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Post by PotterLog on May 7, 2024 19:57:23 GMT
Isn’t Wright Phillips there as well? Sign them both up 🤣 DWP is still ours
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Post by PotterLog on May 7, 2024 19:55:36 GMT
He's been a steady contributor and his team just won the 2nd div title. Has a pretty good goals & assists record from what I recall Isn’t Wright Phillips there as well? Yep they are BFFs this season if Insta is anything to go by
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Post by PotterLog on May 7, 2024 19:54:01 GMT
He's been a steady contributor and his team just won the 2nd div title. Has a pretty good goals & assists record from what I recall
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Post by PotterLog on May 7, 2024 19:26:17 GMT
Finding it hard to get excited about this CL semi. I like Dortmund but this is hardly a vintage team - they probably won't even be in this competition next year unless they win it. PSG are a charmless oil money club from a city that's ambivalent about football... and whoever wins will just get rolled over by Madrid in the final anyway. ho hum Bundesliga have 5 spots cos of the coefficient. Oh I heard that but assumed it related to next year. Either way they're not exactly up there
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Post by PotterLog on May 7, 2024 19:18:00 GMT
Finding it hard to get excited about this CL semi. I like Dortmund but this is hardly a vintage team - they probably won't even be in this competition next year unless they win it. PSG are a charmless oil money club from a city that's ambivalent about football... and whoever wins will just get rolled over by Madrid in the final anyway. ho hum
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Post by PotterLog on May 6, 2024 23:17:59 GMT
ManU on -3 GD now. They haven’t finished with a negative GD since 1990
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Post by PotterLog on May 6, 2024 14:41:16 GMT
Although the Portuguese home does the same thing but much better. Only the slightly irregular collar shape detracts from it, otherwise it's perfection. Also really like the Tintin Belgium one, brings back happy memories of Shaqiri
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Post by PotterLog on May 6, 2024 14:32:32 GMT
I like the Italy one. Slightly unrelated but I try to get a shirt from every country I visit (everything from Israel to Indonesia is in my wardrobe) Not that impressive if you've got them ordered alphabetically
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Post by PotterLog on May 5, 2024 19:11:01 GMT
I might have this wrong but I'm sure I remember being told earlier in the season that he'd declined to enter into new contract talks and we made a final attempt in January which failed and as a result he's run his contract down. I have no idea where I heard this might have been 'Man in a pub' might even have been on here so could well be bollocks but it would be very strange that we as a club allowed a valuable asset to walk away for nothing without attempting to tie him to a contract which would mean we could ask a fee for him. It seems much more likely that he has deliberately run his contract down to make him more attractive to other clubs (ie free) and to get him a nice little signing on fee. Exactly. Doesn’t really seem to fit with how he’s phrased his insta post, but fair enough I guess we don’t know the details
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Post by PotterLog on May 5, 2024 18:48:59 GMT
I know it's his right, but he hasn't done us any favours has he, by running his contract down. We get nothing for him, to help us with FFP. Running his contract down? We never offered him a new one and he hasn’t turned down any moves, what did you expect him to do, resign?
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Cundle
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Post by PotterLog on May 5, 2024 13:59:28 GMT
Deal already agreed for Cundle To buy?
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Post by PotterLog on May 5, 2024 2:08:39 GMT
Southampton have been absolutely garbage for weeks if not months, no idea why people think they’ll do it. Although as noted, none of them are particularly special.
Leeds will edge out Baggies in the final I think.
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Post by PotterLog on May 5, 2024 0:41:19 GMT
I’m sure this has been covered but just saw some footage of the final whistle at Portman Road today, bloody hell it made me quite emotional. 🥲
The parallels with our promotion in 2008 are really striking - a solid medium-big club with a good history, unexpectedly promoted back to the top flight after 22 years away and recently languishing in the 3rd division. The unbridled joy in that pitch invasion, the players hoisted on shoulders, the beaming owners in the stands. There will be a whole generation of fans there in their 20s and 30s that were probably resigned to never seeing their team in the top flight again. Just like we were. I honestly felt so happy for them.
Brought it all flooding back I tell ya! We will rise again Stokies…
COYRRP
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Post by PotterLog on May 4, 2024 19:17:50 GMT
All four teams still in danger of the final relly spot won. That’s got to sting 😆
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Post by PotterLog on May 2, 2024 21:25:37 GMT
But the freedom to “roam” very much was a contributing factor in making old-style terrace standing unsafe. I’ve long been a supporter of standing sections but some restriction on positions and numbers per section is essential. On the contrary the freedom made it safer it was restricting that freedom with the cages (not just fences at the front) that was an enormous factor at Hillsborough Stoke played an FA Cup replay the same season at Barnsley Because the South Yorkshire police had no understanding of football supporters they assumed we would take about 1800 as we had for a league game there We took about 8000 Because Britain's road systems are shit due to heavy traffic vast majority of that 8000 turned up late (& sober as no opportunity to go to the pub) Because South Yorkshire police had no idea what they were doing instead of opting for the sensible option of delaying KO (standard practice by other police forces in such scenarios) they went ahead as normal The lay out at Oakwell away end was essentially one lane in which soon got very crammed as the police on horseback using their riot sticks were forcing far too many people into a very small area very quickly Sound familiar? Anyway the key difference to Hillsborough was that although there was a fence at the front there were no cages, no side fences splitting the end into sections As such those Stoke fans already on the the terrace could simply move sideways as more and more came in As such no one died, crush was averted For the semi final again a large number of Liverpool fans were late and sober due to traffic issues again no delay to KO This time because of the cages and the attitude of the senior police in charge the deaths occurred The Ibrox disaster in 1971 ( I think) was different and undoubtedly the whole safety culture around football (not just South Yorkshire police) was appalling for a very long time but terracing in itself is not unsafe at all Right, but I’m not on about penning people in, I was looking at it from the point of view that it was “freedom to roam” which allowed people to choose (or be directed towards) whichever pen they wanted, and large numbers of people to build up in areas not made to house them. With restricted numbers, positions and entry points that doesn’t happen. But aside from the major disasters, it’s just not safe to have a crowd of thousands (prone to unpredictability and volatility) milling freely around on a steeply banked terrace. Think of some of the injuries sustained and close shaves on the Boothen in days gone by
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Post by PotterLog on May 2, 2024 15:57:20 GMT
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Post by PotterLog on May 2, 2024 13:53:27 GMT
Its basically standing behind a numbered seat with the part of the seat you sit on removed. The joy of standing was never the act of standing up, it was the freedom to roam which it afforded. IMHO Yep. It’s mad that the act of standing has been vilified to such an extent that people herald heavily restricted standing as a massive victory. Standing didn’t cause stadium disasters, poor stadium design and poor stewarding/policing did. But the freedom to “roam” very much was a contributing factor in making old-style terrace standing unsafe. I’ve long been a supporter of standing sections but some restriction on positions and numbers per section is essential.
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Post by PotterLog on May 1, 2024 21:48:00 GMT
A few years ago my daughter for no obvious reason asked me which was my favourite ever Stoke City game. I had no hesitation in telling her it was this game. A couple of weeks later a mug arrived for me for Father’s Day. On it was printed a replica of the Ceefax page from that evening: CEEFAX 303 Wed 01 May 2002 22:39 DIVISION TWO PLAY OFF SEMI FINAL 2ND LEG RESULT CARDIFF CITY 0-2 STOKE CITY O’Connor 90 Oulare 115 STOKE CITY WIN 3-2 ON AGGREGATE I’ve still got it and it’s still my favourite mug 🙂 Superb present. I want one
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Post by PotterLog on May 1, 2024 19:38:02 GMT
Telford winning in the playoffs of the one below the one below the conference
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Post by PotterLog on May 1, 2024 16:32:00 GMT
Oh yeah, well, clearly. I think the idea is it’s a pretty remarkable stat for any team’s squad in any year Just what is your problem, logger? Yer wha duck
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Post by PotterLog on May 1, 2024 15:40:46 GMT
View AttachmentJust seen this kit release of Brazillian club 'Botafogo' & it's produced by Reebok who are apparently making a kit comeback. This looks an absolute minter of a shirt, perfectly sized and proportioned stripes, simple but effective design, V neck collar and most importantly contains full stripes on the back. The stripes are designed and have a look of our early 80's Umbro designs. Swap the black out for the red and pop a Stoke badge and Bet365 amd you'd have a perfect Stoke shirt. Would be worth seeing the shirt predominantly red with white stripes as well, but reckon more would prefer our top to be predominantly white than red but both would look really good. See if Macron as it seems We're having can match this little masterpiece, IMO anyway 😉🤣 www.facebook.com/share/v/fBNbrDMDTktQ5ETj/ Hard disagree on that. Looks a mess. I like Botafogo though
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Post by PotterLog on May 1, 2024 15:30:01 GMT
The stat is about players from our 15/16 squad That's what I said. I doubt the stat will continue with later players. Oh yeah, well, clearly. I think the idea is it’s a pretty remarkable stat for any team’s squad in any year
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Post by PotterLog on May 1, 2024 14:38:02 GMT
I doubt if that stat can continue in years to come. I mean who in the current squad or those of the last six years had players who will play for a Champions Leegue Semifinalist? It's quite possible that some, especially a talent on loan, can go on and play in the early stages of the competition for some obscure team. Maybe Iversen will eventually play for Copenhagen and so is almost guaranteed to play CL games, but unlikely to ever get that far. The stat is about players from our 15/16 squad
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 30, 2024 21:03:29 GMT
We all had other shirts as kids didn't we. I liked Forest, I had the Shipstones one with the white pinstripes down it. Classic 90s shirt
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 30, 2024 20:26:40 GMT
Bellingham reminds me a bit of David Platt
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 30, 2024 18:59:28 GMT
I thought exactly the same. He really wasn’t part of it was he? New manager came in, made some changes, and then played a settled side. It doesn't nevessarily mean that somenody is not any good, just that another man or two made it into that settled team first, and the manager didn't want to upset a, mostly, winning pattern. Once it falls apart next season, Soutter could be just the man they need. He hasn't even been on the bench for them, he's clearly nowhere near the manager's plans. He'll have to hope a loan can be sorted out I think
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 30, 2024 18:48:34 GMT
Don't think I realised he'd been at Crewe
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 30, 2024 17:46:30 GMT
Any extra money coming our way now that Leicester have been promoted?? Yeah we negotiated a clause where if he helped get them relegated, then in the second division got dropped from the squad and barely played a game, we get an extra 10 million quid.
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 30, 2024 15:17:11 GMT
Their fans must see him as an absolutely disastrous signing
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 30, 2024 15:09:26 GMT
I never thought he was particularly slow, certainly once he gets going. He's just got one of those running styles He's not at all slow at full pelt, I don't think that's what people mean. But if he gets caught high or on the turn he's in trouble, and that can happen a lot at a high level.
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