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Post by robin1302 on Mar 22, 2008 21:27:47 GMT
 Photo from today, thought I'd share it as I think it makes a decent desktop wallpaper. |
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Post by kingdeano on Mar 22, 2008 21:31:38 GMT
shame you could hear a pin drop in it. atmosphere was dead, with 7 games go and top of the league that place should be rocking, when the team are struggling, we can be that 12th man, pisses me off at half time everyone rushes to the concourse for a sing song! get behind them in the ground ffs!
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Post by markscfc72 on Mar 22, 2008 21:36:03 GMT
correct
me and a couple of other were trying to get songs started but nobody seems to want to know
really annoys me how people sit in the boothen but only sing/chant when we have scored or are having a lot of possesion in the final 3rd
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Post by n01stokie on Mar 22, 2008 21:41:13 GMT
shame you could hear a pin drop in it. atmosphere was dead, with 7 games go and top of the league that place should be rocking, when the team are struggling, we can be that 12th man, pisses me off at half time everyone rushes to the concourse for a sing song! get behind them in the ground ffs! agree mate! |
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Post by powchirper on Mar 22, 2008 22:20:54 GMT
If we had made half as much noise as we made at Watford we might have given the team that little lift that was needed, it was like a morgue at times, for a gate of over 20,000 it was poor.
Good picture by the way.
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Mar 22, 2008 22:37:42 GMT
The problem with The Boothen is season-ticket holders, who are more passionate about their seats and who sits next to them, than the result of the match . I am not lucky enough to have a job where I get every saturday off, but when I do I watch Stoke home and away. Today when me and my daughter accidentally sat in two season-ticket holders seats all-hell-broke-loose. On either side of us these wankers sat, making snide remarks at the players all through the game, and when we tried to roar the team on they looked at us as though we were insane.
Until the Boothen has unreserved seating this will continue.
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Post by robin1302 on Mar 22, 2008 22:42:38 GMT
maybe we should split the away end like West Brom do permanently then if thats what people are like, and people who like to sing all move to the South Stand, which would also increase the atmosphere with them being so close to the away fans
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Post by cliffo23 on Mar 22, 2008 23:43:41 GMT
I was in the seddon stand and thought the boothen end was way too quiet. There was not really anything happening on the pitch for the fans to get excited about though really. Tried to get behind them but it was so frustrating.
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Post by pulisjr on Mar 22, 2008 23:57:45 GMT
Never really stops in block 19 - We had Elvis the Steward to sing about ;D Nice Picture By the way - Showing our flag off well  |
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Mar 23, 2008 11:36:50 GMT
Thats my point cliffo, block 19 always give it some because the seating their is unreserved. Compare that to block 21 and 22 where season-ticket holders moan when you stand-up in row 35!! Unbelievable "Watch what you're doing, you'll knock my flask over..." Theres a big block of these people who wear velcro trousers and are stuck to their seats unable to move until 15 minutes before the end when they all leave.
And one more rant, why yesterday, when the kick-off was delayed by 30 minutes, could they not get into their seats by kick-off?
What is so fantastic about that concourse that attracts people to it????
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Post by kingdeano on Mar 23, 2008 11:40:50 GMT
wizzardofdribble- the fantastic thing about the concourse is the singing!!! it seems to be people find their voices at half time! then lose them again when they go back to their seats. amazing eh?
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Post by armitagestokie on Mar 23, 2008 11:46:50 GMT
Stoke have no choir at home, away great atmosphere.We should fill the corners and give one of them to away fans (ala Leicester) and make the Signal stand unreserved for singers (pity about name tho) Flasks etc are brought along due to fckin hideous prices!!Velcro trousers belong to fans that have supported SCFC thro thick and thin and deserve praise, not these 'glory hunting' fans that appear when the time is right.ST holders do not have to rush to their seats as they know it's THEIRS.
The concourse singers feel louder and less embarrassed singing in an echoing chamber.
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Post by coll45 on Mar 23, 2008 11:47:01 GMT
I sit in block 21 and im always moaning that it was to quiet yesterday and not much singing and atmosphere all around the ground yesterday its as if people are waiting for something to happen before they start .
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Post by jarhead on Mar 23, 2008 12:32:07 GMT
Well said Deano i could here the Boothen Enders singing in the concourse as i was coming into the ground.
When it matters the knobs just sit like numb nuts waiting for half time then start singing agauin???
What the fuck is that all about.
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Post by craigscfc on Mar 23, 2008 13:34:07 GMT
good pic KS! |
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Post by bignuts on Mar 23, 2008 16:42:32 GMT
nothing to do with the way the team played bloody rubbish
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Post by daverichards on Mar 23, 2008 17:36:36 GMT
We tried to sing up at the back of block 24, but not many joining us , we sand a fair bit up there to be honest , but only a hundred or so .
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Post by monkeycat on Mar 23, 2008 17:38:58 GMT
The bloke in the center with a big bald head with his hand up to his eyes, is a mate of mine, known as the sheep
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Post by basitbrosupfront on Mar 23, 2008 17:59:17 GMT
lmao!!!
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Post by SneydGreenStokie on Mar 23, 2008 18:28:32 GMT
correct me and a couple of other were trying to get songs started but nobody seems to want to know really annoys me how people sit in the boothen but only sing/chant when we have scored or are having a lot of possesion in the final 3rd Whereabouts do you sit Mark? SGS |
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Post by stokelad on Mar 23, 2008 18:50:41 GMT
great picture again robin, i was sat block 19 and apart from the odd few songs block 19 started and the odd tony pulis barmy army, it was silent for most of the game.
at this stage of the season with 6 games to go we are top and had a crowd of over 20,000 you would expect peopel to start make some noise and getting behide the lads, and giving them a much needed boast these last couple of home games.
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Post by potters11 on Mar 23, 2008 18:52:15 GMT
20,000 it sounded more like 2000! We are top of the league with 6 games to go, to any neutral the atmosphere would have fit in well down the road at the Vale or Derby (teams that are down!)
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Post by basitbrosupfront on Mar 23, 2008 19:19:44 GMT
I know maybe if we raised the roof at the britannia for the lads we are for certain to win all our next home games
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Post by potters11 on Mar 23, 2008 19:21:49 GMT
We raised the roof Vs Ipswich and we won. We raised it against Brazil earlier in the season and we won. Maybe it is the fan's mindset, they only turn their voices on for the '6 pointers.'
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Post by scfclifer on Mar 23, 2008 19:39:37 GMT
it is because we are expecting to beat teams like blackpool and the atmosphere is flat from the start the team never performs in games like that instead they fall a goal behind and the atmosphere gets worse
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Post by OldStokie on Mar 23, 2008 19:51:48 GMT
Thanks for the pic, fella.
The reason The Boothen was quiet yesterday was because the team were shite. A few games ago, the same Boothen was rocking. Work it out.
OS.
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Post by scfcham on Mar 23, 2008 19:54:15 GMT
Thats my point cliffo, block 19 always give it some because the seating their is unreserved. Compare that to block 21 and 22 where season-ticket holders moan when you stand-up in row 35!! Unbelievable "Watch what you're doing, you'll knock my flask over..." Theres a big block of these people who wear velcro trousers and are stuck to their seats unable to move until 15 minutes before the end when they all leave. And one more rant, why yesterday, when the kick-off was delayed by 30 minutes, could they not get into their seats by kick-off? What is so fantastic about that concourse that attracts people to it???? agreed i sit in block 21 and its full of miserable bastards who constantly moan! |
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Mar 24, 2008 11:28:11 GMT
Thing is Armitage I have been watching Stoke for over 30 years and I had a season ticket for years for The Butler Street Stand, but over the last 10 years my work (and child-care) has meant I have too work some saturdays.
Just because you're not a member of the "Season-ticket-Club" doesn't mean you're a second-class Stoke fan.
Nobody can deny that season ticket holders arrive late, faff about with their flasks and tartan blankets for 15 minutes, slag Mama off, go for a piss before half-time, get back in their seats late, then leave 10 minutes before the end.
One of them was moaning on Saturday because we were singing "Where thefuck d'yer think you are?"..this old bloke said.
Is it any wonder that the atrmosphere is like a wake?
Are they all on ketamine or what?
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Post by AlliG on Mar 24, 2008 12:33:10 GMT
I am a season ticket holder in Block 21. I am fed up of these young whippersnappers who spend all the game moaning about the old gits moaning. ;D I have never brought a tartan rug or flask to a match, I don't go for a piss 10 minutes before half-time (I don't smoke  ), I stay in my seat until the final whistle every game. It appears that I am not pulling my weight as a grumpy old git,so it seems like I need to start leaving the incontinence pants at home so that I can do my share of irritating the young.  |
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Post by BraveSirRobin on Mar 24, 2008 12:36:32 GMT
Im a St holder too but Im only 34 years old.Maybe i should stop myself from getting one until Im in my sixties.
Oh what should I do?
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), I stay in my seat until the final whistle every game. 
