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Shame he had issues with temperament. That was what let him down at Vale - you never knew if he would finish a game on the pitch. The commentators are loving Covolan and singing his praises. He is too good at this level - but we know the other side of him.

They are playing well. Nice goal by both of their players. Hope our strikers are watching and see how it is done. 🤣 Lucas fell over and now starting to loose it by the looks of it. Ipswich players just need to wind him up and he will explode.

Nice goal by Maidstone player - Reynolds. Nice touch and then a chip over the goalie.

See Lucas Covolan is now at Maidstone. They are against Ipswich on BBC now. He is busy and made some good saves. You just don't know if he will finish the game or early bath.

Wonder how far it will run or walk. 😉 Good we are being linked to these clubs as possible loanees coming in from them for 6 or 12 months. Shows we are being taken seriously now by them and not just dismissed straight away.

Got to chuckle at some of the comments - just light hearted fun as nothing is happening in the transfer window by the looks of it. Need Osh to come up with some transfer gossip like the Dan Gore one. We really need a transfer or loan rumour to come out and occupy our thoughts. Just off for a coffee, no porridge, oatcakes or rice pudding tho. 😉

Think its funny reading some of the strange comments that aren't transfer/loan related this week due to no actual rumours coming out about Vale being connected to transfers/loans now Dan Gore has been put to bed and we have him now - well till the end of the season. Wonder what the next topic this thread will go down. Will someone take the plunge and come up with swimming connections 🤣

Stop it. Daughter loves ones with dead flies in it. I prefer the plain. 🤣 Need a couple of bacon, cheese and sausage oakcakes now. 😉 Wonder if there will be any transfer action to take our minds off the food of gods. 😉

Problem is I have used all mine up from the freezer so need to do a run up to Stoke to buy more and then freeze them. Always good fun when ordering 6 dozen oakcakes at one go. The look you get from the owner and anyone else in the shop - feel like saying - yes I am addicted to oatcakes. 🤣

Loft becomes a prolific goal scorer and scores hat tricks for fun. Is that wild enough. 🤣 A lot of people are now seeing his off the ball play now he is nearly fully match fit. Uche just barges his way through defences/midfield and opposition who try to barge him end up on the floor from bouncing off him. He pulls 2 defenders or midfield players away to try and stop him. So will be a miss if he goes - as we don't have that sort of player available if he goes.

And he has gained his match fitness with us and that then benefits the new club. One of those hard decisions - do we offer a longer contract or the one he was given and if he proves his match fitness we offer a longer one, hoping another club doesn't come in and offer a better wage deal. Knowing Vale's luck - offered a longer contract - picks up injuries and is in and out of games and never gets match fitness and no other clubs want him and we have them for 2 years.

If he goes we will miss his off the ball work he is putting in now match fit. Hopefully we will keep him for the 2nd half of the season - if not we could be struggling.

Would be good if Vale have a good working relationship with these prem clubs and they trust us with their players. You looked after Devine and we now want him to play at a higher level. Can you do this with Jamie Donley. As long as he in the same skill level as Devine.

We have been here before with loan/or our own players and they come with a track record of picking up niggles. So can understand the comments will he play more than being in the med room. Just needs to prove these niggles are behind in and he produces on the pitch. Does that he will get the fans behind him. A loan player that everyone will get behind - or is it a loan players/our players can get behind him in the queue to see the med staff and physios. 🤣

With his niggles record in the report he will be coming to Vale Park shortly and reporting direct to the med staff after going onto the pitch for his arrival photograph. 🤣 If he does come, hopefully all his niggles are behind him and he can show his skills on our great pitch. Sounds like the type of player AC would like in the squad.

The question would be why he is not getting game time. Is he too far down the pecking order or just not producing the goods. As he's not getting game time, how far off match fit is he. Every window we get players who take 10 games to get fully match fit Edit - Just seen a post saying he picked up a bad injury and hence out. Def a Vale player to bring in now he's picked up a bad injury - our physios and med people aren't busy enough. 🤣

Have they changed trades and now blacksmiths. 🤣 You would hope the recruitment team and AC and Flits have a list and working through it. But going on other Jan windows, we ended up broke or worse players than before.

Carol started it with examples of looking after loanees. Example was the lad who had his car vandalised and she got a hire car there quickly for him to use. There were other examples publicised, then DF took over the football role and examples seemed to stop being publicised or the senile stopped printing the stories as it didn't meet their guidelines - ie not sjoke related. Vale must be getting a good reputation within the higher leagues as Sproson keeps harping on about it every now and then when the transfer window is close to starting.

You would hope they could look at Vale and think - that's a club that looks after the loanees and helps them off the field to settle in. Carol has tried to bring that credibility into the club over the years.

Maybe a 1 legged striker with the wages we are prepared to pay out for a top notch striker - oh we already seem to have a couple of them. I can understand trying to stick to a wage bracket - but it could cost you more in the long run when we are out of the 1st Div and back to 2nd Div football. Uche is beginning to show what he can do now he is getting match fit. He does a lot of off the ball stuff and pulls a couple of defenders out with him. We just don't have the players with football brains who can see the gaps opening up, can't anticipate the ball coming into those gaps at the moment. They either run too early and are off side or just not at all and the opposition clear the ball out and they score from it. Loft - you hear the commentators saying he does a lot of off the ball stuff, but you wonder why he is here - not scoring goals for sure as he normally comes on to replace Willo, who can score goals for fun.

Just feel that the trusted process will get rid of several bit players, all the loanees will go back and go out to clubs higher than us. We will leave it till the last day and get what is left or none at all. The flitcroft process will rely on the youngsters coming through. After yesterdays display, at least they showed they were willing to play for the Vale shirt. We will bring no strikers in, or if we do, they will spend more time in the physio's room than on the pitch. Very much like the previous Jan windows.

They may actually go up in price as selling club knows people will need strikers. Last chance to make money from them. As they say - trust the process. 😭

If I waited a couple of hours it would have been all clear. 🤣 See if he breaks into the squad or could be one for the future maybe.

Did we sign the US young midfielder that was training with us, as it seems to have gone quiet on that one.

Would like him to go to Sjoke and do his best to take them down and upset the lardies. 😁