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Post by ashleyscfc on Jan 17, 2014 11:48:12 GMT
Is the 1863 and forever grateful banners making an appearance ?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 12:39:39 GMT
For all you going to palace, don't forget to support Hughes and the team in all your excitement
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 12:49:12 GMT
I don't know whats wrong with some of you. If people want to show their appreciation for the most successful living Stoke City manager BEFORE kick off then why have a problem with it? Banners may be going a bit far in my opinion, but whats the harm?
I think the last two seasons clouded mine and a lot of other supporters' opinion of Pulis, 2006 - 2011 were just amazing, far better than i could imagine but 2011 - 2013 was awful and i couldnt wait for him to go. Now he has gone and our future under Mark Hughes is looking promising it is a good time to remember what Pulis did actually achieve here and show our appreciation.
I will be at Palace for the same reason i go to most away games, to support the team, get pissed and have a day out. But i will applaud Pulis and chant his name before the match because he is responsible for the best experiences i have had in over 30 years following Stoke. I know some of you cannot recognise what Pulis did for us, but surely you can understand why most supporters respect and appreciate him?
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Post by salopstick on Jan 17, 2014 12:50:06 GMT
For all you going to palace, don't forget to support Hughes and the team in all your excitement correct mate
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Post by adamsson on Jan 17, 2014 12:51:57 GMT
For all you going to palace, don't forget to support Hughes and the team in all your excitement I wonder which team some of them support?
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Post by sheikhmomo on Jan 17, 2014 12:52:08 GMT
For all you going to palace, don't forget to support Hughes and the team in all your excitement correct mate Shame some of you couldn't find it in your hearts to support Pulis for a decade when he was here.
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on Jan 17, 2014 12:53:25 GMT
Absolutely no problem with it before the game, but during it get behind Hughes, Pulis is a legend, but the club always comes first.
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Post by werrington on Jan 17, 2014 12:54:12 GMT
Shame some of you couldn't find it in your hearts to support Pulis for a decade when he was here. Don't talk daft mate
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Post by mcf on Jan 17, 2014 12:58:14 GMT
did you sing his name wezzo?
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Post by salopstick on Jan 17, 2014 12:58:33 GMT
Shame some of you couldn't find it in your hearts to support Pulis for a decade when he was here. momo to be honest i was never a hater, if the stubborn bastard had tried to change when he was here he would still be here its not wankstainary business to ask for a left back, or to as to play players in their correct postions, to take a squad abroad, to try and attack away from home, to exploit the foreign market, to exploit the loan market. pulis was brilliant, he took a team of experienced pros to the premier league, he added a few more when we got there and hoped it worked. it did for a few seasons but you have to keep changing, keep adapting. pulis couldnt change and wouldnt adapt too set in his ways and this was his downfall, his doing a lovely bloke and we are very grateful for his achievments but this pulis love in is a bit OTT, give him a clap but at the moment it seems to be the detriment of our current manager ands I agree with RAF this OTT is pretty disrepctful to our current manager, a guy the chairman has put his trust and faith in Shame some of you cant find it in your hearts to support Mark Hughes
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Post by werrington on Jan 17, 2014 13:01:29 GMT
did you sing his name wezzo? Of course I did "Pulis out" often reverberated from my seat ( smiley )
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Post by Staying up for Grandadstokey on Jan 17, 2014 13:01:34 GMT
I can't believe someone having a banner to show appreciation of a former managers achievements warrants a 10 page thread .As many have said before the game we should show our appreciation , either by applauding showing banners or whatever but as soon as the whistle blows , put away the banners and get behind Mark Hughes and the boys. Whats the problem?
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Post by lordeffinghamhunt on Jan 17, 2014 13:10:30 GMT
did you sing his name wezzo? I didn't
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Post by Paul Spencer on Jan 17, 2014 13:17:38 GMT
If a chant of 'There's Only One Tony Pulis' goes up as the manager's come out of the tunnel tomorrow and then to support our current manager a chant of 'There's only one Mark Hughes' immediately goes up at the same time.
Should the original lot:
A. Shut the fook up B. Join in with the Mark Hughes chant C. Sing the Tony Pulis chant even louder to make themselves heard
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jan 17, 2014 13:18:50 GMT
Singing his name? Banners?
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Post by sheikhmomo on Jan 17, 2014 13:22:37 GMT
If a chant of 'There's Only One Tony Pulis' goes up as the manager's come out of the tunnel tomorrow and then to support our current manager a chant of 'There's only one Mark Hughes' immediately goes up at the same time. Should the original lot: A. Shut the fook up B. Join in with the Mark Hughes chant C. Sing even louder to make themselves heard ?johnno reckons it will end in a fight Why do we as Stoke fans have to make things so difficult? Every other team in the country is able to welcome back modern greats with the minimum of fuss and also desperately want their team to win. It really is not that difficult. Well it is because of some bigots who cannot accept that Pulis made arseholes of them for 10 years.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Jan 17, 2014 13:25:22 GMT
If a chant of 'There's Only One Tony Pulis' goes up as the manager's come out of the tunnel tomorrow and then to support our current manager a chant of 'There's only one Mark Hughes' immediately goes up at the same time. Should the original lot: A. Shut the fook up B. Join in with the Mark Hughes chant C. Sing even louder to make themselves heard ?johnno reckons it will end in a fight Why do we as Stoke fans have to make things so difficult? Every other team in the country is able to welcome back modern greats with the minimum of fuss and also desperately want their team to win. It really is not that difficult. Well it is because of some bigots who cannot accept that Pulis made arseholes of them for 10 years. Answer the question Sheikhy, I think it's important because it's going to happen tomorrow.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jan 17, 2014 13:26:36 GMT
I think there will be fighting, I know if I was there I'd probably get my head kicked in!
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Post by gezzer on Jan 17, 2014 13:26:47 GMT
WTF is all this about really? Pulis is History and like the Team we should move on and embrace the current Manager and what he has done for SCFC. Pulis did a good job as a manager at Stoke but he now manages a rival team, so all this woop wooping, banner waving and sucking his dick malarkey is totally unwarranted. Wish some on here would move on.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jan 17, 2014 13:31:03 GMT
That is a very dangerous assumption to make. I was there for all of those games. I can remember our abysmal showing in a 1-0 defeat away at Southend with Pulis at the helm and I can remember all manner of shitty visits to shitty places with him as our manager as well. I can also remember trips to Luton, Mansfield and Stockport with other managers leading us. Will I be wanking myself silly over seeing TP running down the touchline in Crystal Palace colours? Will I bollocks. Will I be giving him a song? Will I bollocks. Will I give him a nice round of applause? Maybe, maybe not. Depends how pissed I am as to whether I make it to the ground before the game kicks off and before he comes running out of the tunnel. I'll be at Palace to support my team and I hope others are there to do the very same thing. I suspect there will be trouble in the away end on Saturday with Stokies fighting amongst themselves. It is an absolute given if we are losing and the dickheads amongst our ranks start giving it the old "we should never have got rid of him" bollocks. I can hardly wait! As someone said above, we are currently setting about sorting out the mess that TP left behind and that should not be forgotten on Saturday either. A mess?? If a mess is stability in one of the best leagues in the world then yeah that pulis fella is a twat ain't he!! Some folk really need to get a grip of who stoke are and where we were. As a phw I take my hat off to pulis to taking us from the brink of relegation to mid table in the prem with European adventures and a fa cup final. Yep ok it's a big mess, we should be winning the league but I'll forgive him. That is your opinion and you're perfectly entitled to it. It would be correct if he had been sacked after leading us into Europe on the back of an FA Cup Final but he wasn't. The FA Cup final is a long time ago and the 2 seasons that followed were pretty damn poor, even more so when you consider the money that was spent. The season involving the Europa league was shocking and was only masked by our involvement in Europe and the excuses that we all swallowed as a justification for our pretty appalling showings at times. What is established? Last season we were perilously close to finding the trap door and Tony Pulis left behind a pretty unbalanced squad, devoid of genuine talent and lacking in the pace required to really flourish at this level. What he left was a team that had cost a fortune to build yet for which we had little reward out of. We were a team and a club on the decline and we were heading in only one direction. That, to me, given the resources made available to the manager, is quite a mess left behind. The new manager should have inherited a club that was well secure in its status and should have had some breathing space to make the adjustments he needed. He hasn't had that nor has he had the financial backing which again can be attributed to the lavish spending of the previous manager. On a final note, I listed out our team that finished our first season in the Premiership and when you think about it, comparing it to the side that finished last season, it didn't make for pleasant viewing and showed just how much of an opportunity had been wasted since the Cup Final in terms of lavish spending for very little reward. Compare these 2 teams; Sorenson Wilko, Shawcross, Faye, Higgy Lawrence, Rory, Whelan, Ethers Fuller, Beattie v Asmir Cameron, Shawcross, Huth, Wilson Shotton/Walters, N'zonzi, Whelan, Ethers Adam/Walters Crouch How many of those players that finished last season were genuine improvements on the versions that we had when we finished our 1st season. Shawcross is a better player now than he was then, Asmir is fantastic but at that time so was Tommy. Huth is great but Abdy Faye was a monster. The rest of them don't compare favourably at all whilst Ethers powers had waned substantially. One team cost about 10m to put together and the other cost a damn site more and doesn't include god knows how many other millions that didn't even feature (Jones, Jerome, Palacios to name but a few). Pulis did a great job right up to the Cup Final. Thereafter, the job he did wasn't so good.
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Post by robin1302 on Jan 17, 2014 13:32:17 GMT
Is the 1863 and forever grateful banners making an appearance ? Forever Grateful isn't making an appearance at the minute no.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Jan 17, 2014 13:32:24 GMT
johnno reckons it will end in a fight Why do we as Stoke fans have to make things so difficult? Every other team in the country is able to welcome back modern greats with the minimum of fuss and also desperately want their team to win. It really is not that difficult. Well it is because of some bigots who cannot accept that Pulis made arseholes of them for 10 years. Answer the question Sheikhy, I think it's important because it's going to happen tomorrow. I think people are making a mountain out of a molehill to be honest Paul. Pulis and Hughes will enter the fields of play at different times. Shouldn't be an issue. If someone were to sing Mark Hughes name as he entered the field of play it would be a fucking first anyway!
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Post by Paul Spencer on Jan 17, 2014 13:37:32 GMT
Answer the question Sheikhy, I think it's important because it's going to happen tomorrow. I think people are making a mountain out of a molehill to be honest Paul. Pulis and Hughes will enter the fields of play at different times. Shouldn't be an issue. If someone were to sing Mark Hughes name as he entered the field of play it would be a fucking first anyway! I knew you wouldn't be able to answer the question.
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Post by mcf on Jan 17, 2014 13:37:44 GMT
10 pages on this all that will happen is that they TP will be applauded by the absolute majority....they may well sing his name for a bit...then that will be it. The rest will be as usual match....with possibly a verse of he wears the club shop. maybe a 'Pulis Out' from Johnno which was the norm in any case.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Jan 17, 2014 13:41:05 GMT
I think people are making a mountain out of a molehill to be honest Paul. Pulis and Hughes will enter the fields of play at different times. Shouldn't be an issue. If someone were to sing Mark Hughes name as he entered the field of play it would be a fucking first anyway! I knew you wouldn't be able to answer the question. Well the ones singing for Pulis will be singing at what they see as the allotted and correct time. The ones singing for Hughes will be trying to make a point for the sake of it as this does not happen at that point at any other game. The net result will probably be some argy bargy and Stoke fans as a whole looking like fucking morons.
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Post by stokeramblers on Jan 17, 2014 13:44:54 GMT
I knew you wouldn't be able to answer the question. Well the ones singing for Pulis will be singing at what they see as the allotted and correct time. The ones singing for Hughes will be trying to make a point for the sake of it as this does not happen at that point at any other game. The net result will probably be some argy bargy and Stoke fans as a whole looking like fucking morons. I've heard Mark Hughes Barmy Army quite a bit to be honest. Maybe it's a South Stand thing..?
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Post by Vestan Pance on Jan 17, 2014 13:48:01 GMT
None of that will happen. There will be a round of applause (rightly) for the becapped bellend, a half hearted "one tony pulis"' followed by an equally half hearted chant in support of Hughes. then we can all get down to the business of supporting our club. That'll be it.
It's bollocks, and if people do genuinely end up fighting because somebody wants to sing the name of a manager since departed, the there's very little anyone can do about it.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jan 17, 2014 13:48:10 GMT
Mark Hughes barmy army has been sung in the Boothen and Seddon too at most home games, it starts in Block 19 and then moves around. I don't join in, he doesn't deserve it. I never joined in with the Pulis version either.
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Post by mcf on Jan 17, 2014 13:54:35 GMT
I wish we would sing 'Red and White Army'
Barmy Army is fucking cringeworthy
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Post by onewaynebiggins on Jan 17, 2014 13:59:04 GMT
I've always sang "Red and White Army". Barmy Army sounds gay.
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