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Post by Sergeant Muttley on Feb 9, 2016 11:04:35 GMT
Was probably up there with the best weeks of results/football following our great club
Wolves away 4-2 fantastic game which was in the balance until the last minute with Marriner not giving a pen at one end to Fuller's brilliant goal.
Southampton at home 3 nil up at half time then hanging on like mad at the end
Scunthorpe at home on the Friday night big crowd big expectation then 2 down typical Stoke,then probably the best 2nd half comeback in years to go top of the league and shove it up Adkins the smug bastard.
Still remember that week like it was yesterday and that always brings a smile to my face
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Post by Jamo on the wing on Feb 9, 2016 11:09:05 GMT
Yeah that was a big week, Mutts!
I remember the heart in mouth moment as Diao brought their lad down followed by me turning to my mate as Ric got the ball some 80 odd yards from goal and saying "he's going to score here".
Queue bedlam in the away end!
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Post by Sergeant Muttley on Feb 9, 2016 11:13:57 GMT
Yeah that was a big week, Mutts! I remember the heart in mouth moment as Diao brought their lad down followed by me turning to my mate as Ric got the ball some 80 odd yards from goal and saying "he's going to score here". Queue bedlam in the away end! One of the best mentals in years mate,great day followed by bricks coming over if I remember right? |
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Feb 9, 2016 11:17:01 GMT
Didn't Adkins come out after the match & say summat like "Our supporters would rather lose & get relegated playing the way we do, than win & get promoted playing like Stoke"... And they got their wish as they did get relegated & we did get promoted  |
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Post by sheikhmomo on Feb 9, 2016 11:17:21 GMT
The Wolves game is when I finally started to believe.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 9, 2016 11:18:23 GMT
Yeah that was a big week, Mutts! I remember the heart in mouth moment as Diao brought their lad down followed by me turning to my mate as Ric got the ball some 80 odd yards from goal and saying "he's going to score here". Queue bedlam in the away end! One of the best mentals in years mate,great day followed by bricks coming over if I remember right? I've still got the scars from that mental on both shins. Like jamo, I too said, as soon as ric got the ball, "he's going to score here". |
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Post by Sergeant Muttley on Feb 9, 2016 11:20:33 GMT
One of the best mentals in years mate,great day followed by bricks coming over if I remember right? I've still got the scars from that mental on both shins. Like jamo, I too said, as soon as ric got the ball, "he's going to score here". I think that mental along with the 3 goals in a short time at the Baggies take some beating mate.Spot on about the shins I had bruises for weeks |
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Post by Jamo on the wing on Feb 9, 2016 11:20:35 GMT
Yeah that was a big week, Mutts! I remember the heart in mouth moment as Diao brought their lad down followed by me turning to my mate as Ric got the ball some 80 odd yards from goal and saying "he's going to score here". Queue bedlam in the away end! One of the best mentals in years mate,great day followed by bricks coming over if I remember right? Anything they could get their hands on mate! Serious mental though! |
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Post by Sergeant Muttley on Feb 9, 2016 11:25:35 GMT
Didn't Adkins come out after the match & say summat like "Our supporters would rather lose & get relegated playing the way we do, than win & get promoted playing like Stoke"... And they got their wish as they did get relegated & we did get promoted Yes it was something like that the horrible git |
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Post by Sergeant Muttley on Feb 9, 2016 11:27:06 GMT
The Wolves game is when I finally started to believe. Coventry away is when I thought we're going to do this(2nd half only though) |
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Post by okeydokeystokie2 on Feb 9, 2016 12:22:29 GMT
That Scunthorpe game was a night match, and in my opinion was the time the supporters and the team really came together.
They were roared back onto the pitch for the start of the second half - at 2-0 down. The atmosphere was incredible. The players really responded - Lawrence and Cresswell excellent, but Ricardo Fuller was simply unplayable. He made at least 2 of the goals be steaming to the byline then virtually to the near post, drawing the keeper then popping the ball back for a tap in. There were 2 or 3 players around him but his speed, strength and control was just too much for them.
Amazing comeback. We were 3-2 up after about 20 minutes of the second half and had a goal disallowed on the way.
What a roller coaster the next 2 or 3 months were. I thought we'd blown it against Palace, and I'll never forget the noise at the late Bristol City game. I remember their manager Gary Johnson said his players had never experienced anything like it and were shell shocked for the first half hour. By then we were 2 up. That kind of passion and atmosphere has dissipated a lot after 8 years of The Premier League.
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Post by werrington on Feb 9, 2016 12:50:59 GMT
I shit myself v Southampton on that Tuesday night
We absolutely battered them first half and they came out and got 2 quick goals ....Stern John ?
We were then hanging on for dear life
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2016 12:54:26 GMT
The Wolves game is when I finally started to believe. Even though we had that prick Scholes at the club back then?? |
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Post by Bick on Feb 9, 2016 12:57:52 GMT
Brings back some memories!!...
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Post by mattythestokie on Feb 9, 2016 13:12:03 GMT
Didnt go too many away games that season but thank god the ones I did go included Wolves and Coventry. Pure magic.
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Post by lowlands on Feb 9, 2016 13:15:05 GMT
Not had moments like them since tbf. Premier is great I love it, but for passion atmosphere and a desire 8 years ago was such a mental brilliant time to be a Stokie
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Post by sheikhmomo on Feb 9, 2016 13:38:29 GMT
The Wolves game is when I finally started to believe. Even though we had that prick Scholes at the club back then?? I don't think anyone can look back at that era and not be agog at the Herculean efforts of Tony Scholes. Sure it looked like Lawrence, Fuller etc doing all the heavy lifting but we all know the real reason we got promoted. The Blackburn Beancounter. |
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Post by Discovery Stoke on Feb 9, 2016 13:39:26 GMT
Wolves and Coventry away were fantastic that season. They were proper 'mentals'
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Post by PotterLog on Feb 9, 2016 14:23:21 GMT
I shit myself v Southampton on that Tuesday night We absolutely battered them first half and they came out and got 2 quick goals ....Stern John ? We were then hanging on for dear life I was in a box for that game, I think the only time I've ever been in one - when they scored the second everyone fell completely silent apart from me, who impulsively shouted the word FUCK about 6 times. Felt a bit embarrassed for my mate's dad who'd invited me.   |
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Post by Sergeant Muttley on Feb 9, 2016 19:37:03 GMT
Was on a trip to Paris when we played Palace at home and when I knew the score that Monday night it actually put a dampener on the whole trip.Sad I know but I thought we'd blown the best chance we'd had for years and we soon got back on track at Cov the Saturday after.
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Post by stantheman on Feb 9, 2016 20:15:25 GMT
Ric actually started the game at Wolves on the bench because......he was late getting back from a trip from Jamaica! Gotta love that man x
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Post by kevkj on Feb 9, 2016 20:18:17 GMT
Likewise living in Stafford and stuffing the Wolves was so good, Coventry when Lawrence bagged that blinder was the game I knew we were going to do it. Two great away days before I stopped travelling as much in the prem,
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Post by thevoid on Feb 9, 2016 20:33:46 GMT
Those games against Soton and Scunny- 10 goals and all scored at the same end.
Then the next home game we beat Ipswich, with Lawrence scoring at the same end I think.
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Post by Theninjabadger on Feb 9, 2016 22:30:11 GMT
The Wolves game is when I finally started to believe. Colchester away for me |
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Post by foxysgloves on Feb 9, 2016 22:35:52 GMT
The Wolves game is when I finally started to believe. Colchester away for me I still didn't believe until after the Leicester game. In fact I still didn't believe then. |
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Post by samba :) on Feb 9, 2016 22:38:46 GMT
Cardiff away I had a sneaky early suspicion
But I only really believed it wad going to happen on the day of the Leicester game
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Post by bayernoatcake on Feb 9, 2016 22:42:25 GMT
8 years since my Grandad died then. Jesus wept it doesn't seem like 2 minutes ago.
I was told that day of the Southampton game and I've never been so subdued at a game before or since.
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Post by okeydokeystokie2 on Feb 10, 2016 11:58:41 GMT
Those games against Soton and Scunny- 10 goals and all scored at the same end. Then the next home game we beat Ipswich, with Lawrence scoring at the same end I think. If I remember right, that Lawrence goal was an absolute Jaffa. About 25 yards out to the right of the penalty area. He looked up and hit beautifully. Flew into the top left hand corner.
Very similar to the long range shot he scored at Hull a year or so later.
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Post by mattface on Feb 10, 2016 12:07:01 GMT
Remember pegging it up from London for the Scunny game and just making kick off. By half time was wondering why I bothered - how wrong I was
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Post by okeydokeystokie2 on Feb 10, 2016 12:30:05 GMT
Regarding that time, there is an absolutely brilliant post on the "Those were the days" section of this board. Haven't watched it all yet but I definitely will.
Fuller Magic from Blurtonian Stokie. Excellent mate. It's a series of about 5 You Tube interviews and then a set of videos with every goal he scored for Stoke. He speaks of Tony Pulis as like a father to him and his love of the club and supporters shines through. It would be great to get him back for a proper goodbye - and thank you.
I never thought at the age of about 40 I would get a new hero, but the feeling I got watching Ric was like watching Jimmy Greenhoff when I was a kid. Like Jamo and Muttley have said, whenever he got the ball, almost wherever he was on the pitch, everybody stood. Was this going to be one of those times when something amazing happened?
The football world outside Stoke City cannot appreciate just how good he was. Pace, strength, skill, determination and a cool finisher.
What an entertainer, what a maverick. What a very good footballer. You can keep your Ronaldo or Messi or Rooney. I've seen Ricardo Fuller play for Stoke City. What a top guy.
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