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Biddulph_PV

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  1. But this is what happens when you have a goalie that wants to get too involved in play.
  2. Agree bar the implication of the last comment. This isn’t Moore’s mess. He’s got to somehow cobble together a team to get results. Before he came, it was 3 wins in 25, so it’s not like he has tools at his disposal. In the absence of “the new manager bounce” which was always unlikely with our mish-mash squad, my worry is that it’s Huddersfield all over for him… a dark cloud hanging over the club which he can’t shake off to get us going, and inevitably ends with a parting of the ways. Hope I’m wrong as I did/do think he was the best pick of everyone that was mentioned.
  3. Like Cheltenham and numerous others, it all goes to sh!t in the final quarter. Haven’t had iFollow because I knew we wouldn’t get anything. We are a poor side, a horrible mish-mash of players “who can do a job” which is very much reminiscent of the Bruno/Brown mess from our last foray into L1. I seem to recall we were flying high early doors then and then our form dropped off a cliff after an horrendous January window. And hey presto…. Moore hasn’t a hope in Hell in salvaging this season. I sort of feel sorry for him, the rot has well and truly set in and it can be very difficult to stop. If anyone can see where 7 wins are coming from then they’re a better person than me.
  4. I still don’t believe it’s not a back 3 (I’m not watching on iFollow btw). I need evidence!!!! 😂
  5. Aside from the whole recruitment shambles, can somebody tell me who decided that 3-5-2 should be the de facto formation throughout the various teams? We have one of the largest pitches in the whole League, ideal for wingers… so guess what…..we don’t play with any. And we bemoan the lack of Wing Backs or ball playing Centre Backs….. but realistically how many of these are on the market in L1/L2 that will make a meaningful difference?? Precisely none. Even if you look at the top PL sides, none of them play 3 at the back. So why is it sensible for little old Port Vale to have this as the ‘identity’ It is absolutely bonkers and just beggars belief, it really does.
  6. 1) Reading - LOSE 2) Lincoln - DRAW 3) Fleetwood - WIN 4) Derby - LOSE 5) Shrews - DRAW 6) Orient - LOSE 7) Oxford - WIN 😎 Burton - DRAW 9) Brizzle - LOSE 10) Northampton - LOSE 11) Wigan - LOSE 12) Exeter - WIN 13) Bolton - LOSE 14) Cambridge - WIN 15) Posh - LOSE Realistically that’s 15 points…. not enough 😞
  7. Yes, this being the formation which has seen us concede 7 for the first time I can remember, and concede 3 goals in a game three times in 2024, two of which were against sides in the bottom 4. But yes, let’s keep going with it 👎
  8. I agree re pragmatism, and that’s exactly what Moore said he’d play to. But irrespective, 3-5-2 hasn’t worked for over 18 months now, and other than the play-offs, arguably longer than that (remember that hideous televised Newport game?) so I don’t feel we’ve really anything to lose by doing something different. I’d go something like: Ripley Smith-Jesse-Kasper-Yak Sang-Ojo-Chiz Massey-Wilson-Mighten
  9. I was genuinely excited for today. And then I saw the line up. It was only ever going to be “shuffling the deck chairs” but nonetheless I wanted/expected something a bit different from the tactics that basically haven’t worked for 2 years. Instead 3-5-friggin-2 again. I despair, I really do. I was looking forward to seeing our next home game and what Moore could do but I don’t think I’ll bother tbh, I sense it will be more of the same. I still think he’s a good appointment, but the more I think about it, the more he feels like a Cheerleader for DF. We have got absolutely no chance of getting out of this mess. None. Anyone who thinks we will is just kidding themselves. There will be no free-agent striker or left-backs (or CB or CM for that matter!) so again, get over it.
  10. And that you go. New manager bounce and all that. That’s 6 points Cheltenham have had off us. They hadn’t won for 15 games and scored 1 goal before DC. They scored 5 against us. So what’s that say about us? Nothing against Moore who I think is a great appointment, but same team + same tactics = same result. Pity those results have been absolute dog s***. Anyway, the march towards L2 is in full swing.
  11. It’s funny that we have players like him and Loft who are garbage for us but always seem to score against us when they go elsewhere.
  12. So, had a bit of time to dwell on this….. I think I was one of the earliest, if not THE earliest advocates of Moore but I did not believe we would get him. Personally I think it’s an excellent appointment. I don’t want to over-hype him, but we have a solid, experienced manager who I think can have that unifying effect of Adams, DC etc. We do have to remember that this is not his team. It is completely imbalanced and he’s basically going to have to make a silk purse from a sows ear if we’re to have any chance of staying up, which I think is still unlikely. But I feel that under DM we’ll at least make a fight of it, rather than witness more meek surrenders such as those vs Boro, Bolton, Derby etc.
  13. Brace yourselves…… …….the bogs have gone again 🤣🤣
  14. If…….and IMHO it’s a MASSIVE IF…..we get Moore then even if we went down (which I believe is pretty much certain) then I’d back him to re-build a side capable of getting us back up. And that’s despite an incredibly tough looking L2 these days. The only worry with him would be if he didn’t feel he was being supported and did one if a bigger opportunity came up. Irrespective of whether it’s Moore or someone else (Duff would be my 2nd choice) we have to remember that they are basically stuck with someone else’s squad. So it’s a free hit in my mind and relegation wouldn’t be on them.
  15. We were in a weird position with Crosby. He was obviously a great coach and wanted to be a manager (wasn’t he up for the Newport job?) so I some respects he was the natural choice. It’s the lack of tactical ability, rigidly sticking out to a very specialised 3-5-2 yet not having the players to fit the system nor the minerals/nous to change it when it’s clearly not working, that’s what gets me. But we all know who the main culprit is.
  16. I’m sensing another letter to the EFL…. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
  17. So that’s 4x we’ve played Stevenage…. all of which are draws. They are in the play-offs, we’re relegation. Work that one out.
  18. More likely that someone from Bet Victor has been browsing this site! But……
  19. Too right. He’s got a bit of personality and you know his sides will get stuck in and be organised. Anyone who can rally their team to come from being 4 down in a P/O semi after an absolute spanking in the 1st leg must have something about them. Yes please from me, but I just don’t think it will happen.
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