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Post by samba :) on Mar 3, 2018 23:32:16 GMT
Oh how i long for these beautiful days to return
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Post by bayernoatcake on Mar 3, 2018 23:33:06 GMT
The best game I've ever been. Just magic.
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Post by walrus on Mar 4, 2018 0:07:11 GMT
How good does that shirt look with stripes on the back?
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Post by lawrieleslie on Mar 4, 2018 7:37:19 GMT
that Liverpool goal looked like it was scripted for the media darling. Defence just stood still to let hem through.
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Post by y_oh_y_delilah on Mar 4, 2018 7:51:24 GMT
Well it’s been downhill more or less ever since!
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Post by nik80 on Mar 4, 2018 8:12:07 GMT
And the problems started that summer.
What a match that was.
As Stoke supporters, we understand that truly magical games don’t happen very often, but sadly even the good games have become few and far between.
On another note, how mobile does Charlie look in that video? And we used to take the piss back then! Remember him really playing well that match, along with everyone else.
Last time we were any good.
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Post by Stokyo on Mar 4, 2018 8:23:22 GMT
Greed and arrogance by the owners and management, to stop funding and pushing on and sitting back watching annual decline. I cant watch that match, it hurts to see what we were and what we have become.
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Post by ColonelMustard on Mar 4, 2018 8:58:43 GMT
Its not about the players we still have not being as good as they were.
It's about the fact that those that left have been replaced with worse.
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Post by auntiegeorge on Mar 4, 2018 10:14:08 GMT
I wholeheartedly agree with all the commnts so far. I remember walking out of the Britannia Stadium that day on cloud 9. What a magnificent, almost unreal, end to the season. It literally took me a fortnight to come back down to Earth. We ended that season on 54 points and a +3 gd!
Now Liverpool are second from top and we are second from bottom. What the hell has happened?
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Post by wuzza on Mar 4, 2018 10:27:57 GMT
Undoubtedly the game I will remember if and when the Premier League experience ends.
The moment will be Crouchie’s goal against Man City.
It’s been great just to have those 2 experiences which really never seemed possible back in the dark days of the 90’s etc.
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Post by sufolkstokie on Mar 4, 2018 10:36:40 GMT
something to show the kids when we are in the lower leagues
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Post by pottersrule on Mar 4, 2018 10:37:29 GMT
I wholeheartedly agree with all the commnts so far. I remember walking out of the Britannia Stadium that day on cloud 9. What a magnificent, almost unreal, end to the season. It literally took me a fortnight to come back down to Earth. We ended that season on 54 points and a +3 gd! Now Liverpool are second from top and we are second from bottom. What the hell has happened? Clubs like Liverpool would never accept that kind of result,humiliation and the decline it represents and acted accordingly. Our owners accepted results like those and worse,and didn't act.That is what has happened,a complete and utter dereliction of duty. |
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Post by kjpt140v on Mar 4, 2018 10:51:58 GMT
that Liverpool goal looked like it was scripted for the media darling. Defence just stood still to let hem through. There’s always one. |
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Post by kjpt140v on Mar 4, 2018 10:52:39 GMT
something to show the kids when we are in the lower leagues No I’m wrong, there’s always two. |
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Post by stantheman on Mar 4, 2018 10:55:04 GMT
N'Zonzi leaving is why we are where we are now.
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Post by wadey on Mar 4, 2018 10:59:43 GMT
Can't believe it...I can...slow decline and heads buried in the sand, the transfer window last summer said it all. 'We're in the Premier and always will be' no you won't !
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Post by trickydicky73 on Mar 4, 2018 11:13:09 GMT
And the problems started that summer. What a match that was. As Stoke supporters, we understand that truly magical games don’t happen very often, but sadly even the good games have become few and far between. On another note, how mobile does Charlie look in that video? And we used to take the piss back then! Remember him really playing well that match, along with everyone else. Last time we were any good. What a fuck up we made of kicking on, and adding to that squad. For me, that was our high point and we wasted the chance to go big in the next transfer window. We needed a replacement for Zonze, and should have been looking for upgrades and future replacements for other players. The next transfer window was shocking and complacent. I said at the time we should be making hay while the sun shines, but typical Stoke, we bottled it and played safe. I know we have played well since, but for me, not often enough and I put it down to the aftermath of that game. Anyone else would have built on that performance. We didn't, and this is the result. |
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Mar 4, 2018 11:17:38 GMT
It's almost like they said "Oh, N'zonzi is leaving. He was too good for us anyway so we don't need another midfielder as good as him, we can make do without."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2018 11:41:29 GMT
N'Zonzi leaving is why we are where we are now. He was better than us. It wasn't so much the fact that he left, it is the fact we tried and failed spectacularly, to come up with a replacement fit to lace his boots. |
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Post by stantheman on Mar 4, 2018 11:47:15 GMT
N'Zonzi leaving is why we are where we are now. He was better than us. It wasn't so much the fact that he left, it is the fact we tried and failed spectacularly, to come up with a replacement fit to lace his boots. Very true. A Rolls Royce of a player that we've replaced with Robin Reliants |
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Post by trincostokie on Mar 4, 2018 17:31:37 GMT
A day when we played with real purpose and confidence, but also one of those rare days when defensive errors and second phase rub of the green stuff just went for us, over and over again. Almost the polar opposite of what we have experienced for most of the time since...
I'm pinning my hopes on a shift in fortunes between now and the middle of May
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Post by Absolution on Mar 4, 2018 17:53:23 GMT
I wholeheartedly agree with all the commnts so far. I remember walking out of the Britannia Stadium that day on cloud 9. What a magnificent, almost unreal, end to the season. It literally took me a fortnight to come back down to Earth. We ended that season on 54 points and a +3 gd! Now Liverpool are second from top and we are second from bottom. What the hell has happened? Don't know if you were around in the 80s mate, but in the 83/84 season we beat Arsenal in the FA Youth Cup semi-final. Played some lovely stuff, and the future looked so bright. Five years later and maybe one, possibly two of our youth team from that match had broken into the first team as we ploughed our way down the divisions. Meanwhile about eight or nine of that Arsenal youth team formed the basis of the Arsenal side that beat Liverpool in that dramatic last minute League Championship win. In short, what happened inbetween that Liverpool win and now is what always happens to us. We failed to build, whether because of resources or fuckwittery. It'll always be like that I'd imagine. All we can do is make the most of the odd glorious moment in the sun and hope it's not too long before it shines on us again. |
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Post by rondogmcmuffin on Mar 4, 2018 18:08:20 GMT
The only games I've watched in the last 4 or 5 weeks have been City v Arse (because my Mrs was at the cup final), us v Brighton because I was there and us v Leicester because it was on TV. I used to devote my weekends to watching the footy, analysing stats and players.
Stoke have truly depressed me this season to the point where I don't enjoy football anymore.
I miss those days so much.
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