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  1. BBC Midlands Today have just showcased our fight for L1 survival. So that's us down then.
  2. Is anyone from Portly Vale (haven't heard of them for ages) still around?
  3. Classic comment on RS: 'Hell has got a bit colder because Ryan Loft has scored' 🤣
  4. How about Darren as DoF and he gets to pick his replacement?
  5. David Flitcroft shortcomings underlined by out-of-depth Port Vale unit FOOTBALLLEAGUEWORLD.CO.UK This is quite a succinct summing up of what we've had to endure this season.
  6. Vale have shown enough willingness to play good possession based football, going forward, in recent games to be hopeful. But then they concede cheaply - particularly from set pieces - and spend the rest of the games fire fighting. I'm sure DM knows this and will be trying to counter it in training. I just don't think they have enough in this squad to turn it round.
  7. He's obviously up to it at U17 level, given his two goals off the bench for England. But coping with hairy arsed L1 defenders is quite another thing. I wouldn't want him to be whacked too hard before he reaches his physical capability to stand up to that sort of treatment.
  8. Given Vale's record of making appointments without competition it wouldn't surprise me. I worked most of my life in the public sector and if the bodies I worked for had adopted recruitment policies like Vale's they would have found themselves in trouble with the Government. Getting back to Patrick, he couldn't hack it as CEO so does he even have the experience required for a DoF? Horses for courses; we need someone with extensive knowledge of the role in a club at Vale's level.
  9. Greetings from Iceland (the country not the rival to Farmfoods) Great to get a point where we never expected to get one. Onwards and hopefully upwards.
  10. Anyone who thinks otherwise didn't go to Vale v Halifax, who were bottom of the 4th division at the time, lost 0-1.
  11. Funnily enough, I was only thinking the other day that it's like it was when Bobby Smith was in charge. At the moment watching Vale is like a re-enactment of the Book of Job - for the less Biblically minded Vale fan, this is a character who is very rich and in a matter of hours loses everything. That's what it feels like supporting Vale at the moment. But the moral of the story is never to lose faith, even when things go wrong. And even if Vale lose every game left this season I'll still be renewing my season ticket, because I refuse to lose faith. Whether Vale stay up or go down, whether Flitcroft stays or goes, no matter what happens, I'll still be there next season. In the Bible story Job gets what he has lost back, and a bit more besides. I cling to the belief that better times lie ahead, even if it doesn't appear so now. But Bobby Smith went and John McGrath and John Rudge arrived. I may not post again this season but it will be in the hope that things will turn round, whether now or later, whether in L1 or L2.
  12. Origin of the 'Lardy' title was from a Charlton fanzine - they'd played Stoke and they commented on just how fat the majority of the Stoke support were. 'Must feed them on lard' was the comment and legendary Vale fanzine 'The Memoirs of Seth Bottomley' picked up on it. You could also try 'who ate all the lard'. 😁
  13. Is it just me or has the dynamic changed behind the scenes? "Darren Moore and his team will work closely with David Flitcroft". Not the other way round. Do I detect a behind the scenes coup?
  14. And will my stopping clapping bring that about? The club will do what the club does. When change comes, if I think it's for the better then I'll applaud that as well. Until then, there is <ovf censored> all either you or I can do.
  15. Not happy but still clapping.
  16. Yes thanks. I support the club not any individual.
  17. At least Chelt lost tonight. Wish Darrell well but not at Vale's expense, even if it is just clutching at straws.
  18. Root: from Greek 'phila' meaning 'lover of' and 'anthropos' meaning humanity. So in the broadest sense of the word Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta) was a philanthropist, but in the modern sense it's used to refer to rich people who give money to help people worse off. Is Carol in that category? I'll let you make your mind up on that one.
  19. "If you want to make a small fortune out of football, start off with a large one". Don't know who said that but it fits.
  20. Not even a Hollands pie? 🤣
  21. I'll be renewing for next season, whether L1 or L2, Flitcroft or no Flitcroft. Because football is my game and Port Vale are my club, like they have been since I was eight years old. It's nearly sixty years since I started following them and despite promotions and relegations, good owners and bad, the highs and lows that inevitably come, they're still my club and will be till the day I die. (And maybe beyond - although a wise man once told me that some people serve their Purgatory on earth. 😏)
  22. Maybe I have got it wrong; maybe Flitcroft is the problem. I just don't think so.
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