Season starts for us on the 16th Aug against Bolton. We play Newcastle Town FC in a friendly this Friday with a worst squad than when we got promotion with.
Tony pulis is a great manager IMO but he said yesterday in not so many words that he's up against it because nobody wants to come to Stoke (i can see why tbh)

We have loads of money to play with even including the promotional money but cant get the players..
Spose you cant polish a turd as they say.... best thing we can hope for is being a yoyo club

yep.... the bubble of being promoted has been burst.
just being realistic........... fucking gutted

and the season has not started yet

 

nah, at least it won't be as bad as derby

 

we will score more points than Derby! will we? oh shit we might not

 

come on, you was fucked as soon as the final whistle went in your final game, as are west brom and especially hull. the gap between championship and prem is far too big these days and unless you got a shit load of cash to blow on at least 5/6 quality premiership standard footballers you aint gonna do nothing.

enjoy your season and build for having an excellent championship season 09/10 season.

 

hope they get nailed week in week out ,actually quite looking forward to it

 

not as fucked as the team they were playing against

ooooo milton keynes dons first game, oh the glamour

 

lol we got scunthorpe....

were gonna win the double though, league 1 and the johnstone paint trophy, they can shove there champions league up there arse!!!

 

just remember where port vale are and how they must be choking on their oat cakes
its stoke and not them playing in the prem.

i would not start paying daft money for players out of desperation though

 

not really choking on their oatcakes
vale have actually sold over 6000 season tickets,not bad seeing as theyre now in the bottom division and stoke have just gone up to the prem

 

im currently sat 100 yards from the ground. Ive just put the new lexus garage up.

 

lol they want see if they can get a few more car dealers on that estate

 

i think there goin to run out of space. Went to ford earlier for some parts. The parts guy was useless!

 

I can see you boys struggling this season. Might be very similar to Derby last season.

WBA will do OK. They play nice stuff, have a bit of Premier experience and have a great manager.

Hull are in trouble too, but they might go with the Bolton-style and get a few brassy wins.

I really hope Boro go down. I can't stand watching them on TV. And Southgate is a bell-end.

 

yeah its a bit of a joke that parts dpt is up there

 

[quote=Matt J;3436088]dunno, you've spent good money on a quality keeper quote]

We never got him in the end mate.... unless there has been developments today?

 

whatever scott carson did (going down to stoke etc) he was never going to sign for them permanently, just putting himself in the public window. there defo aint 18 other premiership clubs who would not want him.

 

thats great but how many of the 6000 would prefer to watch man u instead of macc or liverpool instead of lincoln.

 

Hull are gonna stay up

 

Probably non because they clearly haven't jumped on the SCFC bandwagon like the rest of the city

Atleast it'll be fun watching you get tanked every week on MOTD though!

 

fucked u have rory delap ffs! hes useless

 

port vale were a good side when rudgie was the gaffer, where is he these days ??

 

He's Director of Football at Stoke

 

I think he was trying rub it in

He was an excellent manager for us, wasted at the wrong end of the City though. Still, don't blame him for milking lots of cash for not much work!

 

I think stoke will stay up for 3 seasons Jim.......Autumn winter and spring !!!!!

 

Same thing happened with Sunderland last year but they had Keane who is known all over the world so helped a bit in attracting players to a newly promoted side but they still spent loads on mainly shit. Stoke just have to raid the championship teams and Premiership teams reserves and hope for the best. Then next year they will get phone some calls returned.

You get about Ł30m from the season even if you finish bottom so worth spending it to stay in.

 

enjoy it, build for next season come back up earn more money etc

 

He's done very well in the Premiership before. He had an odd season last season.

He's not going to guarantee success, but he's a decent signing IMO. Touch on the pricey side, I would have said at Ł4million he would have been a good buy, but hopefully will set the ball rolling a bit for Stoke

 

well done getting in premiershiphope you come back with fook all points no wins , etc etc etc duck....... lol

 

Haven't you just splashed out 5.5mil on Kitson?


TBH i think all three that come up will go back down, I'd love Hull to stay up, but if it's them or us, they can go.

People are calling them the Bolton blueprint - when we first came up we went straight back down, and weren't into the lob the ball forward set up we became famous for.


Anyway - fingers crossed, we'll hopefully be clear of relagation by Easter.

 

I was waiting till the end of the season to upski this little gem,i thought sod it as they are looking good.
stoke v shearer is going to be a good game

 

Almost there!

 

Nice building that, not been inside yet. You help build the workshop too?

I work at Toyota just up the road (same owners/dealership as Lexus Stoke)


If you had asked for Joe @ Bristol street Ford he would have sorted you out no probs



Mart.

 

was quite funny reading these posts again.... retrospect and all that.
Quietly confident at the moment... Newcastle on Saturday is a massive game.

I'll come back here on Saturday afternoon

 

BTTT for this clueless chap!

 

i was going to quote this absolute cracking statement before but i was too busy, it made me laugh when all season you can see fear in teams when the ball goings out for a stoke throw in

 

it was your other post today Jim that made me think of this gem, theres geordies thinking they are gonna stay up and stoke go down

i like newcastle and all the history and the supporters blah blah but some of them are going to get a kick in the bollocks this season im sure

 

fair play to stoke there not the most attractive team to watch but they are effective especially when there mixing it up against the "bigger" teams.