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    Player of the year

    in Port Vale present

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    7 hours ago, Powerline said:

    Haven’t seen anything about it again - thought the club apologised for doing it so poorly last year, seems they’ve repeated things

    We only have 500 members of staff. We just don't have the manpower to put on a dinner event, have little trophies engraved etc.

    Just because Bell, Bratt, administrators, Smurthwaite etc all seemed to manage to sort it out okay with 2 staff and 1 work experience lad on the books people seem to think it's not a lot to ask!

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    It’s not Darren’s fault but he can get us bouncing back

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    In the Championship this season there have been 20 managerial changes. The teams placed first to tenth are still with the same manager they started the season with. The other 14 clubs have done the 20 managerial changes.

    Birmingham changed manager when in sixth place and are now in the relegation zone.

    So much for new manager bounce eh?

    For the record Huddersfield were 21st when Darren Moore left and are now in 23rd place. Terriertalk is clinically braindead.

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    Ollie Arblaster

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    2 minutes ago, gags 64 said:

    Great potential but poor decisions ultimately from the club to allow deals where they could go back in January. Lessons for the future when loaning players.
     

    All loan deals have mid-season recall clauses as standard. Or are we expecting Premier League clubs to go "League Two Port Vale say they won't take out future captain on loan unless we remove the clause allows us to recall him after five months, better do as they say"?

    The only way to ensure loan deals last an entire season is for the player to do well enough to play every week, but not well enough to warrant a move to a club in a higher division. That was nearly the case with Devine, but unfortunately Plymouth took a punt on him in January.

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    League 2 preparation

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    15 hours ago, JohnDoe said:

    What’s more worrying is how many people would keep sang. The only defender i would keep through choice is smith, as hes proven at league 2 level and Clarke if he can stay fit. The rest are genuinely atrocious. 

    Sang isn't a defender, that's the thing. He's a midfielder who can fill in at right-back when needed. Because of atrocious recruitment he has been needed to play right-back all season. I wouldn't say any of the players deserve anything, but Sang could certainly warrant an arguement that playing nearly 50 games out of position in League One, when so many other players have gone missing with injuries or just not fancying it, that he deserves to be given a chance in his proper position in midfield in League Two.

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    Carol Shanahan.

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    3 hours ago, Stamfordvale said:

    Despondency, (That we had to watch this team each match)

    Hopelessness, (That there is no hope left that they will improve)

    Sadness, (That it all had to come to this after Wembley)

    Misery, (Knowing that there is not just a mountain to climb again but that the mountain will be much higher with any of these donkeys in the pack)

    Unhappiness, (Caused by C Shanahan’s letter and the poor recruitment regime out of 2 seasons)

    Gloom, (That will prevail until a chink of hope begins to shine through in the distant future, hopefully, maybe)

    Joylessness, (Watching this team maybe next year)

    Discouragement, (This a given to purchase any match tickets or season tickets until the whole top to bottom has been raked clear and a new and encouraging team of management and players are in place)

     

    Don’t hold your breath, the future ain’t too bright at the moment, baring thousands spent on quality.

    And the music to play, last Match baring a miracle: Tragedy,by The BeeGees.

     

    Maybe Patrick can put "Despondency, Hopelessness, Sadness, Misery, Unhappiness, Gloom, Joylessness, Discouragement" onto the back of the shirts next season rather than "Want. Need. Expect"

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    Colin Garlick.

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    The club has, what, nearly 500 members of staff? But Colin Garlick, a man who was said by Carol and Kevin (remember him?) was an incredible asset, an invaluable resource etc etc No room for him at the club. His departure from the club had to be hastened. We need to add 50-60 members of staff every year but League Two CEO of the Year Colin Garlick? Yeah, get him out of the club ASAP. We NEED 20% increases in staff numbers year on year, but Colin Garlick? Nah, don't need him mate, he'd be a spare part wouldn't he? Get him gone.

    Actually, you know what? I don't buy that horseshit for a single second mate.

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    Colin Garlick.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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

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    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

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    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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