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Warren

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  1. If we get relegated I think Port Vale can bounce back with promotion. We have seen in cup games that the current squad can compete with the top teams there. So with some rebalancing we should be challenging. Looking at our remaining L1 fixtures we face a big challenge given the difficulty of the away games. I see the Bristol Rovers game as must win if we are to mount a successful climb back up to the top of the cliff and not quickly fall into the drink.
  2. Martin Foyle has had a lot of backroom football coaching / recruitment / scouting jobs since leaving Port Vale. He's definitely time served. But what I read into all the stuff I have followed is that he does want quiet back office roles and not front office jobs that potentially come with a pile of fan base aggro. That said he is currently Head of Recruitment at St Mirren who are upper mid table in the Scottish PL. I guess if he recruited a lot of nonsense and they were in trouble it would be a frontline job!
  3. I'm too old now. Not played 11 aside since 2007 and I was 49 years old then. But back in the 1990's (think) it was good fun to play at Deepdale when PNE had an artificial pitch. Slight issue with fetching the ball back and the floodlights failed on one occasion.
  4. Looking at Bristol Rover's form they haven't scored in the last 3 games and conceded 8. So we mustn't help them out with one of our free gifts. They drew 0-0 at Fleetwood but lost 5-0 at Lincoln. I will discount losing 3-0 at home to Derby because they are a much bigger club as we have found. But I feel Bristol have done what we should have been doing overall which is chug away winning and losing and reach safe mid table. They aren't going to get promoted or relegated and we should have more fire in our bellies. But we must respect they are capable of beating us if we do reckless stuff at both ends of the pitch, so I'm hoping Darren Moore can bring his experience to produce a telling balanced performance that sees us win by a couple of goals without conceding. I don't mind if the second comes in the 93rd minute from a breakaway after Bristol put all 11 men in our box trying to score from their 15th corner. Ryan Loft surely fancies a goal against his former club and should be steaming round the pitch etc.
  5. This game is now one of the most important in the club's history. Stay mistake free at the back and we can win this.
  6. I think he's likely to be on the bench on Friday at least. There is a quandary because to develop he needs game time. Ignoring youth, I don't know how good he actually is at this moment. He has scored for us in bit part appearances. Our other players aren't scoring enough. So if he's a natural goalscorer maybe he starts but that's a big call when there is not margin for error in our fight to stay up. I note the first team played a friendly last Tuesday. Hence the manager thought that ok for a game on Saturday. But Friday is a day earlier.
  7. Dipepa may have a big role to play next weekend. We need to keep the goal threats going throughout the match using subs whilst being solid at the back.
  8. There is a league of 6. We are now 3rd in it. We need to reach the top 2. It is possible but clearly we must win more games starting with Bristol Rovers on Friday.
  9. This season so far, 5 coffins placed in our six yard box would have defended corners and freekicks better. I guess we could put our defenders in them so they are weighted down. They could be evenly spaced and Ripley could come and catch balls behind them. If we ever get possession we'd have to haunt the opposition. If Ripley kicks it long the attackers could count on spiritual support - pretty much as normal really. I've had a thought about how to boo the team which will keep their spirits. Only do it when the opposition have the ball.
  10. The interview with Darren Moore showed he's a good coach. There was a lot of techniques mentioned he's using to boost low confidence. It's something hard to do in sport. He's obviously doing things to shore up the defending and working on the attacking play. I'm pleased he's the manager. But the bottom line is the players need to step up to the level required. If you leave strikers in L1 unmarked, they are much more likely to score than in L2. When attacking, a L1 defence is much better than a L2 defence. There is gulf and we need to bridge it now - not soon - now. Today is just such a big game. I hope PV find the battling qualities and improve by way of taking in the coaching given. The team selected must be solid at the back first of all. If Burton are a direct team it's the players who best handle that. In front of goal we must start taking our chances.
  11. David Flitcroft has done some good things for the club and contributed to promotion and bringing young players through more effectively. So the backroom of the playing side is much stronger and deeper. But the failures in recent transfer windows has left the club in deep relegation trouble. He has become a hugely unpopular figure at the club and in the entertainment / sport businesses that's unsustainable. So it's the right decision to move on and presumably with an amicable contractual settlement.
  12. If he is to play he needs to be high up the pitch when he gets the ball. Not setting off as he has done recently from the edge of our box on some marathon run where he gets tackled.
  13. I am hoping after a week working on it that our pattern of losing changes. That is don't go one nil down after 15 minutes leaving someone unmarked. Don't go two nil down after 48 mins leaving someone unmarked. When the golden chance arrives for us, don't completely miss the goal or hit the keeper. If we are to win this game and stay up, this crass defending and attacking has to improve significantly tomorrow and from now on until the end of the season.
  14. It should, I'm off to blow myself up.
  15. The correct spelling is too in you're above context. Head should be head's. I'd recommend a full stop after word and commencing a new sentence.
  16. I like Darren Moore. I think we have also brought in some other coaching staff of a higher level than we had before. The job they are faced with is very difficult presently. It is rare that a manager can save a team that is in and around relegation and fundamentally struggling at the level. For example Burnley and Sheffield Utd. Too much unravels at once in each game. Maybe we survive likely we don't. The key to success next season at L1 or L2 is give him better players. We all know that.
  17. We can't find solace in the results these last few months and concluding we are irrevocably worse than the teams we are competing with to stay up. I know I lack as much confidence as the team, but the way to win enough games to get the points required is to focus on the correctable. Stop giving away goals through poor marking at set pieces, take our chances in front of goal, get our best players on the ball in attacking areas and develop a resilient robust and determined midfield. This is not rocket science and therefore it is possible through correct application. Some call it back to basics. Others a team that becomes better than the sum of it's parts.
  18. If PV owners have the financial resources then surely the current crop of senior players must be moved on irrespective of their contract situations in order to be promotion candidates in L2 or to improve in L1 if we stay up. There is no other way except to languish in the bottom reaches of L2 on gates of 4k etc.
  19. We must win this game. I know that is obvious, but it should affect the tactics. We could manage 6-7 bookings for example.
  20. I don't think Carol and associates are quitters. Unless a profit on investment opportunity arises that persuades them in association with a wealthy philanthropic new owner. A lot of money has been put into the club dragging it up from a dilapidated stadium and pitch to something nearing smart. In life terms if I'd done that I would not ditch everything but be determined to leave a positive legacy that can endure. Although we got promoted the management of the off field side of the football team hasn't been good enough for L1. It won't become good enough on return to L2 either. I'm hoping that Darren Moore can turn this around given sufficient resources. I like him and think he knows his stuff. So I'll give him a good go next season. But the bottom line is I'm not up for supporting ticking over near the bottom of L2. I will have paid for season tickets but stop coming if that is where we are headed. I'm not a young or middle aged person anymore who can have a 20 year perspective.
  21. I have booked my train tickets so I don't flake on Good Friday.
  22. I am not going to attack Moore. I thought there was a run of games under Crosby post New Year where we'd hold our own and get enough points to stay up. But we didn't and kept losing. This has added new dimensions to our problems. The team is now completely shot of confidence. The team must hate playing at home. Moore is faced with a very difficult position. What do you do when you hype everyone one up and the captain passes the ball to the opposition in front of an open goal after 2 mins!
  23. I don't know what can be done with a defence that keeps making exactly the same mistakes and attackers that don't score. Ultimately they just aren't good enough at L1 level and drilling them on the training pitch won't work. Crosby or Moore or anyone else - it doesn't matter.
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