View Full Version : Anthony Stokes (F free agent b.1988)
seanfhear
15/09/2020, 9:25 AM
Would he be of any use to a League of Ireland Team ? ?
John83
15/09/2020, 10:24 AM
Would he be of any use to a League of Ireland Team ? ?
Probably. Probably more hassle than he's worth though, and he might view it as beneath him.
Diggs246
15/09/2020, 10:45 AM
A violent thug, towards women as well as men, a open supporter of the real IRA
I don't care if he was Bergkamp, I wouldn't have wanted him in a million years
Bielsa´s irish
15/09/2020, 12:22 PM
where is him at now? I always liked him as a footballer. Trapp and Tardelli were a terrible choice for Ireland specially after the Henry hand, check the stats and the players at disposal at the time.
He played players that were worse than other ones. Didnt rate Delap, Hoolahan and a few more. And what he did to Stephen Reid....mama mia, everyday an italiano charlatan.
He was finished once Liam Brady left . And for Euro 2012 he was very lucky to qualify. The game in Russia we were terrible if not for Given and Dunne. Terrible
on trial at Rovers.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/anthony-stokes-set-to-play-in-shamrock-rovers-trial-game-as-stephen-bradley-mulls-contract-offer-40567033.html
Did you mean to post this in the Nathan Collins thread btw?
(I was wondering were Rovers offering €10m for Stokes, or were you being smart and counting pennies :) )
apologies! not sure how that happened. i did find the stokes thread... probably had both open.
edit: ah i think you mean john83, thought i had posted in the wrong place.
seanfhear
22/06/2021, 4:51 PM
on trial at Rovers.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/anthony-stokes-set-to-play-in-shamrock-rovers-trial-game-as-stephen-bradley-mulls-contract-offer-40567033.html
Is that a legal trial ?
Eminence Grise
22/06/2021, 6:25 PM
Who was the last Irish player to attract an 8 figure transfer fee?
Is that a legal trial ?
In fairness, my first thought was that John meant a bail fee...
tommy_c12000
22/06/2021, 10:53 PM
Saw he played in trial game today vs Cabinteely. As did Zefi who scored…when is Zefi moving to Inter Milan?!
Diggs246
23/06/2021, 8:30 PM
His final club will surely be mounjoy fc
NeverFeltBetter
16/09/2022, 10:29 PM
Arrest warrant issued when he failed to make a court appearance: https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2022/0916/1323885-uk-arrest-warrant-issued-for-anthony-stokes/
Fixer82
16/09/2022, 11:03 PM
He’s a wrong ‘un
pineapple stu
07/01/2023, 7:53 AM
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/10023529/celtic-striker-anthony-stokes-charged-suspected-cocaine/
Named as the player arrested after a car chase in Crumlin yesterday with four grand's worth of cocaine on him.
Is anyone really surprised?
liamoo11
07/01/2023, 9:46 AM
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/10023529/celtic-striker-anthony-stokes-charged-suspected-cocaine/
Named as the player arrested after a car chase in Crumlin yesterday with four grand's worth of cocaine on him.
Is anyone really surprised?
I'm not surprised, he always lacked real acceleration
Diggs246
07/01/2023, 10:39 AM
Why isn't he in jail in Scotland? (For assaulting his ex.) An arrest warrant was issued
After this process ends please extradite to Scotland.
Eirambler
07/01/2023, 11:59 AM
I think Hamilton Sheriff Court are still looking for him for that, but he's stayed out of the jurisdiction and he's probably not their highest priority. They were mad to let him go a few months ago when they had their hands on him. This will probably take precedence now though, potentially a spell in the Joy coming up for Anto here.
pineapple stu
07/01/2023, 12:20 PM
Only 34 too. A couple of months older than Coleman. If he'd kept his head down, he could actually be a decent squad member today in a position we're really stuck in.
the 12 th man
06/10/2023, 5:07 PM
Here we go again,due to be sent down and a non appearance in Court in Scotland,Police hunt for him.
https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/police-hunt-ex-republic-ireland-27852126
seanfhear
06/10/2023, 6:40 PM
Here we go again,due to be sent down and a non appearance in Court in Scotland,Police hunt for him.
https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/police-hunt-ex-republic-ireland-27852126All the same ~ ~ He is still in demand ~ ~ Someone looking for him ~ ~ To give him a home ! !
the 12 th man
06/10/2023, 7:13 PM
All the same ~ ~ He is still in demand ~ ~ Someone looking for him ~ ~ To give him a home ! !
There's a good few charges pending over here as well over his escapades with Gardai the last couple of times he was back here.
seanfhear
06/10/2023, 7:19 PM
There's a good few charges pending over here as well over his escapades with Gardai the last couple of times he was back here.
He's elusive at the moment.
Eminence Grise
06/10/2023, 7:38 PM
From a wand of a foot to HMP Wandsworth. Left wing to D wing. Inside forward to ... just inside.
SkStu
07/10/2023, 12:19 AM
“Oh, release the little boll*x in D wing,
Get him out of here I hear them sing”
Could be remastered soon…
Fixer82
10/10/2023, 8:50 AM
He's a dope!
Eirambler
15/03/2024, 10:09 PM
Confirmed.
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Stokes is back at Livingston.
Well, actually it's a prison just outside Livingston.
He could probably do a job for the prison XI if he can get through a game without his teammates battering the life out of him.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/anthony-stokes-jailed-girlfriend-celtic-32367067?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target
seanfhear
15/03/2024, 10:14 PM
In demand, and at the Kings pleasure !
tetsujin1979
20/09/2024, 6:31 PM
Trying to set a new high score on grand theft auto
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/ex-ireland-footballer-anthony-stokes-caught-with-3700-of-cocaine-in-sock-after-160kmh-chase-while-drink-driving/a1756264360.html
Eirambler
20/09/2024, 7:45 PM
Stokes should be living in a gated mansion somewhere by now with the talent he had, putting his feet up, playing a bit of golf and doing some TV work on the side. Instead this is his life, what a waste of ability.
seanfhear
20/09/2024, 8:13 PM
Stokes always lacked a bit of Speed when he was playing !
Stuttgart88
21/09/2024, 7:41 PM
Trying to set a new high score on grand theft auto
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/ex-ireland-footballer-anthony-stokes-caught-with-3700-of-cocaine-in-sock-after-160kmh-chase-while-drink-driving/a1756264360.htmlI saw this lad play for Arsenal in the FA Youth Cup Final v Liverpool over a decade ago. He was brilliant on the night but never quite made it.
https://www.skysports.com/amp/football/news/36621/13217660/jay-emmanuel-thomas-former-arsenal-ipswich-and-aberdeen-forward-charged-over-gbp600-000-drugs-seizure
Similar outcome.
Are the cases connected? Were they contemporaries at Arsenal?
Eirambler
21/09/2024, 9:08 PM
JET's a couple of years younger so probably not, but interesting that they were both at Arsenal at the time and both ended up at multiple Scottish teams. Footballers who don't quite make it or end up falling below their expected potential seem to be vulnerable to this kind of thing unfortunately.
elatedscum
22/09/2024, 1:01 AM
Stokes should be living in a gated mansion somewhere by now with the talent he had, putting his feet up, playing a bit of golf and doing some TV work on the side. Instead this is his life, what a waste of ability.
So much talent. No excuse not to have the same Ireland career as Shane Long. Long was the better athlete but Stokes as a footballer was just technically insane.
I played against him when he was 17 and home for Christmas from Arsenal and he was just unbelievable. He was a bit older than me but he was just unbelievable.
By comparison, I also played against Jack Byrne when he was home from City at 17 and the difference was huge. Jack was a lovely footballer, but Anto was jaw dropping. He just everything technically. He wasn’t the quickest but on his first summer home from Sunderland, he worked with a sprinting coach who really got way more pace out of him, to the point where Sunderland hired him to come over from Ireland and work with their whole squad.
It’s funny comparing those two. I was friends with Anto’s girlfriend (she was with him before he left for Arsenal until some point at Sunderland) and you’d hear from other girls who knew them both that he was very openly cheating on her as a teenager in front of her friends.
Later, I’d say maybe around 2009 I became good friends with a lad I was playing with who was on the same Ireland underage team with him, so I ended up going out a few times with Anto on a night out around those next few years - and I genuinely couldn’t believe what he was like. Taking coke openly, whipping his dick out on the dance floor. Just generally being an idiot. Such a waste…
Some people never change. Meanwhile, Jack was such a hot head as a teen. He had a free header at the back post with an open goal - so I gave him a slight shove. Just enough for him to mishead it over the bar. But he almost went into the post. He turned around and grabbed me by the throat and he went to punch, he didn’t swing a dig but he was pulled back before he could - and it was for something that was basically an accident. I was speaking to him after it and he was saying City had devised a light system for him (if he coaches said green, he could do what he wanted, orange and he had to calm down, red and he couldn’t make a tackle or engage with anyone it all. I played him in a semi final of a preseason cup and sure enough, he got a straight red in the final. Whereas you look at him now, and he generally seems really calm and whenever I’ve met him, a lovely humble lad…
Eirambler
22/09/2024, 5:33 AM
Later, I’d say maybe around 2009 I became good friends with a lad I was playing with who was on the same Ireland underage team with him, so I ended up going out a few times with Anto on a night out around those next few years - and I genuinely couldn’t believe what he was like. Taking coke openly, whipping his dick out on the dance floor. Just generally being an idiot. Such a waste…
Some of the stories I heard, from people who would know, about his time at Hibs were pretty shocking. Just unbelievably poor behaviour around the club, with the other senior players trying to manage him in relation to his dealings with the younger squad members. But he was basically out of control in terms of gambling and possibly other issues at that point. But he was still the main reason why Hibs won the Scottish Cup in 2016, for the first time in over a century.
The general feeling is that he didn't really care at Hibs, didn't want to be there and thought he was too good for the club. So in a lot of games he didn't really try. But, because the cup final that year was against Rangers, he played out of his skin on the day and was near unplayable. A ridiculous talent, but he completely wasted it.
Stuttgart88
22/09/2024, 10:08 AM
JET's a couple of years younger so probably not, but interesting that they were both at Arsenal at the time and both ended up at multiple Scottish teams. Footballers who don't quite make it or end up falling below their expected potential seem to be vulnerable to this kind of thing unfortunately.
Exactly. Just look at Adam Idah and Liam Scales :)
Eminence Grise
08/10/2024, 5:21 PM
Not the contract we expected when he was the young great hope... handed 15 months for possession (https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2024/1008/1474267-anthony-stokes/) today.
I was going to make a joke that with time off for good behaviour it'll be like all his contracts - he won't see it through to the end - but there's something terribly sad about seeing such a waste of talent and thinking about what might have been.
John83
08/10/2024, 5:36 PM
Yeah. Let's just hope he gets his **** together, for his own sake.
Dermobohs
10/10/2024, 8:33 AM
He won’t be getting anything together, nasty piece of work who treats others badly, and seems to have no social conscience at all. Many more visits inside to come . Dosent ever seem to learn from mistakes, and dosent honestly deserve the amount of re starts he’s had.
I like how the thread title is "Free Agent" :D
John83
10/10/2024, 2:19 PM
I might have been amused to change it to "HM Prison Service" in my youth, but it feels like punching down now.
pineapple stu
10/10/2024, 2:23 PM
Is he on the right wing or B wing now?
https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2024/1114/1480975-anthony-stokes-appeal/
His jail sentence got overturned/suspended.
Eirambler
14/11/2024, 6:19 PM
Seriously what do you have to do to actually serve time in Ireland, it's a joke. I'm sure the judge is right and he'll have learnt his lesson and won't do anything bad ever again...
Just like the housing crisis we've got an accommodation issue when it comes to prisons also. We've a bed capacity of 4,514 and in July the number of prisoners stood at 5,015.
geysir
14/11/2024, 6:40 PM
From the linked article
'Gardaí said he was "fully cooperative" and "a pleasure to deal with" :)
Judge Jonathan Dunphy said there were "exceptional circumstances", and he noted Stokes was now drug-free.
He described him as "someone who has a lot to offer once he sorts out his difficulties," but he warned the 36-year-old that breaching the order would trigger a lengthy sentence.'
It has to be his last chance, even Houdini ran out of lives.
Eirambler
14/11/2024, 6:58 PM
I'd say as long as he continues to be "a pleasure to deal with" following his arrests, and he doesn't physically kill anyone, he'll probably be fine.
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