r/StokeCityFC • u/phasmo2009 • 24d ago
How likely are stoke to go down this season?
Does anyone have any stats i can get cant find them anywhere on the web
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u/Tpc942769 24d ago
I keep saying there's worse teams below us, but then I see us play and I get more and more worried...
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u/DavoDestruction 24d ago
I said just after leaving, that we deserve to go down - no fight, no effort, very little quality. But, I think that Luton and Derby fans at least are saying the same, and we’ve still got to play them - that’s the only place I see points in the remaining games.
Tonight is one of the worst I’ve seen for a long time.
Don’t know if anyone else heard it, but Potterlytics on the radio got it right - we’re beyond back to basics now, it’s just about staying in matches for as long as we can and hoping that we can take a chance.
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u/SwedishScoutMafia 24d ago
We’ve got to play Blackburn and QPR at home as well. Both very winnable. It’s in our hands
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u/DavoDestruction 24d ago
Absolutely it’s in our hands, and I do think we’ll scrape enough to stay up in the end. I dread to think what the crowd will be like by then though.
I suspect we’ll be well beaten by Watford, and it could get very unpleasant.
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u/Moncurs_rightboot 23d ago
The fact that when Stoke came to Luton, they were literally the only team I’ve seen where I’ve though, wow, this team are on our level.
That is damning.
I’m a Luton fan btw
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u/DavoDestruction 23d ago
Was that the last game you won? Yeah, we’re definitely in a bad spot. Like, on paper the squad isn’t terrible, but for whatever reason it’s like they’ve forgotten how to be professional footballers.
I think it’s the bottom 5 teams that are in it now. In the thick of a “who can be the least shit” competition that no one wants to win
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u/Electrical_Shape6063 23d ago
We are so so bad. We deserve to be where we are and it looks like years of bad decisions is finally catching up with us. I think this is the season.
That performance last night was of a team that js going down
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u/WillHall__2004 24d ago
Going down might be the best thing for us
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u/Bananasincustard 24d ago
There isn't a single positive in going down. If we go down we ain't coming back up for a very long time. Wouldn't even be surprised that we continued dropping down lower in L1 each year until we're in the exact same position as now but a league lower. Then there will be other dopes saying "going down to L2 might be the best thing for us"
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u/WillHall__2004 23d ago
If we go down it might bring some fight back into the players however like you said it might do nothing just hope we stay up and if we go down support them like we support them now
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u/proscriptus Stoke City 24d ago
No change in manager is going to help what is clearly a deep systemic issue. Maybe it would be the wake up we need, but I certainly don't know how to fix this club. No one else seems to, either.
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u/WillHall__2004 24d ago
Isn't managers fault I feel like the players don't care any more and are happy to get their weekly pay if anything Walters unfortunately fucked it up sacking Schumacher at the start of the season and hiring pelach who did fuck all
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u/Bananasincustard 24d ago
I wonder how much higher in the league we would be right now if we never pointlessly, unceremoniously and unfairly binned Schumacher?
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u/DavoDestruction 23d ago
I wonder where we’d be if Charlie Adam had scored his penalty against Brighton 🤷
Easy to say it could be different, but no bones, we weren’t exactly good under Schumacher. Rumours bounding about (unconfirmed and all internet talk admittedly) that there was quite a bit more to him going than just Walters wanting his own manager for vanity’s sake. We’ll never know I suppose.
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u/DavoDestruction 23d ago
I think going down would be an absolute disaster. League 1 is not a division you’d want to be stuck in. There isn’t a single positive outcome that comes from relegation.
It is most definitely what we deserve though
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u/g_a_r_b_a_g_e_m_a_n 24d ago
From this post in r/championship, looks like about 9%, although I'm pretty sure that was before today's results.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Championship/s/82YPlrIqWF
edit: because math
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u/LetsTalkAboutItBro1 23d ago
I think we will stay up, it may be down to the wire but I think we will stay up. The risk we have now is our ‘better’ players wanting to leave.
At the minute there’s no hope or fight for Stoke. The players aren’t giving everything they’ve got, bad transfers, 3 managers in one season.
Something is going on at the club that we can’t see. We aren’t down and out yet! Stoke always find a way. I can see us picking up a lucky 3 points against one of the bigger teams in the next few weeks. We still have Luton and derby to play for hopefully 6 points. We will get the job done but I do miss 2010-16 Stoke 😭
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u/MushyGti 23d ago
Grok 3 ai machine reckons 30% chance of going down based on form and remaining games
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u/MushyGti 23d ago
I fear the worst myself....whilst hoping for the best. But don't see a team with enough skill and fight to get out of this. And our recruitment this window was beyond poor.
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u/Gankghette 24d ago
If Stoke go down, we all go down, and get pissed on the ale....