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Post by cousindupree on Oct 22, 2019 18:20:40 GMT
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 22, 2019 5:54:24 GMT
Nantwich v Fylde looks a tasty tie. Well worth a watch.
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 21, 2019 6:22:17 GMT
The reality is that both Rowett and Jones are poor managers for different reasons. Rowett has some decent Championship experience but was very limited tactically and didn't have the intelligence to understand that messing with the fans or dissing popular players can only end one way.
Jones on the other hand has no experience of football at this level. In fact the reasons he acted like Tarzan on saturday was that beating Fulham is probably his best career achievement to date. He needs to learn fast and improve his man management in particular.
The bottom line is that Rowett on paper appeared to be a decent choice for where we were. Jones was just a stupid gamble that may well still morph into a disaster. At best with Jones we will probably be consigned to the championship for quite a few years
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 19, 2019 11:46:23 GMT
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 18, 2019 14:02:27 GMT
Nathan lad if you really honestly believe that the choice of who to be left back is a difficult decision then perhaps you are in the wrong job And WTF does Ward gaining momentum mean? Most people know that we can't start Ward in many games otherwise we automatically trigger another 12 month deal for the pensioner! |
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 16, 2019 14:03:13 GMT
Whatever you think of him I'm not quite sure crying in the dock while on trial for sexual assault fits into the category of attention seeking..?  Not the first time he's used that tactic is it ? He's had multiple opportunities to turn his life around and been given more chances and interventions than most alcohol/drug dependent people in society can ever dream of. He never/ever accepts responsibility for his actions . He's an egocentric attention seeking prick who refuses to make any meaningful changes in his life and plays his sad self centered drama out in the public eye. GD Absolutely spot on GD. I have zero sympathy for him. What I found funny was his lame and comedic defence about the incident. As for him crying in the dock...christ on a bike we know he can turn the tap works on petty much to order! And people still make excuses for him. |
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 16, 2019 12:47:39 GMT
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 12, 2019 6:59:46 GMT
It was a dreadful performance from England. Are Mount Henderson and Rice the best midfield we can find? Really? And Mount as the pivotal 'no10' in a 4-2-3-1 was almost Jonesesque in madness. And don't get me started on the defence!
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 10, 2019 13:47:27 GMT
I can't think of a worse place to be on friday night than Prague. 6,000 england fans many who think they are on a stag do getting absolutely wasted....sounds horrific.
I was a regular business visitor to Prague during the late 1990's when few foreign visitors ventured there and it was just a magical city especially with a scattering of snow.
Sadly it's turned into a sleazy hell hole of cheap bars and cheap whores.Just the ticket for many footie fans no doubt.
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 8, 2019 16:55:04 GMT
Renewed interest from his beloved Galatasaray even a loan deal in January will see him gone. And why not?Why on earth would he want to be part of a team struggling against relegation in the championship?
Credit to the guy that he is showing genuine professionalism. But fast forward to when the window opens and the turks start prodding his agent and we are likely to see another 'Leeds performance'.
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 7, 2019 9:20:29 GMT
At least it's been finally acknowledged then that we actually need a LB? About time! Ha ha a dutch left back! Didn't we once have one of those?  |
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 6, 2019 15:47:04 GMT
No batshit selections, actually chose a side containing just about all the best available outfield players bar Powell. No batshit subs, his subs were spot on we were on top and just needed fresh legs up front Not sure where this performance came from but hey. Serious mental when the winner went in 10.... faultless performance from the gaffer |
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 6, 2019 8:48:06 GMT
'So many things to deal with at this club'....I would genuinely love to know what these things are. I guess nobody will ask him and he probably wouldn't give an answer anyway.
Yes he has had issues to solve with players a few of his own making but that's usual at a big club. But what else? He can't complain at the facilities or the support of the board and he has a group of staff to assist him. I am genuinely intrigued.
The cynic in me thinks it's the usual bollox managers spout when joining a new club. I am sure when he gets fired and a new guy comes in he will say exactly the same.
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 5, 2019 13:57:42 GMT
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 4, 2019 6:55:28 GMT
Based on his dumb ass recruiting, Jones would have recruited 12 Jordan Cousins. After all his is young and a super athlete.
A completely young hungry team won't get you promoted from the champs. The obsession with youth is bizarre, young players go off the rails and their form is erratic.
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 2, 2019 6:27:19 GMT
I don't particularly understand what there is to question. The only time it comes to question owners is when you think they're doing something similar to Blackpool, such as with asset stripping or in other situations where the owners are in some way or another out for themselves. Bolton, Portsmouth and so on have had these instances. In our situation, in some ways the worst thing of all is that there isn't any malicious owner to blame it on. There isn't any carefree just trying to eke out a few quid owning a club. The issue is there are people behind the scenes making decisions they believe will work, but aren't working out. You can make the argument that they should be replaced, but when you consider that replacement comes with an approximate £200m of additional expense or relying on tremendous goodwill to just write that off you're on very precarious ground. The only precedent I can think of for writing off substantial debts any complying with FFP is post-selling the club like the previous Bolton owner did. Hardly fixed their problems because they had external debt, which any individual who could potentially take over could leverage against the club. People bring up that stuff about self-sufficiency to beat the owners with, never realising it was a long term aim for the club and not an immediate thing. It always had to be the goal, but there's only one level in football which that is attainable and that's in the premier league. These bizarre theories of "its cheaper" to run a championship club etc are just mental. Might as well go outside with your spirit level on the road and using it as proof the world is flat. It's a shit situation, and everyone has their opinion on how to put it right (just like everyone had an opinion on how we should progress after each success in previous years) but there's only one set of owners who have expressed an interest in trying to do it at Stoke with serious amounts of money. If you want to see a club turn viciously on its owners, can't we just wait another year or so for Vale to begin their cycle anew? The board did try to implement a self-sufficiency model in Hughes's latter tenure at the club with loanees or out of contract freebies and surprise surprise it didn't work and merely escalated our demise. There are not many cases I can think of where a self-sufficiency model has delivered long term premier league status, Everton maybe and Burnley are getting there and really that's it. Eventually it will get you relegated. I have no quibble with the Coates family's commitment to the club, it's to be applauded and we are indeed fortunate to have them as owners. They have made huge mistakes in big decisions which only highlights the need for some serious experienced football man with European experience and connections to present a different view to the narrow insular view mentality the current board members have. Sadly it's never going to happen and sadly we will remain in the champs or lower until the Coates family either sell or get lucky with a Macari type appointment |
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 2, 2019 5:58:17 GMT
Jones looked a good appointment, a young ambitious manager whose team played high tempo attacking football and scored loads of goals. It looked like a welcome change from the list of usual suspects but it has all gone horribly wrong, I am not sure anyone could have seen this coming. Not sure it did look that good at the time. Jones's very brief CV has a div 2 promotion on it and some success in Div 1. The biggest assumption made by Coates Jones and many on here is that he did well at Luton which means he should do well at Stoke. Luton were and still are a small time club with no money but young enthusiastic players. Stoke at the time of his appointment were coming off the back of 10 yrs in the prem, have ex prem senior players, have mega rich owners with a huge wad of cash. The two clubs at that time were worlds apart. There were dozens of reasons when he was appointed suggesting it was a major gamble and probably likely to fail. Sadly the owners and many fans got swept along by his enthusiasm and sales pitch. Unfortunately many of the senior pros in our club sussed him quite early on. |
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Post by cousindupree on Oct 1, 2019 9:14:57 GMT
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 30, 2019 21:09:07 GMT
He's a fucking prick (Berahino that is) 1) Saido, why is it funny that Johnson said what he did just because you had respect for him? It doesn't mean that if you act like a cock during your time here, that he for no reason automatically has to have respect for you, you bellend! 2) Why in god's name should anyone (footballer or not) NEED to tell you that your behaviour here (not turning up for training, not turning up for games while with the kiddies, drink driving, hippy crack etc) was not acceptable? You're a grown man you fuckwit, you shouldn't need telling and shouldn't need the basics of having respect for your employers and colleagues to be force fed to you. 3) Stop playing the victim dipshit...."going through a tough time at Stoke". YOU made your time here tough by being a workshy, up his own arse, entitled, lazy prick who seems to think he's above the rules everyone else has to follow. I geneuinely hoped (for his sake, as there is talent in there somewhere), that this 46th chance people had handed him may make him look back, reflect on what a fucking waster he's been and make him wake up and realise it's up to HIM to sort his career out, not up to everyone else to allow him to do what he wants and then keep giving him yet another "last chance". Obviously that hasn't happened and he's still playing the "poor little me" card. Arrogant, delusional prick who thinks he's owed something by the world and it's never his fault. The bloke's a fucking cunt Amen Brother! |
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 29, 2019 16:31:36 GMT
Surely playing for Celtic in Scotland and in the Europa league on thursday is a step up from the clash next tuesday to decide who is the worst team in the second tier of english football. I am sure Pieters and Bauer are delighted to be away from the Bet and playing back up to superstars like Tom Edwards and James McClean!
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 29, 2019 16:20:54 GMT
One of the main issues (not the only one of course) is that the board pander too much to the manager and let him have free rein with seemingly nobody saying about a transfer 'hey hang on a minute'. I know there are many on here who believe it's all Tony Scholes's fault, and some of the shit contract negotiations are clearly at his door, but Hughes Rowett and Jones have recruited absolute garbage without due diligence or careful consideration as to whether it's the right signing. I don't blame Peter Coates one bit for the player recruitment shambles, he seems like a well meaning grandad always saying yes to his grandson. The hierarchy of this club has been a problem for some time. Scholes, too much power for someone not qualified in football terms, stick to bean counting sunshine/ Peter Coates already mentioned is too keen to say yes, John Fitzgerald knows about as much about running a football club at a high level as I do. Nothing I repeat nothing will change until the board bring in a hugely experienced guy at DOF level to take the club forward. Christ knows with all their wealth the owners could afford just about anyone in Europe to oversee a transformation of the club. Sadly it's a closed shop and we will blunder from one season to another...we are currently light years away from returning to the top level  |
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 28, 2019 6:43:24 GMT
I am no rocket scientist but; 1. A goalkeeper who was (allegedly once england/world class 😂) playing with the most lack of confidence ever in any player i have seen (does he really want to be here?)! 2. 3 or 4 players (powell , ince, clucas, lindsay, gregory.....) who are obviously on good wages and out of their depths playing in a level above 3. A couple of really good players (etobo, badou, bruno) who must be thinking ; “what the f*#£” am i playing with here? 4. A smug tw”t of a left wing chairman who is seen on sky sports when 3-1 down laughing ! 5. A smug tw*t of a chief exec who has never contributed anything positive but sits there in his ivory tower counting his pension! 5. A manager who knows he is out of his depth but continues to appear on tv as though he knows what hes doing and pretending to tear his hair out! The joys! You couldn’t make it up! I think you just did....make it up I mean |
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 27, 2019 20:45:01 GMT
McClean, not the best of players, but one of the only ones who seems to give a toss!!! But the trouble is he cant defend, cant beat a man and his crossing is awful. But he gives a toss But he can score |
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 27, 2019 20:40:29 GMT
McClean, not the best of players, but one of the only ones who seems to give a toss!!! But the trouble is he cant defend, cant beat a man and his crossing is awful. But he gives a toss |
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 27, 2019 17:51:37 GMT
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 27, 2019 17:49:02 GMT
Interesting as many said the Rot started whwm we bailed at investing to keep pace at the top off of the curve we withdrew just as others accelerated investment Bournemouth , palace , West Ham , Leicester and look where they are now Indeed the board were keen on self sufficiency. If they had done their homework they would have concluded that premier League survival and Self sufficiency are not good bedfellows. (: |
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 27, 2019 15:20:55 GMT
Come on Nathan own up that's you who made the opening post isn't it? The user name of supernathanjones is a bit of a giveaway fellah. |
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 27, 2019 5:30:30 GMT
A win will make the atmosphere around the club improve slightly and we have some renewed hope that we might avoid relegation.
It also should buy more time for the board to find the right manager to get us looking like a promotion team which is really with our resources where we should be.
A few wins and safety under Jones doesn't change the fact that he is a poor option in just about every aspect of football management...tactics, team selection, man management and game management are all woeful. He is out of his depth at this level but maybe he has a career in the SCFC PR department.
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 25, 2019 19:14:17 GMT
He needs to pick his best players and to date he hasn't done that...even when all fit he wont pick
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Those are our best players in a formation that suits them the only question mark is LB but hey whats new!
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Post by cousindupree on Sept 25, 2019 18:20:35 GMT
More psycho babble from a manager who thinks he is radical but hasn't really got past page one in the 'Football Manager for Dummies' manual.....you need to wise up quickly Nathan lad or your career will be sliding down the pan.
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