Sjoke

[Dreamkiller]

Stoke’s failures recently can be rectified by a competent manager. Whether some of their fans like it or not Mick McCarthy or Pulis would drag them out the shit and give them some fight, energy and credibility back. They are way past another trendy young manager with a  almost literally pointless philosophy.

Jones' 'philosophy' took Luton to a play-off then a promotion then another promotion in successive seasons. From Luton's perspective it was hardly pointless. Pulis has a philosophy every bit as much as Jones has. Neither philosophy guarantees success.

And this was Jones' problem in a nutshell. He believed that his philosophy would guarantee success because it happened at Luton. "There's no problem with the system, it's tried and tested"

And he was very convincing. He came with a definite idea of exactly what he wanted. Then the players he brought in were almost the polar opposite of what he said he was looking for. It was very odd. Everything about our club is very odd.