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Post by wuzza on Jan 28, 2024 12:16:45 GMT
Change of goalkeeper was never a major issue - people were kidding themselves. Our problems are far deeper.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 28, 2024 12:12:02 GMT
Magical Test match - reminds you how great sport can be after SCFC have delivered their usual bout of depression for the weekend !!
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Post by wuzza on Jan 27, 2024 18:41:35 GMT
Well he seems to have reached the Alex Neil ‘sick and tired of saying the same thing’ level of frustration with the players very quickly. This place is a graveyard for up and coming managers perhaps we should have gone for a cynical old git who just knows how to grind out a result or two.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 27, 2024 10:22:05 GMT
Impressive knock. He’s got that touch of quality that means you stick with him despite any dips in form.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 26, 2024 20:13:20 GMT
She became the ‘Agricultural Adviser’ to The Archers ..... now there’s a glamorous show biz role ! Really? 😁 I saw Sybil in her swimming costume at the local pool...some very nice ploughable land on view Apologies ladies Yep she used to get a credit every week on the omnibus edition ...............not that I ever listened to it of course it was just on in the house , honest.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 26, 2024 17:23:56 GMT
Sybil and Hazel Ruscoe used to get into the Post Office pub in Wem with their Dad. Often in Stoke regalia. Very nice the pair of them. Remember Sybil presenting TOTP when she was on the Simon Mayo breakfast show. Always impressed that a Stoke fan was presenting it She became the ‘Agricultural Adviser’ to The Archers ..... now there’s a glamorous show biz role !
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Post by wuzza on Jan 16, 2024 11:01:16 GMT
It’s motives were were fundamentally flawed - simply to maintain the balance of power with certain clubs. It is overly complex and clearly open to abuse - as with most things in life the more power and influence you have the more likely you are to get away with wrong doing. If the aim is to keep clubs solvent and have a FAIR system simply have a rigorously enforced salary cap for every tier of the game across the football world. If that isn’t possible just forget the whole thing and let the free market run wild - the results wouldn’t be much different to what we have now , just less accountancy jiggery pokery. The results would be very different without some form of FFP. The big clubs would spend more than they do now in order to force the smaller clubs to spend even more in order to deliberately bankrupt them - which is precisely what would happen. In other business sectors run on free market principles businesses going bankrupt is seen as an essential feature of the market - it is the most efficient companies getting rid of their weaker rivals making the provision of goods and services cheaper and better quality for the consumer. Apply free market principles to football and the result will be the same - football clubs who overspend to try to compete with the big boys (which is what they would have to do) will cease to exist. Even the Tory government have accepted this and setting up the new body to oversee football financing they have deliberately prevented football being run on free market principles because everyone who actually understands how a free market works knows that it will decimate the football pyramid. Those on here banging on about getting rid of FFP believe it will allow our owners to plough in more money to compete with the big boys but they either don't understand how a free market works or don't care about the fact it will drive clubs out of existence. The thing is they are also wrong about our owners ploughing money into the club to compete with the big boys. The owners won't do that. They will ensure the club lives within it's means so that when clubs do go under by getting sucked into a spending war they can't win we will be among those left standing. We will be at a higher level than we are now because there will be less teams but we will be further from the big boys than we are now - the top leagues will be just like those in the rest of Europe with 2/3/4 big hitters and the rest in a couple of professional leagues. To be honest in a totally free market a dozen or so clubs would have buggered off and formed their own league leaving the rest of us to compete at more manageable levels which will probably be the outcome of things anyway (and none the worse for that).
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Post by wuzza on Jan 16, 2024 8:05:40 GMT
It’s motives were were fundamentally flawed - simply to maintain the balance of power with certain clubs. It is overly complex and clearly open to abuse - as with most things in life the more power and influence you have the more likely you are to get away with wrong doing. If the aim is to keep clubs solvent and have a FAIR system simply have a rigorously enforced salary cap for every tier of the game across the football world. If that isn’t possible just forget the whole thing and let the free market run wild - the results wouldn’t be much different to what we have now , just less accountancy jiggery pokery.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 12, 2024 12:21:09 GMT
However he is used it’s now or never for Campbell. I fear he really needs a move to get his career back on any sort of track - been treading water for far too long.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 11, 2024 7:41:16 GMT
Who needs a single rival ? SCFC is disliked generally including by many of the ‘bigger’ clubs ....... which is nice and proves we did something right back in the day.
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Post by wuzza on Jan 8, 2024 17:12:44 GMT
Pure class. RIP
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Post by wuzza on Jan 2, 2024 12:50:35 GMT
If we lose you get a rag bag collection of Vale, WBA, Arsenal, and Sunderland (recently replaced by Plymouth) supporters displaying their almost complete lack of wit. If we win - no one bothers. Generally it’s not worth reading.
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Post by wuzza on Dec 31, 2023 14:44:30 GMT
Should be a good manager - definitely a football ‘brain’ to coin a cliche. Just hope the Fleetwood set up is good enough to give him a chance to prove himself.
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Post by wuzza on Dec 22, 2023 13:11:44 GMT
Who remembers the good old ‘transfer tribunal’ - that worked well 😱😱😱 It was only for out of contract players an even worse restriction of personal freedom. It shafted the ‘selling’ club with monotonous regularity.
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Post by wuzza on Dec 22, 2023 12:40:20 GMT
The problem with that is the bigger clubs can exercise those mandatory fees at a stroke, unlike those in the EFL. No-one is holding a gun to the head of those players signing long-term contracts and in fact for the player himself, it is a guaranteed salary for a large chunk of his career. If one of my players on those 5-year contracts was attracting interest from the vultures after a year or two, I would invite him to sign an extension on a higher salary (again, a rise that the player would be reasonably content with but that doesn't break the bank). It's a thing in some countries the release fee is set by some formula that involves the purchase price and wages and is fair to the registration holder. Doesn't matter whether they have a gun held to their head or anything else every contract should have a release mechanism that allows a parting of the ways without ongoing restrictions. It's simple human decency. Who remembers the good old ‘transfer tribunal’ - that worked well 😱😱😱
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Post by wuzza on Dec 21, 2023 12:11:03 GMT
I don’t watch it , it’s tedious beyond belief. Wish I did have some sort of say in the matter - it would be back to being a knock out tournament instantly !! Virtually all the most successful tournaments have a round robin element. Straight knockout is pretty antiquated. It’s more exciting and would stop the poor old multi millionaires whinging about how knackered they are from playing too many games. All the European competitions should revert to it.
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Post by wuzza on Dec 21, 2023 12:01:31 GMT
The whole thing would interest me about as much as the current Champions League does . That’s simple you just don’t watch them then why should people with your mindset get a veto? I don’t watch it , it’s tedious beyond belief. Wish I did have some sort of say in the matter - it would be back to being a knock out tournament instantly !!
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Post by wuzza on Dec 21, 2023 10:54:21 GMT
The whole thing would interest me about as much as the current Champions League does .
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Post by wuzza on Dec 20, 2023 14:35:10 GMT
On the other side of the coin the Scouse Stoke roll call has some decent members - Pej, Inchy ...... He did. A couple of streets away from me - according to my very observant Window Cleaner at the time. As did Chris Greenacre for a while. Thinks....wonder if Schumie will be looking for a place in North Warrington now... (Edit) - meant to respond to the Sheron post. I might be imagining this but I think he ended his playing career in the illustrious surroundings of Cantilever Park !
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Post by wuzza on Dec 19, 2023 19:56:39 GMT
Ticks a few boxes - most importantly the foreign sounding name !
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Post by wuzza on Dec 19, 2023 19:54:41 GMT
I thought he was Mancunian? Could be wrong though Liverpool born I think , lived in the Warrington area for a long time.
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Post by wuzza on Dec 19, 2023 19:53:39 GMT
On the other side of the coin the Scouse Stoke roll call has some decent members - Pej, Inchy ......
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Post by wuzza on Dec 18, 2023 22:43:16 GMT
What could we have had? Please enlighten us In our current position... Jesse Marsch Roy Keane Steve Bruce Sam Allardyce Slaven Bilic Ralph Hassenuthel Steve Bould Ole Solskjaer Nigel Pearson Darren Moore Jurgen Klinsman Michael Laudrup Nigel Adkins Tim Sherwood Ex frankfurt manager (name escapes me) And a whole host of others I've never even heard of but then it's not my job to have done either. Gloss this appointment up how you want with your rose tinted glasses on, the issues people have are legit. If it goes tits up we're playing Vale next season. Fact remains we've taken a massive gamble at the wrong time which is quite ironic considering we're owned by a gambling company. Depends how ambitious you want to be doesn't it. As a few others have said, last chance saloon for Coates this Totally understand the apprehension about this appointment but in the cold light of day I can’t really see any candidate that would represent anything other than a ‘gamble’ apart from a proven firefighter like Warnock and I couldn’t see that going down too well. As for Coates he can afford to make as many mistakes as he likes (and pays for) - his family fortune remains the only long term hope for the future.
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Post by wuzza on Dec 18, 2023 22:31:39 GMT
If I were a 39 year old bloke who was about to become financially bullet proof for the rest of my days I suspect I wouldn’t be overly worried about the madhouse that is social media.
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Post by wuzza on Dec 18, 2023 20:03:20 GMT
I sincerely hope your friend doesn’t fall into the black hole of managerial talent that this club currently represents 🙏
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Post by wuzza on Dec 18, 2023 16:35:57 GMT
A lot of people would say the same about the Stoke accent. To non Staffordshire folk the Stokie accents a very tame version of Scouse accent anyway. Only a county away I suppose so not going to be a million miles apart! Ive heard this said before and it has always baffled me - I’ve lived in the N.West nearly all my life and spent a good chunk of that time working in Merseyside and to me the 2 accents are not remotely similar. (the posh Wirral scouse is manageable but the Jamie Carragher brand sets my teeth on edge)
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Post by wuzza on Dec 18, 2023 16:21:32 GMT
I used to have a very pragmatic ‘results are all that matters’ view on these things but after the last 6 or 7 years I will be quite happy if the bloke can just introduce a bit of fun to the experience rather than the joyless grind that following SCFC has become.
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Post by wuzza on Dec 18, 2023 14:19:53 GMT
It’s a fun read isn’t it - not least for their apparent belief that any Stoke manager is required to move themselves and their family to a two up two down terrace in 19th century Burslem ! It is mate and i remember when Pulis left them as well reading the same forum I’d forgotten about that - we’ve got form here. Let’s hope it works out as well.
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Post by wuzza on Dec 18, 2023 14:11:21 GMT
Interviewed at Staddon Heights Golf Club Thursday apparently. Youve just read Pasoti then😊 It’s a fun read isn’t it - not least for their apparent belief that any Stoke manager is required to move themselves and their family to a two up two down terrace in 19th century Burslem !
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Post by wuzza on Dec 18, 2023 13:29:39 GMT
I’m very wary about this one. Only got one club on his CV and we all know how much that can give a false impression (hello Nathan). However if nothing else the law of averages must be on our side and we are due to get one of these decisions right.
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