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Post by kustokie on Jul 11, 2020 13:44:37 GMT
Not good enough for Stoke, both good enough to start for Burnley. “What’s all the fuss about?”
epitomizes Stoke’s transfer plan (or lack thereof).
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Post by bingbang on Jul 11, 2020 13:48:05 GMT
Both would have stayed as well 😡
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Post by roylandstoke on Jul 11, 2020 13:50:22 GMT
Letting Bardsley go for peanuts was daft.
Letting the only LB at the club go was unforgivable.
Heads should have rolled.
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Post by wrighter on Jul 11, 2020 13:50:33 GMT
good players, gave 100% every game
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Post by robwahlmann on Jul 11, 2020 13:52:13 GMT
Not good enough for Stoke, both good enough to start for Burnley. “What’s all the fuss about?” epitomizes Stoke’s transfer plan (or lack thereof). I thought it was insane when we decided to keep Johnson and let Bards go, but I thought it was OK to let Pieters go as I was sure we had someone else lined up. Since then we haven't really had anybody close to good enough playing in that position! What did Burnley pay, £1M?, and we paid £4M for Smith who certainly is an inferior player to Pieters!!! How we have sold players for next to nothing and bought players for way more than they are actually worth the last seasons is really disturbing!  |
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Post by Club1863 on Jul 11, 2020 13:57:27 GMT
Not good enough for Stoke, both good enough to start for Burnley. “What’s all the fuss about?” epitomizes Stoke’s transfer plan (or lack thereof). I thought it was insane when we decided to keep Johnson and let Bards go, but I thought it was OK to let Pieters go as I was sure we had someone else lined up. Since then we haven't really had anybody close to good enough playing in that position! What did Burnley pay, £1M?, and we paid £4M for Smith who certainly is an inferior player to Pieters!!! How we have sold players for next to nothing and bought players for way more than they are actually worth the last seasons is really disturbing! Wasn’t pieters one of the bad boys at the club pissing the chairman off or something to that extent? Not buying a proper left back though is beyond forgiveable and is one of the major reasons we are in the shit at the moment. |
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Post by datguy on Jul 11, 2020 13:58:24 GMT
Just didn't replace them.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jul 11, 2020 13:58:32 GMT
Pieters doing well for them on right side of midfield as well.
Makes me physically sick the way we let him go and for peanuts.
He was my favourite player and my little one loved him as well.
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Post by AlliG on Jul 11, 2020 14:02:09 GMT
Pieters doing well for them on right side of midfield as well. Makes me physically sick the way we let him go and for peanuts. He was my favourite player and my little one loved him as well. Can you imagine the comments on the Today's Team thread if our manager had ever picked Pieters to play on the right side of midfield?  |
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Post by iglugluk on Jul 11, 2020 14:20:04 GMT
Pieters doing well for them on right side of midfield as well. Makes me physically sick the way we let him go and for peanuts. He was my favourite player and my little one loved him as well. Can you imagine the comments on the Today's Team thread if our manager had ever picked Pieters to play on the right side of midfield? Not that, that would have mattered if it had proven to be a managerial masterstroke.  |
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Post by kustokie on Jul 11, 2020 14:23:46 GMT
I thought it was insane when we decided to keep Johnson and let Bards go, but I thought it was OK to let Pieters go as I was sure we had someone else lined up. Since then we haven't really had anybody close to good enough playing in that position! What did Burnley pay, £1M?, and we paid £4M for Smith who certainly is an inferior player to Pieters!!! How we have sold players for next to nothing and bought players for way more than they are actually worth the last seasons is really disturbing! Wasn’t pieters one of the bad boys at the club pissing the chairman off or something to that extent? Not buying a proper left back though is beyond forgiveable and is one of the major reasons we are in the shit at the moment. That was the rumor. He may have had a very good reason for standing up to the chairman. Good leaders are always ready to listen and take advice from anywhere, even the tea person, especially seasoned veterans like Pieters. He played his heart out for Stoke. Hughes messed him up by trying to convert him to a wing-back. He did the same to Diouf. |
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Post by kustokie on Jul 11, 2020 14:32:32 GMT
Pieters doing well for them on right side of midfield as well. Makes me physically sick the way we let him go and for peanuts. He was my favourite player and my little one loved him as well. Can you imagine the comments on the Today's Team thread if our manager had ever picked Pieters to play on the right side of midfield? He is doing ok, so far, basically a fifth defender. |
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Post by boskampsflaps on Jul 11, 2020 14:50:54 GMT
It isn't that simple re Pieters
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2020 14:51:13 GMT
Can you imagine the comments on the Today's Team thread if our manager had ever picked Pieters to play on the right side of midfield? He is doing ok, so far, basically a fifth defender. He is doing more than ok. If we'd kept Erik we'd had a viable alternative to playing Ince on the right. Who would ever have thought that? |
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Post by AlliG on Jul 11, 2020 15:02:58 GMT
He is doing ok, so far, basically a fifth defender. He is doing more than ok. If we'd kept Erik we'd had a viable alternative to playing Ince on the right. Who would ever have thought that? I was thinking more of the "not more bloody square pegs in round holes" types on here keeling over with that old Victorian favourite apoplexy before the match even kicked off. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2020 15:09:18 GMT
Not good enough for Stoke, both good enough to start for Burnley. “What’s all the fuss about?” epitomizes Stoke’s transfer plan (or lack thereof). The abuse Pieters got when he got injured v West Ham by a good section of our so called fans I don't blame him for leaving |
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Post by riccyfuller93 on Jul 11, 2020 22:22:49 GMT
I seem to remember this board bashing Pieters nearly every game.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2020 22:23:45 GMT
Parks his car anywhere, the absolute renegade.
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Post by pottersrule on Jul 12, 2020 7:34:20 GMT
Letting Bardsley go for peanuts was daft. Letting the only LB at the club go was unforgivable. Heads should have rolled. The fact that we let Bardsley go and kept the past it sicknote Johnson tells you all you need to know about our recruitment.Absolutely shocking. |
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Post by chuckrocky on Jul 12, 2020 7:46:10 GMT
We were absolutely right to let Pieters go when we did, as we were with Whelan, Walters, Huth etc.
The problem is we just didn’t replace him.
People slaughter the current players for not caring about the club, well Pieters was pictured in a night club the night before a crucial game when we were fighting for our lives.
We don’t know most of what goes on behind closed doors at the club, but it certainly became apparent that Pieters wasn’t exactly the model pro we all thought he was.
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Post by werrington on Jul 12, 2020 7:52:36 GMT
And both got reemed regularly on here with fans pleading for them both to be fucked off out of the team
Let’s not rewrite misty eyed history that wasn’t there in the first place
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Post by crapslinger on Jul 12, 2020 7:58:56 GMT
We were absolutely right to let Pieters go when we did, as we were with Whelan, Walters, Huth etc. The problem is we just didn’t replace him. People slaughter the current players for not caring about the club, well Pieters was pictured in a night club the night before a crucial game when we were fighting for our lives. We don’t know most of what goes on behind closed doors at the club, but it certainly became apparent that Pieters wasn’t exactly the model pro we all thought he was. We did replace them with dross who don't/didn't give a shit, buy shit players with shit attitudes you get a shit team who don't give a shit simple. |
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Post by crapslinger on Jul 12, 2020 8:01:35 GMT
And both got reemed regularly on here with fans pleading for them both to be fucked off out of the team Let’s not rewrite misty eyed history that wasn’t there in the first place Never mind we now have Tommy Smith and Stephen Ward as our specialist RB and LB respectively |
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Post by greystokie on Jul 12, 2020 10:28:59 GMT
We definately should have kept Bardsley. Letting Pieters go was the right decision but failing to recruit a suitable replacement was criminally negligent
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Jul 12, 2020 11:05:14 GMT
Tony Scholes the process and what left back situation in a nutshell pathetic exacerbated by the one at the root has picked up a fabulous salary a every year according to to the accounts ever since and remains in role while we crash and burn on his watch
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Post by bolders on Jul 12, 2020 11:07:47 GMT
We were absolutely right to let Pieters go when we did, as we were with Whelan, Walters, Huth etc. The problem is we just didn’t replace him. People slaughter the current players for not caring about the club, well Pieters was pictured in a night club the night before a crucial game when we were fighting for our lives. We don’t know most of what goes on behind closed doors at the club, but it certainly became apparent that Pieters wasn’t exactly the model pro we all thought he was. I think Pieters changed when he started to appear on the real sluts of cheshire show |
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Post by boskampsflaps on Jul 12, 2020 11:12:15 GMT
Letting Bardsley go for peanuts was daft. Letting the only LB at the club go was unforgivable. Heads should have rolled. The fact that we let Bardsley go and kept the past it sicknote Johnson tells you all you need to know about our recruitment.Absolutely shocking. Or rather everything about Hughes. |
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Post by boskampsflaps on Jul 12, 2020 11:13:15 GMT
We were absolutely right to let Pieters go when we did, as we were with Whelan, Walters, Huth etc. The problem is we just didn’t replace him. People slaughter the current players for not caring about the club, well Pieters was pictured in a night club the night before a crucial game when we were fighting for our lives. We don’t know most of what goes on behind closed doors at the club, but it certainly became apparent that Pieters wasn’t exactly the model pro we all thought he was. We did replace them with dross who don't/didn't give a shit, buy shit players with shit attitudes you get a shit team who don't give a shit simple. Pieters would have fit in well. |
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Post by scfcno1fan on Jul 12, 2020 11:15:25 GMT
And both got reemed regularly on here with fans pleading for them both to be fucked off out of the team Let’s not rewrite misty eyed history that wasn’t there in the first place This. I was as bad for this as most other people on here. I can remember a handful of people if that sticking up for pieters. Well I say handful, pretty much davejohno.  |
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Post by OldStokie on Jul 12, 2020 11:39:54 GMT
We were absolutely right to let Pieters go when we did, as we were with Whelan, Walters, Huth etc. The problem is we just didn’t replace him. People slaughter the current players for not caring about the club, well Pieters was pictured in a night club the night before a crucial game when we were fighting for our lives. We don’t know most of what goes on behind closed doors at the club, but it certainly became apparent that Pieters wasn’t exactly the model pro we all thought he was. I was drinking with Huddy and Geoff Salmons at Florence Club until 2am on the Saturday morning before they both turned up in the afternoon in the side that beat L'pool at The Vic. This 'model pro' stuff does my head in at times. It's a good job Waddo didn't give a toss about it. OS. |
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