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Post by atko57 on Sept 22, 2024 12:32:57 GMT
I rue the day my father took me to the Victoria Ground one Spring Saturday in 1964. It started a necessary love affair with one of the most unpredictable teams in football. The latest incarnation of this behaviour with the sacking of Schumacher leaves me feeling the most puzzled I’ve ever been. Can someone please tell me what is actually going on in ST4? Is it a dream or are we really the basket case I strive not to acknowledge?
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Post by mickeythemaestro on Sept 22, 2024 12:35:56 GMT
I rue the day my father took me to the Victoria Ground one Spring Saturday in 1964. It started a necessary love affair with one of the most unpredictable teams in football. The latest incarnation of this behaviour with the sacking of Schumacher leaves me feeling the most puzzled I’ve ever been. Can someone please tell me what is actually going on in ST4? Is it a dream or are we really the basket case I strive not to acknowledge? Not a dream I'm afraid. More of a repeating nightmare. Gives us plenty to moan about on here though to be fair. Keeps it lively 😆 |
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Post by questionable on Sept 22, 2024 12:41:49 GMT
Makes me smile when I hear local owners nonsense.
For the life of me how can these owners be so stupid ???
Mind boggling
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Post by terrorofturfmoor on Sept 22, 2024 12:46:34 GMT
I'm still seething from Friday night, the way we collapsed in the second half was extremely concerning!!!
You could see Hull were putting pressure on us, and a goal was inevitable unless we counter acted it, but we didn't... We continued to play the way we started the second half!!!
You knew the equaliser was coming, what followed was unacceptable!!! 😡😤
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Post by y_oh_y_delilah on Sept 22, 2024 12:53:08 GMT
Not always depressing though is it?
For every ‘down’ we almost have as many highs.
I just thank my lucky stars I was born a Stoke fan rather than perennial winners like ManC, Arsenal, Liverpool etc.
How depressing must it be to go to the game knowing the result is almost always pre-ordained. Not only depressing but boring as hell.
Human nature being what it is you tend to forget pretty quickly the bad results and poor performances. But how many of us Stokies can't recall
Stoke 5 Arsenal 0 (if you’re old enough!), Stoke 6 Liverpool 1, winning a FA Cup Final 5-0 etc etc.
No, being a bit depressed is all part of being a fan, it just makes the good days even better.
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Post by olias on Sept 22, 2024 13:15:47 GMT
I used to watch in fascination, and digest all the news and media rubbish, with quite a bit of amusement and hilarity, when football teams seem to screw up so magnificently, that it was required viewing for anybody who had ever kicked a ball. Just so you could join in with the football-gossip Monday mornings.
TV football presenters informing viewers what, such-and-such club have been up to, off the field. Quite often delivered through grinning teeth. Desperately holding back laughter.
Pun-tastic headlines in sports pages..
..all of the above so you could feel better about your own club.
It's shit when it is, your club.
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Post by 19notbeaten72 on Sept 22, 2024 13:21:02 GMT
I have become somewhat used to the never ending lows we have experienced over the last 7/8 years as its become the norm.
In the past a defeat would ruin my weekend & sometimes into the following week.
I honestly cannot see any light at the end of the tunnel until the club is run by real football people who know what they are doing & employ the right people in the right roles. If it means saying goodbye to the Coates family so be it because as things stand at this time we are only going one way & thats league 1.
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Post by scfcwebby on Sept 22, 2024 15:14:34 GMT
Not always depressing though is it? For every ‘down’ we almost have as many highs. I just thank my lucky stars I was born a Stoke fan rather than perennial winners like ManC, Arsenal, Liverpool etc. How depressing must it be to go to the game knowing the result is almost always pre-ordained. Not only depressing but boring as hell. Human nature being what it is you tend to forget pretty quickly the bad results and poor performances. But how many of us Stokies can't recall Stoke 5 Arsenal 0 (if you’re old enough!), Stoke 6 Liverpool 1, winning a FA Cup Final 5-0 etc etc. No, being a bit depressed is all part of being a fan, it just makes the good days even better. We didn't win an FA cup final 😉 I've always said, if you support a "big club" like Either of the Manchester clubs, or Liverpool etc, you can only ever be disappointed... If you win it's expected so you don't get that buzz of beating a "big club" Must be boring as fuck. The lows make the highs so much more enjoyable |
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Post by senojbor on Sept 22, 2024 15:27:46 GMT
Putting it another way, perhaps a more sobering thought
In my lifetime we have been promoted only 3 times to the top division
Once by Alan Durban and once by Tony Pulis. I was too young to remember Waddington's promotion in the 60s.
WBA have been promoted 4 times and Norwich 6 to the premier league alone. Us? just once.
Yep, petty depressing.
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Post by y_oh_y_delilah on Sept 22, 2024 15:34:53 GMT
Not always depressing though is it? For every ‘down’ we almost have as many highs. I just thank my lucky stars I was born a Stoke fan rather than perennial winners like ManC, Arsenal, Liverpool etc. How depressing must it be to go to the game knowing the result is almost always pre-ordained. Not only depressing but boring as hell. Human nature being what it is you tend to forget pretty quickly the bad results and poor performances. But how many of us Stokies can't recall Stoke 5 Arsenal 0 (if you’re old enough!), Stoke 6 Liverpool 1, winning a FA Cup Final 5-0 etc etc. No, being a bit depressed is all part of being a fan, it just makes the good days even better. We didn't win an FA cup final 😉 I've always said, if you support a "big club" like Either of the Manchester clubs, or Liverpool etc, you can only ever be disappointed... If you win it's expected so you don't get that buzz of beating a "big club" Must be boring as fuck. The lows make the highs so much more enjoyable Slip of the mind, obviously meant ‘semi’ 🤡 |
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Post by scfcwebby on Sept 22, 2024 15:41:06 GMT
We didn't win an FA cup final 😉 I've always said, if you support a "big club" like Either of the Manchester clubs, or Liverpool etc, you can only ever be disappointed... If you win it's expected so you don't get that buzz of beating a "big club" Must be boring as fuck. The lows make the highs so much more enjoyable Slip of the mind, obviously meant ‘semi’ 🤡 I know mate, I'm just being a pedantic twat 😂 |
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Post by starkiller on Sept 24, 2024 12:59:01 GMT
Have a look down the leagues. And count your blessings. There is some hardcore, permanently suffering support, down there. And they didn't take the glory hunting route.
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