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Ultimately whether you're Liverpool, Stoke, Rotherham, Crawley or Port Vale , 10 games with 3 points is a sacking.
It's quite a straight forward decision. Not even open for debate.
0-3-7 or 1-0-9 . It's 3 points from 30.
Disgraceful.
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1 minute ago, Powerline said:
No chance we’ll beat Derby. It’s about to be no wins in 11. Truly diabolical
Which then makes Exeter huge.
After that we're not getting many points until the New Year.
Change has to be made promptly.
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On 15/11/2023 at 22:47, Matlock Vale said:
We're playing better football than we ever did under Clarke. Better football than Adams, Bruno, Askey, Gannon, Aspin, Brown, Sinnot and possibly Page, since probably Horton's teams.
It's all open to debate a sweeping statement like that.
Pure football I agree. Entertainment I disagree.
Fleetwood 5-2 and Rotherham 6-2 were pure attacking delights under Adams. Two wingers flying at teams in JMW and Vincent. Far more exciting than what's been seen so far with the possession based sideways,backwards, sideways and back to Ripley football..
Under Adams we had numerous 3 and 4 margin victories.
There's no question our current midfield at their best are outstanding footballers. But the lack of cutting edge makes it like watching paint dry at times.
I'd take Adams style all day as I like to get off my seat occasionally.
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13 hours ago, ollyandpatch said:
Local young lad named Cal. Goes every Vale match and all England games...
That's the lad. As I said earlier was in Rome on Friday night and 13 hours later in a pub in Peterborough Town centre.
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18 hours ago, Vtid said:
remain unbeaten for the rest of the campaign 😂 stay off that chimp powder 🤦🏼♂️
Only if Smith dropped !
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37 minutes ago, Conrad said:
Phil Sherwin.
I thought its a young lad about 23 at most. His flag says where you go we will follow.
Last September he was in Rome on the Friday night, 12 hours later he's in a Peterborough pub going to our game.
I'm sure it's him as his flag is always behind the goal every England game.
That said it might be Mr Sherwin but I wouldn't have him down as a flag putter upper.
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9 hours ago, Osh said:
And I get that Darren, I really do.
So, let's say tomorrow goes wrong or next Saturday. We fire AC.
That's going to cost us money. We still the have the same group of players. We still have the same injury crisis.
We have lots of people on here saying we need to score more goals. How do we do that with the resources we've got.
We had people on here complaining that we didn't have any strikers. The club has gone out and got two more; I know some hate them, but ta all we can afford.
Some on here hated the fact we didn't play 2 up front. So we played 2 up front. Still not happy.
So what you gonna do. And no broad brush strokes - firm details. Oh, and by the way, be prepared cause there will be people on here who will disagree with anything you or I say.
What's that saying about pleasing some of the people some of the time
The counter argument to that is how much money does the unthinkable cost us? 83 Crawley in the Bycars or 26 Harrogate on a wet Tuesday night .
I totally get the injury situation it's ravaged us. My concern with AC is his lack of adapting or deviation from our trusted 5 at the back. The way we have cautiously tip toed into games this season has absolutely cost us points. Bolton for one. We gave it a go albeit their keeper went home with clean gloves but it took us 45 mins to realise they weren't all that.
It's an awkward one. I really really hope he turns it around. But I do agree with other posters that the cup run has got us all giddy ( rightly so ) and in reality our league form is the bread and butter. At the moment it's going soggy and stale.
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Whilst I agree the midfield are a joy to watch at times.
The two business ends of the pitch are disastrous as the stats prove.
I remember West Brom always crowing about their wonderful carpet football when they were in The Premier league. Must of been relegated at least 3 times.
It's a results business. We have 3 points from the last 27. Injuries or no injuries the buck stops with Crosby. I was there Saturday and the 2nd half capitulation with not one effort on goal from ourselves was shocking.
Up to the 50th minute I actually had Lincoln down as the worst team I'd seen all season yet we still managed to throw it away.
Shrewsbury is humongous now as I'm not seeing much against Derby especially on a Tuesday !
How long do we give it ? Failure to win any of the next two sees us eleven without a win. Change has to be made then if only for the hope of avoiding defeat at Exeter.
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2 hours ago, Bycarsbill said:
Talking the talk and walking the walk are two different things. AC talks often about being more "clinical" and "shutting out the opposition" but the evidence tells us that this just isn't happening! It appears that every time we take the lead, we become content with trying to hold on instead of building on that lead. How many times have we scored more than one goal per game?
Come on AC, get a grip. Stop all the "talk" let's have the "walk"!
Yet to have a 2 goal cushion all season long. Simply have to put games to bed.
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2 hours ago, Brian Johnson said:
I think that the club should put @Rampant Zebra in charge of ticketing
Just as well we didn't put him in charge of managerial appointments or we'd still be League 2.
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Fleetwood summer night school holidays. Reduced prices. Crowd 2743.
Crewe local Derby. Summer night. Kids still off. Reduced prices. Crowd 6375.
Sutton .3rd round. Schoolkids probably absent.Reduced prices. Crowd 4113.
So where are these hordes of missing fans when the club do their best to make less attractive games affordable?
I can't believe folk are being critical of a once in a lifetime game and a pound increase. The opposition aren't glamorous but neither are we to Boro. But it's a game we have an outside chance in, and remember a draw in 90 mins gives us a chance in the penalty lottery.
Our owners have tried reduced prices and look at the gates. I don't blame them one bit for the price structure.
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1 hour ago, Granville said:
I was quite surprised he got the Oxford job in the first place, that MK side were woeful over the two games we played them last season. He's been backed well at Oxford too and got them to 2nd but I'm still surprised he got the Brizzle job.
Alexander as new Bradford manager is an odd one too. Sacked by MK recently yet just strolls into another job.
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3 hours ago, Granville said:
Liam Manning? Wasn't he the one who took MK Dons down only to get another chance at that level with Oxford? Doesn't look like he's repaid their faith in him.
The very guy.
Said it many times.. whether it's a player or manager leaving that 99% of the time they'll all go for an extra piece of silver.
The loyalty is with supporters and always will be.
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Oxford manager gone to Brizzle City.
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Prices for Lard at Coventry this weekend.
Football is crazily expensive.
This Quarter final is far from expensive.
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For balance I went to Wimbledon v Bradford last week. 27 quid for league 2 football. Oxford I think was expensive for a 3 sided ground at 26 quid.
I understand about the concessions upsetting folk with families as life is hard af the minute. But a quid extra for adults is more than reasonable. This is a once in a lifetime moment to reach a cup semi final.
We've made diddly squat so far in this competition . Surely we'll sell this out. Its a massive game. Absolutely huge. We've a punchers chance of history.
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It'll be copyright. However loads of people post videos of gigs and they aren't removed.
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3 minutes ago, The French Connection said:
I don't think they had much choice. My feeling is that DC must have desperately needed a break to come to terms with his loss. The outcome also justified the means, we stayed up.
True although it panned out that had we lost all 4 games we'd of still survived but yes obviously other issues.
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22 minutes ago, MBE said:
Who'd be a manager..Top2 after a good start now lost jobs.
I think owners have lost their minds. Thank god we have Carol & Kevin.
Agreed but I still maintain they panicked sacking Clarke.
He's a very good manager already started a mini revival at Cheltenham.
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1 hour ago, Doha said:
Garner sacked from Colchester. How sad.
2 sackings since leaving Swindle.
That's him done .
Think there might be a team called Swindle Supermarine he might end up there.
Shame. Lovely bloke.
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18 hours ago, Fosse69 said:
Cheltenham manager sacked, hardly a surprise his team not having scored a league goal this season. Handy for Clarke ?
Thank goodness we aren't playing them this weekend as we all know how that would turn out. 😅.
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9 minutes ago, Guppys left peg said:
Oldham sacked David Unsworth. I know they’re National League now but this could tick a lot of boxes for DC if he wanted to return to football. Got an ambitious owner and a decent sized club and fanbase so the potential is there.
My lad predicted his sacking yesterday. An embarrassing thrashing and they are in the relegation zone.
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9 minutes ago, The French Connection said:
Sounds good to me. I've always had an affinity to Hearts. A friend, back in the 60s, called his Subuteo centre forward Stenhousemuir!
I went to Stenhousemuir v Fraserburgh in some Scottish Cup thing last season. Cosy little club on outskirts of Glasgow.
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10 minutes ago, Dangermouse3 said:
Critchley left Blackpool to be with Stevie G
Wow bet that's gone down well .
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I'm all for balance. We all have views but it's as though Crosby is somehow excused/exempt from this current malaise with some posters.
He is the manager. Whether he's a lovely bloke or whatever you can simply not defend the results. They are simply appalling including 2 very damaging home losses to Burton and Cheltenham.
Let's make this very clear .We could not have handpicked a better route to the last 8 in the cup. Whilst it's a fantastic achievement and opportunity the highest placed team we've beaten is Fleetwood. This run has papered over widening cracks within the starting X1.
At this moment in time he's doing a dreadful job.
What I'd like to know is if there's a cut off point ? 10 games,15 games or even more ? .
Saturday was so so predictable I'm sure many will agree with me there ? So if that's the case there has to be something done relatively soon.
If we lose tomorrow it's so Vale like to win at Stevenage and reach round 3 and once again a stay of execution .
As a last resort I'd give the 3 pre Christmas league games and then a decision has to be made.