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Post by Titan Uranus on Aug 29, 2015 0:10:57 GMT
Dave Smudge Put this in the Oatcake Please That ...without doubt ... Is one of the greatest posts this messageboard has ever known. ... It ought to be placed alongside Robert Browning's works. Give our second greatest manager a fookin big round of applause tomorrow...please. This is from a PHW wine soaked thai fed stokie ...end STOKIES Ignore the predujice of this message board Give Tony Pulis a richly deserved welcome tomorrow.
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Post by JoeinOz on Aug 29, 2015 0:14:49 GMT
Will Tone be refunding fans the money they spent on going to Valencia?
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Aug 29, 2015 0:17:31 GMT
That ...without doubt ... Is one of the greatest posts this messageboard has ever known. ... It ought to be placed alongside Robert Browning's works. Give our second greatest manager a fookin big round of applause tomorrow...please. This is from a PHW wine soaked thai fed stokie ...end STOKIES Ignore the predujice of this message board Give Tony Pulis a richly deserved welcome tomorrow. How can a message board where membership is not vetted by dint of any opinion be prejudiced? Do explain.
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Post by pottermouth on Aug 29, 2015 0:18:39 GMT
Very grateful for what he did for Stoke but some of the worst football i've ever seen he presided over.
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Post by Titan Uranus on Aug 29, 2015 0:20:26 GMT
Will Tone be refunding fans the money they spent on going to Valencia? I thought we played quite well actually. Who got us there in the first place.
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Post by JoeinOz on Aug 29, 2015 0:22:02 GMT
Will Tone be refunding fans the money they spent on going to Valencia? I thought we played quite well actually. Who got us there in the first place. Graham Norton got us there
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Post by pottermouth on Aug 29, 2015 0:22:56 GMT
Will Tone be refunding fans the money they spent on going to Valencia? I thought we played quite well actually. Who got us there in the first place. Had a few this am?!
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Post by Titan Uranus on Aug 29, 2015 0:29:19 GMT
STOKIES Ignore the predujice of this message board Give Tony Pulis a richly deserved welcome tomorrow. How can a message board where membership is not vetted by dint of any opinion be prejudiced? Do explain. What now ? You've got more issues than the Morning Star That's foxed you. Unless you old enough. T
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Post by Titan Uranus on Aug 29, 2015 0:32:43 GMT
I thought we played quite well actually. Who got us there in the first place. Graham Norton got us there Lateral thinking
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Post by lastoftheldk on Aug 29, 2015 0:34:19 GMT
Just get behind Stoke and show your full support for your club.
Stop being a uncle tom
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Post by chamberlain on Aug 29, 2015 0:41:20 GMT
Why don't some fans understand this Vast majority DO understand that. What some, perhaps, sense is a desire by some to initiate a Tsunami of gratitude? Hence that's why I said some fans. I don't think a show of gratitude eg a round of applause as he walks to the dugout is excessive. Then as the game kicks off it he's the opposition manager
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Aug 29, 2015 0:44:20 GMT
How can a message board where membership is not vetted by dint of any opinion be prejudiced? Do explain. What now ? You've got more issues than the Morning Star That's foxed you. Unless you old enough. T And you have spouted as much shit as it ever did on this subject. I'm plenty old enough you see. A question enquiring as to how a message board is prejudiced is a statement of bewilderment not an issue.
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Post by Titan Uranus on Aug 29, 2015 0:49:06 GMT
Vast majority DO understand that. What some, perhaps, sense is a desire by some to initiate a Tsunami of gratitude? Hence that's why I said some fans. I don't think a show of gratitude eg a round of applause as he walks to the dugout is excessive. Then as the game kicks off it he's the opposition manager He (tony) needs to know that we have not forgotten or dismissed his part in our glorious rise from the ashes Regardless what the Oatcake says (He reads it )
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Post by JoeinOz on Aug 29, 2015 0:56:15 GMT
Hence that's why I said some fans. I don't think a show of gratitude eg a round of applause as he walks to the dugout is excessive. Then as the game kicks off it he's the opposition manager He (tony) needs to know that we have not forgotten or dismissed his part in our glorious rise from the ashes Regardless what the Oatcake says (He reads it ) Nobody has ever denied his role. Similarly some people never acknowledge the flaws that dragged us backwards.
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Post by Titan Uranus on Aug 29, 2015 0:58:10 GMT
What now ? You've got more issues than the Morning Star That's foxed you. Unless you old enough. T And you have spouted as much shit as it ever did on this subject. I'm plenty old enough you see. A question enquiring as to how a message board is prejudiced is a statement of bewilderment not an issue. OK Sir We will on tomorrows first light begin a duel of words and devilment to show how you hast manipulated the plebs and scoundrels on this messageboard against our glorious former leader.
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Post by chiefdelilah on Aug 29, 2015 2:06:06 GMT
No I'm saying calling supporters who don't wish to acknowledge Pulis not true supporters is utter nonsense. Well any stoke fan who cannot acknowledge what TP did for Stoke is not a true supporter. So were you not a true supporter until he was sacked?
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Post by chiefdelilah on Aug 29, 2015 2:15:52 GMT
"put this in the oatcake" Along with a bit of balance, as well Admin! Yes, he did ALL of those things and they were great times. He also did a lot of stupid things as well: team selection, failure to handle flair players, abject surrender and betrayal of fans at Valencia away, failure to achieve next level stage, 2 years of stagnant dross. He wasn't out of this world but he was committed and he took us on a journey. Then he lost his way and paid the price. Like any manager there were up's and downs, it's just that there were far more up's than downs under TP. Of course there were mistakes along the way. Valencia - he got that right my friend. We won the next two Prem fixtures and that was and is the priority I'm afraid. Tough decision but the right one as it proved. We weren't exactly staring relegation in the face. It was February, do you really think we weren't capable of picking up the points between then and May and still picking a decent team in Valencia? We showed relegation form in the second half of that season because he wouldn't use his squad sensibly.
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Post by werrington on Aug 29, 2015 5:02:18 GMT
How any TRUE Stoke supporter tomorrow cannot have a little bit of heart felt genuine gratitude towards this bloke TP .....they have got no soul nor spirit. Pathetic. Was the road to Damascus everything it's cracked up to be ?
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Post by wearestoke80 on Aug 29, 2015 6:17:09 GMT
Will Tone be refunding fans the money they spent on going to Valencia? did you seriously expect us to get anything in Valencia?
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Post by sharonbeech21 on Aug 29, 2015 6:20:08 GMT
I don't think anybody will forget what Tony Pulis did for us and I think stoke fans will show their appreciation but Mark Hughes is the manager now and we need to get behind him and the boys today and more importantly it's all about getting the 3 points today
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2015 6:34:49 GMT
Will Tone be refunding fans the money they spent on going to Valencia? did you seriously expect us to get anything in Valencia? Not when he saw the team sheet,no
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Post by rawli on Aug 29, 2015 6:42:41 GMT
Will Tone be refunding fans the money they spent on going to Valencia? did you seriously expect us to get anything in Valencia? I expected us to at least try. The team Tony put out was about the weakest possible and we still managed to give them a game. With a little ambition we could have done something. In my book what he did was unforgivable and a betrayal of the supporters he encouraged to go out there.
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Post by feedtheshaq on Aug 29, 2015 6:49:41 GMT
People are showing their true colours now. Pugsley and Werrington hated Pulis from day 1 and always will. How they have the bare face to say people want West Bromwich to win when they spent 10 years hoping Stoke would lose is completely and utterly bonkers.
I hope you are not so bitter and twisted towards your wife and kids or you will die very lonely old men.
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Post by JoeinOz on Aug 29, 2015 6:50:04 GMT
did you seriously expect us to get anything in Valencia? I expected us to at least try. The team Tony put out was about the weakest possible and we still managed to give them a game. With a little ambition we could have done something. In my book what he did was unforgivable and a betrayal of the supporters he encouraged to go out there. That's the thing. We expected to at least try. It was always going be a tough ask but who knows?
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Post by Davef on Aug 29, 2015 6:50:35 GMT
Being brutally honest I'm almost too emotional to write anything that would make any sense re the great man's homecoming but I'll try! I personally will never understand some of the sheer hatred and bitterness from certain people on this board or among some of the Stoke support. For whatever reason I connected with him on all levels, loved his dogged determination, his will to win and be successful, his politics, ethics, and his never say die attitude. For over two decades, apart from a couple of brief flirtations with relative success we were shit, we were nowhere apart from in the wilderness and looked odds on to remain there forever..................until Peter Coates instigated (on two occasions) the appointment of TP as Stoke City manager. What a masterstroke. At long last we became a team, a club that didn't lose football matches without one hell of a scrap and actually won football matches by any means we could and I loved it. I couldn't care less how we did it ,we just did it and after years of being spineless, weak losers we became tough winners. The first season in the Prem was dream world. Every man and his dog had us nailed on to back down but not Tony, not his team and not our supporters. WE were all in it together, all of us against the rest of the world or so it felt. Spine tingling stuff that I will take to my grave and that I will always be forever grateful to Tony Pulis for. Beating Man shitty 1-0 with 10 men and the players completely knackered on 80 mins when four sides of the Brit came together , chanting C'mon Stoke C'mon Stoke and we saw the last 10 minutes out together as one, Wembley v Bolton, cup final v Man C, Europe, all fantastic achievements but for me as a lifelong Stoke City supporter since !969/70 I felt so so fucking proud of my team. A warm feeling inside. I don't think there is another man/manager that would have left his mother's death bed to come back and steer his team to victory as TP did on that night v Aston Villa. The man loved being Stoke City manager, he was proud to be Stoke City manager every single day that he was in the post and right up until his departure he was proud and rightly so. Whatever the whys and wherefores surrounding differing opinions on TP he gave his ALL to our great club and no matter what happens in the future he will go down as one of the greatest managers in the history of our great club and rightly so. I can't wait to welcome him back and he will receive a standing ovation from me and the rest of the Stoke support I'm sure but after the walk from the tunnel to the dugouts he's just another manager of an opposing club...............................Yeah, right. Dave Smudge Put this in the Oatcake Please We printed our tribute to Tony Pulis in the first issue of the 2013/14 season.
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Post by JoeinOz on Aug 29, 2015 6:50:51 GMT
People are showing their true colours now. Pugsley and Werrington hated Pulis from day 1 and always will. How they have the bare face to say people want West Bromwich to win when they spent 10 years hoping Stoke would lose is completely and utterly bonkers. I hope you are not so bitter and twisted towards your wife and kids or you will die very lonely old men. Come on mate. Bringing wives and kids into any of this is out of order.
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Post by feedtheshaq on Aug 29, 2015 6:52:04 GMT
did you seriously expect us to get anything in Valencia? I expected us to at least try. The team Tony put out was about the weakest possible and we still managed to give them a game. With a little ambition we could have done something. In my book what he did was unforgivable and a betrayal of the supporters he encouraged to go out there. The team in Valencia did better than the team he picked fo the home game. Fuller, Jones and Jerome were more threatening the Walters and Crouch the week before.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Aug 29, 2015 6:58:17 GMT
Will Tone be refunding fans the money they spent on going to Valencia? did you seriously expect us to get anything in Valencia? Swansea won 3-0 there!
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Post by davejohnno1 on Aug 29, 2015 7:00:18 GMT
People are showing their true colours now. Pugsley and Werrington hated Pulis from day 1 and always will. How they have the bare face to say people want West Bromwich to win when they spent 10 years hoping Stoke would lose is completely and utterly bonkers. I hope you are not so bitter and twisted towards your wife and kids or you will die very lonely old men. I can tell you with 100% certainty that wezza has never wanted to see stoke city lose any game.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2015 7:02:54 GMT
Being brutally honest I'm almost too emotional to write anything that would make any sense re the great man's homecoming but I'll try! I personally will never understand some of the sheer hatred and bitterness from certain people on this board or among some of the Stoke support. For whatever reason I connected with him on all levels, loved his dogged determination, his will to win and be successful, his politics, ethics, and his never say die attitude. For over two decades, apart from a couple of brief flirtations with relative success we were shit, we were nowhere apart from in the wilderness and looked odds on to remain there forever..................until Peter Coates instigated (on two occasions) the appointment of TP as Stoke City manager. What a masterstroke. At long last we became a team, a club that didn't lose football matches without one hell of a scrap and actually won football matches by any means we could and I loved it. I couldn't care less how we did it ,we just did it and after years of being spineless, weak losers we became tough winners. The first season in the Prem was dream world. Every man and his dog had us nailed on to back down but not Tony, not his team and not our supporters. WE were all in it together, all of us against the rest of the world or so it felt. Spine tingling stuff that I will take to my grave and that I will always be forever grateful to Tony Pulis for. Beating Man shitty 1-0 with 10 men and the players completely knackered on 80 mins when four sides of the Brit came together , chanting C'mon Stoke C'mon Stoke and we saw the last 10 minutes out together as one, Wembley v Bolton, cup final v Man C, Europe, all fantastic achievements but for me as a lifelong Stoke City supporter since !969/70 I felt so so fucking proud of my team. A warm feeling inside. I don't think there is another man/manager that would have left his mother's death bed to come back and steer his team to victory as TP did on that night v Aston Villa. The man loved being Stoke City manager, he was proud to be Stoke City manager every single day that he was in the post and right up until his departure he was proud and rightly so. Whatever the whys and wherefores surrounding differing opinions on TP he gave his ALL to our great club and no matter what happens in the future he will go down as one of the greatest managers in the history of our great club and rightly so. I can't wait to welcome him back and he will receive a standing ovation from me and the rest of the Stoke support I'm sure but after the walk from the tunnel to the dugouts he's just another manager of an opposing club...............................Yeah, right. "We became a team,a club that didn't lose football matches without one hell of a scrap". Just when I thought the first line of your post was over the top,sentimental clap trap,you go and produce this little beauty. The history rewriting continues
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