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The future of our club is in the young lads and the academy! It’s already brought in some decent money and we have some exciting young prospects who I hope will be in a Vale shirt for a while. This is the only way a club like ours can thrive ,I just hope we can hold on to some of these lads for a few years.

I'd love to see Vale go out and splash the cash and buy a Jamie Proctor type of player, someone who can play well with his head and feet but, more importantly, go and mess with defenders heads.

To be honest this is just my opinion but if Swansea were ok with it I’d like to keep Thomas for the full season. If we are going to play with two up top his pace could be a really nice string to our bow. I’m hopeful we can hang on to Alfie Devine too for the season. You’d think Tottenham will be pleased we’ve given him the time on the pitch and he’s trending upwards. Guess the only complication could be the AFCON is on in January so maybe if they are hit by call ups that could have a potential knock on effect?

I fear you are right sir. I'd still like it though. 😎

I’d imagine in doing so, he probably sprained his wrist.

I think we could afford to lose, Balmer, Cass, Jones, Thomas. As none of them are good enough or play any amount of games.

I think there's a very fair argument that part of the success criteria for the second half of the season is how many minutes we can safely give to Plant, McDermott, Lomax, Shorrock, Walters, Dipepa, Brazier, Cousins, and Buah. I'm a lot more comfortable with inconsistency and losses when its the above involved than I am with Gavin Massey.

Issue with Jones is remarkably he has 18 months left on his contract. Highly unlikely to have any suitors as he's continually injured. Always found the comments about Wilson funny as Jones goes under the radar. Made of glass. Legs of straw etc etc. Yet Wilson has played a lot more games than Jones. A truly astonishing decision to dish a 2 year deal. Couldn't grab the pen quickly enough.

Personally I think more than 4 could leave

….I’ll also add that our January recruitment must include more of the current squad….also someone needs to start the fund for the Ben Garrity statue…..

Let's hope so! Superb player. Fingers crossed he can stay injury free for a while. Delighted he has signed for the rest.of the season

It shouldn't be either/or. My personal view is there are strikers out there who could offer a lot more than Loft but with greater durability than Wilson.

I do think it's a sad indictment of the striker recruitment that we're all saying 10 games from Wilson > 24 games of our other strikers. This is a forward with 6 League 1 goals. I really, really rate him - but to pin our hopes on him really illustrates how wrong we've got it in that part of the pitch.