Stoke City Post Match Thoughts

[gru]

No width today as usual.

[CAMiller]

No width today as usual.

Never mind the quality.......

[flourbasher]

Feel a bit sorry for Clucas and Morrison.
They were streets ahead of all our other players.
At least they gave it a go. Problem is that only 2 out of 10 outfielders at the required standard leads to one outcome

I was just willing us to win a free kick in the same spot as they did to see if Cafu could show us what he can do. Their defence was too good for us so go for plan B and win a free kick.

[Derbymiller]

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

Feel a bit sorry for Clucas and Morrison.
They were streets ahead of all our other players.
At least they gave it a go. Problem is that only 2 out of 10 outfielders at the required standard leads to one outcome

I was just willing us to win a free kick in the same spot as they did to see if Cafu could show us what he can do. Their defence was too good for us so go for plan B and win a free kick.

We never gave their centre backs anything to worry about, never put them under pressure. We should be hitting the channels for nombe one of the fastest players in the league before they get time to settle, then midfield doing the runs. Rathbone doesn't have the brains for the runs, Christ is a defensive midfielder and clucas doesn't have the legs. We lack pace in the midfield, because the best attacking midfielder is playing CB

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

I remember a time when a player would sell his granny to pull on a Millers shirt and then run his *******s off for the cause.

But now?

[Lolmorgan]

Can I sue Rotherham Utd for Pneumonia.I’m getting too old to be sitting in the cold with out the excitement of goal mouth action.Wish I’d gone to Grimsby,Fish & Chips & a 5-5 game now that’s what I call entertainment.Us today relegation written all over it. Now 200mins with out a shot on goal.

[frogmiller]

I can usually find something positive in every game. There were so many things wrong with today that I can’t.

I’ll not slag anyone off or denounce the team or club!

What I will say is that it’s still not over but it’s less likely that we’ll survive !

[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

[mellowmiller]

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

He may well do that but he surrounds himself with yes men who are so out of touch with what is needed in the modern game that we will never progress as a club in the way that sawmiller describes.
We are stuck in a time warp and going round in ever-decreasing circles.