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Post by mark71 on Feb 11, 2010 23:13:27 GMT
Just to get you in the mood.
Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide. When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me.
Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day; Earth’s joys grow dim; its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see; O Thou who changest not, abide with me.
followed by the national anthem ;D
We could do with a pottermouth battle cry.
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Post by DannyStokie on Feb 11, 2010 23:19:58 GMT
I'm porper looking forward to it, should be a buzzing day.
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Post by londonjamie on Feb 11, 2010 23:20:01 GMT
Cheers Jamie. Invisible K. M Don't mention it. It's worth reading twice. Let's see if he lives up to it on Sat....
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Post by scfcmacca on Feb 11, 2010 23:27:47 GMT
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Post by march4 on Feb 11, 2010 23:43:00 GMT
Still brings a lump to the throat.
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Post by StatesideStokie on Feb 12, 2010 0:57:45 GMT
Just to get you in the mood. Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide. When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me. Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day; Earth’s joys grow dim; its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see; O Thou who changest not, abide with me. followed by the national anthem ;D We could do with a pottermouth battle cry. Just brought a tear to my eye reading that, imagining masses of singing Stokie's at Wembley, like a sea of Red n White and following it up with a massive roar of...... GOOOOOOAAAAAAARN STOKE!
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 12, 2010 1:01:46 GMT
I bet tabloid Tony hasn't got cup fever.
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Post by mark71 on Feb 12, 2010 1:19:48 GMT
Usually I'm quite reserved on our chances before a game but I've just got a feeling about this one. I don't know where it's come from or why I'm so confident but I just think this is going to be our year.
I Just can't get the thought of walking off the tube, under the bridge then up Wembley Way out of my mind.
As I've said I feel really, really confident
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 12, 2010 1:46:35 GMT
I Just can't get the thought of walking off the tube, under the bridge then up Wembley Way out of my mind. I don't want to piss on your bonfire BUT, er, have you forgotten it's Stoke we support??
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Post by mark71 on Feb 12, 2010 1:55:10 GMT
Come on Joe, as the saying goes; All the good things come to those who wait. we've waited long enough so this will be our year. Anyway it'll give you a good excuse to come back over here ;D
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 12, 2010 2:02:26 GMT
Well yes of course. I might need help getting a ticket though (ahem)
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Post by StatesideStokie on Feb 12, 2010 4:24:58 GMT
Well yes of course. I might need help getting a ticket though (ahem) You and me both mate, but I'm sure we'll find a way should the impossible happen!
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 12, 2010 4:36:56 GMT
Stateside, we'll be the two people who get interviewed on telly before the game who have travelled miles but can't get a ticket. And everyone will laugh their bollox off at us as well!
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Post by StatesideStokie on Feb 12, 2010 4:55:32 GMT
Remember the Liverpool / Everton final in the mid eighties? Loads of scousers climbing up the side of Wembley stadium and crawling in through any hole they could find?
You up for it? lol
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Post by soicowboy2 on Feb 12, 2010 5:44:43 GMT
Man Citeh are very beatable on the day, they're not as good as the media make them out to be. We have a great fighting spirit about us since the turn of the year and this is a one off game. TP even put 4 strikers on for the end of the Wigan game so he has the mindset to "go for it" on the day. Would love to see us go for them and really make a game of it, I fancy us sneaking it at the end after that it's any one of 8 teams One of 3 teams unbeaten in the country at home this season. Not really 'very beatable'. Away yes, but we'll do well to get anything at all
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Post by ColonelMustard on Feb 12, 2010 8:09:52 GMT
Would love to see us go for them and really make a game of it, I fancy us sneaking it at the end after that it's any one of 8 teams One of 3 teams unbeaten in the country at home this season. Not really 'very beatable'. Away yes, but we'll do well to get anything at all We've been well beaten there twice. I'm so bloody excited it's daft but it hasn't changed from being a really really big ask. I cannot believe how excited I am but it's a lot more hope than expectation. I don't know what I'm going to do till five piggin thirty.
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Post by soicowboy2 on Feb 12, 2010 8:17:00 GMT
One positive is that both visits to Eastlands we've had spells and should have scored. Tevez is on fire at the moment but they have the quality to turn an average permormance into a convincing win which they did v Bolton.
Really don't see us getting anything though. Apart from Chelsea I don't think we could have got a more difficult game
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Post by stokecitytalke on Feb 12, 2010 8:19:37 GMT
I'm really up for this one. I was day dreaming today about what it would be like to watch Stoke in the F.A. cup final. I've got to be honest it brought a tear to my eye... and a lump to my trousers ;D Could you imagine it, the motorway is awash in a sea of Red and White, walking up wemberleeeeeey way, singing abide with me, Tony leading the team out. Fuller smashing the winner. I'd die I really would die if we got to the final, let alone won it. If Fuller smashed the winner he'd get sent off!! ;D
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Feb 12, 2010 8:20:37 GMT
One of 3 teams unbeaten in the country at home this season. Not really 'very beatable'. Away yes, but we'll do well to get anything at all We've been well beaten there twice. I'm so bloody excited it's daft but it hasn't changed from being a really really big ask. I cannot believe how excited I am but it's a lot more hope than expectation. I don't know what I'm going to do till five piggin thirty. You're planning to arrive 15 minutes after kick off, colonel? ;D
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Post by redblue on Feb 12, 2010 8:27:22 GMT
Have'nt been to the New Wembley yet, and said the first time I go will be with Stoke.
So come on Lads I really want to go!
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Post by ColonelMustard on Feb 12, 2010 8:32:23 GMT
We've been well beaten there twice. I'm so bloody excited it's daft but it hasn't changed from being a really really big ask. I cannot believe how excited I am but it's a lot more hope than expectation. I don't know what I'm going to do till five piggin thirty. You're planning to arrive 15 minutes after kick off, colonel? ;D That's a bit better. Not even going to the game fornside. It's the Dartmouth Arms unfortunately. If I was going the game then then the traveling and hour or two in the pub fills up the day nicely.
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Post by antwilkes123 on Feb 12, 2010 13:03:40 GMT
Great clip of '72 final, brought back wonderful memories for me. Along with promotion to the Prem', the best day for me as a Stoke fan. Would love to go to new Wembley and start a new run of never being beaten at Wembley. Also great for new generation of Stoke fans to feel the joy of winning a Wembley cup final. I know we won the Autoglass (twice!) but for me the League Cup was our big one. The F.A cup would be even better.
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Post by londonjamie on Feb 12, 2010 13:27:30 GMT
You're planning to arrive 15 minutes after kick off, colonel? ;D That's a bit better. Not even going to the game fornside. It's the Dartmouth Arms unfortunately. If I was going the game then then the traveling and hour or two in the pub fills up the day nicely. Alas, me too, colonel....
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Post by wakefieldstokie on Feb 12, 2010 13:38:17 GMT
I'm quietly confident of winning, but this talk of going for it makes me think it will be a 0v0 bore draw :-(
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Post by lordb on Feb 12, 2010 13:40:33 GMT
IS this the most positive thread ever?
time for a Pottermouth rallying cry?
logic dictates a probable (but by no means inevitable) narrow defeat. however thers is something in the air (& I dont mean the ball...) we can all feel it.
we are going to win,its our year.
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Post by ColonelMustard on Feb 12, 2010 14:02:32 GMT
That's a bit better. Not even going to the game fornside. It's the Dartmouth Arms unfortunately. If I was going the game then then the traveling and hour or two in the pub fills up the day nicely. Alas, me too, colonel.... See you there, I'm going to try not to start too early though. Hoping for a decent turnout despite it being on terrestrial.
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Post by mark71 on Feb 12, 2010 14:28:39 GMT
I'm even more confidant than last night now I've read Triffic Tony's interview in the Sentinel.
Were going to do it, we really are going to do it.
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Post by tsm on Feb 12, 2010 14:50:38 GMT
I've got a promise on a plane and final ticket should we make it all the way (thanks Dad, hehehe).
I think beating Arsenal in the last round has got us all convinced we can go all the way...... PLIBT!
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Post by Staying up for Grandadstokey on Feb 12, 2010 14:59:22 GMT
All of you who have posted - you make me feel proud to be a Stoke fan. Also brings back the joy and the tears of being so close yet so far back in the 70's. It's funny but I'm both glad for the younger supporters and sorry at the same time that they didn't have to go through two consecutive semi-final defeats. We were never beaten at old Wembley - lets keep that tradition going in new Wembley! All very true , never been so devastated at a match in my life as when Arsenal courtesy of Pat Partridge equalised at Hillsborough, and for us to be robbed again the following year was hard to take. However the good times are back, I'm sure we will "Give it a go" tomorrow and if we get past this round ,who knows?, as you say we have a 100% record at Wembley.(Including Chelsea.)
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Post by louis on Feb 12, 2010 22:07:00 GMT
Still brings a lump to the throat. Was at the match in 1972 as a 13 year old cant remember much about it and after watching that clip didnt realise Peter Dobing was the Rory Delap of the day.
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