Stoke 11th place Div 1 1980/81

[andyk]

Only 3 points to make up, and Tone could give us our highest league finish since Tony Waddington. And that would be bloody unbelievable.

My feeling is that so much depends on beating Newcastle next week. Win that one, and the sky is the limit (well, a top-half finish, at least) - even for the remainder of this season. All along we've had this great sequence of eight fixtures in hand; Arsenal away is the ONLY fixture we have left that I would not describe as highly winnable. And with a couple of vital wins already under our belts from the first two of those eight, a win next week will REALLY take the pressure off, and then we have every chance of astounding the critics by finishing in the top 10.

Good times

[trebor63]

Its lovely to actually dare look up the table as opposed to just fearing the bottom three but we're still not safe yet!

If we beat Newcastle I think we can actually dream of finishing higher cos our main objective will have been reached (probably)

[northantsash]

possible but even though it was great yyesterday, still a long way to go, 2 wins needed yet for safety, after that the sky certainly is the limit.

[banburypotter]

was actually surreal to read a bit in the NotW where they showed those in the relegation dogfight....and we were not in it ;D

[jonnyd]

lets not running away with ourselves, for all your optimism, the more pessimistic could conclude that we are still not safe and could easily get relegated. Yes we have winnable games, but lets remember we still need to win them, lets get ourselves safe and then look at how high we can go!

[barmystokie1]

i agree we can look up the table IF we beat newcastle as I cannot see us going down with a 9point gap over them and then can really shove our final place in our harshest critics faces !!!