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    Colin Garlick.

    in Port Vale present

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Bald Eagle said:

    It started when DC went off script by saying we’d had an awful January window just days after Madame Chair had done the Corporate Glossy staged propaganda of what a good window we’d had.

    Well Clarke was right, it was a poor January window. Which is why I said things began to turn in the January. It was that window that did for Clarke, but instead we were told how he was a broken man and had to go. Fiddlesticks. As you say he had gone off script and was contradicting the powers that be, which is why he got sacked at the earliest opportunity.

    Askey, Crosby and then Flitcroft himself by contrast were kept well beyond the point where fans were calling for them to go.

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    Colin Garlick.

    in Port Vale present

    Posted

    Yes, it was around January 2023 when strange things started to happen at the club. This being a classic example. It's a bit simplistic to say it was all Flitcroft's doing. Whatever the root cause all the pigeons are coming home to roost now.

    Carol Shanahan.

    in Port Vale present

    Posted

    What the fuckinghell is going on here? Genuine fans are on here posting that Carol "owes" them this and that, whilst trolls are signing up pretending to be Smurthwaite and Carol and talking actual sense.

    As if Norman would give a toss about Carol and her well being. He's no doubt having a good laugh at our decline and would gleefully tell both her and us "I told you so". The whole season has been a circus and there has been a lot for Smurf, Burge, McKirdy and other clowns to laugh about. But Flitcroft is gone, Smurthwaite is long, long gone, and we can be successful again in League Two as long as we (owners, staff, fans) don't completely lose our <ovf censored> and instead make sensible decisions, have reasonable expectations and rebuild sensibly.

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    Darren Moore

    in Port Vale present

    Posted

    His tactics and substitutions are questionable, though recruitment is the reason for our relegation. This squad deserves to go down and he has no responsibility for that.

    An interesting side note is that as things stand his the three clubs he's managed in the last 12 months are going to be relegated: Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield Town and Port Vale. Which says that whatever you think of his management skills, he is awful at picking jobs.

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    Carol Shanahan.

    in Port Vale present

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Bimbleabout said:

    Also you can't be on a pedestal and engage with fans, media etc etc constantly when all is good and then pretty much retreat and withdraw when things go wrong. It's ethier one or the other, but it has to be relatively constant or imo it comes across as pretty disrespectful and arrogant to the average supporter,even if she is hurting aswell.

    That is the thing for me. Carol hired Flitcroft and put him in charge of all things football. That was a terrible mistake and in if itself was poor leadership, delegating responsibility to somebody else. One continuing error that is thankfully over now.

    However, even if Moore or another person put the club on their back and carried us back into League One, then it will feel awfully hollow when Carol starts doing the rounds with media interviews when she was so silent during our ongoing long malaise. Bar the love letter to Flickers, of which the less said the better.

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    Smurf interest in Tranmere

    in Other football issues

    Posted

    Smurthwaite hasn't had any involvement in football for five years. He sold both Port Vale and Liberty Way (Northwich Victoria's stadium). I've not heard of any creditable reports of him getting back involved in football, let alone a club the size of Tranmere Rovers.

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    January Transfers and Rumours

    in Port Vale present

    Posted

    I think the free agent window has passed now too. I do wonder if Flitcroft was desperately throwing any striker he could at Moore to try and take the heat off himself but Moore kept rejecting them for not being any better than Loft/Wilson/Dipeppa/Garrity out of position.

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    Flitcroft gone

    in Port Vale present

    Posted

    Fair play to the bloke if he's resigned. Or I guess fair play to Carol for accepting the inevitable if she sacked him.

    He had to go and the club can unite and move forward now, even though results are likely to be poor until the season end regardless 

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    The Shanahans First Words

    in Port Vale present

    Posted

    - Custodians of the club for a short time

    - Such a lot of work needing to be done on the stadium

    - Make the club successful for the fans

    - Aim high and then if that aim isn't achieved then getting somewhere near it would still be a good achievement

    - Colin Garlick is an incredible asset to the club

    - Steve Speed works incredibly hard

    - Kevin mentions being "bullied" into "feeding kids" for the foundation charity. Really doesn't indicate it to be a priority at all for the football club

     

    Really they were doing a great job of keeping to those words until January 2022. At that point the "aim high" mindset was scrapped, not long after Garlick was thrown on the scrapheap. Nothing has been right at the club since January 2022. What happened?

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    David Flitcroft Out

    in Port Vale present

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Ray Williams said:

    Man.City crew.😉

    So he's a former hooligan for Man City? Or Barry Bennell style Man City & Crewe? Or he has a fancy man, a bit on the darker side, and his name is John Carew?

    Yeah, no point making vague hints on the internet. No one has an clue what you're referring to.

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    Darren Moore

    in Port Vale present

    Posted

    23 minutes ago, Dr Delgado said:

    I would question Moore’s judgement for thinking he could actually do something with what is in effect a strikerless team and a sieve like defence.

    Catch 22 situation. Any manager daft enough to take the job obviously has somewhat questionable judgement.

    I think we can all agree that the club is going nowhere good with Flitcroft in situ. I personally think it's a waste of time debating which manager to have in the current set up.

    First things first. Flitcroft out.

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    Darren Moore

    in Port Vale present

    Posted

    Relegation was confirmed when the transfer window shut on 1 February. Crosby left four days later. Crosby, Moore, Klopp, Evans, Rudge, Ferguson, whoever the manager was became irrelevant because the squad was nowhere near good enough when the injuries in key areas and complete lack of confidence and form throughout are factored in.

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    David Flitcroft Out

    in Port Vale present

    Posted

    31 minutes ago, Playa Amodores said:

    Sounds like Eddie Howe should go on Mastermind and his specialised subject should be, the bleeding obvious. I don’t know why he doesn’t shove his tongue right down the back of the trousers of the murdering state owners. 

    Because they don't wear trousers

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