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Post by dwr17477 on Dec 6, 2009 0:38:44 GMT
Depends if I had the chance of winning medals. If I could, I'd be off. And then when I was getting on a bit I'd be back. You may or may not win medals, this is Stoke after all. Could be relegated, might stay up and play in Europe...who knows. I'd stay and put my heart and soul into SCFC!!!
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Post by dwr17477 on Dec 6, 2009 0:16:29 GMT
If you were a full time pro for Stoke, playing all first team games, being talked up as a potential international and on the verge of being a high profile player would you ditch Stoke and go on to pastures new or would you stay loyal to The Potters knowing that by doing so you might never make the step up to the international scene???
Could you move on to another club to suite your ambition??? Who would always be a no-no club to join??? Who might get you to sign if the terms were right and it definitely progressed your career???
Remember...you are presently representing the club you support, are a fans favourite, playing in the position of your choice and are earning easily enough money that it will set you and yours up for life.
I am sure in my own mind that regardless of any offers that I'd stick with playing for Stoke City. I don't think I'd need anything else given the above factors.
Thoughts???
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Post by dwr17477 on Dec 5, 2009 23:57:29 GMT
Are you surprised??? No, neither am I. This is MOTD after all!!!
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 29, 2009 23:00:26 GMT
Very sad news. R.I.P. Mark. Didn't know you but it looks like you made a big impact on many people's lives who have lots of many happy memories of their time in your company. So sorry to hear this, my thoughts are with your family.
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 29, 2009 1:03:26 GMT
We will go gung ho only when we are mathematically safe. The only thing that concerns me is our lack of goals. I would also be happy with 17th if Wolves are below us, but I fancy that we will be around mid table like last year. Slowly with each year of survival, the squad will be enhanced and tweaked until each subsequent campaign will not be wholly geared around crossing the 40 point threshold at all costs. But saying that, teams are in europe one season and then in a relegation fight the next ( and vice versa re Fulham) so nothing can ever be taken for granted. A premature cavalier attitude can only return to kick you in the teeth, look at our 2 promoted rivals last year. I think TP's approach, boring/paranoid as it is to some, is perfect. He is totally within his comfort zone. He is so confident in what he is doing. He sees the results in the form of points. He knows what he is doing. He is happy. There is no need for plan be to appease unrealistic fans expectations. Ask Blackburn fans if they were unhappy with all the 1-0 wins when they were successful at this level, and then ask Newcastle what did they win under Keegan apart from hordes of armchair fans and where are they now? Do we want everyone to adopt Stoke as their second team or do we want to be a premiership team for the next few years? I think we all know what Tone wants. It would be nice to have a bit of both but surely its one step at a time. Agree completely. Getting a good solid base is our medium term target. If that means seventeenth for the next couple of seasons, then so be it. We must not go gung ho and fail and find ourselves out of this division not to return for God knows how long. We must grasp hold of our top flight status and cling onto it for dear life, never to let go. If that means pissing people off, both Stoke supporters and non Stoke supporters alike then I am ok with that. We just need to keep on picking up points at this steady rate and survive.
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 29, 2009 0:00:30 GMT
What I can't believe is that you seem to think that we resorted to lumping the ball forward, stuammo. Ok, I didn't go and watching FF isn't the be all and end all of analysis, but we played some good football today. Good quick passing, overlaps and the ball being kept on the floor. Is this to do with Mama? I am not sure but to say we resorted to long ball stuff is rubbish.
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Nov 28, 2009 23:48:23 GMT
Post by dwr17477 on Nov 28, 2009 23:48:23 GMT
Football First were far more complimentary. It was a decent game and Stoke are actually passing the ball and not hoofing it. Some day people on the BBC may notice.
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 28, 2009 23:45:23 GMT
Dunno who the commentator was. I am not sure either but Kevin Gallagher was co commentator and they both said it was an entertaining 0 - 0 and that the atmosphere was cracking so I'd assume that the BBC had made a blanket decision that the game would be crap, bearing in mind Lineker's snide comment at the end of MOTD.
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 25, 2009 23:10:18 GMT
Yep, interesting. And we're top of the league and going to stay there all season in the Oldest Club League!!!
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 24, 2009 23:59:04 GMT
Maybe PHW's are those who didn't sit through all that, I don't know, but surely no Stoke supporter could wish to return to those dark days, PHW, Rimmer or otherwise?
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 24, 2009 23:51:55 GMT
Apologies for anyone who has just read this post on page 5 of the Macari Thread, I think is worth putting it on a thread of it's own? This is the 2nd time I have updated the following comparison, on the two previous occasions we were also better off than at the same point last season: Of the thirteen games played so far this season we have achieved better results in five of the games, three others brought the same haul as last season. In three of the games there was no corresponding fixture last season, but we won one of them, drawing the other two. In only two games away at Liverpool and Hull, did we get a worse result than last season. Stoke V Burnley 09/10 Won 08/09 N/A Liverpool V Stoke 09/10 Lost 08/09 Draw - Worse Birmingham V Stoke 09/10 Draw 08/09 N/A Stoke V Sunderland 09/10 Win 08/09 Win - Same Stoke V Chelsea 09/10 Lost 08/09 Lost - Same Bolton V Stoke 09/10 Draw 08/09 Lost - Better Stoke V Man Utd 09/10 Lost 08/09 Lost - Same Everton V Stoke 09/10 Draw 08/09 Lost - Better Stoke V West Ham 09/10 Won 08/09 Lost – Better Spurs V Stoke 09/10 Won 08/09 Lost - Better Stoke V Wolves 09/10 Draw 08/09 N/A Hull V Stoke 09/10 Lost 08/09 Won – Worse Stoke V Portsmouth 09/10 Won 08/09 Drew – Better After thirteen games last season we had achieved 14 points, this season in the first thirteen games we have 19 points ( a big 5 points better off). Our goal difference last season after eleven games was – 11, this season over the first eleven games it’s only – 2 ( a massive 9 better off). Last season we scored 13 goals in the first thirteen games, this season we have scored 13 goals ( the same). We have conceded 15 goals this season over the first thirteen games, last season we conceded 9 more with 24 ( 9 better off). Just in case it's not already been mentioned were currently sitting 9th in the league All in all it's a big improvement on last year, certainly not time to go slashing your wrists and it beats playing the likes of Vale and Bury twice a season. Hard facts, no doubt about it and if we continue along these lines then our initial aim of digging in and establishing ourselves for the first three years will come to fruition. That, for me, is what is important. I don't want to throw all the hard work away by being over ambitious out on the pitch and being gobbled up because we're not tight enough at the back a la West Brom. Maybe those who are PHW's are latter day Stoke supporters (nothing wrong with that) who haven't experienced the Wigan defeats in the old Third Division or the despair of '97/98 and Brian Little's inept '98/'99 side, etc, etc. We were never mentioned by any football pundit in recent times until we made people sit up and take some notice in '06/'07. Now, and this is a measure of how far we have come, Lee Dixon says he was "disappointed" with the Stoke performance on Sunday. He "expected more". FFS, that is a compliment to all at Stoke City. None of this "Stoke will do a Derby" or "You'll be lucky to get any points" crap from last season; now it's "disappointed" by Stoke's performance. Believe it or not, comments like that represent progress!!!
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 22, 2009 1:17:39 GMT
Defo!!! ;D ;D If we lose tomorrow i'm going to take it out on the mrs!!!! I draw the line at this kind of behavour...Admin, admin, do something about these types, please. ;D
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 22, 2009 1:14:22 GMT
Like what your are doing but have used my karma for today. Regardless, I will make a note and karma you in due course for such an interesting fact (if true) re: Stoke City not chelski.
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 22, 2009 1:09:50 GMT
Nightmare!!! What we gonna do??? PANIC!!! Defo!!!
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 22, 2009 0:43:36 GMT
He's a centre back that was bought for right back! Not another one!!!
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 22, 2009 0:42:25 GMT
Nightmare!!! What we gonna do???
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 21, 2009 23:43:11 GMT
After all those years in the wilderness, I guess it has to be promotion. I had doubts as to wether Stoke City F.C. could ever play alongside those in the top division again after all the shit that had gone since well, really, the Butler Street roof being ripped off and all of it's consequences. So, yes, it has to be promotion for me.
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 14, 2009 23:54:50 GMT
I remember some football pundit, Pat Nevin, I think, commenting that the one thing England don't have is a goalscoring centre half. Or a back up one at any rate. As centre halves go, I would have thought that Shawcross held his own in this area not only in actual goals but in getting shots/headers on/off target per match. Again, I emphasis my personal reluctance to see him play for England just yet, but I would love Stoke to be safe and Ryan to be a shock late pick for the World Cup.
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 14, 2009 23:22:16 GMT
God knows what Shawcross has to do to get his chance even for the Under 21's. Maybe it's a good thing for now...we need him a lot more than England do.
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 13, 2009 23:28:13 GMT
This would excite me.... Sorenson Shawcross Adoulaye Huth Diao Whelan Lawrence Tuncay Etherington Fuller Beattie
I like the front five!!! Still think it should be Wilko RB, Higgy LB with Whelan/Diao just in front of Shawcross and Faye with Lawrence, Tuncay and Ethers midfield. And Arismendi on the bench!!!
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 13, 2009 22:54:40 GMT
Our very first sponsored shirt ('72) Ricoh Umbro home top, with the white collar and the umbro logo all down the sleeves, it was before I was born, but I still love it ;D Favourite away is the blue Ricoh pinstriped one, in the club shop now, or the white puma one from a few years ago Don't you mean '82?
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 13, 2009 22:51:39 GMT
They showed Fuller's winner against Villa and the question from Sue Barker was "How wet is my fanny after watching that goal?" ;D
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 8, 2009 1:20:24 GMT
I thought that was a nightmare. Don't tell me it was true!!!
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 8, 2009 1:11:00 GMT
I've been wronger than you mate. I thought Ian Allinson would take us back to the top flight. FFS, I raved on about this guy to a Gooner. No wonder he looked at me like I'd gone out!!! ;D
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 8, 2009 1:01:27 GMT
I thought he (Ellis) was going to be Stoke's saviour. Howwrong can you be???
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 8, 2009 0:49:48 GMT
I think he's a combination of being inept, and being similar to Poll and Styles in terms of having an ego, and wanting to be on the back on the paper on Sunday morning. So he's a clone of Poll? Or Styles? Or both, maybe???
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 8, 2009 0:47:43 GMT
Tony Ellis bloody hell. Alan Balls big name signing to get us out of relegation bother. Bloody hell. If Alan Ball said he was the right man, then he was the right man
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 8, 2009 0:14:41 GMT
Well, is he right???
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 8, 2009 0:13:39 GMT
For outside the area, a £5.00 p&p charge will be made. I think this is prejudice ;D
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Post by dwr17477 on Nov 8, 2009 0:08:01 GMT
I agree with that to a point but they must have their fair share of the big four though, otherwise there would be plugs pulled and blackouts to follow.
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