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Championship - Pulis: Stoke need "drastic" changes
Eurosport - Mon, 05 May 14:43:00 2008
Stoke boss Tony Pulis is under no illusions how difficult it will be for his newly-promoted side to remain in the Premier League next season.

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The Staffordshire club returned to the top flight after a 23-year absence courtesy of a goalless home draw against Leicester on the final day of the season, as they finished as runners-up behind champions West Brom.

The gulf between the Championship and the Premier League is well documented, with promoted teams traditionally tipped to struggle.

Those sentiments have been underlined by Derby's woes this season. Their defeat at Blackburn on Saturday ensured they would go down in history as the Premier League's worst ever side, finishing with a points total lower than the miserly 15 amassed by Sunderland during the 2005-06 campaign.

Pulis said: "We already know we are going to be one of the favourites to come straight back down but I have never been relegated in my life and I don't intend to start next season.

"It is important that we start to build for next season and we know that we have to drastically alter the structure of everything at the club if we are going to have any chance of surviving."

Pulis accepts part of that structural change will involve recruiting players, and he is confident chairman Peter Coates will provide the funds he needs to strengthen Stoke's squad.

"The priority is staying up. Peter knows that and I am sure he will continue to give me his backing," said Pulis.

"He is a proper football man. He lives and breathes the game and he knows the game inside out and understands what we need to do.

"Obviously, we are going to have a bit more money to work with so I am sure we will be sitting down soon and discussing where best to use it.

"When I came back to this club, Peter said I would be able to compete and he has kept his word. Everything he said and promised he has been true to and I am sure that will continue to be the case."

TeamTalk / Eurosport
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Tom Hark Preston Park

Tom Hark Preston Park

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defrocked priest said:
Apparently, and having watched them twice this season,(they were awfull btw),the pundits have now tagged Stoke City as being the next worse. :down:

Why watch the Premier League when the better football is in the lower leagues.

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I'm sure the board of Stoke will be licking their lips as eagerly as the board of Derby were last season. There was report somewhere this week saying that promotion to the Premiership was - literally - the Richest Prize In Football. worth more than winning the Champions League for example.

OK, if you happen to over-achieve and blag a place you don't really deserve, then - hey! - you get ritually humiliated on a weekly basis. Tho on the plus side, as a supporter, you get to see some of best players on the planet in action in your shit town on a regular basis.

If you fancy yourself as a thinker, like Steve Coppell, then hte limitatioons in your thinking are going to be shown up by better football thinkers than yourself eg. it's a crap idea to play your reserve team v an under-strength ManU in the Cup, and it's a double crap idea to suspend two of the players who could just about get you out the relegation hole by suspending them for refusing to play in the reserves. And frankly with two games left in the season, putting two first team contenders including youtr record signing in the reserves is sheer f***ing madness. Madjeski needs to get rid of that boy. He has far too much of a comfort zone which has warped his focus on what matters to the fans - who are the only people who matter in all of this. Else you got an empty ground next season. Especially with Chelski 30 minutes away on the train.
 








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Tom Hark said:
... Madjeski needs to get rid of that boy. He has far too much of a comfort zone which has warped his focus on what matters to the fans - who are the only people who matter in all of this. Else you got an empty ground next season. Especially with Chelski 30 minutes away on the train.
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I don't dispute the tenor of your argument but I would defy anyone to get from Reading to Stamford Bridge in 30 minutes by train (or by car for that matter).
 


Tom Hark Preston Park

Tom Hark Preston Park

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Gwylan said:
I don't dispute the tenor of your argument but I would defy anyone to get from Reading to Stamford Bridge in 30 minutes by train (or by car for that matter).
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Well cheers for playing the devil's avocado bathroom suite on that one, but you know EXACTLY what I mean. Reading is FULL of Chelski (like Brighton is full of Arsenal) and it's EXACTLY half an hour into London from Reading on a fast train from Wales (the only kind IMHO). OK, it's into Paddington and stuff, but not that far to |Stamford Bridge by tube. Least it wasn't under 'Red' Ken. Admittedly might be a trickier journey when Buffooon Johnson has put Bob Crow's nose out of joint .Might take three hours on foot from Paddington :thumbsup:
 


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Tom Hark said:
Well cheers for playing the devil's avocado bathroom suite on that one, but you know EXACTLY what I mean. Reading is FULL of Chelski (like Brighton is full of Arsenal) and it's EXACTLY half an hour into London from Reading on a fast train from Wales (the only kind IMHO). OK, it's into Paddington and stuff, but not that far to |Stamford Bridge by tube. Least it wasn't under 'Red' Ken. Admittedly might be a trickier journey when Buffooon Johnson has put Bob Crow's nose out of joint .Might take three hours on foot from Paddington :thumbsup:
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I'm starting to get the merest hint, a slight inkling, that there is a vague chance you might possibly be leaning ever-so-slightly towards Labour.

Possibly.

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