MysticalDescent said:Oh dear. There are some real lost souls on here. Some things:
1) Rory Delap is Stoke's best central midfielder. Presumably some of you are judging him on his ability to bore everyone to death by perpetually playing the ball back to his own centre-backs, but the guy has genuine management potential. I'll wager he'll make a finer boss than that tactically impotent carpet salesman you've got at the minute.
2) Nobody's giddy about drawing against Man City. Last minute equalisers are great no matter who they're against, but now that the dust has settled there's rather a lot of disappointment that we didn't kill you off when we had the chance. We should have been at least 4 goals to the good at half time and it should have been a famous Stoke victory.
3) Tippy-tappy is not entertaining. Goalscoring opportunities are entertaining. Goalscoring opportunities do not come from keeping the ball in your own half. Spain won trophies playing tedium-ball, but Germany were far better to watch. Stop lying to yourselves.
And you expect us to take you seriously with a statement like that. You clown.
When Pulis, or the genius, waiting in the wings manager Delap, lead their respective teams to a higher league position than Mancini, then come back to us. Until then, take your 1 dimensional football and play it where it belongs, on the Sunday morning pitches up and down this country.
BTW. You may have had 4 chances, but you failed to covert any of them. That's why over the course of a season, your style of football and your players will never finish anywhere near us.