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Post by stayingupforbigbazza on Feb 11, 2024 5:06:48 GMT
Can anyone give me a rational explanation why we are the ONLY team that I am aware of that takes the knee before the game starts ??
All very PC and commendable but why do no other clubs do it ?
Is there a correlation with our league position or are we just shit at football but great at political correctness ?
Would love to know.
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Post by satoshi on Feb 11, 2024 7:31:14 GMT
Other clubs don’t do it because it means nothing and Black Lives Matter turned out to be a complete scam
Somehow we didn’t get the memo
Says it all about our club tbh
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Post by nickhfc on Feb 11, 2024 7:35:02 GMT
Go woke, go broke
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Post by frasier37 on Feb 11, 2024 7:45:24 GMT
Of all the things wrong at our club right now, this bothers you?  |
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Post by professorplump on Feb 11, 2024 7:50:44 GMT
It may be symbolic that we are on our knees before kick off and then on our knees during the match but I think we have bigger issues to deal with at the moment.
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Post by laneendstokie on Feb 11, 2024 7:55:21 GMT
Of all the things wrong at our club right now, this bothers you? Typical comment from a happy clapper, this nonsense gesture sets the tone of every match we play, the opposition are in the zone ready to go and we are kneeling like a bunch of wets praying at the altar of a discredited organisation. It’s a stupid woke distraction that needs to stop. |
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Post by malteser68 on Feb 11, 2024 7:56:34 GMT
Because we are managed by a bunch of idiots and simpletons. The fact that we still do the ‘take the knee gesture’ is as shameful as the football we play and our league position
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Post by malteser68 on Feb 11, 2024 7:57:31 GMT
Of all the things wrong at our club right now, this bothers you? Typical comment from a happy clapper, this nonsense gesture sets the tone of every match we play, the opposition are in the zone ready to go and we are kneeling like a bunch of wets praying at the altar of a discredited organisation. It’s a stupid woke distraction that needs to stop. Hear hear. Fully in agreement with your comment |
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Post by frasier37 on Feb 11, 2024 8:05:07 GMT
Of all the things wrong at our club right now, this bothers you? Typical comment from a happy clapper, this nonsense gesture sets the tone of every match we play, the opposition are in the zone ready to go and we are kneeling like a bunch of wets praying at the altar of a discredited organisation. It’s a stupid woke distraction that needs to stop. "happy clapper" in my opinion we are absolutely shit. our owners and his appointments couldnt run a bath, our players are scared of their own shadows, and im starting to question the manager....but, players wanting to take the knee before the game starts does not worry me one bit....why should it? |
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Post by laneendstokie on Feb 11, 2024 8:11:43 GMT
Because it makes us look a kind and friendly bunch of wets when we need to ooze testosterone and look ready for a scrap.
The opposition laugh up their sleeves at us.
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Post by frasier37 on Feb 11, 2024 8:15:27 GMT
Because it makes us look a kind and friendly bunch of wets when we need to ooze testosterone and look ready for a scrap. The opposition laugh up their sleeves at us.  oh right |
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Post by professorplump on Feb 11, 2024 8:15:45 GMT
Perhaps instead of taking the knee we should do a haka like the All Blacks rugby team do. It might get the adrenaline going a bit more!
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Post by laneendstokie on Feb 11, 2024 8:23:53 GMT
Because it makes us look a kind and friendly bunch of wets when we need to ooze testosterone and look ready for a scrap. The opposition laugh up their sleeves at us. oh right Let’s put it another way, why do you think the All Blacks do the Hakka, it’s not designed to make them look like a bunch of wet Nellie’s is it |
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Post by frasier37 on Feb 11, 2024 8:26:44 GMT
oh right Let’s put it another way, why do you think the All Blacks do the Hakka, it’s not designed to make them look like a bunch of wet Nellie’s is it  oh stop it now |
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Post by shrewspotter on Feb 11, 2024 8:28:38 GMT
Fuck taking the knee. Let's get up for the battle that's about to take place
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Post by prestwichpotter on Feb 11, 2024 8:28:40 GMT
Can anyone give me a rational explanation why we are the ONLY team that I am aware of that takes the knee before the game starts ?? All very PC and commendable but why do no other clubs do it ? Is there a correlation with our league position or are we just shit at football but great at political correctness ? Would love to know. We’re not the only team, other Championship teams have done it this season…… |
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Post by starkiller on Feb 11, 2024 8:35:58 GMT
It's nearly four years since a crime that has nothing to do with the UK, nevermind football, took place.
In that time the US organisation that this gesture symbolises has been proven fraudulent and criminal, with its opportunist, race-baiting hierarchy investigated for murky accounts.
Quite what any of this has to do with English football games, is exactly my point.
At least could we have some kind of end date announced for this empty gesture. Or is this for next hundred years of football? Has it gone too long that those continuing think they need some kind of exit strategy, for fear of 'offence'?
Here's an idea. Next game, when the whistle blows, take the kick off. It worked for a century.
Personally, if I want to choose to be offended by this, I find it patronising and objectional that there seems to be a need to continually lecture football fans specifically that they shouldn't be racist.
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Post by laneendstokie on Feb 11, 2024 8:37:39 GMT
Let’s put it another way, why do you think the All Blacks do the Hakka, it’s not designed to make them look like a bunch of wet Nellie’s is it oh stop it now No mate it just displays the soft underbelly that has developed in our squad, perhaps you’d be happy for them to also dress as morris dancers to make us look even softer |
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Post by laneendstokie on Feb 11, 2024 8:39:55 GMT
It's nearly four years since a crime that has nothing to do with the UK, nevermind football, took place. In that time the US organisation that this gesture symbolises has been proven fraudulent and criminal, with its opportunist, race-baiting hierarchy investigated for murky accounts. Quite what any of this has to do with English football games, is exactly my point. At least could we have some kind of end date announced for this empty gesture. Or is this for next hundred years of football? Has it gone too long that those continuing think they need some kind of exit strategy, for fear of 'offence'? Here's an idea. Next game, when the whistle blows, take the kick off. It worked for a century. Personally, if I want to choose to be offended by this, I find it patronising and objectional that there seems to be a need to continually lecture football fans specifically that they shouldn't be racist. |
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Post by laneendstokie on Feb 11, 2024 8:42:40 GMT
It's nearly four years since a crime that has nothing to do with the UK, nevermind football, took place. In that time the US organisation that this gesture symbolises has been proven fraudulent and criminal, with its opportunist, race-baiting hierarchy investigated for murky accounts. Quite what any of this has to do with English football games, is exactly my point. At least could we have some kind of end date announced for this empty gesture. Or is this for next hundred years of football? Has it gone too long that those continuing think they need some kind of exit strategy, for fear of 'offence'? Here's an idea. Next game, when the whistle blows, take the kick off. It worked for a century. Personally, if I want to choose to be offended by this, I find it patronising and objectional that there seems to be a need to continually lecture football fans specifically that they shouldn't be racist. Exactly mate well said. Let’s get away from this woke negative mindset that has poisoned our country |
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Post by figo85 on Feb 11, 2024 8:43:41 GMT
It’d be interesting to find out what folk mean when they use the term “woke”?
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Post by jontimmis on Feb 11, 2024 8:48:14 GMT
Isn’t it about social injustice. Maybe they are doing it for respect of the fans turning up to watch yet another rubbish performance.
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Post by terryconroysmagic on Feb 11, 2024 8:58:56 GMT
I couldn’t give a shit, they might as well sit on their arses coz 80% of them do that for the following 90 minutes anyway…
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Feb 11, 2024 9:16:00 GMT
Other clubs don’t do it because it means nothing and Black Lives Matter turned out to be a complete scam Somehow we didn’t get the memo Says it all about our club tbh Not sure we should be supporting a movement that aims to create division and abolish traditional family values either. It's an absolute joke. |
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Post by mamathestriker on Feb 11, 2024 9:22:26 GMT
It's an empty gesture now. It served a purpose for a time. Now it doesn't.
Like most things the club are tone deaf, it needs stopping.
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Post by mamathestriker on Feb 11, 2024 9:33:07 GMT
It's an empty gesture now. It served a purpose for a time. Now it doesn't. Like most things the club are tone deaf, it needs stopping. It's basically to appease a very small minority of our woke fan base who are absolute loons who funnily enough, are the first to dig into the club on most things. What have we become. I'm probably more disconnected I've been with Stoke than ever before. |
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Post by prestwichpotter on Feb 11, 2024 9:35:36 GMT
It's an empty gesture now. It served a purpose for a time. Now it doesn't. Like most things the club are tone deaf, it needs stopping. It's basically to appease a very small minority of our woke fan base who are absolute loons who funnily enough, are the first to dig into the club on most things. What have we become. I'm probably more disconnected I've been with Stoke than ever before. Made up bollocks. |
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Post by swinny on Feb 11, 2024 9:36:51 GMT
Other clubs don’t do it because it means nothing and Black Lives Matter turned out to be a complete scam Somehow we didn’t get the memo Says it all about our club tbh Just another example of the club being completely behind the times. Most organisations realised what a scam it was a long time ago. We can't even do virtue signalling right 😂 |
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Post by jordan2009 on Feb 11, 2024 9:48:09 GMT
The only Stoke player I've seen not take the knee was Pearson before the midweek game after Neil had been sacked. My first thought was that's two fingers upto the core group in the dressing room, the ones that threw his old boss under the bus. I still think it tbh.
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Post by laneendstokie on Feb 11, 2024 9:48:57 GMT
Other clubs don’t do it because it means nothing and Black Lives Matter turned out to be a complete scam Somehow we didn’t get the memo Says it all about our club tbh Just another example of the club being completely behind the times. Most organisations realised what a scam it was a long time ago. We can't even do virtue signalling right 😂 still being scammed by a bunch of black criminals and taken for mugs by a bunch of privileged millionaire lazy arse footballers. |
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oh stop it now
