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Family Stand Terrier
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Shrews and Cambridge yes, I think that equaliser for Reading puts them too far away now.
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Cheltenham's game in hand is at home to Peterborough midweek before the last game. However, they have Carlisle Tuesday, we are away at Peterborough Wednesday, so that could be where the swing comes in if results go the way most expect. Our 3 home games are huge, I just hope the next 2 games don't have a big psychological blow on us if we lose them both and results elsewhere go against us. Realistically they're not the games we would target for a points return, but if we lose both that could heap loads of pressure on the home games.
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It's a 3 horse race v 2 teams with worse form than us and very little to split us as far as points go. It may not happen, but don't understand where this, "not possible" line is coming from at the moment. We have to play 4 teams on the beach (I'm hoping Cambridge are one of them last game) where we have a good chance of getting 7 or 8 points from them. Personally think that will be enough. But that leaves Bolton, hoping they have one eye on rhe playoffs that game, and Peterborough which is always tough. 1 point from those 2 is a tall order, but not impossible, look at Carlisle they've taken 6 points from them away from home.
It won't be easy, far from it, but it's not this miracle some are making out. We deserve to be in the position we're in now, but similarly, if we go down from this position, we'll also deserve to go as we've got a great chance. Would only have ourselves to blame.
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I do get why people are so negative, but given the form of Burton and Cheltenham, I don't see why people think it's all over. We've got a massive chance of staying up. It's a 3 horse race for one survival spot, potentially 4 for 2 spots looking at Shrewsbury's run in.
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For me the meeting is welcome, but the statement was poor. I wouldn't mind if it was short and sweet and just let fans know dialogue had started and will aim to continue. I wouldn't even mind if it said, fans have been outstanding recently and that support is very much needed in the coming weeks. But to ask fans to stop getting frustrated as it doesn't lift the players...words to that effect, is just asking for a backlash, and that's exactly what it got. A shame really as a positive was turned into a negative by a lazy statement that wasn't very well thought through.
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On 28/02/2024 at 07:43, philpvfc said:
We did far better without a manager, a draw against high flying Stevenage and robbed a point to a controversial penalty against Pompey. Why are Vale the only club not to have a lift with a new manager?
Crosby was in charge v Pompey. We lost to Orient with Ryder.
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11 hours ago, Jesse James said:
600 in the Lorne St Rubish!
As at Monday, the time of the latest update there was 600 left. Definitely looks like more sold in there since then.
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1 hour ago, Jesse James said:
Limitations in place as you know so probable only 500 left anyway
Doesn't work like that. They've removed seats that aren't available. There's over a thousand still available in the Paddock. 600 available in Lorne Street, thousand left in the Hamil. Not many left in the stand.
Talk of giving Boro more tickets is pointless. Complete non starter with the need to segregate.
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2 hours ago, JohnJames said:
You can’t go if you’ve not registered on the Vale website or if you work and can’t get to Burslem you’re bolloxed.
Not buying that for one second. Mr X is a Boro fan.
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2 hours ago, Brian Johnson said:
Bristol Rovers dicked us & were already 2-0 up before we had a player sent off.
Agree with the rest of your post, but they were 1 up when Jesse got sent off.
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22 minutes ago, TJHValiant said:
I know it is a Tuesday, but it is only £15 and somehow 550 we’re happy to travel 168 miles odd for the first leg! At £22.
Agree with the point you're making, but whoever added that Stevenage FA Cup away following up wants get back to Primary School level maths lessons. Have you seen the pitch side video on you tube. Not a chance there was over 500 there. 250 at most.
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1,800 sold for this so far. Wow.
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5 minutes ago, Packmoor_vale said:
11200 sold so far
Beat me to it just read the email. Over 3k in the Hamil. 1.2k paddock, Over 2.2k in the Stand. 1.3k Lorne St. Says the capacity is 14.5k, so 3.3k available seats in the home end. Really hope there's a late surge over the next 7 days. Starting to feel a bit more positive, a few wins will definitely help.
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2 hours ago, smithie said:
Really hope so....but if not, it's up to us who are there to raise the roof. The Paddock would have filled up much quicker if Boro had still been in the Hamil, and we'd have been able to offer them 1k more tickets.
Was going to like that, until the bit about the Hamil. A full Railway is nowhere near as loud as a 3/4 full Hamil. Will definitely be trying my best raise the roof in the Hamil.
Every Vale fan there has a part to play. Yes the football and results haven't been great recently but the best fans in the game make the difference on nights like this. Like v Swindon. We could have a huge influence on the game.
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51 minutes ago, ollyandpatch said:
Sorry to say this doesn't add up. There are loads left if you go on the website. The Hamil looks like the Bycars used to look on a matchday with seats everywhere unsold. The Lorne St looks just over half full.
Still time but I can see an 8k gate on the cards !
There's a few in the Hamil but no where near Bycars available numbers. Maybe 1000 available max. Railway is the one that surprises me, it's just a sea of green, more so in the paddock but not great in the stand either. Shame, it will look rubbish on the highlights. Hopefully my earlier predictions that Vale fans leave everything to the last minute turns out to be accurate and we sell a load in the last few days. Like v Crewe, must have sold 1.5 to 2k in there on the day of the game.
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5 hours ago, philmpv said:On 05/12/2023 at 21:58, smithie said:As much as I admire and support Carol's aim to grow crowds towards 10k, l think she's over-optimistic. Never mind that, we've got a job holding on to our core of 4-5k now that the post-promotion buzz has dissipated along with the novelty of being back in League One.
I'd understand if the other team in The Potteries were doing much but they aren't. We might as well face it..... we're small-time.The core 4-5k, of which I'm one, will be there through thick and thin, and always have been
I think we're at a crossroads right now. We tend to have our season after promotion where attendances grow to the 7 / 8k level, the away average grows to 1k. But then if there's no further progression on the field they start to decrease back down to the regular 4 / 5k.
Vale's attendances are a very odd thing to analyse. There was a time around the LDV season 2000/01 after relegation from the Championship that we were getting 3k. I remember being really happy that we got 5k at home in the LDV semi final v Lincoln. So we've grown the core fan base since those days.
The challenge is always the next step, getting us to the 7k mark we were getting last season and keeping them. We'd have to have a league one promotion challenge to get to that level in my opinion. That way we'd probably get to around the 7 / 8k regulars. 10k is currently way off.
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49 minutes ago, Conrad said:
Have you missed a 0 off that.
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Just looked at ticket sales. I'll be surprised if we've sold 500 for this so far 🤣.
It is a really expensive month to be a Vale fan to be fair.
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3 hours ago, Rory said:
Can new fans not go to this?
It could have been a chance to get people in for the first time and make them feel good about the fact that they don't usually go.They can if they're with a friend with purchasing history or go into the club to buy a ticket. With Boro selling out they won't want them to get in our ends.
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Because it's a quarter final of a major competition. No brainer. Really shocked by how poor our support is.
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Some of the responses here prove we're a lot more tinpot than most would have us believe. Sometimes I think we have a great fanbase, especially away from home, but not selling out only 11k tickets for a league cup quarter final is shambolic. A few people need a long hard look at themselves and decide if they're really Port Vale fans. Likely the only chance to watch us in a quarter final of a major competition, and not bothering to go, embarrassing.
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1 hour ago, Jesse James said:
Reason for the Paddock Green is the toilet issue. Season Tickets + 500 extra only
It's the same in the stand too, and like has already been said, green seats are available to buy, the capacity of the paddock is up to 2k. The blocks closest to the Bycars are missing a lot of seats, that's where the reduced capacity is, they've literally removed a number of seats online to reduce the available capacity.
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I'll be ashamed if it doesn't increase dramatically. Our fan base is 4th division standard if it stays around the current level of sales. It's embarrassing.
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1 hour ago, Devine intervention said:
So with only two weeks to game wonder what the updated number of attendances is .
Middlesborough sold out .
3100
5958 Vale sold last heard so 9058 plus whatever else has being sold by Vale since .
Now that ST holders seats are released on general sale you can see how many are left. Loads by the looks of it. For some reason looks like a lot of ST holders don't fancy this one. Real shame. The Railway in particular looks dreadful, a sea of green available seats. The Hamil looks a bit better but still good availability in all stands. Its a massive shame, I knew we weren't a big club, but if we don't even come close to selling out it'll be really embarrassing.
Still 2 weeks to go but so far sales look very poor.
New kit for next season?
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So long as we don't go for the black and yellow hoops again on the home shirt. Our last 4 relegations have seen a kit pattern emerge. 2000 and 2008 all white, then 2017 and 2024 we've had yellow and black hoops on the home shirts.
However if we're going off time between relegations, we're not due one for another 7 8 or 9 years. I've seen us relegated 92, 00, 08, 17 and 24. Hoping the next inevitable relegation is 9 years from now, from the Championship, or higher and not the dreaded trapdoor.