Lornelounger

Time for an ode to our hero lads. In celebration of Ryan Loft Lofty me old fruit, You are now at the Vale We chased you for ages In the Brizzle fire sale, And now that we’ve got you, And you’re playing up front Give it some wellie, and don’t be a … silly boy So come on Ryan lad, It’s time to step up We won’t win the league And we won’t win the cup, We need you to score some To slow down our slide You are the one to put goals in our side. And now on onevalefan There are nearly 10 folk Who are fans of your of your pressing And don’t think you’re a joke So get on that pitch and help me win a bet (the goal is that thing with two posts, bar and net) If you score some goals We’ll cheer ourselves hoarse As long as it is At the right end of course If only you knew How we want you to score You’d bang some in now, then bang in some more.

Count me in - c'mon Ryan lad, now's the time! Make 'em have it!

Which is why I would play 4 at the back and have done with the 3-5-2 shambles.

Couldn't agree more Osh - we need to become much harder to beat, whatever that takes. Once we concede, I just can't see us winning - not enough goals in the team. A clean sheet would be wonderful.

Blimey!

If memory serves, we didn't get rid of Bloor, he chucked his cards in saying something like the job was too big for him i.e. we weren't very good then and he couldn't see us getting better with the players we had. Pretty dark times back then.

Off topic but….Following this in Spain whilst waiting for the Real Madrid game on TV. The match build up consists of filming the team bus being given a police escort to the Bernabau, with fans lining the streets to applaud. Still two and a half hours to kick off. Watching the bus driver change a wheel would be more interesting. Back on topic - how are we doing generally? Do we look like a team?

I know you were - but a lot on here still do it. And loose. And dosent. And could of... Just here to help....😁😁

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I was also entertaining that dream too. Never mind.

Course you are, until they run out, then it's bobbins for everyone. I'm most interested in the football too - you don't have a monopoly on that. But I don't think it is the end of the world right now. If I'm wrong, people will be queueing up to tell me on here at the end of the season. Gotta have something to whinge about, gotta have someone to blame. I'm off to set up the Ryan Loft Appreciation Society, since I think that lad needs all the help he can get between now and May. Keep the faith, and keep shouting for the Vale, not at them.

Good of you to own it Nippy, but I genuinely don't think it is such a big deal. I may be wrong, and we get relegated without scoring another goal all season. But I prefer to look at what might happen instead. It would have been nice to have signed another striker, but for whatever reason, we didn't. On we go.

Beyond the end of your nose. Best ground we've ever played in, warm pies at half time, a thriving academy providing players to our first team, fantastic owners, joint club presidents who actually help the club etc etc. Feel free to call me a Happy Clapper, since I prefer to see the upside and look at the bigger picture. Sure we wanted a striker. We didn't get a striker. The sun will still come up tomorrow, and we soldier on.

There is if you know where to look. But if your cheerfulness can only be determined by an unsatisfactory transfer window, you're doomed to be cheerless.

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I'll find a way to make it his fault, don't worry..... if I've learned nothing else for this thread, it's that everything is Flitcrofts fault. See Max Boyce's song about Ringer getting the blame.

I'd blame Flitcroft for that.....

5 feet 9. It's all the Vale's fault that I can't see the pitch when some big fat knacker comes to sit in front of me. They could at least have the pitch moved a foot to the right on my behalf.

I'm going to hang around for that staggeringly popular press release at 10am the morning after. Then 11am. Then Mid-day. After that, I shall assume we carry on with what we've got and lose no more emotional energy on the matter. But I tell you one thing I will not be doing - slagging off our staff. Some of the people commenting on this thread about Carol, DF and AC need therapy. The way they verbally abuse other people because they don't get what they want is pathetic. Get over it. Move on. Life's too short. (And so am I - I wanted to be six feet tall, and it's Carol's fault that I'm not, obviously.....got to find someone to blame). UTV.

Agreed on your final sentence - though as stated earlier, this forum is akin to having a chinwag down the pub and speculating what we need, what we can afford, what formation we should play - without having a clue on most of the issues, but don't let that small fact stand in the way of the rumour mill... Now get your round in, and we can talk about what we need next season....😁😁 Hurry up, they'll be closing soon....

Not Hertz van Rental again.....

A bit early for that sort of statement. Come back when there is one game left and we need 4 points to stay up.

Hold hard everyone, this is a time for strong spines, stiff upper lips, sangfroid and stiff whisky. Be of good cheer. There will be two signings tomorrow, and the world will be a better place. And if there aren't, the whisky is still there....

Great post - don't understand the anti Robbie sentiment. He's clearly keen to help now he can trust the people in charge. That trust hasn't been there before, and now it is, people still scorn him. Let's scorn him when he's gone two years and done nowt but enjoy the title El Presidente. He's Vale through and through - give it time.