Player Valuation: £11 million
stoke play to there strengths good luck to them, id sooner watch them than say the red****e playing twenty odd passes and going no were, They seem to be playing a bit more football this season the times i have seen them this season via the widemen.ps good shout about oldham being coldest and the old bolton ground both baltic in the winter
Player Valuation: £450k
I respect Stoke, they are a very well run club and play a big part in the community of Stoke. To me they stand as an example of how football clubs should be run, opposed to the Man Citys, Chelseas of the world. Pulis is a no nonsense pragmatist who does what is right for his club and supporters. In many ways Everton and Stoke stand for similar values in terms of the way clubs should be run.
Their style of football is never going to win them admiring glances from the neutral or be celebrated by football pundits but I love seeing a side like Stoke bully Arsenal or City and hearing a manager bleating about how it's so unfair. Stoke have to compete on terms that give their side the best chance of winning, sure Swansea and West Brom are playing nice football right now and the testament for that will be if they are still gracing the Premiership 3 seasons from now. I loved watching Blackpool in the Premiership, it didn't make it good for their club (who have now lost their manager to a team he feels has better resources).
Stoke have spent ****loads of money and never even finish over 11th. Their style of football doesn't really work.
Player Valuation: £9.5 million
Not really seen enough of them to make a judgement of their style of play....is it really that anti football?
Your keepers first name sounds like what I have in bog roll when I wipe my bum.
Player Valuation: £20k
Lived there for a while so I do have a tiny soft-spot for Stoke. Thought it'd be great going to watch us play them at goodison, until I got there and fumed for 90 minutes.
Basically, don't care how football is played as it's a results game and Stoke get results so I like that. Except when you play Everton.
edit: He is right about it being f'in cold there too.
The ball spends very little time in play whenever I've watched them. Out of a ninety minute game, at least sixty minutes are spent with the ball going out of touch and then being wiped by a towel five or six times before being thrown straight out of play on the other side and then it's all repeated again.Originally Posted by EFC Si
Player Valuation: £50k
Torn on this
When you talk about football as a sport, I want to be entertained. I enjoy watching it regardless of whether Everton are playing or not. For that reason, I rarely watch Stoke because they do not play particularly entertaining football. I lay the blame for this squarely at Pulis's feet and Stoke are difficult to like because of this. It's not just the long ball stuff, it's the desperately cynical stuff as well.
Having said that, football as a supporter is all about getting results. I couldn't give a toss if Everton play the most negative football in the history of the sport as long as we win. It's probably very hypocritical of me to think the way I've just suggested above when I know that I wouldn't have a problem with us doing the same thing if it guaranteed better results.
From the POV of enjoying the spectacle of football, I dislike Stoke I'm afraid. From the perspective of a fan of a club, I have no problem with them at all.
The club has spent £75m NET since 2008 and they still play s**t football and can't finish top half of the table. Joke of a club.
But it's alright saying Stoke get the results. They don't.
They don't win trophies, they don't finish in the top half of the Pl. They've spent the third most money of any Pl side in the last five years (more than villa, more than tottenham, more than arsenal, more than liverpool, more than Man U). I'd expect them to finish higher than 13th.
The reason they don't is that they're cowardly wimps who are so scared of relagation they don't actually try and win games.
If we spent 75 MILLION and couldn't finish top 7 there would be a riot.
haha, their draw record is similar to ours but totally different if you know what i mean. Then again, you'd never see us win 5-0 in an FA Cup Semi Final, even if it was only Bolton.
I don't mind the long ball shizz, if every football team played exactly the same it wouldn't be as entertaining, the contrast in styles is what makes it good. But yeah, the needless fouls, 10 minutes of the game spent wiping a ball with a towel, setting up a set piece etc. is the unnacceptable part. Doesn't grind my gears but every time we play stoke it's ****ing dull to watch and i would be very bored if i had to watch that tosh every week, especially considering the money spent.
Ah well they were in the 3rd Division not so long ago so i'm sure a fair few of the fans don't mind
Player Valuation: £200k
Agree with this I'm afraid. And also the booing of that Arsenal player who got his leg broke has really put me off the whole club, including fans. I'm sure the OP is a nice bloke though.
6 Bilyaletdinov's., at least one of them would come good ffs
Player Valuation: £5k
I have never been as cold at a game as I have been at Boundary Park. Neil McDonald at left back...still chills me to the bone
Player Valuation: £50k
Totally agree.
I am by no means against playing direct football, there are different ways of playing football, as long as you play to the rules then do what the hell you want. But the time wasting and persistant fouling is what really gets me annoyed about Stoke. It gets to the point were I would actually label it as a form of cheating. The game at Goodison last year was probably one of the most frustrating games of football that I have ever seen. The ball was never in play for longer than 10 seconds. If the only way you can win a football match is by behaving in that way then whats the point in playing football? They might as well just get relegated so that they can give their fans some real pride and play properly at a level were they can play without cheating.
I'm sure the OP is a nice guy and I in no way intend to offend him, but come on, how can you be proud of that? I would be ashamed if that were my club.
Coldest..... The Breezeblock.
It will be cold in Stoke though, it always was in the olden days so when you pass through the time portal at sandbach you notice a drop in temp. Think about them though, they cant even wear gloves due to their extra fingers.
KOPITES ......gob-sh1tes and blatherskites every last one of them!!!
In the 80's in my teens...you realised my dreams,
and now the thing thats nice is...you're helping my mid-life crisis !!
BATE Borisov. That stupid pointless game where we played our kids and got beat 1 0 was the coldest Ive been at a football match. Still dont know why I came all the way up for that. There was about 18,000 there so there wasnt even anyone next to me I could snuggle with ffs.
****. DO TELL.
BALOTELLI JUDGES KEV.
Player Valuation: £650k
Fratton Park is the coldest ground I've ever been too.
Anyone remember when Matty Taylor scored from the half way line? Cold day that
Player Valuation: £100k
Enjoyed reading the replies, mixture of strong dislike and grudging respect.
Few points
Money spent - difficult to compare our spending against any established club. We had to build a squad and strengthen almost every position, good example would be to compare our subs bench now to when we got promoted.
Entertainment vs Results - there is now a call from the fans for the style of football to improve. In parts this season we have started to evolve our playing style. Yes it's still direct at times but we do have players who are much more composed on the ball and the signs are encouraging.
Personally I think it's ludicrous to suggest that we are too physical or cheat, I think on most cases the media tend to jump on the Stoke bandwagon at times. Crouch had 3 teeth knocked out against Newcastle recently, I wonder what the press reaction had been if it was Huth or Shawcross on Ba?
Fans - like any support we have a moronic few and I have been embarrassed on a few occasions by some of their actions particularly some of the young chav types that like to act the hard man. In general though, we are a decent bunch who are passionate about the club and hopefully you'll get a friendly welcome to the Brit and any of the pubs n clubs prior to match
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