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No surprises with those released. Cass is worth keeping imo, Uche most certainly isn’t. No idea on Wynne. For the in contracts, bar Ripley, Garrity and Chislett and the kids the rest should have been transfer listed in the hope someone is mad enough to want to take one or two of them. Unless the plan is to bring in 4 or 5 absolutely top drawer signings to supplement what we are stuck with then it is hard to see anything other than a battle to stay in the EFL next season.

A traffic cone would be an improvement on Loft and Uche.

Should have stuck with Crosby.

Rank bad management. Picked the same back line that let 4 in during 45 mins on Saturday and plays the same system we have consistently failed with all season.

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1,400+ Valiants tomorrow. I salute your dedication to the cause. Absolutely incredible support after the last 12 months - more than 20% of our average total home gate and I dare say more than 25% of our average home support.

Players who are League One standard: Garrity, Ripley, Wilson (but made of glass), Chislett. Players who aren’t League One standard: Smith, Ojo, Plant (but he’s never played in his position), Clark (never fit). Players who aren’t League Two standard: Loft, Debrah, Yak, Sang, Jones, Leutwiler Players who aren’t NW Counties standard: Grant, Massey, Uche, Lowe Can’t grade Dipepa, Shorrock and Walters because they should be playing with their own age groups. Haven’t included the loans albeit most are trending to the bottom two groups. An utterly dreadful squad of “footballers”.

That second half summed this squad up. Utterly gutless and without any footballing quality. The sooner we can get rid of the majority of them the better.

Story of the season. Play well, miss our chances, concede goal of our own making.

BBC gossip column reckon Man Utd want him.

Superb performance. Still need 3 more wins I guess but at least we are now showing some fight. What a goal from Dipepa.

Flitcroft goes. Vale win back to back games with clean sheets. What a coincidence.

Flitcroft goes. Vale win. What a coincidence.

Fully deserved 3 points. Delighted for Loft - unlikely to ever be prolific but he runs his nuts off.

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.

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.

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.

Thankfully wasn’t in the office today so didn’t have a decision to make about jumping on the Central Line for a couple of stops and an evening of misery. Not even sure I’ll bother streaming it either. All feels very pointless at the moment when it comes to the Vale.

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.

What’s the point moaning? If the owners can’t see it by now they never will. See you all in the North West Counties in a couple of years time.

That was a horror show of a 2nd half. Absolutely no impact from changes made by the manager.

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.

If that is a back 4 I might just cry tears of happiness.

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.