The Wizards of Drivel - Stoke City Podcast

Stoke are brushed aside at The King Power, and The Wizards are left to chew over another underwhelming display. Chris takes the defeat badly, getting as 'Hughes Out' as he's ever been. We attempt to analyse what is going wrong and what can be done to address it with the return of 'Hughesnight'.

Also, we have our Oatcake Thread of the Week courtesy of Stoke's newest American fan, our listener question reveals Chris' lack of knowledge about the Pulis/Beattie headbutt incident and Julien Ngoy's stock rises ever further.

Finally - we have launched a patreon to help the pod continue next season. Please go to https://wizardsofdrivel.com/2017/04/01/patreon/ to find out about that.

The Wizards go slightly insane in the absence of a Stoke game. So there is chat on: Ireland v Wales, Shaq's mysteriously healing hammy, In-ger-lund, filling the bet365, the sesh with Saido, holidays with Stoke players, Giannelli Imbula and The Temple of Doom, roughly an hour of Lord of the Rings chat, a quiz and a vague attempt at a Leicester preview.

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Stoke suffer late heartbreak as this season's champions take a step towards the title. Dave is joined by Zach and Tom to dissect that performance, as well as talking Primark mannequins, Ngoy on Twitter and dressing room music choices.

We've also got @StamfordChidge from The Chelsea FanCast giving a Blues' perspective on yesterday, @scfcjase sends in some concerns about strikers and we have our first ever 'Oatcake Thread of the Week'.

That's not all though. Dave speaks to King Fut founder Mohammed Seif about how Ramadona's Stoke career is going down in Egypt, and there's also a conversation with Mike from Inspired Film and Video about a planned 1992/93 documentary.

We have a new website - wizardsofdrivel.com - so get on that for everything #wodpod related. Goooarn Stoke.

For the first ever time in the Wizards' completely original new show idea, Dave and Ben are joined in the studio by prolific Stoke City 'artist', Joe Barbieri.

The unlikely trio discuss Joe's favourite five Stoke games of all time as well as his inductee into the Wizards of Drivel Hall of Fame and his all-time favourite Stoke kit.

If you don't know who Joe is you will certainly recognise some of his design work, Mr Barbieri has worked of our podcast, Duck magazine, the Bear Pit TV and even Stoke City FC themselves. What a hero.

The club's fixtures against Manchester City in the past week were also discussed at around the halfway point in the show.

You can see Joe's work on his Twitter @jbdotco or follow Dave and Ben @davidcowlishaw @bajcartwright

Stoke beat Boro 2-0 and it's our Egyptian wonderkid who has Dave, Chris and Ben purring. There's praise for Ramadan and Hughes' men as we make light work of a lacklustre Boro side. Thanks to @PhilSpenc23 for his Boro insights

In addition, we celebrate Stoke reaching the FA Youth Cup Semi and look ahead it to with The City Watch Podcast. Also, Aff's new contract, and our favourite footballer tweets of all time.

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The Wizards dissect a 4-0 defeat to Spurs...again.

An emotional pod meet in Sheffield to discuss Stoke's capitulation at White Hart Lane. We try to find the positives despite there being a shower of negatives.

Also, we have our listener question of the week - what was your 15 minutes of football fame? Plus Coates on Question Time, Ranieri and we open 'The Hate Locker' ahead of Middlesbrough.

Thanks to producer Dan for having us. To be honest, we prefer Skype to talking face to face.

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How can the fans create a better atmosphere?

What would your ideal first XI be?

Will we ever see a Potteries derby again?

Do you have your Oatcake with cheese?

What was your first ever Stoke City game?

Who were you sad to see leave?

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The answer’s in Wizards 43

Who would you support if we ceased to exist?

Who can replace N’Zonzi?

Is the Premier League as good as it was?

What’s the worst Stoke win you’ve seen?

Who would win in Anchorman style brawl…

Between us and The Bear Pit TV?

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The answer’s in Wizards 43

STOKE WIN!

The Wizards digest a good result (if not the best game) as Stoke win 1-0 at home to Palace, with Joe Allen proving once again why finishing is his best attribute.

There's praise for Ramadan, Bruno and plenty more. David has bought a Stoke shirt and guess who's name is on the back? We wonder if Palace will go down, mourn the loss of our scoreboard and grow tired of the latest instalment of the Hughes/Pulis saga.

Then, David speaks to former Stoke striker Andy Cooke about his time at the club - promotion, Pulis and more besides.

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It's a bumper episode of #WODPOD this week.

We have the usual post-game analysis, with Ben Rowley, Chris Brammer and David Cowlishaw digesting a defeat at West Brom. Look at our facebook page for the best argued 'Hughes In' correpsondence ever

Also, we chat to Martyn Cooke about an academic paper published on the early history of Stoke City, Pete Smith from The Sentinel talks about covering the club for the local paper, and a hero from our promotion season - Leon Cort - talks about his time at Stoke City.

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Literally moments after the final whistle at the bet365, the Wizards discuss a 1-1 draw at Everton that included Peter Crouch reaching his Premier League century.

In a short, editing-issues-effected podcast, we also bemoan a dour second half and Arnie not sticking the ball in the net.

Also, there's a collective sadness about El Petit Geni moving to Germany.

We'll be back with a longer, happier and hopefully better all round show at the weekend!