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Hope Baylee is as level-headed as some have said and doesn’t let all this ‘paper talk’ affect his attitude and, more importantly for us at the moment, his form. He may well have to start tomorrow, with Willo hobbling off on Friday, which may be no bad thing as he and Lofty had some good interchanges against Bristol Rovers and both looked a threat.
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2 hours ago, philpvfc said:
4 for relegation….
Carlisle
Fleetwood
Port Vale
Burton
Hope I’m wrong but can’t see us doing it.
Before Friday I’d have had it as Vale or Cambridge, but can’t help thinking they’ll get a bigger lift from the Barnsley win than we have from our last two games. Out locally last night and U’s fans I was talking to now sounded just as optimistic as us, if not more so, thinking they’ll easily roll over Wigan tomorrow and be safe before they play us.
May be all change again come 5pm tomorrow- squeaky bum time for sure!
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35 minutes ago, saintvaliant said:
BBC gossip column reckon Man Utd want him.
It’s the link to the Alan Nixon article in the Sunday Sun, referred to by other posters. Perhaps we should suggest a cheeky swap deal for Dan Gore? 😉 He does appear to be injury prone, so would fit right in.
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1 hour ago, TJHValiant said:
Given that Fleetwood are playing Cheltenham today, one of our rivals will get points. Obviously Fleetwood getting the points helps us as Cheltenham now have a game in hand on us.
For me, points are not a luxury in any game if we are to stay up. Rovers at home and Northampton away need points, if we leave Easter with nothing we are down. Fairly winnable games by Lg1 standards if not our own.
Having watched the video on the super-computer post (top of the previous page), it has us losing today and Monday with a surprising end of season outcome. My faith in AI (the proooocess/Matrix) has been pretty much shattered by the 2nd halves of this season and last and I don’t think my nerves could stand up to the sequence of events the super-computer predicts. My bum couldn’t stand the squeakiness required for sure.
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1 hour ago, Devoid said:
Are tickets bought for the original fixture still valid for the re-arranged game? Will they still be available for pickup at Peterborough stadium on the day?
Yes.
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27 minutes ago, llcoolj said:
I suggest you watch it again, one bloke stuck in the net the other bloke flat out to the side of the goal. If he was a yard further out he would have put it over the bar. But as I said it doesn't matter as it went in, one goal, that's all he's scored
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.
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12 hours ago, Jacko51 said:
We might have got him if Collins hadn’t got injured and Derby needed a replacement.
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 🥴).
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1 hour ago, JoeB2 said:
Think it’s important to point out that 95%+ of Vale fans haven’t given Loft any public stick.
There’s a minority of idiots but fans were chanting his name before kick off yesterday.
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.
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2 minutes ago, Granville said:
Uche is still injured!!!
Wasn’t he in full training with the squad this week (photos on Twitter/X) with the tag ‘welcome back’?
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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.
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1 hour ago, darren1810 said:
Personally the Rudge statue is more like Dickie Bird.
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)
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5 hours ago, TJHValiant said:
I thought it got played originally as it was a Billy Bell favourite too?
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.
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1 hour ago, valefan16 said:
Looking at it as a clean slate "Whats going to get us back" I would say:
James Wilson - 1 year deal - scored goals at that level is one I would look to keep who is out of contract.
Smith, Ojo (if he can be bothered), Garrity, Chislett, Ripley, Clark, Leutwiller, Debrah should be retained if possible, show some nuts and don't accept bids unless ridiculous for our key players.
Jones I worry about injuries otherwise hes a decent L2 player, Sang and Grant should be stand out at that level but I haven't seen enough battle to think they'd dig in at Harrogate on a January Tuesday night so probably let go.
Loft as forth choice in L2 maybe but he has lost the fan base already so would be a long way back for him.
Plant, Shorrock, Dipepa, possibly Lomax and Walters if he stays should benefit from a lower level and come on strong.
I'd be looking for left wing back and a more orthodox Right and left back option so we can actually be flexible. 2 strikers of a decent calibre in L2 level, a battling central midfielder and playmaker and a couple of wingers, along with 2 centre halves.
GK: Ripley/Leutwiller
RWB/RB: Mitch Clark, Lomax plus one
CB: Smith, Debrah, poss Jones plus 2 more
LWB/LB: Shorrock plus one
RW: 1 New
LW: Plant plus 1
CM: Garrity, Chislett, Ojo (if he can be bothered), Walters plus 2
CF: Wilson, Loft (maybe), Dipepa plus 2
Thats assuming we can keep hold of our better players and cant move Loft on.
It doesnt have to be another 5 year stint starting off with struggle like before but we have to get the summer spot on.
Wrexham, Stockport likely gone, Gills or MK potentially gone so it isn't going to be full of big budgets like now but we need to show some bounce back.
Would Cass be offered a contract if we’re in L2?
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15 minutes ago, Vale Ball said:
Yes fraid so, I'm on the thick spectrum but even I understand why and how the meeting went.
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Me too…. I think 😉
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7 minutes ago, Guitar Ray said:
The owners don’t have to listen to the fans, they simply have to use their own faculties. Simply open their eyes to the league table, reflect on performances over 2 seasons and why those performances have on average not been up to league 1 standard. We’ve replaced managers, that hasn’t worked, so that leaves the players and the DoF, who recruited the players and the managers.
Fans shouldn’t actually need to protest it’s so blindly obvious where the blame for our failure lies.
If Carol is looking for a soft option then simply employ a head of recruitment to go with our large collection of middle managers and announce with a big fanfare that Flitcroft has no dealings on that side of things going forward.
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?
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25 minutes ago, hoof it hank said:
Leek town are having a blinding season, top of the league and scoring for fun . Downside no free drink.
Aren’t they managed by one of Vale’s coaches?
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6 hours ago, darren1810 said:
With that 50p head of his !
Should compliment Lofty’s 50p feet. 😉
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1 hour ago, Wrex said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Port_Vale_F.C._records_and_statistics
Without a win: 17, 7 December 1991 to 21 March 1992
Six to go to equal that record.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 😉
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2 hours ago, TJHValiant said:
Because there is no money. Well there is..Carol just got £180m of it. Dwight Gayle was a free agent and would have improved us. The lack of money stopped it being possible.
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.
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29 minutes ago, Fosse69 said:
Arblaster expected to play at Brighton on Sunday.
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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.
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30 minutes ago, Playa Amodores said:
Emile, surely we wouldn’t appoint someone because of the formation that they play. We need to be more fluid and not so rigid, depending on who we play. We need to make the opposition think about what formation we’re going to play during the game, not days beforehand. Isn’t that the whole idea of not releasing the team until just before the game. I hope DM is his own man and plays different formations to our strengths.
I was in a private message the other day with someone on here, so they can take the credit for this question.
We spent nothing in the transfer window, but then we’ve suddenly found the money to appoint DM his backroom staff and we’ll still need a forward and possibly other players.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.
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2 hours ago, Warren said:
Sorry, Wilson. I was in the chemist collecting my prescription!
Stood by the razor blade shelf?
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28 minutes ago, Andy Proctor said:
The problem we have now is we are already scheduled Saturday Tuesday every week in February. March we have 6 fixtures already but have now got add Peterborough away and Wycombe at home to it. We’re basically going be playing Saturday Tuesday every week till the end of the season. If anymore get called off after that then we could end up with a Saturday Tuesday Thursday Saturday week for playing games.
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?
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4 minutes ago, Vale1995 said:
Why are games getting called off so much why if its heavy rain not have the covers on the pitch?
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.
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Bristol Rovers (H) match thread - 29th March
in Port Vale present
Posted · Edited by Trumpingtonvale
Loved his “if you’ve just joined us may be you can feel hell is getting a little colder because Ryan Loft has scored” during the Burton game. He’s obviously a fan and his passion can sometimes make him struggle with the BBC’s impartiality rules. I tend to listen to both home and away commentaries during a game because Phil’s style can make me a little anxious at times, the way he relays possession by the opposition as being a certain goal threat unnecessarily (more obvious when I’m watching rather than just listening) sends my pulse racing.
I didn’t like John Motson’s commentaries to be fair, preferring Brian Moore’s (not the rugby player) and Barry Davies’ much more. I’d not consider one being better than another using any objective measure, I just liked the way Moore and Davies commentated more, compared to Motty.