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It would be good and as you say build momentum, but this is Vale and fans have learnt not to expect early signings and the recruitment team tend to shop at the 1p shop or don't bother recruiting positions the fans can see needs urgently recruiting. 🤣 A poster said DM and Co on holiday this week (hope they took their phones with them) - so hopefully we will see some action next week maybe.

Yep. The joy of being a Vale fan. Checking if: we have we signed anyone - nope. Are we rumoured to be interested in anyone - yep - most out of our price range or wage matrix. Will we or wont we go another season without signing a striker or 2. 🤣

Them and Sky have basically made it harder for people who want to watch sports if you don't have sky and pay extra for all the different channels. That is all sports. All they are after is the money and stuff joe public.

Could happen we sign a lesser spotted good striker(s). Now having a lie down and a cuppa. 🤣

Loft - surprise - quiet feeling. No its just wind after your curry. 🤣

All depends on what DM can actually do with the players he can brings in with the money available to him. This is the joy of closed season - who will go, the players who will never come here, but there is a rumour we are about to sign them for mega bucks. The forum is fun with rumours and that is what we all need when there is no football. The wondering who is coming in and will they make the side better - well it wont be too hard after the past 2 seasons. At least fraudcroft will not be stomping all over the recruitment team and telling them how it wants it. Then bringing in players who are totally wrong. The thrill when we actually sign a decent striker (or two) who know how to score and where the goal area is 🤣

McKirdy and Hughes are different players. McKirdy took the piss out of Vale and the fans. Hughes didn't and as such won over (most of the fans) through hard work in a Vale shirt.

Depends on what clauses fraudcroft put in their contracts (if he did put any in) for the team being relegated. Then their monthly robbed wage would be reduced to the new relegated amount and then compensation or as you say a % of the new relegated wage would be paid to them when they leave Vale and go off to rob another wage at another club. But this is where some of our budget will probably go sorting out fraudcrofts phenomenal recruitment over the past 2 years. 😡

Only believe sports journalists when I see the player wearing the Vale shirt. All the journalists do is hype the head lines. You have to love this time of the season when we are linked with players who have probably only ever heard of the Vale from a news snippet, but its good enough for the journalists to say he is having advanced talks or a target of Vale. 🤣

Not at all. I said "without better players". This squad needs over hauling and a lot of money spent on getting it sorted after 2 years of bad recruitment.

They came with a game plan and it worked. Still the shunters may mess it up at Wembley. Next season is going to be hard one and not a given we will go up without better players.

The only way the club would be going is down with those up front. Back up maybe and get a couple of new strikers in that know where the goal is. Can't seem even DM would that be that stupid to only have them up front as first choice.

5 year deals now. 🤣

Next club he goes to, suddenly finds his footy boots and shows what he can actually do when played in the right position. That is how it normally goes. Oh well - hopefully the replacement will be better. Good luck at your next club, unless we are playing that team and then play like you did at Vale. 🤣

Between Garrity, Chizzy and Rippers for me. The only 3 that really showed they wanted to win for Vale. The rest can whistle as I would rather vote for the Ball boys/girls as they did a better job. 🤣

Down Burslem and in the park. Not all the time, but you got used to avoiding groups in the distance.

Football is football. it's not the end of the world. Vale will win, vale will lose. Vale will get promoted, and Vale will get relegated. Get on the bus and go for a ride. I love watching Vale, league one, league 2 don't really matter to me as long as the players try. As long as the players have put a shift in and looked like they tried, Vale fans will forgive losing a game or two. It's when they instantly look like they are not trying and and have no fight in them. That is what hurts the fans.

Sounds like you never grew up then in the 70's around Burslem, where gangs went around and would stop kids and ask them what colour they supported. Say the wrong colour you were either hit or said good choice. Go for neither, you just ended up being hit. You would scan the group for clues. No knives or wooden poles, just a thump and they would move on to the next unexpecting kid. Probably still goes on in some areas, just now they don't use fists anymore. Going to watch Sjoke up their ground, we would park on Mitch car park and walk to the ground from the car. The police instantly separated the 4 of us, even after seeing us all get out of the same car and laughing and joking. A lot of the older people have been brought on that, so yes sjoke stayed up - oh well there is always next year they can come down 🤣. They have always been the rich kids on the block and favoured by the council. My family were sjoke fans and I was just the Vale fan, following the best team in my eyes. Mates were sjoke fans and would have banter with them. Don't condone the fighting between groups and will speak to sjoke fans just like any other fan-not their fault they chose the wrong team. 🤣 On holidays or away with work around the world would speak to them and have banter with them when they were wearing their red deck chair colours, by saying to them that reminds me I need to get some cleaning cloths and that shirt reminded me. They would smile and say your a Vale fan and we would have a laugh and joke chatting to each other. The way it should be fans getting on with each other. Each season, you hoping they would go down and they do the same thing hoping Vale would go down.

So we wont get the question about cars blocking drives. Feel like we are missing out. 🤣

It's now working. Says they are on stage, they must be under the table then. They have appeared.

Is that in the first 2 minutes? Erm🤣

Willow - Good luck in finding your next club. Shame you picked up injuries all the time for Vale, as I loved watching you when you were on the pitch. Defenders and midfield opposition knew you were good and took chunks out of you to try and stop your runs, touches and flicks to Vale players. Thank you for the memories. But due to the injuries you became a luxury player Vale just could not accommodate due to the poor recruitment process over the 2 years.

The retained list says it all. Another season of relegation battles are on the way - please prove me and others wrong for thinking this. But hay Carol gets Community Award Div 2 for her mantle piece. Then Conference Community Club Award.

This is Vale. When do we go with just the normal 🤣 Probably end up with 3 goalkeeper coaches and then the extra 50 staff behind the scenes to look after them. 😉

That could work, a player/coach. Leutwiler must be fed up with not getting game time and being able to show what he can do to other teams. The retained list was a good chance to get rid of some of the players who have not shown any spirit - but no not the Vale - another mistake which I hope does not bite them when we go down next season with keeping them. Same silly mistakes, not tackling players, not marking runners and just no fight in them. Just hope that DM and Co have a plan for better players and they are demoted to squad water bottle carriers.