Stoke think a lot of themselves


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Aye, true enough. I pity any poor sods who've suffered more than we have. :lol:

We've certainly been through it!! Stoke have always had a decent core support,that's why I don't begrudge them anything.They have a few delusional fans,but doesn't every club?Still,they need something to be happy about,Stoke makes Sunderland look like Beverley Hills!!!
 
I rather hope this is the last Stoke thread. We're beginning to sound obsessed and rather sad. I've steered clear. But, if this the last one then:

A) They've done brilliantly to establish themselves in the Premiership and to now be in the position to buy some big name international players. Their ground has become a fortress, most intimidating atmosphere in the league (sadly something Sunderland club officials care not so much about, which is why our noisiest section remains tucked in a corner and away fans get the benefit of an end).

B) Going against that, they play a brand of football most fans of the game dislike - cynical, unlikeable, aggressive, unattractive. Which perhaps suits the city itself. On the odd occasions I've been there, it's not been a great experience. Went to the Premier League of Darts there once. Like a meathead recruitment rally. Had half the crowd singing No Surrender once. I'm no IRA sympathiser, but at a darts match?! Sunderland, culturally, is Berlin at the height of the Weimar Republic in comparison.
 
Quote "I am hoping after a season in the grim surroundings of Wearside, Bendtner might come down to earth, become a better team player and we can get him during next summer's transfer window."

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Went to Stoke for a s'land game when I was student at Nottingham. I hitched up and arrived at midday - spent 2 hours walking through what I then thought was the most awful, bombed out, derelict pre-historic industrial wasteland I'd ever seen in my life (I've never been to Middlesborough) - to this day I cannot think of a more horrible place.

I remember going in incognito to the grandstand with the ordinary stokies and they were full of praise for our supporters - "real fans " someone said- this was circa1979.

After the match saw a huge mob of ragged stokies ramapaging through their post- holocaust wasteland looking for any stray lads.
 
Went to Stoke for a s'land game when I was student at Nottingham. I hitched up and arrived at midday - spent 2 hours walking through what I then thought was the most awful, bombed out, derelict pre-historic industrial wasteland I'd ever seen in my life (I've never been to Middlesborough) - to this day I cannot think of a more horrible place.

I remember going in incognito to the grandstand with the ordinary stokies and they were full of praise for our supporters - "real fans " someone said- this was circa1979.

After the match saw a huge mob of ragged stokies ramapaging through their post- holocaust wasteland looking for any stray lads.

It's a rough old town,always has been.My step-brother went to university there,he doesn't have anything good to say about it!
 
:lol: Some people are so insecure on here. We always whinge when Wenger moans about our physicality and style of football.

Its not the type of passing that makes football entertaining to watch, its the pace of it. Barcelona play short passing football but I find them boring as fuck to watch mostly.
 
They have a thread on that board arguing about why they can't hit their record attendance of 50k. I recall 10k of us down there in the 70's for an FA Cup match, they must have loads of games where the 'local' opposition brought numbers? They also reckon if they can get the Muslims along everything will be okay attendance wise, delusional at best , mental at worst:) . In a place bigger than Sunderland they argue geography as a reason for their shit crowsd. Well Stoke fans, we have the Mags/Scotland to the North, the North sea to the east, Cumbria AKA moors and sheep to the west and Boro/Leeds to the south.! I doubt Pulis would even take his cap off at a funeral & this is deinfetly his last throw of the dice, he's hardly planning for the future, can't stand how they let all their goings on get muted about (Cahill, Johnson what utter bollocks), should keep it in house.

I rather hope this is the last Stoke thread. We're beginning to sound obsessed and rather sad. I've steered clear. But, if this the last one then:

A) They've done brilliantly to establish themselves in the Premiership and to now be in the position to buy some big name international players. Their ground has become a fortress, most intimidating atmosphere in the league (sadly something Sunderland club officials care not so much about, which is why our noisiest section remains tucked in a corner and away fans get the benefit of an end).

B) Going against that, they play a brand of football most fans of the game dislike - cynical, unlikeable, aggressive, unattractive. Which perhaps suits the city itself. On the odd occasions I've been there, it's not been a great experience. Went to the Premier League of Darts there once. Like a meathead recruitment rally. Had half the crowd singing No Surrender once. I'm no IRA sympathiser, but at a darts match?! Sunderland, culturally, is Berlin at the height of the Weimar Republic in comparison.


I honestly can't see any building blocks in place for the future, it's as if they except this is a big season for them and fuck the future.
 
When a teams best player is Jon Walters and their best mode of attack is Rory Delaps throw-ins, you deserve to be kicked out the league. End of.
 
When a teams best player is Jon Walters and their best mode of attack is Rory Delaps throw-ins, you deserve to be kicked out the league. End of.

That's a good point. I actually don't mind Walters, lets see if he gets a game next season & Delap also.
 
That's a good point. I actually don't mind Walters, lets see if he gets a game next season & Delap also.

Walters IMO is our best buy i think he cost us 3 million very hard worker for the team strong and quick can also play on the wing. Delap has been very good tough tackler and a good throw coming to the end of his career now. Shotton will take over the long throws. Pulis has strengthened the areas we need by bringing in Palacios, Jerome, Crouch. Hopefully we will be back in for Cahill in the Jan uary transfer window.
 
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