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Post by claymore on Mar 2, 2021 13:26:04 GMT
He also galvanised them and kept them up when he joined. Yep, this was the worst bit for me we'd battered them at home, about 25 efforts to their 1 and they won 1-0, spawny gits. If Huth hadn't gone there on loan they would have been relegated, now look at them 😡 Good luck to them I say, cracking club Leicester on and off the pitch, and always found their supporters to be an ok bunch too. 🏆🦊
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Post by crapslinger on Mar 2, 2021 13:29:59 GMT
It isn't annoyance it's anger that he was allowed to leave when he was blatantly fit enough to play then replace him with Wolfy jazz hands. Would you be so angry if Lester had finished lower mid table? Yes indeed I would stupid letting him go compounded by signing Herr jazz hands, like selling your Audi Rs8 and replacing it with a VW lupo with a faulty engine management system.
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Post by crapslinger on Mar 2, 2021 13:31:51 GMT
Yep, this was the worst bit for me we'd battered them at home, about 25 efforts to their 1 and they won 1-0, spawny gits. If Huth hadn't gone there on loan they would have been relegated, now look at them 😡 Good luck to them I say, cracking club Leicester on and off the pitch, and always found their supporters to be an ok bunch too. 🏆🦊 You should talk to some of their suppliers that they bankrupted when they deliberately went into administration, they have a very different appraisal of them.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Mar 2, 2021 13:38:15 GMT
He was awful. I couldn't give a shit about his running other than him being super slow or him not being Huth. He was a calamatous defender with an awful attitude. He had a few good games but he also into the 10s of awful games making many mistakes. Rewriting history is not thinking he was utterly shite because that was the overwhelming thing at the time and rightfully so. His career since is about right for his talent level and attitude. You are wrong. He played a season and a half for Stoke City football club, the half being his loan spell, the latter half arguably the best of the 3 seasons of 9th place. He then played the full season where we were a penalty kick away from a cup final and another top half finish, though performances were declining after that final. Played 2 more games after that season. Replaced by Martins Indi and we signed the midfield dynamo that scored that penalty kick to prevent us from Wembley. The rest they say is history. I don't think I've ever met anyone in the ground that rated him and didn't think he was fucking awful.
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Post by pottersrule on Mar 2, 2021 14:17:22 GMT
Martin O'Neill swapped Mike Sheron for Keith Scott. Yes but he didn't run like a big girls blouse! Well no! He just didn't run.
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Post by GoBoks on Mar 2, 2021 14:19:08 GMT
A couple of points: 1. Just because we finished 9th with some mint football after Huth left doesn't mean we couldn't have finished higher with him still here. 2. Wollscheid was absolutely shit. Agree 100% with #2. On #1, If you had an employee who had worked well with the previous person in your role but for whatever reason, was unable/unwilling to change to the way you wanted to manage the organization and started challenging your leadership and potentially becoming a negative influence - Would you keep that employee? Don't get me wrong - Huth is one of my all-time favorites. One of my favorite memories is the cup game against West Ham where Huth contributed so much. I was devastated when he left. My point is, that saying it was Hughes' worst decision is ludicrous. We don't have the "back story", but insist in lambasting people who do.
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Post by staffordstokiemad1 on Mar 2, 2021 14:52:23 GMT
What a player, solid as they come, MR reliable, what a mistake it was letting him go. Can’t think of a mistake he made during a game. Class.
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Post by tommycarlsberg on Mar 2, 2021 15:00:17 GMT
You are wrong. He played a season and a half for Stoke City football club, the half being his loan spell, the latter half arguably the best of the 3 seasons of 9th place. He then played the full season where we were a penalty kick away from a cup final and another top half finish, though performances were declining after that final. Played 2 more games after that season. Replaced by Martins Indi and we signed the midfield dynamo that scored that penalty kick to prevent us from Wembley. The rest they say is history. I don't think I've ever met anyone in the ground that rated him and didn't think he was fucking awful. Stoke fans need a scapegoat. People genuinely hated him because he ran funny. Martins Indi was far worse.
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Post by harryburrows on Mar 2, 2021 15:08:39 GMT
Quality or attitude? I saw Wolly put in some decent performances but as we’ve seen his heart wasn’t in football, weird circumstances and mighty fall from the lofty heights of the premier league! When Wollscheid retired from professional football in an interview he said....."The football business in general is simply wrong. One day you will be praised by everyone to the sky, the next you are not good enough anymore. I have never been able to endure these ups and downs." ......so he read the Oatcake then I'd put up with that for 30k a week . To play football . It's just another example of sportsmen who need to remember how privileged they are .
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Post by bayernoatcake on Mar 2, 2021 15:10:19 GMT
I don't think I've ever met anyone in the ground that rated him and didn't think he was fucking awful. Stoke fans need a scapegoat. People genuinely hated him because he ran funny. Martins Indi was far worse. I find the theory around scapegoating amusing. It's usually one of the worst players and is generally a terrible excuse to defend them. People didn't like him because he was a woeful defender.
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Post by theonlooker on Mar 2, 2021 15:19:40 GMT
I miss Wollscheid. He was class the season we got to the league cup semi final. Lost Shawcross to a back injury and he stepped up like the collosus he was.
Nobody has come close to him since.
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Post by peterpan1 on Mar 2, 2021 15:38:20 GMT
What also doesn't get mentioned so much are his goals. Which he continued to score at Leicester too.
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Post by crapslinger on Mar 2, 2021 16:06:36 GMT
I don't think I've ever met anyone in the ground that rated him and didn't think he was fucking awful. Stoke fans need a scapegoat. People genuinely hated him because he ran funny. Martins Indi was far worse. "People genuinely hated him because he ran funny" are you sure people hated him, didn't rate as a footballer, thought he was unstable mentally perhaps but hated
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Post by crapslinger on Mar 2, 2021 16:07:51 GMT
I miss Wollscheid. He was class the season we got to the league cup semi final. Lost Shawcross to a back injury and he stepped up like the collosus he was. Nobody has come close to him since. "Collosus"
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Post by theonlooker on Mar 2, 2021 16:10:04 GMT
I miss Wollscheid. He was class the season we got to the league cup semi final. Lost Shawcross to a back injury and he stepped up like the collosus he was. Nobody has come close to him since. "Collosus" Apologies, missed the extra 's' out of the middle and added an extra 'l'. colossus.
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Post by tommycarlsberg on Mar 2, 2021 16:20:34 GMT
Stoke fans need a scapegoat. People genuinely hated him because he ran funny. Martins Indi was far worse. "People genuinely hated him because he ran funny" are you sure people hated him, didn't rate as a footballer, thought he was unstable mentally perhaps but hated Hated in the context of how football fans hate, yes. I’ve not read all the comments but I can see one poster on here making completely barmy remarks about his running style. It was years ago.
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Post by tommycarlsberg on Mar 2, 2021 16:27:10 GMT
Stoke fans need a scapegoat. People genuinely hated him because he ran funny. Martins Indi was far worse. I find the theory around scapegoating amusing. It's usually one of the worst players and is generally a terrible excuse to defend them. People didn't like him because he was a woeful defender. It’s not a theory. Stoke fans get a lot of stuff wrong. Fans of other clubs might do the same. N’Zonzi was sidewards and backwards when we lost to a lot of people. Glenn Whelan always made a scapegoat out of. They are just two examples. If you’re talking about Oatcake rhetoric when you say scapegoat theory, I don’t live on this site so I don’t understand. I’ve seen people say something similar about Joe Allen, in which case I’d agree with you. Wollscheid was made a scapegoat out of ‘in real life’ because he wasn’t an hard bastard like Robert Huth. The facts say they were both good defenders during their time at Stoke City. They also say one of them went onto be a PL title winner. I’m bored of this conversation now so won’t reply anymore.
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Post by crapslinger on Mar 2, 2021 22:05:44 GMT
"People genuinely hated him because he ran funny" are you sure people hated him, didn't rate as a footballer, thought he was unstable mentally perhaps but hated Hated in the context of how football fans hate, yes. I’ve not read all the comments but I can see one poster on here making completely barmy remarks about his running style. It was years ago. Hated is not the same as not rated, he wasn't good enough to lace Huths boots not his fault all down to the man who signed him and ultimately disposed of him at another loss.
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Post by bgreen13 on Mar 3, 2021 0:09:34 GMT
Unsurprisingly turned into another Stoke bashing thread from so called Stoke fans (apart from crap slinger, who's actually a vale fan on a wind up).
CREDIT for Stoke for actually signing him in the first place, and what a signing he was.
So long Robert Huth you'll always have a place in our hearts
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Post by dirtclod on Mar 3, 2021 2:25:24 GMT
Shawcross to Miami and Robert goes home to Germany...[sigh] A huge chunk of great DNA is going with them.
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Post by themistocles on Mar 20, 2021 22:02:50 GMT
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Post by citynickscfc on Mar 20, 2021 22:11:32 GMT
I miss it. In really do. The lot of them. Maybe a little less than BMX, but I really really miss watching Stoke with an identity that is a little more than what we currently are watching.
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Post by swampySCFC on Mar 20, 2021 22:23:37 GMT
Problem I have with this is that Tp built that top 10 Prem squad that achieved more than I would ever expect in my lifetime. He and Stoke were a good fit. Mark Hughes flattered to decieve after early success. Great signings by him followed by club dstroying ones which is why we are now lower than Milwaall
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Post by Billy the kid on Mar 20, 2021 22:26:32 GMT
Can anyone remember his cock or nien cock
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Post by wherty on Mar 21, 2021 9:55:17 GMT
A spectacularly poor decision, and there are lots to choose from. This one creeps under the radar I feel, an unmitigated disaster of a decision. Bigger reasons why he was sold to Leicester.
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Post by RAF on Mar 21, 2021 10:26:05 GMT
Problem I have with this is that Tp built that top 10 Prem squad that achieved more than I would ever expect in my lifetime. He and Stoke were a good fit. Mark Hughes flattered to decieve after early success. Great signings by him followed by club dstroying ones which is why we are now lower than Milwaall And yet TP could never get a top ten finish with that so called top ten prem squad. The reasons for that are obvious. Hughes did it in his first season. Where we are now is more down to Rowett and Jones not Hughes. And what could have been a decent thread about Huth has been fucked by dickheads and I'm included in that. H
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Post by 4ndr3w on Mar 21, 2021 10:37:44 GMT
Problem I have with this is that Tp built that top 10 Prem squad that achieved more than I would ever expect in my lifetime. He and Stoke were a good fit. Mark Hughes flattered to decieve after early success. Great signings by him followed by club dstroying ones which is why we are now lower than Milwaall And yet TP could never get a top ten finish with that so called top ten prem squad. The reasons for that are obvious. Hughes did it in his first season. Where we are now is more down to Rowett and Jones not Hughes. And what could have been a decent thread about Huth has been fucked by dickheads and I'm included in that. H I’d say it was more down to Hughes He did brilliantly getting us to those high place finishes with some brilliant stuff on display to watch. But he completely lost the plot and it fucked us
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Post by future100 on Mar 21, 2021 10:42:08 GMT
And yet TP could never get a top ten finish with that so called top ten prem squad. The reasons for that are obvious. Hughes did it in his first season. Where we are now is more down to Rowett and Jones not Hughes. And what could have been a decent thread about Huth has been fucked by dickheads and I'm included in that. H I’d say it was more down to Hughes He did brilliantly getting us to those high place finishes with some brilliant stuff on display to watch. But he completely lost the plot and it fucked us Some of the best football I have ever seen at Stoke was in the Hughes era, and I include the era of Hudson, greenhoff etc and Stan's return.
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Post by RAF on Mar 21, 2021 10:44:01 GMT
And yet TP could never get a top ten finish with that so called top ten prem squad. The reasons for that are obvious. Hughes did it in his first season. Where we are now is more down to Rowett and Jones not Hughes. And what could have been a decent thread about Huth has been fucked by dickheads and I'm included in that. H I’d say it was more down to Hughes He did brilliantly getting us to those high place finishes with some brilliant stuff on display to watch. But he completely lost the plot and it fucked us He left nearly 3.5 years ago. Rowett had a decent budget to get us back up but decided to spunk 10 million quid on Tom Ince, 12 million quid on Afobe, 7 million on Ryan Woods, 5 million on McClean, 6 million on Clucas along with Williams, and Martina on loan. Hughes did lose the plot and should have gone sooner but we've had the chances to recover and spunked it on shit managers and wank players. H
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Post by jimigoodwinsbeard on Mar 21, 2021 10:56:02 GMT
One of Hughes worst decisions. Along with Glen Johnson and letting Bardsley go the man was an absolute weapon of a manager. Who had us playing the best football seen at stoke for many years.
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