Match Thread Stoke away 10th August 12:30 - Opening day! (11 Viewers)

[Darth Robins]

Need Sheaf back ASAP and another signing in CM.

And new refs.

 

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[Nick]

They are all over emc every time

 

[stupot07]

This is so poor. Could easily be 2-3 nil down. No midfield at all without Sheaf. Allen having a mare. Neither winger offering anything. We're so open, too open.

 

[luwalla]

Is this ref taking the piss

 

[Frostie]

I don't think ref has actually been all that bad but once he gives that foul by Thompson on Tats it has to be a yellow.

 

[Nick]

Poor from torp

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Perhaps I suggest the crowning of EMC being better than Wright was slightly premature

 

[SBAndy]

Always concerning when the linesman flags for a throw in rather than an offside.

 

[2024/25 League 1 Champs?]

we need to realise they are playing the same way Preston and Sheff Utd do, strong and bullying us off the ball - we always struggle against this kind of tactic and maybe need to find a way to play against big lumpy teams

maybe play them at their own game and get stuck in a bit more, although Allen and Torp are pretty lightweight

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

It is baffling Eccles isn't playing. All these new coaches, surely one of them should have had a word! Torp is getting bullied, as is Allen.

 

[Houchens Head]

Stoke all over us atm.

 

[PVA]

Eccles must have a knock, don't know how/why he's not starting otherwise

 

[The watchmaker]

Eccles must have a knock right? Right?

Edit: just beat me PVA

 

[Darth Robins]

I don't think ref has actually been all that bad but once he gives that foul by Thompson on Tats it has to be a yellow.

He booked Binks for less in the second minute, it's absolutely diabolical.

 

[Winny the Bish]

Can we bring Stamenic on now?

 

[covcity4life]

Brilliant from torp there

 

[xcraigx]

Below Oxford in the table now. We're doomed!

 

[SkyblueTexan]

We have no midfield atm..totally overrun

 

[robbiethemole]

Robins’s tactics, allow them the space and contain them, then go for it second half

 

[2024/25 League 1 Champs?]

Simms has looked up for it so far

 

[procdoc]

Oggy is right, we are not pressing enough

 

[Monty]

Makes me realise how poor Everton must be. We looked like world beaters against them

 

[2024/25 League 1 Champs?]

we need a goal to calm it down, score one and I think we’ll be much better

 

[David O'Day]

ref

 

[SBAndy]

The amount of unpunished holding going on is doing my fucking head in

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Shit ref this

 

[larry_david]

Think stokes storm is starting to die out here...

 

[2024/25 League 1 Champs?]

is this ref from Stoke?

 

[luwalla]

I don't think ref has actually been all that bad but once he gives that foul by Thompson on Tats it has to be a yellow.

He has been Terrible… player goes straight through one of ours a minute before binks got booked for a slight pull… players going through back of rudoni and we get nothing, then the guy blatantly pulls Saka back, much worse than binks, and again just gets a warning.He has no consistency at all

 

[David O'Day]

ref, may say this a lot today

 

[Evo1883]

A genuinley poor half by city , stoke niggly pulling players constantly going unpunished .. my only hope is stoke have gave it all first half and will tire ..midfield been very poor and Simms is so isolated

 

[SkyblueTexan]

Please get Allen off...we have no foothold in the game

 

[Nick]

How was that a foul? He played on then changed his mind

 

[chiefdave]

Stoke have clocked that the ref is giving them everything and falling down every chance they get now

 

[wingy]

Oggy is right, we are not pressing enough

Must be a reason?