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  1. How is it post of the day , just because you agree with it. I am getting tired of the injury situation and that being our excuse for being rubbish since September and outside the drop zone because of Reading's point deduction. We like many other teams in our league and throughout football are dealing with injuries because football is different than years ago, more games, less recovery time, players not playing through the pain barrier, scientists telling managers when and when they can't play and many more issues. This is why it was criminal to go into a season with one recognised LWB in grant who missed virtually the whole of last season. After the window shut, we had a forward line of Wilson who we know from the past has never been able to stay fit regular, 5th choice striker from Bristol Rovers and Thomas who had never kicked a ball in the football league, we then a month later sign a player who has not played for 6 months who took 3 months to get anywhere near fit. We choose to give Jones a 2 year deal who we know has spent more time injured than fit. I keep hearing all these injuries but the nucleus of that team Ripley, Smith, Ojo, Arblaster, Devine Ojo, Garrity, Chislett were all fit for that awful run from September to December, they may have missed the odd game but other than Clarke I fail to see who we have missed as Wilson despite being quality, we should have been expecting him to miss and plans should have been in place for this. I just fail to see how without 2 forwards one of which needs to know where the back of the net is how we are going to go on a run that will see us comfortable in mid-table, the defence is leaking goals and can't keep clean sheets and we need 2 or 3 goals to get a result.
  2. 4 massive days to bring in a LWB and 2 strikers, 2 players have to be experienced or we are in massive trouble. If we bring in more inexperienced players, it will be like the relegated season whereby we are experimenting with bringing in unproven players in the hope that we stay up.
  3. Bit harsh, did a great job at West Brom, took over when 10 points adrift in April and nearly took them to safety then got sacked when 4th in the championship. He did a really good job at Doncaster, then Sheffield came in for him, got a record number of points not to go up automatic but went up in the play-offs, got sacked because like at West Brom crazy owners. At Huddersfield, no matter who they appointed would be struggling, they have a bottom 3 budget along with Rotherham and for them to stay up they would be doing really well.
  4. Watched Newport today and whilst they have ended up losing 4 - 2, they have gone out holding their heads high, giving it a right go, working the keeper scoring 2, having 15 shots with 6 on target, every time we come up against a decent side, we give respect and play for a nil nil.
  5. The penalty was the correct decision in my view and first time I have agreed with Crosby, strong challenge but he got the ball on Chislett, as the slow motion replay showed for me that was right. If we had a player go down like theirs, we would have been screaming for a penalty and calling the ref a cheat if not given.
  6. There is a good reason why the same refs are getting picked every week and that is because there is a complete shortage due to morons like him yesterday, people don't want to get into the job due to the abuse they get. The reason we lost yesterday was not because of the ref but the way we set up under Mr Negative.
  7. Looking at the Cheltenham report, they were apparently much the better team again today losing at Derby just as they were at Bolton in the week, they are certainly having a go unlike ourselves. I still see them getting out of this, looking at their next 3 games, Wycombe, Burton and Cambridge, can see a few wins for them, massive game next week for us.
  8. Not really relevant to this thread, I know games have to be agreed by both teams but out of interest why have we arranged the Orient, Reading and Fleetwood games all for February and none in January, March or April, to have 4 consecutive Tuesday night matches seems strange.
  9. We needed a striker before today, we now need 2, one of which has to be someone with experience and not a kid and not someone who is 5th choice at a midtable league 1 side.
  10. Toe to toe, are you for real, the meaning of that is to attack your opponent, what attacks did we have today, we tried to get a nil nil draw and were like a team playing against a side 2 leagues above us, why show them so much respect when they are bang out of form. You say the soffest of bookings, 100% correct decision to book Chistlett early on, yes the ref made some bad decisions but that was not one and if that penalty decision was the other way round, people would have been saying the correct decision, glad no VAR in our leagues but seeing that again there is no way that decision would have been reversed.
  11. Great post, completely agree with everything you said there, massive fine coming our way and I was so embarassed with the supporters for cheering that today, it was not a small minority as well which made it even worse.
  12. Absoutely embarrased by that today, it was like a league 2 team playing a premier league side, it was so one sided, forget the referee, it was men against boys and we got exactly what we deserved. I keep hearing we got all these games and no need to panic well 3 points above the drop zone, I am starting to worry. We looked awful today, they might be top of the league but they are on a very poor run dropping many points recently against bottom half teams. This looks like the season under Bruno to me when we gambled on signing unproven foreign players, we are now signing unproven inexperienced kids, yes they might have more talent but this is a massive week and we need some proven players signed or I fear the worst. Lastly, I can't believe some of our crowd, a joke they are, applauding the guy who went on the pitch and then singing about the ref running away, father's with their kids doing this, that ref whilst being poor has no idea if he has a knife or not, people forget the consequences what one punch can do.
  13. Not just this and some of last season, it's the 3 seasons he has been with us now, played 61 games in 3 years, Wilson who we have often said how injury prone he is has played 93 games in the same time. I can't believe we have him for another 18 months.
  14. The thing for me is that Reading fans did this in absoute desperation that their club being killed by the owner and the EFL not doing anything about it. They saw all other protests not resulting in anything being done and felt this was the way for action, we were the unfortunate team to be playing them. I keep hearing replies about other teams if at the end of the season they are losing, lets get the game called off, it is completely different. They would be deliberately trying to get the game called off for their advantage, Readng fans were not bothered about the result of this game, if they were losing, winning or drawing they would have got this game called off, they just want their club to survive.
  15. Think I am pretty much on my own on this one and most saying we should be rewarded 3 points but for me the only sensible option is that the match is replayed in full at Reading. It would open up all sorts of legal challenges if we are the only team to play 24 matches at home or if we had 3 points given and survived by a point or 2. I maintain that if for example Reading had played Cheltenham and the game was abandoned and Cheltenham had been rewarded 3 points and it meant we went down, everyone on here would be fuming. I felt more should have been done on the day by police and stewards to remove what at the end was about 40 to 50 people off the pitch but we have to remember as well there were idiots from Vale on the pitch at the end still, took a picture of 6 people who were Vale fans when the game was abandoned, why were these on the pitch.
  16. 4 points above the drop zone as things stands, yes we have a number of games in hand over the bottom sides but we have to be really careful and for me we need more players than just the loan signings we have made. Williams, Weir and Gore look good but all very young players and for me I feel we need a couple of experienced heads as well. Reading and in particular Cheltenham look like they are picking up form, Cheltenham tonight despite getting beat at Bolton much the better team and I still expect them to get out of it, big result for Exeter tonight winning at Bristol Rovers,
  17. Don't disagree about being a good foil for Alfie May but seems strange on their part to try and go and get an out finisher and then having that fall through to go for the exact opposite.
  18. Strange transfer business by Charlton if they want to sign Uche, they gone from wanting guaranteed goals in Clarke-Harris rejecting them, someone who will get you 20 - 25 goals a season to going for Uche, a player who will be lucky to get you 5. Whilst not been a massive Uche fan, he has improved of late but one goal which was a mistake by the Charlton keeper is a poor return for a striker, regardless of his other strengths. For me if you are a striker, the minimum I would expect would be double figures. If he is to go however, we have to go out and get 2 strikers.
  19. If people want more permanent signings than loan signings then you need to accept that you will have a drop off in quality with a lot more average players, we are not going be able to sign players with the quality of Ollie or Alfie. We are in league 1 and most teams outside of the premier league rely on loan players now. Plymouth last year relied massively on the loan market with Azaz and Rogers, great players at that level. Bolton had probably the best 2 players in the league in Trafford and Bradley, great premier league talents and again you could only get players like that on loan. You have only got to look at Hull in the championship, in the top 6 made up of half of their side being loan players, they could not afford quality like this and would be bottom 6 probably if not for the loan market.
  20. Absoutely gutted by Alfie going back, for me he is quality and with a better forward line, he would have looked even better. I really can't understand that we have had a top 6 league 1 midfield however have played most of the season with a league 2 standard forward line, Wilson apart our strikers are not good enough. We have to replace him, I know people saying we have lots of options but these are no where near the standard of Alfie or Ollie, coupled with Ojo and Garrity out, we are short of quality there, this has to be addressed for me or we will get dragged into trouble. Sang for me has always looked better in a wing-back role which he has grown into and for me Lowe should not be played in midfield, whenever been there, the game has completely passed him by and like playing with 10 men.
  21. Would be delighted if the rumours are true about Williams from Liverpool, as someone who watches a lot of Liverpool including their youth games, always thought he had a chance of making it at premier league level, not necessarily Liverpool standard but a bottom half club. He has played 20+ games in the championship and 3 years ago partnered Nat Phillips at the heart of Liverpool's defence for the final 5 games of the season. At the time they were out of the top 4 and managed to win all 5 games with Williams in the team and finished 3rd.
  22. Refuse to play a game and you will be deducted points. I can't believe some of the posts claiming we should be awarded the 3 points, games have to be decided on the pitch. Forgetting yesterday, would you really have said this if Reading did this on the last game of the season against a team in the bottom 4 who were 2 points behind us. Would you be saying the opposition should be awarded 3 points to relegate us and that is the fairest thing.
  23. Not long back, first chance to post, was clapping their supporters at the beginning however for me their point had been made and they should have come off the pitch to allow the game to be restarted. They feel like not been listened to by chucking the tennis balls and a pitch protest for half an hour certainly get people talking but that should have been it. I totally don't agree with people saying we should be awarded the 3 points, for me you should always earn those points and not been awarded them when a game is nil nil. Would people have taken a similar stance if this was this was towards the end of the season and a game was abandoned against another team resulting in us failing to gain promotion or sent us down, would people have just said yeah award them the 3 points. No way should any game be settled like this, it has to be replayed in full. On a last note, those Vale fans on the pitch still at the end, wtf was that about, idiots, I understand Reading fans but no idea why those Vale fans were on at any point.
  24. Anyone know if any tickets available from Reading on the day, just had a phone call from a friend in London who has decided he would like to go now, can see none available on the Vale site. Also anyone recommend anywhere to park.
  25. Are we really above average with the number of injuries compared to the rest of the teams, as I mentioned on an earlier thread, this is the normal now and we need to get on with it. It would be interesting to see someone post our injury record compared to other teams, I might be wrong but every team i see team news I hear lots of teams without 6 and 7 players every single week. Tonight was watching Middlesbrough and they had 14 out, don't know what it is, if the number of games, the boots players wear but it is getting beyond a joke all over the country. You say we can use the excuse for our performances, if we go on another winless run whilst Garrity is out, will that be the excuse.
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