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Correct me if I’m wrong, but am I right in thinking that we’ve not had a shot on target against Derby this season?? #norelegationonmywatch

Relegation is not in my vocabulary…

The least surprising thing to happen today…. Gayle scoring. Shambles.

Didn’t take long did it. Only another 86+ minutes to go 🫣

Barnsley (a) v2.0 is this 🫣

What’s the phrase…. you can’t polish a 💩??? And DM has taken on a big stinking floater of one. I’ll consider anything under 4 respectable. The fear is this could be another Barnsley, unfortunately. You can count on Dwight Gayle - whose recent performances have been nothing short of atrocious by all accounts - scoring tomorrow.

Anyone know how many tickets we’ve sold?

This is worse than Brown’s or Aspin’s sides. I’d say the worst Vale squad I’ve ever seen. There are only two players that I think other clubs would possibly be interested in - Garrity for sure, possibly Ripley. I’ll go further and say that if this team played the first 10 games in L2 we’d be way adrift at the bottom. It feels like the 2021/22 season has all been completely and utterly wasted. People busy congratulating themselves in their ivory towers and completely taking their eyes off the ball. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, our recruitment has been absolutely shocking but the January window seems to have a Kryponite-like effect on the club. We literally don’t know how to handle it. It’s quite staggering, it really is. So what’s that now, about 5 wins in 60 games or something??? Wow, just wow. I was a big advocate of Moore but I’m starting to doubt myself that he’s the right man for us at this time. Maybe we needed a Steve Evans-type character who could create that “them vs us” mentality to at least try to battle & fight our way out of trouble because there doesn’t seem to be much evidence so far. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he walked, he has been sold an absolute dud. I’m literally running out adjectives to describe just how sh!te we are.

The thing is, when it went to 2-1 we all knew what was coming. As someone said, it’s the most Port Vale thing ever. A team absolutely bereft of grit and desire to win. Somebody just end the season now please because it has been an absolute shocker and we’ve still got 13 games to ensure.

You just know we’ll screw it up 🫣

Big last 15 mins this…

Thayts a wand 🤣

That line up is a surprise but, fair play to DM, nowt else has worked so why not try it? Sooner that then stick to the same tepid system which yields zero anyway. I’ve been resigned to L2 football since about 6am on Friday 2 February so hopefully DM is seeing who he wants around next year. I like the look of a Pulis-style 4-2-3-1 with a solid back line and two DM’s with a busy front 4. To me it’s irrelevant really whether Dipepa or Loft plays, you’ve no idea what you’re going to get in either case. I expect the worst and predict another 0-2 as they’ll just try and kick lumps out of us, but this is the ongoing circus that is Port Vale so we’ll probably win 4-0.

Indeed….potentially c.£35m…..ouch!

Now I know this is in no way related to this thread or helps us with our current predicament, but there are rumours on the Oatcake that our stripey-eyed friends are about to or have sacked Schumacher.

You do realise that DM has been left with one of the - if not THE - worst Vale squads of the last 40 years, and no way of changing it before the end of the season?? If we had Guardiola or Klopp in charge, we would be in EXACTLY the same position, i.e. having to decide whether a CBA Loft or inexperienced Dipepa plays up front with a half-fit Wilson, or which CB / Midfielder gets to play LB. I just thought I’d check as your post suggests you weren’t aware of this not so minor issue.

Loft didn’t come on until 70-odd mins though??????

I wouldn’t blame Moore for binning us of tbh. This is arguably a worse squad than Brown/ Bruno relegation. The question is not whether we’ll go down, but whether we’ll finish bottom. Absolutely garbage.

Oooh, nearly gifted them a 2nd then.

Better effort this half, the quality just ain’t there unfortunately.

I don’t get why Garrity didn’t just sweep it in rather than trying take a touch???!!?

Honestly I don’t know what Moore is supposed to do. He is trying different things, but this team literally has a) no pace and b) no-one who can take on and beat a man.

Dan Jones 🤣 if he’s our great hope at LB then we really are in trouble.

Given the quality of Smith’s passing, I agree, he probably should.

It could be any worse if we’d got the youth team on. Nearly half hour gone and we’d done precisely nothing…. other than gift them a goal of course.