22/23 The Official Stoke v Swansea Match Thread

[Bluenile]

Utter shite substitutions. Took the man of the match off. Get out of our club you clueless feckwit!

 

[bakajack]

I don't understand RM's substitutions.

We took off Oli who was the best player on the pitch.

Piroe was clearly exhausted and made a number of tired passes in the last 15 minutes and we kept him on when we brought in two exciting attacking players on loan who are meant to be able to change the game.

Does someone need to tell RM that we can make 5 substitutions this season?

 

[Allergic2Hoof]

Sick to death of this. Its almost as if he is happy with losing games and shhit performances as long as we continue to play "his way". The substitute choices were trash as well. He's drilled this crap into players who can't handle it and it's a system and style of play which is flawed.

This guy is a fraud

 

[lidojack]

1 win in 14.
Dropped points from winning positions in 5 of those.

I wonder if he'll blame the fans again.

 

[Fireboy]

Utter lack of bottle in this team.
Stems straight from the manager.

Lack of bottle? FFS what a pathetic comment.

If you offered a point before the game would you have taken it?

Look at the positives, we have unearthed another prospective star in oli, it looks like oba isn't going and we got a point away against a side who beat a side who beat us 3 nil.

Onwards and upwards

 

[MrSwerve]

Even if we'd managed to scrape the 1 nil, we could have just as easily conceded 3 or 4 in the first half - our defensive play is suicidal.

RM will undoubtably still be smiling in his press conference.

 

[Copamundial]

Curtis absolute legend as a player but talked absolute Horlicks tonight.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Frustrating result but a more encouraging performance. Enjoyed the game too.

 

[Exeterjack]

Stoke had 20 attempts at goal..... that is a lot. It was coming.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Fair play taking our most adventures player off was another Martin masterstroke too

 

[Jackmore]

The substitutions were certainly gash but the equaliser stemmed from Fisher not hoofing it upfield in the 89th when he should have done

 

[MrSwerve]

It does show though that our players can actually play decent when we aren't f*cking around - but it's been drilled in to them so hard that we always revert to Martinball and end up f*cking it up somehow.

 

[Pegojack]

As I said at half time, no mental strength. When that looping high ball came in to the back post, there were two Swans players there and one Stoke. Who wins the ball? The Stoke player, of course.
FFS, jump into him, impede him, barge him, do SOMETHING!

 

[JonTheJack]

Utter lack of bottle in this team.
Stems straight from the manager.

Lack of bottle? FFS what a pathetic comment.

If you offered a point before the game would you have taken it?

Look at the positives, we have unearthed another prospective star in oli, it looks like oba isn't going and we got a point away against a side who beat a side who beat us 3 nil.

Onwards and upwards

Context is everything.

This cannot continue or we are down.

 

[JackFish]

We did play pretty well tonight even if we did look vulnerable at the back as usual. One win in seven isn't great, but I'm also a bit concerned that all the teams we've played so far are down the bottom half too except for Blackburn.