[Wycombe (H) match thread - 16th April]

No point going on about being beaten by average or mid-table teams because we are far worse than that. This is depressing. 

[Wycombe (H) match thread - 16th April]

1 hour ago, valiant_593 said:

Stop worrying guys we will stay up. This bunch of players are phenomenal remember. 

Didnt DMs mrs say that we’d stay up anyway? 

[Darren Moore]

38 minutes ago, Killersrevenge44 said:

Threw away a two goal lead against an average side... Twice in two home games! 

You're easily pleased! 

You’re doing those teams a disservice because we are nowhere near being anywhere close to average ourselves.

[Wycombe (H) match thread - 16th April]

13 minutes ago, Raveninblack said:

I think smith has had an awful season personally and has become very complacent probably because of a ridiculous contract extension and for me it is time for him to move on

At the time there was nothing wrong with his contract extension. 

[Carol Shanahan.]

9 minutes ago, Smallthorne clampet said:

You can be a good Publican , but a bad Newsagent . Pro. football is a complete one -off , unlike any other business . You need capable staff who are experienced in football . All these staff at the vale were sacked and replaced by Synectics staff , who , to be polite , are not . 

Exactly. How can you replace Colin garlick with Patrick? 

[Wycombe (H) match thread - 16th April]

9 minutes ago, Valient1961 said:

We are gone after yesterdays result , can someone tell me why was Uche was subbed, I am a bit tactically naive but the crowd were being lifted when he went on some his erratic runs causing Exeter a few problems? 

Think his arse had fallen out. Totally knackered. 

[Wycombe (H) match thread - 16th April]

If I was a player I wouldn’t be anywhere near Facebook, forums or anything like that. Most of the time people want to moan, even when things aren’t going badly. 

[Wycombe (H) match thread - 16th April]

1 hour ago, Doha said:

 

One of the top 2/3 most important signings for L2 next season will be a new Captain.

I've just been reading loads of player signing press releases from this season and there's so much emphasis dedicated to gushing over how nice they are. It's <ovf censored> pathetic. Lopata got shoved face first into an advertising board at Cheltenham away, the dossers just watched unbothered. Yates/Pope/Gibbo/Morsy/Hall etc would have gone mental. Not this lot, here you go Cheltenham here's your 3 points from a losing position.

I am very surprised given his playing style and but Smith has demonstrated time and time again he was a poor choice to be Captain. He can't steel them up. We've fallen apart like wet cardboard far too many times. We need an entirely new face to head up a 95% new squad.

Whenever I listen to praise and grumble on the journey home I’ve heard Yates say the same thing on more than one occasion. He played with some of those players you mention too. Having a nasty side and a team that battles for each other is an intangible part of the game that you can’t actually quantify what players like that add to your team. A tackle, a flare up, a confrontation are all things that can lift a crowd or your team mates. 

[Carol Shanahan.]

I don’t want to hear empty apologies. We just need to know that they’re going to do everything they can to put it right and get back up asap (if we go down). The only way to make a statement about that is  through the recruitment and also the interaction with fans over the issues we’ve had this season. 

[Carol Shanahan.]

28 minutes ago, Sandyford_Lion said:

 

Carol believed every word and this after she admitted she knew nothing about running a football club.

Probably one of the worst things that happened, and we probably didn’t realise it at the time, was us getting rid of Colin Garlick. He openly said he didn’t want to go. 

[Exeter City (H) match thread - 13th April]

5 minutes ago, PVFC764 said:

Fag packet scouting.  Here's a name and on youtube you will see some videos of him playing football. 🤣

I’ll get one sorted for my powerleague highlights. 

[Summer transfer rumours and speculation]

Was watching the highlights on itv last night and one particular game jumped out at me. Charlton v Cambridge. Charlton changed manager and got an instant response from the squad and jumped up the table, they also had Connor wickham score for them, who was a free agent and they grabbed him after the window shut. Cambridge on the other hand had a change in manager and it looks like Monk has had a response from them and I reckon they’re all but safe. Meanwhile Bonne scored their goal, another striker signed in the jan window. You could argue they’ve also been playing Gibbo regularly too and all these players brought in + changes in manager have benefitted those 2 clubs and it shows if we’d just pushed the boat out for strikers / defensive players we could have made a good fist of trying to stay up. But we’ve gone the other way, recruited a new manager and brought in some bang average signings and we’ve got worse. Absolute disaster of a year. 

[Exeter City (H) match thread - 13th April]

22 minutes ago, PVFC FAN said:

Ye we will be left with a <ovf censored> squad. That's why ideally we need a dof or head scout to find player that fit within our budget and are good enough to fight for promotion back up to league 1

have we got no scouting network then? How were players being identified and brought in? 

[Darren Moore]

36 minutes ago, Wrex said:

His tactics and substitutions are questionable, though recruitment is the reason for our relegation. This squad deserves to go down and he has no responsibility for that.

An interesting side note is that as things stand his the three clubs he's managed in the last 12 months are going to be relegated: Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield Town and Port Vale. Which says that whatever you think of his management skills, he is awful at picking jobs.

I think he’s been hamstrung by the squad. You can’t put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a poorly assembled bunch. But…. He hasn’t got a response from them, nothing, which either speaks volumes about their character and quality or his managerial ability. 

[Wycombe (H) match thread - 16th April]

Well done you 👏

[Exeter City (H) match thread - 13th April]

6 minutes ago, TJHValiant said:

Not just horrible football to watch, but also the matchday atmosphere is largely far worse worse. 

League one hasnt been much better this year. 

[League one relegation watch]

12 hours ago, osprey said:

Next season in Div 4 we will need some harder players because this lot won’t survive on cold nights getting lumps kicked out of them. They won’t be playing against nice tippy tappy stuff in Div 4!

📞 hello…… Connor, wozza, Gibbo, petty, TC….. It’s the Vale. We’re getting the band back together. 
 

 

[Exeter City (H) match thread - 13th April]

5 hours ago, JS Valiant said:

2 years wasted and even more in debt.

All that optimism and momentum we built after promotion didn’t take long to disappear. It’s been a miserable 2 seasons back in league one. 

5 hours ago, osprey said:

don’t rate Loft but at least he has more presence than the YTS lads we did use as subs 

We shouldn’t be throwing in kids given our  situation, but it’s a sad indictment of the situation we’re in recruitment / quality wise that we’ve had to. 

5 hours ago, Gareth70 said:

Cannot see Burton losing Tuesday TBH.

We HAVE to win and hope that Cheltenham do us a favour. Feel like I’m clutching at straws. 

2 hours ago, PVFC FAN said:

Ye we did have a mediocre L2 squad and only just made play offs. 

Let’s not try and rewrite history. We deserved that promotion. We had a bad run towards of the end of the season granted, but ended up getting there on merit. No team getting promoted should be classed as mediocre, it’s an achievement that only vale fans (if you are one) can try and dumb down. Those players have written themselves into our history and you call them mediocre. Give me that team over this one. That squad, as a whole, had more desire, quality and character than we’ve had this last 2 seasons. If you are Patrick then you’re a complete shltbag for saying the team that got us promoted that year was mediocre.

2 hours ago, Dipepa delight said:

Match fixing that's the only way I can describe the difference in terms of application from first half to second half

Not the first in your OVF career you’ve accused players of that. It was an utterly ridiculous statement then, it’s utterly ridiculous now. 

[Club accounts]

7 minutes ago, MBE said:

Put this into context.... Shrew bury Town employed in 2022 166 staff and 182 in 2023.

Crazy, absolutely crazy.

Maybe the fact we have a bigger matchday corporate operation is why 🤷‍♂️ I don’t know I’m just guessing. 

[James Wilson - out for the season]

1 hour ago, Rampant Zebra said:

He turned down our initial offer but then agreed terms when no-one else wanted him. 

So what? We still wanted him and the offer was still there. It’s a job. What would you have done? You do realise that players don’t always take the first offer on the table. 

[Peterborough (A) match thread - 10th March]

1 hour ago, darren1810 said:

Last night's line up goals this season. Including Cup.

Plant 0, Lowe 0, Smith 2, Iacovitti 1, Grant 0, Garrity 11 , Walters 0, Ojo 4  Massey 2  Loft 2  .

Have a look at career totals for our squad too. It makes for grim reading and makes you wonder what we were looking at when recruiting. 

[Peterborough (A) match thread - 10th March]

2 minutes ago, Jim Gammon said:

Who is the fella with white hair in the vale away crowd always shouting abuse?

Used to see him swearing like a trooper with what looked  like his elderly mum sitting with him too 🤣

[Peterborough (A) match thread - 10th March]

15 minutes ago, Doha said:

What do you think they do 5 days a week in training?

I'm not sure unfamiliarity is a justifiable excuse for this shower of <ovf censored>. It's simpler than that.

My point is that we don’t have a set way of playing. You don’t see us working patterns of play up the pitch or having some kind of identity (we haven’t had that since the promotion season) if we did you would have players knowing exactly what their roles are and building relationships with the players next to them and in front of them. Knowing what each other will do. My most recent example of that would be Worrall and Gibbo.

For example we play a different defence all the time. We play different wingbacks. We’ve been messing with formations. Moving players around all the time. We look disorganised like we don’t know what we’re doing. We look unsettled and dont even have the correct players for the correct positions.  Tonight’s shape and tactics would only have been walked through yesterday and every week is different because we aren’t playing the same way every week. It’s not enough time to work on tactics and formations. We are in panic mode trying to find something that works and it shows. 

[Peterborough (A) match thread - 10th March]

Just now, Doha said:

It's April. We, famously, signed <ovf censored> all in January. How can they not be used to playing together by now?

Dross, some of them out of position, but mostly just dross.

Because we are constantly changing it both in personnel and formations. We’ve had no chance to build up any kind of relationships or partnerships on the pitch. Every week seems to be something different. 

[Peterborough (A) match thread - 10th March]

1 minute ago, Nippy Naylor said:

Oh yeah , The guys earning thousands of pounds a week and you feel sorry for him are you winding me up do me a favour he's a professional footballer get out there and do the job to the best of your ability don't be a sulking waye of space, jeez 😬

You truly sum up what is awful about our fan base. Clueless. Lashing out at everything and everyone with ridiculous comments. Sitting by you at VP must be torture. Fast becoming one of the illustrious few who joins the block list with their constant spam.