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leedsvaliant

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  1. I think 48 will do it this year, possibly 47. So 3 wins and 2 or 3 draws, or 4 wins. A win on Friday would be massive ahead of away games. If we could sneak a win out of one of Northampton or Wigan, both teams with not much to play for, that would leave us with trying to win 2 of our last 4. Not impossible but our form has to change dramatically.
  2. Rovers fans are saying they've been dreadful this season but yet they're still comfortable in mid table, so they must have something about them. They've got very little to play for, which in some ways makes them more dangerous. Hopefully a bit of confidence and belief will finally seep into us.
  3. I actually thought he did everything right with that chance in the first half. Keeper got in a good position to narrow down the angle, just unfortunate that he couldn't squeeze it inside the post.
  4. I thought Moore said in his interview that he might be involved today?
  5. If we have got one of the lowest budgets in the league, then the question must be why? We must be turning over bigger sums than a lot of the clubs above us, our corporate side and club shop appears to be doing well, shirt sales are up, bigger attendances than for a few years.... so what is draining our resources? Have we got too many staff? Are the owners not pumping in as much as other owners? Are we getting enough from sponsors? Should we be letting others sponsor our shirt/stadium? Is the ground swallowing up too much money? Are we allocating too much of the budget to vanity projects? If we can't compete with Exeter, Burton, Cambridge, Stevenage, Shrewsbury, Northampton, even Bristol Rovers and Leyton Orient, we might as well pack up and turn the lights off now. What's the point?
  6. I know it's not always an indicator but my mate saw him play against his son for a school and he said he was absolutely brilliant. The best player on the pitch by miles and everyone watching him applauded him off the pitch! My mate is not a Vale fan but he could tell this lad was brilliant. I think once he fills out a bit he'll be a real talent.
  7. Neil McKenzie gave my all time worst Vale performance away at Bury. He was like a 6 year old playing against adults.... absolutely dreadful.
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Absolutely no chance of getting anything from this game. Pointless even playing it to be honest.
  12. 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.
  13. 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
  14. 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?
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Huddersfield have been on a bit of a downward trajectory in recent times. No real surprise that any manager has struggled there.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. The person wouldn't tell me who it is but I trust them implicitly.
  23. I have been told a couple of things that I believe to be true. Firstly we had or were very close to appointing Kennedy earlier this week. Somebody told me it was done but for whatever reason this hasn't happened. I suspect that this was a quick appointment without a formal interview but fan reaction was not positive, so maybe they backtracked. Secondly, I have also been told we've only conducted one formal interview and this person will be unveiled early next week. The second part makes it sound like this person was a prime target and the interview was just a formality.
  24. As others have said....it was so inevitably predictable. Many called it as soon as he was appointed. Feel Crosby has been thrown under a bus somewhat, but he also must have had significant input in who we brought in. Having said that, did he get who he wanted? The evidence suggests not. This squad doesn't strike me as the 'powerful, athletic, physical ' squad that was promised. In fact, in many games we've looked significantly inferior physically and athletically. Let's face it, the two best signings, comfortably, in the summer were Arblaster and Devine. Players we would never get close to on a permanent basis. Who else have we brought in who has genuinely made a difference....Ripley? Chislett? After that I'm struggling. We re-signed a player we let go, let go of two players (Worrall and Pett) who would comfortably make this squad. Signed Yak who bar a couple of games looks like a Ryman league player. Grant has been dreadful and looks like a player who can't get over whatever injuries he's had. Sang looks OK but doesn't excel in any position. Uche was a panic buy because we hadn't bought in any strikers. Loft is well..... he isn't very good. Rudge said I think that if you get 7 out of 10 signings right then it's a good thing. We've probably got 3 right.
  25. The amount of times that there was so much room between the wing back and the centre half against Pompey was a joke. They knew exactly how we were going to play and how to exploit it. To play 3 at the back, you need wing backs who can get up and down and decent ball playing centre halves who can find them, we have neither. Why we are persisting with a formation that is clearly not working with the players we have I have no idea. Go more solid with a flat back 4 and a holding midfielder. That leaves less space for the opposition to exploit. If you look at a lot of the goals we concede, a lot of them are from balls played between the wide centre halves and wing back. It seems like a really obvious thing to sort.
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