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Post by davethebass on Aug 2, 2024 4:58:03 GMT
In before anyone says insurance for Butler St roof What if Hitler hadn’t invaded Poland? We’d probably have won the league in 1940 or 1941. Our whole history and direction as a club would have been totally different. Came here to say these two things. And they're the first two comments lol |
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Post by J-Roar on Aug 2, 2024 5:18:36 GMT
Sat in the garden today and my mind starting wandering, and I started to think about a Stoke related “What if…” What if Bojan had not got injured? What’s your Stoke related “what if…” that you think about? Not this old chestnut. The Bojan myth 🙄 He was every bit the player he was when he came back from injury. If not stronger ! He wasn’t used enough by certain people ! For whatever reason. I suppose it would have been interesting to see what we would have achieved that season though. He was on fire when that happened. |
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Post by J-Roar on Aug 2, 2024 5:20:02 GMT
What if my Aunt had bollocks? How do you know she hasn't? Unfortunately, I found out the hard way that she has. |
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Post by wrighter on Aug 2, 2024 9:16:45 GMT
what if we hadnt signed Sheron but kept Scott
what if we couldve found a way of keeping the Vic
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Post by marrer on Aug 2, 2024 9:32:16 GMT
What if I'd chosen to see Jaws as a young 12 yrar old instead of choosing to go to the Vic for the first time and getting hooked.....
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Post by Somebody_Told_Me on Aug 2, 2024 9:32:20 GMT
What if ... Notts Co and us formed the league 20 years earlier. We would have had at least 10 titles to our name by 1888 and every good player would have wanted to play for us from then on. Manchester Who? Or Notts County would be on 20 titles and would now be the modern day 'Real Madrid'. We'd still be titleless.  |
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Post by Somebody_Told_Me on Aug 2, 2024 9:33:46 GMT
What if Charlie Adam had stuck away the penalty rebound.
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Aug 2, 2024 11:00:31 GMT
What if the idiots who abused jc had ther way we'd be in a proper mess now
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Post by greenhoffsleftboot on Aug 2, 2024 11:30:52 GMT
Agree with those who said Butler Street Stand roof. Stoke would be an entirely different club. We'd have won the league at least once, maybe several times. Longer and more frequent cup runs. Proper European adventures. We had very high level players at that time, but more would have joined and continued to join, as we'd be an ACTUAL "storied" club, rather than one in our hyper-active imaginations ...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2024 11:38:56 GMT
Etherington hadn't got injured?
Or, what if Southgate was in charge (today’s version) when Matty and Pennant were on-form? Would we have actually seen Stoke players in an international tournament representing England?
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Post by ihaveadream on Aug 2, 2024 12:32:02 GMT
What if Yaya Toure's Dad had remembered his condom
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Aug 2, 2024 12:38:30 GMT
what if we hadnt signed Sheron but kept Scott what if we couldve found a way of keeping the Vic That was down to MON, the other one , wanting Scott and offering us Sheron We got lucky |
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Post by Ron on Aug 2, 2024 14:56:58 GMT
What if Kenwyne had nicked that one past Joe Hart?
What if Van Ginkel hadn’t hit the post at Anfield?
What if Charlie Adam had been allowed to take that party v Brighton without Spanish interfenrencwv Brighton?
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Aug 2, 2024 15:05:28 GMT
What if Rory Delap had a rubbish throw in?
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Post by bloodtypered on Aug 2, 2024 16:01:17 GMT
If the penalty that Jesse and Adam were arguing about, had gone in, we might still be in the prem
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Post by mickstupp on Aug 2, 2024 16:33:01 GMT
Agree with those who said Butler Street Stand roof. Stoke would be an entirely different club. We'd have won the league at least once, maybe several times. Longer and more frequent cup runs. Proper European adventures. We had very high level players at that time, but more would have joined and continued to join, as we'd be an ACTUAL "storied" club, rather than one in our hyper-active imaginations ... I think the whole insurance story of the roof has become a bit embellished. The club was really struggling financially at the time. Attendances weren’t great and the wage bill was spiralling out of control. |
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Aug 2, 2024 17:14:50 GMT
Agree with those who said Butler Street Stand roof. Stoke would be an entirely different club. We'd have won the league at least once, maybe several times. Longer and more frequent cup runs. Proper European adventures. We had very high level players at that time, but more would have joined and continued to join, as we'd be an ACTUAL "storied" club, rather than one in our hyper-active imaginations ... I think the whole insurance story of the roof has become a bit embellished over time. The club was really struggling financially at the time. Attendances weren’t great and the wage bill was spiralling out of control. I often wondered about that. Can very vaguely remember it. Judging by crowds, could we not have just closed that stand or part of it? Despite how some remember things as rammed to the rafters and ear splitting noise at the Vic every week...were crowds too big for 3 stands at that time? |
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Post by baconburger on Aug 2, 2024 17:17:13 GMT
What if we’d beat Leicester. I think that’s pretty much my only “what if”.
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Post by mickstupp on Aug 2, 2024 17:18:13 GMT
I think the whole insurance story of the roof has become a bit embellished over time. The club was really struggling financially at the time. Attendances weren’t great and the wage bill was spiralling out of control. I often wondered about that. Can very vaguely remember it. Judging by crowds, could we not have just closed that stand or part of it? Despite how some remember things as rammed to the rafters and ear splitting noise at the Vic every week...were crowds too big for 3 stands at that time? We averaged 22k over that season (75/76) so we could possibly have played out the season with three stands open. It certainly wasn’t rammed every week, although we did get 41k for the FA Cup 5th round against Sunderland. |
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Aug 2, 2024 17:21:07 GMT
I often wondered about that. Can very vaguely remember it. Judging by crowds, could we not have just closed that stand or part of it? Despite how some remember things as rammed to the rafters and ear splitting noise at the Vic every week...were crowds too big for 3 stands at that time? We averaged 22k over the season, so we could possibly have played out the season with three stands open. It certainly wasn’t rammed every week although we did get 41k for the FA Cup QF against Sunderland. Was a bit my sarcastic take on how some remember the place there with the rammed comment . Surely we could have accommodated 22 k without the Butler stand perhaps. |
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Post by mickstupp on Aug 2, 2024 17:24:14 GMT
We averaged 22k over the season, so we could possibly have played out the season with three stands open. It certainly wasn’t rammed every week although we did get 41k for the FA Cup QF against Sunderland. Was a bit my sarcastic take on how some remember the place there with the rammed comment . Surely we could have accommodated 22 k without the Butler stand perhaps. When I started going, we could have closed three sides and just kept the Boothen open. 10k was classed as a good gate. |
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Aug 2, 2024 17:30:50 GMT
Was a bit my sarcastic take on how some remember the place there with the rammed comment . Surely we could have accommodated 22 k without the Butler stand perhaps. When I started going, we could have closed three sides and just kept the Boothen open. 10k was classed as a good gate. Was about 12/14 k top flight in my early days. 20k was very very rare unless playing a Liverpool or Man U on a holiday . Not the crowds some talk about of course . Realistically the ground was just over half full for your average game at a push . We could easily have lost a stand as seen to remember the Butler as not being the most popular anyway |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Aug 2, 2024 17:49:51 GMT
What if we don’t sign a decent goal scorer in this window?
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Post by hotterpotter on Aug 2, 2024 20:36:22 GMT
What if we don’t sign a decent goal scorer in this window? Isn't that more "how unusual"? |
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Post by BrummiePotter on Aug 2, 2024 21:02:39 GMT
What if my favourite goalkeeper in 1975/76 had been Ray Clemence rather than Peter Shilton. I would have seen a damn sight more success!!!
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Aug 2, 2024 21:08:41 GMT
I haven't read the thread so I'm sure I'm about to say three of the more popular recent ones:
1) Kenwyne scored at Valencia
2) Van Ginkel scored at Anfield
3) Charlie netted that fucking penalty
Edit- hazy memory on 2
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Post by SuperRickyFuller on Aug 2, 2024 21:13:22 GMT
I haven't read the thread so I'm sure I'm about to say three of the more popular recent ones: 1) Kenwyne scored at Valencia 2) We won that penalty shoot out at Anfield 3) Charlie netted that fucking penalty After climbing what felt like 50 flights of stairs to get to see the pitch, the first thing I saw was Kenwyne miss that header. That trip was amazing, gutted I didn't go more European games. |
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Post by lordb on Aug 2, 2024 21:25:21 GMT
Agree with those who said Butler Street Stand roof. Stoke would be an entirely different club. We'd have won the league at least once, maybe several times. Longer and more frequent cup runs. Proper European adventures. We had very high level players at that time, but more would have joined and continued to join, as we'd be an ACTUAL "storied" club, rather than one in our hyper-active imaginations ... The club was already in financial difficulties, player sales were coming anyway The decline would have been much less dramatic, we probably would have avoided relegation, suspect supporters would still have forced Waddington out Who knows, but we had peaked before the roof/insurance fiasco |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Aug 2, 2024 22:45:42 GMT
Bayernoatcake never found this forum Awwww 3 of you think I’m that important. Thanks guys x |
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Post by Dutchpeter on Aug 3, 2024 8:27:32 GMT
Agree with those who said Butler Street Stand roof. Stoke would be an entirely different club. We'd have won the league at least once, maybe several times. Longer and more frequent cup runs. Proper European adventures. We had very high level players at that time, but more would have joined and continued to join, as we'd be an ACTUAL "storied" club, rather than one in our hyper-active imaginations ... I think the whole insurance story of the roof has become a bit embellished. The club was really struggling financially at the time. Attendances weren’t great and the wage bill was spiralling out of control. That’s correct. The roof was the straw that broke the camel’s back. The fire sale of players would have happened even if the the roof remained intact. Stoke went for a high risk spending policy and it simply didn’t work. Also at this time the Stoke End terrace had been condemned so that was another foreseen expense to deal with. We were spending big money on players while Liverpool and Manchester United very often got top players for peanuts. I’d actually compare us to Derby at the time who spent big and it ended up sour for them. It’s amazing how many people believe what is essentially a fiction. |
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