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Post by Staffsoatcake on Feb 24, 2024 20:59:03 GMT
Can understand giving up,after all having to watch a bunch of crap players giving up week in week out is soul destroying.
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Post by Bagwash on Feb 24, 2024 21:31:43 GMT
Was thinking of going Leeds only because I've not been for years but come to my senses and decided to watch us get embarrassed at home whilst spending my tkt money on beer and a takeaway. These snowflakes that comprise most of our squad don't deserve my support.
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Post by tony harrison on Feb 24, 2024 22:17:10 GMT
As an ex season ticket holder, I now feel disconnected from the club as many others have posted. In the past, I've worked away in Sunderland and travelled to Peterborough in the afternoon after using the excuse we needed parts. Travelled back to carry on with the job early morning, without any suspicion from the site. All for Stoke City and a trip to Wembley. The extra mileage took some explaining. In 1987 I went to our match against Spurs 3 weeks after fracturing my spine. I was in agony but Stoke City meant so much to me. I had to hide behind a police horse lorry outside the police station when the 2 sets of supporters ran up and down the road. Had many great days over the years, maybe should have been more? This is Stoke City. There was a connection with the players then. Not now though, when the players have their minds on other things going on in the world prior to kick off and forget about the football , the fans and the club. I'm done with it now, other things to do on a Saturday for a more pleasant day out.
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billc
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Post by billc on Feb 24, 2024 22:48:03 GMT
I have supported Stoke since the early 60s . It has not been a smooth trajectory . The good times in that over 60 year period have comfortably been dwarfed by the dreadful times . It is difficult to say what has been the bleakest moment … Blythe Spartans in 78…. The “Holocaust season” of 84 - 85 … the Wigan game that saw Alan Ball sacked .. I could go on .
On the other hand there is the Leeds game in 74 .. the Durban promotion season . I recall a win on an Easter weekend against West Ham on a cow patch of a pitch. The 4-4 draw against Luton when Fox was sent off . And perhaps my favourite season the Macari time and the long unbeaten run . The first win in the Premiership against Villa , etc
That is the point . I lived only a few hundred yards from the old Victoria Ground . We could hear the roar of the crowd from Lytton St in the 62/3 season .
I don’t think these links can ever be broken . What ever happens I think of the old drinking toast of the Irish Republican clubs of the 19th century. Our time will come
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Post by st3mark on Feb 24, 2024 22:54:41 GMT
Strange as this sounds, I'd be more likely to give up going if we stayed up. Another year of this sounds way more miserable than winning most weeks.
If we stay up I've got little faith we'll improve.
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Post by Parkhall Wanderer on Feb 24, 2024 23:56:01 GMT
Didn’t bother going today despite having a ticket. Did Hanley Town v Leek Town instead. Like others I went my first game in the late 1960’s and apart from a spell in the mid 1980’s where shift work and weekend working meant I couldn’t get to many games I’ve been home and away for years through thick and mostly thin times. Season Ticket holder since 1990 ( having had one 1973 through to 1979 first time round) it’s hurting tonight to see the self inflicted mess the club is in. If League 1 is to be our fate next season I don’t see any signs of a quick turnaround unless there’s major change in the hierarchy at the top. JC has made far too many cock ups since he's held the reins and I cannot and will not forgive his blind stupidity ( and possible arrogance) in respect of where we are tonight. So yes I can honestly say this could be my last season as things stand, there are far more pleasurable and less stressful things to do on a Saturday afternoon than being put through the wringer supporting Stoke and having an hierarchy that is totally and utterly inept.
It hurts saying I won’t possibly be going next season but the time has come to say au revoir Stoke City hopefully one day calmer waters await.
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