smithie

I'd rather be a happy clapper than an unhappy urinater.

He said the other week he is available to talk to any fan who wants to. I've no idea if he's a con-man or not but if you have your doubts about him, maybe take him up on his offer and report back with your experience.

Of all the reasons not to renew for any fan of any club, not doing it because of where you stand to urinate for 30 seconds is quite something.

I was there. They sent on a bloke about 9ft tall and we left him unmarked.

Last word on last night - Dan Jones passing was bloody awful! The stats for his completed passes would make alarming reading. Hope Doctor Data (or whatever they call these people) was watching and noting it.

So basically a lot of padding out with not much substance. I just see it as a waste of time to be honest - players and manager politely entertaining fluffy questions.

Maybe that's the problem - McGarry has probably been his inspiration. I think the problem is the interviews/pally chats go on far too long - 10 minutes when two would do. So much waffle and labouring of points, and questions (?) like "You must be delighted with a win/clean sheet" etc. What do we learn from that kind of stuff?

Aka Dan Gone

It's not too late to email or call the club with your idea.

We did have a good "product" (hate that phrase) last season until Christmas but we didn't see any bigger gates...and the gates we had were swelled by the free/virtually free tickets issued post-promotion. Low attendances at Vale are nothing new....we had plenty of 6000 gates under Rudgie in the Second Division.

The time must be coming when we withdraw the contract on offer to Rhys Walters. You'd think we were trying to sign a world-class player, not a kid with everything to prove.

I could read 1000 posts and it couldn't be put better.

It is, just not on matchdays.

And I've read enough to believe that, Champions League nights apart, their famous atmosphere is a myth. You've only got to see the crowd - tourists more interested in taking pictures than making an atmosphere. That's what happens when locals are priced out and the club don't care who buys the tickets as long as they pay up, sit down and shut up. Even Klopp has referred to it more than once - is he wrong?

It's interesting to me how football clubs and fans differ across England. Liverpool and Man City are probably great to watch but both grounds suffer from poor atmosphere. Exeter in Division Three have a reliably-noisy home end and Cheltenham was noisier on Saturday than grounds 5 times their capacity. Accrington have an Ultras section, MK Dons is as lame as they come, Gas are decent. Our support is somewhere between but we were like mice on Saturday.

Thank the Lord someone can offer something other than unrelenting misery and pessimism. There's a long long way to go yet.

The Pole is called Lopata and he's the pick of our defence at the moment.

For what it's worth it's an absolute scandal that we are having to go back there after the protest and I cannot believe the club have so meekly accepted it. We'll have virtually no support thanks to it being replayed midweek. It should have been played at a neutral venue or behind closed doors at Reading.

It's not much better against the top teams! 0 from 12 against Pompey and Barnsley, lost to Posh and Bolton.

I said at the time what an absolute nonsense it was to postpone important fixtures for international kids games. All it's done is make these postponements pressure fixtures while Arblaster and Devine are long gone. I don't ever want to see that nonsense again.

I wonder how many will take up the option of going to see him face to face?

I'd be amazed (and worried) if Darren Moore hadn't addressed the issue of goal-scorers at the interview stage. I'm hoping he's been reassured the funds are there if the right player becomes available.

1992. I think we technically had a chance against Grimsby the week after but we succumbed anyway. It was like the Grand National by the Hamil with the amount of police horses.

Darren Moore unbeaten since he took over.

I'd happily never have another loan of kids if it means we don't end up postponing games so a youth kickabout can take place. Absolute nonsense.