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Post by mermaidsal on Oct 18, 2009 12:20:04 GMT
Now we're (hopefully) starting to look like we might be here to stay, I'm pondering on how much effect being a Prem club is having on the city, and North Staffs as a whole. Looking around at the dereliction in the pottery towns you wouldn't immediately say it had done much at all, to a visitor S-o-T probably looks more of an urban disaster than 10 or 15 years ago. And our local government in the city itself (though not in Castle or the Moorlands) is still bad enough for people to stand back and laugh at, or worse.
But all the same and despite the recession I think we've turned a corner and the club is playing an enormous part. There's a particular spirit that TP and PC give out to the world, not an underdog city kicking out but dogged, honest and surprisingly creative fighting back. Give the regeneration projects a few years, watch the town centres turn back into something and I reckon the self-respect SCFC have given us all is going to be a sense you'll get on the streets too.
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Post by fca47 on Oct 18, 2009 12:55:44 GMT
Perhaps Coates or Pulis should run for the return of a mayor. They would do a much better job than these lamebrains running the council now. Think they both had a vision of where Stoke could go, rather than these idiots who a running the city into the ground.
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Post by mermaidsal on Oct 18, 2009 18:12:15 GMT
Perhaps Coates or Pulis should run for the return of a mayor. They would do a much better job than these lamebrains running the council now. Think they both had a vision of where Stoke could go, rather than these idiots who a running the city into the ground. I'd vote for Coatesy as elected mayor tomorrow, though sadly the chances of it happening are somewhere below zilch. |
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Post by mumf14 on Oct 18, 2009 18:54:27 GMT
Now we're (hopefully) starting to look like we might be here to stay, I'm pondering on how much effect being a Prem club is having on the city, and North Staffs as a whole. Looking around at the dereliction in the pottery towns you wouldn't immediately say it had done much at all, to a visitor S-o-T probably looks more of an urban disaster than 10 or 15 years ago. And our local government in the city itself (though not in Castle or the Moorlands) is still bad enough for people to stand back and laugh at, or worse. But all the same and despite the recession I think we've turned a corner and the club is playing an enormous part. There's a particular spirit that TP and PC give out to the world, not an underdog city kicking out but dogged, honest and surprisingly creative fighting back. Give the regeneration projects a few years, watch the town centres turn back into something and I reckon the self-respect SCFC have given us all is going to be a sense you'll get on the streets too. Wise words indeed, ....Infact word on the street is that an increasing number of Leek folk have stopped wearing clogs and adopted the 'new trend' of hob nail boots in a desperate attempt to modernise their image.Many have now cast aside the balls of twine to hold their trousers up and having started wearing leather belts instead.When one considers that all this would not have been possible without the efforts and investment of Tony Pulis and Peter Coates it is by far the greatest single event since Josiah Wedgwood lent James Brindley some cashfor his engineering projects in Turnhurst Rd( Outskirts of the Cultural Quarter near Packmoor). Unfortunately such optimism is not matched by the will to integrate ethnic minorities into the community by some of the hard core, but when one considers the fact that LEEK IS FULL OF NUTTERS then it is hardly surprising is it.....? |
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