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Went today. First time at Stoke. Not the worst in the new generation of identikit, flat-pack stadiums. But still, meh. There was some old guy interviewed in the dugout before the game (presumably the club historian/statistician) running through various stats before being asked about players that had played for both teams - mentions Joselu, Owen blah blah before saying his personal favourite, and "Stoke City legend" was Abdoulaye Faye! That was followed by a montage to all the deceased Stoke fans from the last year, who each had a photo up on the big screen (and there were lots of them) whilst Bridge Over Troubled Water was piped out. Obviously a nice touch for any family present, but christ talk about an atmosphere killer! Then just to make sure they did exactly the same at half time. Anyway, great result.

We beat them 3-0 at home man. Granted they've picked up and we've fell off since then, but whilst they're rightly favourites it's hardly like predicting a win at Man City.

Only at CB, CM up top or at full back. I wouldn't be ruling out in goal....

From memory there's plenty of parking at Stockport station and only about 10 - 15 mins on the train. Easy to get to off the motorway as well. Altrincham station also a good shout and jump straight on the tram to the ground Cheers for the early suggestions. Might be plenty of parking at Stockport as it appears to cost £15.50 to park for over 4 hours. Think I will give that a miss. I think if you pre-book with one of the parking websites it's much cheaper? Could be wrong like. doesnt seem to be There was another smaller car park near the NCP that I accidentally ended up in last time I was there. Not sure what that's like? Altrincham might be better bet.

From memory there's plenty of parking at Stockport station and only about 10 - 15 mins on the train. Easy to get to off the motorway as well. Altrincham station also a good shout and jump straight on the tram to the ground Cheers for the early suggestions. Might be plenty of parking at Stockport as it appears to cost £15.50 to park for over 4 hours. Think I will give that a miss. I think if you pre-book with one of the parking websites it's much cheaper? Could be wrong like.

From memory there's plenty of parking at Stockport station and only about 10 - 15 mins on the train. Easy to get to off the motorway as well.

Only time we've lost by more than 2 was at Oxford in the Cup.

As .com point out, Stoke aren't selected at all in December, so they'll be due a game. Wouldn't be surprised at all to see that get moved to a non-3pm ko on NYD or an evening ko on the 2nd.

Shows the pulling power of the Sunday 4pm ko and why they wanted it for Xmas Eve.

Yet it’s still not sold out and is down to 40 points. Even though I managed to get a ticket through Crumpy I’m still tempted to pick up one myself if it goes to 0 points to sell it on (face value) and pick up the loyalty point. Everyone who seems to want to go seem to be people with no loyalty points. Doubt it'll go to zero given they're only doing 10 point drops currently. Probably get down to about 20-25.

I'm sure a season ticket holder on here will be able to help sort you some out before they go on general sale. In fact I probably can. Drop me a PM closer to the time. You might want to keep an eye out on the TV fixtures though. They haven't announced the December games yet, so those two could yet get moved. Supposedly they're getting announced next Thursday.

First one's on BT.

Yep, we've just won 3 PL games in a row without (more or less) Shelvey and Gayle. Seemed unthinkable last season.

Izzet was as much English as he was Turkish. Tuncay was average. Tugay was good for a period mind.

Has there ever been a Turkish player that's been a 'success' in the PL? Emre's probably as good as it gets. Hakan Sukur was alright i suppose. Doubt this fella's on his level though.

Hasn't done Pickford any harm? He was 22 before he started playing for Sunderland regularly.

I don't share your certainty here. I was surprised to read it, but even under Ashley, statistically speaking the amount of players we have replaced still outweighs the amount of players that we haven't replaced. The hurt will never fade, but the odds are with us. Stay strong brother. You've also got to believe that Rafa's got control of incomings and outgoings in a way that no manager under Ashley ever previously has.

And North Korea will fire on Japan, triggering a nuclear holocaust and we'll all be dead by the weekend.

Think the header he missed at home to Villa goes down as one of the worst misses I can ever recall from an NUFC player. I know it was wet and that but christ it was a bad one.

We're blatantly not.

Already in the second round

If it's true that there's only gonna be 4K available for each game, it'd be advisable to get a ST holder off here to get you one as they get first dibs before members and general sale. I'd be happy to help for most games* *unless we do a 'Leicester' then every sod will be crawling out the woodwork trying to scavenge tickets.

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I think that's a fairly decent summary. Do Liverpool and Man Utd fans really have to do ticket pick-ups on the day with ID? Would be absolute ructions if that were ever brought in here.

Probably the latter you have to presume.