Stoke away post match thread

Monchengladbach beating Bayern 3:0 so guess it might not be just to Sevilla for us to take top spot in CL group.
 
Today was a really really poor display when will sterling ever beat a player! No heart or passion in the performance only delph who looked like he was interested
 
The manager has to be to blame for so many inept performances. We have absolutely no game plan - there is no pressing no midfielders bombing on to join attacks,

We basically put 11 players out and hope one or two of our front 4 score some goals.

Considering how much we have spent we have so many bang average players - MDM, Kolorov, Sagna, Fernando ( he is rubbish), Bony, Navas - these are all regulars in our first team.

I have given Delph and Otamendi and Sterling the benefit of the doubt as they are new, but 50 Mill for sterling was daylight robbery
 
Just got back. Don't know where to start. The lack of fight and passion was scary. We've become a real Jekyll and Hyde team once more. Losing showing some spirit and giving it a go is one thing but rolling over isn't acceptable......
 
It's embarrassing how easy it is to play through us. Our defending is all over the place, no organization and communication. Why we play a high line with Demichelis, Sagna & Kolarov is baffling. Fernando was awful on the goals, rashly going to ground and Kolarov as we know cannot defend. Going forward we have few players who want to run with the ball, take a man on and make runs in behind the defence. This ends up with us playing possession football with little incision, holding the ball for too long and players all coming deep instead of making runs ahead of play.

Still we rely on one man to organise and lead us from the back. Though if he continues to pick up numerous injuries a season we have to rethink our plans. Not many top teams have a new centre back partnership every week or two because of their main man getting injured frequently.

I feel sorry for Hart the most this season, outstanding performances yet 2 clean sheets in 11 games I think.
 
He keeps banging on about injuries, which is fair enough. However surely this is the time, to give a chance, to one of our many talented young players? They'd most certainly show, a great deal more hunger, desire, and bottle than we've been seeing from a lot of that so called first team of late. Nothing to loose, but he flat out refuses, even in the early stages of the league cup, it was pretty much full strength sides. I'd be seriously questioning my future at the club, under this manager. When you see the performances turned in by the likes of Bony, Mdm, Kolorov, Fernando amongst others. Yet you still don't get a sniff, who could blame them for Fecking off. I've stuck by him for as long as I could, but he's lost me now, some of the performances the last few weeks are indefensible. We seriously are regressing, and I agree he has lost the dressing room. Something clearly isn't right, and he clearly has no clue how to rectify it. Lost count of the times, it's been clear very early on, to every man and his dog, where the issues are in games. Only for him to leave it till it's too late. I also think for all the flack they get, certain players like Sterling and to a degree KDB, aren't helped by his methods. All too often played out of their favoured position, and pretty much, had their attributes and strengths hampered and almost coached out of them. He definitely has to go now, or in all honestly, I think we'd be lucky to make top four.
 
Interesting what Mark Hughes said post match.He was asked if he considered playing the front three he played today before.He laughed and said he had but didn't have the courage until today.That is a damning indictment of our players and tactics,he knew it would work and we wouldn't be able to cope and he was proved right. I don't know about anyone else but i am going into games these days fearing the worst,especially away from home.We are too soft and easy to get at and score against with no real threat up front with a useless Bony and a kid when Aguero is injured which he usually is.Worrying times.
 
well, we need a response, Borussia have just beaten Bayern Munich 3-1 so it'd be great to see City respond and show us some backbone
 
der bomber28 said:
He keeps banging on about injuries, which is fair enough.
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No. No it isn't. It's bullshit. We are a Club with access to the worlds riches when it comes to players. Injuries? It's the job of the manager to ensure that when they occur - because they will - he has an effective alternative in place and one who, having been gifted the opportunity through an injury to someone else, will be sufficiently motivated to never, ever have that shirt taken from him. Other than the odd exception (ie Delph) - who do you see like that? No-one. Because the players are utterly apathetic when it comes to either self-motivating and/or being motivated by the coaching staff. Time to freshen it up City.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
The players and their attitudes have certainly got a lot to answer for. The lad said most of the players just trudged off today, no acknowledgement for the support they got at the ground apart from Hart who seems to feel the pain. Too many of our players just see this club as a gravy train.
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They probably didn't acknowledge the fans as they were so embarrassed. I wouldn't be able to face the fans if I had been part of a team that produced a very poor performance. We were so poor.
 
warringtonblue said:
We have progressively gone worse under this managers time at the club, he won the league with Mancinis team
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Why Always Ste said:
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Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
awww i miss him :(
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The tealady would have had to have stayed out of his way after that performance!
 
I might be the first to say this but Stoke where excellent and its only right to say they battered us and deserved possibly more than a 2-0 scoreline.
 
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