Looking for their third coach of the season
They’ve sacked Pelach after just 3 months

I think our ex player, Jonathan Walters, now Sporting Director there, could do with taking a look in the mirror at some point.

wilks_bfc wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 27, 2024 7:52 pm

Looking for their third coach of the season
They’ve sacked Pelach after just 3 months

I hope they take their time on finding a replacement. I don't want any bouncing before the 2nd of January.

Funny if Eustace gets it.

ksrclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 27, 2024 7:56 pm

I think our ex player, Jonathan Walters, now Sporting Director there, could do with taking a look in the mirror at some point.

The chairman should be looking in his mirror and replacing him. He clearly got it horribly wrong with the Pelach appointment.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 27, 2024 8:09 pm

The chairman should be looking in his mirror and replacing him. He clearly got it horribly wrong with the Pelach appointment.

Always seemed very strange to take the Norwich first team coach after sacking Schumacher.

The Coates family had a reputation for running the club well but it hasn't seemed that way for a while now.

ksrclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 27, 2024 8:12 pm

Always seemed very strange to take the Norwich first team coach after sacking Schumacher.

The Coates family had a reputation for running the club well but it hasn't seemed that way for a while now.

Really strange decision I thought

Commentator last night said the owners had instructed the manager that they wanted to get the ball forward quicker. What is the point in taking on someone who might play a different way to what you want.

Commy wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 27, 2024 8:26 pm

Commentator last night said the owners had instructed the manager that they wanted to get the ball forward quicker. What is the point in taking on someone who might play a different way to what you want.

It happened at Burnley for certain in 2010 when Brian laws was told by a director to play 4-4-2.

ksrclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 27, 2024 7:56 pm

I think our ex player, Jonathan Walters, now Sporting Director there, could do with taking a look in the mirror at some point.

He’s a good lad to have in the dressing room, though.

Let’s hope they don’t have this sorted come New Year’s Day !

The Shire Claret wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 27, 2024 9:18 pm

Let’s hope they don’t have this sorted come New Year’s Day !

Agree, see my reply further up.

Early odds from Sky Bet

At 3/1 Mark Robins looks a good punt.

In fairness some good candidates on that listl

With Stoke and West Brom both in the market for a manager it would be very surprising if Mark Robins is without a club come the new year

There's Millwall too of course but they will more likely need to look elsewhere

I have to say that some of the players need to take some responsibility for their current situation. The lack of effort from some of them against Leeds was disgraceful.

I thought Robins would go to WBA, not sure now

Alex Neil for Millwall

Roy Keane likes Jon Walters, maybe he'll finally end up back in management!!

Joke city

Coates are total pocket liners with Denise the worst of the lot.They are worth millions yet spend 0 on team improvement

Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 28, 2024 8:03 am

Coates are total pocket liners with Denise the worst of the lot.They are worth millions yet spend 0 on team improvement

They're constrained by FFP surely though

Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 28, 2024 8:03 am

Coates are total pocket liners with Denise the worst of the lot.They are worth millions yet spend 0 on team improvement

You really know nothing dont you. Whilst I dont know them well I can tell you with 100% certainty that Peter would have done anything for Stoke City. And while not as interested in the football Denise not only loves the club but the town as well. You can call her for making money from gambling but she really doesn’t need the money the football club generates as the first female self made billionairess.

Hopefully this means they play with more confidence against us and won't park the bus with a new manager in charge.

That'll give us a better chance of winning.

Spijed wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 28, 2024 8:53 am

Hopefully this means they play with more confidence against us and won't park the bus with a new manager in charge.

That'll give us a better chance of winning.

Very unlikely. They have all seen how to get a point at ours and what happens if you don't do it.

What has happened at Stoke over the last few years? Seems a bit like Man U where regardless of which manager goes in they seem to have problems.

Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 28, 2024 8:03 am

Coates are total pocket liners with Denise the worst of the lot.They are worth millions yet spend 0 on team improvement

They are buggered by FFP rules to be fair. They had some breathing space in the summer before 23/24 season and spent £24 million and hopes were high of a good season but it turned out to be money wasted and another mid-table season and after that expenditure they're back under the constraints of FFP. They need to sell a couple of players but it wasn't helped summer just gone where a potential profitable sale of Tyrese Campbell didn't happen due to him being out of contract and signing for Sheff Utd on a free.

The Stoke owners certainly have money to pump into the club but their hands are tied.

Stoke is rapidly becoming a very difficult club to manage.
I live in the Potteries, and the locals aren't happy. Walters appears to be destroying the club with his huge ego, despite having none of the skills/experience of a proper DOF.
He didn't exactly pull up trees at Fleetwood.
Apparently he sacked Schumacher who questioned the quality of players Walters was bringing to the club, and appointed a yes man who also has no experience, which has gone catastrophically badly. Obviously he won't take any responsibility for the failure.
The current Stoke chairman John Coates is regarded as the member of the Coates family with zero business acumen.
If they're not careful they could drop down to League One.
No matter what the reservations some have about our ownership, we have to be thankful we're not run by someone so misguided that a figure like Walters is given such massive control of the club.

Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 28, 2024 8:03 am

Coates are total pocket liners with Denise the worst of the lot.They are worth millions yet spend 0 on team improvement

Nothing could be further from truth

If Coates are so good for Stoke how have they managed to ruin the playing side?.Appointing a director of football with questionable man management skills and sacking managers for fun doesn't help.

The Coates family are in the process of pumping millions into upgrading their training centre.

They will be constrained by FFP on the playing side but to suggest they are poor custodians or pocket liners is utterly bonkers.

I think one of Denise Coates’s charities is directly linked with a home in Burnley for youngsters with psychological problems .

Stoke were the worst team I've seen in the Championship this season against Leeds on Thursday.

Truly dreadful. Leeds laboured to be honest, but should have won by four or five.

Stonehouse wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 28, 2024 6:00 pm

I think one of Denise Coates’s charities is directly linked with a home in Burnley for youngsters with psychological problems .

A couple of years ago her helicopter landed at Burnley Golf Club. I believe she was visiting said home. Polite, unassuming woman.

dougcollins wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 28, 2024 6:06 pm

Stoke were the worst team I've seen in the Championship this season against Leeds on Thursday.

Truly dreadful. Leeds laboured to be honest, but should have won by four or five.

I'm surprised you saw much if you looked at the game on TV. Half the time half the pitch was not visible at all because of fog/mist!

But I agree, it was the most one sided Championship match I've seen this season.

I said after we played them Pelach didn’t have long left. The complete lack of any fight after we went ahead was telling.

Stonehouse wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 28, 2024 6:00 pm

I think one of Denise Coates’s charities is directly linked with a home in Burnley for youngsters with psychological problems .

Nice little tax evasion for her then whilst her business cripples the lives of tens of thousands up and down the land.

CoolClaret wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 29, 2024 11:33 am

Nice little tax evasion for her then whilst her business cripples the lives of tens of thousands up and down the land.

Are you sure it's tax evasion?

While I’m not usually in the business of defending billionaires, but isn’t Denise Coates one of the biggest individual UK taxpayers?

And they beat Sunderland today.

It's a funny old game.

I thought they played well although a draw would have been a fair result. However, good news for us!

Appointed Mark Robins. Decent appointment.

Seems to happen a lot to us where teams get new managers in just before they play us

The Shire Claret wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 01, 2025 9:22 am

Seems to happen a lot to us where teams get new managers in just before they play us

He won’t be in charge of the game today.

RVclaret wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 01, 2025 9:28 am

He won’t be in charge of the game today.

No but he will be watching and their players will know it.

I still think we win but just gives them an extra boost