disco
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Post by disco on Mar 24, 2008 23:55:51 GMT
Just in the greater scene of your life and the wider world? It got me thinking today with people on here saying they can't wait for the next match. Would you put promotion up there with personal happy moments such as career achievements, getting married (or divorced in some cases  ) seeing your kids go on to achieve things etc. Being 21 I have never seen us in the top flight and wonder if it would be somehow more special for those who weren't around when we were a big in the 70's etc Would be interested what people thought |
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Post by mumf14 on Mar 25, 2008 0:03:29 GMT
It would be more special for the younger supporters as it would be something completely new.
For those who watched superb Stoke in the 1970's less so, especially if we were getting beaten week in ,week out.Never the less there is a chink of light there ...ready to be explored.
I just hope that we can first of all get there, and secondly stay up for another season.
That is my main priority.
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Post by powchirper on Mar 25, 2008 0:08:21 GMT
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Post by garyhackett on Mar 25, 2008 0:14:16 GMT
As i only started supporting Stoke in '87 i dont remember life in the top division, for me it means having great away days going to some of the best stadiums in the world and being able to cheer MY team there.
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Post by Premier League Busta Rhymes on Mar 25, 2008 0:31:07 GMT
It would mean people from Angola to Bangkok to Beijing would be able to watch the mighty potters on tv!
Stoke as a city needs the coverage which will hopefully bring investment.
To us it will mean Sunday 4pm kicks offs, £45+ for away tickets at Chelsea and Arsenal, and hopefully scraping into fourth from bottom!
What are we letting ourselfs in for?
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Post by sheikh al dubai bin stokie on Mar 25, 2008 4:22:21 GMT
ive cried too many tears
ive lost too many years
ive spent too much money
rarely has it been funny
all my hopes and dreams
always ripped at the seams
in the past we've come so close
making me morose
but now i'll make a stand
as we near the promised land
PLEASE dont let me down
Im fed up of being the clown
no more jokes and sneers
ive taken enough through the years
and although i whinge and moan
COME ON STOKE.... TAKE ME HOME
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Post by Premiership Titanic Captain on Mar 25, 2008 4:39:14 GMT
I'm also only 22 and never seen Stoke in the top flight. The current Premiership is the best league on the planet and to have our local team involved in that is something we should all be proud of really.
The people of Stoke are also really unique, which would also make for some interesting away days. 25,000+ Stokies singing Delilah would drown out 35,000 Scousers singing YNWA in my opinion. I can't wait.
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Post by onlyonesirstan on Mar 25, 2008 9:20:00 GMT
Having watched Stoke since the mid 1960's, I remember the best years of the 1970's. To see us back in the top tier of football would mean everything.
Of all the good and bad times watching Stoke, the one moment that sticks in my memory, and will do until the day I die, is when we were so close against Arsenal in the FA Cup Semi Final. I just cried my little 12 year old heart out as I left Hillsborough.
Now if we don't go up, I won't cry (I don't think), but I don't need another Hillsborough type scenario, thinking that we were so close. (and where do we play this weekend?)
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Post by knowles on Mar 25, 2008 10:10:49 GMT
Rich, like you, I have never seen us in the top flight, and due to our 'under-achievements' there are many Stoke fans who haven't seen us in the highest division.
It is time that changed.
I long for the moment when we dance on the Britannia pitch and grown men cry. I'm not embarassed to say I think I would cry with joy for a week!
I just hope that moment is only a few weeks away.
I am getting tingles just thinking about it- don't let us down Stoke!
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Post by Do it for bringbackthevic on Mar 25, 2008 10:19:31 GMT
To me it doesn't mean anything amazing. I go only a few games a season and will still only go a few wether we're in the prem or championship.
However to the club it means everything. With the crowds we have then we're losing money hand over fist funding this promotion push, the money on offer in the prem will guarantee us to be a force in the championship should we only be in the prem 1 season.
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Post by ben88 on Mar 25, 2008 10:28:22 GMT
i think i will cry if we go up.
its like one of them "how would you act if you won the lottery?" type questions.
i dont know how i would act untill it happened.
i think i would just start crying and make a strange noise, not quite a scream, but like when a volcano lets off loads of pressure, just a strange raw emotion noise.
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Post by monkeycat on Mar 25, 2008 10:34:17 GMT
It would mean absolutely everything to me. My first matches watching Stoke, were my Dad taking me when we were last in the top flight. My Dad is now terminally ill with cancer, and I would love for him to know that Stoke had once again made it to the top flight.
Whilst he would not be well enough to attend a match, we could watch the Potters together in the premiership on MOTD.
COME ON STOKE
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Post by jezzascfc on Mar 25, 2008 10:47:42 GMT
It would mean we were back where we belong. Growing up as a kid in the 70s I just assumed (oh, the naivety of youth) that we were a top division club. We went down, but a couple of seasons later we were back. The 23 long years away have seen so many changes as the Premiership cash has transformed the football landscape and made some small clubs with no tradition wealthy beyond their dreams.
Whether the Premiership is a good or bad thing for football as a whole (I think the latter), Stoke City FC needs to be part of it, if only for one season (for now!), to give us the massive cash injection that will take us up into the tier of clubs who are lower Premiership/upper Championship clubs. Our next ambition must then be to become established as a middle-ranking Premiership team (it may take another relegation and promotion to achieve that one!!).
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Post by knowles on Mar 25, 2008 10:51:59 GMT
I hope we do it for you and your dad, monkey- it would be a tremendous thing for the pair of you...all the best
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Mar 25, 2008 11:12:53 GMT
Like Jezza (and all fans of a "certain" age) I always think of Stoke as belonging in the top flight. They got ptomoted to the top flight not too long after I started watching them regularly and stayed there for the rest of my time living in North Staffs and a few years after I moved away. So a return would be a resumption of our "proper" status to me.
In practical terms it will mean fewer home games (250 mile round trips for me) balanced by more away games as half our opponents will be in the north of England. It will also mean that, for the first time in years, I will be able to see a decent length of highlights on a Saturday evening and probably a reasonable number of live away games on TV.
On the downside, it may mean that I will have to hope that away allocations don't sell out before I get my ticket and of course, I don't expect us to average upwards of 1.5 points a game for next season.
But, football should be a matter of striving to get as high up the pyramid as possible so a season in the Perm despite all its trauma is something I have waited for since the day the damned league was formed.
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Post by stonestokie on Mar 25, 2008 11:23:18 GMT
For me promotion would mean ticking one of my things to do before i die box -
I've always dreamed of having a BJ whilst watching stoke on MOTD - Quality !
Thing is i dont know if its the thought of watchin Stoke on MOTD or havin the BJ that gets me hard !
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2008 16:32:01 GMT
It'd be going home
PS firmly believe it'd mean as much if not more to the 'old school' than the younger fans
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) seeing your kids go on to achieve things etc.
