I hear Timbo enjoys a good drive through Stoke.

qs! wrote:

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

Stoke fans will get frustrated soon. They've gone as far as they can with their shitty style. It's stay where they are or most probably drop down. I'd hate being served up that disgraceful football week in week out.

They love it though. With their Kick and Rush t-shirts and their Swing Low Sweet Chariot, its like a stadium full of Biggi.

Klaus wrote:

I think they're content as long as they manage to stay in Premier League, but sooner or later they'll have a poor season and go down. There won't be much to be proud of without the top-flight status. Until then they should be grateful that clubs like Arsenal exist. We generate the money that keeps them going. No one has ever turned on a tv to watch Stoke play.

I know this sounds ridiculous.

But in the Summer I was talking to a family friend who used to play football for WHU in their youth systems. I asked him which players he played against who he was most impressed by and one of them was Ryan Shawcross when he was at United. This guy is a gooner as well.

Indeed, if he'd moved elsewhere he could have been a quality defender.

Quality defender? He's not that type of player.

flobaba wrote:

Really?

they spent 70m since. We spent negative 41m

Burnwinter wrote:

Quality defender? He's not that type of player.

www.soccernet.espn.go.com/blog/_/name/tacticsandanalysis/id/838?cc=5901

Wow I didn't even realise these vile cunts are the 3rd highest spender in the league

qs! wrote:

They love it though. With their Kick and Rush t-shirts and their Swing Low Sweet Chariot, its like a stadium full of Biggi.

One Biggy Biggi,
Theres only one Biggy Biggi,
One Biggy Biggggggi.

I keep reading that Stoke fans are getting more and more frustrated with Pulis. He's spending loads each season to get them as boring and mid-tabley as possible. Obviously he's in no danger of the sack but he's wasted so much of the Chairman's money...

Burnwinter wrote:

Quality defender? He's not that type of player.

We should take shawcross and Wilkinson off them, could be inspired like when we took bould and Dixon off them

Yeah, that would be a problem.

Huth's better anyway.

Still hope they get relegated

Klaus wrote:

Somehow I don't think Shawcross would gel with the rest of our players.

Football is a funny old game, there are plenty of incidences of players who were disliked by the supporters of another club ending up there, Owen, Schmeichel Tevez- Silvestre!
And then theres managers- Rafa at Chelsea- wtf??

If Fat Sam or Pulis ever became Arsenal manager..............

Never! I've put up with Wenger for the past 5 years no one could have done a worse job.

Biggus wrote:

Never! I've put up with Wenger for the past 5 years no one could have done a worse job.

Noice. They should go for rene girard

Rafa Benitez expressed interest...

Clrnc wrote:

Rafa Benitez expressed interest...

What? really?

Can see bould going there

With Pulis gone that leaves fat Sam as the longest serving EPL manager after Wenger at only two years, incredible.

It will be interesting to see if any other Premier League team takes Pulis after all the bad rep he's got during his time at Stoke.

If some other manager had achieved similar results with a different playing style, he'd definitely have a future in the Premier League. Fat Sam has always been in demand, in here, but that is because of his proven expertise in keeping lowly teams in the league, but, Pulis hasn't really proven it in more than one place.

Also, with the influx of successful smaller teams playing attractive football, it might be very long before Pulis finds a suitor. The best bet, imo, is if the Stoke team with a lot of Pulis players still there is struggling in relegation spots.

Biggus wrote:

With Pulis gone that leaves fat Sam as the longest serving EPL manager after Wenger at only two years, incredible.

Read somewhere that Mourinho is leaving Real as the longest serving manager in La Liga. It is mental, if true!

Pellegrini has been at Malaga the same amount of time.

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

Can see bould going there

Would be good for us to have a friendly British club to send our fringe players to on loan without fear of them being damaged. Manu have had this advantage for years with all those ex-players becoming managers.

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

Can see bould going there

Probably leaving Banfield as our assistant manager. If that happens, we can just hope that he and AW have learned how to play a defence in these last few months.

Biggus wrote:

With Pulis gone that leaves fat Sam as the longest serving EPL manager after Wenger at only two years, incredible.

Said that to my mate and he corrected me/ us - it's Pardew. But still, that's a(nother) barmy stat.

Maybe they could take Psycho, give England a chance to have someone decent handling the U21s.

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Biggus wrote:

With Pulis gone that leaves fat Sam as the longest serving EPL manager after Wenger at only two years, incredible.

Said that to my mate and he corrected me/ us - it's Pardew. But still, that's a(nother) barmy stat.
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You're right, forgot all about him, understandably.

I don't understand how Pardew hasn't been sacked. His team massively under performed. His transfer policy has been erratic as well. To go from 5th to relegation fodder is some achievement.

Injuries is his excuse.

Anyone seen Pulis leaving statement yet? He called us a certain team from North London