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Post by Somebody_Told_Me on Apr 24, 2009 12:06:07 GMT
I'm 38 therefore mainly watched Stoke for 20 years and it's had more downs than ups I can remeber a bit of early 80's in top flight but mainly watched 2nd and 3rd tier footy.
Even if I had seen more top flight football at Stoke, I can't believe it could have more exciting than this season, probably due to the fact that the Prem is now the holy grail, we've been out for so long and we were written off by everybody.
I therefore think this has been my favorite season of my life time by a mile wether we stay up or go down, and to think it's a season in the lower half of a table too, rather than a promotion one almost seems mad.
Whats been your favourite season.
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Post by monkhousestokie on Apr 24, 2009 12:07:45 GMT
This one. Best for 30 years for me.
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Post by edouardlapaglie on Apr 24, 2009 12:10:29 GMT
Personally, i'd say it was last season, for so many reasons, we were tipped to do nothing, i doubt anyone who followed Stoke thought we'd get automatic promotion, i thought i'd never see us in the top flight again in my lifetime to be completely honest, yet we did it, we bloody did it, in one of the most excitiing (and to be fair, poorest footballing) league seasons ever, so that's the one for me
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Post by johnsmithsupper on Apr 24, 2009 12:12:11 GMT
I'm 38 therefore mainly watched Stoke for 20 years and it's had more downs than ups I can remeber a bit of early 80's in top flight but mainly watched 2nd and 3rd tier footy. Even if I had seen more top flight football at Stoke, I can't believe it could have more exciting than this season, probably due to the fact that the Prem is now the holy grail, we've been out for so long and we were written off by everybody. I therefore think this has been my favorite season of my life time by a mile wether we stay up or go down, and to think it's a season in the lower half of a table too, rather than a promotion one almost seems mad. Whats been your favourite season. 38 year old here as well, has to be 82/83 season for me. Some very special attacking football played particularly at home. It was great to watch as a teenager. Players like Mcilroy, Thomas, Chamberlain, Watson, Berry, O'Callaghan, Maguire, James, etc etc. In the running for Europe that year all the way up to the last two or three games. |
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Post by white wall boy on Apr 24, 2009 12:12:49 GMT
I liked the season we came up with Macari, massive away followings on some pretty good standing ends with cracking mentals, Vale, Rotherham, Preston, West Brom all spring to mind. Sell outs on the boothen, cracking season. This season has been good but very very stressfull, would have preferred a few more points earlier in the season. Obviously its all gravy now  |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Apr 24, 2009 12:16:19 GMT
I still think some of the seasons in the 70s will take some beating. My favourite was '72 when we won the League Cup and reached the semis of the FA Cup. Our 5th place finish in the mid 70s (can't remember the year) was also excellent - probably more exciting but we did fail to win the league so I suppose it wasn't as good as '72 when we actually won something.
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Post by thebet365 on Apr 24, 2009 12:17:44 GMT
The season Gudjon took us up is my favourite. 1 hell of a rollercoaster season culminating in Oulares Arse shaping our future.
I mean look where we are now and where brentford are??
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Post by britannia03 on Apr 24, 2009 12:18:47 GMT
I think last season was brilliant, i dont think for as long as i live i will forget the second last week watching soccer saturday, minutes away from promoton then Hull scored so it went to the last day of the season. I felt sick for the whole week, just thinking will we do it, and then we done it against leicester.
That pitch invasion was brilliant, was one of the first people to dive on fuller in the pile on.
Brings a tear to my eye.
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Post by y_oh_y_delilah on Apr 24, 2009 12:19:21 GMT
What Fornside said - but this season and last have come pretty close to those halcyon days.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Apr 24, 2009 12:26:05 GMT
What Fornside said - but this season and last have come pretty close to those halcyon days. Yes, I agree that this season and last season have come close. This season especially, when there doesn't seem to have been a "routine" game - they've all had a lot riding on them. And of course, the cost of failure (measured in £s) is now much more massive than it ever was. |
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Post by stevetheboater on Apr 24, 2009 12:49:21 GMT
72 was my first season (gloryhunter  ) but I'd have to say this season has been even more exciting. |
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Post by CraigWally on Apr 24, 2009 13:13:21 GMT
'79 holds a special place in my heart, as a teenager having many great away days.
But I admit this season has been triffic - shame there's only 5 games to go - I don't want it to end.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Apr 24, 2009 14:18:56 GMT
I still think some of the seasons in the 70s will take some beating. My favourite was '72 when we won the League Cup and reached the semis of the FA Cup. Our 5th place finish in the mid 70s (can't remember the year) was also excellent - probably more exciting but we did fail to win the league so I suppose it wasn't as good as '72 when we actually won something. I second that. The sad thing is that as a young lad it never crossed my mind that watching Stoke would ever be any different1 How wrong can you be. I had almost given up on the good times ever returning. I wonder how long surviving in the Prem will seem like good times though? |
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Post by stokemark on Apr 24, 2009 15:57:39 GMT
Im 42 and saw much of our early / mid 70's achievements but thought it 'normal' at the time.
Having seen the shit that followed there is no doubt that for me, this has been the best season EVER !!
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Post by crimesy on Apr 24, 2009 16:55:11 GMT
For me, the Totanham game sums up our season. Full of excitement. Definataley for me the best ever season but it didn't have much to beat.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2009 18:54:28 GMT
I was priviliged to watch the club from 1972 (I was 8), Thought the 70s was the general order of things and that Stoke was a major international city, and that we would eventually win the European Cup.As you can imagine, the the 1980s and 1990s were pretty hard to accept......Tranmere on a night comes to mind, raining and Drinkin in Birkenhead.
Having had so many crap years and having our noses rubbed in it by just about every one ( Club, media, Police, Id Cards etc) this season is probably the best ever, a recovery of Biblical proportiions, wouldnt surprise me if Lazurus himself doesnt make an apearance at the end of the Wigan game. There have been no moments when i havent enjoyed watching the Club this year, and the fans have turned the place into something unique.
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Post by kendonagasaki on Apr 24, 2009 19:16:09 GMT
This season has been pretty drab for me, TBH much prefer struggling around the bottom of the championship with a final game against Man Citeh at the Brit with relegation staring both teams in the face !
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Post by swipers on Apr 24, 2009 21:35:28 GMT
This season has been amazing as I only ever saw us once in the top flight before - to be playing against teams you've seen week-in week-out for years on MOTD and now us being on MOTD weekly is madness.
Last season was great, but this one just pips it.
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Post by MUZZPERTH on Apr 24, 2009 21:51:01 GMT
This season by far.
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Post by macmozzer on Apr 24, 2009 21:52:42 GMT
i'm 38 too,been going down since 1980.this is the best season for me!!!
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Post by slangking on Apr 24, 2009 22:01:00 GMT
This season has to be put in perspective, we were written off by virtually everybody and have gained universal admiration, Pulis has now proved himself at this level and walked all over his doubters. The club has been in a shambles for 20 years the most important factor is winning back the support we have lost during that period, survival in the premiership inevitably brings a higher profile and encourages future support which is vital to the club, that more than anything else has meant this has been our most important season probably ever. What had seemed an inevitable terminal decline has been reversed and for the fact that they have done this in the face of the most disgraceful treachery Pulis and Coates deserve massive praise.
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Post by gazXbrum on Apr 25, 2009 4:16:20 GMT
BLADDY GOOD QUESTION. In short, 82-83 season was exciting. Mark chamberlain's arrival with Micky Thomas produced great entertaining football eg 4-4 against Luton. 1-1 against the mighty Liverpool at the Vic with a crowd over 30,000; plus chamberlain getting called up and playing for England. 1992/93 exciting with promotion from the third tier/Div 3 with the clubs longest unbeaten run. Salute Mark Stein.
Last season exciting because the mad dogfight for automatic promotion went right up to the last match against leicester where losing could have meant playing in the lottery play-offs.
But this season has been 38 cup ties played in front of big crowds. From being written off at the start, I now hear a grudging/growing respect for Stoke in the Premiership and media. That deafening explosion of noise from the fans has also injected much needed extra passion back into the prawn sandwich elite Premiership. And now seeing the team competing with the BEST players/teams IN THE WORLD is bladdy fantastic. So YES, Its been a hell of an exciting season.
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Post by magwitch on Apr 25, 2009 6:27:45 GMT
For those whose memories go back 25 years or less, this may well be true. But I agree with Lakeland, the seventies were incomparable for the quality of football and the achievements of the team.
It has to be remembered that this season has basically been a struggle aganst relegation, and the quality of the football has often been below par.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Apr 25, 2009 6:45:21 GMT
If I had one wish for our club it is that the next twelve years or so equal or better the twelve years we had following our promotion to the (old) First Division in 1963. I remember going on the pitch that day, seeing Matthews and Co on the balcony of the main stand with the Lord Mayor delivering his speech. The next 12 years were simply the best of my life as a Stokie.
We saw better and better players arrive - the world's best goalie made his most famous England save from Pele whilst he was a Stoke player ffs! Hudson was the best creative midfielder of the 1970s and Greenhoff was the best volleyer of a ball I have ever seen.
By the 1970s we had a team as good as most and who played some of the best football to be seen. Some of our big wins against top sides were not only legendary if you were a Stokie - but they still live in the memory of the fans of the clubs we beat. Ask fans of Arsenal and Leeds who are now 60, what they thought of Stoke in those days. Only bad luck prevented us reaching the FA Cup final twice, we won the League Cup and if we had a bit more money and a bigger squad then we might well have won the league instead of finishing 5th.
If this season leads to anything comparable to those days then, hang on to your hats, it will be a heluva ride! ;D
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Post by mickstupp on Apr 25, 2009 7:05:39 GMT
If I had one wish for our club it is that the next twelve years or so equal or better the twelve years we had following our promotion to the (old) First Division in 1963. I remember going on the pitch that day, seeing Matthews and Co on the balcony of the main stand with the Lord Mayor delivering his speech. The next 12 years were simply the best of my life as a Stokie. We saw better and better players arrive - the world's best goalie made his most famous England save from Pele whilst he was a Stoke player ffs! Hudson was the best creative midfielder of the 1970s and Greenhoff was the best volleyer of a ball I have ever seen. By the 1970s we had a team as good as most and who played some of the best football to be seen. Some of our big wins against top sides were not only legendary if you were a Stokie - but they still live in the memory of the fans of the clubs we beat. Ask fans of Arsenal and Leeds who are now 60, what they thought of Stoke in those days. Only bad luck prevented us reaching the FA Cup final twice, we won the League Cup and if we had a bit more money and a bigger squad then we might well have won the league instead of finishing 5th. If this season leads to anything comparable to those days then, hang on to your hats, it will be a heluva ride! ;D Agree with all that. This year has been a blast but for me 71-72 was tops. 5 cup games against Manure and knocking them out of both cups in front of 49000 at the Vic. 4 semis against West Ham 2 semis against Arsenal Final in front of 98000 at Wembley Queuing up for tickets overnight 5 times on the Vic car park in the depth of winter (we complain about the ticket office today ffs!!) We played 71 times that season (its closer to 40 these days) and mostly put out the same starting eleven every time barring injury. Great days (especially as a teenager)  |
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