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  1. TBF we are crying out for a leftback as well.
  2. 2 months ago a striker may have made a difference.
  3. Mills was a gifted young player who I don't think I saw live. I was deployed in Kuwait for nearly all of 91 and 92. The club sent me quite a few videos of games for free during that period and his 2 goal debut is the one I still remember. Anthony Gardner should have got a call-up.
  4. England MU17s squad named for EURO qualifiers at St. George's Park in March 2024 WWW.ENGLANDFOOTBALL.COM There's also a Stoke player in tge squad. Congratulations to the young man. The last player I remember playing age group football for England was Mark Chamberlain. It's a bright spark in a disappointing season. Longterm I think it is the way to a sustainable future and the progress at academy level is possibly more significant than a relegation. The club has endured numerous relegations and enjoyed many promotions in the last 50 years. We've not consistently produced league standard players since Sproson, Bromage and the Chamberlain brothers made their way into the first team; almost 50 years ago.
  5. I always knew how bad Fergerson's record was at United during his first 2 and a half years at United. I watched a Brian Clough documentary recently and I'd forgotten how poor Clough initially did at both Derby and Forest. We got relegated in Rudge's first (part) season, followed by a very average mid table league 4 finish. It took Shankley 2 and a half years to get Liverpool promoted. A very different time when fans and chairmen were more prepared to give managers time.
  6. You can certainly see why they are pushing for the playoffs. Clark was nowhere near fit. Lowe isn't mobile enough to play in a midfield 2. Wilson really struggled first half as the ball just isn't sticking.
  7. Tom Pope is no longer a league 1 striker. He's not scoring regularly for Witton Albion. Smith should never have been made captain and I think that's been detrimental to his game. He's not a natural leader.
  8. The problem with Sang is when he plays in midfield he looks like a rightback playing out of position.
  9. Nowhere near. 79 - 81 were the worst years to support the club.
  10. Towards the end of the match infront of the dugouts.
  11. I'm confident this will be my 7th relegation. Not sure getting rid of Crosby was the right move as we have got worse if anything. Still a good finish from Baylee. Disappointing but the sun will rise again tomorrow.
  12. No they are your words. What Shanahan actually said was after speaking for the first time with Moore she didn't want anyone else. As I remember it very few people on here wanted anyone else either. I personally want Derek Adams but I think I was in a minority of one.
  13. Thought Gayle did well for the second. He dropped deeper having initially standing on the centrehalf and found himself half a yard.
  14. Football does go in cycles. United looked invincible 10 years ago. Stoke were a solid Premiership outfit. Groups of players just outlive their usefulness. There's only really been Liverpool in the 70s/80s, United and arguably City recently who have successfully rotated a squad and achieved sustained success over a reasonable length of time. Football is just coronation street for a predominantly male audience where good times and bad times inevitably follow one another.
  15. It's not a fact, we were in a relegation battle to drop out of the league when he was appointed. The youth set-up has started producing. The big failure has been not recruiting a decent striker in 18 months, post Harrison signing. 2 decent strikers, even one plus a fit Uche and we'd be a lower mid table side. The reality is we will probably go down as Uche isn't likely to be fit and we are relying on an inconsistent Wilson, Loft and a 17/18 year old.
  16. He was but he was also a chairman from a different age when chairmen didn't throw 5 or 6 million a year into loss making lower league clubs. It was a time of crumbling stands where players were on a fraction of today's wages and players like Futcher, Brown and Greehoff carried on playing because they didn't have the money to retire. He ran a prudent ship and put his faith in Rudge.
  17. You don't buy a small club for profit, so certainly right about the profit bit.
  18. Anyone who watched the match on Saturday could see Loft was one of the few who gave it 100%. He had a bad start at the club but Saturday he was one of the few players who came out in credit.
  19. He will be aware, as every manager is. Really only likely to be Smith, Massey, Ojo and Wilson starting from his time at the club. Unlikely to be high scoring or exciting.
  20. If we'd got someone running off the headers he wins it would be the right tool for the job. He might be OK with someone like Mighton playing off him. He does win a lot of headers, they just end up getting cleared by one of the 4 unopposed defenders around Loft.
  21. Connor Wickham hasn't played a game for 9 months. By the time he's properly match fit we'll either be relegated or safe.
  22. I think Newcastle only paid him for the one season he had remaining on his contract when he signed for Stoke. This season he's had to survive on his Stoke wage.
  23. There's a podcast with Dave Flitcroft on Twitter and we are talking to a free agent. I would suspect it's Gayle.
  24. You can't just have someone sitting in the next door room, just in case your first choice deal falls through. Once it's down to the last couple of hours either the deal works out or you do a Wrexham or Bristol Rovers.
  25. It would appear the plan fell apart late on deadline day. If there was a plan B it was too late to follow it.
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