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At least today dispelled any lingering hopes that Djenepo is some sort of Mane-esque talisman we can all hang our hats on to steer us clear relegation. He's got a bit about him but he won't be saving us.

Yeah tbf i thoughtt she was looking quite trim today. Quite fit really. I would.

We are ****. Total and utter ****. Before today you might have pointed to the quality of opposition as the prime reason for our failure to win at home all season (if you ignored the fact we played Bournemouth). No more after today. We are a flat out **** football team and it's all about trying to avoid our worst ever points total from here on in.

Watched he last 10 minutes. We are ****ing awful. Norwich last night were miles, miles better.

Exactly how I see it panning out if we go down, which we probably will. When you're lumbered with a load of sh!t players on big money and get relegated you are ****ed, it's as simple as that. Not fully across Stoke's particular squad and circumstances but have an uncomfortable feeling our situation would be worse if we go than there's was/is.

Thanks for keeping us abreast of developments.

I hate the term ‘ball recycler’ just a polite term for talentless, unimaginative midfielder who passes sideways and backwards. I don’t ****ing want our midfielders to just ‘recycle’ the ball but we have three of the ****ers capable of little else and no alternatives so they basically have to play every game.

Eh? That was a clear and obvious a penalty.

If you want to believe that Forster and Elyounoussi being **** in the English Premier League and not **** in the Scottish Premier Premier league is all about the quality of Dave Watson and Kelvin Davis as coaches then crack on pal.

I see he scored again today in a 0 4 routing of Aberdeen. It's almost as if leaving Saints and playing for the one half decent team in a league full of otherwise utterly **** teams has reawakened the real Mo and the completely out of his depth Mo that played for us is a Mo of the past. Can't wait for him to come back - can we recall him in Jan, please let the answer be yes - and continue smashing the goals in.

Did anyone ever actually want him in? I certainly didn't. Nothing whatsoever you heard or read about the bloke inspired any sort of confidence whatsoever that he was the man to "take us to the next level" which was the reassuring claim/transparent bull**** from Kat about the search for a new owner. It's panning out pretty much as feared although I suppose if you chuck the club's worst ever result and the biggest home loss in the ENTIRE HISTORY of top flight English football into the mix there's a convincing argument to be had that it's actually turning out even worse.

3 managers in a row have failed to get the best out of this lot. Pelegrino was cr@p, Hughes was cr@p and now Hass is cr@p. Agree it’s not solely on any one but the squad is cr@p as a result of apx 8 windows in a row of poor and under investment. Any manager working in this scenario is going to struggle. If we sack him we may get another bounce - not saying we shouldn’t do this, probably should, I’m getting beyond the point of caring - but it’ll be temporary unless we invest in some quality and it’s clearly not going to happen.

Correct. He may have made some odd decisions this season but our squad is painfully inadequate and that’s the obvious problem.

Proper 5 star humiliation now. This is worse than anything I have ever witnessed from us, ever.

New manager bounce, never going to last unless we strengthened. We needed to back him, we didn’t.

Mate, it doesn’t matter who he picks we have an inadequate set of players. Boufal, Cedric, who ****ing ever. Selling all our good players, buying **** players to replace them and not having an owner interested or swilling to throw money at it are our issues.

I posted that 2 minutes ago when we were 1 nil down. Nothing I’ve seen since has changed my mind.

We’re just ****ing awful, have been for 3 seasons. Don’t look forward to games can’t even get annoyed when the inevitable happens.

Let's face it they are all liars when it suits them to be, which is most of the time.

Irritating but not worth getting annoyed for.

Don't forget it also - quite crucially - has been used to rule out goals when the ball has accidentally brushed off the hand of an attacking player in the build up. As long as those goals plus offside goals which need a microscope to establish an offside offence has been committed are ruled out then that's good enough for me. Who cares if penalties resulting from blatant dives not spotted by the ref are not cancelled out as long as there is the slightest conceivable contact between defender and attacker even if said contact was clearly manufactured by the attacker?

Yes pal!

By far and away the most likely scenario here is that Kat is trying to buy the club back from GAO because he has failed to take us to the next level like what he said he would.

Haitch out of Steps.

Sorry, but for me we are just a dreadful team at this level Ralph or no Ralph. We've taken 2 absolute batterings at home in a row. We throw goals away time and again, we create nowhere near enough chances to compensate for this, and we take nowhere near enough of those chances. We have a wafer thin squad that's going to be shown up even more when the injuries inevitably kick in. It's all about hoping there's 3 more dreadful teams than us and I'm really not sure there are this season. What a ****ing depressing state of affairs when you consider where we were pre-Puel (not saying it's his fault to be clear) and we were being openly touted as "the best of the rest".