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Post by robinplumpton on May 6, 2018 22:41:09 GMT
Trust me I get it, and I wish I had it, but I haven't got there yet, l am still in the sadness. I have posted on here before that Stoke City has been the only constant in my life. After some shit times I was blessed with a family. When we got promoted 10 years ago, I fought back a tear with my first born in my arms as I watched on from 200 miles away, nothing could have been better. Despite other gloryhunting attractions both my first born and second born supported their Dad’s obsession with an unfashionable team far away. I fought back a tear when I my boys to their first game a few years ago, of course we lost, but they kept the faith. This season has been absolute shite, but will always be memorable for me as my boys were mascots at the Home game versus Brighton. Both me and my wife ( who supports us but doesn’t get it) fought back the tears as our boys came out with my boys. My kids endure taunts all the time but stay loyal. On Saturday we watched on Tv as a family as my dreams were extinguished. My first born 10 year old went upstairs at the final whistle and cried, on his own not wanting to upset us by showing how upset he was/ is. I know when my boys go back to school on Tuesday , they will get taunted again. Living in Plumpton, with Brighton down the road, it’s understandable, but hurtful. The fact that my two have been trying to console their Dad since says loads about them and loyalty. God willing we will be back next season, hopefully with tears of joy for all of the family. It hurts
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2018 22:53:49 GMT
It’s painful and desperately sad, but you sound like you’ve got a lot to be happy about in life. I wouldn’t let Stoke City get in the way of that too much if I was you. The club hasn’t died, it’s just enduring the sort of dark times that are periodically inevitable for one of our size. In 98 it felt like the club had died, and those were much bleaker, much more unfathomable days than the ones we’re experiencing now. The club didn’t die then and it isn’t dying now. Players and managers come and go, but the core of any football club is the community it serves. That’s the constant that will never change. Chin up duck.
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Post by danceswithclams on May 6, 2018 22:58:22 GMT
Trust me I get it, and I wish I had it, but I haven't got there yet, l am still in the sadness. I have posted on here before that Stoke City has been the only constant in my life. After some shit times I was blessed with a family. When we got promoted 10 years ago, I fought back a tear with my first born in my arms as I watched on from 200 miles away, nothing could have been better. Despite other gloryhunting attractions both my first born and second born supported their Dad’s obsession with an unfashionable team far away. I fought back a tear when I my boys to their first game a few years ago, of course we lost, but they kept the faith. This season has been absolute shite, but will always be memorable for me as my boys were mascots at the Home game versus Brighton. Both me and my wife ( who supports us but doesn’t get it) fought back the tears as our boys came out with my boys. My kids endure taunts all the time but stay loyal. On Saturday we watched on Tv as a family as my dreams were extinguished. My first born 10 year old went upstairs at the final whistle and cried, on his own not wanting to upset us by showing how upset he was/ is. I know when my boys go back to school on Tuesday , they will get taunted again. Living in Plumpton, with Brighton down the road, it’s understandable, but hurtful. The fact that my two have been trying to console their Dad since says loads about them and loyalty. God willing we will be back next season, hopefully with tears of joy for all of the family. It hurts Stop fucking crying so much you lachrymose fanny and smash up a hastily fashioned effigy of Lambert/Hughes. It'll make you feel a lot better. 😜 |
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Post by robinplumpton on May 6, 2018 22:59:48 GMT
Agreed. As long as I am alive, the club will never die for me. Am blessed with my family being adopting Stokies.
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Post by robinplumpton on May 6, 2018 23:02:32 GMT
Trust me I get it, and I wish I had it, but I haven't got there yet, l am still in the sadness. I have posted on here before that Stoke City has been the only constant in my life. After some shit times I was blessed with a family. When we got promoted 10 years ago, I fought back a tear with my first born in my arms as I watched on from 200 miles away, nothing could have been better. Despite other gloryhunting attractions both my first born and second born supported their Dad’s obsession with an unfashionable team far away. I fought back a tear when I my boys to their first game a few years ago, of course we lost, but they kept the faith. This season has been absolute shite, but will always be memorable for me as my boys were mascots at the Home game versus Brighton. Both me and my wife ( who supports us but doesn’t get it) fought back the tears as our boys came out with my boys. My kids endure taunts all the time but stay loyal. On Saturday we watched on Tv as a family as my dreams were extinguished. My first born 10 year old went upstairs at the final whistle and cried, on his own not wanting to upset us by showing how upset he was/ is. I know when my boys go back to school on Tuesday , they will get taunted again. Living in Plumpton, with Brighton down the road, it’s understandable, but hurtful. The fact that my two have been trying to console their Dad since says loads about them and loyalty. God willing we will be back next season, hopefully with tears of joy for all of the family. It hurts Stop fucking crying so much you lachrymose fanny and smash up a hastily fashioned effigy of Lambert/Hughes. It'll make you feel a lot better. 😜 Not quite Oscar Wilde or Shakespeare, whoever they were...but you are probably right. |
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Post by sheikhmomo on May 6, 2018 23:08:20 GMT
Stop fucking crying so much you lachrymose fanny and smash up a hastily fashioned effigy of Lambert/Hughes. It'll make you feel a lot better. 😜 Not quite Oscar Wilde or Shakespeare, whoever they were...but you are probably right. Take it easy Robin but I have to say that, 'lachrymose fanny' in and of itself is simply the most wonderful phrase I've heard in a long time. I can't stop saying it! |
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Post by redrob on May 6, 2018 23:13:43 GMT
Remember our 98 relegation I was at uni in wales so watched the Man City debacle in a pub in Pontypridd on my own stoke scarf round my neck trying not to cry into my pint but we went on. The Icelandic take over a auto windshield win play off heart brake, and return to the championship. This is my third relegation since my first game in 89/90 and through all the heart ache moments of sheer joy it drives us mad it’s irational but players managers even owners come and go but we will always be stoke the club is ours. So heads up we go again
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Post by Staffsoatcake on May 6, 2018 23:22:38 GMT
Got used to getting relegated months ago,it was the time Lambert walked through the door.
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Post by GoBoks on May 6, 2018 23:24:19 GMT
Remember our 98 relegation I was at uni in wales so watched the Man City debacle in a pub in Pontypridd on my own stoke scarf round my neck trying not to cry into my pint but we went on. The Icelandic take over a auto windshield win play off heart brake, and return to the championship. This is my third relegation since my first game in 89/90 and through all the heart ache moments of sheer joy it drives us mad it’s irational but players managers even owners come and go but we will always be stoke the club is ours. So heads up we go again I've lost count of the relegations!  |
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Post by robinplumpton on May 6, 2018 23:26:38 GMT
Not quite Oscar Wilde or Shakespeare, whoever they were...but you are probably right. Take it easy Robin but I have to say that, 'lachrymose fanny' in and of itself is simply the most wonderful phrase I've heard in a long time. I can't stop saying it! Lachrymose fanny ? Guilty as charged. As a 54 yr old man have had my share of our shit., just with s long journey to and fro.Would prefer my kids not to have experienced this shit.Very proud that they chose to stick with Dad. Dad will,always be loyal be proud be Stoke |
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Post by sheikhmomo on May 6, 2018 23:31:32 GMT
Take it easy Robin but I have to say that, 'lachrymose fanny' in and of itself is simply the most wonderful phrase I've heard in a long time. I can't stop saying it! Lachrymose fanny ? Guilty as charged. As a 54 yr old man have had my share of our shit., just with s long journey to and fro.Would prefer my kids not to have experienced this shit.Very proud that they chose to stick with Dad. Dad will,always be loyal be proud be Stoke Mate, I don't think it applies to you at all. Just thought it was wonderful swearing wordsmithery! |
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Post by robinplumpton on May 6, 2018 23:35:21 GMT
Lachrymose fanny ? Guilty as charged. As a 54 yr old man have had my share of our shit., just with s long journey to and fro.Would prefer my kids not to have experienced this shit.Very proud that they chose to stick with Dad. Dad will,always be loyal be proud be Stoke Mate, I don't think it applies to you at all. Just thought it was wonderful swearing wordsmithery! It’s like when you admire a lyric from the Beatles , I just wish I had thought of it first. Instead, I just have to,salute you sir😃 |
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Post by bathstoke on May 7, 2018 6:48:00 GMT
I’m getting angrier each day. It feels like betrayal
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Post by fca47 on May 7, 2018 6:56:19 GMT
Contrary to what people are saying Stoke has been a well run club, apart from the so called Elite clubs we have stayed in the PL longer than anyone else. Newcastle have been relegated twice in that time. We have got it wrong the last couple of years but that is the exception not the rule.
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Post by bathstoke on May 7, 2018 7:51:05 GMT
Contrary to what people are saying Stoke has been a well run club, apart from the so called Elite clubs we have stayed in the PL longer than anyone else. Newcastle have been relegated twice in that time. We have got it wrong the last couple of years but that is the exception not the rule. Hello, Is that you Scholesy. Have you ever heard of Ozymandias & no, he doesn’t play for Parathanicos... |
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Post by GreaterGlasgowstokie on May 7, 2018 7:56:51 GMT
None of this feels as bad as losing to gillingham in the play offs when Rob Styles decided to destroy our seasons work.
Anyway, I trust the owners to spend the money that is needed, and I'm looking forward to next season, though my focus is to try to find a way to watch our games from up here
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2018 7:57:10 GMT
My 10 and 7 year olds were both upset after the game despite them knowing it was inevitable. But after two hours on Sunday morning studying the teams in The Championship all I'm getting now is "Can I go to Bolton, can I got to Wigan, can I go to Blackburn" etc etc. The joys of youth, ultimately when we dust ourselves down after a summer of reflection we'll turn up on August 4th with the same feelings of expectation as we have every year.
Massive summer ahead for the club, we have to trust the owners to right the wrongs of the last 12 months, either that or we need to find £100m from somewhere to buy the club from them......
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Post by stokemark on May 7, 2018 9:28:47 GMT
Contrary to what people are saying Stoke has been a well run club, apart from the so called Elite clubs we have stayed in the PL longer than anyone else. Newcastle have been relegated twice in that time. We have got it wrong the last couple of years but that is the exception not the rule. Horse shit |
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Post by sufolkstokie on May 7, 2018 9:36:53 GMT
I am actually quite surprised how angry it has made me. I knew we were down a few weeks ago and was just resigned to it, or so I thought.
I think it is not that we are down, it was always going to happen at some point, or indeed the manner in which it has happened, but the downright stubbornness and lack of ownership that has been taken.
At the moment it feels like we have no chance of coming back and that is the anger bit. It is strange how aa local man, who used to stand on the terraces at the Old Vic and has done a lot for the club since his children made him a lot of money has now engineered a situation that I have never felt so disconnected from the actual club that I support
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Post by bathstoke on May 7, 2018 9:50:56 GMT
I am actually quite surprised how angry it has made me. I knew we were down a few weeks ago and was just resigned to it, or so I thought. I think it is not that we are down, it was always going to happen at some point, or indeed the manner in which it has happened, but the downright stubbornness and lack of ownership that has been taken. At the moment it feels like we have no chance of coming back and that is the anger bit. It is strange how aa local man, who used to stand on the terraces at the Old Vic and has done a lot for the club since his children made him a lot of money has now engineered a situation that I have never felt so disconnected from the actual club that I support We've spent a fortune to get humiliated & relegated. Proper hubris |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2018 9:52:37 GMT
Some folk have their priorities all wrong .
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Post by stokemark on May 7, 2018 9:53:23 GMT
I am actually quite surprised how angry it has made me. I knew we were down a few weeks ago and was just resigned to it, or so I thought. I think it is not that we are down, it was always going to happen at some point, or indeed the manner in which it has happened, but the downright stubbornness and lack of ownership that has been taken. At the moment it feels like we have no chance of coming back and that is the anger bit. It is strange how aa local man, who used to stand on the terraces at the Old Vic and has done a lot for the club since his children made him a lot of money has now engineered a situation that I have never felt so disconnected from the actual club that I support Feel exactly the same mate |
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Post by bathstoke on May 7, 2018 11:38:08 GMT
Some folk have their priorities all wrong . Some folk should £@#& 0££ up the Vale |
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on May 7, 2018 12:19:38 GMT
Some folk have their priorities all wrong . Amazingly enough, for once I'm in complete agreement  Can't say I'm angry at all. Seen enough promotions and relegations for Stoke to realise that this is just a regular part of being a Stokie. Disappointment obviously, but anger nah, much more important things in life. I guess that makes me less of a fan! |
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Post by ruts66 on May 7, 2018 12:32:42 GMT
Some folk have their priorities all wrong . Amazingly enough, for once I'm in complete agreement Can't say I'm angry at all. Seen enough promotions and relegations for Stoke to realise that this is just a regular part of being a Stokie. Disappointment obviously, but anger nah, much more important things in life. I guess that makes me less of a fan! No, not less of a fan, RWnB - just still in the denial stage...  Immediately after the game on Saturday, I went shopping for a new BBQ and sauntered round the garden centres in the sunshine like nothing had happened. Yesterday, I was utterly morose. Today, I'm Mr Angry. Not sure what comes next... |
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Post by bathstoke on May 7, 2018 12:40:14 GMT
Amazingly enough, for once I'm in complete agreement Can't say I'm angry at all. Seen enough promotions and relegations for Stoke to realise that this is just a regular part of being a Stokie. Disappointment obviously, but anger nah, much more important things in life. I guess that makes me less of a fan! No, not less of a fan, RWnB - just still in the denial stage... Immediately after the game on Saturday, I went shopping for a new BBQ and sauntered round the garden centres in the sunshine like nothing had happened. Yesterday, I was utterly morose. Today, I'm Mr Angry. Not sure what comes next... Having a B/H Wkend for it to sink in isn’t helping. It’s like going to funerals on sunny days, just feels wrong... |
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Post by cousindupree on May 7, 2018 12:44:55 GMT
I am a pretty chilled guy and anger rarely emits from me. However I am fuming, not at getting relegated, I genuinely can take that been there before, what really has got to me is the litany of absolute shit decisions made by those who run this club over the last 18 mths. And seemingly it's about to continue by not only rewarding the clueless Lambert with more time but also putting faith in Lambert and Cartwright to rebuild the squad in the summer and get us promoted!
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on May 7, 2018 12:52:32 GMT
Amazingly enough, for once I'm in complete agreement Can't say I'm angry at all. Seen enough promotions and relegations for Stoke to realise that this is just a regular part of being a Stokie. Disappointment obviously, but anger nah, much more important things in life. I guess that makes me less of a fan! No, not less of a fan, RWnB - just still in the denial stage... Immediately after the game on Saturday, I went shopping for a new BBQ and sauntered round the garden centres in the sunshine like nothing had happened. Yesterday, I was utterly morose. Today, I'm Mr Angry. Not sure what comes next... Don't think I'm in denial, cos I've been accepting of it for months. Stuck a tenner on before the season started, stuck another on Coventry to beat us in the Cup so I think it's fair to say I saw it all coming (like a lot of us did, sadly). It's Stoke. I hate to say it but this is what being a fan of our club is like. Disappointment is always just around the corner, and to be honest, I'm just bloody glad I saw ten years of PL football, a Cup final and European football when I genuinely didn't think we'd ever see any of that again before I turned up my toes! I try to keep a healthy sense of perspective about this stuff. |
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Post by str8outtahampton on May 7, 2018 12:57:03 GMT
Not quite Oscar Wilde or Shakespeare, whoever they were...but you are probably right. Take it easy Robin but I have to say that, 'lachrymose fanny' in and of itself is simply the most wonderful phrase I've heard in a long time. I can't stop saying it! It was the working title of Jethro Tull's (difficult) second album wasn't it? Funnily enough I have a feeling "What's All The Fuss About" was one of the options Iain Anderson rejected. |
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Post by realstokebloke on May 7, 2018 13:02:27 GMT
Take it easy Robin but I have to say that, 'lachrymose fanny' in and of itself is simply the most wonderful phrase I've heard in a long time. I can't stop saying it! It was the working title of Jethro Tull's (difficult) second album wasn't it? Funnily enough I have a feeling "What's All The Fuss About" was one of the options Iain Anderson rejected.
Unless you've completely made that up, I bow to your superior trivia database.
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