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Post by bertieb on Jan 3, 2018 22:08:52 GMT
Was thinking of not renewing last season but did. The travelling to every home game to watch shite makes it harder to get into the car on a Saturday morning. Undecided yet but the division we are in will not make a difference, but the extra midweek games in the championship will be a killer, up at 6am for work then straight from work at 4pm to the game and back home for 12ish
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Post by raythesailor on Jan 3, 2018 22:09:56 GMT
I will and may be able to get better seats Than I ave had for the last few years.
Hopefully we may also get rid of this “SO CALLED GLORY HUNTING JOHNY COME LATELY SNOBBERY” that we are all fed up of hearing about.
A Stoke fan is a Stoke Fan . One year or Fifty.
Anybody who has followed us in recent years through thick and thin should be welcomed. We were all first time supporters once.
Ray the Sailor who was at Wembley in 1970 something.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 22:16:32 GMT
Well I am going to wait and see what happens.
Season Tickets are a necessary irritant that comes with PL football. The main irritant being that you have to sit where you have to sit. That is all ok as long as the bloke sat next to you is ok. The bloke that sits next to me might not like my garlic smell on a Saturday afternoon, or the occasional farts that just seem to slip out. On the other hand HIS overflowing body mass pisses me off a bit. If he takes up two seats, he should have to buy two seats. He sniffs a lot as well. Really huge sniffs that bring up gungy stuff, you can hear it coming up. Bloody hell he then swallows it! Could be worse I imagine.
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Post by stokecity4life on Jan 3, 2018 22:21:39 GMT
I`ll go and watch Stoke no matter what.
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Post by kjpt140v on Jan 3, 2018 22:24:32 GMT
I will.
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Post by TrentValePotter96 on Jan 4, 2018 8:56:31 GMT
Not sure. Dependent on a number of reasons.
Not arsed about the bad football or relegation or anything, but the lack of board being arsed is a factor.
And anyway a break from Stoke would be good.
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Post by robrigo on Jan 4, 2018 9:15:19 GMT
My situation is slightly different. My dilemma is not whether to renew but when to come back and I’m itching to come back.
41 now and attended since the age of four up until the age of 39. My last game as a season ticket holder was the famous 6-1 demolition of Liverpool and my last game was this seasons win against Arsenal where I paid for a ticket. I had to give up ticket to illness which in turn affected my finances. So I think that it will be one more season and my aim is to return after that.
I’m fuming about what’s happening but it’s part of the ebb and flow of Stoke City F.C.. I can’t wait to get back.
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Post by elystokie on Jan 4, 2018 11:00:23 GMT
Having just moved back to the area (with my son) after many years away, with SCFC being a major factor in that decision, only one thing would've possibly stopped me renewing.
That one thing now manages Middlesbrough so I'm in, no matter whether we get relegated or not.
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Post by raythesailor on Jan 4, 2018 11:17:00 GMT
Well I am going to wait and see what happens. Season Tickets are a necessary irritant that comes with PL football. The main irritant being that you have to sit where you have to sit. That is all ok as long as the bloke sat next to you is ok. The bloke that sits next to me might not like my garlic smell on a Saturday afternoon, or the occasional farts that just seem to slip out. On the other hand HIS overflowing body mass pisses me off a bit. If he takes up two seats, he should have to buy two seats. He sniffs a lot as well. Really huge sniffs that bring up gungy stuff, you can hear it coming up. Bloody hell he then swallows it! Could be worse I imagine. i would either cancel or swap seats.
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Post by stokiesteve on Jan 4, 2018 11:20:38 GMT
Yep, I’ll renew.
Up the potters!
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Post by barnscfc1 on Jan 4, 2018 11:25:19 GMT
I will be renewing
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 11:48:08 GMT
Considering the management have had plenty of time to sort this out, and IMHO view they're sitting on their collective hands it could be a serious no for me. It depends on what they do in the transfer window now, if they are not going to do, what in my mind, is the right thing. I've said it for a long time, that the squad is a complete shambles, and I truly cannot believe how they've let it get this way!
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Post by hoofmagic on Jan 4, 2018 11:53:21 GMT
Im staying away untill the dick-heads gone.
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Post by mcw on Jan 4, 2018 12:05:28 GMT
Me too, live near Manchester and will be bringing my 5 year old son for his first time. He has a season ticket already but never been primarily due to the farting around necessary to get out of the car parks at the end of game and the time taken to generally get home (normally 7.30pm or 8pm after a 3pm kick-off which is too long for him at age 4). If anything a drop to the championship would facilitate getting off the car park and home at a reasonable time-every cloud has a silver lining and all that:)! Downside is all his mates are City/Utd/Liverpool or Everton affiliated (i.e. teams their dads support), so can see problems keeping him on the straight and narrow in the future!
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Post by estp1863 on Jan 4, 2018 12:14:18 GMT
I have a few things that I earn money with at weekends so I find it hard to decline cash to part with cash to watch a bunch of unorganised surrender monkeys.
Give me a manager with nouse that buys players that put a shift in and a board prepared to offer him adequate funds instead of penny pinching so we are a half decent outfit instead of conning paying customers and I'll defiantly go a lot more.
Until Hughes has gone & the board stop buying goods that fell off the back of a lorry my seat will be spare for someone else
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Post by kustokie on Jan 4, 2018 12:42:56 GMT
I’m not sure , it will be like dating your mother in law How would you know? How was it?
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Post by cheshirepotter on Jan 4, 2018 13:00:56 GMT
If, in March, I think I will actually enjoy going every (other) week next season, then I'll renew. If not, then I'll probably pick and choose my matches. I will always, always support Stoke City. Stoke City means more to me than it ever will do to the management team or most of the players. But I do quite like to spend my Saturdays being entertained.
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Post by kustokie on Jan 4, 2018 13:20:51 GMT
It's not an issue for me as I'm an exile so I only get to a live game a couple of times per year but I suspect that gates could be down significantly, particularly if there is no change of manager. Me too. However, a mate and I have STs because we can get seats together and he does not have to stay up until one minute after midnight to get them. He’s goes to every game and I go about five times a year - his family use my ticket at other times. It’ll depend on which was he’s leaning. He’s the eternal optimist and still believe we’ll be fine. I’m not so sure. I’ve never seem them lose at home in the league. For a long time I could say I had never then lose, home or away, League and Cup. Disasters at Newcastle and home to Wolves put an end to that record. Back for Man City, Everton and BHA - nailed on 9 points (well maybe three!).
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Post by kustokie on Jan 4, 2018 13:24:08 GMT
Having just moved back to the area (with my son) after many years away, with SCFC being a major factor in that decision, only one thing would've possibly stopped me renewing. That one thing now manages Middlesbrough so I'm in, no matter whether we get relegated or not. Average tenure of manager is less than two years. TP should be well placed to bring us back up in the 2019/2020 season! Just kidding!
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Post by Rick Grimes on Jan 4, 2018 13:25:34 GMT
We could be in the conference and I’d still renew.
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Post by elystokie on Jan 4, 2018 13:48:11 GMT
Having just moved back to the area (with my son) after many years away, with SCFC being a major factor in that decision, only one thing would've possibly stopped me renewing. That one thing now manages Middlesbrough so I'm in, no matter whether we get relegated or not. Average tenure of manager is less than two years. TP should be well placed to bring us back up in the 2019/2020 season! Just kidding! I'd probably renew anyway to be fair, however reluctantly. Hopefully I'd be able to resist spending the whole of his tenure moaning my bag off on here about him... All irrelevant anyway, the Toxic twat ain't coming back, fingers (and everything else) crosssed
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Post by heworksardtho on Jan 4, 2018 14:53:36 GMT
I’m not sure , it will be like dating your mother in law How would you know? How was it? Well the wife rang and said why arnt you at work , I said I’m sick , she said how sick , I said I’m in bed with your mum 😂
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Post by dadofsam on Jan 4, 2018 16:09:07 GMT
Replace TV License with Season Ticket
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Post by sharonbeech21 on Jan 4, 2018 19:07:52 GMT
Yes definitely its never a issue. I support Stoke City 100% I have supported them 46 years and seen them in every division we have been in. City till i die once a Stokie alwayx a Stokie
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Post by stantheman on Jan 4, 2018 19:08:32 GMT
We could be in the conference and I’d still renew. Amen brother!
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Post by iancransonsknees on Jan 4, 2018 19:36:35 GMT
I'll probably renew but I might not actually turn up if Hughes is still in charge. I'll just let friends and family use it if they're interested. I can't stomach the prick any longer.
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Post by cdlstoke on Jan 4, 2018 20:30:53 GMT
Nothing to do with the league were in. If Hughes still in charge, me brother in law and 5 kids won't be renewing. Just go more away games. Just my little stand against the boards choice of keeping Hughes. Everyone to there own though.👍
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Post by penkvillepotter on Jan 4, 2018 21:14:47 GMT
Yep. Through thin and thinner I’ll be there. It’s about a Saturday not 90 mins. They sell ale in towns in the Championship don’t they?
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Jan 4, 2018 21:40:04 GMT
If we go down I'd expect 5-7k less on the gates followed by gradual decline if we don't come back up quickly. The majority of us remember some of the woeful attendance at the brit on the wilderness years. I recall plenty of sub 10k crowds in the gudjon years. But they were good fun. They weren't though really were they. One third full stadium, empty seats everywhere, shit opposition, poor standard of football etc etc There's a lot of rose tinted nonsense spouted about the 'good ol days' of being a shit 3rd division side and a mediocre championship side. Perhaps the only thing that made it 'fun' was the fact that we just didn't care as much as we do now? So it was easier just to laugh off the awfulness of it all? Probably a more sensible mindset in all honesty. I don't know, I'm pretty sure I remember a hell of a lot of moaning and griping about not spending any money and shit signings and past it players, just like there is now, but a lot of folk seem to look back on that period very self-indulgently as if we were all well aware that a decade in the Prem was coming and we just had to sit this bit out for the good times to come back! It just wasn't like that. The only 'fun' thing I can come up with is visiting new grounds and ticking them off the list. But even that was tinged with a wish that you'd never have to go there again!
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Post by stantheman on Jan 5, 2018 13:29:52 GMT
Yep. Through thin and thinner I’ll be there. It’s about a Saturday not 90 mins. They sell ale in towns in the Championship don’t they? Thin, thinner and anorexic! I couldnt agree more
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