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Stephen Darwin is it? You have no idea what your talking about. Full stop.

You should be on stage mate you are a clown .are you from manchester probably not ,i support stoke And you have us down to get 4 points at home do you work for paddy power because they underestimated us on the first day of the season also.See you next season in the premier .oh And by the way i loved it when gerrard kissed that camera PRICELESS.

Check your current form stats boys dull city blackburn And the barcoders will all finish below stoke

I’m not one for all out abuse, but as a Stoke fan I feel that this article is either very badly reasearched or plain deluded. How you can predict Stoke losing at home to Newcastle and West Ham and only winning one home game for the rest of the season I do not know, when we have only lost three times at home all season, those being to Manchester United, Chelsea and Everton, have the seventh best home record in the league, winning as many at home as Arsenal and Chelsea, and are unbeaten at home in 2009.

West Brazil, Boro and Newcastle to go down for me, Stoke are here to stay.

I am so tired of Stoke fans blowing off on sites all over the internet – they have one thing right – they have performed far beyond the ability of the squad this year – it tears my heart out to listen to thier whinings about ” unfair criticism” in the press – its a team of thugs managed by a man who gives them free rein to kick and clutch thier way into survival – win at any cost and with any method. Without Rory Delaps goals early in the season they would be well below my beloved” West Brazil”.
Tony Mowbray got it wrong this season – but I fear for the future of our game if the only way to survive is the Pulis way.

What disappoints me about the article is the failure to consider the impact of current form. The inertia of recent results, whether that is Middlesbro’s 1 win in 18 or Hull’s recent run, psycologically must have an impact on the players, no matter what they say to the media. Just looking at the body language of the Boro players as they trudged off the Britannia pitch last week spoke volumes … they are down and they know it.

Our friend from West Brom is absolutely correct – Stoke have performed well above their ability, and its taken some innovative thinking to do it. Narrower pitch, the Delap long throw – how many others have copied that (Chris Brunt comes to mind) and let’s not forget, a lot of money. James Beattie has been a diamond up front when the team was in danger of not scoring enough goals – does Pulis get the praise for that, well yes in some quarters.

What is true however, is that our little team has ruffled some well preened feathers this year, Liverpool, Arsenal and Villa come rapidly to mind, and to use a Dad’s Army phrase “They don’t like it up ‘em.” It’s not always pretty, we accept that but it can be horribly effective, and the name of the game – for this year especially – is to stay in the Premier League and build. Bouncing between leagues causes the sort of instability that means you can’t plan and develop.

So we have a team of fighters, in very probably the coldest and windiest stadium in the Premier League, supported by the most passionate and loudest fans in the division (Sky Sports)who are currently in 8th place in terms of form, and all have a clear and unerring focus – to remain a top flight club.

I have a real soft spot for WBA – Staffordshire team and all that, but Mowbray’s pass and move at all costs has its limitations, and at this point in the year where 6 pointers come up with increasing frequency, style goes out of the window.

It will be interesting to see Alan Shearer’s take on the next few games and how resilent and what changes we will see as they seek to extracate themselves from the clarts.

I think … and I take no pleasure in this at all, that Hull will bottle it and follow Albion and Boro into the Championship. Form matters, fixtures matter, passion matters, style to a large extent doesn’t. Get the job complete and let’s see where we go from there.

Shearer will make no difference at all the mags are still shite. Boro, west brom and newcastle will go down. How can you say newcastle will saty up on there form?
FTM

Doubt spurs will beat blackburn away….

Hater i shall treat that comment with the contempt it deserves

Wba boro are down and them geordies are joining them

Good prediction mr wenger maybe you could give stephen darwin some lessons in predicting football matches as from just checking he only got 2 right this week And dont think you had to be a genius to predict the newcastle chelsea game.

I seem to recall that on a previous post,it was said that stoke were only winning because of the narrower pitch And the long throw.well when we beat west brazil we scored 2 goals in open play And how many teams are trying the long throw now seen plenty doing it lately,stoke have had a lot of doubters but we like proving them wrong .

I see you have hull to beat stoke at the weekend i so hope your wrong i would love to see phil brown go down but i dont mind hull as a team they are like stoke And have got far more points than the media expected so funny when you hear the pundits changing their minds each week they know nothing lawrenson is the funniest he gets all his predictions wrong

Well Local Supporter you have certainly got every right to rub my prediction of Stoke being relegated firmly in my face!

Congratulations on what looks certain to be another season in the Premier League.

My views on Tevez? I’d be gutted to see him leave United, especially for someone like Liverpool. Terrific player.

it would seem my predictions were right

haha would be hysterical if newcastle do a leeds

haha sure am