|
Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Jun 16, 2018 9:12:20 GMT
I had a feeling on impending doom all season, alleviated slightly when we actually picked up some points before November! Saying that I have a season of impending doom every season! I feel quite optimistic about the coming season which is an even worse sign .......... back to impending doom!
|
|
|
Post by Staffsoatcake on Jun 16, 2018 9:19:42 GMT
When we appointed Lambert.
Literally unbelievable. This.
|
|
|
Post by fentonstokie1 on Jun 16, 2018 9:26:36 GMT
When the board didn't bother to sign a goalscorer in the January window, Lambert was only ever going to tighten us up in midfield and defence which he did to some degree. It was inevitable that lack of goals would get us eventually.
|
|
|
Post by harryburrows on Jun 16, 2018 9:29:32 GMT
West Ham away
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2018 9:44:04 GMT
Genuinely before the season started...before pre season.
I’d lost faith in Hughes and the “team” he’d created in the end
I was determined not to renew my season ticket because I blamed the owners as much as him
I caved in and renewed two or three days before the first home game 😞
I was sure I wasn’t going to renew this season because of my dislike of the owners arrogance and their old fashioned ways
I’m on the verge (((rocking))) on whether to cave in again and renew 😓
|
|
|
Post by GoBoks on Jun 16, 2018 9:44:25 GMT
The day I was born. Oh wait, I’m not BB.
For me, Coventry at home in the second last game of the season.
|
|
|
Post by stokietony on Jun 16, 2018 9:45:55 GMT
The last half of the season before :-(
|
|
|
Post by cooper67 on Jun 16, 2018 11:06:18 GMT
Liverpool at home: Gutless, spineless, uncoordinated, unimaginative, uncreative, directionaless, slow tired, predictable, unresponsive And those were the good bits 😬 We were in Tenerife when this was played.We got talking to some Burnley fans and I said then we were down.
|
|
|
Post by Timmypotter on Jun 16, 2018 11:26:40 GMT
Bournemouth at home for me was the day I knew that I was looking at relegation contenders. We missed our chance to fix it. Same for me. Second game I took my oldest to and told him afterwards we'd have to go to a few more as they'd be the last in the Prem for a while.
|
|
|
Post by AlliG on Jun 16, 2018 11:27:38 GMT
I had my concern from towards the end of last season but I think all my hope expired not the moment when Charlie first missed the penalty against Brighton, but when their keeper contrived to push the ball straight back to Charlie and he just stood there frozen instead of stepping forward to knock it into the empty net.
If the keeper had pushed the penalty round the post I think I might have kept a bit of hope but that whole episode was such a shambles and we looked like a team that would always find a way to contrive not to win, especially with how the whole team looked so mentally and emotionally shattered at the end of the game.
|
|
|
Post by TheProletarian on Jun 16, 2018 11:30:58 GMT
When Lambert was hired
|
|
|
Post by Cyprusdelilah on Jun 16, 2018 13:08:03 GMT
Don't know which match it was, but early December I could see that the players weren't playing for Hughes, when Adam missed the pen. I felt it was our time.
|
|
|
Post by maninasuitcase on Jun 16, 2018 13:17:16 GMT
Every game from half way through the season before until Hughes got sacked.
Then Lambert got hired but the damage was already done by the clown Hughes.
|
|
|
Post by trincostokie on Jun 16, 2018 13:17:42 GMT
Lying on the world's least comfortable mattress in a cheap hotel in Hanoi, watching a dodgy stream on my phone, and then up stepped Charlie
|
|
|
Post by stokief on Jun 16, 2018 15:33:38 GMT
and I'm serious when I say this, when I realised that Mark Hughes would start the season as Manager. I honestly thought he was a goner before that.
|
|
|
Post by scarlet on Jun 16, 2018 15:41:21 GMT
The Brighton game convinced me we were going down. The argument over who should take the penalty showed publicly the disharmony within sections of our squad. Compare this to the reaction of the Brighton players towards Knockaert when he cleared Diouf's header off the line from the corner following the penalty miss. At the time they were relegation rivals, and showed they had the unity and team spirit essential for a relegation battle, that we sadly lacked.
|
|
|
Post by mondeoman on Jun 16, 2018 16:21:35 GMT
The last half of the season before :-( Same here, told many people before the season started, "put your money on Stoke to go down "
|
|
|
Post by lawrieleslie on Jun 16, 2018 16:28:13 GMT
Bristol city away battered by a championship reserve team This .....showed what a pile of shite we actually had especially in Sobhi and Berahino then further confirmed by the Coventry debacle.
|
|
|
Post by ormegirl on Jun 16, 2018 16:51:51 GMT
Home game against Bournemouth.... the only game I’d been to for about 6 months(I live in Spain)
Shocked at how slack and disinterested we were.... hadn’t clocked this on TV
Then confirmed with the WestHam Shambles at home. Knew there was no way back, whoever was in charge
|
|
|
Post by brumstokie on Jun 16, 2018 17:36:39 GMT
Winning 1-0 at Watford. It meant Hughes kept his job until it was too late to make any difference. I honestly thought he was getting the boot if we had lost that game.
|
|
|
Post by vantheman on Jun 16, 2018 18:16:17 GMT
Coventry
|
|
|
Post by chigstoke on Jun 16, 2018 18:30:24 GMT
Winning 1-0 at Watford. It meant Hughes kept his job until it was too late to make any difference. I honestly thought he was getting the boot if we had lost that game. I've never ever wanted us to get battered before but by God that was THE game I wanted us to get smashed in. But by some miracle only rivalled by Jesus Christ's resurrection itself, he managed to win and keep his job longer. But now, I finally have optimism again with Big Gazza. Just can't wait for the season to start.
|
|
|
Post by Godo on Jun 16, 2018 18:59:22 GMT
When Coates said "we tried to sign a striker" at end of January window.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2018 19:11:19 GMT
When Coates said we have to be self sufficient.
Might as well have lay down with our face in the dirt and our arses in the air.
|
|
|
Post by Bojan Mackey on Jun 16, 2018 19:25:24 GMT
When we started the season with Hughes still in charge and replaced Arnautovic with a free transfer.
|
|
|
Post by ProctorDre on Jun 16, 2018 19:29:47 GMT
Had a weird feeling after we beat Watford. I’m sure Hughes would have gone without a result there but it seemed like everyone knew we would shithouse a win.
Confirmed for me when Charlie couldn’t make the rebound against Brighton.
|
|
|
Post by harrysburrow on Jun 16, 2018 20:20:08 GMT
Brighton at home farce.
|
|
|
Post by iglugluk on Jun 16, 2018 20:36:44 GMT
I was of the opinion at the end of the season before last that we were in serious danger of going down if we kept Hughes. Bristol City and Coventry games compounded it. The last season was akin to death by a thousand cuts for me, so there wasn't a specific game, as such, there was was just increasing conviction that there was little chance of us staying up.
|
|
|
Post by lancashirelad on Jun 16, 2018 21:07:16 GMT
New Years day, the 1-0 defeat to Newcastle. The general way we played a game we needed to win and win well we were a massive let down and i knew the quality and fight had gone from the team/squad. do not forget Mr H had rested players the game before to set this up as a must win. Newcastle at the time were like a team we would beat normally in any of the previous seasons. Their keeper was MOM in that game though? I felt we'd go down the day I found out Hughes was going to be sacked after the forthcoming cup tie. Until then, I always felt we'd do enough to scrape through MOM he only had a couple of half decent saves and if i remember rightly Butland made to the most important save of the day. Both teams lacked any quality and i went away and could not argue that Newcastle deserved the points (just).
|
|
|
Post by SamB_SCFC on Jun 16, 2018 22:19:35 GMT
Without wishing to dwell too much on last season, when was the moment that you just knew in your bones that we were going to go down? I mean, you probably still had a flicker of hope but, essentially, you just knew it was inevitable? For me, the Charlie Adam penalty against Brighton. I agree with the missed penalty against Brighton. I obviously knew we were in deep shit long before that but for me that was the moment I knew that relegation was now more likely than survival. It was just the manner of it. Every team that goes down has moments like that and it just absolutely stank of something that only happens to a relegated side. The pre penalty meltdown from Jese. Shaqiri looked really pissed off that Adam was taking it too. Then there was the miss itself and Adam's painfully slow response to a piss easy rebound chance that allowed him to get challenged. Shaqiri was shouting at him, Jese was shouting at him and I just knew that a probably fatal blow had been dealt to our chances. We didn't actually deserve a win that day but had we won it'd have given us such a lift and dragged Brighton right into it. Lambert's start would have gone from OK to good and I have a feeling we'd have kicked on with our new found solidity and gained some momentum. As it was they got a huge lift which led them onto a good run and we just never got going again after that. It felt like the life had been sucked out of us, both fans and players had lost faith that we were going to do it. The final final confirmation was Everton at home and the decision to start Charlie Adam which was definitive proof that Lambert was out of his depth.
|
|