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Post by Squeekster on Aug 20, 2023 10:17:09 GMT
Why do they keep singing about the IRA? Why do we sing a song about Kenwyne and then the very next song he's a useless twat!
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Post by Veritas on Aug 20, 2023 10:28:17 GMT
Great game today and a great 3 points, but can the numpties stop launching their half empty beer bottles into the away end. It’s seems to be happening every week and nobody’s doing anything about it, saw one hit a stoke fan today. It’s not clever and there are kids sat in that away end. We all like the banter up there, but the bottle throwing 👎 Presumably you have notified the club
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Post by owdestokie2 on Aug 20, 2023 10:33:13 GMT
Why do they keep singing about the IRA? Exactly this mate. How do our Irish players feel hearing this when they have potentially grown up with it and potentially had family members caught up in the troubles. You would have to have a brain to think like that though and sadly the people singing it do not. Young pissed/coked up lads wanting to be 'edgy' and controversial. They know they can't sing racist songs 'town full of P words' and stuff like that because they'd get arrested and banned etc and there'd be a national media storm. So singing about the IRA is getting out the desire to sing hate filled, controversial songs but about a subject that they know won't attract any negative consequences for them. Your first sentence will be bang on. I think the rest of your post is being too kind in suggesting they have the brains to think.
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Post by northstaffycher on Aug 20, 2023 10:34:44 GMT
I can’t imagine throwing beer. Even bad beer. Sacrilegious and probably unpatriotic!
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Post by J-Roar on Aug 20, 2023 10:49:36 GMT
I can’t imagine throwing beer. Even bad beer. Sacrilegious and probably unpatriotic! If you taste it you understand why they wang it. More surprising is that they are half full.
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Aug 20, 2023 10:53:15 GMT
Why do they keep singing about the IRA? Exactly this mate. How do our Irish players feel hearing this when they have potentially grown up with it and potentially had family members caught up in the troubles. You would have to have a brain to think like that though and sadly the people singing it do not. Young pissed/coked up lads wanting to be 'edgy' and controversial. They know they can't sing racist songs 'town full of P words' and stuff like that because they'd get arrested and banned etc and there'd be a national media storm. So singing about the IRA is getting out the desire to sing hate filled, controversial songs but about a subject that they know won't attract any negative consequences for them. All true Ofcourse mate. If they knew anything about Irish history and the troubles I'd be very very surprised.
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Post by SamB_SCFC on Aug 20, 2023 11:44:22 GMT
Young pissed/coked up lads wanting to be 'edgy' and controversial. They know they can't sing racist songs 'town full of P words' and stuff like that because they'd get arrested and banned etc and there'd be a national media storm. So singing about the IRA is getting out the desire to sing hate filled, controversial songs but about a subject that they know won't attract any negative consequences for them. All true Ofcourse mate. If they knew anything about Irish history and the troubles I'd be very very surprised. None of them would have even been born before the Good Friday Agreement.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2023 16:34:36 GMT
I can’t imagine throwing beer. Even bad beer. Sacrilegious and probably unpatriotic! If you taste it you understand why they wang it. More surprising is that they are half full. The only half decent drink served in the ground is the blackcurrant cider. I wouldn't drink Carlsberg if I was given it for free.
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Aug 21, 2023 11:34:26 GMT
Young pissed/coked up lads wanting to be 'edgy' and controversial. They know they can't sing racist songs 'town full of P words' and stuff like that because they'd get arrested and banned etc and there'd be a national media storm. So singing about the IRA is getting out the desire to sing hate filled, controversial songs but about a subject that they know won't attract any negative consequences for them. All true Ofcourse mate. If they knew anything about Irish history and the troubles I'd be very very surprised. Maybe they love a nice balaclava . Who doesn't? Some lovely ones on Bedford market and tasty Samosas if anyone thinking of purchasing either
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Post by JudgeMental on Aug 21, 2023 11:45:15 GMT
Why do they keep singing about Kenwyne Jones? I love the atmosphere in the stand, but some of the chants are stale & repetitive (Steve Bruce, IRA). The ref to Luton (you are just a sh!t Luton Town) was awful yesterday. Plus the classic you can shove your Hornets up your a$$ lol 😆 Why the fuck do they insist on singing "if Stoke go down, we all go down," I find it baffling. It's a song to sing when the trapdoor's opening, not every bloody game. That song wanted binning about 5 minutes after it saw the light of day.
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Post by J-Roar on Aug 21, 2023 12:43:59 GMT
It's a shit song from a time when Port Vale were above us isn't it?
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Post by spiderpuss on Aug 21, 2023 13:57:02 GMT
Why the fuck do they insist on singing "if Stoke go down, we all go down," I find it baffling. It's a song to sing when the trapdoor's opening, not every bloody game. That song wanted binning about 5 minutes after it saw the light of day. It's the worst Stoke song I've had the displeasure of hearing (even some of the offensive ones). It's sung with the wrong words most of time, doesn't encourage the players and just puts the rest of us in a foul mood. Please get rid.
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Post by JudgeMental on Aug 21, 2023 15:04:25 GMT
It's a shit song from a time when Port Vale were above us isn't it? I don't remember hearing it back then. It was in the Prem relegation season or the one after, that it appeared I think.
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Aug 21, 2023 15:07:42 GMT
Never understood singing about a club we never play and in the Cilit Bang division 4 or whatever they play in, no idea .
Do Newcastle sing about Hartlepool?
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Post by peterthornesboots on Aug 21, 2023 15:08:18 GMT
That song wanted binning about 5 minutes after it saw the light of day. It's the worst Stoke song I've had the displeasure of hearing (even some of the offensive ones). It's sung with the wrong words most of time, doesn't encourage the players and just puts the rest of us in a foul mood. Please get rid. Our current song repertoire is extremely limited, sadly. We are in dire need of a little creativity.
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Aug 21, 2023 15:30:04 GMT
It's the worst Stoke song I've had the displeasure of hearing (even some of the offensive ones). It's sung with the wrong words most of time, doesn't encourage the players and just puts the rest of us in a foul mood. Please get rid. Our current song repertoire is extremely limited, sadly. We are in dire need of a little creativity. A lower league club and men in balaclavas an odd songbook to be fair. You'd think we'd sign players with easier names to fit into songs Only at Stoke
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Post by slippyblunger on Aug 21, 2023 15:44:06 GMT
It's a shit song from a time when Port Vale were above us isn't it? I don't remember hearing it back then. It was in the Prem relegation season or the one after, that it appeared I think. It long predates the prem mate I remember it back in the 90s.
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Post by wagsastokie on Aug 21, 2023 16:31:04 GMT
Why do they keep singing about the IRA? Maybe they don’t like murdering scumbags ?
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Post by J-Roar on Aug 21, 2023 20:12:35 GMT
It's a shit song from a time when Port Vale were above us isn't it? I don't remember hearing it back then. It was in the Prem relegation season or the one after, that it appeared I think. Definitely older. I'm sure i heard it at the Vic and thought it was shit then.
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Post by whatsashig on Aug 22, 2023 20:03:17 GMT
All true Ofcourse mate. If they knew anything about Irish history and the troubles I'd be very very surprised. None of them would have even been born before the Good Friday Agreement. Awful, no need for this at all. Throwing stuff is ridiculous, been at Bolton and seen an half ender whizz pass a friends head, then the birmingham thing when something like that actually happened. It’s awful that the awareness is not up front what can happen. It’ll be at best they go on a guilt trip later in life saying what they did wrong and discourage such acts. On the IRA thing I can remember getting in a bit of an altercation cus a wouldn’t join in with said song, doesn’t mean I agree, I’d rather a good bloody hug with folks. Peace on earth is a gerzillion miles away and the simple game of football and how fans behave demonstrate it. Going listen to John Lennon, be good
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Post by satoshi on Aug 22, 2023 20:13:18 GMT
Thank Jimmy Mac for bringing up the ira
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Post by whatsashig on Aug 22, 2023 20:24:16 GMT
Thank Jimmy Mac for bringing up the ira Even before him, that’s assuming your talking about the enthusiastic winger/wide player we had.
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Post by Silkystoke on Aug 22, 2023 20:29:44 GMT
Wow never expected 3 pages …!!!!
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Post by satoshi on Aug 22, 2023 20:30:20 GMT
Thank Jimmy Mac for bringing up the ira Even before him, that’s assuming your talking about the enthusiastic winger/wide player we had. Yes he made it relevant in the last few years
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Post by whatsashig on Aug 22, 2023 20:53:31 GMT
Even before him, that’s assuming your talking about the enthusiastic winger/wide player we had. Yes he made it relevant in the last few years How that has become irrelevant to stoke on trent cus of JM is absolutely the reason there will be no world peace. In the wisdom words of vic n bobs big night out ‘you wouldn’t let it lie’
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Post by st3mark on Aug 22, 2023 21:07:47 GMT
Don't hear the anti IRA songs in the boothen but stoke have sang them at away games for as long as I can remember.
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Post by Gods on Aug 22, 2023 21:09:39 GMT
Thank Jimmy Mac for bringing up the ira It's been around forever, sung to the tune of the hymn 'Oil in my lamp'. A throwback to 'the troubles'. Adopted by England fans in the 70's and 80's. Widely sung at most grounds and many pubs, fuelling anti Irish Catholic sentiment. As an aside, on the Boothen in the 70's if there was a quiet spell in the match it passed as entertainment for folks to sing "Celtic - Rangers - Celtic - Rangers..." choose according to your allegiance/ religion and repeat to fade. We really thought we were front and centre of the troubles. I suppose in a way we were, our troops from North Staffs had boots on the ground in Belfast and beyond. I am in no way endorsing or excusing the song and of course our troops have long gone but there is no escaping the roots and sentiment of this song.
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Post by whatsashig on Aug 22, 2023 21:20:06 GMT
Same mentality to throw a bottle or a bomb or shoot a bullet, or maybe carry a head across a field.
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Post by cvillestokie on Aug 22, 2023 22:24:11 GMT
Sad little spineless boys with inferiority complexes.
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Post by marylandstoke on Aug 22, 2023 22:25:43 GMT
I can’t imagine throwing beer. Even bad beer. Sacrilegious and probably unpatriotic! Which is why you throw Budweiser!
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