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Post by gingerninja on Feb 19, 2024 18:35:36 GMT
I certainly think, whilst he's still here, we need Campbell, or we simply won't score enough goals..
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2024 18:37:12 GMT
Campbell started against Leicester post transfer window closing & we turned down very acceptable bids for him. His issue is that he's wank when he plays. As wank as he may be, even against Leicester he managed double the amount of shots on target that we’ve managed in the 2 home games since 🤷♂️ Ennis looks far more likely to score than Campbell. Campbell has been atrocious for the vast majority of his time at Stoke.
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Post by ceejays on Feb 19, 2024 18:37:25 GMT
Has it ever been proven that any of the players who were thought to be bad eggs in the dressing room over the past few years have all turned out to be thoroughly decent chaps and we were all completely wrong? Imbula? Jesé? N'Diaye? Berahino? Etebo? And now this clown... Absolutely. But just to divert to a little levity for a minute. Berahino turned up early for training. A day early !!! Gave Zouma a chance to take the micky .
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Post by werrington on Feb 19, 2024 18:38:13 GMT
I certainly think, whilst he's still here, we need Campbell, or we simply won't score enough goals.. We need none of the fuckers who are disrupting OUR football club to suit their own agendas
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Post by march4 on Feb 19, 2024 18:38:34 GMT
His behaviour is taking the piss out of US on here as he’s not once apologised to US the support Wtf aren’t you all grasping about him …..he’s rotten you are wasting your time mate. People on here have been moaning for years about players taking the piss and weak managers doing fuck all about it,but when we finally get a manager prepared to tackle the problem,hey ho let’s sack the manager because he’s inexperienced. You really couldn’t make it up. It’s not taking action that’s a problem in my opinion - it’s the way we’ve gone about it. Which is why I keep wondering who signed off on it.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 19, 2024 19:22:42 GMT
As wank as he may be, even against Leicester he managed double the amount of shots on target that we’ve managed in the 2 home games since 🤷♂️ Ennis looks far more likely to score than Campbell. Campbell has been atrocious for the vast majority of his time at Stoke. A perfectly valid opinion. It’s not one I agree with buts it’s valid all the same. What about options from the bench? He can play in any of the 3 forward positions so he’s surely an option from the bench at the very least?
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 19, 2024 19:24:11 GMT
I certainly think, whilst he's still here, we need Campbell, or we simply won't score enough goals.. We need none of the fuckers who are disrupting OUR football club to suit their own agendas And I agree wholeheartedly with that. I just don’t see Ty as a troublesome character. Too laid back, too jovial maybe but troublesome? I find that really hard to believe.
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Post by ceejays on Feb 19, 2024 19:33:06 GMT
We need none of the fuckers who are disrupting OUR football club to suit their own agendas And I agree wholeheartedly with that. I just don’t see Ty as a troublesome character. Too laid back, too jovial maybe but troublesome? I find that really hard to believe. Depends how you define troublesome. He hardly breaks sweat in a match. He’s therefore more than likely a poor trainer . He may turn up on time but for a young man is nowhere near fit . He’s blowing out of his arse after 60 minutes . That’s why mad Nath sent him to Shrewsbury. He misses so many chances through favouring his left foot .MON tried to get him two footed and for awhile he did actually do that . Now he’s back to type. Moreover the way he runs - flat footed - means he’s going to have injury after injury which has been the case this year . He and we need to move on . No way should he be playing going forward imho
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Post by biddulphchav on Feb 19, 2024 23:25:38 GMT
I don’t think the manager is useless but he is very inexperienced, and I think that’s obvious. Mmaee isn’t a world beater, but he’s the best of a shit forward line the manager has to work with. Fucking him off because he doesn’t meet the managers standards (and I don’t know what he actually did or didn’t do and neither do you) in this situation shows naivety. Our results have gotten worse since we brought this manager in, and so have our goals scored. So if that’s your idea of good management then I hope you don’t actually manage anything in real life. If Ennis gets injured it’s a choice between Lowe and Wesley to lead the line and score the goals to keep us up. So let that sink in. On top of that Ennis has one goal at this level and has had 2 serious injuries in his short career and a very poor injury record overall. If you think holding someone to basic professional standards is naive, I sincerely hope you never manage any workplace that I'm employed by. I would never waltz into workplace and start disciplining people within a couple of months, that’s for sure. That is a sure way to alienate a number of the existing team. Your thinking is way outdated, just like Schumachers
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Post by skip on Feb 19, 2024 23:46:10 GMT
If you think holding someone to basic professional standards is naive, I sincerely hope you never manage any workplace that I'm employed by. I would never waltz into workplace and start disciplining people within a couple of months, that’s for sure. That is a sure way to alienate a number of the existing team. Your thinking is way outdated, just like Schumachers I did once. A bloke came into my office after I'd been there no more than a fortnight and told me straight that he knew this, he knew that, he wasn't going to take any shit from someone who hadn't been there for less than a month. "ok. You book the meeting with HR and I'll be there." Guess what? He left before me. Well before me. Sometimes you have to be The Cunt to break toxic habits.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2024 2:16:54 GMT
Ennis looks far more likely to score than Campbell. Campbell has been atrocious for the vast majority of his time at Stoke. A perfectly valid opinion. It’s not one I agree with buts it’s valid all the same. What about options from the bench? He can play in any of the 3 forward positions so he’s surely an option from the bench at the very least? At present, our forward positions are two AM’s and a solo striker. He can’t play as a solo striker and I’ve never seen him as an AM. Obviously, that’s assuming that SS sticks with this formation for a while. He’s scored 1 in 12 and doesn’t have an assist to his name this season. Ive given up on Campbell to be honest. I used to like him a lot because I thought that there was potential there. However, even last year, he only picked up 1 in 4. That’s despite offering nothing else (link up, holding the ball up, closing down, aerial threat) in each game. I’d honestly rather bring on a midfielder from the bench or try Manhoef up top. I see them equally as likely to contribute something meaningful. U21s football suits him a lot. He’s strong enough and can shoot but he generally seems to have little desire to improve. He’ll do well sitting on the half way line twiddling his thumbs in Scotland.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2024 2:22:21 GMT
If you think holding someone to basic professional standards is naive, I sincerely hope you never manage any workplace that I'm employed by. I would never waltz into workplace and start disciplining people within a couple of months, that’s for sure. That is a sure way to alienate a number of the existing team. Your thinking is way outdated, just like Schumachers Would you wait for your 1 year work anniversary and then tell them that the behaviours that you’ve let ride for a year are no longer acceptable? Would you then meet with every extra person who have also started pissing around as they’ve seen that individual A can get away with pretty much anything under your leadership? Who knows what actually happened at Stoke? Perhaps SS turned up and said, this is what I expect. Mmaee could have been given a few warnings before being dropped completely. SS may have also asked his captain to have a word as well. Ultimately, warnings mean nothing if they aren’t actually followed through.
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Post by biddulphchav on Feb 20, 2024 2:53:32 GMT
I would never waltz into workplace and start disciplining people within a couple of months, that’s for sure. That is a sure way to alienate a number of the existing team. Your thinking is way outdated, just like Schumachers Would you wait for your 1 year work anniversary and then tell them that the behaviours that you’ve let ride for a year are no longer acceptable? Would you then meet with every extra person who have also started pissing around as they’ve seen that individual A can get away with pretty much anything under your leadership? Who knows what actually happened at Stoke? Perhaps SS turned up and said, this is what I expect. Mmaee could have been given a few warnings before being dropped completely. SS may have also asked his captain to have a word as well. Ultimately, warnings mean nothing if they aren’t actually followed through. If you want to know what I’d do, perhaps asking instead of assuming that my view, being different from the one you hold, is some idiotic plan that you’ve outlined? I would definitely wait and assess the situation first. In my view, we have absolutely fuck all options up front, which is why we’ve had to play an 18 year old up top that is clearly not ready. Because of the wider context, I would manage this situation differently than I would if we had some good alternatives. We basically surrender to teams that can score against us right now as we have little to no goal threat - and Mmae is the best of the bunch - at least in my opinion. Management isn’t about having a blue print that you just take everywhere with you and repeat. That’s why Nathan Jones can’t succeed anywhere outside of Luton. The managers job in the short term is to keep us in this league, that’s the be all and end all between now and May. He can have a longer term view of how he wants the culture to evolve and that’s a good thing, but if we go down he will get the boot and when the recriminations begin even he himself may acknowledge that our lack of goals has been a major factor in that, and that jettisoning our best striker perhaps wasn’t the best decision he could have made considering the context.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2024 3:00:07 GMT
Would you wait for your 1 year work anniversary and then tell them that the behaviours that you’ve let ride for a year are no longer acceptable? Would you then meet with every extra person who have also started pissing around as they’ve seen that individual A can get away with pretty much anything under your leadership? Who knows what actually happened at Stoke? Perhaps SS turned up and said, this is what I expect. Mmaee could have been given a few warnings before being dropped completely. SS may have also asked his captain to have a word as well. Ultimately, warnings mean nothing if they aren’t actually followed through. If you want to know what I’d do, perhaps asking instead of assuming that my view, being different from the one you hold, is some idiotic plan that you’ve outlined? I would definitely wait and assess the situation first. In my view, we have absolutely fuck all options up front, which is why we’ve had to play an 18 year old up top that is clearly not ready. Because of the wider context, I would manage this situation differently than I would if we had some good alternatives. We basically surrender to teams that can score against us right now as we have little to no goal threat - and Mmae is the best of the bunch - at least in my opinion. Management isn’t about having a blue print that you just take everywhere with you and repeat. That’s why Nathan Jones can’t succeed anywhere outside of Luton. The managers job in the short term is to keep us in this league, that’s the be all and end all between now and May. He can have a longer term view of how he wants the culture to evolve and that’s a good thing, but if we go down he will get the boot and when the recriminations begin even he himself may acknowledge that our lack of goals has been a major factor in that, and that jettisoning our best striker perhaps wasn’t the best decision he could have made considering the context. But if he gets sacked, he’ll have a nice 3-4 year payout and the simple statement of “they couldn’t score before I got there and it wasn’t my fault”. Someone will give him another chance because that’s just football. What would you do? How long would you wait? What would any discipline look like? What if you got in the front door and there were disciplinary issues running riot throughout the squad that had simply been ignored by the previous manager? I honestly don’t think that Lowe would be any less effective than Mmaee for the remainder of the season. They both offer nothing.
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Post by biddulphchav on Feb 20, 2024 3:00:17 GMT
I would never waltz into workplace and start disciplining people within a couple of months, that’s for sure. That is a sure way to alienate a number of the existing team. Your thinking is way outdated, just like Schumachers I did once. A bloke came into my office after I'd been there no more than a fortnight and told me straight that he knew this, he knew that, he wasn't going to take any shit from someone who hadn't been there for less than a month. "ok. You book the meeting with HR and I'll be there." Guess what? He left before me. Well before me. Sometimes you have to be The Cunt to break toxic habits. I agree with you, sometimes that is the right thing to do. And maybe Mmme and others aren’t the right characters for this club. My point is that between now and the end of the season, this manger needs results, or we are down. Right now I can’t see where the goals are going to come from, because we can’t score and we are shit up top. Could SS handle this differently? I think he should have. To be clear, I agree with having minimum standards in any workplace - especially football. I am just not sure this stand the managers stance is in our best interest in the short term as we are may go down in part because of it.
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Post by biddulphchav on Feb 20, 2024 3:03:18 GMT
If you want to know what I’d do, perhaps asking instead of assuming that my view, being different from the one you hold, is some idiotic plan that you’ve outlined? I would definitely wait and assess the situation first. In my view, we have absolutely fuck all options up front, which is why we’ve had to play an 18 year old up top that is clearly not ready. Because of the wider context, I would manage this situation differently than I would if we had some good alternatives. We basically surrender to teams that can score against us right now as we have little to no goal threat - and Mmae is the best of the bunch - at least in my opinion. Management isn’t about having a blue print that you just take everywhere with you and repeat. That’s why Nathan Jones can’t succeed anywhere outside of Luton. The managers job in the short term is to keep us in this league, that’s the be all and end all between now and May. He can have a longer term view of how he wants the culture to evolve and that’s a good thing, but if we go down he will get the boot and when the recriminations begin even he himself may acknowledge that our lack of goals has been a major factor in that, and that jettisoning our best striker perhaps wasn’t the best decision he could have made considering the context. But if he gets sacked, he’ll have a nice 3-4 year payout and the simple statement of “they couldn’t score before I got there and it wasn’t my fault”. Someone will give him another chance because that’s just football. What would you do? How long would you wait? What would any discipline look like? What if you got in the front door and there were disciplinary issues running riot throughout the squad that had simply been ignored by the previous manager? I honestly don’t think that Lowe would be any less effective than Mmaee for the remainder of the season. They both offer nothing. Honestly in this situation, I’d do what Pulis did with Fuller between now and the end of the season. I’d try to eek everything I possibly could between now and May and then I’d fuck him off it nothing changed by the summer. It has to be needs must, principles can get fucked if we are in league one by the end of this year
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Post by Trouserdog on Feb 20, 2024 3:09:19 GMT
Would you wait for your 1 year work anniversary and then tell them that the behaviours that you’ve let ride for a year are no longer acceptable? Would you then meet with every extra person who have also started pissing around as they’ve seen that individual A can get away with pretty much anything under your leadership? Who knows what actually happened at Stoke? Perhaps SS turned up and said, this is what I expect. Mmaee could have been given a few warnings before being dropped completely. SS may have also asked his captain to have a word as well. Ultimately, warnings mean nothing if they aren’t actually followed through. If you want to know what I’d do, perhaps asking instead of assuming that my view, being different from the one you hold, is some idiotic plan that you’ve outlined? I would definitely wait and assess the situation first. In my view, we have absolutely fuck all options up front, which is why we’ve had to play an 18 year old up top that is clearly not ready. Because of the wider context, I would manage this situation differently than I would if we had some good alternatives. We basically surrender to teams that can score against us right now as we have little to no goal threat - and Mmae is the best of the bunch - at least in my opinion. Management isn’t about having a blue print that you just take everywhere with you and repeat. That’s why Nathan Jones can’t succeed anywhere outside of Luton. The managers job in the short term is to keep us in this league, that’s the be all and end all between now and May. He can have a longer term view of how he wants the culture to evolve and that’s a good thing, but if we go down he will get the boot and when the recriminations begin even he himself may acknowledge that our lack of goals has been a major factor in that, and that jettisoning our best striker perhaps wasn’t the best decision he could have made considering the context. What seems to be escaping you is that our best striker is still pretty damned shit. This isn't TP turning a blind eye to Fuller always being late because he's the guy who carries the team, we're talking about Ryan Mmaee. He's shit. And a tosser. And you want to pander to him. If I was a player in that dressing room, working hard and being professional I'd resent that. Most people would. You're thinking you're being all progressive and modern managing like that, but it's not...it's weak.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2024 3:12:09 GMT
But if he gets sacked, he’ll have a nice 3-4 year payout and the simple statement of “they couldn’t score before I got there and it wasn’t my fault”. Someone will give him another chance because that’s just football. What would you do? How long would you wait? What would any discipline look like? What if you got in the front door and there were disciplinary issues running riot throughout the squad that had simply been ignored by the previous manager? I honestly don’t think that Lowe would be any less effective than Mmaee for the remainder of the season. They both offer nothing. Honestly in this situation, I’d do what Pulis did with Fuller between now and the end of the season. I’d try to eek everything I possibly could between now and May and then I’d fuck him off it nothing changed by the summer. It has to be needs must, principles can get fucked if we are in league one by the end of this year I get what you mean, I just disagree with it. For me, the risk of the poor behaviour spreading is too much of a risk. If Mmaee has anything about him, he’ll realize that being reprimanded happens in all professions but it isn’t a death knell. People can make mistakes, get punished, course correct and come back stronger if they decide to. If Mmaee was likely to be a difference maker, I’d weight that initial risk differently though. However, I don’t think he’s anywhere near as important to Stoke in this relegation run up as Fuller was to us in pretty much any period of his time here. So, for me, if he can’t be arsed to work for his spot in the squad (presumably), I don’t think we’ll miss him at all.
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Post by biddulphchav on Feb 20, 2024 3:31:02 GMT
If you want to know what I’d do, perhaps asking instead of assuming that my view, being different from the one you hold, is some idiotic plan that you’ve outlined? I would definitely wait and assess the situation first. In my view, we have absolutely fuck all options up front, which is why we’ve had to play an 18 year old up top that is clearly not ready. Because of the wider context, I would manage this situation differently than I would if we had some good alternatives. We basically surrender to teams that can score against us right now as we have little to no goal threat - and Mmae is the best of the bunch - at least in my opinion. Management isn’t about having a blue print that you just take everywhere with you and repeat. That’s why Nathan Jones can’t succeed anywhere outside of Luton. The managers job in the short term is to keep us in this league, that’s the be all and end all between now and May. He can have a longer term view of how he wants the culture to evolve and that’s a good thing, but if we go down he will get the boot and when the recriminations begin even he himself may acknowledge that our lack of goals has been a major factor in that, and that jettisoning our best striker perhaps wasn’t the best decision he could have made considering the context. What seems to be escaping you is that our best striker is still pretty damned shit. This isn't TP turning a blind eye to Fuller always being late because he's the guy who carries the team, we're talking about Ryan Mmaee. He's shit. And a tosser. And you want to pander to him. If I was a player in that dressing room, working hard and being professional I'd resent that. Most people would. You're thinking you're being all progressive and modern managing like that, but it's not...it's weak. It’s not escaping me that he’s shit. He’s not shit, but he’s not great. Truth is he is better than Wesley, Lowe, and possibly Ennis. So whatever way you look at it we need him. Comparing him to Fuller in terms of ability is irrelevant, it’s about his importance to us right now. Pulis was above all else, a pragmatic bloke and he called that right. He would probably do the same thing now. I’m not ‘being’ progressive and modern, but I’m not a throwback to the 1990’s and beyond like you seemingly are. Football has changed, the world has changed - except for you that is.
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Post by biddulphchav on Feb 20, 2024 3:32:37 GMT
Honestly in this situation, I’d do what Pulis did with Fuller between now and the end of the season. I’d try to eek everything I possibly could between now and May and then I’d fuck him off it nothing changed by the summer. It has to be needs must, principles can get fucked if we are in league one by the end of this year I get what you mean, I just disagree with it. For me, the risk of the poor behaviour spreading is too much of a risk. If Mmaee has anything about him, he’ll realize that being reprimanded happens in all professions but it isn’t a death knell. People can make mistakes, get punished, course correct and come back stronger if they decide to. If Mmaee was likely to be a difference maker, I’d weight that initial risk differently though. However, I don’t think he’s anywhere near as important to Stoke in this relegation run up as Fuller was to us in pretty much any period of his time here. So, for me, if he can’t be arsed to work for his spot in the squad (presumably), I don’t think we’ll miss him at all. That’s fair enough - we see it differently in terms of the risks. Time will tell ultimately, but I hope you are right.
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Post by rickyfullerbeer on Feb 20, 2024 4:33:52 GMT
At least he might score if there's no one in goal👍 I wouldn't get your hopes up. He probably still goes down holding his face even training on his own. I can't believe people want him back in the squad. He was shit before he was ostricised anyway. You can only assume it's due to the precarious pisition we find ourselves in again I'd be delighted to never see him, his face-holding pal Vidigal and anyone else who's causing a fuss, in a Stoke shirt again.
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Post by Trouserdog on Feb 20, 2024 6:19:10 GMT
What seems to be escaping you is that our best striker is still pretty damned shit. This isn't TP turning a blind eye to Fuller always being late because he's the guy who carries the team, we're talking about Ryan Mmaee. He's shit. And a tosser. And you want to pander to him. If I was a player in that dressing room, working hard and being professional I'd resent that. Most people would. You're thinking you're being all progressive and modern managing like that, but it's not...it's weak. It’s not escaping me that he’s shit. He’s not shit, but he’s not great. Truth is he is better than Wesley, Lowe, and possibly Ennis. So whatever way you look at it we need him. Comparing him to Fuller in terms of ability is irrelevant, it’s about his importance to us right now. Pulis was above all else, a pragmatic bloke and he called that right. He would probably do the same thing now. I’m not ‘being’ progressive and modern, but I’m not a throwback to the 1990’s and beyond like you seemingly are. Football has changed, the world has changed - except for you that is. Pulis would kick his arse so hard, the useless twat would fly back to Morocco without an airline ticket. 'The world has changed'. Yes it thankfully has, but the effect of allowing one member of a team to take the piss while others work hard hasn't changed and won't change as long as humans are alive.
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Post by tuum on Feb 20, 2024 6:43:28 GMT
I certainly think, whilst he's still here, we need Campbell, or we simply won't score enough goals.. Agree. Not sure if anything has gone on with Campbell or whether it is purely down to form. However, I think everyone agrees that his form has been poor of late.Despite this he can still offer us something. He is a better option than Mmaee in my opinion.
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Post by tuum on Feb 20, 2024 6:45:29 GMT
Honestly in this situation, I’d do what Pulis did with Fuller between now and the end of the season. I’d try to eek everything I possibly could between now and May and then I’d fuck him off it nothing changed by the summer. It has to be needs must, principles can get fucked if we are in league one by the end of this year I get what you mean, I just disagree with it. For me, the risk of the poor behaviour spreading is too much of a risk. If Mmaee has anything about him, he’ll realize that being reprimanded happens in all professions but it isn’t a death knell. People can make mistakes, get punished, course correct and come back stronger if they decide to. If Mmaee was likely to be a difference maker, I’d weight that initial risk differently though. However, I don’t think he’s anywhere near as important to Stoke in this relegation run up as Fuller was to us in pretty much any period of his time here. So, for me, if he can’t be arsed to work for his spot in the squad (presumably), I don’t think we’ll miss him at all. 100% this.
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Post by moon on Feb 20, 2024 7:18:21 GMT
If you think holding someone to basic professional standards is naive, I sincerely hope you never manage any workplace that I'm employed by. I would never waltz into workplace and start disciplining people within a couple of months, that’s for sure. That is a sure way to alienate a number of the existing team. Your thinking is way outdated, just like Schumachers Football is very different to most workplaces though, even within sport. In a typical workplace I wouldn’t be taking that approach either. I have no problems with Schumacher coming in like a steam train, were are in a mess and need to be sorted out, my only request is that he doesn’t hold grudges and is willing to give people a second chance when they deserve it. He needs to bring enough of the squad together to form a competitive team that play for each other and as a minimum, ensure we are playing in the Championship next season.
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Post by biddulphchav on Feb 20, 2024 7:49:13 GMT
It’s not escaping me that he’s shit. He’s not shit, but he’s not great. Truth is he is better than Wesley, Lowe, and possibly Ennis. So whatever way you look at it we need him. Comparing him to Fuller in terms of ability is irrelevant, it’s about his importance to us right now. Pulis was above all else, a pragmatic bloke and he called that right. He would probably do the same thing now. I’m not ‘being’ progressive and modern, but I’m not a throwback to the 1990’s and beyond like you seemingly are. Football has changed, the world has changed - except for you that is. Pulis would kick his arse so hard, the useless twat would fly back to Morocco without an airline ticket. 'The world has changed'. Yes it thankfully has, but the effect of allowing one member of a team to take the piss while others work hard hasn't changed and won't change as long as humans are alive. The job of the manager is to get the best out of this team, including everyone. Right now, we have worse form over the games without Mmaee than we did with him. So get that up ya, cos the rest of what you are saying is irrelevant and just speculation. We’re in a results business
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Post by MrFlirty on Feb 20, 2024 7:53:25 GMT
Usual case with Stoke fans. Our best players are always the ones that are not in the team. Then they play and we slag them off
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on Feb 20, 2024 7:55:51 GMT
I would never waltz into workplace and start disciplining people within a couple of months, that’s for sure. That is a sure way to alienate a number of the existing team. Your thinking is way outdated, just like Schumachers Football is very different to most workplaces though, even within sport. In a typical workplace I wouldn’t be taking that approach either. I have no problems with Schumacher coming in like a steam train, were are in a mess and need to be sorted out, my only request is that he doesn’t hold grudges and is willing to give people a second chance when they deserve it. He needs to bring enough of the squad together to form a competitive team that play for each other and as a minimum, ensure we are playing in the Championship next season. Schumacher has said the door is open for Mmaee to return to the squad but it's up to Mmaee to make the first move. If Schumacher backs down and allows him back without that his credibility among the rest of the squad is gone and he'd be toast. And if Mmaee was behaving like he is reported to have behaved Schumacher did the right thing in getting him out of the squad. It is what it is and there is no way Schumacher can change direction now. As to Campbell - he's checked out. Schumacher is reported to have told him he wants to use him as a central striker which makes sense given that other than his undoubted ability as a finisher he offers nothing else to the team. However he's even failed to deliver on that brief when given the chance. It isn't just his current form either - he's been given chance after chance by successive managers and he's done nothing to deserve a regular place on the team. Lowe clearly isn't ready but at least he is keen and makes some effort and Ennis looks like he's interested and can score goals. Mmaee and Campbell are not the ones to help us avoid relegation. For one thing neither of them are as good as they think they are and both have their own interests at heart, not the teams.
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Post by sticky on Feb 20, 2024 8:10:03 GMT
Usual case with Stoke fans. Our best players are always the ones that are not in the team. Then they play and we slag them off who are these “best players” that you speak of?
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Post by LGH87 on Feb 20, 2024 8:17:21 GMT
Usual case with Stoke fans. Our best players are always the ones that are not in the team. Then they play and we slag them off We should never have let Afobe go. Crying out for him now.
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