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Post by GrahamHyde on Oct 18, 2022 21:05:19 GMT
We seem to have found the only Man City player who can't put the ball in the onion bag.
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Post by UsAndThem on Oct 18, 2022 21:05:55 GMT
What an effort from Powell Must have been the only touch he had. Game should have been done and dusted by then anyway. We had the chances. We have always been the same. If you sit off and let us have the ball we struggle. Granted it was better tonight that it has been but with the 4 strikers we have we should be doing better. Says a lot when the defenders have scored nearly twice as many as the strikers |
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Post by UsAndThem on Oct 18, 2022 21:06:54 GMT
Brown has to score that at the end. It's pointless having all the possession when we're this poor up front. Campbell has had a shocker tonight, usually his biggest fan but his decision making and end product was woeful. Does Gayle look like he'll ever score in a stoke shirt? There were at least 3 easier chances than that tonight |
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Post by stokemark on Oct 18, 2022 21:07:03 GMT
I have to say I thought that the subs unsettled us rather than gave us impetus
Mistake to take off Fosu
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Post by Northy on Oct 18, 2022 21:07:08 GMT
Those forwards need to be in at 7am tomorrow, watch the highlights and get some shooting practice, decision making, and how to work with each other practice until the sun goes down, oh and get Delao some longer studs.
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Post by PotteringThrough on Oct 18, 2022 21:07:19 GMT
20 plus shots - it wasn’t for the want of trying. We were just misfiring.
We’re getting shots in now, we’re asking questions and we’re being offensive. You win some, you lose some but when you consider some of the other abysmal defeats this year and complete abject failure to pose a threat on the oppositions goal it’s a step in the right direction.
Got to build on the positives. Genuinely if we can a bit more clinical and the way the leagues is this year we can do something.
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Post by wakeypotter on Oct 18, 2022 21:07:30 GMT
Brown has to score that at the end. It's pointless having all the possession when we're this poor up front. Campbell has had a shocker tonight, usually his biggest fan but his decision making and end product was woeful. Does Gayle look like he'll ever score in a stoke shirt? For all Neill says, Gayle is here to score goals and we are still waiting. worrying He is the least of our worries |
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Post by Gary Hackett on Oct 18, 2022 21:07:35 GMT
I have to say I thought that the subs unsettled us rather than gave us impetus Yeah, not sure what that was about. |
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Post by karl on Oct 18, 2022 21:07:55 GMT
We seem to struggle against the teams you would expect us to win comfortably. Looking at the league table we could slip further down the league after tomorrow night's games.
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Post by mcw on Oct 18, 2022 21:08:08 GMT
28 shots. We’ll win more than we lose playing like that. But we have to be more clinical. We have to be. Campbell wasn’t on it tonight. 2 good chances for him and 1 for Delap. The other chances were not clear cut and Brown’s at the end would have required an exceptional finish. There goal is one of those, Jagielka off the pitch meaning a man spare at the corner and he is just hitting and hoping it either goes straight through or deflects in/to one of their players. Nothing Bursik could do bring unsighted and basically the football gods were smiling on them from that point onwards. 99 times out of 100 we win that, just need to keep playing with the same intensity, create the same amount of chances and then take the clear cut ones! Not a bad day at the office, just a bloody frustrating one. |
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Post by telfordstokie on Oct 18, 2022 21:09:14 GMT
One of those nights but feel like we’ve been watching a version of that same match for the past five years. Incapable of putting a good run together.
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Post by silverdollar on Oct 18, 2022 21:09:34 GMT
Sixty year have passed since my first Stoke game. A Stoke supporter all my life. Nothing has ever changed in that time. They break your heart every year! They build your hopes up and then knock you down. Two great wins against good teams then they lose,at home,against an awful team. It will never change!
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Post by karl on Oct 18, 2022 21:09:49 GMT
I have to say I thought that the subs unsettled us rather than gave us impetus Yeah, not sure what that was about. Think we should have made a treble change first. |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Oct 18, 2022 21:10:01 GMT
Can’t blame the ref (although I thought he was a poor standard championship ref).
To me we looked disjointed, rushed, and had no composure. Everything good we did was a spur of the moment run or pass that nearly came off.
Work to do for Neil, albeit we seem to have more energy and desire than under O’Neil which is a big plus.
Rotherham are an awful team, so there is hope.
A typical championship result, it’s a dire league and so difficult to get out of.
3 points at the weekend and we’re right back on track but who knows what’s going to happen. I think Coventrys style will suit is to play against personally so onwards and upwards.
I just feel that the manager, hamstrung by injuries as he is, just needs to find a formation and style and settle on it. Could be a long road but I trust him to get it right eventually.
Can’t fault the efffort by the way
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Post by jimmygscfc1234 on Oct 18, 2022 21:10:43 GMT
Powell coming back will be crucial.
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Post by viewfromthecrowsnest on Oct 18, 2022 21:10:47 GMT
One more observation- DELAP IS NOT A STARTING STRIKER. He was easy and predictable for their central defenders, they just relish a scrap. I actually frowned when I saw him on the pitch.
Once we took him off the movement was considerably better in my opinion.
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Post by jonnybravo on Oct 18, 2022 21:10:47 GMT
Poor.. totally in control but unable to score.. I'll write it again POOR!! How the fuck Is that poor we controlled the game they got lucky we just didn't get the luck wasn't poor at all |
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Post by telfordstokie on Oct 18, 2022 21:11:05 GMT
That ref is a cheating bastard. Not incompetent but a cheat. He has definitely got something against us. Never ever seen a ref get in the way of play and literally block passes so much as him tonight. And every time it was when we had the ball. |
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Post by robwahlmann on Oct 18, 2022 21:11:08 GMT
How did we manage to lose that!?  |
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Post by PotteringThrough on Oct 18, 2022 21:11:41 GMT
28 shots. We’ll win more than we lose playing like that. But we have to be more clinical. We have to be. Campbell wasn’t on it tonight. 2 good chances for him and 1 for Delap. The other chances were not clear cut and Brown’s at the end would have required an exceptional finish. There goal is one of those, Jagielka off the pitch meaning a man spare at the corner and he is just hitting and hoping it either goes straight through or deflects in/to one of their players. Nothing Bursik could do bring unsighted and basically the football gods were smiling on them from that point onwards. 99 times out of 100 we win that, just need to keep playing with the same intensity, create the same amount of chances and then take the clear cut ones! Not a bad day at the office, just a bloody frustrating one. It was close to Bursik but he’s got to wait for it to get through everyone before he can move at which point it’s on him - would’ve been a great save. Brown scored a similar one at the end of last season (can’t remember who against) but it was when he was firing on all cylinders. If we can get him back then he’ll be loving it again. |
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Post by scfcno1fan on Oct 18, 2022 21:12:11 GMT
Sixty year have passed since my first Stoke game. A Stoke supporter all my life. Nothing has ever changed in that time. They break your heart every year! They build your hopes up and then knock you down. Two great wins against good teams then they lose,at home,against an awful team. It will never change! That’s why I bet on Rotherham. We’d won 2 on the spin. They hadn’t scored an away goal in 5 hours, let alone win a game. It was bound to happen we’d lose. What happens Saturday, I genuinely don’t know. |
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Post by wakefieldstokie on Oct 18, 2022 21:12:15 GMT
Neil needs to find his best striker formation sharpish.
Our season won’t be defined by this game. If anything, we played really well, showing good form just poor finishing. Just a blip tonight
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Post by stokemark on Oct 18, 2022 21:12:18 GMT
The red made zero attempt to keep the game flowing and address their time wasting
Utter cunt
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Post by PotterLog on Oct 18, 2022 21:13:24 GMT
Fucking criminal that we had to defend a corner while our centre half was effectively sin-binned for the crime of being twatted in the head
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Post by GrahamHyde on Oct 18, 2022 21:13:48 GMT
One of those nights but feel like we’ve been watching a version of that same match for the past five years. Incapable of putting a good run together. Yep, such a let down just when you start to think we've turned a corner. Not good enough. |
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Post by Han Solo on Oct 18, 2022 21:13:49 GMT
Thought we played really well things just didn’t go our way mainly because our shooting was poor.
The 2nd half was as expected bitty mainly down to there constant (unpunished) time-wasting so we never really got going.
Biggest disappointment for me tonight was Baker who’s performance was way behind his usually very high standards.
Special mention for the referee who was shockingly bad.
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Post by iamstokie on Oct 18, 2022 21:14:13 GMT
One more observation- DELAP IS NOT A STARTING STRIKER. He was easy and predictable for their central defenders, they just relish a scrap. I actually frowned when I saw him on the pitch. Once we took him off the movement was considerably better in my opinion. He was our best forward tonight |
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Post by maine on Oct 18, 2022 21:14:21 GMT
No questioning the effort, but yes, they misfired.
Critical comments?
Sorry, I think Bursik just flapped at the goal. He should have at least made contact.
Laurent was ineffective and needed subbing at half time.
I like Neill's willingness to switch things (refreshing after his predecessor) but he should have made the substitutions earlier.
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Post by humbersidepotter on Oct 18, 2022 21:14:27 GMT
28 shots. We’ll win more than we lose playing like that. But we have to be more clinical. We have to be. Campbell wasn’t on it tonight. 2 good chances for him and 1 for Delap. The other chances were not clear cut and Brown’s at the end would have required an exceptional finish. There goal is one of those, Jagielka off the pitch meaning a man spare at the corner and he is just hitting and hoping it either goes straight through or deflects in/to one of their players. Nothing Bursik could do bring unsighted and basically the football gods were smiling on them from that point onwards. 99 times out of 100 we win that, just need to keep playing with the same intensity, create the same amount of chances and then take the clear cut ones! Not a bad day at the office, just a bloody frustrating one. I can count at least four decent chances for Campbell - the two in the first half, the cut back in the second and the header. Have you watched Brown's chance more than once?? Genuinely hit the target, anywhere and it's in. The keepers routed to the spot. Has to do better, frustrating but onto the next one. Just doesn't look like we'll ever string together some consistency. |
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Post by PotteringThrough on Oct 18, 2022 21:14:29 GMT
Can’t blame the ref (although I thought he was a poor standard championship ref). Certainly no blame on the ref from my end. Doesn’t take away from the fact he’s a fucking cheating bastard who hates us. I hate his smarmy little face. He calls the players by their first name like some little shitty brown noser but he’d grass on them first chance he gets. He’s not incompetent, just a cheat. Throw him in the sea. |
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