Happy new year Mancs! (Starting on the 2nd obviously! lol)
Been reading through one or two of the previous posts, and there's deffo some different views on both ourselves and you guys.
I think from what I've seen, you guys have found it a bit harder this season, both in terms of expectations from your own fans and commentators, and also in how teams now see games against you guys as a big match, and raise their own games. I also mentioned in a previous post, that I thought both Comapny and Toure were a bit below the levels of last season, because imo, they were the best two players in the country last year, so this is bound to effect you.
In reality, you should turn us over, but anyone who plays Stoke has to go out and win the game, we won't just roll over, hence our unpopularity with one or two teams, who expect little old Stoke to cave in! Plus we really do thrive on this "Nobody Likes Us" bollocks, as the scouse girlies found out on Boxing Day, talk about condescending and delusional! :)
I'm not sure if your fans have changed or not, I think every club attracts a new generation of fans, and some of the newbies for you guys will only have known the current status, so this can be construed as being arrogant, but thats just life! We have the same problem, with a lot of new fans coming to Stoke nowadays, and they too think this is the way it's always been, not getting mullered 4-0 at fookin Rotherham!
Anyway, I do quite like you guys, and please keep thinking that we are a bunch of thugs who go out to deliberately injure players, because we want to keep under the radar. And we need to gag Gary Neville who keeps bigging us up on sky, I'm sure you'd like to gag him too!
Anyway, good luck after today!
Been reading through one or two of the previous posts, and there's deffo some different views on both ourselves and you guys.
I think from what I've seen, you guys have found it a bit harder this season, both in terms of expectations from your own fans and commentators, and also in how teams now see games against you guys as a big match, and raise their own games. I also mentioned in a previous post, that I thought both Comapny and Toure were a bit below the levels of last season, because imo, they were the best two players in the country last year, so this is bound to effect you.
In reality, you should turn us over, but anyone who plays Stoke has to go out and win the game, we won't just roll over, hence our unpopularity with one or two teams, who expect little old Stoke to cave in! Plus we really do thrive on this "Nobody Likes Us" bollocks, as the scouse girlies found out on Boxing Day, talk about condescending and delusional! :)
I'm not sure if your fans have changed or not, I think every club attracts a new generation of fans, and some of the newbies for you guys will only have known the current status, so this can be construed as being arrogant, but thats just life! We have the same problem, with a lot of new fans coming to Stoke nowadays, and they too think this is the way it's always been, not getting mullered 4-0 at fookin Rotherham!
Anyway, I do quite like you guys, and please keep thinking that we are a bunch of thugs who go out to deliberately injure players, because we want to keep under the radar. And we need to gag Gary Neville who keeps bigging us up on sky, I'm sure you'd like to gag him too!
Anyway, good luck after today!