Stoke Relegation Thread

[Wrex]

1 minute ago, Andyregs said:

Good grief, Artell is worse than any of the local managers for a long time. 

He's top of the league? Unless you mean he's worth muting. I'd say yeah he does talk <ovf censored>, but unlike Jones Artell talks interesting <ovf censored>, bringing up some random analogy rather than literally saying "we played brilliantly, we just need to stop conceding so many and start scoring a few ourselves"

[Andyregs]

22 minutes ago, Wrex said:

He's top of the league? Unless you mean he's worth muting. I'd say yeah he does talk <ovf censored>, but unlike Jones Artell talks interesting <ovf censored>, bringing up some random analogy rather than literally saying "we played brilliantly, we just need to stop conceding so many and start scoring a few ourselves"

They are doing well now, but even when they lose comfortably, they are the only ones playing football. He’s patronising, often talked gibberish, and once this purple patch is over he’ll go back to blaming everyone else. He’ll be in the referees ear today too. Can’t stand him.

[The man in the pub]

If I was Preston manager I would stay put. They are second and doing well, just as Jones was at Luton.  There is a big problem at Sjoke and its the players. Under the illusion they are decent. Dont think they take hearing they are crap from a manager from the lower leagues or one without a reputation. Need someone like Big Sam who can tell them they are crap and they have to listen as he has seen it, done it, got the t shirt.

 

[sheffield61]

PNE have today reported the mighty potters to the football authorities for an illigal approach for the manager and on the back of that they are now saying they not getting their manager at ANY price......

 

Add to that great wins today for Huddersfield and Reading and Barnsley grabbing a 94th minute equaliser last night and the not so mighty potters are now bottom and six points Fromm from safety. High flying WBA next up followed by a six pointer at Barnsley could end up with them shortly getting the League one road maps out shortly........

 

 

HOW the not so mighty have and are falling.........

[jeffers]

32 minutes ago, sheffield61 said:

PNE have today reported the mighty potters to the football authorities for an illigal approach for the manager and on the back of that they are now saying they not getting their manager at ANY price......

 

Add to that great wins today for Huddersfield and Reading and Barnsley grabbing a 94th minute equaliser last night and the not so mighty potters are now bottom and six points Fromm from safety. High flying WBA next up followed by a six pointer at Barnsley could end up with them shortly getting the League one road maps out shortly........

 

 

HOW the not so mighty have and are falling.........

Sounds like a job for Tony “I’ve never been relegated” Pulis. Wow, what a back step that would be. Presumably Mr 365 thinks he can have anybody when he waves his money about (sorry I meant his daughters money). Arrogant Knob.

[Heatwave]

On 01/11/2019 at 16:29, Joe B said:

I am all for a Stoke City Hall of Fame.

I have Yaya Toure (scored the winner in the FA Cup Final), Patrick van Aanholt (goal that relegated them), Rowett, Lambert, and Jones (obvious reasons) currently in there.

Any other suggestions?

The 1978 Blyth Spartans, Mick Mills and George Eastham.

[Conrad]

27 minutes ago, Heatwave said:

The 1978 Blyth Spartans, Mick Mills and George Eastham.

May un mar ladee  were in the Boothen end for that Blyth Spartans game, priceless.

[jeffers]

“Preston go top of the Championship! Paul Gallagher's penalty is enough to do it in the end, and what a statement from Alex Neil's side the same weekend he said he wanted to stay at Deepdale and turning away interest from Stoke City.”

Shove that Mr. high & mighty Coates....Sjoke’s answer to Trump himself.

[Bald Eagle]

Bill Asprey, Dave Regis and his puddle

[Santa]

I just assumed if you were sacking someone on a Friday then you'd have someone else lined up and ready to go.

[RailwayRowdy]

Stoke really are the gift that keeps on giving !

Reports suggest that our charming neighbours are interested in appointing German Markus Weinzierl as their new manager ! 

The 44 year old sowed the seeds of Stuggart’s Bundesliga relegation  before being shown the door after a fine Stokesque record of 4 wins in 23 games ! 

They couldn’t pull another agent out of the hat could they ? 

[The man in the pub]

On 02/11/2019 at 19:54, Heatwave said:

The 1978 Blyth Spartans, Mick Mills and George Eastham.

Add Alan Ball to the list, got Sjoke relegated .

[davehartshill]

I really hope they mess this app out meet up. Keep looking on the thread on the Oatcake forum and it is a pisser. Most of them seem to think they will totally <ovf censored> it up! 

[Houston Valiant]

Tunstall Potter has gone off the radar as well. He’s a fair poster though. 

[Joe B]

What's absolutely delicious is its clear that Stoke is being run in a shambolic fashion these days; considering the mess the Shanahan's inherited, and the money getting lobbed at Stoke in the form of parachute payments, we're probably (relatively) a better run club at the present.

Even Vale fans could see that Jones was on the ropes over a month ago; the fact it's taken so long to sack him, and its done on a Friday after he took training all week (because Coates Jnr was on holiday), and they had no replacement lined up, and they've been done for illegally tapping up Neil, and Pulis won't even go back, and they're sniffing around certified frauds like Jose Gomes and Weinzierl (who Vale fans would probably turn their noses up at), suggest that no one has a clue how to run that football club, and haven't done since Peter took a back seat and incompetent John took the reins.

Every week you've got an ex-player spouting off about the club on the airwaves; Lawrence, Johnson, Adam, Crouch off the top of my head.

They've got big, big FFP issues coming up, which manifested themselves in a bargain basement summer, picking up QPR's freebies, League 1 players, and lads who were struggling for a game for Wigan. They had a manager on a pittance and are looking to do the same again, because they know come the end of 20/21 season they are £30m in trouble.

Their transfer policy is uncoordinated, changes with every manager, and seems to be, in Stoke on Trent tradition, quantity of quality. They've got frauds like Allen, Butland, and Martins Indi on mammoth contracts for Championship level; Wimmer is still on the books, on loan in the Belgian league; Imbulla is still on the books, on loan at Lecce. Both of these lads cost a lot and will be on massive wages.

Thankfully, the Stoke fans are too thick to realise that the manager is merely a sympton of a club that hasn't been run right for a few seasons now. They keep turning against their manager; Pulis wasn't sexy enough, Hughes lost the dressing room, Lambert is a League 1 manager, Rowett's football was 'sh**', Jones was in a job 'too big for him' (a reminder the club too big for Nathan Jones has won one more trophy than us in their history, the 1972 Ronseal Invitiational, in the days when players would have a pre-match pint and ciggie).

One day, they'll realise the problems run deeper and they'll probably then turn on the directors. Until then, I look forward to welcoming the next poor sod who will be lambasted 4 games in as the club simply being too gargantuan, too historic for a mere mortal to be able to handle, with its sublime record in the Leasing.Com Vase and its previous iterations.

Its stunning how many Stoke fans I know have made excuses this season and 'don't go anymore'; literally two seasons out of the big time and the stadium is half empty.