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TJHValiant

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  1. Realistically I can’t see a win. My optimism though does see another draw. 1-1.
  2. To an extent you need to make a stand and show a contract means something. If you keep applying the let them go approach every time a bid comes in, clubs will just make low offers knowing 9/10 a players wish will be granted.
  3. Bids for our best players? Most of the players except Garrity and possibly Chislett would be lucky to stay at Vale. If released most would never see league football again.
  4. We will sell anyone going when money comes calling. We needed Harrison this season, but the MK Dons offer a few quid and out the door he goes!
  5. What’s he up to now? Unemployed post non league Hartlepool isn’t he?
  6. He is going to be disappointed. There will be no takers for a man in League 1 who manages to make a club worse than a novice predecessor like Askey.
  7. Well if you look at the cold, hard figures there is a legitimate, sensible business argument to that. The money for being in league 1 does not reward the investment required over being in league 2. You can see that with the top players on £9000 plus a week, that you never see in league 2. Won’t get the money back either. So you either need a lot of surplus money from fans through big gates or the EFL need to make the money in league 1 much greater than league 2 in their new distribution deal for promotion to make business sense. As it stands, league 1 is a no man’s land of aspirational big fallen champ clubs and those clubs too big for league 1 but unlikely to sustain a champ charge.
  8. Biggest issue was, the window had shut when we signed Uche. There was nobody else really around. The big issue for me is that we were unable, with Flitcroft’s “talents” to find someone in budget who was more effective in summer..
  9. I love Rudgey, but really he was always an obvious choice as a DOF and if he was youthful enough to do it, I’m sure he would, but he is pushing 80! Replace the word Fraudcroft with Carol and you’d be equally right. She recruited Flitcroft and doesn’t understand football
  10. Certainly yes.
  11. Exactly right. In fact her letter makes it clear that being league 1 in the first place was apparently ahead of schedule. Although quite where once getting promotion, a relegation was in that schedule who knows? However as you say, Carol has hardly allowed cash to be splashed. Loft might be bad, but what about the other two or three forwards a good league 1 team needs? Wilson and Uche are only here because they were out of options. Our best player, Garrity was an unwanted Blackpool reject, signed in league 2. In fact look at where our players have come from and not a single one was a proven league 1 asset before coming to this club. That speaks of squad that has had little investment. Jeering Flitcroft is the comfortable option for fans because it keeps the warm glow of nice Auntie Carol intact. Carol is a successful businesswoman and like every single such person in history has a major love for 1.) Money 2.) herself 3.) family. These community schemes ultimately make her look good. If it was philanthropy that really mattered she’d donate anonymously. Vale are certainly below that. It’s just like unlike Smurfwaite, she won’t tell you that. She will only act if Vale make her look bad.
  12. Fingers crossed, although repeatedly this season we have been the blessing for any team on a bad run. Or indeed just any team.
  13. I do admit that the wins look doubtful, but by the looks of the table although it is 6 points as a gap, 3 of those points are in our hands as we have to play Cambridge. We need a run of points. Even following up last night with a draw against Oxford would add to that.
  14. I want us to stay up. It is quite clear from Carol’s letter that she thinks we are ahead of schedule and that being in league 1 is a mere bonus we should all be thankful to Flitcroft for.
  15. It was a very well organised and disciplined performance with a lot of effort. Trouble is, I still never saw us scoring at any point aside from a Wilson miss early on.
  16. I thought it got played originally as it was a Billy Bell favourite too?
  17. Ah this old chestnut. The football’s crap so let’s change the playlist. Won’t work, it’s the football that’s boring and drab, not the theme song. I love “wonder of you” so many away fans ask me if we are still playing it and find it rousing. It is part of the club’s identity.
  18. Ripley has a lot to get annoyed with Smith about. The guy looks totally disinterested. Which to be fair has not ever really been something you could accuse him of in his career with vale.
  19. Let’s not go nuts here! 😂
  20. Fair to say not many in the squad have many medals to sacrifice.
  21. Well I know for sure that Loft is on £3k and was our main man based on Flitcroft chasing him. That leaves £6,000 a week. I just can’t believe we would be paying that to a desperate, unfit Uche and a proven crocked Wilson. If we are..:well we are mugs but then you honestly won’t get better for the money. Uche, Wilson and Loft may be reasonable in league 2. Way off League 1 however.
  22. I was at the Brentford away game and met Robbie buying a “Derek” chatting away with Andy. That was 2009…
  23. I’ve had some good moments this season. Oxford in the sunshine, Charlton away, Mansfield, Blackpool at Christmas…however 2007-08 always felt like each week got worse and worse.
  24. I hated watching the 2007/08 relegation “Sennheiser” strip team more than any of them. That was depressing. I remember going to Millwall away on a dreary, cold day. It was absolutely horrible. We did nothing. It was notable from memory because Marc Richards made one of his earliest appearances as a sub. That remains for me the most one sided display against Vale I have ever seen. The Chasetown shambles was a disgrace and to have Sinnott managing was embarrassing, he has never come close to league management since. Signing Chasetown players was a daft move that was never going to work.
  25. If that’s true I agree total rip off. However I don’t think that’s the case.
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