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Post by elystokie on Feb 26, 2014 15:48:03 GMT
At various stages, Palace, Sunderland, Swansea, Norwich and West Ham have all looked like they could be this year's crisis relegation team. Today it looks like West Brom, but the law of averages says they'll get a couple of good results just like the others above. Whose turn is next? Stoke, probably, if we lose to Arsenal and Norwich. I have a feeling of doom at the bottom of my stomach about our last game of the season. Ever since the late 1980s, it's as if our run of good luck against West Brom has stretched and stretched and stretched and stretched and stretched, all the way to the moon, and it's now reached the point that the elastic eventually has to break, and it's going to snap in the most horrific way imaginable, with ghost memories of Mark Stein and Bob Taylor and Ricardo Fuller and Scott Carson tumbling all the way back to earth and landing at The Hawthorns to conspire against us as we toil in vain for the rare away win we need to survive. Playing them in a relegation decider on the last day of the season, at a time when there's a complacent feeling among some Stokies that we may be too good to go down, is fate's way of punching us in the face in the most spectacular way possible. Well I don't know about anyone else but that's just cheered me right up!
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 26, 2014 15:48:19 GMT
Pieters and Cameron are only liabilities because the manager has been happy for them to keep fucking off out of their positions. Doesn't matter how well you play if you keep conceding goals as a result. That said, this hasn't been as evident since The Shit onwards so I'm hopeful it will turn round. I was referring to Cameron and Wilson myself but there you go.
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Post by onionman on Feb 26, 2014 15:53:56 GMT
At various stages, Palace, Sunderland, Swansea, Norwich and West Ham have all looked like they could be this year's crisis relegation team. Today it looks like West Brom, but the law of averages says they'll get a couple of good results just like the others above. Whose turn is next? Stoke, probably, if we lose to Arsenal and Norwich. I have a feeling of doom at the bottom of my stomach about our last game of the season. Ever since the late 1980s, it's as if our run of good luck against West Brom has stretched and stretched and stretched and stretched and stretched, all the way to the moon, and it's now reached the point that the elastic eventually has to break, and it's going to snap in the most horrific way imaginable, with ghost memories of Mark Stein and Bob Taylor and Ricardo Fuller and Scott Carson tumbling all the way back to earth and landing at The Hawthorns to conspire against us as we toil in vain for the rare away win we need to survive. Playing them in a relegation decider on the last day of the season, at a time when there's a complacent feeling among some Stokies that we may be too good to go down, is fate's way of punching us in the face in the most spectacular way possible. Well I don't know about anyone else but that's just cheered me right up! Sorry mate! I actually think we'll be ok. But weirdly that makes me anxious fate will come and bite us in the way we might not expect. But now that I've said I expect that to happen, I think it's actually less likely to happen. I'm doing a bit of reverse psychology on fate. Hopefully this post won't mess that up.
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Post by mcf on Feb 26, 2014 16:02:31 GMT
Pieters and Cameron are only liabilities because the manager has been happy for them to keep fucking off out of their positions. Doesn't matter how well you play if you keep conceding goals as a result. That said, this hasn't been as evident since The Shit onwards so I'm hopeful it will turn round. I was referring to Cameron and Wilson myself but there you go. Don't worry mate, I knew full well who you were on about
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 26, 2014 17:14:17 GMT
At various stages, Palace, Sunderland, Swansea, Norwich and West Ham have all looked like they could be this year's crisis relegation team. Today it looks like West Brom, but the law of averages says they'll get a couple of good results just like the others above. Whose turn is next? Stoke, probably, if we lose to Arsenal and Norwich. I have a feeling of doom at the bottom of my stomach about our last game of the season. Ever since the late 1980s, it's as if our run of good luck against West Brom has stretched and stretched and stretched and stretched and stretched, all the way to the moon, and it's now reached the point that the elastic eventually has to break, and it's going to snap in the most horrific way imaginable, with ghost memories of Mark Stein and Bob Taylor and Ricardo Fuller and Scott Carson tumbling all the way back to earth and landing at The Hawthorns to conspire against us as we toil in vain for the rare away win we need to survive. Playing them in a relegation decider on the last day of the season, at a time when there's a complacent feeling among some Stokies that we may be too good to go down, is fate's way of punching us in the face in the most spectacular way possible. My thoughts exactly Onionman except I have a feeling that we will go into the game and it will be a case of either us or Palace to survive. We haven't lost to WBA since Noah was a lad but you just know that we will go into the game needed something out of it to stay up and for the first time in an eternity they will beat us just when we need to beat them more than ever before. Crystal Palace will then survive at our expense. It would be so very typically Stoke and whilst I think we have more than enough to stay up, this sad and predictable chain of events has been at the forefront of my mind since the minute Pulis turned up at Crystal Palace.
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Post by onionman on Feb 26, 2014 17:36:15 GMT
At various stages, Palace, Sunderland, Swansea, Norwich and West Ham have all looked like they could be this year's crisis relegation team. Today it looks like West Brom, but the law of averages says they'll get a couple of good results just like the others above. Whose turn is next? Stoke, probably, if we lose to Arsenal and Norwich. I have a feeling of doom at the bottom of my stomach about our last game of the season. Ever since the late 1980s, it's as if our run of good luck against West Brom has stretched and stretched and stretched and stretched and stretched, all the way to the moon, and it's now reached the point that the elastic eventually has to break, and it's going to snap in the most horrific way imaginable, with ghost memories of Mark Stein and Bob Taylor and Ricardo Fuller and Scott Carson tumbling all the way back to earth and landing at The Hawthorns to conspire against us as we toil in vain for the rare away win we need to survive. Playing them in a relegation decider on the last day of the season, at a time when there's a complacent feeling among some Stokies that we may be too good to go down, is fate's way of punching us in the face in the most spectacular way possible. My thoughts exactly Onionman except I have a feeling that we will go into the game and it will be a case of either us or Palace to survive. We haven't lost to WBA since Noah was a lad but you just know that we will go into the game needed something out of it to stay up and for the first time in an eternity they will beat us just when we need to beat them more than ever before. Crystal Palace will then survive at our expense. It would be so very typically Stoke and whilst I think we have more than enough to stay up, this sad and predictable chain of events has been at the forefront of my mind since the minute Pulis turned up at Crystal Palace. I picture the scene like a silent movie. There's no commentary, but it doesn't matter because the desperation on the faces of the players tells you everything you need to know. Jon Walters biting his lips as he looks forlornly at the skies after smashing a one-on-one straight at the keeper; Peter Crouch despondently wiping the sweat from his hair after the keeper claws his tame header out from under the crossbar; Marc Wilson with a mixture of disappointment and embarrassment on his face after giving away the killer goal; Ryan Shawcross sitting alone on the floor at the end with tears in his eyes; Asmir Begovic glumly waving one last goodbye to the away end; Steven Nzonzi swearing in French at the angry Stoke fans as he stomps towards the now-Championship Stoke dressing room. It's like a bad dream. I think my subconscious mind has blurred the highlights of previous harrowing events I've seen on TV, like England's defeat to Poland in 1973, with real life events I've been at, like the relegation defeat at home to Man City in 1998, with today's real players, and come up with that unpleasant concoction above.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Feb 26, 2014 17:43:26 GMT
At various stages, Palace, Sunderland, Swansea, Norwich and West Ham have all looked like they could be this year's crisis relegation team. Today it looks like West Brom, but the law of averages says they'll get a couple of good results just like the others above. Whose turn is next? Stoke, probably, if we lose to Arsenal and Norwich. I have a feeling of doom at the bottom of my stomach about our last game of the season. Ever since the late 1980s, it's as if our run of good luck against West Brom has stretched and stretched and stretched and stretched and stretched, all the way to the moon, and it's now reached the point that the elastic eventually has to break, and it's going to snap in the most horrific way imaginable, with ghost memories of Mark Stein and Bob Taylor and Ricardo Fuller and Scott Carson tumbling all the way back to earth and landing at The Hawthorns to conspire against us as we toil in vain for the rare away win we need to survive. Playing them in a relegation decider on the last day of the season, at a time when there's a complacent feeling among some Stokies that we may be too good to go down, is fate's way of punching us in the face in the most spectacular way possible. My thoughts exactly Onionman except I have a feeling that we will go into the game and it will be a case of either us or Palace to survive. We haven't lost to WBA since Noah was a lad but you just know that we will go into the game needed something out of it to stay up and for the first time in an eternity they will beat us just when we need to beat them more than ever before. Crystal Palace will then survive at our expense. It would be so very typically Stoke and whilst I think we have more than enough to stay up, this sad and predictable chain of events has been at the forefront of my mind since the minute Pulis turned up at Crystal Palace. Presumably Noah was a lad on the 21st January 2012?
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Post by lordb on Feb 26, 2014 18:55:38 GMT
Can't see WBA V Stoke being a relegation decider not for Stoke anyway
we should be able to accrue the 11 points (max) that we need before then & tbh before the Fulham game.
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