideous mistake.
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Post by zerps on Sept 25, 2019 20:18:07 GMT
To most people Stoke City are still the long throw,long ball, tough tackling rugby team with fans who boo the opposition for no apparent reason. The stigma of the Pulis years will take some shifting.....and yet some of you fuckers want him back !!! No, most of that is good. Just not pulis.
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Post by JurgenVandeurzen on Sept 26, 2019 18:27:13 GMT
To most people Stoke City are still the long throw,long ball, tough tackling rugby team with fans who boo the opposition for no apparent reason. The stigma of the Pulis years will take some shifting.....and yet some of you fuckers want him back !!! At the very least we had an identity and a team that knew its job - we've got fuck all at the minute.
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