Bald Eagle

And I will add Marty Taylor who has scored again for Cheltenham - his 6th since January despite also having a spell out injured.

Ellis sums up how poor our recruitment has been. He was our player and we let him go to downgrade to Loft and Uche. Ellis goes on to be a bit part player in a League 2 squad scoring 7 goals, where he is still head and shoulders above what we’ve got up top, and would have been a nailed on starter here.

That’s it for me too. Another quote was we Win or we learn- we don’t seem to have done much of either in the last 18 months!

Covered in my post and Wozzas. DF and previous condescending tone. pointless writing a letter - Carols had 2 goes herself and is obviously happy she’s addressed it to her satisfaction. i look forward to your other end of the D-Road response, however will still be buying 4 season tickets and will continue to support 5he club.

Agreed. By so publicly saying Flitcroft was NOT a mistake last time for this latest statement to mean anything it had to be covered, as well as the condescending tone of the last one. It’s like receiving a letter of complaint but then totally ignoring what the complaint was about in your response! This statement was not knocked up after the final whistle, it would have been typed and ready to go after much consideration as to the wording. It does not admit to mistakes not covered in the last statement, which for me makes this a ‘save face without backing down’ response. It only adds apologies for the results, which in themselves I do not blame Carol for - but does not address the issues that we were all warning her about that led to these poor results and ultimately surrendering our League 1 statues without a whimper. in summary, a Corporate rather than heartfelt apology for me - CS probably still thinks she was right in her initial response, and has not backtracked from it one iota with this latest missive - which in turn raises concerns regarding future strategy setting!

Nailed it. Only actually apologised for results and other ‘non specific’ mistakes. Happy to tell us in the last letter in no uncertain terms that Flitcroft certainly was not a mistake, and this comment that grated with most fans has certainly not been retracted. That, and the general tone still leave a very bitter taste and after this latest letter still remain firmly on the table.

Lots of talk about getting the structure right first - new D of F / Head of Recruitment?

It started when DC went off script by saying we’d had an awful January window just days after Madame Chair had done the Corporate Glossy staged propaganda of what a good window we’d had. He was no longer ‘on the bus’ and had to be removed. Sometimes Carol someone else on the bus might just have a better view and can see the cliff edge! Everything since has been big brother speak telling us what we should be thinking of what’s going on, and should ignore what we can see going on, culminating in the ‘don’t you dare say that about my Flicker’ defence document. To date she has not redacted from formally this written statement - probably because she still thinks she was correct, but ultimately he had to go to negate any negative press, and to hopefully help shift season tickets. Even SMURF was big enough to say the Bruno experiment was all on him, even if The Shanahans and us ultimately paid the price.

We should rebrand as NDA Vale FC.

To be fair those 2 quotes were direct from our Chairperson herself

It has - she’s taken us out of League 1!

Tbh Joe I think this lot would struggle to finish 20th in Div4. Since Ollie and Alfie left and with Willo sadly injured again we lack any real creativity to continually create chances and ultimately win games. Couple that with no natural finishers and comic cuts defenders this lot would not prosper in the League below.

Phenomenal remember - us naughty riff raff in the cheap seats were told that we were all wrong! All that money spent to take us back where started, but with a worse squad than the famous ‘deadwood collection’. still at least we got an MBE and a few accolades so not all bad eh Carol?

We will have managed to both lose money AND get relegated

Congrats Carol - money well spent! All that to end up exactly where we started - but bizarrely with a worse squad than the famous ‘deadwood collection’.

Maybe we could borrow Paddy’s if he’s finished colouring in the templates for next seasons kit

Despite having our legs slapped for having such nasty thoughts

Will fit in at The Posh - they go for double barrelled surnames quite a bit

Paddy

Wonder if Paddy is shaking his head at Mummy like he was at the fans!

Yes, at least he kept his vest on!

What struck home to me was how much of the dialogue was led by Kevin, who now also seems to have been sidelined - if rumours are true in more ways than one

Printing the ‘Derek I’m gutted’ quote when confirmed

She would read it and then send him a nice letter to tell him why he is wrong

I be5 even the coaches wives have some concerns after watching that shower of shyte