TBH I've no problem with Stoke , every team has to play to the best of their abilities , we do it Fulham do it and Rochdale do it so why shouldn't Stoke ???
We may not like the way they play but at least we only have to put up with it twice a year .........
I'm glad YK didn't clump the ref , would have been nice at the time but I want him playing again this season .......You've been going like me for many many years and I've never seen such an inept ref EVER .........Been racking my brains and I can come up with the odd incident but nothing like that
Stoke just went out and spent £22 million on Crouch and Palacios, both on wages of £70k...they have the money to change the way they play but they decided to go out and get another 2 giants
Cant stand Stoke and they will never achieve anything by playing the way they do
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Where did you get that from number-eight?
RRP
See I would understand if a team with no budget used Stoke's tactics but they have spent over £60M NET on transfers since they came up and are paying big wages on top of that, and for what? To perfect rugby tactics? It's a joke.
Hope we smash them to pieces at WHL in March. If we ever get Foy officiating another game for us again it'll be too soon, the man is a weak cretin.
I have no probs with Stoke....it adds to the variety of the EPL which no other league have. Its a totally different challenge...I'd love to see how Barca cope with an aerial bombarment like that (probably better than us).
We cannot whinge like wenger because thay didn't play a style which we could beat.....its not like we have to watch them every week .
Batmanu
Exactly, fair play they ARE playing to their strengths, but thats not an excuse when they have CHOSEN those strengths. To think a team like Wigan, who actually play some really good stuff on a limited budget could go down this season whilst Stoke continue to play rugby and stay up
And its not just because of yesterdays result, i simply cant stand Stoke
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Oh well in that case it is £60M+ net spend well spent. Only City, Chelsea and Liverpool have a bigger net spend than Stoke since they got promoted
They bought 2m Peter and Palacios from us.
What is there not to like ??
I mean, we only play at the Guns of Navarone at most twice per season.
Did anyone notice the towelling material Shotton had on under his shirt?
Whilst what they do is not actually outside the Laws of the game, it does infringe the spirit of the game. Referees have it in their power to deal with this appropriately, however it took Foy until the 80th minute before he booked the Stoke full back.
The other thing which I know they do, is to tell the ball boys not to hurry if it is an opposition ball, this is something the PL should deal with as it is again bad sportsmanship.
Various times on this site i have seen many Tottenham Hostpur fans belittle opposing fans when they are criticizing the referee. So, please inform how those aforementioned spurs fans are now questioning the integrity of Chris Foy, the referee from yesterday? Isn't that a tiny bit hypocritical?
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posted on 12/12/11
TBH I've no problem with Stoke , every team has to play to the best of their abilities , we do it Fulham do it and Rochdale do it so why shouldn't Stoke ???
We may not like the way they play but at least we only have to put up with it twice a year .........
I'm glad YK didn't clump the ref , would have been nice at the time but I want him playing again this season .......You've been going like me for many many years and I've never seen such an inept ref EVER .........Been racking my brains and I can come up with the odd incident but nothing like that
posted on 12/12/11
Stoke just went out and spent £22 million on Crouch and Palacios, both on wages of £70k...they have the money to change the way they play but they decided to go out and get another 2 giants
Cant stand Stoke and they will never achieve anything by playing the way they do
posted on 12/12/11
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posted on 12/12/11
Number-eight
Agreed!!!
posted on 12/12/11
Where did you get that from number-eight?
posted on 12/12/11
RRP
See I would understand if a team with no budget used Stoke's tactics but they have spent over £60M NET on transfers since they came up and are paying big wages on top of that, and for what? To perfect rugby tactics? It's a joke.
posted on 12/12/11
Hope we smash them to pieces at WHL in March. If we ever get Foy officiating another game for us again it'll be too soon, the man is a weak cretin.
posted on 12/12/11
I have no probs with Stoke....it adds to the variety of the EPL which no other league have. Its a totally different challenge...I'd love to see how Barca cope with an aerial bombarment like that (probably better than us).
We cannot whinge like wenger because thay didn't play a style which we could beat.....its not like we have to watch them every week .
posted on 12/12/11
Batmanu
Exactly, fair play they ARE playing to their strengths, but thats not an excuse when they have CHOSEN those strengths. To think a team like Wigan, who actually play some really good stuff on a limited budget could go down this season whilst Stoke continue to play rugby and stay up
And its not just because of yesterdays result, i simply cant stand Stoke
posted on 12/12/11
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posted on 12/12/11
Oh well in that case it is £60M+ net spend well spent. Only City, Chelsea and Liverpool have a bigger net spend than Stoke since they got promoted
posted on 12/12/11
They bought 2m Peter and Palacios from us.
What is there not to like ??
I mean, we only play at the Guns of Navarone at most twice per season.
posted on 12/12/11
Did anyone notice the towelling material Shotton had on under his shirt?
Whilst what they do is not actually outside the Laws of the game, it does infringe the spirit of the game. Referees have it in their power to deal with this appropriately, however it took Foy until the 80th minute before he booked the Stoke full back.
The other thing which I know they do, is to tell the ball boys not to hurry if it is an opposition ball, this is something the PL should deal with as it is again bad sportsmanship.
posted on 12/12/11
Various times on this site i have seen many Tottenham Hostpur fans belittle opposing fans when they are criticizing the referee. So, please inform how those aforementioned spurs fans are now questioning the integrity of Chris Foy, the referee from yesterday? Isn't that a tiny bit hypocritical?
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