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Vale fan
2nd March 2024 @ 5:45 pm
Well Carol do the sums,When we go down, there will be no need for a Dof, get shut of him now and the team may have a slight chance of staying up.The team were abysmal today.At least tell the fans what is going on.What Flitcroft has done to Port Vale, is disgusting, and you have helped him.As for the manager,Daren Moore, I feel sorry for him.You have also lost thousands of fans, because of Flitcroft you will not get them back, so where is Flitcrofts salary coming from
Chris
2nd March 2024 @ 11:50 pm
Agree with all the comments made above. There’s still a chance the Vale may escape but the games in hand have been wasted and I really cannot see where the points are going to come from. It all seemed to start to go wrong around November 2022. From then on the purse strings seemed to tighten and the team appeared to suffer the most from the reduced funds. It was then that I began to slowly loose faith in the owners and the relationship and trust between the club and the fans for me has rapidly deteriorated. Carol’s open letter to the fans in the New year was like a slap in the face and instantly undid all the good work that had taken place in the preceding years. Not to bring in a striker in the January transfer window was unbelievable and now we are told that bringing in a free agent probably won’t work because they will need about 6 weeks to improve their fitness! I wonder how many players we have lost out on in the last few years because they don’t buy into the philosophy and key principles of the club. I may be in the minority but rejecting a 15 to 20 goals per season striker because they don’t buy into what the club is all about there must be some give and take by the club.
To finish it’s now only a couple of years until the club celebrates a 150 years since it was formed and if we are relegated by then we are back in League 1. I hope that this happens for a wee lad living in Tellwright Street Burslem who started supporting the Vale in the mid 1960’s and has never lost hope that one day the Vale WILL make it to the premier league.
Ian Mountford
3rd March 2024 @ 1:51 am
The season is descending into a copy of 2016/17 when the club was last relegated and when a lot of us thought things couldn’t get no worse. Like then the club decided to go down a new and revolutionary direction for the club by bringing in cheap and inexperienced EFL players from the continent in an attempt to buff the trend of paying high wages to experienced players. Smurthwaite the then chairman refused to listen to anyone HE knew best, well as the records show he didn’t. The team with no experienced forwards or regular goal scorer, and a mismatch of players scattered throughout the team became easy to beat. In a desperate attempt to stay up the managerial team was sacked, transfer windows came and went with opportunities to improve the squad missed and the season descended into chaos. With the club in free fall the last throw of the dice in an attempt to stave off relegation was to explore the unattached market, basically players no one wants who are without a club. Smurthwaite stopped communicating with the media and supporters, gates tumbled, unrest was rife and Vale went down. We then had several seasons of unrest tottering on the edge of non league football . All because the owner knew best and wouldn’t listen ! Are alarm bells ringing?
Ian Mountford
3rd March 2024 @ 2:03 am
The only difference now is Carol refuses to listen and Flitcroft has been allowed to try and run the club on loanee’s, unready academy lads, and a mismatch of injury prone, and inexperienced EFL players. Plus the odd unattached player. But the result will be the same!
Ken from North Wales
3rd March 2024 @ 11:58 am
Carol hS given too much power to Flitcroft and it will result in Vale going downhill big style.
Richard
3rd March 2024 @ 2:56 pm
Absolutely useless Vale the players are non league standard I think at the end of the season get rid & bring in players Darren wants this team not good enough they are an embarrassment and don’t deserve to wear the shirt
Derek Wareham
3rd March 2024 @ 6:17 pm
It is ridiculous to say that the players are all useless and of non league standard. There are some good players on Vale’s books though not enough of them and for whatever reason they are not producing. Injuries haven’t helped and we are now threadbare and getting rolled over by almost anybody. Clearly something is wrong behind the scenes. It is totally unfair to blame the youngsters or the manager who has only just arrived. How do you think he feels when confronted by that squad. Too late to do anything now so we can only get as many as possible fit and hope we can scramble some points from somewhere. Without that Darrell Clarke spirit we had before it’s difficult to see how though.
David Brown
3rd March 2024 @ 10:14 pm
Every aspect of the Derby defeat was unsurprising. Four teams are relegated from League 1 every season. That it seems to be Vale’s turn this season is all the more disappointing because promotion to the division was just two years ago. But, the long run of defeats since Christmas has confirmed that the squad simply isn’t good enough to sustain survival consistency. Darren Moore can only select the players he inherited, but in the close season he will have some scope to rebuild for League 2, albeit limited. The Vale have a history of bouncing back after relegation from the 3rd tier. One example is the hard fought 1982/83 promotion from the 4th tier, immediately followed by relegation in 1983/84, and then another bounce back in 1985/86. Not what supporters prefer, but riveting interest and match day tension for the fully committed.