He is our gift to you, we cannot accept returns at this moment, i'm afraid.

Please can you ensure he is playing tomorrow though , we will need help.

Edited by scfcstoke1 (17 Jan 2014 11.51am)

Palace fans would be happy to do that anyway. We haven't forget Hughes's exploits at ManUre, especially that equaliser seven minutes from time in May 1990.

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Hey SCFCStoke, hope you get/got back safe and fast.

Don't want to rub it in but would love to hear back from you the view from your end.

I was surprised you didn't have the killer punch when you got in on goal, just about as bad as us. You had your chances but from where I was sitting you were probably second best overall.

I was hoping for a big Delilah but I didn't hear one. A couple of songs but not much really considering you were well packed in there.

We were decently loud, especially after the goal of course. Maybe it sounded different from where you were inside the Arthur.

Well..what a day.I was back home by 18:30 which is not bad at all.

We went in the Prince George pub before the game, we were there by 1240 so it was pretty quiet, but the manager (irish guy) welcomed the Stokies with open arms and the staff were great too. it soon got packed , but we had no issues at all, except for the fact it felt like being on OZ because they had a roaring log fire on the go & i was sitting 4ft away from it next to the door. Still they kept the door open which cured the problem.

We stopped off at a chippy about 100yrds to the left of the pub on the way to the ground, superb staff & chips.

Once in the ground,and i have to make a special note of this, your stewards were excellent , they knew how to interact with away fans, they were friendly & liked a bit of banter. top marks for that, our lot could learn from them.

I've been to your ground a few times now... and its the first time i've seen a full size Eagle flying about the place, this took us by suprise but was amazing to see, brilliant.

Considering the hoo har on our messageboard regarding the reception we should give TP, i thought it went off lovely. I'm pleased at that.

As for the game...what a let down , i don't know what is up, we said in the pub that , we would settle for a draw, but we were lucky to not get trounced. Thank god for butland, that triple save was good though..No? but why we decided to try delicate passes which led to your goal is beyond me

We were in good but not brilliant voice, your lot in the stand to our right were really quiet, i was right next to them on row 4, we saw your ultras , good on them..but get rid of that bloody DRUM.....Ahhhhhhhhhh

We were outplayed & deserved to lose, fair play to TP for not celebrating & for the round of applause at the end.

In my mind you will stay up, i hope so, i really do. just not at our expense...please no.

I'm about to log on to our site, which i'm sure will be in meltdown mode with people getting over excited and throwing abuse all over the place at each other from the safety of a computer.

If you want entertainment, google Oatcake Fanzine.

At least Butland, our keeper played well

Well done all & we will see you again next year...in the prem of course.

In the words of Vinny Jones...Its been emotional.

Signing off for now, Cheerio & Toodle Ooo

scfcstoke1

Glad you enjoyed your trip.

I was at Stoke in august and thought the stewards were okay, they didn't object to us standing and didn't get stroppy when we gave Mark Hughes some abuse near the tunnel at the end of the match (at the Britannia).

At Stoke in august, we played well in the first half and then Stoke bullied us in the second half and took control when they scored their goals.
Today we showed that we have grown in the past 5 months from boys to men as we didn't allow that to happen once we took the lead.

I hope to see Stoke next season in the Prem !

Very gracious. See you next year hopefully.

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