PV1973

What’s money got to do with it? Does that eradicate mistakes?

You’ve waited 6 years for something to come along to justify your hate of smith because beforehand your only justification was that he’s a stoke fan.

DM will have seen the young lads in training. It’s no fluke that those young lads are playing in the u18s today, they just aren’t ready yet.

Let’s hope the team never go into any game with this kind of offhand dismissive opinion of other league one clubs otherwise we deserve to lose.

Even if the company has been sold for 180m, there’s no at she’s getting all that. Do the club owe the family for what they’ve been putting in too, does anyone know?

The loan lads should be nowhere near it, they haven’t done enough for me. Ripley or Garrity IMO.

This last few weeks and months should show her that owners will never be appreciated once things start to go south. She should sell up and enjoy her money and retirement in peace.

He isn’t saying it’s the fans fault though is he. Hes saying we don’t get behind players and boo them at the first opportunity. Which is true. Even when things are going well we love a good moan

He pulled his shirt or shorts. It’s a blatant foul.

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That’s all I think it was too. He probably had it in his mind what he wanted to do and rushed it. It’s a shocker, no doubt about it.

Disagree. I think he was trying to pass it to Debra and made a mess of it.

No he isn’t. They wouldn’t take him seriously either. It’s the managers job.

It’s a shocking mistake. Unprofessional? Negligent? I don’t think so, it’s a game of football where the unpredictable can happen. An horrendous mistake in a poor season for him.

He did hang around shaking hands with all their staff.

Exactly this and fans are booing him because he isn’t scoring and yet we aren’t playing a system that can suit him. Well we don’t look to be playing any system to be honest.

@Spunk Trumpet It doesn’t matter whether you boo Ryan Loft at a game or not, here you are social media creating something that comes across as a hate on Ryan Loft, that will in turn generate more hate as people jump on the bandwagon. You’ve even said hes garbage and we should pay him up or keep him away from the squad. But you’re the one missing point about him if you think he’s a striker who’s going to come in and be a goalscorer, look at his record, he isn’t and never has been. What did our recruitment team look at? But then look at what we create as a team, which is nothing, we haven’t scored or created much across the board. We have no identity in how we want to play to get people in to the box or play off strikers. The crowd are toxic because of flitcroft and Loft is the one bearing the brunt of it, we have no strikers and he’s the one who’s been brought in by him. I think he’s trying, it’s not for lack of effort IMO but it seems to me a lot of the fans don’t know anything about Loft as a player or his past record and are expecting something that he’s never been.

Can this thread get locked admin. Bonkers.

Christ another thread singling out a player. Probably needs to go to get away from the club and people like you with short term memories and have a fresh start somewhere else. Just like Tom Conlon did. Anything they’ve done before is long forgotten when they’re going through a bad patch and the team isn’t performing.

Cant be done with this singling out of players. Must be really easy in your head to say pay him off and get rid or just ostracise him completely from the squad. At times I think our fan base is terrible and this is another instance of it. I agree he’s been playing poorly. But Ryan Loft isn’t the reason why we are where we are. He isn’t the one that built the squad around him. He isn’t the one that didn’t bring in any wing backs (our supposed creative outlet). He didn’t decide not to buy a strike partner. He didn’t fill the squad full of players with hardly any goals to their career names. He isn’t the one making defensive mistakes. We don’t create any chances for anyone to get on the end of. Nothing. Not a thing. Ryan Loft isn’t the problem. He’s just the target of boo boys and the scapegoat at an unfortunate time in our history where we are scrutinising all of Flitcrofts signings. Anyone with a brain can see from his stats that he isn’t a goalscorer by any stretch. He is the foil to a goalscorer. The guy to come on run the channels and cause problems for defenders with his strength and pace. We don’t play him like that. Why is he being heralded as the guy to find the net when throughout his career he’s hardly got any goals? It’s down to the recruitment team, not him. Look how we utilised Proctor in the promotion season, wingbacks and centre midfielders linking with him to get the ball behind for cut backs. We don’t even have a pattern of play where we play up to a striker and play off him. We don’t go long and turn teams around. I couldn’t even tell you what we’re trying to do or what our style of play is. He isn’t the issue and no one is going to come in and be any better or worse because of the squad we’ve built and the way we play.

It’s never been a warm up unless one of the players is coming on at the second half, then they do a warm up properly.

I’m assuming it’s in the valiant suite. She always gets up and chats to the people in there after a game. It’s been filmed on the sly obviously.

No matter how bad loft may have been in games I wouldn’t level at him that he hasn’t been trying. Certainly not acceptable that he gets abused by a fan watching the players come out for a kick about at half time (which is the same very week) and the fan judges that the kick about (it’s not a warm up) isn’t good enough for their tastes. Just another excuse to have a pop at a player.

Call me cynical. But I think that was why he was got rid of. So everything has to go through Flcikers.

Does that rule even count when we decide to take it quickly? Isn’t that on us then for taking it so quickly?