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Post by steve66 on Feb 20, 2016 16:53:40 GMT
Bog off Dave . I refuse to open that link.One of my worst memories of watching Stoke X2!
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Post by stokefc on Feb 20, 2016 17:00:13 GMT
I was 10. After seeing us stuff Tilbury at home I was convinced Blyth would as easily be put to the sword-how wrong I was. me old man took me the blyth game as a ten year old i don,t know why i thought we beat Tilbury away
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corky
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What absolute twaddle.
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Post by corky on Feb 20, 2016 17:06:53 GMT
Why would you bring this up?
Oh god, it's still too awful to think about. School the next day was hell. I lived in Yorkshire in those days and pretty much everyone supported Leeds. I was the only Stokie in the entire school and there was no mercy. Even a couple of the teachers got stuck in.
The horror. The horror.
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Post by wizardofdrivel on Feb 20, 2016 17:14:58 GMT
I was bouncing around the school yard when this tie got pulled out after despatching Tilbury 4-0 Postponed a few times due to waterlogged pitch before it eventually played Gutted I was that night
Despite what the article says, I'm absolutely convinced that the first game was called off because of SNOW.
I can remember all the Blyth Spartans fans getting off their coaches and there was snow everywhere and thinking to myself, the poor bastards have come all this way and it isn't going to happen.
Or am I just going mental?
It was snowed off about two hours before kick off? I know because I had just set off from south staffs in me dads car and we heard it on the radio. It was snowing heavily and the ground was frozen a bit like the Oldham game.
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Post by wizardofdrivel on Feb 20, 2016 17:17:53 GMT
Why would you bring this up? Oh god, it's still too awful to think about. School the next day was hell. I lived in Yorkshire in those days and pretty much everyone supported Leeds. I was the only Stokie in the entire school and there was no mercy. Even a couple of the teachers got stuck in. The horror. The horror. Ditto but in south staffs, the whole school turned out to greet me, the bastards.
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Post by wizardofdrivel on Feb 20, 2016 17:20:47 GMT
And because the original game was postponed and the draw had already been made, we knew we would face Wrexham in the next round. I thought our name was on the cup!
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Post by Paul Spencer on Feb 20, 2016 17:20:51 GMT
Despite what the article says, I'm absolutely convinced that the first game was called off because of SNOW.
I can remember all the Blyth Spartans fans getting off their coaches and there was snow everywhere and thinking to myself, the poor bastards have come all this way and it isn't going to happen.
Or am I just going mental?
It was snowed off about two hours before kick off? I know because I had just set off from south staffs in me dads car and we heard it on the radio. It was snowing heavily and the ground was frozen a bit like the Oldham game.
Thank god for that ... I thought I was losing it for a minute mate.
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Post by Davef on Feb 20, 2016 17:42:55 GMT
It was snowed off about two hours before kick off? I know because I had just set off from south staffs in me dads car and we heard it on the radio. It was snowing heavily and the ground was frozen a bit like the Oldham game.
Thank god for that ... I thought I was losing it for a minute mate.
2.25 on this video... Definitely rain! Four of the five goals are shown too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2016 17:50:41 GMT
That was my first ever game.
Colours were nailed to the mast and I've never looked back.
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Post by redstriper on Feb 20, 2016 19:10:07 GMT
I was 16 too, and living in Penkridge, which is 90% wolves. I got more shit the following day than any other and I never wanted it brought up again... feeling ill now!
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Post by march4 on Feb 20, 2016 19:48:54 GMT
Thank for that, mate. I had nearly expunged it from the memory banks.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Feb 21, 2016 0:58:20 GMT
Thank god for that ... I thought I was losing it for a minute mate.
2.25 on this video... Definitely rain! Four of the five goals are shown too.
Dave is there a possibility that the video at 2.25 is of the afternoon prior to the second postponement?
I've done a little bit of googling and it seems there was (for certain) a total snow storm in the north east when the Blyth Spartens supporters set off on that Saturday morning but I can't find anything specific about the weather in Stoke at the time.
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Post by enuntio on Feb 21, 2016 1:48:19 GMT
Horrible
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2016 1:58:01 GMT
2.25 on this video... Definitely rain! Four of the five goals are shown too.
Dave is there a possibility that the video at 2.25 is of the afternoon prior to the second postponement?
I've done a little bit of googling and it seems there was (for certain) a total snow storm in the north east when the Blyth Spartens supporters set off on that Saturday morning but I can't find anything specific about the weather in Stoke at the time.
Just a thought. There was a blizzard on the 18th just prior to them playing @ Wrexham. are you getting them mixed up? www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/63153-the-great-blizzard-of-feb-1978-30-years-on/
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2016 4:22:40 GMT
Fuck I was 16 when that happened. it seems like a couple of years ago GD Yeah, time flies Dave. I thought it was further back than '78 though. I was 20 and remember it well. Never forget the standing ovation most Stokies, including myself, gave those Blythe Spartans players and their terrific supporters as they came off the pitch after the game ended. Strange how I didn't feel totally gutted at the time that Stoke had just been knocked out of the F A cup at home by a non league side. I must have been overcome by the warm feeling of witnessing a giant killing act to even notice it was my team who had just been beaten. Crazy days, and more of those were to come. All part and parcel of being a Stoke supporter for over 40 years I hasten to add, and all the more reason why I never take anything for granted in the game and try and enjoy what we have today.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Feb 21, 2016 8:18:54 GMT
Why would you bring this up? Oh god, it's still too awful to think about. School the next day was hell. I lived in Yorkshire in those days and pretty much everyone supported Leeds. I was the only Stokie in the entire school and there was no mercy. Even a couple of the teachers got stuck in. The horror. The horror. Ditto but in south staffs, the whole school turned out to greet me, the bastards. Yes I know the feeling. After our 'Shock' defeat by Rotherham in the league cup at the Vic in 1984, most of the playground at Clayton High converged on me chanting "Rotherham, Rotherham". In those far off dark days, there were only two of us who supported Stoke in that year, everyone else was Glory hunting.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2016 8:23:14 GMT
Own up. Who threw the coin at Terry Conroy!?
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Post by partickpotter on Feb 21, 2016 9:06:53 GMT
Why, why, why, would you put this thread up, I now have visions of Roger dropping the ball That was Oldham mate Aaaaaaaarrrrgh... Roger Jones. He dropped some clangers. I'm sure he had a run of them in away promotion 6 pointers the following season - like the one in the video below (1:27:03 in) away to CP. He didn't drop it on this occassion - just missed it!
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Post by cobhamstokey on Feb 21, 2016 9:16:28 GMT
I went the tilbury game I remember roger Jones messing up a clearance really badly
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Post by reddipotter on Feb 21, 2016 9:27:02 GMT
Time has softened every other disappointment and let-down over the years of following Stoke, except this one.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2016 23:31:34 GMT
Own up. Who threw the coin at Terry Conroy!? It wonna mae. Too skint in those days to be throwing coins about.
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Post by Gaz on Feb 22, 2016 9:26:21 GMT
What a horrible post - have a bit of respect will you, some of us are still taking counseling after that night. Second worse night of my life as a Potters fan, and you wouldn't post footage of the Stenhousemuir incident would you - would you?
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Post by Cyprusdelilah on Feb 22, 2016 16:07:00 GMT
Remember it well, I was 13 years old at the time, just remember everybody going home in silence. By the time the final came round I was 14, watched the final on tele Ipswich 1-Asenal 0. Can't remember going out too do my paper round, I was knocked over on the A34 by Newcastle Colledge, 20 yards from where I lived. Spent the next 2 weeks in a coma & many more in hospital. So I will never forget that season's FA Cup. I was visited twice by Terry Conroy.
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Post by leicspotter on Feb 22, 2016 20:50:48 GMT
Missed that game... ...working in Blyth...
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Post by stokiejohnss on Feb 22, 2016 23:17:19 GMT
This was Alan A'Courts one and only game as manager ! The season had started badly losing at Mansfield amid " crowd unrest " I remember many balls coming into our end were not returned to play and thrown backwards and out of the ground behind us ?! Things did improve when Durban was appointed
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Post by johnnypotter on Feb 22, 2016 23:50:41 GMT
Two things still haunt me about following Stoke City. That defeat to [can hardly bring myself to say their name, so I wont] and the pulling down of the Victoria ground. The latter made me feel like part of my soul was being torn out. I was in my last year at high school, my mates and I were full of optimism following our 4-0 win over non league opposition in the previous round. We listened to the lunch time draw in the common room hoping to draw them. The old saying ''be careful what you wish for''was never more apparent. When we went 2-1 up from being 0-1 down, we should not have lost, but as we all know, we did, 2-3. My mate [Kev] and myself never stopped talking about it to Kev's dad, who said that if we had managed to draw, then we would have won the replay, as we could play as badly again. I'm still not sure if he truly believed it, or was trying to offer counselling to two teenagers who were acting like the were coping with a bereavement. To say we took it badly, is an understatement.
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Post by stokey127 on Feb 29, 2016 21:29:13 GMT
I was 10. After seeing us stuff Tilbury at home I was convinced Blyth would as easily be put to the sword-how wrong I was. me old man took me the blyth game as a ten year old i don,t know why i thought we beat Tilbury away I was there also 14yrs old what a bad memory the crap I got at school the next day!!, good old Stoke.
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Feb 6, 2023 8:24:56 GMT
Happy Anniversary folks 45 years ago tonight and some think it’s tough now😄
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Sept 20, 2023 9:48:07 GMT
Was only a kid but remember the Sentinel headline after the draw was made as used to get it sent to us and I'd cut out the headlines
IT'S CUP LUCK FOR STOKE
Wrexham was the game on radio 2, they played the winners. Was relieved to hear we'd equalised from a score flash then when the Wrexham game finished the commentator said they would play Blythe in the next round...surely he'd made a mistake !!!!
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Sept 20, 2023 13:41:32 GMT
The Blythe game was called off very late as was in a hotel in Picadilly with my Dad and we were going.Would have been one of my first games. Was gutted
Was watching Grandstand in the room and can still hear Frank Bough saying that Stoke was the latest game to fall to the weather. Grandstand didn't start until mid-day don't think We went to Old Trafford instead to see Man U play West Brom at the last minute 🙁
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