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Post by cobhamstokey on Feb 19, 2023 13:21:59 GMT
I have a 20 minute rant on the way from the game, vent my spleen on here for a bit then look forward to the next game. It gets easier as I get older….. Same. I guess it’s easier when you’ve lived through worse. I’ve come to the belief that we’ll be a yo-yo club floating between top 3 leagues. I’ve got a Brentford fan at work who’s on cloud 9 at the moment. I said to him “enjoy it while you can as it won’t last for ever.” Most clubs our size are always 3-4 bad signings away from a relegation and mediocrity. It’s so key to get the internal setup in a club right before anything else. I think our lack of forward thinking is costing us at the moment.
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Post by bunnyscfc on Feb 20, 2023 9:23:48 GMT
As I get older, and the more I see my football-mad youngest lad totally bored shitless on a matchday in ST4, the more we go to watch non-league.
You can see exactly where your money goes, it's a far shorter day, he loves it, and the matches are more often more exciting.
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Post by nott1 on Feb 20, 2023 9:54:12 GMT
There is an easy answer to all this:- the city needs to be twice the size thereby transforming the crowds to 50k every match......so start procreating now!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2023 10:11:45 GMT
I find it much easier to take defeats when I attend the matches. I get it out of my system much quicker talking it through on the coach back with fellow supporters or discussing it on the walk back to the car after home games.
When I don't go like Saturday I find it much more difficult to lift myself.
I don't think it helps spending too much time on here after a defeat it's so toxic. I should no better at my age but when it's in your blood what can you do?
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Post by magwitch on Feb 20, 2023 11:34:29 GMT
The problem with Stoke City is very simple. The strikers are not good at scoring goals and very good at missing chances. This is allied to persistant recruitement failures both on and off the field wich has led to Saturday's debacle. The problems were spelled out with a clarity that no other commentators can match by Nigel Johnson, who will be sadly missed next season when they could well find themselves playing Port Vale.The person most responsible for this is John Coates, no two ways about that, as Nigel would say.JC MUST take responsibility and recognize that he is presiding over a disaster, and let Richard Smith have a go as Chairman. Other than that, they need to bring in a CEO to replace teflon Tony, who must be football savvy.
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Post by PotterLog on Feb 21, 2023 1:20:28 GMT
I’ve lived too far away from Stoke to attend regularly for over twenty years but for some fucking reason I still really look forward to matchdays, watch every game when I can and I’m pissed off when I can’t (then usually pissed off when I can). The reaction to defeats is very mixed, sometimes I laugh, sometimes I mutter and curse for a bit and forget about it, sometimes it completely ruins the weekend. I’ve come to accept it as some weird incurable pseudo-addiction that has no net positive influence on my life but that I just have to manage, probably in some form or other until the day I die.
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Feb 21, 2023 4:42:50 GMT
The most disappointing thing about Saturday is the Stokeness of it all. Great fixture on a satdee for a change, massive following, terrible result. Try not to let it affect me but it still does!
The worse thing is even a win tonight won't really instill much optimism. We're not turning corners we're going round in circles!
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Post by dwr17477 on Feb 21, 2023 6:49:47 GMT
A defeat used to have such a negative effect on my life - it'd ruin a weekend or rest of the week.It just doesn't bother me anymore and I think it has a lot to do with the way the club has gone. We should have bounced back but couldn't do it and it's become a shrugging of shoulders all round.
The realisation that there's more to life and enjoying family time, etc has finally sunk in, too. Keeping in touch with the score always happens. In fact, it's more prevalent now - I'll watch live or listen if I can but the reaction isn't the same. I think that's why I watch more because I can cope with the loss rather than get angry. What's even more crazy is I've seen more Stoke games this season than since the Macari era despite living further away and have even enjoyed family matchdays regardless of the result!
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