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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2019 18:45:51 GMT
I cant see a quick return myself. I honestly think we've more chance of going down than going up next season.
Some teams spend years and years stuck in this quagmire of a division.
I think we might be looking 5 or 6 years yet minimum. Just hope it's not longer.
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Post by ruts66 on May 11, 2019 18:46:52 GMT
22
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Post by robwahlmann on May 11, 2019 18:53:44 GMT
Within the next two seasons or I fear it will take a looong time!  |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2019 18:58:39 GMT
!!!!! I hope not 22 years. Was it 23 years years outside the top division between 1985 and 2008. That would make it 2041 until we go up! |
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Post by mickey2693 on May 11, 2019 19:00:38 GMT
Hopefully long enough to scrap what we've got and rebuild what made this club great. (With the addition of promoting youth)
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Post by stokebloke on May 11, 2019 19:02:36 GMT
Never again
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Post by wakefieldstokie on May 11, 2019 19:04:18 GMT
I cant see a quick return myself. I honestly think we've more chance of going down than going up next season. Some teams spend years and years stuck in this quagmire of a division. I think we might be looking 5 or 6 years yet minimum. Just hope it's not longer. Depends on so many factors. Look how wolves have turned it around. I agree, I think we are more likely to go down than up next year but honestly who knows! |
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Post by terrorofturfmoor on May 11, 2019 19:13:17 GMT
With a bit of luck, the top four will have fecked orf and formed a super league by time we go up!!!  |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2019 19:16:44 GMT
I cant see a quick return myself. I honestly think we've more chance of going down than going up next season. Some teams spend years and years stuck in this quagmire of a division. I think we might be looking 5 or 6 years yet minimum. Just hope it's not longer. Depends on so many factors. Look how wolves have turned it around. I agree, I think we are more likely to go down than up next year but honestly who knows! Hiring a very qualified and respected technical director, a European manager and scouting some of the best young talent around the globe? I think we’re going to have to find another way. The Vale are more likely to get into the Prem before that happens at Stoke 😂 |
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Post by heworksardtho on May 11, 2019 19:22:43 GMT
We will top this piss pot league next year , with record points 😎
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Post by leicspotter on May 11, 2019 19:24:27 GMT
At the start of every season there will be 24 clubs hoping to go up, with at least a dozen of them having some sort of realistic chance to do so. Over a 46 game season it requires a whole load of factors, including luck, to be one of the 3 successful clubs...and every season it potentially gets more difficult, although clubs like Brighton, Bournemouth and Huddersfield and now Sheffield United have shown that parachute payments aren't the be all and end all What this does say is that, for Stoke City, staying in the top flight would probably have been easier, and cheaper, than trying to get back up  |
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Post by scfc75 on May 11, 2019 20:15:34 GMT
At the start of every season there will be 24 clubs hoping to go up, with at least a dozen of them having some sort of realistic chance to do so. Over a 46 game season it requires a whole load of factors, including luck, to be one of the 3 successful clubs...and every season it potentially gets more difficult, although clubs like Brighton, Bournemouth and Huddersfield and now Sheffield United have shown that parachute payments aren't the be all and end all What this does say is that, for Stoke City, staying in the top flight would probably have been easier, and cheaper, than trying to get back up Only cheaper if you mismanage your transfer kitty. We spent a fortune badly. Norwich and Sheff Utd on the other hand were both promoted whilst making a net profit on transfer activity. You don’t have to spend big to go up, you just need to spend wisely. |
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Post by Gary Hackett on May 11, 2019 20:35:03 GMT
If we don't go back up next year I can't see us doing it for a long time.
Hence why recruitment and the right managerial team is so crucial for next season.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2019 20:36:27 GMT
In the next couple seasons I think, we have a lot of money so we'll get there eventually.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2019 20:37:56 GMT
If we don't go back up next year I can't see us doing it for a long time. Hence why recruitment and the right managerial team is so crucial for next season. Thee is no way on God's earth that we will be promoted next season. Not a fucking chance. |
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Post by Gary Hackett on May 11, 2019 20:39:20 GMT
If we don't go back up next year I can't see us doing it for a long time. Hence why recruitment and the right managerial team is so crucial for next season. Thee is no way on God's earth that we will be promoted next season. Not a fucking chance. It's a big ask for Jones I'll admit. I'd prefer someone who's done it before. |
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Post by musik on May 11, 2019 20:40:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2019 20:41:25 GMT
Thee is no way on God's earth that we will be promoted next season. Not a fucking chance. It's a big ask for Jones I'll admit. I'd prefer someone who's done it before. I'd prefer a manager who's team perform far better than he talks. |
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Post by numberounominion on May 11, 2019 20:42:10 GMT
Amazingly, it could be one year, if we actually sign a goal scorer.
I very occasionally watch football focus LIVE on BBC red button... All the goals as they go in.
Dion Dublin knows ( almost) zero about stoke, so simply says( every week)... they 'just lack a goal scorer. The game is so much easier when you have a goal scorer '
Even my cat knows that!
Still true though
If, huge if, we sign a goal scorer, then we are in business
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2019 20:48:26 GMT
If we don't go back up next year I can't see us doing it for a long time. Hence why recruitment and the right managerial team is so crucial for next season. Thee is no way on God's earth that we will be promoted next season. Not a fucking chance. Pretty retarded comment considering we don't even know what our squad will look like next season. |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2019 20:50:57 GMT
Thee is no way on God's earth that we will be promoted next season. Not a fucking chance. Pretty retarded comment considering we don't even know what our squad will look like next season. It will look the same as this seasons, bar about 5 or 6 players. |
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Post by davejohnno1 on May 11, 2019 20:51:59 GMT
We've spent more seasons in the top flight than in any other league despite our previous 23 year absence.
We are the richest club in the league and realistically, we should be promoted within 3 years of relegation. Year 1 has been and gone already.
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Post by Gods on May 11, 2019 20:56:48 GMT
Amazingly, it could be one year, if we actually sign a goal scorer. I very occasionally watch football focus LIVE on BBC red button... All the goals as they go in. Dion Dublin knows ( almost) zero about stoke, so simply says( every week)... they 'just lack a goal scorer. The game is so much easier when you have a goal scorer ' Even my cat knows that! Still true though If, huge if, we sign a goal scorer, then we are in business We spent £40 million on Diouf, Berahino, Afobe and Vokes didn't we, you'd like to think there is enough there for the Championship wouldn't you? It's a darn sight more than anyone else has spent. You can understand why the Board might be quizzical when the transfer team go back to them for another 10 or 12 million. I'd ask them what happened to the last 4 clowns! |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2019 20:56:54 GMT
9-1 to win it next season
Might as well be 900-1
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2019 21:03:40 GMT
Pretty retarded comment considering we don't even know what our squad will look like next season. It will look the same as this seasons, bar about 5 or 6 players. Oh aye so half a team. |
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Post by berahinosgoals on May 11, 2019 21:06:53 GMT
2 to 3
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2019 21:22:55 GMT
It will look the same as this seasons, bar about 5 or 6 players. Oh aye so half a team. Yep, at best. And that's the squad we're talking about, not starting eleven. |
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Post by shrewspotter on May 11, 2019 21:26:24 GMT
We will be back lads dunnu worry. I'm hoping we will do it next season but I think 20/21 we will be championooooos
Don't be such a bunch of negative mother fuckers boys we will be back I tell theeeee.....
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Post by robstokie on May 11, 2019 21:27:43 GMT
If we can shift a sizable lump of the waste and recruit smartly we could do it in 2 or probably 3 years. Think realistically the target for this season would be push for top-half, build up the foundations of a team that can start to really compete at this level and hopefully a nice cup run.
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Post by Bojan Mackey on May 11, 2019 22:27:27 GMT
A decade, minimum.
We’re rancid.
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