Port Vale part company with manager Andy Crosby
Port Vale have announced that manager Andy Crosby has been “relieved of his duties.”
The news follows a run of five games without a win and Vale in danger of relegation from League One.
A club statement said:
Port Vale Football Club has today relieved Andy Crosby of his duties as first-team manager. John Schofield will also leave his position as assistant manager.
Andy joined the Valiants as assistant manager in March 2021 and became permanent manager in June 2023.
Andy’s three years at Vale Park included his part in our promotion to League One and two separate instances as interim manager.
We’d like to thank both Andy and John for the time they have spent at Vale Park and would like to wish them all of the best with their future careers.
The search for our new manager has already begun.
Andy Crosby at Vale Park
March 2021 – Port Vale announce that Andy Crosby has joined as a coach until the end of the 2020-21 season
July 2021 – the Valiants announce that Crosby has been appointed as assistant manager
February 2022 – Crosby takes charge of the side as manager Darrell Clarke takes a leave of absence and helps lead the club to promotion out of League Two
April 2023 – Crosby is named as interim manager of the club following Clarke’s sacking
May 2023 – Crosby is confirmed as the club’s next permanent manager
February 2024 – Crosby leaves the club
Ken from North Wales
5th February 2024 @ 7:45 pm
It seems very strange to sack manager and assistant night before a vital home fixture. Why as Flitcoft not gone.
Ivan
5th February 2024 @ 7:45 pm
I think Flitcroft should go as well
Bert
5th February 2024 @ 7:54 pm
Odd decision to sack him now – who's gonna be in the manager's seat on Tues night?
Michael Quinn
5th February 2024 @ 8:29 pm
Just need flitcroft to be shown the door,hes been woefull,,,,,,,
Andy Matthias
5th February 2024 @ 8:31 pm
Most Vale fans liked Andy Crosby, and he has been unlucky with injuries and loan recalls, but a change was definitely needed, Flitcroft needs to go as well.
Get Gareth Ainsworth in ASAP
David raftery
5th February 2024 @ 8:52 pm
Flitcroft is the problem it is time to start afresh with a complete new management team
Vale fan
5th February 2024 @ 9:14 pm
The Rotten apple is still there
Vale fan
5th February 2024 @ 9:19 pm
The rotten apple is still there, in a few months Vale will be after a decent coach,they don’t realise Crosby was not a manager but a good coach, Flitcroft is good at nothing
David Harnett
5th February 2024 @ 9:36 pm
Thank goodness!
Only visited the ground once and the style of play was exceedingly strange.
To watch the goalkeeper have more of the ball than a midfielder, and to play as a kind of sweeper is not football as I know it
Football is all about creating chances not sideways passing, tò give passion to the fans by fast attacking moves and not about keeping possession in your own half
Phil (Cambridge)
5th February 2024 @ 10:13 pm
I have real sympathy for Andy Crosby. Not the best Manager in the League but a decent man who did what he could with limited resources & little or no help from our Director of Football. I think he is the Fall Guy for David Flitcroft & I personally put most of the blame for our current predicament firmly at his door. Carol & Kevin are no fools & I cannot believe they will allow Flitcroft to continue in a role that he clearly is not capable or qualified to deliver the required results in. Sorry Carol but he must go!!!!!
Linda McDonald
5th February 2024 @ 10:14 pm
Shame as he did his best with what he was given. Maybe Flintcroft go with him.
john alcock
5th February 2024 @ 11:40 pm
Football’s not fair and maybe it never was. Andy Crosby has struggled simply because he’s not been provided with the tools to do his job. The players are not his recruits. and crucially are too old or too young or not sufficiently robust for a tough league. We are absurdly short of enough sound Div 1 footballers. On their day the side has been capable of attractive attacking football but those games have been few in recent weeks.
We have shuffled along with players and a formation that was foisted on him by the DOF and i can only hope that the next manager has freedom to run with his own ideas. you can’t manage a club (or a team) from the Boardroom
Paul Rushton
6th February 2024 @ 6:16 am
It was inevitable with the way the results were going, I’m surprised about the timing of it however, Now bring on Gareth Ainsworth quickly.
Pvfc
6th February 2024 @ 9:05 am
Should move for Gareth Ainsworth and hope he can attract a free agent goalscorer quickly. Crosby was the cheap option and should never have been appointed. Hopefully Robbie and Taylor will buy club and attract some investment as owners are selling not buying players
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