Match Day Thread Stoke v Hull City

Not sure I agree with taking risks terry
More we need to be solid I would say!


GRANT MCCANN WANTS TO SEE MORE FROM HIS HULL CITY PLAYERS AHEAD OF THE FINAL TEN GAMES OF THE SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP CAMPAIGN.
Saturday’s home defeat to Leeds United extended to the Tigers’ frustrating winless run to ten league fixtures, leaving them four places and four points above the relegation places in the second tier table.

The importance of the next four games – against Stoke City, Charlton Athletic, Birmingham City and Middlesbrough – is not lost on McCann and the Tigers’ Head Coach pointed to the improvements required from his side as they look to end their poor run of form.

“The run we’ve been on hasn’t been great but we need to see more – more energy, more reactions, more tempo in our play and taking more risks,” he said.

“We spoke about this during the week, we’ve become a bit safe. It’s trying to get that no-fear factor into the group. I’ve been a player, I know what it’s like when you lose games, you start doubting everything, yourself, your own performance and where can I find this and that, but you need to find it.

“The only person who can find a performance is you, individually. It’s tough and we’re working towards getting our confidence back.

“We need to find a way. It’s very easy to hide behind things and we won’t do that. It hasn’t been a good time at the minute but we have to keep going and we have to keep fighting.

“We’ve no time for people feeling sorry for themselves, that’s what I’ve said to the boys. If you feel sorry for yourself, come and tell me and you can get yourself back home or play in the 23s. That’s not going to be an issue with this group.

“We have to keep strong, keep fighting, keep working and believing in what we’re doing. We need to make sure we’re ready for the next run of games – starting with Saturday’s trip to Stoke.”


got to get a point out of this

 

HULL CITY SUPPORTERS ARE ADVISED THAT THERE WILL BE NO FACILITY TO PAY ON THE DAY WHEN THE TIGERS TAKE ON STOKE CITY AT THE BET365 STADIUM ON SATURDAY (KO 3PM).
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Is this tonight??

 

It's Chazz marking his territory before the waifs and strays try to muscle onto his patch.

 

We’re actually only 3 points outside the bottom 3. I expect we’ll be deep in the **** come FT at Stoke.

GMc ‘We’ve become a bit safe’

No Grant, we’ve become a bit ****.

 

Famous people include Frank Bough, and Edward Smith, Captain of the Titanic, and Reginald Mitchell, the chief designer of the Spitfire. William Clowes and Hugh Bourne, the founders of Primitive Methodism and also Josiah Wedgewood, although it's not clear when Clowes and Bourne founded him.

Local delicacy is the oatcake, which imaginatively is a cake made of erm, oats.

The club were originally formed under the name Stoke Ramblers in 1863, but 15 years later they merged with Stoke Victoria Cricket Club and became Stoke Football Club. In 1925, when Stoke-on-Trent was granted "city status" their name changed again, this time to Stoke City Football Club.

Stoke is a suburb of Port Vale.

Stoke is the oldest club in the Premier League, and is considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world - after Notts County.

Sir Stanley Matthews holds the record for the oldest ever player to feature in England's top division. His appearance for Stoke City against Fulham in February 1965 came shortly after his 50th birthday, which in some ways means he was older than the world's second oldest football club.

In 1891 the Football League decided that only one club could use one style of strip and Sunderland were allowed to take red and white stripes. Between 1891 and 1908 Stoke used a variety of kits, with plain maroon being most common.

During the close season of 1967 Stoke City played in the one-off United Soccer Association, which imported clubs from Europe and South America. Stoke played as the Cleveland Stokers and finished as runners-up in the Eastern Division.

Father Elijah Smith took off his cassock to play for the Potters in the 1880s.The half-back, who was in charge of a church in Stoke, starred in the club's first ever league win, over Notts County

Stoke are responsible for the penalty kick. The Potters were knocked out of the FA Cup by Notts County in 1891.They were piling on the pressure in search of an equaliser when Notts defender Jack Hendry punched away a goal-bound shot.Stoke were given a free-kick but the opponents stacked 11 men on their own line and blocked any shot.Referee John Lewis thought this wasn't fair so campaigned to introduce the penalty kick when he became a football legislator.

And responsible for injury time.
In 1891 the penalty was a new rule when, on October 24 of that year, Stoke had fought back from 3-0 down to trail Aston Villa by a single goal at the Victoria Ground.The Potters were awarded a last-minute spot-kick and chance to level when a Villa player picked up the ball and booted it out of the ground.The referee blew for full-time before it was returned.The rules were soon changed to allow time to be added, but initially only if penalties were to be taken.

Striker Archie Maxwell broke Stoke's transfer record when he joined from Darwen in 1896 for a set of wrought iron gates.

Manager in 1896, Bill Rowley sold himself to Leicester.

In 1905, goal keeper Jack Hobbs left Stoke after an argument over bonus payments. He returned as a ringer playing for Port Vale, and infuriated the crowd by wearing a Stoke shirt under his top. The Police had to remove him from the fans who were carrying him to the river.

Star 1920s and 30s midfielder Harry Sellars once woke up in a Middlesbrough hotel and switched on the light in time to see a rat dart across the room with his dentures in its mouth.What's more, Stoke returned to the same hotel two years later and Sellars was presented with the nashers. They had been discovered by workmen who were refurbishing the room

 

Stoke is made up of 6 towns each with their own town hall.

6 towns being Hanley, Burslem, Fenton, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall.

Nicknamed ‘The Potteries’

 

Trust no one!

 

Stoke is a **** hole. Only fact you need to know. FACT.

6 Town **** Tip - **** all, City (The real one) - 3

 

That first goal was superb. Such a shame. And as for that dirty **** Cahill...grrr...

 

Bollocks!

 

McCann is saying things I'd expect if we were mid-table and had just lost a couple of recent games.
The actual situation we are in is much worse than that.

 

Come on Terry. Is that the best you can do ? The team talks must be dynamite. Safe eh ! Players finding it in themselves ? You have spoke about it. What about taking some of the blame yourself and relieving the pressure on the players. **** team selection, favouritism, poor substitutions, poor formations that doesn’t suit the personnel. What bollocks he talks.

 

An apology to the fans for the feeble performances wouldn’t go amiss either.

 

Yep.

34 new cases of Covid-19 today alone...


Allams OUT

 

Port Vale is in Burslem. What a toilet that is.!!

 

Too right Chazz but he is now coming across as an arrogant person. Resistant to change. My way or on your way. That type of person is not given to apologies. However he is an excellent manager to represent the Allam way.

 

Who, unfortunately, know nothing about football

 

It's pretty rank, if memory serves me correctly.