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30 Aug 14
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If Tommy & Sparky et al are looking in, well done on the win today. Not many teams have took much away from The Etihaad in the last few years. Hopefully there's Happy Potters everywhere tonight. You never know, the drivers of "Ron's Cabs" might get a tip.
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Cheers Graham!
I've just watched the match in full - so the MOTD morons can put Stoke on last tonight as far as I'm concerned - as I know they'll be seeeeeething if they have to put them any nearer to the start of the programme and actually give them some credit!
What a match!
If ever you want to see a team with 'a plan' and every single member of the team 100% committed to that cause - it was Stoke today.
Man City played well, especially when they went behind, but Stoke were just not letting them succeed with anything they tried to create. It was a defensive masterpiece.
- and to top it off - what a sublime goal from Mame Diouf!
I'd have been happy if Stoke had just played well and not conceded too many but it must be the result of the Premiership Experience for Stoke since they've been in it to do so well against such a great team - away!
Funnily enough, I was in a pub a few weeks ago and when it came time for me to go home and I was in no fit state to even find my mobile, let alone call for a taxi, the barman said he'd 'phone for me and which company did I want himto call.
My answer: "Ron's"
"Ron's? Who's 'Ron's' I've never heard of them"
"Well, whatever they call themselves these days - they'll always be 'Ron's' to me"
He couldn't stop laughing!
I've just watched the match in full - so the MOTD morons can put Stoke on last tonight as far as I'm concerned - as I know they'll be seeeeeething if they have to put them any nearer to the start of the programme and actually give them some credit!
What a match!
If ever you want to see a team with 'a plan' and every single member of the team 100% committed to that cause - it was Stoke today.
Man City played well, especially when they went behind, but Stoke were just not letting them succeed with anything they tried to create. It was a defensive masterpiece.
- and to top it off - what a sublime goal from Mame Diouf!
I'd have been happy if Stoke had just played well and not conceded too many but it must be the result of the Premiership Experience for Stoke since they've been in it to do so well against such a great team - away!
Funnily enough, I was in a pub a few weeks ago and when it came time for me to go home and I was in no fit state to even find my mobile, let alone call for a taxi, the barman said he'd 'phone for me and which company did I want himto call.
My answer: "Ron's"
"Ron's? Who's 'Ron's' I've never heard of them"
"Well, whatever they call themselves these days - they'll always be 'Ron's' to me"
He couldn't stop laughing!
At the time thought they were wrong to part company with Pulis and that Hughes was a poor appointment, been proved wrong on both counts.
I like Hughes, refreshingly understated in the current 'look at me' era...
I like Hughes, refreshingly understated in the current 'look at me' era...
ReeseHeath, I knew Pulis's time was up at Stoke as he just couldn't think in any other way than the 'Pulisball' method he'd successfully got us promoted with - and kept us in the Premiership with - but had then spent an enormous amount of money on 'better' signings only for him to become even more insular and small-minded in his defensive mode of play, so the football was getting worse and worse.
The paying fans just couldn't stomach any more of it - and who could blame them?
I was very dismayed at Hughes' appointment as his replacement though, mainly because he always comes across as such a miserable bugger - and had always railed against Stoke every time one of his former teams had played against Stoke - but only thought like that for a couple of days before I realised he was the manager now and that was that and if SCFC were to succeed under Hughes everyone who supported the Potters had to get behind him.
I'm happy to say that I started to be impressed before they even played their first game as it was reported on the first day of pre-season training he let the players train with the ball!
Sounds daft, but Pulis had never done that in all the years he'd been there. It was all about running up mountains and stuff like that until about two days before their first game before he'd let them anywhere near a football!
I've been absolutely chuffed to death with the improvements he's made ever since - and all for almost no money.
He's spent less than £4 million since he's been at Stoke for all the quality he's introduced to the team - and got the very best out of all the players he inherited.
He's still (and always will be, no doubt) a miserable bugger though!
Still, he must be excellent with the players, however he communicates with them, as they seem a very happy bunch - and that's what counts, not his media appearances.
The paying fans just couldn't stomach any more of it - and who could blame them?
I was very dismayed at Hughes' appointment as his replacement though, mainly because he always comes across as such a miserable bugger - and had always railed against Stoke every time one of his former teams had played against Stoke - but only thought like that for a couple of days before I realised he was the manager now and that was that and if SCFC were to succeed under Hughes everyone who supported the Potters had to get behind him.
I'm happy to say that I started to be impressed before they even played their first game as it was reported on the first day of pre-season training he let the players train with the ball!
Sounds daft, but Pulis had never done that in all the years he'd been there. It was all about running up mountains and stuff like that until about two days before their first game before he'd let them anywhere near a football!
I've been absolutely chuffed to death with the improvements he's made ever since - and all for almost no money.
He's spent less than £4 million since he's been at Stoke for all the quality he's introduced to the team - and got the very best out of all the players he inherited.
He's still (and always will be, no doubt) a miserable bugger though!
Still, he must be excellent with the players, however he communicates with them, as they seem a very happy bunch - and that's what counts, not his media appearances.
He's still (and always will be, no doubt) a miserable bugger though!
wwell he's welsh, says it all, innit
wwell he's welsh, says it all, innit
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