[Vote of No Confidence (2)]

The pivotal turning point will be in the next 5 games, 3 cup games and 2 league games. On current performance (or lack of should I say) I can not not see it ending in any other way, it will be zero points in the 2 league games and no further in any cup competition. I would hope the inevitable happens post the Exeter game but with then the Boro match so close I predict the axe will fall post Boro game. I hope I'm wrong and we win all five or even just the 2 league games, but deep down I like most know we haven't got a win in us.

[Vote of No Confidence (2)]

1 hour ago, Emile said:

I sincerely, sincerely hope I am proved wrong here. I said the same thing after Clarke was sacked and I said the same thing in May when Crosby was appointed the manager. I want the Vale to succeed, and I think the owners of this club deserve the success after everything they have done for it. I sing my daughter the wonder of you every night before bed. 

This last 12 months has been the worst for me as a Vale fan that I can remember. There have been darker time, with three appalling ownerships that almost cost the club it's existence, but I still felt proud to be a Port Vale fan. There was a feeling that it was backs against the wall and we wanted to survive, even if that resulted in the era's of Michael Brown, Aspin etc. I didn't even think we were as bad as others made out under Bruno - I still believed there was enough in that side to stay up until we sold our best players in that January and the writing was on the wall. 

For me, the way the club handled Clarke's dismissal was and still is, unforgivable. Thrown under the bus without as much of a thankyou. Suggesting the club went through the loss of his daughter together, unfathomable. Crosby coming in and pretending Clarke didn't exist for me showed an absolute lack of respect. We then bodged our way through the end of the season, bodged our way through hiring a new manager and then limped through a preseason schedule of playing the local primary school in a friendly match in Spain. The writing was on the wall - we don't have anyone who actually knows how to manage the football team and until we resolve this issue we are heading for relegation. Hire a new experience manager, hire some good coaches and give them an input on the players we need to buy / sell in January - this will be enough to keep us up.

Like I said before, I would be really happy to be proved wrong here, but from the outside, it seems pretty obvious what is going wrong and how it was going to go wrong the moment we decided not to even bother looking for a replacement for the manager.

Applying for the vacant Portsmouth job at the time, doesn't constitute as been thrown under a bus.

[Alfies (AB7) You Tube Channel.]

 Im in agreement with Mr H, they have stepped in just at the right time, maybe copyright law now but what next. It may have led him onto recording all of Vale games and selling them on the black market.

[January Transfers and Rumours]

3 hours ago, Fosse69 said:

Any point putting a new roof on an inadequate 70 year old toilet block?

I didn't say roof.

[January Transfers and Rumours]

4 hours ago, 1 said:

We need to have a productive January.

Wouldn't' hold my breath, when we can not afford a new gents toilet ceiling 😉