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Post by maninasuitcase on Sept 20, 2024 22:01:18 GMT
Just wondered if anyone is close to walking away from the club and finding something better to do with their time.
I have to admit the last few years have got me thinking a lot about knocking this on the head and doing something better with my time and money.
I get that I will probably lose some friends but i may make new ones.
I guess the remainder of this season will be the acid test, as it will determine if my heart is still in it.
Wonder if anyone else feels the same
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Post by bagnallboothen on Sept 20, 2024 22:02:25 GMT
Hopefully Jon Walters
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Post by chad on Sept 20, 2024 22:07:47 GMT
Just wondered if anyone is close to walking away from the club and finding something better to do with their time. I have to admit the last few years have got me thinking a lot about knocking this on the head and doing something better with my time and money. I get that I will probably lose some friends but i may make new ones. I guess the remainder of this season will be the acid test, as it will determine if my heart is still in it. Wonder if anyone else feels the same Absolutely Not |
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Post by lordb on Sept 20, 2024 22:08:40 GMT
I won't be watching League 1 football, sorry done my time there, can't face it again
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Post by raythesailor on Sept 20, 2024 22:08:52 GMT
Think the same every end of season for many years but keep having optomism for the nextseason.
Sods law says when give up Stoke will come good.
A m I the bad luck omen?
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Post by Davef on Sept 20, 2024 22:09:25 GMT
Just wondered if anyone is close to walking away from the club and finding something better to do with their time. I have to admit the last few years have got me thinking a lot about knocking this on the head and doing something better with my time and money. I get that I will probably lose some friends but i may make new ones. I guess the remainder of this season will be the acid test, as it will determine if my heart is still in it. Wonder if anyone else feels the same You will never find better friends than those you share this shitshow with. |
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Post by olias on Sept 20, 2024 22:12:04 GMT
The stadium should have a wall on the way out, specifically for banging your head against.
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Post by cheadlepotter on Sept 20, 2024 22:13:07 GMT
I don’t work because of my disability and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to justify the cost of a season ticket to my wife when the best we can hope for is surviving a relegation battle and maybe climbing as high as 14th.
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Post by march4 on Sept 20, 2024 22:13:21 GMT
Just grit your teeth and endure it.
When the good times eventually come it makes them even sweeter.
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Post by silsdenstokie on Sept 20, 2024 22:13:21 GMT
I won't be watching League 1 football, sorry done my time there, can't face it again 92/93 best season ever for me But yeah, no desire to go down there again |
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Post by lordb on Sept 20, 2024 22:14:33 GMT
Just grit your teeth and endure it. When the good times eventually come it makes them even sweeter. It's exhausting me March |
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Post by spoton on Sept 20, 2024 22:14:34 GMT
Just wondered if anyone is close to walking away from the club and finding something better to do with their time. I have to admit the last few years have got me thinking a lot about knocking this on the head and doing something better with my time and money. I get that I will probably lose some friends but i may make new ones. I guess the remainder of this season will be the acid test, as it will determine if my heart is still in it. Wonder if anyone else feels the same I made the stupid mistake of getting two season tickets this season after walking away from the shit show 3years ago I totally believe I've been had by the club and what it promised over the close season |
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Post by potter25 on Sept 20, 2024 22:15:13 GMT
I won't be watching League 1 football, sorry done my time there, can't face it again Tenner says you will 😉 |
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Post by swandog73 on Sept 20, 2024 22:15:33 GMT
I'm 51 now, been supporting stoke since about 10-11, it's your club, simple as that, sometimes it's shit and sometimes it's not, I've supported them in league 1 and in the prem, I've had just as good a day in lg 1 as I have in the prem, it's just stoke city. Love em or hate em !
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Post by tinofspam on Sept 20, 2024 22:16:08 GMT
Grandad was a vale fan, when they played poor or lost he’d say “think I’ll start watching cricket instead”. I now realise he wasn’t just saying this for comedy
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Post by mamathestriker on Sept 20, 2024 22:16:45 GMT
Just grit your teeth and endure it. When the good times eventually come it makes them even sweeter. It's exhausting me March It's mentally draining. I'm absolutely sick of cheap talk from those in charge and absolutely nothing changing, actually, seeing us get worse. |
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 20, 2024 22:17:22 GMT
Just grit your teeth and endure it. When the good times eventually come it makes them even sweeter. The difference this time is we aren’t skint. We should never have been relegated from the prem given the riches at our disposal. We go from one bad decision to the next without even a smattering of it looking like things are on the up. This has gone on for 7 fucking years. Something has to give and that’s the one thing in those 7 years that hasn’t yet. The owner. |
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Post by delilahwhy on Sept 20, 2024 22:17:46 GMT
Took my lad tonight. Trying to get him into it but it's bloody tough when it's like that.
Not sure I want to put him through the misery to come.
It will get ugly.
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Post by mcw on Sept 20, 2024 22:18:39 GMT
Just grit your teeth and endure it. When the good times eventually come it makes them even sweeter. Can you give me a timeline for when the worm will turn? I’m getting pretty low on reserves of enthusiasm and hope. |
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Post by mamathestriker on Sept 20, 2024 22:19:08 GMT
Just grit your teeth and endure it. When the good times eventually come it makes them even sweeter. The difference this time is we aren’t skint. We should never have been relegated from the prem given the riches at our disposal. We go from one bad decision to the next without even a smattering of it looking like things are on the up. This has gone on for 7 fucking years. Something has to give and that’s the one thing in those 7 years that hasn’t yet. The owner. If I was Coates I'd step away and be an investor only. And let someone else run the ship. |
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Post by dirtygary69 on Sept 20, 2024 22:20:01 GMT
I'm already thinking about not renewing next season, it's just not enjoyable. There's being shit because you're shit but we are shit through blatant and constant mismanagement.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 20, 2024 22:20:40 GMT
The difference this time is we aren’t skint. We should never have been relegated from the prem given the riches at our disposal. We go from one bad decision to the next without even a smattering of it looking like things are on the up. This has gone on for 7 fucking years. Something has to give and that’s the one thing in those 7 years that hasn’t yet. The owner. If I was Coates I'd step away and be an investor only. And let someone else run the ship. He genuinely thinks he’s a football man though. The evidence was there when he stuck himself on the football operations board back in the MON & Cousins days. That was a massive red flag for me. |
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Post by SuperRickyFuller on Sept 20, 2024 22:20:42 GMT
The logical part of me is struggling to justify this any longer. I don't live in the area anymore and coming down to watch us writes a couple of days off for me (there's no way I could watch us sober so I stay over 😂).
But if I was going solely for the football I'd have jacked in a few years ago. Don't think there's anything better after a week at work than putting the world to rights with a couple of beers with family and good friends.
And to be honest, being a Stoke City supporter is a part of my identity so to give it up would be to go against my nature.
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Post by mamathestriker on Sept 20, 2024 22:22:28 GMT
If I was Coates I'd step away and be an investor only. And let someone else run the ship. He genuinely thinks he’s a football man though. The evidence was there when he stuck himself on the football operations board back in the MON & Cousins days. That was a massive red flag for me. What do you think happens next? Pelach gets time, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility we'll need another new manager soon. If we lose to Boro, Portsmouth and Swansea, everything looks very ugly. |
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Post by chamberlain on Sept 20, 2024 22:23:07 GMT
Just wondered if anyone is close to walking away from the club and finding something better to do with their time. I have to admit the last few years have got me thinking a lot about knocking this on the head and doing something better with my time and money. I get that I will probably lose some friends but i may make new ones. I guess the remainder of this season will be the acid test, as it will determine if my heart is still in it. Wonder if anyone else feels the same Never ever |
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Post by clarkeda on Sept 20, 2024 22:24:24 GMT
He genuinely thinks he’s a football man though. The evidence was there when he stuck himself on the football operations board back in the MON & Cousins days. That was a massive red flag for me. What do you think happens next? Pelach gets time, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility we'll need another new manager soon. If we lose to Boro, Portsmouth and Swansea, everything looks very ugly. In no Pulis fan. But you can’t see past a big bellowing ‘go on TONNEEEEE’ from the upper tier. |
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Post by M on Sept 20, 2024 22:24:34 GMT
Not a chance, but I have become less emotionally attached over the years (I’m only 43 mind). A result used to determine my weekend, now once I’m away I’m largely over the low bits. It helps that I now spread my attention to multiple sports and interests. I’m hoping regardless of Champions League or National League, that I’ll keep going for the social aspect at least; until I can’t physically do it anymore.
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Post by mamathestriker on Sept 20, 2024 22:25:24 GMT
What do you think happens next? Pelach gets time, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility we'll need another new manager soon. If we lose to Boro, Portsmouth and Swansea, everything looks very ugly. In no Pulis fan. But you can’t see past a big bellowing ‘go on TONNEEEEE’ from the upper tier. TP wouldn't have a clue with this bunch of players. |
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Post by SuperRickyFuller on Sept 20, 2024 22:26:00 GMT
Just grit your teeth and endure it. When the good times eventually come it makes them even sweeter. The difference this time is we aren’t skint. We should never have been relegated from the prem given the riches at our disposal. We go from one bad decision to the next without even a smattering of it looking like things are on the up. This has gone on for 7 fucking years. Something has to give and that’s the one thing in those 7 years that hasn’t yet. The owner. Funnily enough, one of the things I said tonight in the pub after the game was that one of the worst things to have ever happened to the club is to come into billions of pounds of money in a weird way. I think it's made us a very lazy club at the top, thinking we can buy and spend our way out of every problem. Historically (that being in the last decade really) the more we spend, the shitter the end product. I'm not wishing us to be skint again obviously but it's a worry. |
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 20, 2024 22:26:23 GMT
He genuinely thinks he’s a football man though. The evidence was there when he stuck himself on the football operations board back in the MON & Cousins days. That was a massive red flag for me. What do you think happens next? Pelach gets time, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility we'll need another new manager soon. If we lose to Boro, Portsmouth and Swansea, everything looks very ugly. Walters and Pelach gone by December and yet again the whole make up of the club will be changed. |
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