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Post by bringitondown on Jan 16, 2021 16:53:56 GMT
Not at all but when you’ve been calling for midfield subs because they’re clearly fucked and then you concede a goal with one of those midfielder sauntering back it’s grates. Allen and Mikel haven’t been able to run since about the 60th minute and we clearly needed fresh legs. It’s poor management. So shall we sack him and replace him with.......... So you can’t criticise the manager unless you want to sack him?
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Post by terrorofturfmoor on Jan 16, 2021 16:53:56 GMT
Hurry up and get a striker in for God sake Stoke!!! 🙏🏼
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Jan 16, 2021 16:54:06 GMT
Holtby has changed this game for me
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Post by onlyonesirstan on Jan 16, 2021 16:54:08 GMT
How much injury time?
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Post by a on Jan 16, 2021 16:54:13 GMT
Not at all but when you’ve been calling for midfield subs because they’re clearly fucked and then you concede a goal with one of those midfielder sauntering back it’s grates. Allen and Mikel haven’t been able to run since about the 60th minute and we clearly needed fresh legs. It’s poor management. So shall we sack him and replace him with.......... The thinking doesn’t extend beyond moaning mate.
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Post by chigstoke on Jan 16, 2021 16:54:32 GMT
You were nearly right then as well, good chance just
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Post by bringitondown on Jan 16, 2021 16:54:38 GMT
Holtby has changed this game for me Profited from our very tired midfield
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Post by maninasuitcase on Jan 16, 2021 16:54:39 GMT
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Post by Caerwrangonpotter on Jan 16, 2021 16:54:43 GMT
Hurry up and get a striker in for God sake Stoke!!! 🙏🏼 If we get a striker in we get the play offs no doubt
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Post by Olgrligm on Jan 16, 2021 16:54:56 GMT
I think you can criticise the manager here. It was obvious that Allen and Mikel couldn't perform at 100% after the hour mark, in spite of otherwise good performances. We've had major fitness problems all season, never mind the players coming back from injury.
He should have made the changes. The momentum swung to Blackburn and he acted too late.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jan 16, 2021 16:55:10 GMT
We have a problem with fitness we just cannot go 90 mins. Not sure we do. It's more we've got players in key positions coming back from long-term injuries.
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Post by GrahamHyde on Jan 16, 2021 16:55:14 GMT
SIGN A STRIKER. SIGN A STRIKER. SIGN A STRIKER.
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Jan 16, 2021 16:55:37 GMT
Holtby has changed this game for me Profited from our very tired midfield Yes probably right especially with our pair lacking fitness
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Post by andystokey on Jan 16, 2021 16:55:38 GMT
We have a problem with fitness we just cannot go 90 mins. I don't think that's true. Two key players do and he should have not started one and subbed the other on 60mins.
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Post by newsteadst3 on Jan 16, 2021 16:55:40 GMT
Holtby has changed this game for me Davenport looked a cut above our midfielders
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Jan 16, 2021 16:55:41 GMT
As all longstanding Stoke will know, how come at the end of games we are always" hanging on", rather than being in a position where we are " going for the winner". Invariably if anything happens...we concede. Or am I just imagining this.
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Post by mrteddysalad on Jan 16, 2021 16:55:44 GMT
referee is shite, gives the foul on every dive
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Post by mtrstudent on Jan 16, 2021 16:56:02 GMT
You can provide MON with every pound literally blown by Jones/Rowette and he’d still manage to be as pig headed and downright crazy with his substitutions, the bloke is staggeringly stupid week by week. I was happy enough with the Clarke one. Keeping Powell safe and getting fresh legs on for a counter is fine. Sitting back with an exhausted central mid was catastrophic.
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Post by potterburt on Jan 16, 2021 16:56:10 GMT
Hey to all you whingy whiners who all of a sudden have come out of the woodwork as soon as Blackburn scored.... a brief glance shows that you seem to be the same lot that shout and cry about MoN not making ‘positive’ subs around the 60min mark.....
Well this game has gone south since he did exactly what you lot have been saying should happen.
We had all our young ‘positive’ players sprinting off up front for no reason which left us stretched and exposed.
So whatever MoN does or doesn’t do - you lot will put everything onto him when It doesn’t go to plan.
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Post by Olgrligm on Jan 16, 2021 16:56:14 GMT
We have a problem with fitness we just cannot go 90 mins. Not sure we do. It's more we've got players in key positions coming back from long-term injuries. We've had major problems playing two games in a week since football resumed at the end of last season. We're hopeless midweek.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2021 16:56:38 GMT
First half - decent.
Second half - painful, lacking in direction, negative, horsewank.
We gave Blackburn hope, where there was none.
Shite.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2021 16:56:41 GMT
So shall we sack him and replace him with.......... So you can’t criticise the manager unless you want to sack him? You can, but not every week. Bayern just clearly has it in for MON.
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Post by houstonsteve on Jan 16, 2021 16:56:52 GMT
frustrating as hell.
Could have been 3-0 up at half time. Completely lost the plot after Powell went off, but on balance lots of positives for me. Not a sending off for me either.
I like all the new signings, left back looks great, Matondo raw but promising and Clarke the same. Definitely a good team developing with some very composed football for 60 minutes. Pitch a freaking abomination which didn't help the legs of the team.
A good point in the end and great spirited defending for last 10 minutes.
The board have to find a way of getting another striker in. off to make me oatcakes.....
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Post by a on Jan 16, 2021 16:56:59 GMT
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Post by bgreen13 on Jan 16, 2021 16:57:12 GMT
Good point in the end!
Gives Bayern, hacket et el something to do all weekend too.
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Post by scfcwebby on Jan 16, 2021 16:57:33 GMT
More lost points from MON as it stands and he now has no intention of chasing the winner Not with 10 men no Oh yeah, I forgot that you will never score and and no team in the history of football has ever "had a go" after a player has been sent off. My mistake
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Jan 16, 2021 16:57:36 GMT
Hope Powell is just precautionary. Been pretty influential today. What's the former England manager got to do with today's game?
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Post by chuckrocky on Jan 16, 2021 16:57:45 GMT
Another two points pissed away.
We must have the worst record in the league at throwing away points from a winning position.
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Post by themistocles on Jan 16, 2021 16:57:47 GMT
Holtby has changed this game for me Our non-existent centre midfield from 60 minutes onwards changed the game ffs
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Post by viewfromthecrowsnest on Jan 16, 2021 16:57:47 GMT
Really should have scored at the end of the first half. Thompson simply has to be ruthless, he has missed a lot of chances this season.
Point rescued by Blackburn - two dropped by us. Game changed completely when Powell went off.
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