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8 hours ago, valiant_593 said:
Bit of a difference between Shorrock at 17 and Messi at 17 mate
Bit of difference between Port Vale and Barcelona.
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2 hours ago, Doha said:
Imagine letting Gibbons go after offering him, supposedly, reduced terms, and your masterplan to replace him is shoehorning Sang and Massey in RWB instead.
Luckily no one was daft enough to do this while drawing a large wage as part time director of football. Phew.
Wouldn’t be surprised if Massey is on more than what Gibbo was on, terrible signing.
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5 hours ago, Brian Johnson said:
He's not really going to say no when we were stupid enough to give him a long term contract exentsion.
Do not give him a choice, tell him to go find another club.
Awful footballer
He’s a good footballer with a bad attitude.
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Wish I put a wager on 0-0. Pretty predictable, they needed 1 point and we can’t score.
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4 hours ago, JohnDoe said:
A striker who is a top wage earner but cant shoot, cant score and cant play 90 minutes. Would be absolute insanity to offer him a contract, and an early warning that Darren Moore hasnt got the ‘contacts’ some here are hoping.
Also, add the fact he isn’t fit.
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8 hours ago, Coyney Valiant said:
He isn’t good enough for league 1 so can’t believe Stoke wanted him plus they could offer him 10 times more in wages no one would turn that down
He was good last season, so a) he certainly can be good enough for league one and b) I doubt they would want him after most his performances this season.
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2 hours ago, Dipepa delight said:
Won't be laughing when in national league .
Football is a game of opinions Alfie (same name as my cat),400 games or not when you struggle pass 5 yards how do you ever think Vale can play a game full of attacking intent .
Yes he is a old fashioned head and kick it player he is quite good at that if defending all game ,it's a boring watch though , however we are second bottom of league one -33 goal difference and he is the captain of a team who showed little to no motivation majority of last 2 league 1 campaigns ,so for that and I know for a fact he hang 's around with Stoke City fans I ain't got the time of day for him if that's OK with you .
You are entitled to your view though and I'm glad you think he is acceptable as you will continue to watch him I won't I've seen enough in his 400 games thanks
I know for a fact that a Stoke scout was trying to get him to have talks with joining Stoke in the summer and he refused.
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At least they have some fight in them, I didn’t think they had after the last 6 months.
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8 minutes ago, Warren said:
Cambridge are not safe. They can be relegated on Saturday. See above.
Mathematically yes they can but they are playing the Vale, so they are safe.
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Ironic….Burton and Cheltenham win on the weekend so it’s us who send Cheltenham and DC down.
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Massey will have the game of his life and we end up giving him a 3 year contract.
Dont know if Jones and Lowe are out of contract in the summer, if they are then they will have absolute blinders so we give them new 3 year deals too.
Cambridge are safe in the knowledge they are staying up, they had their party after the draw last night…...Vale are the gift that keeps giving
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3 hours ago, Rockape99 said:
Dare I say Harrison …..
Better than what we have but was not the answer, not a starter for MKD in a lower division.
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1 hour ago, Brian Johnson said:
I think its a mixture of both.
One being that Flitcroft's gone and also I'm pretty sure that Big D can pick up and attract 3 or more strikers needed to score the goals.
Even though he's just been relegated and that could be a double relegation if Huddersfield go down (does that count though?). I just think Big D's got more of a reputation & clout in the game than both Crosby & Flitcroft.
He will know who exactly to bring in and I trust him to actually get them deals over the line
Agree he has got more of a reputation but this will be less should we do poorly next season. Not sure he will know who to bring in, he’s never managed in division 2 before and I don’t know what his contacts are like- we will see.
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10 minutes ago, werstayinup said:
As much as people moan about him Sang puts in one of the best crosses at the club imo
Sang and Grant can put a good cross in the box (about all they are good at), trouble is that we have Uche and Loft who are useless. Both would be a ,or more effective if we had a Tom Pope style of forward who knew where to position himself and was good in the air.
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2 hours ago, Brian Johnson said:
Do you think under Moore, we will go the the whole summer without signing 2 or 3 strikers?
I personally don't
Do you think that will be more to the fact that Flitcroft has gone?
Also, we signed 3 strikers last summer, 4 if you include the loanee, Thomas. Problem is that it was Uche, who cannot pass a fitness test at any other club, Loft is the worst league striker I have seen at any club and that includes Perry and Wilson who we didn’t want and then did when we couldn’t get anyone else.
Another 3 signings like that this summer and we will be joining FGR in the conference.
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53 minutes ago, Brian Johnson said:
Devine, Thomas who Crosby treated poorly and then he had a player at his disposal who is playing in the Premier League.
If we take a step back, we are actually arguing about which manager is worse, Crosby or Moore. Crazy if you think about it
So true….clearly Moore has done worse.
Apparently Thomas was injured. Devine was very raw, not division 1 ready when we first had him….with a full fit squad then I wouldn’t have had him starting above a midfield of Chislett, Garrity, Arblaster and Ojo. I was surprised he moved up to the Championship and it has shown as he has only played 2 full games for Plymouth both of those games being in February just after he signed for Plymouth.
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7 minutes ago, MBE said:
Rhys was not a viable option in the position we were in. His limited appearances have more than shown that.
I will judge Moore next season when he’s had a pre season and hopefully given the opportunity for a clear out.
Why was Rhys not a viable option to play and to play Garrity more up front? Surely it was a better option than playing Garrity further back and Weir in a more advanced role?
I will judge Moore on what he has done so far which has been rubbish but I am willing to give him at least 6 months next season to see if he can make amends.
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15 minutes ago, Brian Johnson said:
Lets not forget that included in that run was losing to bottom of the table Carlisle and getting thrashed at second from bottom of the table Fleetwood.
Let's not forget that Moore had a much weaker squad to choose from compared to what Crosby had and even then Crosby messed up big style
Disagree we had a much weaker squad, the only player of note was Arblaster. Yes, we lost away to Carlisle and Fleetwood in this bad run but after Moore has taken charge we also lost at Cheltenham and drew at home to Fleetwood. I’m not saying we were good under Crosby, especially for the last 10 games, I’m just saying we became even worse under Moore.
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14 hours ago, Brian Johnson said:
We can be in a position where we offer 2 or 3 players a settlement for the rest of their contracts.
Here you go Grant, he is 3 or 6 months salary, now go find yourself a new club
Contractually we can’t just say bugger off we will pay you x amount, it will have to be the full amount but hopefully we can encourage players to leave, help find them new clubs, tell them they are unlikely to have regular football here but I can’t see many, if any clubs taking our dead wood for a similar wage after we have dropped down a division. Also, this is going to demotivate our players further.
We are going to be stuck with some naff players for at least another season, but let’s get rid of those we can and try our best to keep hold of players like Garrity, Chislett and Dipepa otherwise we are just going to have the naff players left.-
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Also, look at the teams we played when comparing…..not one of the 7 in your list are top 6 teams and the first 3 games were Cheltenham, Reading and Lincoln. Compare this to Crosbys last 10 games which include Derby, Portsmouth & Barnsley, all promoted or play offs. Let’s face it, this was Crosbys worse period but he still managed to pick up more points against tougher opposition. We have gone backwards since Moore arrived. Only 3/10 of Crosbys last games had Arblaster available so don’t use this an excuse.
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1 hour ago, MBE said:
That’s why I said during those games.
Those 1st 3 were tough because it was Sat Tues Sat so it was difficult period to change too much.
We’’ve conceded goals and lost games because of poor individual errors rather than the team setup in my view.
Garrity has had to play deeper because there is no midfield and Uche has had his chances but time again shows he’s not a goal scorer. Ironically we really could have done with Garrity playing off him but when your choice of midfield partner is Jenson Weir it’s a no brainer to drop Garrity deeper. Point is manager has had very very limited options.
Manager has had plenty of options, as proven by his constant switching, especially in the earlier games, it’s been Moore’s choice to play Garrity deeper, hoe could have used Walters more, the fact he has dropped Chislett at times and played Garrity deeper is criminal, the pair of them have scored 18 goals as opposed to 2 league goals from Uche and Loft. Defensive errors have been a problem all season, but is that partly down to playing 3 at the back on a wide beach?
Dont make excuses for Moore, he has been garbage since arriving, we have become worse and Moore has to take a big responsibility for us going down. Let’s hope with a good recruitment drive he can make amends next season and get us in the top 7.
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23 minutes ago, MBE said:
During this run of games I thought we were. Considering the players at Crosby’s disposal and Moore I personally think it’s a very unfair comparison.
You conveniently miss the first 3 games of Moore’s reign where we conceded 7 goals, throwing away points at Cheltenham and Reading.Arblaster and Devine were gone a few games before the end of Crosbys reign who despite not having Arblaster we managed to beat Blackpool 3-0 and get a draw at Wycombe. Garrity has come back from injury for Moore as has Uche.
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1 hour ago, Raveninblack said:
I think smith has been very poor all season and his contract should be paid up and released likewise with Ojo but Massey’s contract is up in May and he should definitely not be resigned, likewise with ikpaezo and pay up Jones’s contract and let him go like loft and sang
Well, I disagree with you.
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1 minute ago, Killersrevenge44 said:
I would be a bit bitter myself if I lost money... I know what it feels like... Don't forget Bratty administered the cheapest season tickets recorded for any season... Swings and roundabouts.
No he didn’t. Think you will find season tickets were a lot cheaper years ago.
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