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Trumpingtonvale

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  1. Would he really? I’m sure if he’s on the edge of the area and hits it in exactly the same way then it would have gone out the ground. I prefer to give him credit that like any pro player he would adjust a strike to accommodate the different angles in play. Can’t help wondering that if Ben Garrity scores that goal then there’d be no debate.
  2. Signing him, on the back of bringing in Darren, would’ve certainly seen the club supporting their statement regards doing everything they could to maintain our L1 status. Whether he’d have made that much of a difference to our points tally in the last 8/9 games is debatable, unless his presence would’ve also made our defending and ability to create chances much better too. His signing may have just further highlighted how poor Mr Flitcroft’s recruitment had been in other positions across the squad - oh I think Dwight is now out injured at the moment too (so he’d had fitted right in with us 🥴).
  3. Was great to hear the majority singing his name as encouragement after the miss too. Some critics forget with the amount of chances we create Lofty would have to have a chance-to-goal conversion rate > Haaland’s or Kane’s for him to have had just a handful of goals this season.
  4. Wasn’t he in full training with the squad this week (photos on Twitter/X) with the tag ‘welcome back’?
  5. I’m fully in the camp of ‘if they’re good enough, they’re old enough’. On current form are there any strikers/forwards we have that are better than him? If not, then he should play.
  6. Can see that as did work colleagues (in Cambridge) when I first showed them the pictures of Rudgie’s statue. It was the flat cap and finger pointing upwards- That’s out! Is it Harry Kane or Max Headroom? (sorry for the 80’s throwback)
  7. My first memory of hearing it was at Cambridge when we were relegated in 91/92, don’t really remember hearing it before then - was that its debut season? Remember Wise Men Say before that in the 80’s etc.
  8. Would Cass be offered a contract if we’re in L2?
  9. For the soft option Isn’t Tommy Johnson head of recruitment Ray? Are you saying replace him or have him report to our manager rather than DF?
  10. Aren’t they managed by one of Vale’s coaches?
  11. Should compliment Lofty’s 50p feet. 😉
  12. Nah, one bad game and he’d be crucified on here.
  13. The league above and no strikers for a lot of that season too I think (a long-term injured ‘tin Foyle and a relatively useless Keith Houchen?) . Didn’t we end up putting one of our better defenders, Swanny, up front, too so a double whammy? Would the Yak or Jesse Debrah be better up front than what we have available at the moment- it’s a way of getting all our centre halves in the team even if they are play as strikers 😉
  14. He was and he would but we would only be able to sign players who wanted to come to us. Do you think he would have come to us instead of Derby even if we had the money or more? Given the choice of a team pushing for promotion in front more than 25,000 fans every other week and team struggling to survive in a league in front of <8000 people I know where I’d prefer to play irrespective of the money on offer.
  15. Had the offer of free tickets for Stevenage v Cambridge last night but we gave our support via a tenner to the Vale and watched on iFollow. Agree Ojo looked disinterested/unfit or both and we called out his pulling out of tackles - if he plays Saturday (because we’ve got no one else) Derby will walk all over us in midfield, more so than Fleetwood did, and I fear a drubbing - expect there’ll be a reaction to last night’s defeat to Charlton. The overload on Sang (especially second half) was plain to see and we couldn’t understand why DM didn’t do more eg put Plant on earlier for Weir (his defensive game was/is poor) to give Sang some respite. Despite the excellent defending from Kacper and the Yak all night with the number of crosses raining in from Patterson the law of averages said one was bound to drop to one of their players at some point and it did on 88mins. Lucky to come away with a point the way we and they played second half. We’re going Derby on Saturday, never been to the new ground and have a feeling it may be some time before we get chance to go again. UTV
  16. No doubt part of his new contract negotiations. Nice to see Chris Wilder is a man of his word (keeping him with the first team squad rather than sending out on another loan). Good luck to the young man, though it’s a near certainty he’ll take to the PL like a duck to water. Just a moment... WWW.THESTAR.CO.UK
  17. Just hope the team put in a performance today to make up for the earlier home fixture, to break the hold DC still seems to have on us. Got me thinking, there’s always talk about the managerial merry-go-round, but isn’t DC the only former manager we’ve come up against in over 40 years? Makes you wonder if coming to the Vale was the pinnacle of any manager’s career and they then just couldn’t see the point in going on to manage any other league team. 😉
  18. How reliable is this source? Stoke nowafter Ainsworth. Would he be interested? It’s falling apart down at that there incinerator isn’t it? What a shame.
  19. The feedback I’ve read says DM is a pragmatist and plays a style/formation that fits the players he has available. Hopefully that’s the case with us though I’m struggling to think what formation does suit the players we currently have fit and available. Happy that’s his job not mine.
  20. I don’t see it as a problem. For me having Sat-Tues games 4 weeks on the bounce was more of a risk to the integrity/fitness of our squad currently and now we’ve got a lucky break (actually and figuratively). Apart from Easter weekend don’t think we currently have midweek fixtures in either March or April so is one midweek game in each of those month more of a burden/risk?
  21. Flat East Anglia gets very little rain (Cambridge typically has less annual rainfall than Barcelona) but I’ve not known a 12months like it in the last 15 years. No punting on the Cam some days this winter because the river is too high and the soak-aways on housing estates/new built up areas are now overflowing, pre 2023 they’ve usually been pretty much bone dry all year round. Guess covers would have to be water tight to give the protection needed to prevent this last year’s inundations causing postponements.
  22. Got to feel sorry for Connor Ripley, spending your birthday in Peterborough and not even a game of footy to take the edge off. ☔️🌧️
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