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Post by hcstokie on Sept 16, 2024 18:39:12 GMT
So do we actually know what the fuck has, and is going on here It’s all part of the masterplan to be relegated to league one, where we go on a half a billion pound spending spree which catapults us into the champions league within 3 years. |
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Post by gilberto on Sept 16, 2024 18:39:20 GMT
Stoke discussed for the first 20mins of NTT20 pod here...
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Sept 16, 2024 18:41:14 GMT
I heard a rumour that Gibson and Schumacher had a big bust up after the game? Naked shower headbutt part 2? One of Leslie Nielsen’s lesser known movies |
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Sept 16, 2024 18:41:14 GMT
As Pete Smith mentioned, would he be our 2nd youngest manager, just older than Waddington when he took over, and just a bit younger than Mick Mills? Hopefully he's more like Waddington. How old was Brian Little when he took over the reigns (and allegedly boffed the CEO's daughter?). (I may delete this message. Admin, feel free to do so.) Was a young lass at the club Obviously won't name her Used to see her on match days. A player did as well...allegedly. ....to be sure |
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Post by ed5993 on Sept 16, 2024 18:42:11 GMT
He didn’t play the attacking football he said he would. He shat himself at the first sign. He should have been sacked then. Awful manager for us. Stats say he's the best manager we've had in 15 years. Completely normal for you though Bayern, to call our manager a coward and many of our players cunts. Spineless keyboard warrior as always. Ah come on, this is selective statistics manipulation at it's finest. Everyone can do it... just watch: Pulis (in his 2nd spell) won more games than he lost. O'Neill won more games than he lost. Gary Rowett won more games than he lost. Schumacher did not. The reality - it's totally marginal as to results improvement under Schumacher compared to the "best" of the previous 6 Championship seasons. The style of football improving etc, now that's way more subjective. Personally, I don't really see what Schumacher was fundamentally changing on the pitch compared to what has gone before. It still feels tactically naive and entirely one dimensional. I felt it was only a matter of time before this happened - although with the timing I can't believe it is solely based on results etc in the last games, and I also can't believe that it is a total suprise internally given the speed of the movement on the replacement. |
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Post by stokeykez on Sept 16, 2024 18:43:11 GMT
Deluded on P and G. Stoke finally been proactive not reactive. Another 5 games of head scratching game management and scraping results and most of this board would be calling for SS head.
Hoping walters has called this right. Obviously coaching is now the future and thank fuck we're not linked with the usual dinosaur managers
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Post by coldtuesdaynight on Sept 16, 2024 18:44:54 GMT
So do we actually know what the fuck has, and is going on here It’s all part of the masterplan to be relegated to league one, where we go on a half a billion pound spending spree which catapults us into the champions league within 3 years. That might actually work… |
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Post by Dave the Rave on Sept 16, 2024 18:46:37 GMT
Currently at the 365 and one of the academy coaching staff just said that the new manager starts tomorrow.
Didn't say who it is though....
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Post by stokeykez on Sept 16, 2024 18:48:24 GMT
Currently at the 365 and one of the academy coaching staff just said that the new manager starts tomorrow. Didn't say who it is though.... Wouldn't surprise me, don't think sjw is in the mood to fuck about |
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Post by Chewbacca the Wookie on Sept 16, 2024 18:48:27 GMT
Currently at the 365 and one of the academy coaching staff just said that the new manager starts tomorrow. Didn't say who it is though.... Has Southgate got a job yet ?  |
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Post by Timmy on Sept 16, 2024 18:48:32 GMT
Currently at the 365 and one of the academy coaching staff just said that the new manager starts tomorrow. Didn't say who it is though.... Yeah Gareth's been ready for over a month now. |
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Post by scfcno1fan on Sept 16, 2024 18:49:40 GMT
Currently at the 365 and one of the academy coaching staff just said that the new manager starts tomorrow. Didn't say who it is though.... Will be the Norwich lad. |
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Post by eddyclamp on Sept 16, 2024 18:51:27 GMT
Do the tree people have night vision
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Post by coldtuesdaynight on Sept 16, 2024 18:51:56 GMT
If it wasn’t Coates and Walters doing the hiring then this would actually be quite exciting. They seem to have a plan though so that’s good. Will it work? We can only hope. Glad we're looking past the British isles for inspiration Britain must have the worst record of major footballing nations for producing managers over the last decade or so. Solely choosing managers from these shores must be the biggest guarentee of failure going. |
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Post by Chewbacca the Wookie on Sept 16, 2024 18:55:10 GMT
I do like the look of Pelach we really do need a proper coach someone who will improve the talented players we have.
We’ve been crying out for a foreign coach for years offers something different.
Did someone say he worked with Pep?
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Post by tinofspam on Sept 16, 2024 18:56:05 GMT
Naked shower headbutt part 2? One of Leslie Nielsen’s lesser known movies 😂😂 In the showers… “Lovely bush you have there Steven” *steven passes small bush plant in plant pot to Gibson* “Thank you Gibson, it’s my lucky shower bush. Now what do you want” |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Sept 16, 2024 18:56:56 GMT
One of Leslie Nielsen’s lesser known movies 😂😂 In the showers… “Lovely bush you have there Steven” *steven passes small bush plant in plant pot to Gibson* “Thank you Gibson, it’s my lucky shower bush. Now what do you want” Classic |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Sept 16, 2024 18:57:30 GMT
I do like the look of Pelach we really do need a proper coach someone who will improve the talented players we have. We’ve been crying out for a foreign coach for years offers something different. Did someone say he worked with Pep? Yeh he was his butler once😉 |
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Sept 16, 2024 18:59:39 GMT
I do like the look of Pelach we really do need a proper coach someone who will improve the talented players we have. We’ve been crying out for a foreign coach for years offers something different. Did someone say he worked with Pep? Yeh he was his butler once😉 He was his cardigan warmer. |
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Post by wazbagsbro on Sept 16, 2024 19:00:17 GMT
Currently at the 365 and one of the academy coaching staff just said that the new manager starts tomorrow. Didn't say who it is though.... Yeah Gareth's been ready for over a month now. Oh ffs please no, defend defend defend. With the squad we have. |
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Post by Edward Tattsyrup on Sept 16, 2024 19:00:28 GMT
😂😂 In the showers… “Lovely bush you have there Steven” *steven passes small bush plant in plant pot to Gibson* “Thank you Gibson, it’s my lucky shower bush. Now what do you want” Classic I still have a fond spot for Precilla Presley's Beaver 😂😂 |
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Post by figo85 on Sept 16, 2024 19:01:20 GMT
I still have a fond spot for Precilla Presley's Beaver 😂😂 And his 6ft moustache. |
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Post by chad on Sept 16, 2024 19:01:37 GMT
It’s absolutely the reality. If it’s not give us a name who a) could afford to buy the club b) would be prepared to sink his own millions in the club and c) would be in it for the long term and d) actually gave a shit about the club I’ll wait ……… I couldn’t have told that Tom Brady and co would have bought Brum. So it’s just not a good argument. So. No name then ? |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Sept 16, 2024 19:01:44 GMT
Do the tree people have night vision If only Onlooker was still about |
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Post by wazbagsbro on Sept 16, 2024 19:02:07 GMT
We need a Kevin keegan type and go all out attack. It's the only way we finish top 6
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Post by gogogadget on Sept 16, 2024 19:02:30 GMT
The assistant and the back room staff are going to be massive.
That will really determine whether going for this young chap will be a success or not
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Post by serpico on Sept 16, 2024 19:05:55 GMT
Do they just pull names out of a hat these days at Stoke ? 🤔
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Post by flea79 on Sept 16, 2024 19:07:01 GMT
One of Leslie Nielsen’s lesser known movies 😂😂 In the showers… “Lovely bush you have there Steven” *steven passes small bush plant in plant pot to Gibson* “Thank you Gibson, it’s my lucky shower bush. Now what do you want” The best one yet if I do say so It was a cold, dreary Saturday afternoon at Oxford United’s Kassam Stadium, and Stoke City had just limped to a 1-0 defeat. The Stoke fans were livid, the players trudged off the pitch looking defeated, and Steven Schumacher, the manager, was seething as he stomped towards the dressing room. Yet, as bad as the loss was, nobody could have predicted the bizarre chain of events that was about to unfold. In the dressing room, the tension was palpable. Schumacher, red-faced and dripping with sweat, paced angrily while muttering under his breath. He had been under pressure for weeks, and this latest defeat was the last straw for someone else in the room—Jon Walters, Stoke City’s Director of Football. Walters, a club legend and never one to shy away from confrontation, had been fuming in the stands. This was *his* Stoke City, and Schumacher’s dismal tactics had just sent them tumbling to another defeat. By the time Walters stormed into the dressing room, he was a volcano waiting to erupt. "Schuey!" Walters barked, causing the players to look up nervously from their spots. “What the hell was that? What’s the point of setting up like that against Oxford United? One striker, sitting back? Pathetic!” Schumacher, already frustrated, shot back, "You’re the Director of Football, Jon. You stay in the stands, and I’ll manage the team. Or have you forgotten how this works?" Jon’s face darkened. "Forgotten? I haven’t forgotten anything, Schuey. I remember exactly how this is supposed to go: you manage, and the team actually plays football. Not whatever this mess was today!" Schumacher was having none of it. His face flushed an even deeper shade of crimson as he ripped off his sweat-soaked suit jacket and threw it to the floor. “You think you can do better? Sitting up in your cushy director’s seat, calling the shots after the fact?” Walters, equally livid, started peeling off his coat as well, as if his rage had triggered a bizarre instinct to strip. “Don’t you dare talk to me like that, Schuey. I’ve been at this club longer than you’ve had pubes.” "That's a pretty long time for a washed-up legend who doesn’t even kick a ball anymore!" Schumacher snapped, now down to his shirt and trousers. That was it. The last straw. Walters yanked off his coat and shirt with a dramatic flourish, leaving his upper half bare, ready for a fight. "You want to settle this like men? Let’s go!" Schumacher, not one to back down, kicked off his shoes and began stripping down too, as though this was somehow the only logical progression of the argument. “You’re on!” Before anyone could blink, Walters and Schumacher were grappling in the middle of the dressing room, both now completely naked, in what could only be described as the weirdest fight in football history. Players looked on in stunned silence, some with towels halfway to their faces, unable to decide whether to laugh, scream, or call security. As Walters attempted a bizarre rugby-style tackle, Schumacher somehow slipped out of his grip, causing them both to tumble onto the cold, tiled floor, limbs flailing everywhere. It was at this precise moment that Peter Coates, Stoke City’s chairman, burst through the door, his eyes widening in disbelief as he took in the sight of his naked manager and Director of Football rolling around like two angry toddlers. “What in the actual hell is going on here?!” Coates boomed, causing Walters and Schumacher to freeze mid-wrestle, both still entangled on the floor. “Er…a tactical disagreement,” Walters mumbled, trying to cover himself with an arm that was definitely too short for the job. “Tactical disagreement?!” Coates’ face was a mix of horror and fury. “This isn’t a bloody gladiator arena! You two... You...oh my God, Schumacher, you’re fired!” Schumacher blinked, still lying there in a compromising position. “What?! You can’t sack me for this!” “I’m not sacking you *just* for this,” Coates snapped. “I’m sacking you because you’ve clearly lost the plot. I can’t have my manager rolling around naked in the dressing room, no matter how bad a game went!” Schumacher tried to protest, but Coates wasn’t having it. “Pack your things and get out, Steven. You’re done.” With that, Steven Schumacher’s short and disastrous reign as Stoke City manager came to an inglorious end, not due to poor results alone, but due to an ill-advised, naked brawl with Jon Walters after a miserable 1-0 defeat. As for Walters, while he managed to keep his job, there were immediate changes. The following Monday, Stoke City instituted a strict new post-match dress code: "No more naked wrestling in the dressing room, no matter how bad the defeat." It became the stuff of legend, a cautionary tale in the football world. From then on, whenever Stoke City had a rough patch, people would just shake their heads and mutter, “At least it’s not as bad as the Naked Fight at Oxford.” |
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Post by smallthorner on Sept 16, 2024 19:08:54 GMT
I do like the look of Pelach we really do need a proper coach someone who will improve the talented players we have. We’ve been crying out for a foreign coach for years offers something different. Did someone say he worked with Pep? 😆 |
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Sept 16, 2024 19:11:19 GMT
Do they just pull names out of a hat these days at Stoke ? 🤔 And if they'd gone for a Neil Warnock type we'd have been accused of jumping on the Old English Manager merry-go-round or the Scouse/Irish Mafia-go-round. They can't win. |
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