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There’s not a lot that could be done with regards to the retained list given the majority of the players are still in contract. I am disappointed a number of the players haven’t been publicly transfer listed mind you, and the fact Uche has been offered a new contract concerns and astounds me in equal measures. My biggest worry now, and I can see it coming, is we end up losing Chislett, Garrity and Ripley and then we’re left with a squad that isn’t even good enough to avoid relegation from League 2. It’ll be an interesting summer, that’s for sure.

I really do hope I’m wrong, because I’m renewing my season ticket and don’t want to have to go through another season like this one, but if we leave it until he’s had a transfer window and lost a lot of games, I suspect it will be too late. Some people want him to be given the chance, some people want him gone. I fall in the latter camp. Like I say, I could be completely wrong and I don’t expect everyone to agree with me.

I’m not one for knee jerk reactions, but bringing Lowe on yesterday was the last straw for me. Get rid of Moore and 90% of the squad and we may have a chance of not being relegated again next season.

And with a predictable whimper, the season is over. Another uninspiring performance from the worst squad I have ever witness, and certainly the squad with the least amount of passion, fight and pride. I wasn’t too concerned about the result, but I would have liked a performance that showed the players actually cared. I was also hopefully we may get an idea of how Moore would want to play next season and the players he’d like to keep, and the chance to blood a couple of the young players. But instead we got the same old same old. If I wasn’t before, I am now firmly in the camp with the belief that Moore is not the right man to take us forward. A number of players in the squad today should not have been if Moore intends to get rid of them (which makes me think some are part of his plans) and I truly, truly lost my <ovf censored> when he bought Lowe on. A ridiculous decision. He should have bought one of the young lads on instead.

I’d keep: Ripley Garrity Chislett Dipepa / Plant / Walter’s et al from the Academy. Unfortunately, they’re the players we will most realistically lose. The remainder of the players need to shoulder a lot of the responsibility for how this season has panned out. I can forgive players not being that good, if they are picked, that’s not on them. But not putting in 100% effort every week, not seemingly caring when we lose and plummet down the league, and not showing an ounce of fight, I can’t forgive. The majority of these players are in a very privileged position, they earn more than the average fan, and to say play with such a lack of effort is the biggest insult to us, as fans. Unforgivable (Ripley / Garrity / Chislett / academy graduates aside).

I don’t see what more she could have said in the statement to be honest. Emotions are running high, so whatever she says, people will undoubtedly find something wrong with it if they want to. yes mistakes have been made, but I don’t agree with all the Carol out talk and all that nonsense. Protests etc are there for when the club is in a catastrophic position and could disappear or the owner(s) are that much of a shyster and asset stripping the club. Neither of those scenarios ring true here. The club isn’t at risk of closing, the owner isn’t taking the club for all the money she can (in fact she’s losing money), she’s simply made some poor business decisions (Flitcroft) and we’ve had a dreadful season. There are 92 league clubs. Out of those 92, 12 clubs are relegated every season. It’s the nature of the game. If the fans of every club relegated, protested to remove their owners each year, there’d be no one left to own a football club. I think past history has made a protest the first port (no pun intended) of call for some Vale fans, when it fact it should be the final measure, the extreme if the life of the club is at risk. Carol has accepted her mistakes and vowed to support the club still. We have to now accept what has happened, enjoy the summer off (the euros etc) and come back in August and do the same. What other option is there? And no, I’m not a happy clapper by any stretch of the imagination, put calling for an owner to leave who is actually financially propping up the club rather than taking it for all it’s worth, is not the solution in my mind.

Good point that. I’m looking at Peterborough as a bit of free hit now. Not a match I’m expecting to win so anything about that will be a bonus.

It says a lot when a 16 year old is preferred ahead of Grant at fullback as well.

I thought similar. I had Plant and Shorrock swap places though.

Football, I blinkin’ hate it!

A couple of weeks we were dead and buried. The Burton game gave me hope. The Bristol Rovers game gave me belief. If we win today, I’ll have expectation! Football, I blinkin’ love / hate (delete where appropriate at 4:45) it!

I was resigned to relegation. Now I’ve got hope again, and it’s the hope that kills you in the end.

His interviews never make much sense to me. I just want him to start laying into the players now, the nicey nicey approach clearly isn’t working. You know my opinion of Adams in the latter part of his reign but Christ, what I’d give for an old school manager right now who’d call a spade a spade. Can you imagine what his post match interviews would be like if he were in charge right now!

If you have an employee causing you to lose customers, money and status, it doesn’t matter what industry you’re in, you get rid.

The one thing I can’t understand is that Carol is a very successful business woman. You don’t create a business and then sell it for £180m without having a bit of nouse and without being able to make hard decisions. In fact, I’d go as far to say you actually have to be quite ruthless to be that successful, and that is what makes the open letter, the fact Flitcroft is still in a job etc so bizarre.

I came to terms with relegation a few weeks ago. I have a ST so I’ll still go the matches but the truth is, the only part of the match day experience I enjoy is going to the Bulls Head and trying the craft IPA of the week. It all goes down hill after that.

Yessssss Loft has come on. The come back is on!!!!!

I actually think this squad is worse (particularly attitude wise) than the squads under Sinnot, Glover and Gannon. But even they managed to get a win once in a while. But yeah, he’s inherited a group of players who in the main are not good enough and don’t seem to care that they’re careering into league 2. I’d still wager Clarke would have been able to keep us up if he’d been given the job at the same time though.

Is this 6 losses and 2 draws in Moore’s first 8 games?

I should have been at the match today, but my wife is working all day, so I’m having to look after the kids, constantly tidying up after them every 5 minutes when they get bored of what they’re playing with and get another load of toys out. Can’t watch anything on tele as Bluey is on repeat…..and I’m probably having more fun that I would if I’d gone to the game. Anyone want a season ticket? I’ll give you £10 if you’ll take it off me.