Wolves or Stoke?

With us playing Wolves on Saturday, and Stoke at the end of October it seems a good time to look at both sides. I like to think I'm pretty well informed on both and can look beyond what many pundits and the media say. The reason being that I've lived in Wolverhampton for two years now so know a fair few Wolves fans. I've also worked in Stafford for the past year so know lots of Stoke fans and see lots of pieces in the local news on both teams.

The question I'm asking is who are the 'ugliest team' in terms of style of play?

Stoke are widely hounded by opposition managers, fans and the media for being anti-football or a rugby team, who's only tactic is to lump the ball up the pitch and kick lumps out of the opposition. Wolves on the other hand don't come in for anywhere near as much bad press or opinion as Stoke.

I personally think that Stoke are hard done by and actually play a lot of decent football. Yes they get stuck in when needed (no shame in that), but they know how to play also. Wolves on the other hand are a far less capable and more thuggish side than Stoke and more often than not resort to a physical battle.

So who is the most 'anti-football' - Wolves or Stoke?

 

Obviously Stoke!

 

Stoke. Wolves pass it about nicely sometimes. If they never had Karl Henry I don't think they would be a dirty anti-football team at all tbh

 

Much of a muchness, don't care for either of them.

 

Yeah, personally I think Wolves rely on their physical approach to survive.

Stoke, whilst they use an aggressive strategy (espec against the technical teams), they have some good, quick techinical players (Etherington etc) who add a bit of flair to their play.

 

i'd go for wolves but they both play physical just stoke have a bit more about them than wolves

but then again they play to their strengths if they tried to play attractive football with the players they have they'd be relegated

 

nothing to choose from

 

Concurred

 

Same really, just I really hate Stoke. Although, I really can't stand Mick McCarthy

 

Stoke play to their stregnths, which is vey good physical strikers, and a solid defence. Their weakness is a ****e midfield, so they just skip that part out.

Wolves just kick people, and so lay **** football.

 

Neither, they both actually go out for a win every game. Much rather those two in the Premiership than Bolton or Everton who don't even play with a striker

 

Wolves for me

Stoke deploy physical tactics

They also play to their strengths which is the long ball

They are also quite successful, remind me a bit of elephant head's Bolton

Wolves don't have any tactics, Mick just tells them to kick lumps out opposition

How so many people can vote Wolves i don't know

This might sound extreme but it would be a Stoke type team who would beat Barca

Barca would just eat and sh1t Wolves

 

I think Wolves play some OK stuff, they are quite a dirty team.

Stoke on the other hand are as anti-football as it gets.

 

Stoke don't play football. They just sit behind the ball and pummel you with FK's and thrown ins

 

This, Wolves have some good footballers (O'Hara, Jarvis etc) but Henry for example lets them down.

 

Great signature

 

So Stoke don't have any 'good footballers'?

Does anyone on here read league tables or do they just hate for no reason?

Oh and O'Hara and Jarvis are crap, bad example

 

What does the league table have to do with how good the football is? That's just points, however they're gained.

Who would you cite as a better example?

 

We weren't talking about 'football', we were talking about 'footballers'

Stoke are well disciplined team, who look like they're going be around for quite a while

And would give any team (including the current champions) problems at home

Wolves are just, well......crap

I'm struggling to think of any 'good footballers' at Wolves, i like Elokobi but he's hardly world class

 

Stoke are a better side but I just hate watching them, it isnt remotely entertaining, whereas I think Wolves are at least trying. Not to say Stoke havent done very well, and their tactics are effective (especially at home).