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Post by marylandstoke on Jul 3, 2022 18:20:48 GMT
I’m sure someone, maybe even me, will find this in future and laugh.
I really like this off season. I really liked who we have got in, and out.
I have a new fave player, not saying who as it would curse him.
Once again, not only is the glass half full…but I’m glad we’re drinking out of a glass, not a plastic cup.
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Post by terryconroysmagic on Jul 3, 2022 18:23:14 GMT
Has your glass been half full all day…
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Post by marylandstoke on Jul 3, 2022 18:27:06 GMT
Has your glass been half full all day… The Grand Prix started at 10 local. You do the math, as they say locally. |
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Post by Goonie on Jul 3, 2022 18:58:51 GMT
I’m sure someone, maybe even me, will find this in future and laugh. I really like this off season. I really liked who we have got in, and out. I have a new fave player, not saying who as it would curse him. Once again, not only is the glass half full…but I’m glad we’re drinking out of a glass, not a plastic cup. Re curse: It's what psychologists call magical thinking, whereas I'm more of a catastrophisor!😁 |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Jul 3, 2022 19:00:54 GMT
Has your glass been half full all day… The Grand Prix started at 10 local. You do the math, as they say locally. “You have a great day”🇺🇸 As I kept being told over there the other week, it was nice to be fair😉 |
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Post by marylandstoke on Jul 3, 2022 19:23:23 GMT
I’m sure someone, maybe even me, will find this in future and laugh. I really like this off season. I really liked who we have got in, and out. I have a new fave player, not saying who as it would curse him. Once again, not only is the glass half full…but I’m glad we’re drinking out of a glass, not a plastic cup. Re curse: It's what psychologists call magical thinking, whereas I'm more of a catastrophisor!😁 Laughed out loud. |
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Post by marylandstoke on Jul 3, 2022 19:29:55 GMT
The Grand Prix started at 10 local. You do the math, as they say locally. “You have a great day”🇺🇸 As I kept being told over there the other week, it was nice to be fair😉 To be honest. If I walked past someone in a village in Blighty, I would say Good Morning. If I am walking here on the boardwalk I do the same. People are, I would surmise, slightly shocked. Then realize (hopefully) that it’s human touch. I have come to accept, sometimes it’s meant. Sometimes it’s a trope. Anyway…have a blessed day.  |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Jul 3, 2022 19:34:10 GMT
“You have a great day”🇺🇸 As I kept being told over there the other week, it was nice to be fair😉 To be honest. If I walked past someone in a village in Blighty, I would say Good Morning. If I am walking here on the boardwalk I do the same. People are, I would surmise, slightly shocked. Then realize (hopefully) that it’s human touch. I have come to accept, sometimes it’s meant. Sometimes it’s a trope. Anyway…have a blessed day. Just thought it was weird and quite pleasant at the same time. I guess I’m used to people asking me for money in Stoke🤣 |
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Post by marylandstoke on Jul 3, 2022 19:42:20 GMT
To be honest. If I walked past someone in a village in Blighty, I would say Good Morning. If I am walking here on the boardwalk I do the same. People are, I would surmise, slightly shocked. Then realize (hopefully) that it’s human touch. I have come to accept, sometimes it’s meant. Sometimes it’s a trope. Anyway…have a blessed day.  Just thought it was weird and quite pleasant at the same time. I guess I’m used to people asking me for money in Stoke🤣 That’s very kind of you. In the interest of honesty I will probably spend it on beer and marijuana though. |
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Post by kerouac on Jul 3, 2022 19:53:59 GMT
“You have a great day”🇺🇸 As I kept being told over there the other week, it was nice to be fair😉 To be honest. If I walked past someone in a village in Blighty, I would say Good Morning. If I am walking here on the boardwalk I do the same. People are, I would surmise, slightly shocked. Then realize (hopefully) that it’s human touch. I have come to accept, sometimes it’s meant. Sometimes it’s a trope. Anyway…have a blessed day. I spent a few weeks touring the states a few years ago …after a while the politeness became a bit irksome and overwhelming,especially when you’d turn round after a totally insincere “you have a great day and we really hope you enjoy your jeans/socks/underpants etc etc ..” to see their visage drop to a vacant blank.However,returning to Blighty and spending 15 minutes in a Dixon’s full of staff in Wembley,with not even any acknowledgement of my presence I thought “fuck me you wouldn’t get this kind of shit in America” I’d swap that insincerity for our disdain any day day of the week. |
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Post by march4 on Jul 3, 2022 22:15:31 GMT
We will be relegated.
Think anything else and you are likely to be disappointed.
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Post by GreaterGlasgowstokie on Jul 3, 2022 23:07:02 GMT
If it helps, we are woefully unbalanced, unless Laurent turns out to be a proper holding midfielder, and we sign a good central striker, then expect a grim battle to make it in to the top half.
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Post by J-Roar on Jul 4, 2022 0:08:52 GMT
We will be relegated. Think anything else and you are likely to be disappointed. Down with the dead men? |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jul 4, 2022 9:18:44 GMT
If it helps, we are woefully unbalanced, unless Laurent turns out to be a proper holding midfielder, and we sign a good central striker, then expect a grim battle to make it in to the top half. Yeah this is my main worry, we look very unbalanced. The midfield looks a bit samey and if Powell isn't it in then it looks very samey. We're set up for 5-3-2 with hopefully a better right wing back and a better midfield but a very functional one and no way of making our best player fit unless we play him up front. It could easily work as we should be solid but it doesn't look like it's going to be any of less of a grind as the last two seasons have been. |
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Post by flea79 on Jul 4, 2022 9:32:00 GMT
not excited at all
we have a lame duck manager entering his last year of a contract, he either wont give a fuck and will be glad too leave and performances will be shit
or performances will be shit and we will give him a new deal
i hold very little hope of good performances this season....
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Post by skip on Jul 4, 2022 9:55:52 GMT
We will be relegated. Think anything else and you are likely to be disappointed. If you don't really believe we will be relegated and are saying/thinking it out loud for another deeply rooted reason, then that is an act of psychological self-vitiation to such a degree that I'd suggest taking up something less painful to think about. Before you try on a pair of new shoes is your first thought 'these are bound to hurt'? |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jul 4, 2022 10:01:41 GMT
We will be relegated. Think anything else and you are likely to be disappointed. If you don't really believe we will be relegated and are saying/thinking it out loud for another deeply rooted reason, then that is an act of psychological self-vitiation to such a degree that I'd suggest taking up something less painful to think about. Before you try on a pair of new shoes is your first thought 'these are bound to hurt'? With shoes though you are in control of that. With this, we have zero control. So if you think the worst then it hurts less. The pain of thinking good things and then them not happening is far worse than vice versa. If it was something I'm in control of then it's totally different. |
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Post by prestwichpotter on Jul 4, 2022 10:17:21 GMT
not excited at all we have a lame duck manager entering his last year of a contract, he either wont give a fuck and will be glad too leave and performances will be shit or performances will be shit and we will give him a new deal i hold very little hope of good performances this season.... Or we'll improve and he'll be given a new contract. Or we'll improve and he'll go anyway. The possibilities are endless........ |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jul 4, 2022 10:22:56 GMT
not excited at all we have a lame duck manager entering his last year of a contract, he either wont give a fuck and will be glad too leave and performances will be shit or performances will be shit and we will give him a new deal i hold very little hope of good performances this season.... Or we'll improve and he'll be given a new contract. Or we'll improve and he'll go anyway. The possibilities are endless........ It would be daft to give him any new contract before at least March. The last two seasons have been almost identical shit shows of being ok in the first half and diabolical in the second. If we started well and they gave him a new contract then it's a daft decision. |
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Post by 19notbeaten72 on Jul 4, 2022 10:24:57 GMT
not excited at all we have a lame duck manager entering his last year of a contract, he either wont give a fuck and will be glad too leave and performances will be shit or performances will be shit and we will give him a new deal i hold very little hope of good performances this season.... I think he will be gone before christmas possibly at the break for the world cup. |
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Post by scfc75 on Jul 4, 2022 10:26:51 GMT
not excited at all we have a lame duck manager entering his last year of a contract, he either wont give a fuck and will be glad too leave and performances will be shit or performances will be shit and we will give him a new deal i hold very little hope of good performances this season.... I think he will be gone before christmas possibly at the break for the world cup. Unless we’re in the bottom 3, that won’t happen. |
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Post by thevoid on Jul 4, 2022 12:15:16 GMT
I think he will be gone before christmas possibly at the break for the world cup. Unless we’re in the bottom 3, that won’t happen. So if we had a run of awful run of form that dropped us to fourth bottom, he's safe as houses? |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jul 4, 2022 12:20:21 GMT
Unless it's Jones desperate there's nothing to suggest he's close to being sacked is there?
The owners seem happy with him despite a new contract not being forthcoming yet.
But I can see them being stupid and getting hamstrung with him in November if we start well.
Hopefully they're a bit smarter than that and see what happens after January at least.
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Post by Goonie on Jul 4, 2022 12:21:15 GMT
not excited at all we have a lame duck manager entering his last year of a contract, he either wont give a fuck and will be glad too leave and performances will be shit or performances will be shit and we will give him a new deal i hold very little hope of good performances this season.... He's been given a tough brief: Keep us up, spend little, offload expensive players in the hope season 23/24 you might be able to spend Despite his initial success it's been pretty toss and uninspired. If there is any truth in my speculation you can see the constraints he's under but I just think a better manager would of still pulled off more in terms of points and progress |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jul 4, 2022 12:30:06 GMT
not excited at all we have a lame duck manager entering his last year of a contract, he either wont give a fuck and will be glad too leave and performances will be shit or performances will be shit and we will give him a new deal i hold very little hope of good performances this season.... He's been given a tough brief: Keep us up, spend little, offload expensive players in the hope season 23/24 you might be able to spend Despite his initial success it's been pretty toss and uninspired. If there is any truth in my speculation you can see the constraints he's under but I just think a better manager would of still pulled off more in terms of points and progress He has and I don't think anyone would argue that. My issue with him is that when he first came he had to win games so we played like that. We haven't played like it since. And in that time we've made the squad better and have better players. There was no need for his attitude to change and in turn the intent of the team changed. |
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Post by johnnysoul60 on Jul 4, 2022 12:42:08 GMT
I'm not going into the season expecting too much, we can't really compete for the better players in the league and that usually counts in the end.
I hope for a top-half finish and a lot more tempo in our play. I cannot stand much more of the tedious pass-around and get nowhere & lump it tactics of last season but players brought in seem to have decent energy so it might work better with this season's squad.
To get anywhere near the top six we will need Harry back as soon as possible, Powell to stay fit and play at least 40 games and Campbell to find his pre-injury form and break our 20-goal-a-season Hoodoo.
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Post by scfc75 on Jul 4, 2022 12:53:03 GMT
Unless we’re in the bottom 3, that won’t happen. So if we had a run of awful run of form that dropped us to fourth bottom, he's safe as houses? Yep, that’s what I said 🙂 |
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on Jul 4, 2022 13:05:49 GMT
The thing about the Championship is pretty much every team has a chance of being promoted or relegated. I've got no idea how we will setup and whether the new players will improve us or not. I'm looking forward to next season and for no good reason other than I'm naturally optimistic I think we are more likely to be troubling the playoffs rather than relegation candidates. I'm used to disappointment and I'm not bothered about being proved right or wrong so might as well look on the bright side.
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Post by Goonie on Jul 4, 2022 13:12:01 GMT
He's been given a tough brief: Keep us up, spend little, offload expensive players in the hope season 23/24 you might be able to spend Despite his initial success it's been pretty toss and uninspired. If there is any truth in my speculation you can see the constraints he's under but I just think a better manager would of still pulled off more in terms of points and progress He has and I don't think anyone would argue that. My issue with him is that when he first came he had to win games so we played like that. We haven't played like it since. And in that time we've made the squad better and have better players. There was no need for his attitude to change and in turn the intent of the team changed. Too true. If I was being generous I'd say he was playing a long game over the length of his contract in the hope he gets an extension and a war chest. But I'm not generous enough. I agree with you. He needs to do far better |
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Post by thevoid on Jul 4, 2022 14:39:05 GMT
So if we had a run of awful run of form that dropped us to fourth bottom, he's safe as houses? Yep, that’s what I said 🙂 I know what you said, I'd like to know what it's based on other than your own wishful thinking? |
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