[January Transfers and Rumours]

You have totally missed the point.
Why do players fail medicals at other clubs but get a pass at our's ?
That is a genuine question and one for the Flickers to answer on Thursday.

I would say you are going to be less likely to sign someone with a minor issue that has a low percentage of flaring up if you are signing a player for a fee with a 2 and a half year contract than if you are signing someone on a free with an 8 month contract.

[January Transfers and Rumours]

I think I would prefer us to sign a couple of wing backs over centre midfielders. We currently have Grant and Sang regularly playing wing back when they are central midfielders. Whilst it would be nice to have an upgrade in the middle I would much prefer to have a wing back that can run past a man.

[January Transfers and Rumours]

Most of this frustration is down to boring football at home bar a couple of games and in my view the capitulation to Stevenage and Boro plus unfathomable substitutions costings us points.

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In recent games I have often looked at the bench and not fancied any of the options available to change the game in our favour. Even if we had someone who was awful but fast it would make Crosby's job a bit easier.

[January Transfers and Rumours]

All I want is a bit of pace. It is so much harder to cope when teams are putting you under pressure if you don't have someone who can push the opposition defence back, carry the ball and get up quickly to support the striker. The few players we have with any pace have all got knocks probably because they are so few and far between in our squad.

[Vote of No Confidence (2)]

We played some great exciting football under Adams however when he first came in we played some pretty dull football. We were leaking goals left right and centre he switched us to 5 at the back, tightened things up and stopped the rot. Once we were tight at the back we then became more expansive.

[Middlesborough H EFL QF Tickets/Crowd]

Shambles not sorting out the toilets or extra toilets out for this game. The biggest game in our history and a restricted capacity. Really looks tin pot I'm afraid.

Maybe you should take a look at our club history

[Ale and the Vale Podcast]

45 minutes ago, geoff1 said:

kneejerk? if stones is injured, whose the keeper?????????????🤨

For the next 3-4 games whilst Cov is banned, in the unlikely circumstance that Stone gets injured during a game you bring on the youth keeper (Collinge I think or whoever has replaced him) for that game. If at that point there are any games left of Covolan's ban you get in an emergency loan. Paying someone a wage for a minimum of 6 months to cover a highly unlikely scenario seems daft to me. If Covolan couldn't play due to a long term injury like Visser had then it would be a different story. We signed Scott last year and didn't trust him to play once when Brown lost all confidence and couldn't stop a bus.

[Ale and the Vale Podcast]

Really struggling to understand the arguement that Covalon made a mistake and we should treat it the same as if he dropped the ball into the net.
Kicking someone for no reason isn't an accident. It was a stupid and malicious decision. If a motorist loses control of a car and runs someone down then that's a mistake, an accident. If they intentionally veer onto the pavement and run someone over then that's attempted murder and they should be put in prison. You can't compare the two.

I think that is a harsh view to take. Would you be of the same opinion everytime a player pushes someone, puts their head into the opposition or makes a horrendous challenge. These are split second decisions in the heat of the moment.

He will be banned for a number of games and the number one jersey should now be Stones to lose. I would hope that Stone is given as many errors as Covolan has before being dropped. If that does happen then Covolan will get another chance.

To sign another keeper this window would be very kneejerk especially considering most were more than happy with him 45 minutes previously.

I thought he should have been dropped when he let that shot through him months ago. He then saved a penalty and all was forgotten. DC said he shouldn't be hung out to dry and I agree, despite the fact DC kind of went on to do the opposite in his interview.