[The Future]

6 hours ago, RantingRon said:

The Shanahans paid £5m for Vale and have never stopped moaning. “It was a ransom that had to be paid.” “We’ve spent more money in four years of ownership than we planned to do in five.” “We’ll pay for some infrastructure elements but day-to-day expenditure at the club has got to come from day-to-day earnings.” Robbie Williams is worth £222m - £300m, depending which source you look at. Buying Vale would be peanuts to him with enough pennies left over to make some real changes, both to the facilities and the team.

Have you been drinking ?, if not you should maybe start and maybe see if you develop some common sense 

[An Open Letter from Carol]

2 hours ago, Guitar Ray said:

He’s Director of Football so he’s responsible for overseeing player recruitment and has a team that he’s in charge of to help in that task.  He has a budget to work within like everyone else, less than some clubs, more than others, but he has to make it work.  To watch rivals recruit whilst failing to recruit anybody up front in January, leaving us with out of form Loft, injury prone Wilson and unproven Dipepa, given we’re already shot shy, just lost our top scorer, in a perilous league position and should learned the lesson last season is negligence in my view.  It’s fairly obvious to me but how hard is it for you to see?

I will bow to your greater knowledge on the issue you clearly know more than me

[An Open Letter from Carol]

1 hour ago, Guitar Ray said:

Fans have every right to whinge when results and performances have been so consistently dire in recent months to the point where we’ve slipped from virtual table toppers to relegation fodder.  If you look at the recruitment situation clearly we needed to strengthen our striking options in the last 3 windows.  This last window we’ve watched all our rivals add forwards to their squads whilst we’ve gone backwards, not reacting to losing a recent recruit, Uche, plus our top scorer, Garrity, to injury.  Why shouldn’t fans whinge about this?

There’s nothing wrong with whinging about merde performances that’s part of the game, however we seem to have singled out Flitcroft as being the one to blame which I struggle to get my head around as a few seasons ago he could do no wrong and was the new messiah. I very much doubt that Flitcroft is solely responsible for picking which players the club recruits D of F doesn’t work like that it’s a joint enterprise with the manager and the board around the finances available, I agree not sourcing a striker is reprehensible however is it Flitcroft fault ? that there’s no striker or is it because he can’t get one within the budget Carol has given him

[An Open Letter from Carol]

1 hour ago, Brian Johnson said:

Funny how you come on here and have a pop at people about supporting the club etc

Yet, you were no where to be seen when the club really needed your support over the past 10 days or so.

You never showed your support when it was needed

 

Never showed my support !!! Barring a period when I was abroad  Ive been showing my support for 45+ years through thick and thin. Just because I don’t post on this site every day voicing my opinion doesn’t mean I don’t show my support. Turning up at the ground and getting behind the team through thick and thin is showing support not sitting behind a PC.

[An Open Letter from Carol]

5 hours ago, Brian Johnson said:

Where was your support for Flitcroft last week when then the open letter was published or even the weeks leading up to that open letter?

Who are you the post reading police, I no longer visit the site every day ( or week ) mainly due to pessimistic miserable bullying posters, sound familiar ?

[An Open Letter from Carol]

How’s about we stop whinging, trust the owners and support the club, I really don’t get this Flitcroft hating that goes on, are we sure he’s the one who even picks the players to bring in, surely he does it with the manager. Even if he is doing it alone has he really done a bad job, his players got us promoted and have kept us in league 1. I really don’t understand what some vale fans expect we are a little club in a little city Rome wasn’t built in a day. The saviour of this club who has invested millions of her own money into it has said that the fans are wrong about Flitcroft, perhaps we should believe her.