Paul6754

Current results stay the same apart from a Vale win and things would look a lot rosier tonight.

Workman like performance by Vale but have to take the chances. Thought Garrity was gonna chip their keeper when he was in on goal. The danger for Vale lies down their left hand side, got to double up on Goddo. Ref not giving Vale a damn thing.

But no commentary, can hear the crowd.

Gone now.

Looks like DM is going for the win, let's hope he pulls it off.

I'd love to know exactly what the process was, that's assuming there was a process.

Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes performing the Etta James Blues & Soul classic, "I'd Rather Go blind". Her voice and the guitar playing are sublime. Wonder how you get a ticket to those gigs?

Damn and blast, always more hope of a goal when he was on the field, the most skillful forward we have and likely to create something out of nothing. He will be a big miss for the run in.

Dipepa will likely leave for a big chunk o' dosh and this will give the money to sign a couple of goal scorers providing the daft player wage structure/ceiling still isn't in place. If we do go down I'd like to see most of the current squad stay and together with 4-6 quality additions would provide some continuity and quality for a quick return to Lge 1. Chopping and changing a dozen+ players a season is not the way forward.

For me Chislett is pushed over by their No5 as he was about to shoot for the first chance, it's clearly visible on iFollow. For Uche's chance, a natural goal scorer would have taken a few more steps closer and then either shot or played it into the path of Garrity who was steaming towards the goal unopposed. Conversely Ripley should have done better with Pinnock's effort but Pinnock was closer to Ripley and low and hard then works most of the time. Catalogue of missed chances yesterday. Only straws to cling to are DM seems more certain about his core starting players, we're playing better as a team now, creating a few more chances and the defense looks a tad more secure with Yak in it, but it is clutching at straws. The dropped points against Carlisle and Cheltenham away and Fleetwood at home are gonna cost us big time, all academic though now.

Forget the 2nd goal as we'd pushed up in search of an equalizer but that game rested on Pinnock took his chance and Uche didn't, add to that we missed a number of other good chances. Football is so frustrating but we are where we are. It's not over 'til the maths say it is.

Osh, I'm sure you can change the commentary someplace from home to away.

Vale had the chances to score but one mistake and we get punished. Still very much in this.

Come on Vale, make the Easter holiday.

Probably not but Popey was more of a target man who played with his back to goal and was good in the air. However I can recall two Popey goals where he ran from the half way line ....ish of the Park and slotted the ball home and one where he ran across the area and pulled the ball back from a tight angle and scored with his left foot. We don't know what type of striker DiPepa will become and how far he'll go as he's so young but his potential appears enormous. I reckon part of his goal yesterday was confidence after the 2 goals for England, long may it continue.

Couldn't agree more Hitcher, his commentary is very good and entertaining and the banter/interaction with the co-commentators always good to hear. Only very slight pick I would level is that his default player is Garrity so if there's any doubt, good, bad or ugly, the name Garrity usually pops out.

Exactly PV as was sadly demonstrated by the treatment of Tom Pope. Lovely footwork, body movement and finish by Dipepa for his goal yesterday, particularly for someone his size. Given steady improvement over the next 5 years imagine trying to play against a player with such trickery, skill and power. No doubt Dipepa will take the right opportunity when it comes along and Vale will get a big chunk of cash, I'm thinking a fee in the millions, plural.

Deserved win for Vale, the players are defo up for the fight to stay in Lge 1. Liked the pressing for the first ca 75 mins and generally not giving their players time on the ball. Bummer that most of the teams around us have picked up points. Can still stave off relegation but it's gonna be close. Great goal by DiPepa.

Deserve to be in front, players playing with more confidence and with plenty of fight. Unlucky for Wilson. More of the same Vale.

We could do with a favor today.

Need to "Step on the Gas" tomorrow, floor it Vale.

NW9, my posts on this subject are purely hypothetical given Vale's current situation but similar processes have been used in the past at other clubs with great success eg Clough/Taylor etc. Yes it may be a "backward step" or more "A return to the past" but I'm interested in what may work for PVFC. In my working life I lost count of the times new technologies/methodologies were introduced to significantly change the way we worked or the process but they rarely did. Your 2nd paragraph highlights the possible fault of the current system whereas having the manager of the 1st team dictate the players he wants/tactics ought prevent this happening although there's other stuff involved eg money. I think it's a weakness that a club has an "Identity" which I presume means a way of playing with the result that recruitment is solely aimed at playing one style eg 3 at the back. IMHO much better to recruit with some flexibility in mind, keep your opponents guessing.

50 years ago but now not a chance, although I can trap a ball when I sit down these days. Always remember running onto the Vale pitch after the last game of the season when I was about 12 years old and looking from the center circle to the Bycars Road goal and it seemed miles away.

Fosse, My point is the manager should tell the recruiters whom he wants and the recruiters go out and see if they can sign the player(s), it's a two way process and would involve scouts and Sports Statistics if needed. This is not new as in past times Brian Clough was the Manager and Peter Taylor the recruiter or the Mercer/Allison duo etc. Recruitment is different now with all the agents and stuff. I must admit if I had my way I would abolish this "Transfer window" nonsense, what does it achieve apart from restrict the careers and lives of professional football players.

Yep PVFC the top clubs, those in the Prem and Championship, have money to burn at the moment and make huge financial mistakes time and time again when signing players which a club the size of Vale simply cannot afford to do. I don't know how DoF's at the big clubs operate with their respective managers but I've read on numerous occasions Prem Lge managers talking about a new player who showed up for training and the 1st team manager knew nothing about the signing, to me that's ludicrous. So for a club the size of Vale, IMHO the DoF should be the manager of the 1st team and everything football flows down from him. At the moment at the Vale the manager is Darren Moore so in this scheme of things Darren Moore would be the DoF, whether DM could do this job who knows, I'm not advocating DM should be replaced. A "Football Recruiter" would be hired and report to DM, trusted scouts and "Sports Statistics" to identify players to sign but have scouts run their eye over the players before they're signed as from what I've seen at Vale, reliance only on statistics for a footballer doesn't tell the whole story. I suggested Phil Sproson and Colin Garlick, I think Sprowy would be perfect for the job, Garlick as an example of a non-footballer who may have more of a business take on the position. The men's 1st team at a football club is it's raison d'etre and the manager of that 1 st team is the most important person at the club along with the owner.