| Stoke City Chairman 23:46 - Feb 23 with 4008 views | GloryHunter |
Peter Coates - on Question Time. I love this bloke. He's sensible, and he's a socialist. Changed my view of Stoke City. |  | | |  |
| Stoke City Chairman on 00:02 - Feb 24 with 2585 views | Boston |
Wait 'till we take all his money, comrade. |  |
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| Stoke City Chairman on 00:03 - Feb 24 with 2578 views | Northernr |
I'd think a lot more of him if he took that fcking prck Ray Winstone off my TV trying to get me to join his community of lobotomised gibbons all the live long day. |  | | |
| Stoke City Chairman on 00:03 - Feb 24 with 2576 views | HantsR |
Agreed, the only one on the panel who seemed level-headed, regardless of whether he was a socialist or whatever. I pity the Stoke electorate with such a ghastly choice of candidates. |  | | |
| Stoke City Chairman on 00:07 - Feb 24 with 2567 views | GloryHunter |
| Stoke City Chairman on 00:03 - Feb 24 by Northernr |
I'd think a lot more of him if he took that fcking prck Ray Winstone off my TV trying to get me to join his community of lobotomised gibbons all the live long day. |
Fair point. But I've never seen him talking on TV before. He's making his money in a dubious industry, I guess, but he seems like a man of the people, nonetheless. | | | |
| Stoke City Chairman on 09:18 - Feb 24 with 2353 views | nadera78 |
| Stoke City Chairman on 00:07 - Feb 24 by GloryHunter |
Fair point. But I've never seen him talking on TV before. He's making his money in a dubious industry, I guess, but he seems like a man of the people, nonetheless. |
He made his money from catering initially, and had sold his company and about to , more or less, retire when his daughter told him betting was about to explode. So he put some money into a company and made even more money. He's a good bloke, proper Labour. | | | |
| Stoke City Chairman on 09:43 - Feb 24 with 2316 views | stonebridgers |
So he is sensible but hired Mark Hughes.... Opens a can of worms | |
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| Stoke City Chairman on 09:54 - Feb 24 with 2291 views | isawqpratwcity |
| Stoke City Chairman on 09:43 - Feb 24 by stonebridgers |
So he is sensible but hired Mark Hughes.... Opens a can of worms |
And, tbf, doing fine with it. |  |
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| Stoke City Chairman on 10:07 - Feb 24 with 2263 views | nadera78 |
| Stoke City Chairman on 09:43 - Feb 24 by stonebridgers |
So he is sensible but hired Mark Hughes.... Opens a can of worms |
Mark Hughes has done a good (if unspectacular) job at every club except one...can you guess which one and why? | | | |
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| Stoke City Chairman on 10:16 - Feb 24 with 2241 views | MrSheen |
Pretty shocking that it takes fewer than 8,000 votes to get elected as an MP.
Just looked into this, the lowest total to elect an MP since 1946 (I think). I'm surprised there hasn't been more made of this. [Post edited 24 Feb 2017 13:03]
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| Stoke City Chairman on 10:19 - Feb 24 with 2235 views | CamberleyR |
| Stoke City Chairman on 10:07 - Feb 24 by nadera78 |
Mark Hughes has done a good (if unspectacular) job at every club except one...can you guess which one and why? |
You must have forgotten that brilliant job he did at Man City leading them to the giddy heights of 10th having spent the GDP of a third world country... |  |
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| Stoke City Chairman on 10:27 - Feb 24 with 2210 views | stevec |
I thought he had Tony Blair's hand up his ar se operating him.
Eee, Brexit's gonna be a disaster
Eee, mark my words, 2 years from now, the country will be in a state of collapse.
'Why do you think that?'
Eee, I dunno, but it'll 'appen.
Meanwhile, he'll be spreading his socialist principles by means of the one arm bandit. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich. Don't you just luv em. |  | | |
| Stoke City Chairman on 10:27 - Feb 24 with 2210 views | BlackCrowe |
Not sure how he squares his socialism with being fabulously wealthy via owning a betting company which targets working people to gamble some of their earnings to ultimately make him richer. |  |
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| Stoke City Chairman on 10:29 - Feb 24 with 2205 views | isawqpratwcity |
| Stoke City Chairman on 10:19 - Feb 24 by CamberleyR |
You must have forgotten that brilliant job he did at Man City leading them to the giddy heights of 10th having spent the GDP of a third world country... |
...and took over what was already Fulham's most successful side ever. His "club lacking ambition" comment when resigning 11 months later I read as "wouldn't give me the chequebook". | |
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| Stoke City Chairman on 10:56 - Feb 24 with 2136 views | runningman75 |
I thought he was the most rational speaker on the panel. I did not like the guy in the audience in the Stone Island who was trying to wind up the Labour women. | | | |
| Stoke City Chairman on 10:57 - Feb 24 with 2133 views | Hayesender |
Easy to be a socialist when you have countless millions £££ in the bank |  |
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| Stoke City Chairman on 11:09 - Feb 24 with 2096 views | paulparker |
| Stoke City Chairman on 10:57 - Feb 24 by Hayesender |
Easy to be a socialist when you have countless millions £££ in the bank |
Amen Hayes , the likes of Lineker, lilly allen, Michael sheen and 90% of the celebrity world preaching to us and condescending us from their ivory towers is sickening
when all the average bloke in the street wants is to be left alone to pay the bills , get a 2 week holiday somewhere and have a enough left over for a pint or two, |  |
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| Stoke City Chairman on 11:19 - Feb 24 with 2075 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Stoke City Chairman on 10:57 - Feb 24 by Hayesender |
Easy to be a socialist when you have countless millions £££ in the bank |
No idea what you do for a living, but I presume you're not a multi millionaire betting magnate.
Doesn't matter how much we have in the bank, the working and middles classes need all the help we can get.
Just one man's opinion. |  | | |
| Stoke City Chairman on 11:51 - Feb 24 with 2026 views | Konk |
| Stoke City Chairman on 10:57 - Feb 24 by Hayesender |
Easy to be a socialist when you have countless millions £££ in the bank |
And yet so many millionaires/billionaires will do anything they can to stop the taxman getting hold of any of their money and wouldn't ever think about philanthropy. Coates could have fu cked off to Monaco and spend his weekends drinking champagne in his pants, but he's created a lot of jobs in his blighted home town and bought a lot of joy to his fellow Stokies by ploughing loads of money into SCFC. I'd take Peter Coates over that parasite Phillip Green any day of the week. |  |
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| Stoke City Chairman on 11:57 - Feb 24 with 2014 views | ElHoop |
| Stoke City Chairman on 10:27 - Feb 24 by stevec |
I thought he had Tony Blair's hand up his ar se operating him.
Eee, Brexit's gonna be a disaster
Eee, mark my words, 2 years from now, the country will be in a state of collapse.
'Why do you think that?'
Eee, I dunno, but it'll 'appen.
Meanwhile, he'll be spreading his socialist principles by means of the one arm bandit. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich. Don't you just luv em. |
I pretty much agree with you. Didn't much care for Coates on QT either.
As for Blair, difficult to know what he's up to, if he's up to anything much at all. He might be trying to broker a deal with the EU which somehow obstructs freedom of movement - in which case he'd put the cat amongst the pigeons.
I still think that it's hard to predict with so many Euro elections coming up. |  | | |
| Stoke City Chairman on 12:01 - Feb 24 with 1998 views | Hayesender |
| Stoke City Chairman on 11:51 - Feb 24 by Konk |
And yet so many millionaires/billionaires will do anything they can to stop the taxman getting hold of any of their money and wouldn't ever think about philanthropy. Coates could have fu cked off to Monaco and spend his weekends drinking champagne in his pants, but he's created a lot of jobs in his blighted home town and bought a lot of joy to his fellow Stokies by ploughing loads of money into SCFC. I'd take Peter Coates over that parasite Phillip Green any day of the week. |
I wonder how much above the living wage his company pays their peasants, sorry staff? | |
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| Stoke City Chairman on 13:32 - Feb 24 with 1864 views | Clive_Anderson |
Hang on are you saying there's a virtue signaling hypocritical socialist on the telly?
How could this be? | | | |
| Stoke City Chairman on 14:05 - Feb 24 with 1814 views | SimonJames |
| Stoke City Chairman on 09:43 - Feb 24 by stonebridgers |
So he is sensible but hired Mark Hughes.... Opens a can of worms |
...whose team has finished 9th in the PL for all three seasons he's been in charge and will likely finish 9th again.
I would gladly have had those results for QPR over that last 4 years. |  |
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| Stoke City Chairman on 14:24 - Feb 24 with 1777 views | WestbourneR |
| Stoke City Chairman on 10:07 - Feb 24 by nadera78 |
Mark Hughes has done a good (if unspectacular) job at every club except one...can you guess which one and why? |
Ask Jamie. Apparently Mark Hughes is a terrible manager and I should be lynched for championing his appointment. His record would say that, QPR aside, MH knows what he is doing. |  |
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| Stoke City Chairman on 14:24 - Feb 24 with 1776 views | Brightonhoop |
Hang on, there's a lot jealous Tory boys on this thread, usually levelled at 'Lefties.' Tory government relaxxes gambling laws and all kinds of vermin pop u in Gibraltar, that much is a no brainer. But i suspect he's a safer bet as an emloyer than, Philip Green as someone else mentioned, not to mention the money he's already funnelled back into that cess pit called Stoke, for the locals.
Do any of you Kippers ever question that the UK may go tits up post Brexit? Serious question, not a red rag to a bull, genuinely interested to know if any of you ever consider the possibility?
Read a fascinating article in the Economist last night on the farmers, already worried bout the £3 Bil funding gap from the EU (marzipanned irony...), with genuine concerns about how they will harvest without foreign labour. Labour on a promised contracted basis this year fell from 98% to 92 %, that's labour that failed to turn up on a contract at harvest time. Asked why they anecdotally suggested the fall in the pound, earning sterling wasn't worth turning up for, plus the anti-immigtant/foreigner environment. Many are worried about 2018 and have already accepted they will lose around 10-12% of the harvest this year as a consequence of labour shortge. Quite staggering really. It's only 1% of GDP but the Farmers make up lot of the rump of the Tory Party and some were talking about getting uppity like the French and blocking ports et al insted. Leadsome declined to offer any sought for Legislation on bringing in short term labour from outside the EU, so all is not well in Tory land.
So back to Stoke, it's a bit daft tbh to suggest people cannot be succesful or make wealth without maintaining socialist values etc. I've no idea if he is philanthropic, but the likes of Green cannot even honour pension schemes and maintain/grow/nurture a business into the future, instead overseeing its total collapse including the pension fund.
So I think I know who I would prefer.
As for Hughes, he was useless at Fulham as well, and Brighton Albion knocked out his Man City in the Cup at Withdean of all places, long before he was useless at QPR as well. |  | | |
| Stoke City Chairman on 15:01 - Feb 24 with 1717 views | Konk |
| Stoke City Chairman on 12:01 - Feb 24 by Hayesender |
I wonder how much above the living wage his company pays their peasants, sorry staff? |
I've got no idea what he pays his staff. Be interested to know if you've got that information to hand. Largest private employer in an area of high unemployment, though, 2,500-odd jobs - and I daresay most of those jobs could have been offshored. I've no idea what the people of Stoke think of the Coates family, but I'm sure there are a lot of families glad they've invested their money and efforts in the area either in terms of work or the football club. I don't know much about the bloke or his business, but he's invested in his (struggling) hometown at a time when there's not much else positive going on, so I reckon he's probably held in reasonably high regard locally.
By way of contrast, how many people do you think will feel even a twinge of sadness when Philip Green dies?
EDIT: Sounds like he's just not forgotten his roots to me - what a w anker:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/02/stoke-city-peter-coates-private [Post edited 24 Feb 2017 15:22]
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