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Post by Olgrligm on Feb 13, 2024 20:10:18 GMT
I regard Wollscheid quite warmly. He would walk into this team. Just a shame that he had a tendency to go completely bonkers on random occasions.
It never felt fair that he bore the brunt of us selling Huth purely because he was German and not very Huth-like, even though the two transfers happened ages apart.
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Post by generationex on Feb 13, 2024 20:31:13 GMT
Think a Potteries version of Dante's 9 Circles of Hell would be the best vision if QPR score first, with the 8th & 9th being strongly predominant Fraud & Treachery (and its not every thread you get Dante you know.... ) “I do not think the five towns will ever be described… It was ugliness on a scale so vast as to be sublime… Dante lived too soon.” Bennett must have foreseen this season then.
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Post by Glory Hunter on Feb 13, 2024 23:05:11 GMT
I really dislike Blues, but they managed it against Blackburn tonight, stuck with their team and managed a late winner. They didn’t turn and while I still despise them etc they stuck with it. We have to do the same. The situations are basically identical, had they lost tonight, they would be in real trouble. A good lesson, stick by the team, earn a scruffy 1-0 win or whatever.
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Post by kaney78 on Feb 14, 2024 5:09:15 GMT
hopefully the crowd will get behind the team and the team will reward them by getting 3 points.wishful thinking I know lol At this point in time I'd take a point,we can't afford to lose.
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Post by wakeypotter on Feb 14, 2024 7:51:06 GMT
Got to get behind the team tonight even if we go a goal or 2 behind. Once we start booing that will be that. It’s a massive game and we need the supporters on side to anything out of this. If fans want to boo leave it till the 95th minute. Can’t be there myself but please leave the booing till the end as this could change our season.
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Post by davethebass on Feb 14, 2024 8:18:53 GMT
Oohhhh...for the light show Burn them all after QPR take the lead It's all JC's fault on here ..he should sack himself Bayern gloating that he predicted relegation despite the fact he does it every season If only we still had Tymon..he was amazing The club is rotten even though it doesn't actually mean anything F- CK the Coates family off - not sure how it works but do it anyway I'm too fat for the concourses so they should should rebuild the stadium The usual So whenging, waffling, whiffling and sniffling. Yep, guarantee that's how it's going to be on this mb if it goes in that direction. Otherwise if we win - instead of the usual over-the-tops screaming that we're going to "piss the league," for most of us it 'll be a huge sigh of temporary relief until the next match. Am really hoping that we are hearing the latter after this match. Oh and don't forget "If only there was a station at the ground" "fill in the corners" and somebody blaming Kitson. This place wouldn't be the same without these "traditions." The Coates have made mistakes (duh) but f*cking them off in favor of the latest Hugo Chavez, Sheik Yerbouti, or Kim Jung Il would be stupidity on a thermonuclear level. The problem isn't the owners - it's that rung between them and the Manager which is missing that caped crusader - Football Man. (Not to be confused with Florida Man, who is always being arrested) Yep. That's about the top and bottom of it. Except you forgot the support act to World of Twist in your list of "traditions". Ok, I'll do it... Saw Whenging, Waffling, Whiffling, and Sniffling supporting World of Twist in the early 90s. Great band, a bit like Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, though I must admit I'd never heard of them. (Oh, there's another tradition).
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Post by davethebass on Feb 14, 2024 9:05:28 GMT
Think a Potteries version of Dante's 9 Circles of Hell would be the best vision if QPR score first, with the 8th & 9th being strongly predominant Fraud & Treachery (and its not every thread you get Dante you know.... ) “I do not think the five towns will ever be described… It was ugliness on a scale so vast as to be sublime… Dante lived too soon.” Bennett must have foreseen this season then. It always fuckin annoys me so much that Bennett calls the six towns the five towns!! It actually puts me off reading his books. I mean he must have fucking known. It's like that film 8 Mile. It's actually 7 mile in real life. Why??? Poetic licence my arse. Rant over. (It's not like me to rant on here lol 😅 )
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2024 9:17:16 GMT
I regard Wollscheid quite warmly. He would walk into this team. Just a shame that he had a tendency to go completely bonkers on random occasions. It never felt fair that he bore the brunt of us selling Huth purely because he was German and not very Huth-like, even though the two transfers happened ages apart. I believe our stats with him playing were pretty decent, he ran funny so that was enough to blast him from the experts in the stands.
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Post by mamathestriker on Feb 14, 2024 10:00:16 GMT
I'm going to sing my heart out to save some little twerp on Twitter saying it's the fan's fault.
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on Feb 14, 2024 11:10:25 GMT
“I do not think the five towns will ever be described… It was ugliness on a scale so vast as to be sublime… Dante lived too soon.” Bennett must have foreseen this season then. It always fuckin annoys me so much that Bennett calls the six towns the five towns!! It actually puts me off reading his books. I mean he must have fucking known. It's like that film 8 Mile. It's actually 7 mile in real life. Why??? Poetic licence my arse. Rant over. (It's not like me to rant on here lol 😅 ) Remarkably Stoke City FC featured large in Victorian Literature: Arnold Bennett's seminal work on Stoke City's innovative lone striker formation - "Goalhanger". Charles Dickens' masterwork on the building if SCFCs first stadium - "Bleak House" And of course Jules Verne's highly prophetic work "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
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Post by Scouse on Feb 14, 2024 11:19:33 GMT
TBH expecting the atmosphere to be flatter than last nights pancakes , hopefully fans will stay behind the team , not least after the early minutes , or at least don’t turn on em ..though know thats an ask , especially if we struggle or god forbid they score
Expecting long periods of silence , rather than a rabid mob .. if things go badly just as likely fans will leave in their droves as much as anything
Hopefully we’ll tighten up defensively and find just enough upfront to get us over the line
Big night , small crowd
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Post by peepin on Feb 14, 2024 11:25:41 GMT
It will be tasty that is for sure , QPR games at the Brit generally are…..whether it’s jumping out of the Boothen End to lamp their goal keeper or March Bircham the wanker getting Taggart sent off. Tonight I feel will be no exception…..exciting times.
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Post by stiggerstackle on Feb 14, 2024 11:26:57 GMT
Midweek + on the telly (red button) + Valentine's night = it'll be shite.
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Post by rickyfullerbeer on Feb 14, 2024 12:15:49 GMT
It's at least the third time we've been at this point already this season. It's a complete and utter circus. Further to this, have we been 'up for' a game yet this season? We had that three wins in a week under Alex Niel after things were about to turn dicey, but I can't remember us putting in a performance when we have needed it, despite frequently being in a position where it's been a big game because we are out on our arse. The players have the same apathy as the fans. We used to dine out on us being 'up for it' and made a name for ourselves globally!
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Post by davethebass on Feb 14, 2024 12:30:26 GMT
It always fuckin annoys me so much that Bennett calls the six towns the five towns!! It actually puts me off reading his books. I mean he must have fucking known. It's like that film 8 Mile. It's actually 7 mile in real life. Why??? Poetic licence my arse. Rant over. (It's not like me to rant on here lol 😅 ) Remarkably Stoke City FC featured large in Victorian Literature: Arnold Bennett's seminal work on Stoke City's innovative lone striker formation - "Goalhanger". Charles Dickens' masterwork on the building if SCFCs first stadium - "Bleak House" And of course Jules Verne's highly prophetic work "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". There are 20,000 leagues? Oh my god that means we could get relegated another 19,998 times!!! I thought the television version of Goalhanger in the 70s was a bit crap. Only one character got the accent right, and that was only cos the actor was from Stoke.
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Post by dirtclod on Feb 14, 2024 12:40:44 GMT
I remember Wollscheid as well. Some liked to call him Wollshite on occasion. Always seemed a good egg and the other players seemed to like him. Hey, He had jazz-hands so certain allowances for style need to be made here.
Regardless of looking like he'd been thrown from a moving vehicle when running, he DID get around. Would have a mistake in him defensively but that could be used to describe most of our team for the past 8 years.
Yeah, he'd walk right into this team. (But keep in mind, so would Agnes Brown - probably a good shout for enforcer) "Take that shite somewhere else! Now feck off!!" But she's probably already committed to Celtic.
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Post by pretzel on Feb 14, 2024 12:42:00 GMT
20.9% Oxygen, 79% Nitrogen
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Post by hamsta2 on Feb 14, 2024 12:55:34 GMT
I’m rather hoping my stream goes down and I’ll watch Great British Menu instead.
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Post by dutchstokie on Feb 14, 2024 13:09:34 GMT
I guess I will have to subscribe to Stoke City + again just to torture myself......
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Post by thisisouryear on Feb 14, 2024 13:14:22 GMT
The players will need the fans to set the tone before kick off, they are a bit lost at the moment and need help. The atmosphere needs to be like we are playing Arsenal, if it is then hopefully the players can react to it. It feels like it's going to be a bad night to be honest, the general mood seems very negative and negativity spreads like a disease.
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Post by thisisouryear on Feb 14, 2024 13:16:45 GMT
I guess I will have to subscribe to Stoke City + again just to torture myself...... Valentine's day at least offers an opportunity to avoid it. I can guarantee many supporters will take that opportunity tonight
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Post by rickyfullerbeer on Feb 14, 2024 13:41:10 GMT
The players will need the fans to set the tone before kick off, they are a bit lost at the moment and need help. The atmosphere needs to be like we are playing Arsenal, if it is then hopefully the players can react to it. It feels like it's going to be a bad night to be honest, the general mood seems very negative and negativity spreads like a disease. I'm away so I won't be there, and you can comletely understand if people don't fancy it, but it'd be good to back them tonight no matter what. We need the three points. People can vent their anger on Saturday at home to Coventry.
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Post by thisisouryear on Feb 14, 2024 14:08:12 GMT
The players will need the fans to set the tone before kick off, they are a bit lost at the moment and need help. The atmosphere needs to be like we are playing Arsenal, if it is then hopefully the players can react to it. It feels like it's going to be a bad night to be honest, the general mood seems very negative and negativity spreads like a disease. I'm away so I won't be there, and you can comletely understand if people don't fancy it, but it'd be good to back them tonight no matter what. We need the three points. People can vent their anger on Saturday at home to Coventry. It's our biggest game of the season, the fans need to be in good voice before kick off. When things are going good we have the best fans on the planet, the players need a good taste of what could be, who knows it might wake them up and give them an adrenaline rush. We should be saving the anger until the season is over as it won't help anyone or our situation. I've never seen a team respond positively to angry fans, it just doesn't happen.
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Post by stantheman on Feb 14, 2024 14:16:10 GMT
The atmosphere tonight will be similar to that of a waiting room of men before their prostate exam.....
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Post by keasie1863 on Feb 14, 2024 14:29:58 GMT
The atmosphere tonight will be similar to that of a waiting room of men before their prostate exam..... Depends on who's doing the exam 🤔
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Post by Bera’s Beano on Feb 14, 2024 14:36:21 GMT
As with every single game we play, I’ll start with a fresh start, give the team as much backing as possible.
But if it follows the trend of the last 5 years, that’ll be followed by half arsed players which then frustrate us all and it turns.
No one ever gets booed at kick off.
If the players came out, gave everything and worked for the 90, then I can almost guarantee that 90% of the fans wouldn’t boo and would clap the players off for their efforts despite the results.
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Post by a on Feb 14, 2024 14:41:02 GMT
Glad Schumacher has put to bed this debate about whether it’s the fans who should be geeing up the players or the players giving the fans a reason to cheer them on.
Hopefully we can all move on now and stop this silly debate. 😘
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Post by lordb on Feb 14, 2024 14:42:41 GMT
I’m rather hoping my stream goes down and I’ll watch Great British Menu instead. mains & puddings
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Post by stokiedan17 on Feb 14, 2024 14:50:23 GMT
The fans and atmosphere needs to be absolutely fierce tonight. We need to make it as toxic a place as possible for QPR and drag that ball in to the net as we did so many time in the premier league.
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Post by Squeekster on Feb 14, 2024 15:05:03 GMT
I'm going to sing my heart out to save some little twerp on Twitter saying it's the fan's fault. They will any way as they won't be there to hear you!
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