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Post by Marc01 on May 17, 2024 19:20:47 GMT
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Post by GrahamHyde on May 17, 2024 21:28:00 GMT
Brilliant manager.
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Post by foxysgloves on May 17, 2024 21:36:38 GMT
Whatever you think about TP that man had a burning desire to achieve.
Obsessive.
I’d love to see his team talks from our promotion season.
And the early games of the PL. They must have been insane.
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Post by cheekymatt71 on May 17, 2024 21:42:04 GMT
Ill be honest if I was football player listening to that on repeat I would totally ignore it and play tunes in my own head.
Hes a bit obsessive in he
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Post by foxysgloves on May 17, 2024 21:52:52 GMT
Ill be honest if I was football player listening to that on repeat I would totally ignore it and play tunes in my own head. Hes a bit obsessive in he I guess all successful managers are. |
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Post by Gods on May 17, 2024 22:57:36 GMT
Wonderful to see the maestro cranking it up!
1998, this would be Gillingham then?
97/98 season they finished 8th in division 2, lead scorer our old friend Ade Akinbiyi with 22 goals
98/99 season they finished 4th in division 2, lead scorer our old friend Carl Asaba with 22 goals
99/00 season they got promoted via the playoffs
No coincidence that both Akinbiyi and Asaba finished up playing for Stoke City 2003/05
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 18, 2024 7:21:43 GMT
Ill be honest if I was football player listening to that on repeat I would totally ignore it and play tunes in my own head. Hes a bit obsessive in he He seems so anxious. Just sit down and shut up Tone. |
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Post by spitthedog on May 18, 2024 7:34:28 GMT
are the players even listening to him?
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Post by Gods on May 18, 2024 8:13:28 GMT
are the players even listening to him? Probably not but I think they got the idea...an altogether saltier degree of manhood required in the second half! |
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Post by foxysgloves on May 18, 2024 8:53:22 GMT
Ill be honest if I was football player listening to that on repeat I would totally ignore it and play tunes in my own head. Hes a bit obsessive in he He seems so anxious. Just sit down and shut up Tone. Strangely not what the players he coached thought (except possibly James ‘The invisible towel’ Beattie) Liam Lawrence = “I can almost hear Tony Pulis and the final few words he'll be delivering before sending out his players to face Stoke City," writes Lawrence in his column for StokeOnTrent Live. "He would keep it short, sharp and, given his language, not always too sweet. "When you left that dressing room, you knew precisely what your job was, whether it was your goal kick or their corner, and you knew there was no excuse for falling short. He would remind you of the opposition's weaknesses and how to get at them, along with their strengths and how to deal with that.” Ricardo = “Anyway, at half-time (Scunthorpe), Tony Pulis worked his magic.“He came in and did this speech. Always different things you didn’t see coming. “It shocked us, really. “The gaffer did some clever psychology at times. He knew how to motivate us. That night, he fired us up by creating this siege mentality... against our supporters! “He basically said, ‘Forget that lot out there we don’t need them tonight. It’s about you – the squad and the players on the pitch. Go out here and do it for yourselves and each other – it just you against the world because no one, not even our fans expect us to do anything. Go out there and show them what you are all about.’ Crouch = "It was one of the best dressing rooms that I’ve ever been a part of, you just knew you were going into battle everyday and going to get a result because of the work rate, attitude, the endeavour and dedication. "It’s one of the best lines I've heard in football. He said 'don’t get ahead of yourselves lads, you’re bang average players in a fantastic system” Huth = Huth said at the time: “The manager had some tough words for us. We felt we had done all right in the first half but he didn't. In the second half we got at them even more and got the win we deserved. It was a terrible thing that happened to the gaffer and his family. So I want to dedicate my goal and our victory to them. “We knew he went that morning to be with his family and we knew his mum was in trouble though we didn't know the extent of it. We wanted to do well for him but it was a surprise to see him at half-time.” |
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Post by lordb on May 18, 2024 8:58:08 GMT
Brilliant manager who drove us all insane
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Post by mickeythemaestro on May 18, 2024 10:44:47 GMT
Brilliant manager who drove us all insane I like that. Almost poetic 👏 😃 |
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Post by dadofsam on May 18, 2024 10:59:49 GMT
Sweatshirt tucked into trackie bottoms, never a good look
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2024 11:06:01 GMT
Brilliant manager who drove us all insane That's where I'm at with him. Can't knock what he did, just really frustrating the way he went about it and sadly has left us with an unsavoury reputation, as the recent disgusting 24k fine and subsequent documentation proves. We'll never shake that off until we are relatively successful doing things another way. |
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Post by i1da on May 18, 2024 11:12:27 GMT
He seems so anxious. Just sit down and shut up Tone. Strangely not what the players he coached thought (except possibly James ‘The invisible towel’ Beattie) Liam Lawrence = “I can almost hear Tony Pulis and the final few words he'll be delivering before sending out his players to face Stoke City," writes Lawrence in his column for StokeOnTrent Live. "He would keep it short, sharp and, given his language, not always too sweet. "When you left that dressing room, you knew precisely what your job was, whether it was your goal kick or their corner, and you knew there was no excuse for falling short. He would remind you of the opposition's weaknesses and how to get at them, along with their strengths and how to deal with that.” Ricardo = “Anyway, at half-time (Scunthorpe), Tony Pulis worked his magic.“He came in and did this speech. Always different things you didn’t see coming. “It shocked us, really. “The gaffer did some clever psychology at times. He knew how to motivate us. That night, he fired us up by creating this siege mentality... against our supporters! “He basically said, ‘Forget that lot out there we don’t need them tonight. It’s about you – the squad and the players on the pitch. Go out here and do it for yourselves and each other – it just you against the world because no one, not even our fans expect us to do anything. Go out there and show them what you are all about.’ Crouch = "It was one of the best dressing rooms that I’ve ever been a part of, you just knew you were going into battle everyday and going to get a result because of the work rate, attitude, the endeavour and dedication. "It’s one of the best lines I've heard in football. He said 'don’t get ahead of yourselves lads, you’re bang average players in a fantastic system” Huth = Huth said at the time: “The manager had some tough words for us. We felt we had done all right in the first half but he didn't. In the second half we got at them even more and got the win we deserved. It was a terrible thing that happened to the gaffer and his family. So I want to dedicate my goal and our victory to them. “We knew he went that morning to be with his family and we knew his mum was in trouble though we didn't know the extent of it. We wanted to do well for him but it was a surprise to see him at half-time.” Absolutely no doubt - one of our best managers of the last 60 years. Waddo, Macari, Pulis, Hughes (chronological order) - What a manager we would have if you could take the best of each of those and mold them into a Frankenmanager! Vaguely related, I saw the documentary "Chasing The Sun" a few years ago. WOW! You want to hear a fiery dressing room speech ..."I want you to get out there and $%#@ them up! I want them to be scared of you. $%#@ them up and I promise they will run away!" |
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Post by boskampsflaps on May 18, 2024 11:12:42 GMT
Brilliant manager who drove us all insane That's where I'm at with him. Can't knock what he did, just really frustrating the way he went about it and sadly has left us with an unsavoury reputation, as the recent disgusting 24k fine and subsequent documentation proves. We'll never shake that off until we are relatively successful doing things another way. Who cares 🤷 |
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Post by stantheman on May 18, 2024 11:40:01 GMT
Ill be honest if I was football player listening to that on repeat I would totally ignore it and play tunes in my own head. Hes a bit obsessive in he And then he'd drop you and you would be sold. |
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Post by M on May 18, 2024 13:06:49 GMT
I bloody love that bloke, a full PLW. Yeah he was tactically limited, yeah he talked us down in the media (I don’t believe he did in the dressing room) and yeah he frustrated the hell out of me at times but before he came I literally never had any belief we could ever become a PL team, or become an established one either. He loved the family, he loved the club and he loved his dressing room and I think that Villa half time appearance showed that.
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Post by Gods on May 18, 2024 13:14:08 GMT
I never tire of sharing this article on the legacy of Tony Pulis at Stoke by the great journalist Barney Ronay. Perhaps the 'chin stroking football purists' to which he refers don't get it, but Ronay does, perhaps because he is a Millwall fan, or maybe he just accepts there is not only one way to play the beautiful game. And in any case TP's style threw up as much excitement as tiki-taka and perhaps more! Even if you don't agree with him his writing is hilarious IMHO Tony Pulis departure from Stoke City signals the end of an error |
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Post by foxysgloves on May 18, 2024 16:06:00 GMT
I never tire of sharing this article on the legacy of Tony Pulis at Stoke by the great journalist Barney Ronay. Perhaps the 'chin stroking football purists' to which he refers don't get it, but Ronay does, perhaps because he is a Millwall fan, or maybe he just accepts there is not only one way to play the beautiful game. And in any case TP's style threw up as much excitement as tiki-taka and perhaps more! Even if you don't agree with him his writing is hilarious IMHO Tony Pulis departure from Stoke City signals the end of an errorAnd the fact remains that in a sense he is a kind of British footballing everyman, that on some distant footballing level we are all Tony Pulis. I'm Tony Pulis. You're Tony Pulis. Tony Pulis is Tony Pulis. |
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Post by Gods on May 18, 2024 17:16:25 GMT
I never tire of sharing this article on the legacy of Tony Pulis at Stoke by the great journalist Barney Ronay. Perhaps the 'chin stroking football purists' to which he refers don't get it, but Ronay does, perhaps because he is a Millwall fan, or maybe he just accepts there is not only one way to play the beautiful game. And in any case TP's style threw up as much excitement as tiki-taka and perhaps more! Even if you don't agree with him his writing is hilarious IMHO Tony Pulis departure from Stoke City signals the end of an errorAnd the fact remains that in a sense he is a kind of British footballing everyman, that on some distant footballing level we are all Tony Pulis. I'm Tony Pulis. You're Tony Pulis. Tony Pulis is Tony Pulis. Brings a tear to my eye that last paragraph 😢 |
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Post by canadianmoose on May 18, 2024 18:04:01 GMT
Phil Parkinson doesn’t sound much different at Wrexham based on the Wrexham documentary
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Post by LL Cool Dave on May 18, 2024 18:07:49 GMT
Sounds like Don Logan there.
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Post by GeneralFaye on May 18, 2024 18:11:30 GMT
Phil Parkinson doesn’t sound much different at Wrexham based on the Wrexham documentary Was just gonna say, he literally barks out the same words every game. If I were a player, I wouldn't listen unless he was directly talking to me. |
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Post by foxysgloves on May 18, 2024 18:49:36 GMT
I bloody love that bloke, a full PLW. Yeah he was tactically limited, yeah he talked us down in the media (I don’t believe he did in the dressing room) and yeah he frustrated the hell out of me at times but before he came I literally never had any belief we could ever become a PL team, or become an established one either. He loved the family, he loved the club and he loved his dressing room and I think that Villa half time appearance showed that. He’s marmite. I get that. I do understand why a lot dislike him. And he is a complicated man. A pit bull with a heart. But he was ours. And fucking hell what a journey he brought us on. Not perfect and maybe some missed opportunities admittedly…..but what incredible highs he gave us. |
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