Match Day Thread Stoke City (A) - match day comment only

1,800 tickets sold, and Stoke have slipped back below us in the table.

It’s going to be a cracking day out next Saturday @Clb74 @Miketyson2007Junior

 

Hopefully their 4-0 beating on Friday will lead into a losing patch.

 

If the 4-0 beating doesn't, the sight of @Clb74 's bare legs will certainly unsettle them

 

Stoke makes Barnsley look like Kensington.

 

A dodgy pair of fake Ralphs there.

 

11/2 against stoke get on

 

We were 7/4 in Jennings to beat Barnsley at home...I only had £14 on

 

Getting a couple of tickets for this one. A lot of my Wife's family are from Stoke and we will be spending the weekend with them.

 

Isn't the speciality of stoke a sort of potato cake that they have with egg & bacon for brekkie?

 

That is true, they know how to eat and drink up there. A few years ago I went to visit them and we saw Stoke play Palace. We were in the Pub about three hours before the game. We had five pints, as a Southern softie that is about my limit. We went into the clubhouse and had two more. By this time I was reeling all over the place. I don't remember much of the game,

 

Ask the family to get you in some bottles from Titanic Brewery …. they are FANTASTIC !!!! brewers especially their Plumb Porter a magnificent plummy dark beer

 

I will have a word with them. A Plummy dark beer sounds good.

 

It's a little expensive but worth it!

https://www.titanicbrewery.co.uk/product-category/our-beers/

 

The experiment of playing Pratley farther up than usual seemed a strange one to me and I don't think it will be repeated at Stoke. A lot of CL posters made him MOM, and I can see why, he worked his socks off to try and pressurise Barnsley, but he's 34 now and is due a rest. Maybe Bowyer knew that Barnsley were a filthy team and Pratley's physical presence was a factor. Anyway I expect one of our new signings to replace him, but have no idea which one.

 

The substitutions were a rare error by our brilliant manager last Saturday. They caused us to lose all momentum.

David Davis is very highly rated by Birmingham fans, and is a like for like replacement for Pratley.

 

Agreed

 

Timor Hamed was poor, can't help feeling that McGeady would have caused the Barnsley defence a lot more trouble.

 

Brighton fans rate him, can't see why. Davison is better in every aspect.

 

Hemed looks like he is running through treacle carrying a fifty pound weight. There is more movement in my wallet. I would have Aneke on the bench instead of him.

 

We lost our threat after the subs and that’s why we had to sit back and defend - never a good tactic with our vulnerable defence