Month: May 2012
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Cuvelier signs a new contract and Tony Pulis will run with the Olympic flame
Florent Cuvelier has signed a new two-year deal with us – great news! He is likely to go out on loan to a Championship club next season, possibly Middlesboro who he turned down an offer to sign for to recommit to Stoke. Tony Pulis will run with the Olympic flame at 7am on Thursday…
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Woodgate to be offered a one year contract
Woodgate is to be offered a one year contract according to the Sentinel today. The article also hints if he agrees Matthew Upson could leave, although he still has a year left on his contract. Hopefully both can stay, although I’d plump for Upson as he is more versatile and…
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Davies to Bradford and Fuller next?
Andrew Davies has signed a one year contract with Bradford City, where he had been on loan. Davies joined from Southampton in our first season on the Premiership but has hardly played for us and seemed to be one of the bulk squad buys we made upon promotion a la…
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Sidibe signs for another year and Stoke US pre-seaon tour
Stoke’s US pre-season tour has been finalised with three fixtures: Tuesday 25th July in Columbus, Ohio Saturday 28th July Orlando City, Florida Wednesday 1st August Sporting Kansas City, Missouri Orlando City have the biggest Stoke connection as Phil Rawlins runs the club, Adrian Heath is the manager and former Stoke…
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Transfer rumours: Owen to sign and Huth off?
Even before our retained list is published there are plenty of rumours on incomings and outgoings at what should be a busy summer for us. Peter Coates was quickly off the mark suggesting Pulis may be keen on trying to sign Michael Owen aftrr he was released by Man Utd. Matthew Jarvis…
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Stoke play two US pre-season games
Stoke have announced two pre-season fxitures to date: July 24th Columbus Crew (Crew Stadium, Columbus) 12.30am, August 1st Sporting Kansas City (Livestrong Sporting Park, Sporting) 1.30am So looks as though the traditional pre-season Austrian training camp may have been dropped this year. No news on the futures of out of contract…
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Stoke City 2-2 Bolton
Two goals from Walters saw us snatch a draw on the last game of the season and the result relegated Bolton, despite QPR losing at Man City, who won their first title since 1968. The game also marked the likely farewell of Ricardo Fuller who is now out of contract…
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QPR 1-0 Stoke City
The charity that keeps on giving…Stoke City away 😦 Despite Fuller and Jerome starting they were off in the second half as Pulis went all binary for a 0-0 and then QPR’s Ciise popped in with a late winner. So last game of the season we have Bolton at home…
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Stoke City 1-1 Everton
A good point in a not-so-good match. Stoke players got both goals with an own goal by Peter Crouch (the 1,000th Premiership goal trivia fans) and Cameron Jerome getting our equalizer in the second half. Next up QPR away who we could send closer to the drop if we beat…
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Big Country CD winner and new competition!
Well done to Lin Osbourne who won the copy of Big Country’s ‘The Crossing’ CD. Now for a new competition… Simply answer the following question to win a copy of the recently released double anthology CD from Paul Brady: Which band was Paul Brady a member of in the 1970’s? A The…
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