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31 minutes ago, PVFC FAN said:
Right so let's go back to chucking all are money at the first team like we did before and let's see how long it takes for us to:
A: get promoted and then go into administration
Or B: get relegated
In modern day football the facilities of the pitch are very very important financially, for how we play on the pitch and the list goes on.
It isn't the 1990s anymore
This is 2023
Get with it
Utv
Son or Daughter. I am not sure.
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35 minutes ago, PVFC FAN said:
That's a fair comment but we won't start winning straight away. I'm sure you know that unlike some.
Wonder who you really are ?
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35 minutes ago, Iron Curtain said:
Mitch Clarke too
Add Mitch Clarke, Garrity and Plant to that team and you would hope it improves.
Gore is an unknown quantity… he got written off after his first game by some but undoubtedly he has some quality and should contribute.
Young James Plant. Older than the other youngsters and yes further advanced but dont expect miracles. We are giving him the chance to learn from his mistakes.
So far almost nil assists and several mistakes at the back admittedly playing out of position. Also have to add that i would play him in front of anyone else we currently have at LWB.
Shows how poor our unbalanced squad is.
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34 minutes ago, PVFC FAN said:
Go listen to the pv podcast. I wondered why we had a bad window and he explains why for about 30 mins.
We should not have had a bad window. End of
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35 minutes ago, PVFC FAN said:
I'm pretty sure dof helped us get promoted. I suggest you listen to the portvale podcast. You can here what flickers has to say himself. I'm fully behind dm and df.
Utv
WOW
Get behind D M yes but if he plays as D F wants him to then we are doomed.
I want D M to sort it out for us but he has no chance with this squad and the way D F wants us to play
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34 minutes ago, Stamfordvale said:
It's been two days and one match, jeese ! What chance when fickle fans like this.
NOTHING different whatsoever today.
Not even the fight and passion.
Did you see Cheltenham and D C. Full of it they were and it shows. Certain to remain in div 1
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33 minutes ago, PVFC FAN said:
Once again vtid a very silly comment. you change your opinion on df from one good apointment and one loss with the new manager it just show how easily you and some vale fans change there mind. It's a great appointment from df and he won't have a massive impact in the first game. We have to wait and see what happens. I'm fully behind dm and df. Vtid I suggest you listen to the portvale podcast.
Its a great appointment ? I think you are right and i really hope so. The problem is D.F. He is our problem at the club and so long as he remains, we will struggle. He is a poor D of F.
If we really wanted and needed a D of F then Carol should have advertised and seen who / what was available and not be taken in by a two hour telephone conversation with a football manager applying for another position
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31 minutes ago, darren1810 said:
All these injuries we're holding out for. I can think of Garrity that's it.
Gore is a 19 year old who was hyped to the hilt but looked exactly what he is v Pompey...a kid.
And Planty again is a young kid.
Uche won't play for us again.
Who else am I missing? Because basically the season hinges on Garrity then.
Yes
Shows how desperate we are and how stupid we are to think we will be ok soon
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45 minutes ago, ClntonBoulton said:
it's frightening how bad we are actually are/were today. the thing that worries me the most is their speed of thought, I mean lack of. Nobody was anticipating anything. They must have picked up 90% of second balls. Taylor and Lloyd simply harried and chased and put us under pressure at the back because our basic skills are poor for this league.
I bet Petty has got a rather large grin on in that changing room.....whose bright idea was it to let him go, I wonder?
it's been said a squillion times but the defending is just.....no words to do it justice tbh. That third goal wasn't even schoolboy defending.
Pigging deja bloody vu again. Nailed on for relegation I'm afraid, from a Happy Clapper!
True
We have the worst back three in the league
We have the worst front two in the league
Now that Devine and Arblaster have gone back [ why do we have loan players ] we have a very weak midfield.
Our recruitment has been awful. Dont care what the wage bill is , we have a worse squad than last year. Worral, Benning, Pett [ now that loan players have gone back ], a back three player, or two, two strikers, ALL giving us a squad so poor , even compared to last year let alone an improvement.
IF Darren Moore plays under the influence of Flitcroft i will pack in i think.
FLITCROFT has to go
Carol you have got it wrong. Flitcroft is not gods gift to PVFC
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48 minutes ago, The Master said:
I’ve sat back and observed from afar for a few weeks.
We are doomed. Desperately bad. Tom Pett was the best player on the park today. We let him go. We haven’t replaced Benning, Worrall, Proctor or Hall with anything better. Even Harrison. Actually Cass as well. And add Conlon. Even, dare I say it, Timmy McDermott would do a better job up front in place of the utter clown that is Loft.
All of it is on Flitcroft.
Ive sat back and listened to Darren Moore this week and his remit is to tell the fans how great Flitcroft is. Listen to his interviews back. It’s Dave this and Dave that. I hoped he wouldn’t be a yes man but early signs are not good.
Same formation. Nothing changes. Garbage performance. No fight. No desire. No goal threat. Concede for fun. Lose to another team below us. First time Cheltenham have scored 3 all season.
Bar an absolute miracle we are going down and IF we do it is ALL on David Flitcroft for letting players go and not getting in better and leaving us with zero goal threat. The man is an absolute disgrace.
Was Crosby in charge today ?
New manager
Same team and same formation
Same subs
Worst of all SAME EFFORT and PASSION. Not good enough !!!
Same poor quality from too many players.
Not a chance of retaining our div 1 place
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14 minutes ago, mbycars said:
Flitcroft has assembled this group of players.
Flitcroft has assembled a completely unbalanced squad that offers no threat to the opposition.
Flitcroft has set up one way of playing which doesn't work with the players we have.
Flitcroft has in 4 transfer windows failed to bring in any strikers capable of scoring the goals required for the club to progress.
Flitcroft cannot be trusted to deliver the process.
Flitcoft MUST GO NOW.
100% FLITCROFT MUST GO NOW
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Just now, Guitar Ray said:
I’m still asking myself how the hell have we ended up with effectively no strikers. I can’t get my head around it. It’s worse than gross negligence. Flitcroft has to go.
FLITCROFT HAS TO GO
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1 minute ago, LancyTony said:
hahaha! Muppet!
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31 minutes ago, valefan79 said:
How is it post of the day , just because you agree with it. I am getting tired of the injury situation and that being our excuse for being rubbish since September and outside the drop zone because of Reading's point deduction. We like many other teams in our league and throughout football are dealing with injuries because football is different than years ago, more games, less recovery time, players not playing through the pain barrier, scientists telling managers when and when they can't play and many more issues. This is why it was criminal to go into a season with one recognised LWB in grant who missed virtually the whole of last season. After the window shut, we had a forward line of Wilson who we know from the past has never been able to stay fit regular, 5th choice striker from Bristol Rovers and Thomas who had never kicked a ball in the football league, we then a month later sign a player who has not played for 6 months who took 3 months to get anywhere near fit. We choose to give Jones a 2 year deal who we know has spent more time injured than fit.
I keep hearing all these injuries but the nucleus of that team Ripley, Smith, Ojo, Arblaster, Devine Ojo, Garrity, Chislett were all fit for that awful run from September to December, they may have missed the odd game but other than Clarke I fail to see who we have missed as Wilson despite being quality, we should have been expecting him to miss and plans should have been in place for this.
I just fail to see how without 2 forwards one of which needs to know where the back of the net is how we are going to go on a run that will see us comfortable in mid-table, the defence is leaking goals and can't keep clean sheets and we need 2 or 3 goals to get a result.
THIS IS POST OF THE DAY
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5 hours ago, JoeB2 said:
It won't be a lot of money for Uche. If we were demanding silly money, Charlton could just wait 6 months and get him for nothing in July.
Getting him off the wage bill after 2-3 good games (with no long-term value) and 10 average-poor ones, and replacing him with a player with as much upside as Young on a 2.5 year deal is fundamentally sensible business, especially as we're not going to be challenging at either end of the table in the next 6 months.
As with any lower league signing, you can't guarantee its success, but Young can clearly produce in the right system and won't be fully developed as a striker yet. For his Barrow loan, he never played a full 90 and only started 5 games - mostly on the left wing. Swindon have showed what a consistent run up front can do.
Sensible post.
Some say upto £250k.. Dream on
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1 hour ago, News Feed said:
Interview | Ollie Arblaster
Great interview.
Thanks to Ollie Arblaster.
What a great footballer.
More important. What a great lad.
All the best.
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4 minutes ago, Osh said:
Rumour I heard today is Conlon is going to 'Nam and Cass is off to Harrogate
Conlon and Cass not in squad for last few weeks
Smith and Uche not in first 11 recently
Wouldnt be surprised if any / all the above are not with us by end Jan
?? What about Crosby ?
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47 minutes ago, Rodge said:
Probably because you know that this squad is capable of so much more but for whatever reason are not performing consistently to the standard they are capable of.Sorry Rodge. Have to question that this squad is capable of so much more. Todays team :
Ripley - Good but please learn to concentrate more. Should he be beaten like the third goal today ?
Back three - Poor. Debra ok. Lowe too slow and not strong enough. Iacovitti So poor as a defender. Needs to be told its panto season " Hes behind you " To be fair he left the ball because his man was never going to get it. Grant left his man alone and never chased back. Second goal also poor marking from Iacovitti Very poor
Midfield four - Massey and Grant poor. Stand out wide and offer no movement when ball behind and needs to be played forward. No goals whatsoever in them. Walters poor. Didnt know he was on today. What has happened to his early season performances, he at least showed effort and fight. He is slow and not the most skillful to me. Certainly not a ' real gem ' of a prospect. Does he want to go elsewhere ? Leaves just Garrity. Terrific performances this season. Play anywhere and gives his all. Unfortunately playing in this position, leaves this whole midfield four offering almost no goals.
Two attacking midfield - Devine, certainly his class shows. Passing very good, pace, looks to score goals. Chislett, now playing with more effort and fight in midfield and still offers goals from his forward runs.
Striker - Cannot call Loft a striker. Very poor, offers nothing.
Todays team is our squad and it was so weak looking even before kick off.
Smith to compete in the back three and should improve us but he doesnt seem to want it himself. Played out of position too much and may be sulking i dont know but he needs to show he wants a shirt. Even with Smith its not the best back three.
Massively miss Ojo and Arblaster in the center. Sang and Clarke would strengthen us out wide. Still not sure how good that makes us.
Devine Chislett then add Garrity and we look lots better.
Loft Uche Thomas. No thanks to any of them. Oh for Wilson being fit for three months. How we need this.
Desperate to strengthen this squad. Back to money !!
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9 hours ago, JRC said:
If you could guarantee 30 games a season he's worth keeping. History says he managed that twice in his career. I'd probably gamble until the end of the season but at some point we have to move on. I think we'll offer him something, maybe get 10 more games out of him and then let him go in the summer.
At this point in this season, i would keep Wilson and hope and pray we get 8 games out of him.
Those 8 games will get us more points than the 16 games with Loft, Uche or anyone else currently at the club as striker
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5 hours ago, Brian Johnson said:
And then you look in the opposite dug out who is an experienced manager and knows what he's doing with game management to get a result.
All 3 x Stevenage goals were scored by their subs
Now thats some game management.
To be fair, Stevenage have a decent squad, possible pay decent money and yes have a decent experienced manager.
Dont think we had a player anywhere near their wide left wing back for the last 25 mins
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7 hours ago, Alfie1962 said:
Changing the back three murdered us. The goals came from Lackevetti's inept performance. Blame the manager for the changes, but you always point the finger at the same player.
Waiting to see the highlights but if you are correct about Iacovetti then i am not surprised. As a defender he is poor and has cost us a few goals this season at the far post. Have to admit during the game i was only saying that Debra and Lowe deserve a place and it is Smith or Iacovetti for the left side. Iacovetti is a much better footballer and is more mobile than Smith. He would give us better options to get forward but then what about his defending. Will wait for the highlights !!
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14 hours ago, jeffers said:
It’s not so much taking Ollie and Alfie off, it’s what he did to replace them. The back three were comfortable with Lowe in full control, he hardly touched the ball in midfield. Why did we need to bring the Yak on, surely we could have brought Loft or Uche on and dropped Ben into midfield alongside Rhys.
In hindsight, he had no midfield cover on the bench, even knowing that Ollie and Alfie were not likely to last 90 minutes. Unless he was injured, why was Conlon not on the bench to give that experienced option.
He is a coach, game management is beyond him.
Jeffers
Best post on the topic.
The two subs should not have come off after 60 mins. D C would have told sports science what to do. 10 more mins even may have been enough but why bring both off together.
What was the plan to replace them. Who was on the bench to cover their roles.
Lowe had the best game a center back has played all season. Him and Smith are chalk and cheese. He may not be the biggest center back but last night it worked well for us. His football brain at the back was brilliant to watch. So we go and move him. Looked a poor player from then on
Ojo was playing very well too so why move him. He sat back and protected the defence andlet Ollie and Alfie do the running. So we then move him further upfield. Looked a poor player from then on.
Worse still later in the game we do as you said, bring Loft on up front and drop Garrity back in midfield, which we have done before. Despite the comments Loft doesnt do the work we need up front, Uche does and would have fought better for us in last 15 mins. Garrity was excellent up front and showed far more than the pair of them.
One further point. The many people saying its no worry if Ollie goes back in Jan, we have a ready replacement. Think again. Sorry but Walters is no where near a player yet who we could play regularly in midfield.
Yes Crosby's management skills and game management are poor, very poor. We DO need a new manager. It cost us dearly, possibly £200k plus
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6 minutes ago, andy jones said:
Is it reserved or unreserved seating tomorrow?
We can have a row each
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3 hours ago, smithie said:
It would be really interesting to see how many of the tickets that were cut to £7.50 we've sold. This was the thing that would hold back sales we were told.
Biggest game in our history ?
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week before christmas
christmas do's already booked
tuesday night not ideal for kids / old uns
travel too and from non existant on evening games
cost, it is christmas
shocking form
its only Middlesboro, any top premier and its a sell out despite all above.
Put in any order we want but all have an effect on this game.
despite what we all want to think, we are not a huge club 10 k max for very top games
Cheltenham (A) match thread - 17th Feb
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Then dont waste time chasing the same players if we cannot afford them