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Post by wakefieldstokie on Mar 6, 2009 12:59:36 GMT
Is it cool with the kids to support Stoke these days? Are we claiming some 'young uns' which may of gone to the dark side - Man Utd/Liverpool etc (showing my age by using the word 'cool' but didn't want to embarrass myself further by using street talk  ;D) |
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Post by Del Boy on Mar 6, 2009 13:02:34 GMT
I think kids are coming around to supporting Stoke again nowadays as they actually have the chance to see big teams down the Brit
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2009 13:10:26 GMT
My kids really taken to it this year. The last few years they could take it or leave it and quite often would say they didn't want to come with me  This year however they're counting down the days till the next game, MOTD and football first are constantly repeated, tactics are discussed daily. The first thing the 11 year old does as soon as she's in from school is bang on ssn to see whats happened during the day  Its great stuff & whatever now happens they'll be stokeys for life! |
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Post by y_oh_y_delilah on Mar 6, 2009 13:11:22 GMT
I've supported Stoke since I was a kid and I was/am cool, so the answer is yes, it is cool to support Stoke.
;D
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Post by colourboy on Mar 6, 2009 13:17:48 GMT
my daughters 11, she has been with me on and off since the age of 6 or 7. last season and this season she has had season tickets.... my son who is 4 has pleaded for a home shirt but due to the supplies of them not being readily available he has had to settle for a dressing gown. (which he will not go to sleep in without wearing) youngest daughter is 3 and has yet to understand but she will  |
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Post by dexter97 on Mar 6, 2009 13:20:10 GMT
My missus told me a story that made me smile earlier this week. While I was at the Villa game on Sunday, her friend came over to visit with her kids, the eldest of whom is a Chelski fan. He went outside to play with my kids, and returned upset because a load of lads had been giving him grief for being a gloryhunter! The times they are a-changin'. Warms the heart it does. |
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Post by lordb on Mar 6, 2009 13:22:21 GMT
clearly promotion & then being in the prem has had a massive effect on local kids.
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Post by NE8Stokie on Mar 6, 2009 13:24:06 GMT
My son's birthday is in June... Just in time for the new strip... I started early on him to make sure he knew where he stood. For the last 3 seasons he's had a stoke top with his name and age on the back. This year, for his 7th birthday, he's asked if he can have Delap on the back... My work is done!  |
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Post by eddyclamp on Mar 6, 2009 13:25:33 GMT
One of the most pleasing things about this season in the Prem.is the amount of young `uns walking around with Stoke tops on,and how many seem to be at the games.great for the present and the future.
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Post by dexter97 on Mar 6, 2009 13:29:03 GMT
Social Services should run parenting classes for people who are guilty of failing to discourage gloryhunting in their offspring.
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Post by glouscesterstokie on Mar 6, 2009 13:36:10 GMT
ive always had stick for supporting stoke but they can fuck off...im 17 now had stick for along time...gloryhunters i hate them so much!
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Post by stokemark on Mar 6, 2009 13:36:56 GMT
Its funny this
I had something of an 'epiphany' with my son on wednesday night. Now Ive bringing him since he was 2 years old (11 now) but we live 'down south' so non of his mates support Stoke and infact this season, becasue of the Prem spotlight, he's had more grief than ever.
He's quite a quiet lad too and tends to enjoy the games but not necesarily sing or shout alot. However, when Riccy's goal went in, he was going mental and singing 'City til I die'
When we got in the car for the long jouney homes, he turned me and said, out of the blue, 'I love Stoke dad' - It was a moment of wonder for me, a moment when I knew that it was all over - He is Stoke for life.
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Post by glouscesterstokie on Mar 6, 2009 13:39:10 GMT
ive had more grief than ever... the amount of stick ive had its unreal... i had it since my 10 yrs of supporting stoke and i have to remind man ure " fans " that they have a game tonight .. pathetic
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Post by DannyStokie on Mar 6, 2009 13:42:01 GMT
I still get stick now, I just laugh at the glory hunters, who only say anything if we lose.
It's a fuckin joke some of the 15/16 year olds in stoke have no fucking clue with life. If you ask them where they from, they say "manchester" in a stoke accent.
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Post by mermaidsal on Mar 6, 2009 13:43:35 GMT
Mine (11 year old twin boys) don't get any tea or their beds made if they don't support Stoke. But they find it pretty damn cool in any case.
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Post by mrsouthenstokie on Mar 6, 2009 13:54:56 GMT
of course it is. the more stokies the better.
im a young stokie and i follow them cause my dad supports them, and in my house we hate man u and spurs so y not.
oh yh i will never support any 1 else appart from stoke and england. and the local team!!
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Post by powchirper on Mar 6, 2009 13:54:58 GMT
Come the week-end when the dog walking duties are passed to me i take to going to birchall in Leek by the Britannia where there are 9/10 football and 2 cricket pitches, Up to a couple of years back there would be a couple of kids with Stoke tops on playing about and the rest would be you know who's tops, Now i love walking round the place as there's more and more Stoke tops appearing and less of the shit. On a side note, last year a kid in a shit top tried to stroke the dog and i told him that the dog bites utd fans but loves Stokies, that got em all talking i tell thee. |
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Post by alexthestokie08 on Mar 6, 2009 14:40:59 GMT
im 13 and its alot cooler to suport stoke than vale, crewe or 1 of the big teams
only dickhead glory hunters suport the big 4(the ones that dont live there anyway)
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Post by block30row19 on Mar 6, 2009 14:45:10 GMT
I was walking the dog and a lad in a shit top came up to me and said "hey mister  does your dog bite" I said nar he loves kids. As he bent down to stroke the dog, the dog immediately pounced up barking and tried to take a chunk out of him. The shit fan jumped back and shat himself shouting FFS thought you said it didn't bite. I replied it inner my dog.............. Now Fuck OFF ;D |
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Post by GrahamHyde on Mar 6, 2009 15:08:19 GMT
I grew up supporting Stoke when they were in what is now League One and there were plenty of shit fans in my years at school who i now see at Stoke games on regular occasions.
Not only that, there's people who weren't even into football at school who are now regular watchers of the Mighty Potters.
Myself, i've watched Stoke from the days of Ben Petty and Nicky Mohan, onwards. Things have always got better really.
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Post by glouscesterstokie on Mar 6, 2009 15:09:42 GMT
I grew up supporting Stoke when they were in what is now League One and there were plenty of shit fans in my years at school who i now see at Stoke games on regular occasions. Not only that, there's people who weren't even into football at school who are now regular watchers of the Mighty Potters. Myself, i've watched Stoke from the days of Ben Petty and Nicky Mohan, onwards. Things have always got better really. same here... atleast all the glory hunters know who we are now!!! |
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Post by GrahamHyde on Mar 6, 2009 15:16:45 GMT
That's why when we beat Arsenal and drew twice with Liverpool, i immediately found all of my old school mates on Facebook who supported those teams and rubbed their noses in it.
Hell, if we'd had beaten ManUre i'd have been there all day.
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Post by manc_lass14 on Mar 6, 2009 15:32:05 GMT
Very cool... I love being 1 of the only people in Urmston, Manchester, to support Stoke!!! Saying that I have seen tons and tons of Stokies in Urmston recently!! Loving it ;D |
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Post by Staying up for Grandadstokey on Mar 6, 2009 15:40:01 GMT
Grandson Stokey has asked for a season ticket for his 11th birthday in July.Four generations of die hard Stokeys.However there was a time when my son was young that I did not encourage him to support Stoke(as long as he didn't support anyone else) because I had had so many ruined weekends over the years following Stoke.I need not have bothered though he insisted I took him ,his first full season watching Stoke was the Holocaust season , and if he could come through that and still wanting to go, which he did then you are truly a Stokey for life.
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Post by eddy_under_fire'sviews on Mar 6, 2009 15:45:07 GMT
When i first got into football when i was about 7, i am completely ashamed to say i followed the shit (as in, i had a shirt). but that was what everyone did at primary school back then. But luckily for me, my uncle persevered, took me to so many games, including plenty of away games and he slowly converted me. I remember the exact moment i realised i was a stokie for life. I think i was maybe 12 or 13, and it was when we got shafted away to Gillingham in the play-off semi final. I remember being alone in my house (what the hell was my mother doing???) sitting on the floor in our tiny kitchen where our radio was, listening to us crash out of the promotion race. Tears absolutely streaming down my face. It was one of the worst moments in my life, but my love for Stoke was so big that night, it would never die out. Now, my little brother is 13, and we're doing the exact same to convince him that Stoke is the right path. I physically dragged him against his will to the Liverpool away game this season, but by the end of the game when the final whistle went, he was going mental, singing all the songs and everything. That was certainly the moment he became a stokie forever! Thats the most mental i've ever seen him, only surpassed by Villa park on sunday! Good times |
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Post by longthrow on Mar 6, 2009 18:03:37 GMT
I got into foorball a bit later then other kids. My dad was a stoke fan but one of hose armchair stoke fans. Attend 5 or 6 games kinda guy (hasnt attended since we got beat 7-0 against brum).
My mate got me into footie in 1996 i think and i didnt realy folow a team think i had a man utd shirt and everton shirt and a Man city shirt.
I become a stoke fan when i went to my first vic match all i can remember was wishing i could sit down i was tired of standing up!
The first year i would actualy call my self a stoke fan is the year we got relegated so basicly stoke have been a div 3 team when i was growing up. Been a die hard fan since the first year in league 1 thank god.
For people like me who are born into a family where supporting a certain team doest matter its a rough few years until you find your club.
19 Years old now and season ticket for 4 seasons
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Post by wembley4372 on Mar 6, 2009 18:07:10 GMT
My missus told me a story that made me smile earlier this week. While I was at the Villa game on Sunday, her friend came over to visit with her kids, the eldest of whom is a Chelski fan. He went outside to play with my kids, and returned upset because a load of lads had been giving him grief for being a gloryhunter! The times they are a-changin'. Warms the heart it does. I blame the parents |
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Post by pattayapotter on Mar 6, 2009 18:21:03 GMT
I was born with red and white blood there was no other option
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Post by stokie25 on Mar 6, 2009 18:47:47 GMT
My son's birthday is in June... Just in time for the new strip... I started early on him to make sure he knew where he stood. For the last 3 seasons he's had a stoke top with his name and age on the back. This year, for his 7th birthday, he's asked if he can have Delap on the back... My work is done! Get him joined up with the City 7's...great scheme and loads of freebies and offers www.stokecityfc.com/page/City7s/0,,10310,00.html |
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Post by stokie25 on Mar 6, 2009 18:49:15 GMT
When i first got into football when i was about 7, i am completely ashamed to say i followed the shit (as in, i had a shirt). but that was what everyone did at primary school back then. But luckily for me, my uncle persevered, took me to so many games, including plenty of away games and he slowly converted me. I remember the exact moment i realised i was a stokie for life. I think i was maybe 12 or 13, and it was when we got shafted away to Gillingham in the play-off semi final. I remember being alone in my house (what the hell was my mother doing???) sitting on the floor in our tiny kitchen where our radio was, listening to us crash out of the promotion race. Tears absolutely streaming down my face. It was one of the worst moments in my life, but my love for Stoke was so big that night, it would never die out. Now, my little brother is 13, and we're doing the exact same to convince him that Stoke is the right path. I physically dragged him against his will to the Liverpool away game this season, but by the end of the game when the final whistle went, he was going mental, singing all the songs and everything. That was certainly the moment he became a stokie forever! Thats the most mental i've ever seen him, only surpassed by Villa park on sunday! Good times You have 'eddys mum' to thank for that, youngster Mothers' day a week on Sunday...be good to her ;D |
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does your dog bite" I said nar he loves kids. As he bent down to stroke the dog, the dog immediately pounced up barking and tried to take a chunk out of him.
