valefan79

Hoping for a new ground to visit out of one the teams in the National League and only Barnet I have been to so no doubt they will go up. Disappointing to see that Gateshead have been barred from taking part in the play-offs, deserved their place after 46 games.

Back home and the biggest thing for me is don't feel anything, the players, management, DOF, owners have made me feel like this, not even bothered after getting relegated, I said it the day the transfer window shut was the day we went down. Today could easily have been another 7, absolute shambles at the back and stuck with most of these wasters again next year. For me I would only have Ripley, Garrity, Chislett, Dippepa and Plant and give him a go where he spent his youth career and see how he goes. The rest are not good enough and most don't care, never want to see the likes of Ojo, Massey, Jones, Grant, Loft in a Vale shirt again.

Really can't believe it is 35 years ago today when the Hillsborough disaster happened. I still remember that day so well being a 10 year-old at Chesterfield watching Vale win 2 - 1 in the promotion season and taking a radio to listen to my other team take on Forest in the FA Cup Semi Final and left in a state of shock as to what had happened. I still remember the journey back to Stoke and never known a journey home be so quiet as to that one. I know stadiums now can often be souless and there be no atmosphere but at least we know we are safe there, think back to the grounds when I first started going, they were disasters waiting to happen.

Very late decision made, always get my tickets in advance from the Vale but will be unable to do that. If I order online, I take it I can pick up from the Peterborough ticket office tomorrow before the game.

He has been on the field in the league for 1569 minutes which across the 41 games works out at an average of 38 minutes, it's a definite no to any kind of contract for me, we are going to struggle to get rid of Loft, we can't go into a season with Loft and Wilson again.

He's completed the 90 minutes 5 times this season.

Why would you want that, surely we need Wycombe to get a result next Saturday at Shrewsbury.

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A lot depends on results in the next 2 weeks, as Spunk quoted football not played on paper, looks tough for them but we need Lincoln still in with a shout of the play-offs and avoiding defeat at Oxford next week, if they were to lose there, could end up not been able to get in the play-offs by the time they play Cheltenham. Similar if Peterborough have no chance of automatic, 3 days before the end of the season likely to make lots of changes, any players carrying niggles or big players, they be stupid to risk. Stevenage whilst looking nailed on for a play-off spot most of the season have fallen off a cliff last few weeks and will have no chance of a top 6 come the last day. We have to take care of our results and minimum is 3 home wins.

You're right about Moore,done a great job defensively and turned us into a side that has stopped conceding goals which I did not think was possible. I just felt today the game was there for the winning and with a bit more belief, we could have got the 3 points and that would have put massive pressure on Cheltenham going into their Carlisle home game knowing they would have been behind us regardless of how they did. Special mention to Smith again today, been played out of position so many times this season as the RCB and even LCB but playing in his natural position the last 5/6 games he has been superb. I am not a big Uche fan and don't see him getting the goals but think he is ready to start the next game and hopefully scare Peterborough into some mistakes.

We can't keep him for another season, I don't get this pay as you play, he is taking up the space of another player, every team should have 4 strikers on the books. With Wilson you are then restricting yourself to 3 and a half as you know he will be out for more than half. For too long we have carried out players who are injury prone, I hope next season is different, I am sorry but 8 goals in 2 seasons for a striker is not enough.

I personally would take now being within 2 points of Cambridge playing them last game, I know keep saying it but looking at Cheltenham's next 3 games and we are relying on them dropping points against an already relegated Carlisle, Burton who are woeful or a Bristol Rovers who have given up and not scored for over 500 minutes. For me that was 2 points dropped today, I really thought they were there for the taking and Northampton and Wigan away, 1 point and no goals scored is a poor return, I honestly felt we would win one of those games. It puts so much pressure on the home games, we have to win all 3 and we need clean sheets to do this as the goals are not there.

I'm not sure I agree with this Cheltenham are out of form that people have been saying, they have had 15 points from the last 11 games, nearly 1.5 points a game. In the last 4, they had a bad result on Saturday against Exeter but had a couple of awful penalty decisions go against them, won away to a Fleetwood side who battered us for one a half games, got a point away to Barnsley and concded an 88th minute winner away to Oxford, they are battling like anything. In the next 4 they have Orient, Bristol Rovers and Burton, all for me very winnable, we have just taken 7 points from those games, none of those 3 looked any good,on top of that a game against Carlisle at home, I hope I am wrong but feel Cheltenham will get a good points tally. We have to gain 10 points minimum to have any hope I feel. I thought Cambridge were in the mix until those last 2 results, for me Saturday is huge and we have to get something, I do think Burton will go, they had nothing when we played then, think a shoot-out between us and Cheltenham for that one spot.

Definitely between the 3 of us fighting for 2 spots, thought Cheltenham would win today but can see in their next 4 games, them winning 3, they have Carlisle and Bristol Rovers at home who are dreadful lately and a Orient side on the beach and a woeful Burton away, minimum we need is 4 wins, can see us finishing ahead of Burton but think Cheltenham will send us down.

I said after one of the games last month, we should be playing the kids as they won't do any worse and we are already down. For me, they are miles away from being football league ready and I include league 2 ready next year. The likes of Shorrock, Dippepa, Lomax need to be going out on loan to the National League North early next season and then hopefully come back ready. The only one I could see that might be ready is Walters but maybe he doesn't want to be here anyway.