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Post by skemstokie on Jul 25, 2023 12:46:22 GMT
A footballer desperate to join Stoke City?.. I'm speechless. He’s a young lad I can forgive him. Young lad? he is a Junior.
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 20, 2023 7:21:20 GMT
Both in Croatia. The reason they go is because it’s a cheap market. Fleetwood market is cheap but unless you want to buy Y-fronts, 100g bags of fishermans friends or 1970s beige shower curtains it's a total waste of time. What price are the fishermens friends?
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 19, 2023 9:32:49 GMT
Good lad, I like him already. Where is Westerlo? I have to say that I've never heard of this football club! Belgium i think?
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 19, 2023 7:26:36 GMT
Dont get signing Travers on loan* unless we need the money that had been used to sign Sarkic to go towards another permanent signing. * only because the club have suggested their preference is permanent. Could we loan Travers and get a possible permanent deal included? A bit surprised we walked away from the Sarkic deal! I wonder if Ben Pearson had a word with the "boss" ?
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 15, 2023 14:58:33 GMT
No, the only thing I am certain of is that we will finish in an odd position not an even one! So why don`t you go for number one, be positive
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 15, 2023 9:40:16 GMT
Can't decide between 3rd and 5th - will let you know after Christmas! Try 4th?
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 15, 2023 8:42:30 GMT
Nobody comes to work to do a bad job at some point you have to question the leaders if it’s everyone’s else’s fault But they have done a bad job…. If nothing changes,no new ideas or concepts are added things do tend to stagnate,not sure if all the changes were needed or wether all the changes were made by the club but change was needed.
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 15, 2023 6:41:03 GMT
So he has not been stomping around being a mardarse as I.T.K, brigade state?
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 13, 2023 8:45:40 GMT
I am opposite side of the party just left of centre,biggest problem for Labour is i would never vote for the likes of Corbyn and for you Starmer is the same,the sooner P.R voting comes in the better at least then everyone can vote for their party of choice and is not restricted to the parties putting up a candidate in my area that is just the main 2 on mst occasions with P.R i could stil vote Lib Dem,Greens, with labour as my third choice if a loony lefty is leading Labour. Loony Lefty? I was thinking of Corbyn, he set the labour party years and allowed Boris to push through his hard line Brexit, I was in France at the time of Brexit and the wife of the couple we were with was a Corbyn fan and we had a few heated debates he never put up any argument against Brexit, hate the man.
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 12, 2023 16:47:59 GMT
No, the thick ones are those that want to remain and have the arses wiped for them. Get off your lazy arses and make the country great again. Keep the signings secret for as long as possible stoke just to piss people off 😁 Sorry but the question just had to be answered
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 12, 2023 16:35:07 GMT
Sunderland have the thickest fans in football. As well as voting Brexit in numbers and effectively supporting the shut down of their local car industry they also seem to think that crowd size determines where a manager / player wants to ply their trade in the 21st century. Since when did voting for Brexit mean you are thick Since 2016
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 12, 2023 14:55:06 GMT
So with an election looming, and the Tory’s popularity down the toilet.. surely labour are a shoe in.. slightly confused reading on here though. The vocal ones that want them out don’t seem to want labour in either! What the hells going on👀 It all feels a bit Hilary Clinton v Donald Trump for me. Voting for who you dislike the least. My preference will be to keep Tories out and have a Labour coalition with Lib Dem, Green or SNP. I don't trust starmer with a majority. I'm quite left politically and I don't feel Starmers vision of left aligns with mine. I'm sure I'm not the only disillusioned voter either. I imagine alot of right wingers may find that the tories don't represent their views either and would maybe prefer UKIP or Reform or another party to get a few seats I base my politics of policy rather than party so maybe my opinion will change when we approach an election. I am opposite side of the party just left of centre,biggest problem for Labour is i would never vote for the likes of Corbyn and for you Starmer is the same,the sooner P.R voting comes in the better at least then everyone can vote for their party of choice and is not restricted to the parties putting up a candidate in my area that is just the main 2 on mst occasions with P.R i could stil vote Lib Dem,Greens, with labour as my third choice if a loony lefty is leading Labour.
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 12, 2023 10:04:32 GMT
There’s nothing wrong with changing your mind. That bellend Starmer seems to be able to do it but none of the lefties on here can. I do wonder what they’re looking for in a political party apart from lawlessness and woke mandates……. If I were to say I would look for one thing, it would be to try and find a consensus around health. I would find it refreshing if a party came out after sitting down with economists and public health scientists and said our one pledge is to bring the overall life expectancy and quality of life metrics of the public up to being in line with our most privileged citizens. At the end of the day, I think that’s what most want: to live a long, full life. And cut all the Jacob Rees Moggs types from having a say in the lives of ordinary people when they live their lives in a different world,luxury and priviledged arseholes.
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 10, 2023 11:55:46 GMT
So, you want a Labour government in power to stop the lying and corruption of the Tory government. However, you want that Labour government to get in power by lying to the electorate about its plans and then just deciding what it wants after? How would this constitute a change in the current era of politicians getting away with saying and doing whatever they want? Labour should get into power by looking to appeal to more of the electorate and then stay in power by following through on their pledges. That assumes that the electorate is smart, interested and engaged enough to know that when Starmer does precisely what you'd like and the Tory party and its client press distort the policies into something they're not, they can tell the difference. I give you Brexit and Bozo as good recent examples. It'd be lovely to think that your approach is possible in Conservative England with its press and the BBC on hand to help, but I fear that's unrealistic, hence pragmatism rules the day in our shitty electoral system. Another reason to switch to PR. Hopefully, then, you'd actually get parties openly standing for what they genuinely believe in and you'd get a more representative balance of MPs in the House. Until, then, bearing those two probems in mind, pragmatism it sadly is. It's a voting system which doesn't work on numerous levels. I agree with your views on Boris the turd lied through his teeth to get people to vote for his "oven ready " Brexit then delivered a unplucked deep frozen turkey buried under the polar ice-cap. I disagree on B.B.C. bias,i am of the opinion they are the the perhaps the least biased broadcaster service,the press on the other hand are biased the daily Mail is not fit to be used as arse wipe material.
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 10, 2023 11:47:27 GMT
And to think that just a little over three years ago, seasoned political commentators were (quite legitimately) suggesting that it would be 10 years before Labour could even think about overturning a Tory eighty seat majority. Almost unheard of to do so in modern times. But that under-estimated Bozo's ability to fuck up everything he touches. The gap will narrow as the election draws nearer. You'll probably see a concerted effort from the Tory press to paint Starmer or anyone else in the party as some kind of hard left communist. And headlines along the lines of "For all their faults, Tories still the best choice for Britain" etc! And no doubt a good few people are quite prepared to completely overlook the utter mess the country is in and things that would have them frothing at the mouth if it was the "other side" that had done it. Quite odd how people get so wedded to one party in that way, whoever it might be. People wedded to one party is the root of many of Britains ills,bring in a P.R voting system and people can vote for their party of choice and also give a indication of their next best choice, P.R. also tends to bring about coalition goverments which also tends to tone down the more extreme extreme left or right factions in parties(which gave us Brexit). By choice i am a Labour voter except when the likes Corbyn appear then i switch to Liberal or maybe if we had a candidate in my area the Green party would get my endorsement until we break the 2 party mould we will continue lurching from left to right and succesive goverments reversing the policies of the previous goverment.
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 9, 2023 7:08:38 GMT
I can only see Gayle coming on in the 70th minute for Brown or Campbell. I don’t expect him to play much this year. So it’s a forward pool of: Campbell Brown Gayle Tezgel And realistically we still need a wide player/dribbler who can get behind defenders and create chances, plus a battering ram type target man. I think Lowe should be in the mix also.
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 8, 2023 17:04:11 GMT
He was right for while,credit when due.
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 7, 2023 11:54:47 GMT
Transfers do interest me. Are we suggesting therefore that we haven’t been in talks up until now? There are "talks" and end game talks which i presume is where we are now?
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Post by skemstokie on Jul 6, 2023 15:02:41 GMT
it could be very wide, could be sitting here in two weeks and we've got a full squad ready to go, but it could also be the opposite. Just because Neil has had a bit of a clear out (shouldn't be his job?) there's no guarantee we're gonna be in a better place. Things could get worse, now that's a scary thought. Absolutely, could go either way. We don't know as things stand, which is why I'm curious as to why some have us as good as down already. To some on here could happen means will happen.
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Post by skemstokie on Jun 28, 2023 10:04:45 GMT
If I put it every day the day might be the day 😁 Or maybe not If you don't put it, it may be the day I understand a lot of players contracts only end at midnight Friday so anyone coming on a free cannot be announced until then? Is this true.
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Post by skemstokie on Jun 25, 2023 14:52:34 GMT
AN is the first manager we’ve had since TP who shows the leadership qualities required to improve us. Durban, Lou and Waddo had similar qualities. Just like when TP returned and he was under huge pressure to succeed, AN has now cleared the decks and simply has to get things right. He's led us to the worst home record for years . As low a league finish since relegation he's zero on his record here to suggest he's a barely competent leader let alibe a good one having his boss as a mate and signing familiar mediocre faces isn't either He has also got rid of or the deadwood which was the cause of last season being so poor?
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Post by skemstokie on Jun 12, 2023 15:30:11 GMT
I'm old so not up with the data analysis stuff other than it hasn't worked for us since JC and Cartwright brought it in, hope he does well, wasn't head man at Sheff U but apparently his boss was good so he might have learned a bit from him. My only worry at this stage would be that we have lost people who have moved to the prem and are recruiting a bloke from a lower-level club with fairly limited experience in the top role but he could be the next big thing I guess. A lower level club for how long?
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Post by skemstokie on Jun 12, 2023 11:04:34 GMT
Not to mention the potential advantages from taking the throw ins nowhere near where the ball goes out of play Towelling team shirts on the way? Adding on more minutes for time wasting seems to be the most sensible option Maybe 5 minutes in sin bin for waste time?
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Post by skemstokie on Jun 5, 2023 7:48:09 GMT
We do better against good teams,so with the Championship having a lot of them this coming season,who knows. We lost 12 games at home wiining only 6,reverse results which we should be doing and we would have been in play-offs.
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Post by skemstokie on Jun 3, 2023 19:33:15 GMT
I've got a soft spot for them - proper club, decent fans. Same price as us to go up next year, 16-1 under achievers. Hope they get sorted. I live in Lancashire and living 30 metres away is a baggie fan,lovely family and nice neighbours,hope they get sorted.
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Post by skemstokie on Jun 3, 2023 12:40:53 GMT
I don't think we can judge that until he's played a few games. Hes played a good few games for stoke....ok in 1 or 2 but not good enough for trying to get in the top 6 His loan club wern't wowed either Backwards step At what age did Jamie Vardy emerge as a lethal striker after many years in the wilderness?
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Post by skemstokie on Jun 3, 2023 9:53:09 GMT
I love India as well,the people are so friendly and open,i have been welcomed into family homes not much bigger than garden sheds,been welcomed into homes made of bamboo and felt safe. When it comes to their railways i seen more people hanging on the outside of trains than we get on the inside in the U.K. a tragedy and my heart goes out to them.
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Post by skemstokie on Jun 3, 2023 9:36:15 GMT
Did anyone watch question time this week,Chris Patton did not hold back about the state of the Consevative party,and the as he called them ,the flat earth right wing extremist`s,also said in a time of crisis both parties should work together to get us out of this mess. And just to round off lashed Brexit and blamed a lot of our current problems on Brexit.
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Post by skemstokie on May 6, 2023 12:28:45 GMT
Just a bit of fun. Let's see who can guess the magic number. I'm going for 862 councillors. Not enough.
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Post by skemstokie on May 6, 2023 12:27:44 GMT
I entirely agree which is why neither Labour or Conservatives will willing agree to change I think it would take a very unusual set of circumstances for Labour to agree to a change. I think if necessary they would try and form a Minority Government with agreement on specific policies from minor Party's probably leading to a new GE within two years. I can't see any set of circumstances where Conservatives would agree. Starmer wins perhaps millions of votes if he pledges to back electoral reform to a proportional system. He also secures the decimation of the tory party for potentially decades if he does so. It is the way to number 10 and he needs to seize it. It is something that the country needs a.s.a.p. not only does it make every vote meaningful.
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