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  1. Neil McKenzie gave my all time worst Vale performance away at Bury. He was like a 6 year old playing against adults.... absolutely dreadful.
  2. And the thing with having a lower mid table budget is that you have to have a pretty much perfect season to avoid being in trouble. It's a massive gamble. I get that it would be nice to have a successive production of youth players coming through but you can spend money on that in the Championship. Leagues 1 and 2 require experienced players to get out of. Look at Derby and Portsmouth, they have a real core of experienced pros. We don't want to end up like Crewe, who bounce between the bottom two divisions and sell their youth products to simply reinvest in their youth systems. As I said, spend all the money now on experienced, trustworthy footballers to progress us up the leagues. Then do all the flowery, long-term strategy stuff. Stop trying to run before you can walk. You can bet your life that every spare penny at Stevenage is given to Steve Evans to improve his squad. They won't be ducking about with sports scientists and 10 fitness coaches. Sent from my SM-A137F using onevalefan mobile app
  3. At the end of the day, any money available should have been ploughed into the team. Yes, some things had to be done to the stadium to make it safe, but anything else is just window dressing. The coaching room, the ice baths, the endless list of backroom staff are all great to have if you're doing well. As long as you're paying a player the going rate, he'll get changed in a portakabin. I understand to some extent to want to improve the commercial side of the business, but spending money on the unnecessary flowery stuff is just a bad plan. Spend every spare penny you have on the first team, which creates success, increased attendances, bigger away followings and everything else that comes with it. Once you achieve success on the pitch, you can do all the vanity projects you want. We've tried to act like a Championship/Premier league club before actually achieving anything. The most important thing in a football club is football. Full stop. Not community work, not nice buildings, not Mother's day lunches. Football. Concentrate on it, spend on it and then you can do as many charity/vanity projects as you like.
  4. Yes. We were told we were going to be big, physical and athletic and the fittest team in the league. How many goals do we concede late in games? How many goals do we concede off crosses? How many times does the opposition look physically stronger than us? It goes to show that the plan for this season was an absolute sham from the very start.
  5. Absolutely no chance of getting anything from this game. Pointless even playing it to be honest.
  6. If Reading escape the drop, I'd still be going nuts with the league over allowing them to sign players like Smith and Knibbs. They should NEVER have been allowed to assemble the squad they have given what's happened. It's basically cheating someone else out of a league one place. Relegation minimum punishment is what they should get.
  7. Some people aren't wired like that. I know someone who sold their business, had more than enough money to retire in complete comfort but got bored and so started up the exact same company again from scratch. Sent from my SM-A137F using onevalefan mobile app
  8. He's not the most articulate is DM but you can tell he's enthused. Surely that's got to rub off on to the players?
  9. I think we're leaving ourselves with too many 'must win' games, and given our form over the last year, I don't see us suddenly being the team to win 40-50% of our matches. I'm still really annoyed and frustrated with the first postponed game. We'd just come off the back of a pretty decent December and a reasonable result against Charlton.....Reading weren't in great form and we had a few more attacking options, followed by nearly 1000 fans. That postponement, followed by further postponement the week after, really knocked any slight momentum we had built. We end up playing them when they're on a really good run and we're in stinking form. Not only that, they have players like Smith and Knibbs who are likely to be on a fortune that they don't even pay. How is that fair? It's cheating, plain and simple. If it comes down to us being relegated by these 3 points tonight, I would kick off with the EFL. All this solidarity bullocks is a load of shi3te, I can guarantee that Reading and their fans didn't give a stuff about us when we were in a similar position.
  10. We're in terrible form so we're not going to be the Dutch 70s side. We just need to scrap it out, try and keep a clean sheet and nick one up the other end. At this point it doesn't matter how we get them, we just need points.
  11. But conversely, Sheffield Wednesday scored loads of goals last season. Huddersfield have gone through a succession of managers and are in free fall back to their natural level which is probably bottom end Championship/League One...certainly in recent years, barring a couple of years in the greedy league. They loved Warnock but he still only scraped avoiding relegation and then got sacked, so he was hardly Guardiola for them. Just because they've had one win in the 2 matches since doesn't mean they're suddenly world beaters. They beat a dreadful Wednesday side.
  12. I think it's probably the best appointment we could have made. Decent at WBA and Donny, plus a promotion at Sheffield Wednesday. I don't think Wednesday was much of an achievement because they should have walked it but to get 96 points with any team is an achievement. Huddersfield was not good but as I said earlier I think they're on a downward spiral (similar to Stoke). They had their day in the sun but were previously at our level quite a lot and probably got ideas above their station.
  13. Huddersfield have been on a bit of a downward trajectory in recent times. No real surprise that any manager has struggled there.
  14. I was told Kennedy was 110% done. This was last Thursday. I was then told on Saturday morning that only one person had been interviewed and would be announced early this week. By different but trusted people. I'm not sure whether both refer to Kennedy but that's who I reckon it probably is. My only slight hesitation is that I wonder whether Moore has applied for the job late in the day but he's asking for more than we can pay and we're trying to negotiate as we've realised he'd probably be the better option if we could get him. That journalist guy wouldn't mention his name without a firm source, there's no smoke without fire.
  15. I think they were going to appoint Kennedy as a quick fix but for whatever reason that didn't happen. Hopefully they paused for thought and didn't think it was the right move.
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