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Post by jcscfc on Oct 26, 2008 18:45:04 GMT
Hull had a bit of luck playing AT HOME against FULHAM in the 1st game to build their confidence.
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Post by beagriestache on Oct 26, 2008 18:46:19 GMT
This board is like a convention for bipolar sufferers!
Ecstatic one week, suicidal the next. Perspective everybody, please. We're not even a quarter of the way through the season. Hull have had a freakish start and may even do an Ipswich and finish in the top ten. We have had a tough start and have done moderately well at best. IF we beat Sunderland we'll have 10 points from ten games - a point a game is almost enough to stay up.
We always knew it was going to be tough, but some of the reaction on here beggars belief.
I predicted before the season started that there'd be calls for Pulis head before December if we were in the bottom three by then. I stand by that and think that would be utterly the wrong thing to do. Support all the way to game 38 even if we do end up going down is what's needed.
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Post by slangking on Oct 26, 2008 18:48:47 GMT
Fucking brainless comparing us to Hull, look where Everton, Newcastle and Spurs are, is anyone from their own support comparing them to fucking Hull? We have some real morons as 'supporters'.
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Post by Timmypotter on Oct 26, 2008 18:50:57 GMT
I have to agree with StokeMark - Hull will get their tough run of results sometime this season. When Reading finished comfortably top half in their first prem season they'd dominated the CCC the season before. I saw them at Wolves that season, and it was like watching a well established Prem side against a 1st div. side (Wolves finished 7th that season). That was the quality they had.
Hull aren't half the side Reading were then, and what they've bought in hasn't made them that side either.
Let's not obsess with Hull anyway. I reckon they'll get stuck, but if they don't, then so what. Hopefully Stoke will finish 17th and stay up on GD.
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Post by SneydGreenStokie on Oct 26, 2008 18:51:18 GMT
Oh well, thats ok then. I feel much better now. Just because that is where we used to be, does not mean we have to accept that we are simply not competing. It obviously bothers me more than you if all you can do is happy clap. SGS D'oh! You got me - you're obviously a bigger and better fan than me. I'll back down. How anyone can call today's performance 'not competing' is beyond me. No one has said anyone is a bigger fan than antbody else. Make sure you read the letters that make the words before making stupid statements like that SGS
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Post by beagriestache on Oct 26, 2008 18:51:22 GMT
Actually, I understand why some want to compare us with Hull, two promoted sides etc. They want us to be doing as well as them.
Well, it hasn't happened. The main thing is not to throw the toys out of the pram, roll our sleeves up, accept it's not a quarter of the way through yet and keep supporting the team and the manager.
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Post by SneydGreenStokie on Oct 26, 2008 18:53:41 GMT
Fucking brainless comparing us to Hull, look where Everton, Newcastle and Spurs are, is anyone from their own support comparing them to fucking Hull? We have some real morons as 'supporters'. Brainless??? Your fucking brainless for suggesting we should not compare ourselves to Hull. They came up with us about 3 weeks later. Have a similar team, manager, budget and 13 more points. If anything we had an advantage with having 3 more weeks to prepare, and having spent over £13 million more than them. Open your eyes. SGS
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Post by slangking on Oct 26, 2008 18:56:34 GMT
It makes fuckall difference that they were promoted with us, West Brom were promoted with us no fucker is comparing us to them.
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Post by tazi on Oct 26, 2008 18:57:07 GMT
Always thought that our home form is going have to be something special to keep us in this league.
Whilst it's easy to suggest that Pulis should be doing this and Pulis should be doing that away from home one thing that i fail to see posted is how fortunate Hull were NOT to be out of the game by half time "not my words but that of Tony Mowbrays" because WBA failed to take their chances.
In other words i would be loathe to see Stoke go totally gung-ho away from home or against the bigger clubs down at the Brittania because quite realistically i can see one of this seasons relegation places being decided by goal difference.
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Post by dannys88 on Oct 26, 2008 18:58:57 GMT
Fucking brainless comparing us to Hull, look where Everton, Newcastle and Spurs are, is anyone from their own support comparing them to fucking Hull? We have some real morons as 'supporters'. Brainless??? Your fucking brainless for suggesting we should not compare ourselves to Hull. They came up with us about 3 weeks later. Have a similar team, manager, budget and 13 more points. If anything we had an advantage with having 3 more weeks to prepare, and having spent over £13 million more than them. Open your eyes. SGS you need to calm down fella
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Post by beagriestache on Oct 26, 2008 19:01:01 GMT
Yes!
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Post by tazi on Oct 26, 2008 19:03:44 GMT
SneydGreenStokie makes a thread titled "Doom and Gloom" and yet has not being to the match and yet their are others that have attended and thought that Stoke played good whilst having at least 3-4 good chances. That does not sound like a team that's sitting back but more like a team that gets picked off by quality players that should quite rightly be quality when they're costing anything of up to £30+ million pounds.
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Post by SneydGreenStokie on Oct 26, 2008 19:08:00 GMT
SneydGreenStokie makes a thread titled "Doom and Gloom" and yet has not being to the match and yet their are others that have attended and thought that Stoke played good whilst having at least 3-4 good chances. That does not sound like a team that's sitting back but more like a team that gets picked off by quality players that should quite rightly be quality when they're costing anything of up to £30+ million pounds. Tazi - I watched online pal SGS
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Post by dannys88 on Oct 26, 2008 19:09:22 GMT
SneydGreenStokie makes a thread titled "Doom and Gloom" and yet has not being to the match and yet their are others that have attended and thought that Stoke played good whilst having at least 3-4 good chances. That does not sound like a team that's sitting back but more like a team that gets picked off by quality players that should quite rightly be quality when they're costing anything of up to £30+ million pounds. Tazi - I watched online pal SGS you need to take defeat like a man and not a child ???
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Post by SneydGreenStokie on Oct 26, 2008 19:11:41 GMT
Tazi - I watched online pal SGS you need to take defeat like a man and not a child ??? What? Are you alright? SGS
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Post by tazi on Oct 26, 2008 19:12:53 GMT
SneydGreenStokie makes a thread titled "Doom and Gloom" and yet has not being to the match and yet their are others that have attended and thought that Stoke played good whilst having at least 3-4 good chances. That does not sound like a team that's sitting back but more like a team that gets picked off by quality players that should quite rightly be quality when they're costing anything of up to £30+ million pounds. Tazi - I watched online pal SGS Then surely you would have seen those chances that we created and that it's not all doom and gloom at all.
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Post by SneydGreenStokie on Oct 26, 2008 19:21:29 GMT
I did Tazi. I also saw us getting opened up each time they went forward. Its not all bad I know but we need to really improve away to stand a chance.
SGS
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Post by tazi on Oct 26, 2008 19:24:57 GMT
Same as my other post stated - We are going to get opened up by quality players that cost anything of up to £30 million.
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Post by Pugsley on Oct 26, 2008 19:28:13 GMT
There's some fucking negative bell ends on this site Of course there is - they are the antidote to the happy clapping *****.
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Post by dannys88 on Oct 26, 2008 19:31:17 GMT
There's some fucking negative bell ends on this site Of course there is - they are the antidote to the happy clapping *****. i take it you are a happy clapping **** then pugsley
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Post by bogus on Oct 26, 2008 19:38:13 GMT
I must admit that I came into this season thinking that if we get 10 points away from home, all season, we'll have done remarkably well................make that incredibly well. If we can win half of our home games, pick up 10 points away, we have a chance, we would be thereabouts. I suppose it's all about your expectations really. I approach every away game expecting that we will get nothing at all, they are ALL extremely tough. When we get something, like the point away at Anfield, it's a bonus, wonderful, something won against the odds and a +ve in the bank. Even when we come close, like Borough away, then it almost feels like a +ve, a step in the right direction. When we get nowt, like we did today when the £30million Brazillian saw us off, along with his multi-million pound mates, it's nothing more than what I expected (as opposed to hoped for) and so I just move on to the next game. I think some of you need to manage your expectations a bit better this year and hold your nerve. To go back to that half the home games (lets say 10) and 10pts away. Well that can be achieved in just 14 games which means, as with all teams in a struggle to survive, we could well get beaten in up to TWENTY FOUR games this year, but still have the chance to survive. Some of you need to develop thicker skins, get used to it, we will almost certainly lose a helluva lot more games yet. See ya down the Brit on Wednesday. Even I'm "expecting" a little for this one
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Post by Pugsley on Oct 26, 2008 19:44:37 GMT
Of course there is - they are the antidote to the happy clapping *****. i take it you are a happy clapping **** then pugsley No, but I aren't a negative bell end either. Always going to be tough for Stoke away from home ANYWHERE, but we aren't helped out by a manager who is clearly finding it difficult in the top league. A little perspective is needed on both sides - we look certainties for relegation and we aren't winning games so people have the right to question the Manager and the team. Also, I'm not sure people realise what a massive task Stoke have got not to finish bottom, let alone avoid relegation. Saying that - Pulis out ;D
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Post by stokemark on Oct 26, 2008 19:54:10 GMT
Can I add - In terms of putting things in perspective I have always felt that if we can average a point a game all season then we will have a fighting chance to stop up. If we can beat Sunderland on Wednesday then we are 'on target' - Lets not forget that we have only played 4 at home so far and have won 2 of those ! We have to stick together, support the team and hope that we can give a good account of ourselves rather than be 'whipping boys' - Thats what the first season in the Prem is all about - Ask Sunderland who are a much bigger club than us with far more money and certainly didnt start last season much differently than we have (if you want to make stupid comparisons
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2008 21:22:04 GMT
I agree with AndyHar - it's not as if we turned up looking to shut up shop, we did create chances and didn't take them, we did try and knock it around.
The defence, Faye apart, and midfield, Soares apart, were poor and we gave it away far too often, but we were always going to get some batterings this season - people need to be realistic.
As for Hull - they deserve all the credit in the world, but before we start wailing about them being better than us, let's see how they do when they play the likes of Chelsea, Liverpool, Villa, City, Pompey eh? The Arsenal result was amazing, but most of their wins have come against crisis teams and the league's poor relations. I'm not knocking that - it's absolutely what you have to do - but let's see how they do against the big boys and we do against the West Hams, Newcastles, Fulhams etc. Then the comparisons will be a bit more even.
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Post by Timmypotter on Apr 6, 2009 10:55:04 GMT
Did the nay-sayers on here not see the game just now? Man City have just produced one of the performances of the season so far, and not surprising after their pants run up to this game and the quality they have. Their footy was flowing and fast - we did well to break it up as much as we did. Plus we had real chances too. Fuller should have scored, and two headers from 6 yards out were straight at Hart. Consistent home form is what will pick us up our points this season. Hull are freakish - am I right in thinking their goal difference was the worst in the top half of the prem before the West Brom game. Bubble waiting to be burst. Bubble waiting to be burst? Hull - 9 games - 20 points Stoke - 9 games - 7 points Will have to be a pretty big bubble pal SGS It was quite a big bubble, wasn't it? (sorry, couldn't resist).
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Post by sage on Apr 6, 2009 11:21:23 GMT
Heh heh. ;D
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Post by Targaryen Stokie on Apr 6, 2009 11:26:43 GMT
:-)
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Post by stokesyboy01 on Apr 6, 2009 11:51:29 GMT
It's all about good banter, however!!!!! how many people have been left with egg on their faces, relegating stoke after one game, saying stoke would do a Derby, not get a point by christmas, always slagging us of on MOTD, stupid comments by pundits, especially radio pundits, Ian "the plank" Wright for one, and to cap it all, our own supporters on this forum.
Read and weep
True to Stoke always stoke
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Post by truckerged on Apr 7, 2009 13:11:55 GMT
what has pissed me off is when we have a bad result i can hear the clicking of the keyboard its that immense. i cant bring myself to come and read some of the absoloute shite that is posted on here after a bad result. i did reply to one of these posts saying its nor the defeat its how you bounce back from it and our tone has done a sterling job in boucing back and long may he continue
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Post by ruts66 on Apr 7, 2009 13:24:55 GMT
I always suspected there was some middle ground between the PHW's and The Rimmers.
Indeed there is, the Bi-polars... ;D
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