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Reply | Julien speaks
at 12:34 27 Jan 2026
And all of the worst managers have been British!
Of course, both measures are influenced by not employing a manager from outside the British Isles before the 21st century. That is, unless I'm missing someone. |
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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 09:58 27 Jan 2026
Nourry certainly mentioned this at the fans forum & stated that we didn't rotate the players enough, but that will be rectified this season. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 09:54 27 Jan 2026
I only saw a few minutes of this match (and none of Everton - Leeds) as Monday night in our house is quiz night.
What I did see is how much Norwich have improved since beating us twice & that they used witchcraft near the end of the game. Winning 2-1 in added time & they had SIX players in the Coventry half closing down. Most teams would have withdrawn all bar one of those & try to set up shop around their own penalty area. |
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Reply | Mbenge
at 09:44 27 Jan 2026
The answer to that Myke is that we should have been able to cope with ten men for rthe remaining minutes.
However, Mbengue should not have put us in that position. There was no need to touch the Wrexham player, let alone jump into him. Put some blame on the ten that were on the pitch at the end, but please don't try to excuse him for another moment of his madness. |
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Reply | Four minutes of madness – Report
at 13:59 26 Jan 2026
It has to be a problem that we have so many different thoughts on what system we "used" to try to see out the game.
Personally, I thought Norrington-Davies moved to right back & Field to left back to keep a four. Whatever, it was meant to be, it didn't work! |
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Reply | Would a newby be a booby ? Match thread
at 20:39 24 Jan 2026
We had only made 4 subs yes, but we had used our 3 substitution windows & so we couldn't bring anyone else on. That is, unless it was a concussion sub.
Personally I thought we should have gone to 3 (3-4-1) or 5 (5-3-1) at the back after the sending off rather than keeping a 4 |
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Reply | Mbenge
at 20:21 24 Jan 2026
And I think he now has a three match suspension. One for being sent off & two for accumulating 10 cautions.
I don't know if the second one today is added to his total, making it eleven received. |
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Reply | Pure cinema, or poor am-dram? Preview
at 23:21 23 Jan 2026
I feel far more confident about the Coventry match than tomorrow!
Bus replacement & TFL line closures mean I'm really looking forward to this game! |
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Reply | Our Pitch
at 22:58 23 Jan 2026
Matches at Hanwell are quite often called off when there has been some rain. |
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Reply | Player Sales
at 10:00 22 Jan 2026
I think we owe it to Sam Field to allow him to leave unless he is going to play in at least 50% of the remaining matches.
If youth players have no part at the club if they don't make the development squad at 18 & we release them for their own good, the same consideration should be given to first team squad members who don't make the starting team. |
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Reply | And we never spoke of it again – Report
at 10:22 19 Jan 2026
I think you summed up my feelings on the game Clive.
Another decision to have a go at the referee was his refusal to start the second half until Kolli reappeared. Kick off with ten as you should do & make him wait to enter the pitch.
The very strange statistic from this game was that Stoke had only one good chance to score, while we had two or three! Perhaps Stoke should be questioning there own lack of creativity rather than moaning about Rangers.
Having said that, I disliked every minute I watched on a stream & it must have been worse for those of you in attendance. I thought it a very similar game to nearly all of our away matches this season, including the wins at Swansea & Blackburn. I can't remember what our performance was like in the win at Bristol City so I can't include that, away to Wrexham being the only away match this season that we have looked to express ourselves. |
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Reply | Stoke fans on QPR (whose side are you on?)
at 18:36 18 Jan 2026
And I was on about how that manager went against the spirit of the game with his footballing dealings off the pitch. They greatly affected how the "game should be played & the spirit it should be played in".
You can assume all you want to what I was referring to, but I'll be surprised if your close, unless you knew people that had dealings with him. Is that clear enough for you? [Post edited 18 Jan 18:49]
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Reply | Stoke fans on QPR (whose side are you on?)
at 17:43 18 Jan 2026
I'm amused that you quote the game should be played "in the right spirit" when one of your favourite managers (he might even be your actual favourite) was, IMO, the biggest scoundrel in the history of English football.
He made Hughes & Redknapp look like saints. |
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Reply | Stoke fans on QPR (whose side are you on?)
at 13:15 18 Jan 2026
My reply would be "Welcome to how we've seen Stoke play for the last 50 years!"
I don't like that over the past few seasons we've become as hard to watch as Stoke & Preston have been, but I'm certainly not having a fan of one of those clubs lecturing us about it. |
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Reply | St Oke Methodist Church Away Match Fred
at 20:10 17 Jan 2026
I struggle to remember when football was an entertainment business. Certainly not since Alf Ramsey's wingless wonders appeared! 1-0 to The Arsenal summed up most of football in the late 60's/early 70's.
Go back to a long time before I was born & they had to change the offside law from three opponents to two as sides were employing an offside trap with far better outcomes than teams have managed since.
Of course, there have been a few exceptions to the rule, notably us, West Ham & the two Manchester clubs in my youth, the Lisbon Lions from Glasgow, Brazil in 1970 & 1984, & the Ajax/Netherlands sides of 1968-1974. Newcastle under Keegan also fitted the bill.
The 21st century Barcelona are hard for me to make a decision on. They played some superb football, but everything was choreographed rather than free flowing.
Even all the teams I've mentioned always put the result above the performance though! |
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Reply | St Oke Methodist Church Away Match Fred
at 17:29 17 Jan 2026
It was an awful game to watch, but defensively we were good. We restricted Stoke to one real chance.
Did we look like creating anything or scoring? No, not until the last five minutes, where we had more attacks than in the previous 95! Overall, I thought it was on a par with the matches over Christmas/New Year apart from not looking like conceding. |
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Reply | Sunny Stoke tips
at 17:40 16 Jan 2026
That looks like the name! Good luck in doing the walk in 15 minutes though, especially the return as it's all uphill.
The only downside to parking there were the number of Stokies playing "hunt the Rangers fans" after crossing the A50. Presumably, that would have applied wherever we'd parked! |
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Reply | Team for Stoke?
at 17:34 16 Jan 2026
Was Alfie Lloyd recalled in time for him to be a sub tomorrow? |
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