The thing that stood out for me with Stoke was the FA Cup trip in January. There was a completely different feel around the place for me that day than there's been in previous years. I don't know if it was the lower turn out from home fans, which I can understand, just after Christmas etc, or the snowballs and the copious amounts of alcohol that day but the place felt so much less intimidating that it had done before. Was like the fans and the team weren't quite at one with eachother like they always have been at stoke.
Personally hope you stay up though, really enjoy the trips there, and would be devastated to lose it after losing Blackburn last year. Get rid of Pulis, get a manager who will make more of an attempt to get you playing and hope for a change. Theres been some footballers at Stoke over the past few years that just haven't been used right , Tuncay being the one that stands out for me.