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Post by lordb on Jan 8, 2022 22:23:53 GMT
Not good enough to be a guaranteed starter for Anderlecht? Hmmm! Given the practically zero budget signing someone else's 'guaranteed starter' appears to be pie in the sky March. We are shopping for free transfers and loans with no loan fee Going by his Blackburn experience this guy sounds as good as we could possibly get. Panzo looks talented as well Batth will be important if we sign one of these If we can scrape a competent midfielder as well that would be as decent a window as can be expected The double whammy of relegation and then Rowetts appalling spending + FFP has put a straightjacket in the manager (whoever it is) for years it seems |
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Post by baystokie on Jan 8, 2022 22:49:29 GMT
Not good enough to be a guaranteed starter for Anderlecht? Hmmm! Teenage loanee competing with established Magellan and another (Delacroix) returning from injury? Doubt he would be 'guaranteed' a start at most clubs, let alone a top class one like Anderlecht. Stoke may think he's a bit more advanced than some of our own teenagers who are in line for places but if that's their judgement, so be it. I haven't seen the lad so I'll keep quiet  |
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Post by chuffedstokie on Jan 8, 2022 22:52:41 GMT
www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20220108_97213952?He is rented this season by RSCA from Manchester City. The England U23 international started in Brussels as a basic player but lost his place to Lisandro Magallan. Stoke City, the number 8 in the Championship, now wants to give him new opportunities. The question is whether the Purple & White can convince his mother club Man City to keep him in Belgium or will they let him go? They are looking at it internally, but the Englishman is open to a new club. Because Hannes Delcroix is fit again after his knee injury, there is some margin in the defense. Rented🤔Sounds like Wigfalls from years ago🤣 Bit like beer.. "you don't really buy it you rent it". |
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Post by Squeekster on Jan 8, 2022 23:21:13 GMT
Rented🤔Sounds like Wigfalls from years ago🤣 Bit like beer.. "you don't really buy it you rent it". Nah I drink it! |
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Post by blackpoolred on Jan 9, 2022 0:03:21 GMT
Nice that we realise we need a central defender, but where are all these players we were going to bring in at peak age(25/26) that John/MON mentioned last year.
MON mentioned we can't hope to move forward with just youngsters and 30+ players - yet pre-season we got same owd and now another youngster.
We need a couple of central defenders so unless we can guarantee he is nailed on to start every game, it would just be a waste of a slot
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Post by potter1989 on Jan 9, 2022 0:05:39 GMT
Come on stoke, get him in!
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Post by klingon on Jan 9, 2022 7:19:55 GMT
When did double barrelled names stop being the preserve of posh people? At my state primary no child had more than one last name. Apparently now 11% of people aged between 18 and 34 double-barrell their surname when they get married. Keeping up with the Smith-Joneses I guess! Alot of it is to do with the "power to females" movement I believe. They don't want to / shouldn't lose their last name so choose to keep it and go double barreled and some of the time, the male takes on the females surname and becomes double barrelled. Nothing to do with the classes anymore Rather than being a plot by vote-grabbing, bra-burning, nuke-hating so called “women”, I suggest the real culprits (the “enemy within” if you like) are football clubs. They sign these double-barrelled popinjays without any any thought as to their ability. Rather, they are focussed solely on how much they are likely to make from sales of shirts with their names emblazoned on the back. The solution is simple - ban this odious practice. Instead, a couple naming their offspring must include elements of their surnames prior to being bound in holy matrimony. I suggest the seeds of this approach have already been sown, given the widespread use of “Brangelina”, for example. Thus, “Oakley-Boothe”, becomes “Oathe” or “Bookley”. Harwood-Bellis becomes “Hellis”, or perhaps “Bellood”. Not only would this freshen things up in the increasingly stagnant pool of surnames currently on offer, it would also give Nige a bit of a rest as he approaches his centenary year. It would also, at a stroke, remove abominations favoured by our American cousins such as “London Wainwright III” and Donald Trump Jr.”. Come on Boris, this is “levelling-up” without spending a penny of our hard earned taxes on fly-by-night enterprises such as food-banks! |
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Post by heworksardtho on Jan 9, 2022 8:29:50 GMT
Let’s sign a goal scorer something we sadly missing
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Post by FullerMagic on Jan 9, 2022 8:54:53 GMT
It is indeed true: there is a real chance that Taylor Harwood-Bellis will leave #RSCAagain.
#StokeCity wants to take over the defender from #ManCity.
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Post by pottersrule on Jan 9, 2022 9:30:18 GMT
When did double barrelled names stop being the preserve of posh people? At my state primary no child had more than one last name. Apparently now 11% of people aged between 18 and 34 double-barrell their surname when they get married. Keeping up with the Smith-Joneses I guess! Always imagined you to be posh Gods.Its a strange one,a bit like when you've spoke to someone for years over the phone and you conjure up a mental image of them,that is immediately dashed when you eventually meet them. |
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Post by klingon on Jan 9, 2022 9:37:00 GMT
When did double barrelled names stop being the preserve of posh people? At my state primary no child had more than one last name. Apparently now 11% of people aged between 18 and 34 double-barrell their surname when they get married. Keeping up with the Smith-Joneses I guess! Always imagined you to be posh Gods.Its a strange one,a bit like when you've spoke to someone for years over the phone and you conjure up a mental image of them,that is immediately dashed when you eventually meet them. Happened to me when I finally got to meet Derek Beelzebub….. |
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Post by Gods on Jan 9, 2022 10:19:21 GMT
When did double barrelled names stop being the preserve of posh people? At my state primary no child had more than one last name. Apparently now 11% of people aged between 18 and 34 double-barrell their surname when they get married. Keeping up with the Smith-Joneses I guess! Always imagined you to be posh Gods.Its a strange one,a bit like when you've spoke to someone for years over the phone and you conjure up a mental image of them,that is immediately dashed when you eventually meet them. Ha! Not sure about 'posh', more 'new middle-class', you wouldn't be disappointed  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2022 11:05:17 GMT
Probably yet another youngster we’re going to pin the weight of expectation and unrealistic hopes on to save our season, if he joins us. I can't recall us pinning the weight of our season on anybody before. Do you mean another youngster we're perhaps interested in who might improve our side? |
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Post by scfc75 on Jan 9, 2022 11:08:02 GMT
It is indeed true: there is a real chance that Taylor Harwood-Bellis will leave #RSCAagain. #StokeCity wants to take over the defender from #ManCity. Totally off topic but when did this irritating habit of starting every sentence with ‘so’ start? One of those irrational things that really winds me up. |
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Post by iglugluk on Jan 9, 2022 11:12:12 GMT
When did double barrelled names stop being the preserve of posh people? At my state primary no child had more than one last name. Apparently now 11% of people aged between 18 and 34 double-barrell their surname when they get married. Keeping up with the Smith-Joneses I guess! Should be interesting for the next generation. Which 2 surnames will get dropped and who will therefore be offended? Or will people just go full bore with quadruple barrelled surnames?  |
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Post by iglugluk on Jan 9, 2022 11:18:56 GMT
www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20220108_97213952?He is rented this season by RSCA from Manchester City. The England U23 international started in Brussels as a basic player but lost his place to Lisandro Magallan. Stoke City, the number 8 in the Championship, now wants to give him new opportunities. The question is whether the Purple & White can convince his mother club Man City to keep him in Belgium or will they let him go? They are looking at it internally, but the Englishman is open to a new club. Because Hannes Delcroix is fit again after his knee injury, there is some margin in the * defense. Begs the age old oatcake question of a contract stipulation of "if fit he plays'?  *Ps I notice you chose the American English spelling, are you starting a new trend? |
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Post by Gods on Jan 9, 2022 11:31:47 GMT
It is indeed true: there is a real chance that Taylor Harwood-Bellis will leave #RSCAagain. #StokeCity wants to take over the defender from #ManCity. Totally off topic but when did this irritating habit of starting every sentence with ‘so’ start? One of those irrational things that really winds me up. 'So' really means as a result but it is being used here as an 'attention grabber'. I have observed that all roving news reporters start their answers to questions from the studio with the word 'Well', and all Australian cricketers preface their answers with 'Look'. I think the latter examples may be part 'attention grabber' but also part gaining an extra millisecond to compose your thoughts! |
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Post by klingon on Jan 9, 2022 11:43:29 GMT
Totally off topic but when did this irritating habit of starting every sentence with ‘so’ start? One of those irrational things that really winds me up. 'So' really means as a result but it is being used here as an 'attention grabber'. I have observed that all roving news reporters start their answers to questions from the studio with the word 'Well', and all Australian cricketers preface their answers with 'Look'. I think the latter examples may be part 'attention grabber' but also part gaining an extra millisecond to compose your thoughts! So what’s your point? Well, I’ve read previous posts and can see nothing to trouble the Oatie syntax police, who are already overstretched. Look, the deepest pit of adjective hell should be reserved, in the short term at least, for anyone who describes themselves as “super” anything. “I was super embarrassed to discover I had followed through in Oddbins”, for instance. |
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Post by thevoid on Jan 9, 2022 11:56:02 GMT
It is indeed true: there is a real chance that Taylor Harwood-Bellis will leave #RSCAagain. #StokeCity wants to take over the defender from #ManCity. Totally off topic but when did this irritating habit of starting every sentence with ‘so’ start? One of those irrational things that really winds me up. It's not as bad as the current trend of putting 'super' in front of words, such as 'super excited'. What was wrong with 'very' or 'really'? |
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Post by Gods on Jan 9, 2022 11:57:34 GMT
'So' really means as a result but it is being used here as an 'attention grabber'. I have observed that all roving news reporters start their answers to questions from the studio with the word 'Well', and all Australian cricketers preface their answers with 'Look'. I think the latter examples may be part 'attention grabber' but also part gaining an extra millisecond to compose your thoughts! So what’s your point? Well, I’ve read previous posts and can see nothing to trouble the Oatie syntax police, who are already overstretched. Look, the deepest pit of adjective hell should be reserved, in the short term at least, for anyone who describes themselves as “super” anything. “I was super embarrassed to discover I had followed through in Oddbins”, for instance. 'Super' is really bad! The one that gets me is 'How are you?', 'I'm super well thanks! I don't think I've ever been super well in my whole life. It's a gradation of well beyond which I could never even imagine! |
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Post by nottinghamstokie on Jan 9, 2022 12:11:48 GMT
Always imagined you to be posh Gods.Its a strange one,a bit like when you've spoke to someone for years over the phone and you conjure up a mental image of them,that is immediately dashed when you eventually meet them. Happened to me when I finally got to meet Derek Beelzebub….. And me, when I finally met RAF.... |
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Post by nottinghamstokie on Jan 9, 2022 12:13:58 GMT
So what’s your point? Well, I’ve read previous posts and can see nothing to trouble the Oatie syntax police, who are already overstretched. Look, the deepest pit of adjective hell should be reserved, in the short term at least, for anyone who describes themselves as “super” anything. “I was super embarrassed to discover I had followed through in Oddbins”, for instance. 'Super' is really bad! The one that gets me is 'How are you?', 'I'm super well thanks! I don't think I've ever been super well in my whole life. It's a gradation of well beyond which I could never even imagine! In the Tour de France, everything was "super fast", "super slippy" "super hard" |
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Post by nottinghamstokie on Jan 9, 2022 12:15:35 GMT
'So' really means as a result but it is being used here as an 'attention grabber'. I have observed that all roving news reporters start their answers to questions from the studio with the word 'Well', and all Australian cricketers preface their answers with 'Look'. . Surely they always start with "Mate" ?? |
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jan 9, 2022 12:19:10 GMT
When did double barrelled names stop being the preserve of posh people? At my state primary no child had more than one last name. Apparently now 11% of people aged between 18 and 34 double-barrell their surname when they get married. Keeping up with the Smith-Joneses I guess! If this trend continued, could a grandchild have eight surnames? |
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Post by leesandfordstoupe on Jan 9, 2022 12:33:51 GMT
So what’s your point? Well, I’ve read previous posts and can see nothing to trouble the Oatie syntax police, who are already overstretched. Look, the deepest pit of adjective hell should be reserved, in the short term at least, for anyone who describes themselves as “super” anything. “I was super embarrassed to discover I had followed through in Oddbins”, for instance. 'Super' is really bad! The one that gets me is 'How are you?', 'I'm super well thanks! I don't think I've ever been super well in my whole life. It's a gradation of well beyond which I could never even imagine! Lucky you I don't think I ever get beyond OK or not too bad. |
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Post by FullerMagic on Jan 9, 2022 12:57:37 GMT
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Jan 9, 2022 13:01:31 GMT
'Super' is really bad! The one that gets me is 'How are you?', 'I'm super well thanks! I don't think I've ever been super well in my whole life. It's a gradation of well beyond which I could never even imagine! In the Tour de France, everything was "super fast", "super slippy" "super hard" Sounds more like my sex life✊🏻 |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2022 13:19:41 GMT
When did double barrelled names stop being the preserve of posh people? At my state primary no child had more than one last name. Apparently now 11% of people aged between 18 and 34 double-barrell their surname when they get married. Keeping up with the Smith-Joneses I guess! Seems to be common for young London players in particular. Maybe just boasting to the locals that they know who their father is |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2022 13:20:32 GMT
In the Tour de France, everything was "super fast", "super slippy" "super hard" Sounds more like my sex life✊🏻 French men in tight lycra? |
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Post by kerouac on Jan 9, 2022 13:24:15 GMT
It is indeed true: there is a real chance that Taylor Harwood-Bellis will leave #RSCAagain. #StokeCity wants to take over the defender from #ManCity. Totally off topic but when did this irritating habit of starting every sentence with ‘so’ start? One of those irrational things that really winds me up. Im with you, drives me mad along with ones starting with "look",although that seems to be a preserve of sports people......and while we're at it,fuck off with you "im super this,im super that"...... |
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