darren1810

Shader.

He's the Vale equivalent of Nick Powell was at Lard. An injury prone enigma. Capable of brilliance or being anonymous. Both had the opportunity for better standard of football than they achieved. I'll miss him though. Not often we see gifted footballers up the Vale.

Think he'll be released ( again). Still probably played twice the amount of games of a certain ' defender ' who still has a year left . A very gifted player blighted by injury at Vale but played a big part in us getting promotion and gave us that goal at Derby .

It's the hope that kills you. Fair play to all travelling up.

This Exeter side who I'm reading are on the beach, is this the same Exeter who came from a goal behind at Cheltenham the other day ? Wouldn't mind a bit of that beach.

How are Toby Edser and Adam Crookes those Forest legends Sproey foisted upon us 🤔.

Basically on stats alone our most productive player. Uche 1 in 19 is as damning as Loft yet he's a cult hero.

To me these stats suggests putting any potential differences aside for a while.

Good point ! So the stat rolls over to Wycombe. I blame VFIA, Breadwinner etc for putting Tuesday. 🤣

100%. Has missed out on selection or subbed off on a few occasions. Whatever people's opinions of him he's our 2nd top scorer behind Garrity.

I know this is about summer but browsing YouTube as I often do I watched 5 mins of Liverpool v Man City U21. Williams absolutely fine and playing week in week out. So our January 2024 loanees Williams. Alleged poor attitude. Sent back. Definitely not injured as Vale press release said. Gore. Injured after 60 odd mins. Not seen since. Mighten. Rarely used. Pointless signing. Lopata. As per Mighten. Can't get in one of the worst defences in the division. Pointless signing. Weir. Generally anonymous yet shone in another relegation side in Morecambe last season. Pointless signing. What a sorry sorry bunch of signings.

I think we all ( include myself here ) got giddy after the two wins. People rightly pointing out that Cheltenham and Burton are poor. Well guess what so are we. Only in the realms of fantasy are Vale winning 4 successive home games as a lot of people expect or suggest is possible. We're a really poor outfit. Runs of 11 and 14 without a win in the same season is staggering and I'm not even sure how we're still in the mix.

Last league win on a Tuesday, Salford April 2022. Last home league win on a Tuesday, Mansfield March 2022. Probably played maybe 10 to 15 night games since ? Either way it's abysmal.

2 weeks

Seem almost happy ?

Northampton were in bottom 4 for form prior to today !

I'm trying not to be a killjoy but rather I'm preparing myself for the inevitable. We have won 2 in our last 17 league games. Suddenly people expect us to win 4 homes in a row when we have one of the worst home records in the division. The hope kills you. Can't wait for it to be all over .

In reality so are we. The 2 wins to me were more of a reflection on our opponents. We've only won 2 in 17 ourselves.

Tuesday is Cheltenham v Carlisle and Wednesday Posh v vale We've got to win at Wigan or could be 4 behind with 4 to play.

I know which manager I'd like at the helm.

And Carlisle at home

The Uche chance reminded me of one Massey had at Cambridge. Neither had any confidence or looked likely to notch.

It's the hope that kills you. This time next Wednesday it will be a lot clearer after Cheltenham beat Carlisle and we get our annual thrashing at Peterborough.

All round recruitment mate. Notts County have Mcgoldrick and Langstaff and look how poorly they are doing. Need some proper defenders too.