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Lornelounger

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  1. It has wandered off the path a bit hasn't it? Oatcake fillings, London beer prices, and loads of other stuff. It's why I love this forum - it's like being down the pub and getting sidetracked when you were talking about the January window, then remember what you would like for tea...
  2. I would imagine we do - the dressing room seems a happy place, and the squad and staff seem to get on? I don't think it belongs to just one manager, I think it is standard for well run football clubs these days. I would hope Vale check to see what other people say about a player's mental attitude and if they are a team player or in it for themselves. Guessing they might take a look at a player's social media profile too, to see what sort of comments they put out? However they do it, it seems to me that we have managed to get a group of players who pull together and work for each other, and don't gob off online. Long may that continue - Uche seems like a lovely bloke to have around. (I know I've probably jinxed it now, and there will be an explosive story in the Stokeinel about players fighting over their share of the black market dealing in oatcakes behind the Railway Paddock - but I hope not).
  3. There's loads we can sign on long term deals. But nearly all will be worse, some a lot worse, than what we're getting on loan currently Agreed - and using loan players to get us to the end of the season, whilst not necessarily a long term strategy, does at least enable us to wave two fingers at clubs, agents and players making stupid transfer and wage demands for ageing donkeys. We get better players than some of the dross touting itself about with lots of noughts on the end of their wage demands, and these academy youngsters are good lads too who pass the Richard Head test. They learn from our older professionals and backroom staff. They go away with a positive attitude of us, their parent clubs are happy, and in the meantime some fat bar steward of a football agent is drowning in his own tears because he hasn't met his target in January, which has to be good for the game Brian.... Some of the numbers I've seen touted for bang average players are stupid. I'm really glad we are not surrendering to the greedy idiots manufacturing them.
  4. Sold out again eh? You would think they would have learned by now - selling like hot cakes...
  5. Agreed about Foyle - for me, the best striker the Vale have ever fielded, given the higher level we were playing at for much of the time with him in the team. As for Mills and his rocket shot, definitely! I went to a pre-season friendly when Vale played Hastings back in the 90s, and during the warm up, Mills was taking shots at goal with real venom - one ripped the netting out, and the groundsman had to run on and fix it before we could start. He packed a real shot on him for sure.
  6. I remember once he went to Bradford, they beat us 4 - 0 shortly afterwards at their place, and he said something along the lines of "they're doomed if they can't play better than that" after the game. Stunning insight really. I'm guessing he wasn't Mr. Popular in the dressing room, but then again, there must have been lots of players in those days who just saw us as a temporary home until greater things came calling. No big deal really, players come and players go.
  7. Honestly don't know Trumpers - perhaps find out if Reading classify as club members on their Ts and Cs, rather than Man Utd? If they do qualify as club members, that obviously changes things. Man Utd are Premiership, and I don't know if they classify "members" differently, or if this is a supporters club thing, so not Club membership in the sense that the EFL use. I might be wrong - it wouldn't be the first time. But it would be a brave club that classifies all fans as "club members" when the wording looks to deduct points or give the opposition the result for "club members" causing a game to be abandoned. We'll see soon enough.
  8. I know it's frustrating Smithie, but my view is that fans would have got on regardless of the police presence - it's too big a perimeter, and the fans were determined to make their point. By "small number", I'm assuming you mean the few that occupied the centre circle towards the end? The fans on the pitch at the height of the protest were not a small number. This was always going to happen today - everyone had heard about it, and I think the police deliberately played it low key to prevent further aggro. I think they sat down beforehand and realised they couldn't prevent it, and if they tried to, it would get nasty. It is frustrating though. Really feel for the fans still on the motorway...
  9. I might suffer the unbearable awfulness that is Chris Sutton on BBC 606 tonight to hear what the Reading fans say. Or I might go and have a bath. It's been a while.
  10. I think team and club members means players and officials (like the Turkish president who ran on the pitch to assault the ref). Fans are neither, so I don't think we'll get three points unfortunately.
  11. I'd be staggered if the EFL made an example of Reading in this way, given what little I have seen of the regs. They maintain the points must be decided on the pitch - though there seems to be nothing about compensating the inconvenienced team and its fans as far as I can see. Maybe they will fine Reading, or deduct more points, but I just don't see them giving Vale 3 points - it opens up a real can of worms for the other clubs affected mid season.
  12. Reading manager wins the "Deluded Fool of the Month" Award for January in that case. Bovine scatology designed to deflect attention to the fact that his club is in a mess. Poor chap.
  13. There is the quote that says the EFL want points to be decided on the pitch, so there will be a replay. I guess it then depends on what the EFL do to Reading in terms of points deductions in terms of affecting relegation matters.
  14. Agreed - can't find anything that is a precedent for today's steaming mess. Will be interested to see what the EFL do.
  15. Dunno if this sheds any light - the precedent of Blackpool and Huddersfield. In this case, it was an end of season match, and the EFL said no replay. Had a look at the EFL regs online, and they are labyrinthine and not easy to navigate. What happens when a football match gets abandoned? - Lexology WWW.LEXOLOGY.COM
  16. I feel for Reading - my guess there will be some sort of charge of failing to keep their fans under control, but they had to start the game, they probably (I hope) recruited more plod just in case, since stewards are bog all use, but if hundreds of fans want to get on the pitch, they will. Most right minded fans would have wanted to have a go at winning 3 points - this has just dug them deeper into the pit. Rotten for SVA to go all that way for 16 minutes and hour standing around waiting to be told what was going on before abandonment.
  17. Sky have just announced it has been abandoned.
  18. Is there a limit to how long the delay has to be before the game cannot be restarted? It will soon be an hours since this all started....
  19. The BBC have sent Sue Barker along to do the commentary. New balls please.
  20. Good to see our national broadcaster right on the case as usual.....not....! Whatapalava...
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