Stoke City at home match thread

[nickolas]

Thats what happens when you play King at cb. Embarrassing we are reduced to having to play him there. Simple headed clearance for any proper cb. 
awful. Especially when stoke werent evdn in the game. 

[old_eastender]

HT 1-1

Awful first 25 mins, laboured and sloppy. Then good 15 mins, with TC hitting the post before Wells gets our goal and at that stage looking like we could get a 2nd. Then all the good work undone, by pathetic defending by King gifting them an equaliser.  So frustating, that was the only chance Stoke had all half.

[frenchred]

The bloke is not a defender, it's just the Dino picking his mate again

[Banjo Red]

God we need some big horrible knuckle dragger at the back.

[frenchred]

Just now, nickolas said:

Thats what happens when you play King at cb. Embarrassing we are reduced to having to play him there. Simple headed clearance for any proper cb. 
awful. Especially when stoke werent evdn in the game. 

We are not reduced to playing him there, our esteemed manager picks him to play there

[East Yorkshire CideRed]

Poor game management. Bad header back to O’Leary meant he ended up gifting them possession.

[Ska Junkie]

Pring in the middle and bring Jay on?

[Northern Red]

Definite sense that a few quite enjoyed the fact that King was responsible for that;

[Peter1450]

2 minutes ago, Banjo Red said:

God we need some big horrible knuckle dragger at the back.

They got Flint on the bench

[Andy082005]

1 minute ago, frenchred said:

We are not reduced to playing him there, our esteemed manager picks him to play there

Exactly right. Ridiculous decision 

Atkinson and Tanner on the bench . Even could have played DaSilva and dropped Pring in back there 

clown of a coach 

[Spike]

2 minutes ago, redkev said:

That’s not just the fault of king the whole team has been coasting the last 10 minutes mins . Casual and careless 

It's a fair comment but in that situation Max can't come without risking the pass and putting himself too close to react and King tries to let it come to him when the pace isn't there, it's solely on King that he didn't deal with it. The whole team could still be coasting but if he'd been capable of defending that situation we go in with a lead and NP could say his part about not slacking on a lead, instead he now needs to fire them up after they've given up a lead and been easily on top. Stoke will now come out with a bit between their teeth after getting fired up by a late equaliser.

[Bazooka Joe]

We're targeting Jagielka. They're targeting King.

It'll probably be the same in the second half.

So far, great goal for us and soft gifted/speculative goal for them.

[Andy082005]

1 minute ago, Northern Red said:

Definite sense that a few quite enjoyed the fact that King was responsible for that;

Not his fault. The manager has put him there 

[Redrascal2]

Losing a lead at Ashton Gate. Something's never change. After a great win away last week back to the usual shambles. 

[Malago]

Should have gone for the jugular after we scored.  Instead took the foot of the pedal and tempted fate.

This a poor Stoke side who are there for the taking if we have the balls to go full throttle.

[bexhill reds]

Just seems to be a really apathetic atmosphere which seems to be affecting the players and crowd. No intensity really from either team. Really disappointing goal to concede, King got caught out trying to be clever, and as is City’s way, the deflection off his back goes straight to Delap.

[David Brent]

2 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

Exactly right. Ridiculous decision 

Atkinson and Tanner on the bench . Even could have played DaSilva and dropped Pring in back there 

clown of a coach 

Welcome back

[Ska Junkie]

Ref seems to be letting quite a few tasty tackles go, not sure that's good or not?

[Jerseybean]

Poor half from both teams, one flash of good football from Cam = a goal, then shambolic and truly school-boy defending = 1-1 

Please, please can we start to look after the ball much better, go forward and defend properly. 

[joe jordans teeth]

3 minutes ago, Northern Red said:

Definite sense that a few quite enjoyed the fact that King was responsible for that;

That is nonsense mate,it’s a howler by a player who shouldn’t be playing there

[bexhill reds]

2 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

Exactly right. Ridiculous decision 

Atkinson and Tanner on the bench . Even could have played DaSilva and dropped Pring in back there 

clown of a coach 

Welcome back, I bet the 4 weeks without being able to unleash your negativity on here must have been unbearable

[marcofisher]

Looked ridiculously lucky from them, appeared to roll off the attackers back straight to the goalscorer’s feet. 
 

We were by far the better team and they were very fortunate to get that chance as had done nothing else. Seem some on here have missed having something to moan at for the last month. 

[Spike]

3 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

Exactly right. Ridiculous decision 

Atkinson and Tanner on the bench . Even could have played DaSilva and dropped Pring in back there 

clown of a coach 

Had he played DaSilva we wouldn't have scored the goal we did, when was the last time DaSilva cut a player apart like Pring did? 

Pring being picked over DaSilva is a good decision IMO. I think Vyner is much better in the middle and Tanner to his right as RCB should have been the starting line up but I suppose we don't get to speak to the players, we don't know what they're comfortable with etc. I do dislike having King in the middle though, he's not a natural center back at all

[joe jordans teeth]

2 minutes ago, Malago said:

Should have gone for the jugular after we scored.  Instead took the foot of the pedal and tempted fate.

This a poor Stoke side who are there for the taking if we have the balls to go full throttle.

We are not Man City or Liverpool,our full throttle is exactly what we have seen for the last 10 years 

[joe jordans teeth]

2 minutes ago, bexhill reds said:

Welcome back, I bet the 4 weeks without being able to unleash your negativity on here must have been unbearable

Surely he must of unleashed it on Southgate on another forum

[robin_unreliant]

That half was so City. Hit the post and take about a twenty minute dominant spell of hard graft to finally get a goal. Then gift one back with totally incompetent defending against a side who looked incapable of scoring.

[Ska Junkie]

Where are Rob Atkinson and Timm Klose, both injured?

[BCFC_95]

12 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

Not his fault. The manager has put him there 

Can’t blame Bentley for any of his faults. The manager has put him there 

[old_eastender]

Stoke started the 2nd half looking a bit more like a championship side

[Lanterne Rouge]

4 minutes ago, robin_unreliant said:

That half was so City. Hit the post and take about a twenty minute dominant spell of hard graft to finally get a goal. Then gift one back with totally incompetent defending against a side who looked incapable of scoring.

Twas ever thus. We`ve seen so much of it over the years.

At least this one was at HT and not FT.