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Dr Delgado

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  1. Neil Sedaka’s words keep ringing in my ear tonight, “Oh Carol I am but a fool, darling I love you, though you treat me cruel, you hurt me and you make me cry, oh Carol I will surely die. Maybe the Shanahan’s intentions are pure and they have the best interests of the club at heart but this latest statement/press release asks more questions than it answers. 1) How come there is only one official record of the meeting, if several people were present, what are the other versions of the events? 2) I can only think that those in attendance signed confidentiality agreements. 3) surely if real and mentally sound Vale fans were in attendance they would have the answer to the question on every sane Vale fan’s lips; “What did the club believe would happen to the team once the club failed to recruit 2 essential players into positions openly identified by Flitcroft”? Until I get an answer to this question all I can envisage in my mind is a meeting chaired by Matt Hancock and Patrick Shanahan and attended by Bungle, Zippy, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, Boomer, Metal Mickey, Chewbacka, Frank Spencer, Big Bird, Sam Plank, Mel Scholes and George Andrews. Come on Vale please.
  2. I believe you, I’ve tried sarcasm on here before and it doesn’t transfer well to a written post. I am happy to accept he shirked one or two tackles and I am happy to change my mind as the evidence seems to be mounting with regard to his lack of tenacity. I saw Chis Lines do it once at Chesterfield away and I never forgave him despite his other talents. I’m not too proud to change my mind.
  3. If that’s what you saw then I will have to bow down to your observation, you being a reliable and regular poster. Hopefully the head coach saw it too.
  4. I have to disagree, we are way off where I would like us to be but I can’t say that any of this is down to lack of fight. There may be a lack of ability, experience & nous but I didn’t spot anyone who wasn’t trying. I’m sure Loft didn’t try to miss his golden chance or Debrah wasn’t bothered about his mistake. The amount of people around me in the paddock last night who seemed to be revelling in our mistakes is baffling, they seem to be almost hoping for them. The mob mentality is a very interesting thing to observe.
  5. I take it by spineless you mean those that made a mistake?
  6. The club having the most years in league football without ever playing in the top flight. A handful of promotions and a couple of Lower league trophies to boast after a near 150 year existence. If a salesperson knocked on my door and tried to flog me that, I’d chase them back down the path. Yet still we believe, yet still we attend. We are undoubtedly the most stoic supporters in football. It’s hard being a Vale fan, like it or not, it’s what we signed up for. I just pity my offspring who have more years of this ahead of them.
  7. I expect there will be a few more twists and turns in the torrid tale of David Rasputin Flitcroft & Carol Romanov Shanahan.
  8. I’ve been saying for a couple of seasons that I wouldn’t be too upset if he left. He possesses a rather narrow skill set for the level of football he plays. That aside he is a Vale player who undoubtedly gives his all, he will be gutted with regard to the “balls up” yesterday. I would never use some of the terms that are commonly spouted on here such as crap, garbage and useless. I want Nathan to play to the best of his abilities, he has had good games, he is capable of good, crucial tackles and can pop up with the odd goal. We are more likely to get the best out of Nathan and the whole team, for that matter by offering our support when they step out onto the pitch. Some of the language that people choose to use really shows them up to be populist, unintelligent bullies.
  9. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life it is that denial is a really powerful emotion. I really believe that this is where Carol is at in relation to our Director of Flufball. To sack him now would turn Carol’s Vale world upside down, as I see it, the situation way have to get a lot worse for anything to change. I can’t imagine how Carol would manage without Flitcroft, she would really want to ask him who she should replace him with, there’s no other football business brain in the club. I would only want her to sell the club if I felt we were heading out of the football league. In the meantime I think I’ll have to calm myself down as I watch Carol & David set sail to the magical Isle of Denial,
  10. I would certainly agree with your penultimate paragraph to a point, some Vale fans are a bit lacking in intelligence when it comes to booing our own players. However most fans don’t and I would suggest that this is the case with all clubs. I would boo our Director of Flufball though. He has made watching Vale like paying to go to the cinema knowing the projector is broken, or backing a racehorse that has only got three legs. He might think he has loads of responsibilities but as far as I’m concerned HE HAD ONE JOB, JUST ONE JOB……..
  11. The confusing thing for me is that Uche was coming into his own just prior to his injury, whilst he hasn’t really set the world on fire he can be a proper nuisance for the opposition. Just as he was finding this form he was supposedly joining Charlton and if it wasn’t for some medical anomaly (conjecture) that’s exactly where he would be. whilst we have rarely produced any outstanding performances this season I do genuinely believe with a reasonably decent striker and a pacy LWB we would definitely have stayed in league 1. I’m an average fan, I’ve not done any coaching badges, I’ve just played a fair amount of Saturday and Sunday football and even I could say with 100% certainly what the team needed. I have nothing personal against Flitcroft but what did he think would happen to the team without the required additions. Are there any Vale fans out there who are now surprised at our league position? To answer my own question I certainly aren’t. Stay up or down I’d keep. Ripley, Garrity, Debrah, Plant, Ojo, Clark, Sang, Dipeppa, Rhys-Walters and Shorrock. whilst I don’t think Massey warrants the stick he gets I think he has had his day. Wilson has just not produced enough to warrant any investment. Nathan Smith, whilst I love his commitment I think there is better out there. I feel sorry for Loft, I can see the lad is really trying but in the position he plays it should involve the odd goal. Iacovetti, Grant & Lowe -no thanks. The only one I’m deliberating about is Chislet, he is weak with his back to goal and gets outmuscled too frequently for my liking but I think he could be effective in a better team. Uche will be gone whether we want him or not,
  12. I’m not saying that I would sign a petition, I was posing a question or two, admittedly with a slight bias. I’m pretty sure it would have been the director of fluffball that sacked both Darrell Clarke and Andy Crosby and as such players will have an opinion. Furthermore if the so called “busiest man at the club” isn’t interacting with players then it must just be campus duties he is seeing to. As a fan I feel short changed and a bit duped, I’m not buying the future vision of kindergarten FC, developing short stayers to make the board richer. I don’t want Arblaster’s or Devines, I want Bernie Slaven’s and Ron Fuchers and maybe the odd Bill Bentley. I do love Garrity though, thanks DF.
  13. Here’s a question, if a large proportion of our fan base have begun to lose faith and belief in our Director of Football and view him as some sort of charlatan then quite probably a proportion of the playing squad may feel the same way? If the players lose faith then it may well affect their morale and ultimately what they produce on the pitch. In that sense there may well be some merit in doing all that we can to oust Flitcroft from his post. whilst Tom Pope’s post exit diatribe could have been articulated a little better, I think he was trying his best to explain what he believed Flitcroft to be and what he would do to the club. I feel like I am part of a family where a younger sister has fallen for a rogue and no amount of pleading or evidence presented can change her mind, she loves him no matter what. We all know how it will unfold but until she see’s it through there’s nowt we can do other than be there for her when the wheel comes off. What on earth did that buffoon think would happen when he failed to recruit the players he himself had pointed out that we needed. What did he think was gong to keep us in League 1, the ghost of George Andrews ?
  14. Well, that’s us told. I think you may be over reacting a little, yes you will get the odd opinionated contribution, the odd rash comment or on occasions the out and out buffoons. However, there is usually enough balanced opinion to generate healthy debate with different points of view. I personally don’t have an issue with questioning the performance of our Director of Football or for that matter the decisions of our owner, after all Port Vale is our club. We can pose all these questions whilst still willing our team to win. Hopefully you will remain a visitor to the forum as your opinions are as valid as anyone else’s.
  15. Just checking and hoping one of you eagle eyed Valiants can confirm this. Have I seen a Vale player actually meg an opponent in that first half. I think that’s what I saw, I did didn’t I? Did I ?
  16. I couldn’t disagree with your observations and maybe it’s time for more pressure to be put on the FA & Football League from the rest of football, we have clearly allowed the bigger clubs to monopolise the game. I’m under no illusions that money controls everything but it did make a difference when fans reacted to the European Super League.
  17. What has happened to professional football? When I first started to watch Vale in the early 70’s there was the same number of clubs in the professional leagues, thus meaning the same number of centre forwards existed then as they do now. During these times we have always been able to pick up journeymen strikers who would stay with us for about a year or two and move on to ply their trade at another club before they hung up their boots. The likes of (in no particular order) Ally Brown, Ron Futcher, Jimmy Greenhough, Bernie Slaven, Brett Angel, Bernie Wright, Ron Futcher, Ernie Moss, Lee Hughes and I’m sure the list could be longer. Maybe these type of players have been locked away in a secure cupboard with all the white crumbly dog turds never to be seen in Burslem again. I just cannot see this type of player putting on a Vale shirt whilst Flitcroft has his grip on power, his position really threatens a fan’s relationship with the club. All the decent prospects we have will be sold on before they can become our heroes thus diluting the player-fan bond. I really do not want us to be a Crewe type of club, a stepping stone for players on their way to bigger and better things. There might be some money and sustainability in this model but zero identity or connection with the fans.
  18. The trouble here is that Flitcroft has created a job so unique to him self that Carol will be thinking how she could possibly replace him. The mumbojumbo that comes out of his mouth is mesmerising, the fact is no one else could do his job because he has created it in his image. He doesn’t care about us fans, in fact he only has to carry on and impress one person, that being Carol. There is no other person in the club she could turn to, certainly not Rudgie, nearing 80, for any football club advice. I was amused by his almost Kremlinesque interview, with the media lad reiterating how busy Flitcroft is etc. Campus, football services, latitudinal progression, foo foo dust.
  19. If he owns the orange Avenger with the black vinyl roof then it must be him. I think there was a tinted sun strip across the top of the windscreen with “Dwight” written on the drivers side and “Mandy” on the passenger side. If Flitcroft pulls this one off I’ll take it all back, what I have been saying about him.
  20. Whoever is appointed I will back 100% no question. My worry is two fold, if we don’t quite manage to stay in this division will the same manager be in charge for the new campaign? Secondly, if the new manager comes in and we finish 5th from bottom, would this be viewed as success by the club and if so it would probably spur us on to aspire to 7th from bottom the following season.? I’m really not sure how genuinely ambitious we are as a club, or more importantly what resources we have to drive any ambition. I fully expect our next manager to be Mark Kennedy, I think he is about where we are at.
  21. I’ve no doubt that Darren Moore is the number one target, I think it will all come down to paying what Moore would want in his bank account. Our recent recruitment might suggest that we are a little shy of putting our hand in our arse pocket….Hopefully he’s our man??
  22. I am talking about what Crosby had to work with, are you saying that Flitcroft provided him with a well stocked squad? I’m not saying that Crosby was brilliant, I take it you were happy with his contribution during our promotion season?
  23. If he had the cards we can’t moan at Flitcroft
  24. Well said, I can’t think which manager would have been happy with the cards that Crosby was dealt. Managing Vale must be like trying to complete a 1000 pice jigsaw with 8 pieces missing.
  25. Can I just clarify, who would have to be naked in this deal?
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