Stoke City Post Match Thoughts

[mellowmiller]

Mid table L1 side on a good day - trouble is we're in the league above - though not for much longer. We need a good few years in L1 to rebuild and add professionalism to everything we do/how we are structured. My mate is an Argyle fan and they spent a fair bit of time developing a robust, professional approach to recruitment at all levels, youth development including loan players (Whittaker being one of those) - an assistant that has experience and far reaching contacts regarding good youth prospects and now a manager who worked with some of the best young players at national level. We have so much work to do if we want/hope to emulate this kind of professionalism - so much of what we do can come across as 'hit and miss' and amateurish - we need a robust 'root and branch' set of changes to begin to be viewed as a club that can hope to hold its own at this level - we're a long way off that right now

And none of that will happen with an autocrat as an owner.
Front and centre when things are going well, invisible when they aren't.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

And none of that will happen with an autocrat as an owner.
Front and centre when things are going well, invisible when they aren't.

But the only one ( as far as we know) that puts money into the club