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Discipline

Micky taught him a lesson that has helped make him the player/person he is today. I suspect neither will regret it, at least not Mickey.

No no no to gibbons. An average footballer with a poor injury record who has endeared himself to Vale fans because he is a local lad who likes a tackle and a fist pump to the crowd.

Yes Uche has never been prolific but he's played most of his career in League 1 or the Championship so plenty of qualified people in the game have seen fit to employ him. It would be interesting to know how many goals his strike partners & attacking midfielders have scored when playing alongside him. Don't get me wrong I would expect us to sign at least 2 strikers who know where the back of the net is but I think there is room for Uche in a squad of 4/5 strikers. There will be games/opposition that will suit his style. It would depend for me on whether we would be able to offload Loft as there probably isn't room for both of them.

If we have 4 strikers on the books, explain to me the types of strikers you would have. I bet a big number 9 would be amongst them. If so, give me a list of league 2 number 9s who would do a better job than uche.

Big difference between L1 and L2 so be careful what we wish for. Persuading good players to join us in L2 not going to be easy. Re Uche, he's a pain in the arse for opposition defences. Every team needs one who isn't necessarily prolific. His problem has been he's being judged on goals because we haven't got any other strikers capable of scoring. If we can pick up at least 2 goalscorers then uche will be a big asset playing alongside them.

I'm expecting the biggest crowd of the season. Nothing like a good boo-fest to get the fans flooding to VP.

Good managers make the best out of what they have, which doesn't mean that they will achieve success if the collective ability of the squad is below the level required.

He gets the same treatment as any other striker. This is the problem, fans keep making excuses for him. Personally, I'd keep him on a pay as you play deal as back up to hopefully 2 or 3 much better ones.

Be careful what you wish for; no guarantee that we would be able to assemble a squad that's any better than what we have. We are assessing our players based on how they have performed in L1, which is a big step up from L2. Others that you have failed to mention will do us a job in L2; add a sprinkling of decent signings and we may have enough to come straight back up. I am confident that DM will not allow another failed transfer window to happen.

Noticed that aswell, strange decision.

To be fair, connor grant is, on paper, that better player. Most fans hailed that as a good signing but its obviously not turned out that way.

The fact that this thread exists beggars belief. In what other sport would the manager/coach come under fire after 2 weeks in a job, let alone the one that DM has taken on. As for him not being the sharpest tool in the box, this is football folks or should we be looking towards Oxford or Cambridge University for our next manager?

Forgive me it was Melbourne Valiant who was expressing strong views, its him/her (😉) I should have quoted.

I've got no strong feelings about stuff like this so I struggle to understand why people find it so offensive. Do you feel threatened by it? If so, why? It's hardly a force for evil? 😕 Maybe go and live in Russia if you feel that strongly.

Asking whether moore can keep us up is an unfair question but ask if you think flitcroft will take us down you'll say yes? Bit confused by that but my point is anyone who last week thought Moore could save us but doesn't now because we've lost 2 games in less than a week of his being in the job needs to give their head a wobble.

What was your reaction to Moore's appointment?

So 2 games later all hope is gone? Tell me how much time he has been able to spend on the training pitch and BEGIN to implement his ideas? To expect that all a new manager has to do is pitch up, pick the team and give a rousing team talk is pretty naive.

A week ago everyone was hailing the appointment of Darren Moore as a masterstroke. A week is obviously a long time in football.

I assume that those mocking this post have waved the white flag with 15 games remaining? That's resilience for you. A good job we've got a manager who believed his team could come back from 4-0 down to win the playoffs.

Two games in hand. 2 very winnable home games. All is not lost folks.

I take it you hadn't listened to the pod at the time of writing? The questions didn't dance around the main talking points and I don't think Bowers and baggers would have asked anything different.

On the plus side a decision was made before the end of the transfer window; fingers crossed we've got someone else lined up such as the rumour surrounding the barnsley defender.

yes the uche one was very strange for him to be fully fit playing in games but fail a medical. For all we know uche might have an underlying health condition and same here with williams. Vale fans seemingly very quick to jump on the negative band wagon.

Agree but don't think we should be hanging people out to dry either if a mistake has been made. Pretty sure the club would not want to damage the player's reputation either if indeed he was to blame in some way.