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Crosby just needs to play his best team of fit players. I don’t feel Crosby or the club can afford to play a weakened team.
I’ve been saying for a while our away form has generally been ok but it’s at home where we have looked devoid of ideas. Grind out a win against these shithouses to earn a good financial reward and the players should get more confidence with back to back wins.
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5 hours ago, smithie said:
Well unless a law has been introduced compelling players to sign a contract l don't think it's fair to blame Vale for this.
Rhys Walters looks a decent prospect but it would be absolutely mad to break our structure for a kid with so much still to learn.
I agree. Cracking prospect but thats all he is.
Our selling point is we can offer a genuine crack at 1st team football now. If he went to Champ team he will just sit in the age group teams. Remember Joe Davis?
Looked a good prospect who looked like he could have a very decent good but left to take more money to sit in Leicester Under 23's team.
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Even more disillusioned about Vale reading this thread.
Flitcroft is full of <ovf censored>. Flitcroft out! Crosby Out!
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3 hours ago, Playa Amodores said:
A very good question, I don’t have the answer, I’m just trying to find a solution to our problems on the pitch and off the pitch financially. Some of the non league clubs, seem to pay very good wages. The fact is we cannot continue with the current situation.
A change in the managers approach would yield better results with either striker in my view, that’s not to say we don’t need a no.1 striker in the mould of a Mark Harris because we definitely do.
I know I’m probably a lone voice on this but I’m convinced Loft can be a decent 2nd striker but think he’s is actually injured and we are just managing him.
At his previous clubs I saw a player who wanted to run in behind, who was very physical and an all round bloody pain in the arse to play against. With us I see a player who just labours around and looks like he can’t be arsed. Somethings definitely not right with him. Maybe that wonderful manager and salt of the earth guy Joey Barton ruined him. Who knows? I just know he used to be half decent.
Uche….well he probably shouldn’t be a footballer . He literally can’t run. Maybe he should try boxing ? He got a great body. I should know the wife had great pleasure taking a photo of him without his top off when he came over to the fans after Burton game.
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4 minutes ago, Brian Johnson said:
He's at St Mirren.
He follows Stephen Robinson because they seem to make a good team
I wouldn’t mind that team, Brian.
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22 hours ago, andy jones said:
Just watched Eastleigh and their striker McCallum scores both goals and scores for fun but is probably way out of our price league.
However how about a cheeky bid for Reading striker Smith who would play off Uche in a Tony Naylor fashion.
More importantly with the Royals in financial distress he is probably within our price range.
McCallum is on more money at Eastleigh than he will earn at Vale, never mind the fee.
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56 minutes ago, gags 64 said:
Wonder where we would be with peak Gibbo and Worrall playing down the right, not saying we should have them back now but we're worse in those positions at the moment
Sent from my XQ-CC54 using onevalefan mobile app
Woz legs had gone. He’s only started half of Barrows games.
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4 minutes ago, PV1973 said:
I can see why we wanted to get someone like Gibbo back in to the fold as we need competition on both sides of the pitch at wing back and players that could play full back if needed too. My understanding is that it was almost done but we couldn’t shift someone out of the club to make it happen. In addition I think it was either Yates or Sproson that said he was close to coming back in when they commentated on whichever away game it was just after the window shut. Now it looks like he’s in and out of the squad at Bristol it wouldn’t surprise me if we possibly went back for him. So for all our criticism of the recruitment process it does seem like we at least tried to address the wing back / full back issue, but couldn’t get it sorted. I’ve said before that if we can get decent fullbacks and wingbacks in that will give us 30+ appearances a season, who will also add some strength and depth to the squad then that’s the way we should be going because this season and last season that position has not been sorted.
I don’t like going for ex players but in the situation we are in I think Gibbo would be a great addition. Ship Cass out and replace with Gibbo. Big upgrade that for me.
That nasty competitive edge is sorely missing in our team. I wouldn’t fancy our current squad to be able to battle out a relegation fight in March.
I think a left footer should be the priority in the window. Maybe we will resurrect the deal for Denver Hume?
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3 minutes ago, Brian Johnson said:
I thought that I have had today is that if we do not pick up form between now and January do you think Sheffield United & Tottenham would want their young players being demoralized & confidence dropping each week because we can't win games or even score goals?
They might pull them out of that situation to give them a break from it
Possibly Brian but on the other hand when things are not going well this is when you find out about the character of young players and determines if they can play at higher level.
I’d be more concerned a Champ club wants either player on loan and our loans are cancelled.
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45 minutes ago, philpvfc said:
He signed, Brooker, Paynter, Constantine and Sodje, all of which I would have above Uche and Loft. Could we bring him back as a scout?
I think he’s scouting for one of the teams in Scottish Premier League.
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For me Devine has been one of our best players over the past 6 games. I thought he was excellent 1st half v Derby but sadly we don’t have players or tactics to capitalise on his passing and clever movement.
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36 minutes ago, Jacko51 said:
But was the manager given the choice of Striker A who was a bit pricey or was he just asked to approve Striker B who wasn’t as good but cheaper?
Or could it be the manager wanted midfielder A and GK A and didn’t have the budget for striker and thought he could do better playing a different way with midfielder B.
Who knows but it’s a collective responsibility recruitment which the manager said in the summer and on the podcast, he has to make it work and turn them into team.
His tactics are rubbish. That’s not recruitment. Could a different manager play with a bit more tempo and positivity and get different results, I think so.
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23 minutes ago, Jacko51 said:
I assume the DOF has the final say on whether we pay the money for a striker or not. If not what is the point of him? He accepted at one of the forums that he had made a cock up of the loan signings last year so he must have the final say.
Controls the budget so he writes the cheques but no signing is made without manager approval.
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Apologies for the takeover.
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11 minutes ago, Vtid said:
I agree but that should be to look after other related stuff. Nothing at all to do with transfers, team selection etc that's if he is having a say in those. Nobody actually know do they
Come on mate Crosby has the final say on transfers and picks the team not the DOF.
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10 minutes ago, Valiiant said:
I never said she know nothing about football. But she's clearly learning as she goes along. But I think she's been making some poor decisions and I don't see any reason why they can't be called out. I'd rather see a decent striker on the pitch that can trap a football and score a few goals rather than a fancy new scoreboard that doesn't help to make our football team better. What's happening out on the pitch should always be the priority. Get that right and the rest of the stuff will follow.
I agree completely with your sentiment, I just disagree calling out Carol for making bad football decisions. It’s delegated in our structure.
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5 minutes ago, Playa Amodores said:
As I understand Flitcroft turned down the managers job. That for me is enough and should not have been employed at PVFC, ever.
That’s fair a very valid point.
I’m no Flitcroft apologist but from a point of view of recruiting the manager that’s a good thing because the managers knows he’s not coming in with a DOF who really wants his job.
How many times has a DOF been bought only to get the managers job at the 1st sign of struggle?
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On a separate note something which really bugged me from the Crosby interview. His defence of our lack of goals was we weren’t performing above the XG and we should be if we want to be a higher team like Barnsley.
Barnsley XG 24.9. Goals 34
Vale XG 18. Goals 14
Is he having a <ovf censored> laugh?
Barnsley are very much the outlier, the only club with a much higher differential in XG v actual. Most teams are within a couple of goals either up or down.
Taking fans for fools because we string a few passes together and it’s really pissing me off.
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2 minutes ago, Vtid said:
another reason why DOF isn't needed at a club like Vale. I know a lot of clubs have them these days but let the gaffer have the say & control etc to what happens on the playing side of things
World is completely different now. A manager doesn’t have time to do everything these days. I listened to a Dave Bassett a few weeks back, he said it’s impossible to be a manager these days without having DOF support. If you look at clubs across the EFL they are all slowly but surely moving in the same direction.
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7 minutes ago, Valiiant said:
The owner appointed both of those though. Carol has clearly made some mistakes and bad decisions. Now she has to do the right thing and change things while the season still has plenty of points left to play for and it's far from a write off. Keep Crosby on for another 2 months and we'll be planning for League Two sooner rather than later.
In one breath you want to say she knows <ovf censored> all about running a football club, in the next you want her to sack the manager? It’s the DOF’s job. He should be banging the table in the boardroom with all his stats and Brentisms to convince the board why they sign it off.
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11 minutes ago, Black N White said:
Think you are missing the point. We are crap because of the ownership issue. The buck stops with the owner. She employed them.
She employees the DOF to run all things football. That’s on Flicker not Carol. Flicker is Crosby’s boss.
If the DOF doesn’t act then that’s on Carol.
That’s how our structure works.
Absolutely nothing to do with who owns the football club.
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1 minute ago, Black N White said:
Fans like your deserve the dross you get. I give up at times.
Yeh keep Crosby, Flitcroft, coaching staff, Carol they are all doing a mint job!
Have I ever said keep Crosby, the coaching staff and Flitcroft?
I have been a strong advocate Crosby out since Cheltenham and he can take tweedle dee and tweedle dum with him.
Flitcroft has to show leadership and advise the board to <ovf censored> em all of otherwise he needs to go as well.
We are crap, it’s a football issue, not an ownership issue.
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46 minutes ago, Black N White said:
If you had paid attention then you would see that there has been no investment on the playing side for two years now despite making money from the play offs, Wembley, cup runs, player sales and record shirt sales. Hall, Harrison without replacing them. Budget cuts. Replacing an experienced manger in Clarke with the cheap option in Crosby. Clarke should have been given more time after what he went through, see Cheltenham now. Or an replacing an experienced well respected CE in Garlic with her son who knows zilch about football. Nepotism springs to mind, again cheap option. Speedy who was given the chop despite working hard for years without a thought for this.
If you had paid attention you would have noticed that there has been no attempt by Carol to invest in the Lorne Street Concourse so it is able to be opened. Or that it doesn’t take months to sort out a toilet block in the railway stand (so we are told it is the toilets) which has always been the most populated stand for fans. Again speaks of no investment no money.
If you had paid attention that you would realise that the scoreboard was gifted to the club. Or as you put it the suite was only finished as part of the concert agreement.
If you paid attention when was the last time we have any update from the club regarding anything concerning the club including any update of player contracts or injuries? I’ll answer that one for your, never.
If you had paid attention you would have seen that the club apologised to fans not long ago be because they are so poor at communicating with fans that they had to employ someone to do this. (Appears this is still not being done).
Saving money for the transfer window? Like they did the last couple of windows? Like starting the last couple of seasons with one forward. Budget cuts everywhere and if we weren’t paying a factions of wages on loans players like Arblaster or Devine where do you think we would be in the table now? The squad is threadbare.
If you had paid attention you would see that statistically Port Vale are the worst team this calendar year or maybe you are happy with this I don’t know?
I know for a fact that there has been a offer to buy the club but Carol won’t sell, is this the best for Port Vale? New investment who can progress the club. Seems like she wants to be remembered as the person who saved the club over the person who can progress it. I don’t need to name this wiling investor, why should I.
I suggest you take your head from out of Carol’s back side then you may be able to see abit more clearly.
Wow Blank N White I didn’t realise you were on the board to know the inner workings of our budget against last year and takeover negotiations. I’m sure you therefore you sat at the board table to sign off over 1million losses to get promotion from L2 despite playoffs and Wembley.
Why should Carol sell? Clearly the offer is not good enough for the family otherwise it would be accepted. Up to the buyer to make the right offer.
Unless your connection is a Middle East country you have no idea how money is raised to fund a purchase and revenue streams moving to know if it’s in the best interests of Port Vale.
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44 minutes ago, Vtid said:
But we can now order a hot dog straight to your seat at the game so it's alright
It’s a brilliant innovation, it means I don’t miss a shot😂😂
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Stevenage (H) FAC2R Match thread 12th Dec
in Port Vale present
Posted · Edited by MBE
Did you not agree with that assessment?
I must admit I don’t agree with a lot of what Yatsey says on Radio Stoke but I thought he was bang on with that.