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Our form since September (at which point we didn't win again until December) has us 138th in the form table of the entire EFL + top 3 non-league divisions. 18 points. There's only 5 clubs and 8 points between us and being at the very bottom of 6 x 24 team divisions. Would you like to know the best bit, gents? While we're rubbing shoulders with Dover Athletic (15 points) and Bishops Stortford (10 points) they're still one up on us as both have scored more <ovf censored> goals. We're 142/144 for goals scored since September in the EFL and below. Strikers signed in the January window to correct this horrific record = none. How does she say with a straight face that he's doing a good job?

Literally your most recent post Dave.

There's 4 OOC (all to go) and 5 others who have a year left that I'd try very hard to get gone.

Is it too early for a retained list thread? There's a few I can't see getting another EFL club after being released or booted out through mutual termination. Doesn't that just say it all about our top recruitment system.

The American forces have not entered Burslem

Don't ask that, you'll get piled on like I did when I dared to bring it up last year.

There is no way DM has come in not anticipating, even expecting, relegation. This season is a 100% free hit for him in my eyes given the donkeys he has to work with and how he didn't come in until after the window.

The cheap option in hiring AC instead of conducting any external interviews was the start of the penny wise pound foolish domino chain. The club are pouring money into vanity projects like having the players change in a different set of changing rooms on matchdays to make it 'special'. A new office overlooking the training pitches. Meanwhile on the pitch, you know the bit that actually matters for a football club, we've won 3 in 27, over 5 months worth of games. I won't be surprised if we hit 6 months without winning a 4th. It must be some kind of global football record, other than San Marino. We went the whole summer being the only club in the entire league, it may even be the entire EFL if I remember right, with one fit striker on the books, before Thomas came in 2 days before the 0-7 masterclass at Barnsley. The owner has an opportunity to address the fans valid concerns through the 1800 word open letter she wrote. She ignores each and every one of them, I would imagine because they're inconvenient to acknowledge, never mind explain. The 1800 word open letter is instead a party political broadcast for how great Flitters is. She meant well in a difficult position but she only made things worse by ignoring reality. There is an unpleasant and ever widening gap between the administration and the fans. This circus will get relegated. We will lose many off the ST and walk up figures. We will lose a lot of income from Portsmouth, Derby, Bolton, Barnsley, Reading, Blackpool, Wigan, Charlton etc when we instead have Barrow, Salford, Crawley and Morecambe et al on a Tuesday night in League 2. We will no doubt lose those games. Vale will still not have any strikers of voting age on the bench. She needs an intervention. David Flitcroft is not the only person the world capable of being PVFC's director of football, Carol.

If I had posted during the game about the calamity unfolding on the pitch you'd have been been partaking in your favourite past-time, which is following me around on here thread to thread reacting with that crying emoji to every single post. I can't win.

Tomorrow will be 3 weeks post transfer window closing. Why have we still not signed any free agents given the train crash of a squad?

I'm going to enquire into restraining orders if this carries on, you're obsessed mate.

Nice new office overlooking the training pitch though, so every cloud.

Derby have only lost at home once since August. So that's fun.

We'll get them in the FL trophy when they go down regardless of what league we're in.

Imagine spending your sunday registering on another club's forum solely to criticise an ex-manager; Does he really live in your head rent free to that extent?

Nah I think we'll judge him on this one, thanks. Everyone else managed it. Even Fleetwood without a manager and with their bankrolling owner in prison. That excuse doesn't come out in the wash.

Oh but there can. That letter was pretty clear. This is Port Flitcroft football club now, deal with it.

Do you really think after that open letter that she'll do it?

DMs denied the Gayle story. <ovf censored> sake.

I absolutely would too. Think he lives in Stafford and DMs signed him before. No brainer for us if the wage can be agreed. DF mentioned on that podcast that we were looking at paying transfer fees in January so there must be a decent budget remaining.

Correct. No one could possibly know the ins and out of someone's employment contract. It's all meaningless.

That is not a reliable source.

But they have open spaces on the list. Why not just select him then, he's getting paid either way? This way he's frozen out and isolated, it's a bit weird.

Couple of decent results tonight. Fleetwood - Reading drawing Cambridge losing Charlton and Shrewsbury drawing