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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Jun 5, 2023 20:29:41 GMT
What an idiot but good on him for wanting to play. Why is he an idiot? Probably knew he wasn't gonna get a Premier first choice gk spot. Option between playing in front of 40k fans winning 90% of games, chance to win cups, European fixtures, make great memories or join a champ club play in front of 15k and hopefully get in top 6.. Good luck to him, hope it works out for him. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Jun 5, 2023 19:17:25 GMT
would venture that Wilmot would be on the bench We need to remember wilmot might not even be fit for the start of preseason. Back issues have a nasty habit of flaring up again and again too. Sanderson, wilmot, + 2 more with Taylor on loan is ideal for me. Axel (if we get him fit) and a more experienced head, saw some talk of Evans which wouldn’t be awful. Agree with all of that apart from the last paragraph.. with the risk of wilmot having a reoccurrence of his back injury as we saw time and again with shawcross I think taking both axel with his history and an aging Evans is to much of a risk.. could easily end up with 3 centre backs all on the treatment table at the same time. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Jun 4, 2023 14:12:50 GMT
I can see him being a key figure of Neil's revolution, even to the point I can imagine him being deployed in the Alexander Arnold free role into midfield as we attack.. I can see you needing a new prescription for your glasses. How many career assists has Edwards got for stoke? And he’s being mentioned in the same paragraph as Alexander-Arnold. 😂😂😂 🎣 |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Jun 4, 2023 12:50:34 GMT
Wasn't N'Zonzi the lad with the pushy family agents, who convinced him he could "do better"? I had no idea he was was related to Arnie. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Jun 3, 2023 18:58:17 GMT
I can see him being a key figure of Neil's revolution, even to the point I can imagine him being deployed in the Alexander Arnold free role into midfield as we attack..
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Jun 2, 2023 20:18:28 GMT
 Vale's is a bit different. Looks like a weird lollipop I'd take the white square on the back of your shirt every time over this effort. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Jun 2, 2023 13:43:33 GMT
If the numbers to print on the back are in red can see alot of number 11 or 111 shirts appearing.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Jun 1, 2023 19:02:36 GMT
I hope we change to hoops to see a catastrophic meltdown on here😀 I want pinstripes back. As per avatar. Or not. It will be pinstripes....believe me. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Jun 1, 2023 18:50:24 GMT
5 more years
You know it makes sense.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Jun 1, 2023 18:42:44 GMT
It's red zig zag pinstripes.
2nd.
Yellow blue zig zag pinstripes
3rd.
All green
Itk info..
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 31, 2023 15:26:30 GMT
Phil jagielka
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July 30th
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 30, 2023 16:27:51 GMT
Or maybe it's the changes that have long been needed and the start of better things to come for stoke..
I apologise for my optimism.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 30, 2023 16:06:08 GMT
Tell me who you want to instigate this rebuild?? Clearly not Alex Neil.. so is it someone John Coates chooses.. Instead of pointing the finger at me.. come up with your preferred plan. To be fair, you've pointed fingers at posters on here in your first post. There are a lot of posters that have spent many, many months pointing out their opinions on how the club is run and how it should be run. It's pretty much the polar opposite of what the club are doing. Appoint a proper DOF, task him with running the football side of the club, set down a club philosophy and appoint key people to match that philosophy. Employ and use a data driven recruitment model and follow that philosophy going forwards when first team and Academy coaches need replacing, minimising the upheaval that we see every time we replace a manager. It really has been done to death on here - proper ad-nauseum. What we are doing now just smacks of a more extreme version of what we've always done and failed at. What next if Neil fails, sack him and appoint a manager that builds out from the back, panic when that doesn't work with a squad built for something different and get rid of Martin and bring in the New King's right hand man? I understand your view which I think appears to say you want a DOF appointed to oversee all things football..not a manager as Alex Neil.. So who appoints this DOF is it John Coates.. What if the DOF gets it wrong..does he get sacked or the manager.eother way it amounts to scfc being back at square one.. My own view is..yes things have been run bad for a number of years.. But now we have a chance to make wholesale changes and someone has to oversee those changes.. the board have decided its Alex Neil to oversee those changes, yes they could have chose a DOF oversee that.. but there is no guarantee of success either way.. to every luton, Brighton, Brentford there is a spurs, Leeds, chelsea.. At least the club are now trying to make changes which fans have been crying out for, late I agree but there doing it now. They've chosen the route they want to take. I'm gonna support it and Alex Neil and believe it will bring change to scfc which is what everybody has asked for. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 30, 2023 15:17:46 GMT
So you don't want a new manager to try and change the culture... Are you saying you want someone who was brought to the club in the rowett, Jones, MON era to oversee this change Well done again. Can you make it a hat trick? Tell me who you want to instigate this rebuild?? Clearly not Alex Neil.. so is it someone John Coates chooses.. Instead of pointing the finger at me.. come up with your preferred plan. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 30, 2023 15:12:04 GMT
After 5 years of championship stagnation.... The oatcake calls for a clear out and complete change to the failing club that is Stoke city... Change happens... The Oatcake in outrage at these changes..how dare they get rid of so many staff like this.. Sometimes you just can't win. Well done for missing the point entirely. It's nothing to do with not wanting a rebuild. If anything a proper rebuild is 5 years overdue. It's yet again a rebuild in the eye of a first team manager (and this time his mate upstairs) that will again be shot down in flames if he starts the season as badly as he finished the last one, for it all to start over again. THAT'S the issue. So you don't want a new manager to try and change the culture... Are you saying you want someone who was brought to the club in the rowett, Jones, MON era to oversee this change |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 30, 2023 14:57:12 GMT
After 5 years of championship stagnation....
The oatcake calls for a clear out and complete change to the failing club that is Stoke city...
Change happens...
The Oatcake in outrage at these changes..how dare they get rid of so many staff like this..
Sometimes you just can't win.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 30, 2023 8:02:11 GMT
You mean like the owners of Leicester, wolves and wba who have run out of money and basically have pulled rhe plug on future investments in their club... wba are about to financially implode because of a loan disagreement between owner and club. The owners of Leicester have delivered a league title and an FA Cup. I’d put money on them being back in the Premier League before we are as well. They did. But they've still massively cut their investment in the first team...resulting in relegation.. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 29, 2023 19:50:41 GMT
You think the Coates gone would be a positive change for Stoke City? It might be? It would depend who the new owners were wouldn't it? In an ideal world the current owners would just learn their lesson and drag themselves into the 2020s, but that clearly isn't going to happen. You mean like the owners of Leicester, wolves and wba who have run out of money and basically have pulled rhe plug on future investments in their club... wba are about to financially implode because of a loan disagreement between owner and club. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 29, 2023 15:17:44 GMT
AN’s revolution continues. It is a good move when establishing the leader’s vision to renew staff but it is risky if it doesn’t work and piles pressure on the leader. There is no reason for AN to touch sections of the club he doesn’t work with on a regular basis. He’s employed to manage the first team. Is he going to get rid of the women’s head coach next? If the general consensus was that the youth development was doing well in their jobs, then they should be left alone. AN will be here for about another year, he shouldn’t be able to just rip the infrastructure to pieces. Martin needs to focus on getting a head of recruitment in given that we don’t have a first team and there is a window approaching. AN is football manager of scfc and would have final responsibility on all things relating the the playing side which could effect the first team.. so obviously this would include the academy. I thought people were crying out for total rebuild of the club...or is it just the Coates people want out. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 29, 2023 12:28:39 GMT
Was told about this at the weekend and it’s a mass clear out apparently.Let’s just say Ricky Martin is clearing the decks of folk Neil doesn’t get on with or see eye to eye with Jesus wept what a shit club we have. Or are the club making changes to improve things?. Many fans on this site have demanded wholesale changes to the scfc environment....can't have it both ways. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 26, 2023 17:20:56 GMT
Her royal balcony comments were racist.. if a white tv personality had said that their career would be over.. 2 more to add to the list Dianne Abbott. David Lammy - who I expect will be given one of the big 3 jobs when starmer becomes PM..Good luck people. You can't bracket Lammy in with Abbott Lammy is a flawed politician Abbott is off the scale He's right up their with Abbott.. he's been quiet over last couple of years so maybe he's a bit wiser in what he says, bit I'm still expecting him to resort to type if he gets one of the big 3 jobs. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 26, 2023 16:58:57 GMT
27 goals for a centre back is pretty impressive......arexwe talking about the right player..
Saw posh defender Ronnie Edwards in 1 game last year v shrewsbury. Thought he was ok at best and not particulary better than Connor Taylor.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 26, 2023 11:49:25 GMT
I'm happy to put you right later on another part of the oatcake, but in a nutshell you have that daft black woman during the kings coronation telling the BBC presenters that the royal balcony looks too white!! What do the BBC do, nod, smirk and basically agree. Can you imagine that being the other way around? Cancelled. British bashing corporation, slyTV, Sly news, C4, all biased and run by tossers. Her royal balcony comments were racist.. if a white tv personality had said that their career would be over.. 2 more to add to the list Dianne Abbott. David Lammy - who I expect will be given one of the big 3 jobs when starmer becomes PM..Good luck people. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 23, 2023 10:38:12 GMT
Looks to me Smith - like Lambert at Stoke - has got the psychology all wrong for this group of players. If you've got a squad of underdogs who know they aren't as good as other teams then building on an underdog spirit and playing to dig in and nick games can work because it suits the mentality of the players. Trying to do that with an underperforming team of decent players who know it won't work - like it or not they aren't going to like starting games being told they aren't as good as their opponents and their only hope is to grind it out. They need to be coaxed into doing what they do best and play their natural game with some belief and confidence and take the game to the opposition. Leicester got a point last night (which to be fair might turn out to be enough) but lost against Fulham and Liverpool with the same tactic. Fulham were there for the taking and Leicester just let them come at them and got turned over - they would have been better off winning that one and taking defeats against in form Liverpool and Newcastle. I think they'll go down - I can see Everton winning and if Leicester go one down against West Ham they will fold. After 36 games it's pretty clear that this season newcastles players are better, so I can understand smiths tactics... his team have been poor all season, there confidence is shot, the vast majority of prem centre backs are now faster than vardy. If Leicester had of gone toe to toe with Newcastle they would of got whipped.. Yes it may be to little to late but there still their fighting on the last day. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 23, 2023 7:26:02 GMT
I thought Leicester`s tactics last night were shameful. Two touches in the oppositions penalty area and one solitary effort on goal in injury time. They deserve to go down with such negative play. They had enough quality on the pitch to have played with more attacking intent than that. Sorry I don't agree, Defensive play is also part of football, they defended very well tonight as a team and a free flowing newcastle couldn't break them down. Yes they rode their luck at times but they kept their goal difference in tact, came away with a good point (when some on here were predicting a 4-0 win for newcastle) and go into the last game still with a chance. In our early premier days we had away days like this....you do whatever it takes to get you to the finish line. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 22, 2023 18:15:29 GMT
Don't f**king start that  No problem with older folk having concessions, by the time they've got to their seats they've already missed 20 mins. |
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 22, 2023 18:14:07 GMT
Gotta say I don't mind banter to opposing fans...I mean like the cov fan who thought it a good idea to take a drum to the game,, he's basically saying I'm here hurl insults at me I deserve all I get.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 20, 2023 16:36:16 GMT
After watching the fly on the wall series of man city..I always thought the kitman was quite charismatic and popular in the dressing room.. he'd get my vote.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 19, 2023 15:27:03 GMT
For as good a season as Coventry and Luton have had, I still think Stoke are in a more stable position with more assets to their name.
Coventry don't own their ground but rent it off Mike Ashley...who knows what plans he has for it'd future.they have an old training facility. I'm sure the prem money will bring alot more security to the football club
Luton have done well and are punching above their weight there stadium is outdated and they will need to rebuild or build a new stadium soon. Gravity as always will have the final laugh with Luton.
They've both done well cov especially have a good manager who seems to do his best work at cov. But take Robins out of the picture and are cov really better run than Stoke..
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on May 17, 2023 14:33:14 GMT
They are better. The league table tells you they are better, in fact, they're far better. They are more effective and consistent than us but not necessarily better. Playing at our best we are better than any other Championship team but we can't do that for a prolonged run of games and can't find a way of winning when we are not at our best. I am praying for Luton preferably or Coventry to go up. We can't play against their levels of organisation and method of play. May sound a bit like Mowbray but I'd much rather have the teams who play like Sunderland and Middlesbrough rather than ones that rely on one player up front and sitting back like Coventry or teams like Luton who physically bully the opposition. The games are generally better and we are more likely to get a result if the opposition want the ball as much as we do. Re: coventry quote.. "Can't play against their levels of organisation and method of play" I thought we just played them off the park a month ago, which would suggest we can play against this type of team. What we can't do is seemingly do this for any period of time other than a 3 or 4 game purple patch. |
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