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Post by vintagestein on May 26, 2015 12:42:46 GMT
That today was for you folks Take a bow Attended almost all of the games in 1997-1998 and purchased 1st season ticket under Brian Little the following season and had one every year since. Hopefully, that was my right of passage to take a bow. Wow - just wow - what a feeling what a day (including standing in the rain at 9:45 this morning trying to get autographs - which i got). so very very proud today and will be all summer. My Club, My City
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Post by skip on May 26, 2015 12:55:37 GMT
we've come a long way, baby.
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Post by Stretfordpotterer on May 26, 2015 13:06:18 GMT
seen us lose against
shrewsbury grimsby exeter chester bury hartlepool southend walsall Cambridge Wycombe Port fucking Vale
shipping 6 to Luton having been 2 up shipping 7 at home to blues shipping 8 at home to Liverpool
John Clark David Oldfield Paul Stewart Dave Rowson
I have endured and today i earned my reward as i strode into the office cheerily greeting the resident scousers with a
"morning!"
a dour "mornin" was the response
"no, no, no, it was a question, not a greeting, are you mourning?"
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Post by werrington on May 26, 2015 13:37:56 GMT
We actually only got 8,000 for a home league game first season at The Brit. Forgot who against but remember a picture being in the sentinel of the now Novus Stand looking completely empty. Who was that against ? Can't imagine the Brit now with 20,000 empty seats !!. Great great times to be a Stokie. That was Oxford mate ( midweek match ) and it slap bang in the middle of the fuel crisis
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Post by Kjones9 on May 26, 2015 13:40:09 GMT
Nuneaton at home in the fa cup *shudder*.
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Post by richied on May 26, 2015 13:58:52 GMT
Nuneaton at home in the fa cup *shudder*. Blackburn away in the cup *shudder* - Oh, wait a min!!
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Post by Kjones9 on May 26, 2015 14:06:08 GMT
Nuneaton at home in the fa cup *shudder*. Blackburn away in the cup *shudder* - Oh, wait a min!! There was more than 8000 there.
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Post by CalgaryPotter on May 26, 2015 14:15:45 GMT
I'm only 24 but I'm still old enough to remember watching us get fucked at home by Birmingham and Bristol Rovers and travelling to Wigan to see us get smashed 6-1. . That would have been the 2001/2 season if I remember rightly? I sat in the home end with a Wigan lad who I worked with and it was awful. Some random bloke gave me a cigar cause he felt sorry for me ffs
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2015 14:23:11 GMT
Remember a winger called Leigh Jenkinson ripping us a new one for Hull back in the early 90s, and also a very young Trevor Sinclair putting one past Grobelaar.
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Post by Jamo on the wing on May 26, 2015 14:27:50 GMT
Remember a winger called Leigh Jenkinson ripping us a new one for Hull back in the early 90s, and also a very young Trevor Sinclair putting one past Grobelaar. Jenkinson absolutely destroyed us!
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Post by skip on May 26, 2015 14:34:40 GMT
Nuneaton at home in the fa cup *shudder*. Paying twice for Nuneaton away because they didn't bring my ticket down I'd bought on the phone. Utterly soul destroying.
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Post by thestatusquo on May 26, 2015 14:38:55 GMT
Nuneaton at home in the fa cup *shudder*. Paying twice for Nuneaton away because they didn't bring my ticket down I'd bought on the phone. Utterly soul destroying. And very very wet.
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Post by madelinesmithmmmh on May 26, 2015 14:44:33 GMT
Remember a winger called Leigh Jenkinson ripping us a new one for Hull back in the early 90s, and also a very young Trevor Sinclair putting one past Grobelaar. My son's first game was Sinclair's goal, with his Grandad. We were sat in the Butler St stand behind the Blackpool fans who were very, very surprised. I think I explained that it was probably the shape of things to come!
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Post by kevkj on May 26, 2015 14:47:24 GMT
Two games that stick out from that era around the holocaust were Arsenal at home i think we won in front of the cameras 2-0, 7 thousand in the ground.
That and the 4000 odd against Norwich,
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Post by kevkj on May 26, 2015 14:48:40 GMT
More recently in times athe Brit im sure we played Oxford at home one night and we got around 8000
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Post by skip on May 26, 2015 14:56:46 GMT
Paying twice for Nuneaton away because they didn't bring my ticket down I'd bought on the phone. Utterly soul destroying. And very very wet. Oh yeah, that too. Someone accidentally knocked my woolly hat off in the mud so the cost of a replacement hat too And a cab back to Birmingham because of the train strike. Fucking hell. :/ Read more: oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/thread/244433/when-used-get-8k?page=3#ixzz3bFyxG8vd
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Post by fatbasford on May 26, 2015 17:43:00 GMT
That was for every Stoke fan regardless of what the crowds were when we attended. At school in the late 70's and early 80's I got ribbed for being a Stoke fan by all the Glory hunters. Kids who lived in Stone who attached themselves to a winning team at the time. Liverpool being that team. There has been a few payback games whilst in the Prem but this tops it all. Ian Rush, Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, Phil Thompson, Yosser Hughes - your team took a hell of a beating Did you use Bassets coaches ursemboy?
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Post by Waggy on May 26, 2015 18:30:01 GMT
We actually only got 8,000 for a home league game first season at The Brit. Forgot who against but remember a picture being in the sentinel of the now Novus Stand looking completely empty. Who was that against ? Can't imagine the Brit now with 20,000 empty seats !!. Great great times to be a Stokie. That was Oxford mate ( midweek match ) and it slap bang in the middle of the fuel crisis Remember this game well. how we have moved on. Lets stay with the chaps
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Post by y_oh_y_delilah on May 26, 2015 18:38:07 GMT
Proud to say I was one of the 1,900 odd (very odd) saddo's who witnessed Kyle Lightbulb score a golden goal against Scarborough in some meaningless cup competition several lifetimes ago.
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Post by werrington on May 26, 2015 18:41:52 GMT
Proud to say I was one of the 1,900 odd (very odd) saddo's who witnessed Kyle Lightbulb score a golden goal against Scarborough in some meaningless cup competition several lifetimes ago. Was there too mate Sure it was Darlington and it was the year we won it ?
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Post by Ursemboy on May 26, 2015 18:53:01 GMT
That was for every Stoke fan regardless of what the crowds were when we attended. At school in the late 70's and early 80's I got ribbed for being a Stoke fan by all the Glory hunters. Kids who lived in Stone who attached themselves to a winning team at the time. Liverpool being that team. There has been a few payback games whilst in the Prem but this tops it all. Ian Rush, Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, Phil Thompson, Yosser Hughes - your team took a hell of a beating Did you use Bassets coaches ursemboy? Went a fair few on Bassetts
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2015 19:00:35 GMT
Remember a winger called Leigh Jenkinson ripping us a new one for Hull back in the early 90s, and also a very young Trevor Sinclair putting one past Grobelaar. Jenkinson absolutely destroyed us! ...then he went to Coventry and flopped. Ended up in Scotland. Didn't he win the Rumbelows sprint challenge?
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Post by Smudge_SCFC on May 26, 2015 19:27:01 GMT
We actually only got 8,000 for a home league game first season at The Brit. Forgot who against but remember a picture being in the sentinel of the now Novus Stand looking completely empty. Who was that against ? Can't imagine the Brit now with 20,000 empty seats !!. Great great times to be a Stokie. That was Oxford mate ( midweek match ) and it slap bang in the middle of the fuel crisis Wrong game Mick. The 8,000 against Oxford was in our first season at The Brit and finished as a miserable 0-0 draw. The game in the fuel crisis came about three years later and we won 4-0. There was about 9,000+ on that night.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2015 19:29:11 GMT
That was Oxford mate ( midweek match ) and it slap bang in the middle of the fuel crisis Wrong game Mick. The 8,000 against Oxford was in our first season at The Brit and finished as a miserable 0-0 draw. The game in the fuel crisis came about three years later and we won 4-0. There was about 9,000+ on that night. And a good chant of "what a waste of petrol"
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Post by chad on May 26, 2015 19:33:14 GMT
I know two of us in the world were still questioning whether we would win at 5-0 up. That's a sure sign you've been through the mill with Stoke over the last 38 years. A day to treasure Ha ha. I was looking at my watch the moment we kicked off for the second half All I could think of was please please don't let them come back !!
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Post by davejohnno1 on May 26, 2015 19:56:00 GMT
Proud to say I was one of the 1,900 odd (very odd) saddo's who witnessed Kyle Lightbulb score a golden goal against Scarborough in some meaningless cup competition several lifetimes ago. I was there. It was the coldest I've ever been. We need another of Sundays games though coz I'm on holiday and missed it.
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Post by Jamo on the wing on May 26, 2015 19:58:00 GMT
Jenkinson absolutely destroyed us! ...then he went to Coventry and flopped. Ended up in Scotland. Didn't he win the Rumbelows sprint challenge? I think he might have done. Scored an absolute gem of a goal too that day. As you say his career didn't come to much but he looked like a world beater that day.
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Post by werrington on May 26, 2015 20:00:26 GMT
Proud to say I was one of the 1,900 odd (very odd) saddo's who witnessed Kyle Lightbulb score a golden goal against Scarborough in some meaningless cup competition several lifetimes ago. I was there. It was the coldest I've ever been. We need another of Sundays games though coz I'm on holiday and missed it. Twas indeed freezing that night Dave and I swear if the ref had disallowed that goal nobody would of seen the rest of the game and penalties as everybody got up and fucked off ( smiley ) Deffo Darlington and the season we won it
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Post by Sergeant Muttley on May 26, 2015 20:10:15 GMT
Didn't we have a really low crowd at home to Wycombe one season in a 2-2 draw?
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Post by 4evastoke on May 26, 2015 20:22:17 GMT
Bow taken mate, I remember those days
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