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14 hours ago, glenpvfc said:
It's not mate
There are a few ways it could work but most likely it's something along the lines of the manager will say he wants a striker (he may not even be asked what they want but would obviously discuss with the manager) and then the DOF will say here are 3 options which should be within our budget and a chance of signing compiled by the matrix, who do you want us to go for?
If the DOF offers the manager one good player and two poor players and the manager chooses the poor one it's on the manager. If the manager is offered three poor players then what can he do? There have been exceptions of signings that will be from the manager, DC with Harrison and Taylor but I think this was panic stations kicking in.
To set the system up how we did and not recruit enough wingbacks and then to stick with it for so long is the most baffling thing for me, even more so than the lack of strikers. Carol has hired people who supposedly know about football so this should not have been an issue. There is no way AC was sitting there not thinking about trying to change it up after the run we've been on. In my opinion the formation had to have been forced. I do believe Flitcroft has now decided or has been told to back off a bit now as we have seen DM change the system, whether that's because the club know he's messed up or just want to reduce the heat on him I don't know but it needed to happen. We don't really have any great options to play most of the other formations either i know, but that's the recruitment again.
We cannot go into next season being so inflexible.
Maybe I have got it wrong; maybe Flitcroft is the problem. I just don't think so.
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20 minutes ago, PVFC764 said:
He came for the managers job and ended up talking a great game and walking out of the interview with the DoF part time and now managed to make it full time. Why wasn't he told to sort out the recruitment the first time around without strikers. No we went into the 2nd season without strikers and again this window we have failed to bring in strikers who could possibly keep us up.
Recruitment is the responsibility of the manager, end of. It was Andy Crosby who dismantled the promotion side and Andy Crosby who failed to recruit new signings. It's not the job of the DoF to find new players - the manager needs to know he can work with them and that they can play his system. The DoF arranges the salary and draws up the contract. So it's the manager who is to blame for this rather than the DoF. What manager - and I include both Darrell Clarke and Andy Crosby in this - would have taken the job knowing that Flitcroft was going to carry out the recruitment?
It's so blindingly obvious that I can't understand why others can't see it.
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3 minutes ago, Black N White said:
Where is the evidence she has invested 10M?
Didn’t think so.
She certainly hasn’t invested any money for two years and I would like to know where the money the club is generating is going?
It’s ok now we have El presidente!
I wondered how long it would take for someone to turn on Carol. Sooner than I thought.
Without Carol and Kevin the club would have been wound up by Smurthwaite trying to recoup what he hadn't spent. If we were lucky a phoenix club would be playing in the Midland League with home games in Kidsgrove.
Think about what might have been before pointing the finger at Carol.
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23 minutes ago, Tim vlf said:
i went anfield when we took loads outsung the scousers vanders goal brill !! they said we made the most noise they had heard !! we were superb ! they hardly opened their gobs
The only time I remember hearing anything from the Kop was when we sang YNWA. They don't like it.
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33 minutes ago, dantheman said:
Troy Deeney would do for me till the end of the season. Would be fairly fit to given he has been with forest green
Hardly set the world on fire has he? FGR bottom of L1 last season, bottom of L2 this. Unless he hasn't featured?
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No point in trying; driving DF out would drive Carol out as well as she supports him. Are you sure that's what you want?
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12 hours ago, LancyTony said:
'tis alchemy...not sorcery!
Would HP be saucery?
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My concern is about what happens when we lose Ollie and Alex, whether that's in January or the end of the season. Players like those don't come along very often and Vale couldn't hope to sign anyone of such undoubted class. Given our previous efforts to sign a striker I don't think they'll be replaced with anyone half as good.
At least Ethan Chislett is our player, for however long until Vale decide to cash in - he's surely alerting a lot of clubs.
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Part of me is thinking 'well, it's only the FA Cup, we're never going to win the thing so if we throw the game away like we did last night we can learn from the experience and move on'.
Part of me is thinking there's worse to come. L2 beckons.
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You say 'sack Crosby and Flitcroft'.
Who do we replace them with that's any better and we can afford? What's Michael Brown doing these days?
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I'll consider subscribing if they treat Stoke fans equally. If not, bye bye Sentinel. You won't be missed.
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On 23/09/2023 at 23:50, Tapper said:
Hi For any one using a Android phone and the forum not working. You can install Firefox from the Playstor and see if that works for you. I know a lot of people like Firefox for android anyway.
Firefox has bin around for a long time it's not some new kid on the block. It will not install any thing bad to your phone.
Some times with android phones they will use a build of crome and mod it to do things a strange way. I know Samsung do this. There is all so the thing that some brands of Android phones that don't do software updates as they should. EG we are now on android 13 with Android 14 due out in October. A friend just came to me asking why his tablet would not work on YouTube? When I looked at it it was stuck on Android 4 and had bin deemed so old that Google were not pushing any updates to it. I had to flash it to a newer build of Android 7 to get it working again.
I installed Firefox and it looks like it's solved the problem.
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Rob,
I have a problem every time I post while quoting someone else because random blank lines are being added - that's if I can post at all; usually the quoted text is turning blue as if the text was being selected and the keyboard turns off. I'm using a Samsung phone on Android. Any idea what it might be?
Season ticket renewals
in Port Vale present
Posted · Edited by Heatwave
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. 😏)