From a stoke fan

Just like to say congrats on a brilliant season some of the goals you have scored this season have been world class i hope you get that 4th spot, just 1 question though has this season changed your view on your chairman or do you still want him out. Well done once again.

 

Thanks but we are hoping for 3rd all of a sudden.

Football is a fickle world but nobody has any complaints with MA currently, however just like all clubs if it goes wrong that can change fast.

 

I think MA is keeping well out of the way at present, however, I still have doubts that he'd sell his granny if the price was right regardless of what the fans think. It will be interesting to see the close season when they come sniffing for Tiote, Cabaye, Ba, & Krul. Here's hoping he thinks this team could be the start of something special and goes for improvements not sales.

 

Hello mate, first of all thanks very much for the kind words, they're much appreciated

Where Ashley is concerned, I think it's a case now of us tolerating him. He really has done himself no favours with the stadium fiasco this season because if that hadn't happened I really think people will have been willing to try to put things that happened in the past behind them. As it is most fans are still very wary of him. Public opinion has improved since January with the signing of Cisse as many were deathly afraid that he wasn't going to spend any money at all.

As we're doing well on the pitch his actions won't be scrutinised as strongly as if it all goes south - that may seem somewhat hypocritical but that's the nature of football. I think a good summer in the transfer market will see more fans start to come round quite a bit as there is still doubt over what he'll do. While we've by no means forgotten what's gone on in those disastrous years it's in the club's interest moving forward for everyone to be pulling in the same direction.

In short, while he's still not exactly helping himself he's very slowly getting there but still has a lot of good to do before convincing a lot of fans that he's anything other than a twat and an accident waiting to happen.

 

Ashley and Llambarse are still ****ers, but they're interests are our interests at the moment and they're doing a decent job.

 

He surely must i mean finishing in the top 6 means europe if i,m not mistaken.

 

and i would just like to say that your managers a massive **** for saying what he said about cisse's second goal against chelsea. that is all.

 

Don't know how you could say anything else about them this season.

 

Cheers

 

The guy is being gracious. He certainly didn't have to come on to our board and make the effort to congratulate us, and that's all you can come up with? No need for that man.