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Post by durbanscircus on Dec 15, 2023 13:22:44 GMT
Eustace....63 games in charge at the Blues and secured 79 points. That averages out at 57 points a season. Last year that would have secured 16th place. Unlucky For Eustace last year he only got 53 points and finished 17th behind Stoke City on Goal Difference.
From talking to Blues fans the quality of football was dire, as was confirmed on our trip to St Andrews
There is an old saying that there are three stages to life
1.Birth
2. FFS Stoke!
3 Death
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Post by shakermaker on Dec 15, 2023 13:26:12 GMT
Might aswell have kept Gally and Shawx in charge. How utterly predictable and thoroughly mediocre. SJE cant save us this season I'm afraid. What utter cr@p. He'll wish he'd never took it on. I'm happy as always to be proved wrong After that negative pathetic selection of his for the last game I really don't want Gally for another game. I've never seen a manager put out a team with such a lack of firepower Pulis included. It was fucking pathetic. Our xG in that game was 2.0 (and that's without the penalty). To put that in perspective, Ipswich have the highest per game xG in the league this season with 1.67. I thought we played well against Swansea personally.
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Post by stokief on Dec 15, 2023 13:26:44 GMT
Might aswell have kept Gally and Shawx in charge. How utterly predictable and thoroughly mediocre. SJE cant save us this season I'm afraid. What utter cr@p. He'll wish he'd never took it on. I'm happy as always to be proved wrong After that negative pathetic selection of his for the last game I really don't want Gally for another game. I've never seen a manager put out a team with such a lack of firepower Pulis included. It was fucking pathetic. Exactly. You'll get more of the same with Eustace so why bother changing at all!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2023 13:28:36 GMT
Eustace....63 games in charge at the Blues and secured 79 points. That averages out at 57 points a season. Last year that would have secured 16th place. Unlucky For Eustace last year he only got 53 points and finished 17th behind Stoke City on Goal Difference. From talking to Blues fans the quality of football was dire, as was confirmed on our trip to St Andrews There is an old saying that there are three stages to life 1.Birth 2. FFS Stoke! 3 Death Staggering. So if he comes in here and hits his par, he'll get around 53 points from where we are now. Anything less and we're smack bang in it. What a time to be alive.
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Post by Block 26 on Dec 15, 2023 13:30:10 GMT
Eustace now 1/4 on. Looking like it’s going to be him.
If so, it’ll be another underwhelming appointment for me but I’ll back him just like I did with AN. I just think that we need an attack minded manager with the current squad we’ve got.
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Post by Block 26 on Dec 15, 2023 13:31:02 GMT
After that negative pathetic selection of his for the last game I really don't want Gally for another game. I've never seen a manager put out a team with such a lack of firepower Pulis included. It was fucking pathetic. Our xG in that game was 2.0 (and that's without the penalty). To put that in perspective, Ipswich have the highest per game xG in the league this season with 1.67. I thought we played well against Swansea personally. Put our chances away in that game & we win it comfortably.
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Dec 15, 2023 13:32:18 GMT
Nuno = Raking in the Premiership money in a couple of years
Coates,will go for stuck in the Championship or lower for years to come.
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Post by Olgrligm on Dec 15, 2023 13:32:42 GMT
Betting odds don't really mean anything, do they?
The only thing that matters is when the club put a statement on the official site of the manager moodily holding a t-shirt next to Ricky Martin, announcing that it has always been his dream to manage Stoke.
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Post by serpico on Dec 15, 2023 13:33:10 GMT
Non of us really know the reality of the situation behind the scenes, it might well be that Eustace is the stand out candidate of available/realistic candidates who actually want the job ? 🤷♂️ every time the job comes up top names are bandied about but they never come off, likely because in reality they don’t want the job!
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Post by FullerMagic on Dec 15, 2023 13:34:00 GMT
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Post by GeneralFaye on Dec 15, 2023 13:40:13 GMT
I'm lumping money on all names so best avoid the odds if you're strangely into that kind of thing.
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Post by scfcno1fan on Dec 15, 2023 13:48:39 GMT
Frustrating that we couldn’t agree a deal with Nuno.
Surely we would realise he would want a decent contract and to bring his back room staff with him?
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Post by baconburger on Dec 15, 2023 13:49:13 GMT
After that negative pathetic selection of his for the last game I really don't want Gally for another game. I've never seen a manager put out a team with such a lack of firepower Pulis included. It was fucking pathetic. Exactly. You'll get more of the same with Eustace so why bother changing at all! I know next to nothing about Eustace and what to expect if he’s hired but I struggle to believe it could possibly be that negative. Being even more negative than any of the host of negative dinosaurs we’ve employed during my supporting life takes some doing.
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Post by baconburger on Dec 15, 2023 13:55:03 GMT
Frustrating that we couldn’t agree a deal with Nuno. Surely we would realise he would want a decent contract and to bring his back room staff with him? I don’t know why people still accept it as reasonable that a manager bring in a load of his hangers on. I think allowing him his choice of assistant is more than enough.
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Post by neddy on Dec 15, 2023 13:58:29 GMT
Frustrating that we couldn’t agree a deal with Nuno. Surely we would realise he would want a decent contract and to bring his back room staff with him? I don’t know why people still accept it as reasonable that a manager bring in a load of his hangers on. I think allowing him his choice of assistant is more than enough. Just curious how many has Neil brought in? Him, Gally, the big fella and changed other personnel? I would hope if it is SJE he keeps Gally but who knows?
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Post by newmarketstokie69 on Dec 15, 2023 13:59:01 GMT
Frustrating that we couldn’t agree a deal with Nuno. Surely we would realise he would want a decent contract and to bring his back room staff with him? I don’t know why people still accept it as reasonable that a manager bring in a load of his hangers on. I think allowing him his choice of assistant is more than enough.
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Post by newmarketstokie69 on Dec 15, 2023 14:00:01 GMT
I don’t know why people still accept it as reasonable that a manager bring in a load of his hangers on. I think allowing him his choice of assistant is more than enough.
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Post by gsscfc on Dec 15, 2023 14:02:52 GMT
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Post by baconburger on Dec 15, 2023 14:05:32 GMT
I don’t know why people still accept it as reasonable that a manager bring in a load of his hangers on. I think allowing him his choice of assistant is more than enough. Just curious how many has Neil brought in? Him, Gally, the big fella and changed other personnel? I would hope if it is SJE he keeps Gally but who knows? Initially he bought only Canning. Not sure how the others really came about. If people left because they don’t like working with him fine but I don’t see any good reason for the club to pay people off to bring in his choices in every area. Even the Rory situation was never really explained did he walk or was he pushed and paid off?
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on Dec 15, 2023 14:05:33 GMT
Frustrating that we couldn’t agree a deal with Nuno. Surely we would realise he would want a decent contract and to bring his back room staff with him? I don’t know why people still accept it as reasonable that a manager bring in a load of his hangers on. I think allowing him his choice of assistant is more than enough. Do you mean like Pep being allowed to do just that at Man City? That's exactly how the very top managers work - they head up a team and a club is taking on the team, not just one man. And it costs a lot of money. I suspect that is what has done for Nuno.
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Dec 15, 2023 14:05:45 GMT
Agree that's why it's a self interest disaster appointment Flipside is that a head coach style appointment doesn’t require yet another upheaval/overhaul to get things moving in the right direction, simply improving what’s currently there. We can’t afford, in time or money, to tear up yet again and restart. I'm afraid that's like saying white star have replaced the helmsman on teh titanic but left captain Smith in charge.
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Post by rowleyscfc on Dec 15, 2023 14:06:43 GMT
If the hearsay is true and the Coates have turned down NES due to demands of a 3 year contract and his own staff, they should just sell up, that type of project with a manager who has managed top top players, as well as took Wolves from a similar position to our selves to back to back 7th place finishes in the prem, Fa cup semi final and the last 8 of the Europa league is like a golden ticket, especially midseason. won the league in Saudi last year too.
In regards to Eustace If theyre planning on going short term and reassessing in the summer its a massive lose lose, worst case he takes us down, best case he does really well and you risk someone else poaching him in the summer.
In my opinion Nuno felt like a golden ticket, and we've royally fucked this one up, but id expect nothing else from that clown who's running our club.
May of been our last chance at a top coach and we should of thrown the chequebook at him. A top coach is worth more to a club than good players, Villa being a prime example this season, similar squad to last year scraping relegation, employ a top coach and they're flying.
That being said ill get behind whoever is employed but that doesn't mean im happy.
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Dec 15, 2023 14:06:59 GMT
Come on,we know if J Coates had a choice of bringing Pep or Bruce in,he would go for Bruce.
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Post by stokiejoe89 on Dec 15, 2023 14:08:02 GMT
If the hearsay is true and the Coates have turned down NES due to demands of a 3 year contract and his own staff, they should just sell up, that type of project with a manager who has managed top top players, as well as took Wolves from a similar position to our selves to back to back 7th place finishes in the prem, Fa cup semi final and the last 8 of the Europa league is like a golden ticket, especially midseason. won the league in Saudi last year too. In regards to Eustace If theyre planning on going short term and reassessing in the summer its a massive lose lose, worst case he takes us down, best case he does really well and you risk someone else poaching him in the summer. In my opinion Nuno felt like a golden ticket, and we've royally fucked this one up, but id expect nothing else from that clown who's running our club. May of been our last chance at a top coach and we should of thrown the chequebook at him. A top coach is worth more to a club than good players, Villa being a prime example this season, similar squad to last year scraping relegation, employ a top coach and they're flying. That being said ill get behind whoever is employed but that doesn't mean im happy. According to the Sentinel Nuno hasn't even applied so hasn't even been spoken to
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Post by baconburger on Dec 15, 2023 14:10:34 GMT
I don’t know why people still accept it as reasonable that a manager bring in a load of his hangers on. I think allowing him his choice of assistant is more than enough. Do you mean like Pep being allowed to do just that at Man City? That's exactly how the very top managers work - they head up a team and a club is taking on the team, not just one man. And it costs a lot of money. I suspect that is what has done for Nuno. Yes we’re not a top club and we’re not hiring elite managers. As I keep saying 1 assistant is plenty. Work with what we have and you’ll have a voice on replacement of natural wastage. Nuno + 1 assistant fine. Nuno plus half a dozen hangers on and ties to agents etc not fine.
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Post by stokeykez on Dec 15, 2023 14:11:26 GMT
Rumour Mill is white hot,but like a game of traitors, no fucker is trusting anyone's word
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Post by alsagerstoke on Dec 15, 2023 14:11:28 GMT
Well I hope for once and for all that puts paid to the folk who think they know what’s going on….1000% nuno has applied for the job…..he has been down having an interview haha ….ffs what a bunch of clowns most people look on here right now
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2023 14:13:50 GMT
From Will Still to Michael Beale via a whole host of other names. I really don't think I understand why Mowbray was kicked out if this is their conclusion 😅
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Post by stokief on Dec 15, 2023 14:14:35 GMT
Do you mean like Pep being allowed to do just that at Man City? That's exactly how the very top managers work - they head up a team and a club is taking on the team, not just one man. And it costs a lot of money. I suspect that is what has done for Nuno. Yes we’re not a top club and we’re not hiring elite managers. As I keep saying 1 assistant is plenty. Work with what we have and you’ll have a voice on replacement of natural wastage. Nuno + 1 assistant fine. Nuno plus half a dozen hangers on and ties to agents etc not fine. Oh well, if you'd rather we just got relegated then..
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Post by alsagerstoke on Dec 15, 2023 14:15:05 GMT
wow what a shit appointment that is…their board will also meltdown
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