Stoke City: Tony Pulis urges reality check after fans jeer Potters following West Ham United defeat

“deadly, when are you going to figure it out? Pulis has had plenty of "cash to splash" for the past 3 seasons and done so in large amounts, but it's not who he brings in and how much he spends on them that is the problem, It is he himself that doesn't know how to use who is brought in that is the big problem !!!”

“Got mine first day Dave,and already looking forward to next season in the top flight,especially as TP,may well have some cash to splash in the summer,with a good clear out,of some dead wood,one being Pennant.Mind you he was offered up in January but no one came in for him,wonder why hey.I can see at least 4 players in,problem with getting back up centre backs though.When we went for Distin in the last window,he said no because he wanted regular football,which is difficult when Huth and Shawcross are there,so we may need some young up and coming defender.We may have to go abroad for full backs as the ones in this country command big fees for average players.I still think we will finish between 10-13th which is where most pundits put us at the start of the season.I certainly am not panicking and have faith in Peter Coates.”

“It' a fact that when fans turn on their players the results get worse, human nature dictates that. When we had a team with less talent than this one and we dished out the decibels they played above themselves. The atmosphere last Saturday was as dead as the space between MyVince's ears and has been for a number of games recently. I really don't feel the need to justify myself as a supporter to a nobody Vince, suffice to say I will be getting my season ticket like I always do come what may.”

“The reality check they talk about should be a reality check for those people at the club i.e. - the chairman & management , FA cup Man City , 19000 , ( bad weather , Citeh fans 4000 made it to the game ) West Ham 22690 , 4500 down on average , this is the thing PC/TP should be worrying about,
Fill in the corners , yes but dont bother put any seats in them we wont fill them . People are voting with their feet/ wallets, says it all i'm afraid.
We saw what our team was capable of pre FA cup , superb football , a level we have not reached since . Square pegs , round holes , not working anymore, sort it before the situation escalates out of control. Talking of negativity , the press has conducted a campaign against us for 5/6 years and it is finally taking its toll . Come on PC/TP sort it .”

“1-oatcake your on the wrong website if your looking for stoke fans. If I thought I shared a stadium full of the moaners and whiners that get on here I would never go again. I asked a random bloke at the game on Saturday if he ever looked at this site he said he never comes on here because he can't stand the negativity, which gave me a lift.
Most of the people on here aren't stoke fans go on the Facebook site where there are names and faces, you will find more positive comments from fans”

“1-oatcake, we would all love to shut or traps with the moaning and so called negativity and get onto better thigns, but what is there to be positive about right now ? How much longer can we just rely on thanking Pulis for getting us promoted as our only positive thing. We are now just about the end of our 3rd straight season of dross football. Our first 2 seasons, being new in the Prem were great fun and something to enjoy and watch, maybe even the third one. However, when we all saw the huge amounts of money Pulis was spending and the types of players he was bringing in we were all looking forward to being somebody and competing and yes winning more than 11 league games in a season and even making it through some Cup runs. But Pulis has shown, without any shadow of a doubt that he is just a survivor and that's it. He relies on the turmoil and scrap that surviving in the Prem can be, that's why, in my opinion he constantly bigs up every other team and littles down his own team telling us all not to have any high expectations so he can justify what happens.”

“To all you blaming the fans/atmosphere there is one thing you need to take into account, yes the fans help to lift the team but also the teams football needs to give the fans something to get excited about, something that Stoke's style of foot ball will never do. Also to Oatcake, it is interesting to see you use the word tosh so often in your post as that word aptly describes what you posted, if you are happy with Stoke and the way they play and happy to **** off other teams and their fans then you just show how very little you know about football”

“Talk about tosh, this is not a 3 or 4 game bad run this has been going for nearly 3 seasons now and fans are genuinely worried for their club as am I, I think we will just get over the line this year finishing somewhere around 14th 15th place, what worrys me is next season we may just be 1 of those teams like Pulis went to watch in the championship”

“Please can we have some Stoke City fans making comments that have some positives. Yes TP saying we need a reality check is probably correct in a fashion and his excuses need taking on- board as just post match analysis as all managers have to do so much media duty. We are a mid-table team who are not on its best run of form at the moment. Financially we need to stay in the Premiership this season and that is more important than the way we get results so there is a lot of pressure on the staff and players to repay Mr Coates for his investment in his and our beloved Stoke City. I would prefer to be in our position than to be a QPR fan with all the money they have just thrown at their squad again, or an Aston Villa fan 40 thousand gates and a history with a full trophy room. I would also prefer to be a Stoke City fan than be an Arsenal fan bemoaning their requisite to have trophies on tap because they have been in the top flight since year dot and trophies are their heritage (what tosh, their fans have been unhappy for most of this season). I'm sick of listening to Liverpool fans saying they are glad to have gone out of this or that competition so they can concentrate on something else.(they think they have a divine rite to win all trophies because they are Liverpool, more tosh and they have been unhappy for most of this season) Not so long ago Mr Moyes had a bad season after nearly qualifying for the Champions League the previous season and Everton didn't panic, we don't need to panic. Let's face the facts, we ARE Stoke City fans, happy to play Liverpool off the park (albeit after going behind), happy just to get to a cup final, happy to be in the most financially viable league in European football. We are one of the best run clubs in the world with a chairman who loves Stoke City. If TP is good enough for the astute Mr Coates he is good enough for me. Lets get behind the 11 players on the pitch who pull on the stripes as we should during games and evaluate more at the end of the season. I believe Mr Coates will do the right thing for our club in keeping Mr Pulis, or sacking him.”

“DaveJohnson, Deadly and wintertime how can blame the fans, we have always struggled in the prem away from home, always struggled to score goals (hence all them Rory long throws) so explain how we have improved when every stat has gone backward”