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  1. Necessary, long overdue decision from the owners in the face of an overwhelming body of quite damning evidence over a 12m period.

    Sadly it is likely too late for the season and we face the prospect of most of this squad being here next season as well.

    I would also suggest that the final act of drawing a line under this sorry episode is for Carol to retract that ill-judged, ridiculous letter from just 7 weeks ago and acknowledge she got it horribly wrong.

     

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  2. 1 hour ago, Bede said:

    Yeah but the academy has been terrible up until Flitcroft revolutionised it.  We never produced any home grown players. Ever.

    The re-writing of history and claiming glory of other people's efforts really boils my piss.

    Just wait for version 2 of Carol’s letter where our beloved Flicker’s objectives will magically have included getting a player called up to the England U17s but incredibly still nothing about first team results.

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  3. Moore has been dealt an awful hand so it’s difficult to judge him this season.

    But even so he has made absolutely no difference. In fact the form is probably worse.

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  4. I wouldn’t let Flitcroft near the rebuild of the paddock bogs let alone a rebuild of the squad for next season.

    Sadly we are lumbered with a significant number of this lot for another year thanks to him. Given that state of affairs the first priority next season will be staying in the Football League.

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  5. 5 minutes ago, Sam Kelly's Left Boot said:

    That's the thing, he's going nowhere.

    Then as per my original post, you can count me out.

    I think my first game was as a 4 or 5 year old coming up to 35 years ago. This is comfortably in the top 3 worst squads I can remember.

    It is a completely dereliction of duty from the owners to not hold the man responsible to account. They have done some wonderful things for our football club. Appointing David Flitcroft is not one of them.

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  6. 7 hours ago, mr.hobblesworth said:

    For those who are hoping that the Shanahans spend a load more of their money on the Vale, how would they do this? We'd still be stuck with only being able to spend 60ish % of income on the football side, wouldn't we? We can't even hope for some dodgy MCFC style OTT sponsorship deal now that Synectics is sold.

    Whilst the SCMP rules theoretically limit spending, the definition of relevant turnover includes provision for cash and equity injections.

    As such an owner can inject cash or equity, subject to the SCMP rules, and “inflate” the relevant turnover figure to fund higher player salaries. In the instance of cash, the rules require a guarantee that the amount injected is not repayable.

    It is undoubtedly how some clubs in recent years have been able to compete way beyond their natural resource base.

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  7. Feel marginally more optimistic after that tonight.

    Obviously disappointing to lose but we looked far more like a professional football team tonight than we have for a long while imo. Decent structure, played some ok stuff at times and on another day probably take a point but they’ve scored a worldie and then finished us when the game got stretched.

    With more time training and playing that system you would hope we improve but we still look short going forward no matter what training ground work we do.

    No complaints on the effort levels tonight but the reality is that 4 or 5 just aren’t good enough. That’s not their fault, it is what it is. There is only one man I hold responsible for the mess that we are in.

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  8. 6 minutes ago, JoeB2 said:

    Ripley

    Sang Debrah Lopata Grant

    Ojo Weir

    Chislett Wilson Mighten

    Loft

     

    Garrity, Gore, and Clark slot straight into that team when fit.

     

    Pretty much the same side I would try. I’d perhaps swap wings for Chis and Mighten to let Chis cut in on his right.

  9. Just now, soothsayer said:

    Interesting to hear DC’s comments on the game:

    It was a battle, second ball game, hustle and bustle. Blackpool on Tuesday were more technical, possession based but they didn't really cause us any problems. Port Vale caused us more problems and Darren (Moore) will go in there and turn them around, make no bones about that. He's a top class manager and a top class guy. They'll turn it around and I am sure they'll get the rhythm. For us it's about fighting away - nothing has changed since I've come in the building. We needed a certain amount of wins and we've ticked another one off today.

    Blackpool must have been bad at their place then.

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  10. Does anyone really believe this squad can get 5 wins to survive? I’m struggling to see another win let alone having to do it 5 times over.

    Today they were out-played, out-fought and out-thought.

    I’d contend they might be a worse squad than our last relegation campaign and that was a dreadful squad too.

    Still, at least they have nice changing rooms.  

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