Doha

Compare and contrast tonight's bench against the one from the play off semi final. Not a glowing endorsement of the recruitment team, is it?

This season we went 11 games and then 14 games between winning a league match. Loft, Debrah, Sang, Lowe, Grant, Jones, Iacovitti and Ojo are still in contract. I think it's pretty reasonable and doesn't make someone a lesser fan if they wait and see how the summer goes before throwing away several hundred quid on another season of abject misery, this time at L2 level enjoying the prestige of Crawley and Bromley on a Tuesday night and being lowered back down through incompetence and neglect in 3 consecutive transfer windows to Walsall and Swindon's level.

That the conceited "Call yourself fans" song and dance is pretty boring when earlier today you said "<ovf censored> that" regarding going a Vale game.

You, 7 hours ago

Most important retained list for years. Don't <ovf censored> it up Vale. Again.

2 years. YEARS.

I'm beginning to feel an odd sense of relief about this relegation, on the basis that we won't have to see quite a few of these dossers in a Vale shirt ever again. This isn't like getting relegated from the premier league and being gutted that your team's going to get ripped apart in the summer window. It's the opposite, we can't wait for them to go.

One of the top 2/3 most important signings for L2 next season will be a new Captain. I've just been reading loads of player signing press releases from this season and there's so much emphasis dedicated to gushing over how nice they are. It's <ovf censored> pathetic. Lopata got shoved face first into an advertising board at Cheltenham away, the dossers just watched unbothered. Yates/Pope/Gibbo/Morsy/Hall etc would have gone mental. Not this lot, here you go Cheltenham here's your 3 points from a losing position. I am very surprised given his playing style and but Smith has demonstrated time and time again he was a poor choice to be Captain. He can't steel them up. We've fallen apart like wet cardboard far too many times. We need an entirely new face to head up a 95% new squad.

Oh no. Stop. Come back. Don't go.

Some more recruitment words of wisdom while we're at it 1 league goal in 27 appearances. No assists. 1 goal in 23 appearances. It goes on and on.

🙄🙄🙄

Yesterdays embarrassment occurred on the anniversary of that draw at Rochdale that left us needing a point for autos. Would any of the current squad get into the 12/13 side? And we started that season in admin. Why are the recruitment team still here?

Who was Captain today, Ojo? That needs to change next season in L2.

I posted the retained list I wanted to see last month after we threw away a 2-0 lead (I know, it's unheard of right?) against Fleetwood. One amendment. List Ripley. Sick of him pissing about at the back and then getting into arguments with Smith when he blames the defenders for his own antics.

I wouldn't go that far. I think she's learning an expensive lesson regarding the meaning of hubris though. Our midfielders will get the goals. <ovf censored> me. What a club.

On the pattern emerging regarding his game management ability and substitutions, is anyone bothered by the above? Genuine question.

I admire your ambition. As Darren correctly says, this slow motion car crash has been unfolding since last January for all to see. This disastrous relegation was so, so avoidable. That is why so many people are infuriated. This isn't a cyclical event. It isn't a product of the natural ebbs and flows of the football league. It's happened, unnecessarily, through sheer incompetence, negligence, and unchecked arrogance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH31KzNct2g

Are we? I'm not, apparently.

I hope your pretentious sanctimony in questioning the validity of other people being Vale fans keeps you warm and fuzzy when we're relegated next Saturday.

Just like he is with referees then.

Who do you think you are?

Why? It's over mate. Stop torturing yourself.

By narrowly beating a few L2 sides before embarassing ourselves in the quarter final with a cowards performance from the first minute. Appointing Crosby, while a good man, for his first ever club managerial role, straight into the gauntlet of L1 without interviewing anyone else was yet another one of her appalling, inexplicable decisions.

Swindon and Walsall. McKirdy. I'm so <ovf censored> angry.