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Post by theoldvic on Sept 17, 2024 23:15:43 GMT
Was SS being sacked the biggest “ I did not fuckin see that coming “ moment ever ?? I can’t think of any off hand but I’m sure there is
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Post by Ron on Sept 17, 2024 23:24:24 GMT
I think a promotion winning manager being sacked before the season started ( Gudjon) was fairly random.
However- this has been as fucked up a 48 hrs as I’ve ever known. Almost surreal.
Think the reason for that is not so much SS sacking but the total randomness of the replacement
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Post by terrorofturfmoor on Sept 17, 2024 23:42:59 GMT
I'm past caring about Schumacher now... Nice enough guy, and I wish him well wherever he may end up, but I'm convinced he never would have got it right... Not at Stoke anyhow!!!
I'm more excited to see how we're finally going to shape up under a foreign coach for a change.... Will it work, or won't it???
Only time will tell!!!
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Post by bayernoatcake on Sept 17, 2024 23:49:05 GMT
I thought it’d happen in November so not really.
It was obvious he’d be sacked before Christmas.
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Post by potterpaul on Sept 18, 2024 0:01:49 GMT
Gooch as a No.10 on Saturday
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Post by callas12 on Sept 18, 2024 0:03:13 GMT
I think a promotion winning manager being sacked before the season started ( Gudjon) was fairly random. However- this has been as fucked up a 48 hrs as I’ve ever known. Almost surreal. Think the reason for that is not so much SS sacking but the total randomness of the replacement That shenanigans with Gudjon was definitely random & bizarre but wasn't so much out the blue for me when I think back. When we attended the Bet365 for the squad welcome back with the Play Off Trophy there was already murmurings that Mr G was going to be sacked due to underlying issues and I recall it did over shadow the celebratory atmosphere somewhat. The suspicions & rumours turned out to be true when the Icelandic owners pulled the plug on Gudjons manager status within the next 24hrs. But waking up on that Autumnal morning in October 2002 after only 13 games in charge of the new era back in the Championship, learning that Cotterill had left us overnight to be an assistant manager was definitely an out the blue moment I recall well. A mixture of anger and WTF has just happened was hard to comprehend whilst travelling to spend a day at work! |
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Post by PotterLog on Sept 18, 2024 1:53:09 GMT
Quitter for me
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Post by JoeinOz on Sept 18, 2024 2:39:30 GMT
Cotterill bottling it for mention. Also, Greenhoff leaving.
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Post by raythesailor on Sept 18, 2024 8:54:20 GMT
Stoke 6 Liverpool 1
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Post by stokiejoe on Sept 18, 2024 8:56:02 GMT
Butler Street stand roof blowing off and all that followed.
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Post by thestatusquo on Sept 18, 2024 8:58:34 GMT
Jordan Thompson not getting booked
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Post by elystokie on Sept 18, 2024 9:01:16 GMT
Same. Only a few weeks prior he'd sat outside the team hotel in Austria and chatted to a couple of mates and me for half an hour, even bought us a pint, came across brilliantly with no hint of what was to come 🤷 |
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Post by onionman on Sept 18, 2024 9:03:25 GMT
Didn't Brian Little once jump on his motorbike and tell everyone "I'll be back in a minute" then disappear into the horizon never to be seen again?
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Sept 18, 2024 9:05:21 GMT
Didn't Brian Little once jump on his motorbike and tell everyone "I'll be back in a minute" then disappear into the horizon never to be seen again? No but he jumped on the Chairman's daughter. Allegedly. |
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Post by Kenilworth_Stokies on Sept 18, 2024 9:09:06 GMT
Didn't Brian Little once jump on his motorbike and tell everyone "I'll be back in a minute" then disappear into the horizon never to be seen again? You're thinking of Arnold Schwarzenegger. |
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Post by chad on Sept 18, 2024 9:11:21 GMT
Picking up a paper and seeing John Ritchie had been sold to Sheffield Wednesday
That was real shock !!
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Post by lordb on Sept 18, 2024 9:20:35 GMT
Didn't Brian Little once jump on his motorbike and tell everyone "I'll be back in a minute" then disappear into the horizon never to be seen again? No but he jumped on the Chairman's daughter. Allegedly. Not the chairman's daughter but certainly not his own wife And he did ride off on his motorbike saying he'd be back when asked for an interview |
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Post by Fenparkpotter on Sept 18, 2024 9:22:17 GMT
Cotterill, and the manner of his leaving, was pretty unprescidented. A Championship manager leaving with no prior warning.... to become an assistant!
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Post by flea79 on Sept 18, 2024 9:24:43 GMT
Kammy breaking into the office to retrieve his faxed resignation is a pretty good one
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Post by stantheman on Sept 18, 2024 9:36:35 GMT
Gudjon getting the boot was a major surprise to me. Really felt for the bloke. Especially with who was bought in as a replacement!
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Post by coldtuesdaynight on Sept 18, 2024 10:02:36 GMT
I think a promotion winning manager being sacked before the season started ( Gudjon) was fairly random. However- this has been as fucked up a 48 hrs as I’ve ever known. Almost surreal. Think the reason for that is not so much SS sacking but the total randomness of the replacement Yeah the actual sacking… I’m struggling to see what the shock is. If we’d lost the next league game then surely we’d be getting a lot of people calling for it. A coach at Norwich being pretty much confirmed by lunchtime the same day was something I doubt anyone would have called though! |
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Post by Robo10 on Sept 18, 2024 10:03:43 GMT
Going to watch Stoke v Sunderland in 1989 and discovering that Peter Beagrie had been sold to Everton!
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Post by stokiespark on Sept 18, 2024 10:09:52 GMT
Didn't Brian Little once jump on his motorbike and tell everyone "I'll be back in a minute" then disappear into the horizon never to be seen again? think your thinking of Mark Fowler in Eastenders |
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Post by march4 on Sept 18, 2024 10:36:09 GMT
Cotterill bottling it for mention. Also, Greenhoff leaving. The Daily Express headline “Brothers United” with photos of Jimmy and Brian. Until I read the article, I assumed from the headline we were buying Brian. |
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Post by peterthornesboots on Sept 18, 2024 10:39:11 GMT
Gudjon Thordarson leaving after the Play Off final was a shock. However, the fact that him and the board were not exactly getting along was already widely known - so maybe not a shock.
Steve Cotterill just running off to become Sunderland's assistant was pretty out of the blue!
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Post by callas12 on Sept 18, 2024 10:52:48 GMT
No but he jumped on the Chairman's daughter. Allegedly. Not the chairman's daughter but certainly not his own wife And he did ride off on his motorbike saying he'd be back when asked for an interview Later becoming his new wife though 😉🤣 |
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Post by shakermaker on Sept 18, 2024 11:39:36 GMT
Gudjon getting the boot was a major surprise to me. Really felt for the bloke. Especially with who was bought in as a replacement! Well… Megson unfairly got the boot purely for the Icelandics to bring in their own Icelandic manager in Gudjon. So on the one hand, you could say what goes around comes around. For what it’s worth, sacking Gudjon was the right decision. We were lucky to get into the playoffs after some very poor form that second half of the season. |
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Post by senojbor on Sept 18, 2024 12:00:18 GMT
Yes, I think it's fair to say no one say it coming, at least so early in the season.
George Burley no show ranks along side it.
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Sept 18, 2024 12:32:28 GMT
Nothing ground breaking but I remember Muniesa signing completely out of the blue, not one person mentioned anything at all about him signing for us. I like those transfers, as rare as they are.
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Post by redstriper on Sept 18, 2024 13:21:40 GMT
Signing Shaqiri
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