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Post by mica on Feb 12, 2012 0:06:18 GMT
It's from a Roger Waters sole album wot I used to have but can't remember the name of, GD.
You can tell we've had another disastrous Stoke weekend when that's the only thing I feel like posting... ???
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Post by thegreedyzebra on Feb 12, 2012 0:08:19 GMT
Bye then.
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Post by keithy george on Feb 12, 2012 0:09:08 GMT
13th in league. 5th round of the FA Cup. Valencia in the Europa Cup. Look where we have come from, only Pulis could have got us here, no other manager could have done it, look at Charlton, if we got rid of Pulis we would get relegated. H RAF... do us a favour and fuck off mate! Your an idiot if you think that it's a full gone conclusion that we would go down without Pulis. I thought we got rid of the brain-washed happy clappers like yourself, obviously you haven't seen enough shit yet to be convinced this clueless dinosaur is out of his depth! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Olgrligm on Feb 12, 2012 2:43:13 GMT
On a similar note, I think I'm done on here for a bit. This isn't aimed at Dave's original post or at any other individual poster, but reading through this board is getting to a point of being utterly depressing.
Don't get me wrong, watching our last few games has been wank. It's been wank watching the changes come too late today, it's been wank watching us have the wind knocked out of our sails and looking desperate, a lot of things have been wank lately. I've been coming out of our games increasingly pissed off lately, but I don't mind. I can see the bigger picture. I know things will get better, that we're going to be safe and that this can still be a historic season. We're coming up to 3 of the biggest games in our history - that's a fact. I also know that Peter Coates is made of sterner stuff than some and that TP's job isn't even remotely close to being under consideration. All of that, I can cope with quite happily and I've no issue with going back every single week for more. Admittedly I don't go to a lot of away games, but I'm still more than happy to have it on the stream and watch it every week. Nothing else ever crosses my mind.
I'm afraid to say that the worst part of my matchday, by far, is coming on this board after a defeat, or even after a draw. As I said, this place is just depressing these days. The games are pretty poor fare, but some of the stuff on here is on a different level altogether. Which side is right or wrong doesn't really matter. Some people seem to be revelling in it as their moment in the sun and others are like tabloid newspapers, always keen to take the hysterical, sensationalist angle. Whatever, it doesn't matter, whatever works for them is what works for them, I suppose. The point is more that this board has turned into a joyless abyss that, for all but a couple of hours on a Saturday, is essentially a black hole. Hell, if you're not on the game and post on here during it then you don't even get a couple of hours away from it. Whether we're winning, losing or drawing the matchday thread is full of how shit we are, how shit the manager is, how much better it might be if we all entered into a suicide pact on the Britannia Stadium pitch. I'm rather labouring the point and becoming guilty of the hysterics I referred to earlier.
I'm not deleting my account, or anything as pissy as that, but a break from this place for a bit really is in order.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Feb 12, 2012 4:01:16 GMT
On a similar note, I think I'm done on here for a bit. This isn't aimed at Dave's original post or at any other individual poster, but reading through this board is getting to a point of being utterly depressing. Don't get me wrong, watching our last few games has been wank. It's been wank watching the changes come too late today, it's been wank watching us have the wind knocked out of our sails and looking desperate, a lot of things have been wank lately. I've been coming out of our games increasingly pissed off lately, but I don't mind. I can see the bigger picture. I know things will get better, that we're going to be safe and that this can still be a historic season. We're coming up to 3 of the biggest games in our history - that's a fact. I also know that Peter Coates is made of sterner stuff than some and that TP's job isn't even remotely close to being under consideration. All of that, I can cope with quite happily and I've no issue with going back every single week for more. Admittedly I don't go to a lot of away games, but I'm still more than happy to have it on the stream and watch it every week. Nothing else ever crosses my mind. I'm afraid to say that the worst part of my matchday, by far, is coming on this board after a defeat, or even after a draw. As I said, this place is just depressing these days. The games are pretty poor fare, but some of the stuff on here is on a different level altogether. Which side is right or wrong doesn't really matter. Some people seem to be revelling in it as their moment in the sun and others are like tabloid newspapers, always keen to take the hysterical, sensationalist angle. Whatever, it doesn't matter, whatever works for them is what works for them, I suppose. The point is more that this board has turned into a joyless abyss that, for all but a couple of hours on a Saturday, is essentially a black hole. Hell, if you're not on the game and post on here during it then you don't even get a couple of hours away from it. Whether we're winning, losing or drawing the matchday thread is full of how shit we are, how shit the manager is, how much better it might be if we all entered into a suicide pact on the Britannia Stadium pitch. I'm rather labouring the point and becoming guilty of the hysterics I referred to earlier. I'm not deleting my account, or anything as pissy as that, but a break from this place for a bit really is in order. Thing is MD, the message board is just a reflection of what's going on, out on the pitch, you wouldn't want to take a break from it, if we were doing okay out there. Of course it's depressing, you're surely not trying to suggest that the football we've been seeing this season isn't (depressing)? Jesus wept, we've got John Smiths Upper and Homzy suggesting tonight that TP's days could be numbered at Stoke if he doesn't turn it around in the next few games ... these aren't the posts of Jarhead or Hudsongod, far from it, these are posts from some of ordinarily his biggest supporters. They are almost certainly wrong but when the hardcore start questioning his position, it really isn't surprising that the message board is currently what it is as a whole.
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Post by Olgrligm on Feb 12, 2012 4:22:42 GMT
I don't mind what people think, people airong what they think or whatever.
For me, a defeat will usually ruin the weekend, but over the course of the week it fades and by Saturday I can't wait for another game of football. I like football, I like going to watch Stoke play. Even when we're shit, it's the highlight of my week. However, spending all week on here reading through the board and arguing about precisely how badly we're playing, a defeat in the middle of a very poor run is enough to ruin the entire week. The football on offer doesn't even come close to denting my enthusiasm for watching us play. Reading through every thread on here just leaves me feeling fed up at the minute and it frankly isn't worth it. I'd rather just go into our games with some feeling of blind optimism and try to actually enjoy some part of it, instead of feeling shit about the whole thing before it's even begun. When it goes wrong, I'll chunter about everything that was wrong for a few days - I'm not trying to bury my head in the sand here - but then get it out of my system and then move on.
Sone people are saying that our present football is stopping them from enjoying the matchday anymore. If that's what they feel then that's what they feel. For me, however, posting on this board is stopping me from enjoying things at the minute so I'm done for a bit. It's unhealthy to be checking the oatcake every 15 minutes anyway.
In short, I come on here regularly because I enjoy talking about our team. If I'm not enjoying it anymore then what's the point in coming on at all?
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Post by ColonelMustard on Feb 12, 2012 6:18:37 GMT
Not for the first time you've summed it up for me MD. I'm barely on here at the moment.
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Post by ohhgeorgieberry on Feb 12, 2012 8:41:29 GMT
I don't remember much after doing jeger bombs with bikini bird and her yank friend so how did we play
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Post by rambomcslaphappy on Feb 12, 2012 8:45:31 GMT
I've sucked pulis off and been out for dinner with him, kfc drive through, he loves a zinger tower meal with a fanta
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Post by peterthornesboots on Feb 12, 2012 8:54:29 GMT
Mass hysteria on the oatcake ... I just have to laugh at some of the comments really! ;D
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Post by elystokie on Feb 12, 2012 9:05:17 GMT
I don't remember much after doing jeger bombs with bikini bird and her yank friend so how did we play Pics or it never happened
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Post by wadder1302 on Feb 12, 2012 9:15:09 GMT
Sick of people saying ..... Look where we have come from!! Look where we wer z10 years ago !!! Fuck off !! Walters has been shit all season home and away and he still insists on picking him week in week out upon was good yesterday but pulls is right sorenson should have savd their second goal.
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Post by tazi on Feb 12, 2012 9:17:56 GMT
Some folk need a reality check.....
We've never had it so good and as for the working family tax credit, well, that's another story altogether.
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Post by tazi on Feb 12, 2012 9:19:26 GMT
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Post by RAF on Feb 12, 2012 9:24:50 GMT
13th in league. 5th round of the FA Cup. Valencia in the Europa Cup. Look where we have come from, only Pulis could have got us here, no other manager could have done it, look at Charlton, if we got rid of Pulis we would get relegated. H RAF... do us a favour and fuck off mate! Your an idiot if you think that it's a full gone conclusion that we would go down without Pulis. I thought we got rid of the brain-washed happy clappers like yourself, obviously you haven't seen enough shit yet to be convinced this clueless dinosaur is out of his depth! ;D H
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 12, 2012 9:25:16 GMT
The mood on here Mystical reflects the mood and performances of the team.
We are playing abysmally and such performances affect the mood of those that post.
I don't generally consider myself be negative and I love Stoke City with all my heart but had it not been for Europe this season, I think the Stoke City supporting life would have been sucked out of me this season.
The games are dull, joyless affairs and every game is turned into a war of attrition. We were no worse than them yesterday, I can recall them having only 3 shots at goal, but until we brought Fuller and Pennant on, we barely even tried to win the game.
When those two came on, and lets be honest, both should be starting given the form of the present first 11, we transformed ourselves. We remained direct, but we played with a tempo and a purpose that looked like it might get us back in the game.
We were probably a tad unluckly to lose given the lucky nature of their 2 goals but you can't win games by playing and attacking the opposition for 20 minutes.
I have watched worse, a whole lot worse, but as I said in the opening post, watching us at the moment, the despondancy and frustration feels no different to those feelings I had watching Brian Little's hopelessly inept team.
I have tickets for Crawley and Valencia but after those games, I am done with away games. None of my mates, lads who have watched us at all sorts of shit places each and every week, go anymore. It is too expensive, the football on offer isn't good enough and it just isn't an enjoyable experience watching Stoke City right now.
It wouldn't take much to change that but I just can't see Pulis doing anything about it. Why the hell did he take Etherington off yesterday? He wasn't playing great but he was better than Walters. He didn't look tired and he didn't look too pleased about coming off.
Why aren't we playing with two wingers, something we were lauded for last season and something which transforms our bog average side into something resembling a decent one.
Instead we switched our full-backs over to nullify the threat of Damian Fucking Duff. I despair and ultimately that despair is reflected in my post and the general atmosphere on the board right now.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2012 9:30:42 GMT
On a similar note, I think I'm done on here for a bit. This isn't aimed at Dave's original post or at any other individual poster, but reading through this board is getting to a point of being utterly depressing. Don't get me wrong, watching our last few games has been wank. It's been wank watching the changes come too late today, it's been wank watching us have the wind knocked out of our sails and looking desperate, a lot of things have been wank lately. I've been coming out of our games increasingly pissed off lately, but I don't mind. I can see the bigger picture. I know things will get better, that we're going to be safe and that this can still be a historic season. We're coming up to 3 of the biggest games in our history - that's a fact. I also know that Peter Coates is made of sterner stuff than some and that TP's job isn't even remotely close to being under consideration. All of that, I can cope with quite happily and I've no issue with going back every single week for more. Admittedly I don't go to a lot of away games, but I'm still more than happy to have it on the stream and watch it every week. Nothing else ever crosses my mind. I'm afraid to say that the worst part of my matchday, by far, is coming on this board after a defeat, or even after a draw. As I said, this place is just depressing these days. The games are pretty poor fare, but some of the stuff on here is on a different level altogether. Which side is right or wrong doesn't really matter. Some people seem to be revelling in it as their moment in the sun and others are like tabloid newspapers, always keen to take the hysterical, sensationalist angle. Whatever, it doesn't matter, whatever works for them is what works for them, I suppose. The point is more that this board has turned into a joyless abyss that, for all but a couple of hours on a Saturday, is essentially a black hole. Hell, if you're not on the game and post on here during it then you don't even get a couple of hours away from it. Whether we're winning, losing or drawing the matchday thread is full of how shit we are, how shit the manager is, how much better it might be if we all entered into a suicide pact on the Britannia Stadium pitch. I'm rather labouring the point and becoming guilty of the hysterics I referred to earlier. I'm not deleting my account, or anything as pissy as that, but a break from this place for a bit really is in order. What an excellent post. I've often thought there should be some form of posting delay on matchdays on here, just to let the more extreme views (on both sides) have a bit more time to calm down and think about it a bit more. (Cue, "I don't need more time to know that Clueless will take us down" type comment ) "I'm afraid to say that the worst part of my matchday, by far, is coming on this board after a defeat, or even after a draw." Same for me, MD. Didn't bother with it last night at all.
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Post by stan on Feb 12, 2012 9:34:26 GMT
Whilst I understand Dave's frustration (and everyone else's), it didn't escape my notice that Sunderland came to Stoke (who, as we know, are in poor form and not scoring) with seemingly no-one up front!
Everton's visit to Stoke last season saw them barely even attempt to mount an attack (with fans deriding their five in midfield, negative tactics).
Those teams were led by much coveted managers...
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Post by jamasa on Feb 12, 2012 9:36:37 GMT
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Post by drfootball on Feb 12, 2012 9:40:14 GMT
On a similar note, I think I'm done on here for a bit. This isn't aimed at Dave's original post or at any other individual poster, but reading through this board is getting to a point of being utterly depressing. Don't get me wrong, watching our last few games has been wank. It's been wank watching the changes come too late today, it's been wank watching us have the wind knocked out of our sails and looking desperate, a lot of things have been wank lately. I've been coming out of our games increasingly pissed off lately, but I don't mind. I can see the bigger picture. I know things will get better, that we're going to be safe and that this can still be a historic season. We're coming up to 3 of the biggest games in our history - that's a fact. I also know that Peter Coates is made of sterner stuff than some and that TP's job isn't even remotely close to being under consideration. All of that, I can cope with quite happily and I've no issue with going back every single week for more. Admittedly I don't go to a lot of away games, but I'm still more than happy to have it on the stream and watch it every week. Nothing else ever crosses my mind. I'm afraid to say that the worst part of my matchday, by far, is coming on this board after a defeat, or even after a draw. As I said, this place is just depressing these days. The games are pretty poor fare, but some of the stuff on here is on a different level altogether. Which side is right or wrong doesn't really matter. Some people seem to be revelling in it as their moment in the sun and others are like tabloid newspapers, always keen to take the hysterical, sensationalist angle. Whatever, it doesn't matter, whatever works for them is what works for them, I suppose. The point is more that this board has turned into a joyless abyss that, for all but a couple of hours on a Saturday, is essentially a black hole. Hell, if you're not on the game and post on here during it then you don't even get a couple of hours away from it. Whether we're winning, losing or drawing the matchday thread is full of how shit we are, how shit the manager is, how much better it might be if we all entered into a suicide pact on the Britannia Stadium pitch. I'm rather labouring the point and becoming guilty of the hysterics I referred to earlier. I'm not deleting my account, or anything as pissy as that, but a break from this place for a bit really is in order. Good god! The 1st sane post since 5pm yesterday
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Post by stayingupforbigbazza on Feb 12, 2012 11:59:13 GMT
I'm done with this shit! Call it over reaction, call me a cunt, tell me to fuck off up the Vale bUt watching us turn up for 20 mis today is the final straw! Pulis is a stubborn prick and watching this shit doesn't feelany different to watching the team we had under Brian Little. Shit is shit, no matter how you dress it up! To watch us have a go against a shit team for only 20 minutes is soul destroying! Pulis Out! can I have your season ticket ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
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Post by Old School Stokie on Feb 12, 2012 12:06:23 GMT
SCFC probably better without such fickle doubters. If we win anything ...get to a cup final they will be the ones shouting the loudest. Glory hunters, how would you be able to live if Stoke were back in Div 2. You are either a fan or not a fan....through thick and thin.
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Post by waxon on Feb 12, 2012 12:14:56 GMT
I'm done with this shit! Call it over reaction, call me a cunt, tell me to fuck off up the Vale bUt watching us turn up for 20 mis today is the final straw! Pulis is a stubborn prick and watching this shit doesn't feelany different to watching the team we had under Brian Little. Shit is shit, no matter how you dress it up! To watch us have a go against a shit team for only 20 minutes is soul destroying! Pulis Out! Spot on mate, you have finally seen the light, been going on for too long now
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Post by tazi on Feb 12, 2012 12:21:20 GMT
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Post by werrington on Feb 12, 2012 12:35:12 GMT
So this is what folk are up against when they air their grievances ? For what it's worth I don't know dj personally but when the likes of him and myself start to question attending games involving SCFC you have problems. Myself I go 90% of away game a and have travelled to Europe twice to watch MY football club but yesterday me and the lads had no longing to go and watch what we knew ( and ultimately ) saw on the pitch and I even had no urge to go to the pub and watch it. I instead watched Soccer Saturday and heard 1st hand what reporters think of us and it's hard to disagree with them. My next away will be Wigan as there is not a fucking cat in hells chance am I going to pay for that shit and watch us be like lambs to the slaughter at Chelsea and Spurs. The club will ignore the support at it's peril as folk will not pay extortionate amounts of cash to witness what's currently on show.
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Post by tazi on Feb 12, 2012 12:37:38 GMT
So this is what folk are up against when they air their grievances ? For what it's worth I don't know dj personally but when the likes of him and myself start to question attending games involving SCFC you have problems. Myself I go 90% of away game a and have travelled to Europe twice to watch MY football club but yesterday me and the lads had no longing to go and watch what we knew ( and ultimately ) saw on the pitch and I even had no urge to go to the pub and watch it. I instead watched Soccer Saturday and heard 1st hand what reporters think of us and it's hard to disagree with them. My next away will be Wigan as there is not a fucking cat in hells chance am I going to pay for that shit and watch us be like lambs to the slaughter at Chelsea and Spurs. The club will ignore the support at it's peril as folk will not pay extortionate amounts of cash to witness what's currently on show. Glory hunters are just spoiling our great game these days, and more importantly blemishing the good name of our club...
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 12, 2012 12:40:27 GMT
Werrington, you raised a crucial factor....the cost. How can people be expected to fork out lots of money when they know what they are about to see will just depress them?
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Post by tazi on Feb 12, 2012 12:44:50 GMT
Werrington, you raised a crucial factor....the cost. How can people be expected to fork out lots of money when they know what they are about to see will just depress them? Fcuking loaded that guy mate, fcuking loaded...
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Post by stokie12345 on Feb 12, 2012 12:46:01 GMT
The mood on here doesn't reflect what's happening on the pitch, it simply magnifies it. Stoke win in good run = Fucking yeeeees! Wemberley! Statue for Pulis! Stoke win = Come on! Quality! Pulis is doing amazing things for this club! Stoke lose = I'm Pulis' biggest fan, but.... Stoke lose in bad run = Fuck this, I'm off to murder someone
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Post by tazi on Feb 12, 2012 13:00:47 GMT
The mood on here doesn't reflect what's happening on the pitch, it simply magnifies it. Stoke win in good run = Fucking yeeeees! Wemberley! Statue for Pulis! Stoke win = Come on! Quality! Pulis is doing amazing things for this club! Stoke lose = I'm Pulis' biggest fan, but.... Stoke lose in bad run = Fuck this, I'm off to murder someone What a good lay you must have had last night, great post.
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