Danish Valiant

Thank you, THIS is what the statement should have said and what other attendees should have replied.

No, but I'm baffled. Others seem angry though. Having read most of this thread and loads of posts on X, do you think this statement with total lack of information, and the attendees answering like politicians, speaking without saying anything, is more gathering or dividing the fans? As I said elsewhere: what 99% of the angry are angry about, is the utter and total lack of information. And the way they're answering, you'd think they shared nuclear launch codes! If they plan to come out with more information, they should have waited to make a statement until they're actually ready to reveal such information. This statement, is just another piss take to the general fan. And I do think that it's baffling beyond belief, and quite contradictory, that one of the points discussed at the meeting was the lack of communication and information from the club. Just for the attendees to not only agree to such a non-statement, but actually actively engage in not communicating and withholding key information.

What is it that can’t be said now? What is ir we’re waiting for? How can telling people the general answers be ‘knee jerk’? People just want to know what the h… was said! And I personally don’t understand, why you agreed to this vague statement, saying absolutely nothing. And then all of you present, comes out defending it with all these politician answers, still saying absolutely nothing. What was said that is so secret? You’d think nuclear launch codes was shared 😵‍💫

So I take it you where present at the meeting? 😊 So perhaps you can explain why this vague statement was agreed upon, with absolutely zero genuine content of the meeting being revealed? I think that is what 99% of people are angry about. That we are still told absolute nothing, and that all fans that seem to have been there, all of a sudden talk like politicians and wont tell a single detail about answers given at the meeting. Did you sign an NDA? In my humble opinion, this is just creating an even bigger divide, instead of pulling fans together. 😞

I agree! Best performance by a country mile so far! The whole team actually plays with passion and desire tonight. Long may it last!

Could we literally be, the only club that needed a striker, that didn't to get anybody in?? Every other club around us got someone...

But we tried, we really really tried. That's all that matters!

I hope he does, I really do!!! But absolutely nothing, as in zero things from his minutes so far, tells me he will. It's absolutely insane that we have to rely on a kid, a literal kid, nowhere near ready for what he's being asked to do.

Agree! Especially since Dipepa has been MoM every time he's featured...

Can he make Dipepa do just something, anything really, to keep the ball for more than 3 seconds in 2 days??

That line up made my head drop in an instance! Absolutely must win game, and we start like that??? Depressed beyond belief now! 😢

I agree with everything you say! Actually, personally the excuse I hate most when I've been rejected after a job interview, is 'lack of experience'. Because how am I going to get experience, if nobody wants to give me a chance? So I'll say with AC, I think it was the wrong team at the wrong time. I know his U21 accolades, but managing a L1 team is just something completely different.

For me, one of the things that went wrong with AC was, that we relied on so many young players learning their trade, with a new manager doing the same. You need to have experience somewhere in the mix. He made as many, if not more, bad decisions during games as the players, and has cost us as many points as the players.

The subject of money is so touchy. It's always easier to have opinions on what others should do with their money, especially when they have lots of it. We all have dreams of winning the lottery, but if one of us really did win, would our second or even third thought be to give Carol a ring for a bank account number to deposit 50m into? I somewhat highly doubt it... You mention the Coates. Even though they've chucked literally hundreds of millions of punds into that club, their fans still want more and think it's not enough. When is enough enough? They're buying players for amounts that could fund our club for seasons, and still it's only enough to just about compete at the level above. As I said elsewhere, I think the plan with bringing in Rob is for him to attract bigger sponsors and investors. Just like at AFC Hollywood. The owners there have chucked in cash, yes. But the biggest chunk of the cash, is from sponsors a club at that level usually could only dream of. United Airlines is their main sponsor. Why would an American airline that only function in the UK on a relatively small scale, want to sponsor a League 2 club with millions? Same with Tik Tok they had before. Not to mention the Amazon deal for their 'fly on the wall' thingy. Just take a look a their sponsors, and it's mainly big American brands. I think that's what the Vale are hoping Rob can help do for the Vale, amongst other things.

I agree, it's making me anxious 😒

Reading some of the posts both on here and on Twitter, some people seem to think he should just empty his bank account into the Vales. Some people seem so entitled! Just because he's made it big and is rich beyond his wildest dreams, he somehow owe the Vale money, because he dares to call himself a Vale fan. Read somewhere "he should give the Vale 500k, which is like 500 quid to me". Don't get it, I really don't.

Okay 🙂 So it's Rob you want to pay for it?

Just playing devils advocate here: do you really want and expect the club to fork out hundreds of thousands on a statue, as things currently are the only place that really matters?

Maybe they're hoping that by associating Robbie closer with the club, they can bring in bigger sponsorships like AFC Hollywood have done?

Feel most sorry for Dipepa, because he's always being brought on when we're chasing a goal. So he's literally being asked to do a job he's nowhere near ready for yet. Just goes to show how lacking our recruitment has been up top, when we have to rely on a kid who's not ready, and then spin it into 'good development'. Mental that is!

I noticed that too. But after last years Jan window, I haven't got high hopes...

Why? It's Vale and it's January. We'll get an injury prone midfielder on deadline day who, by the way, is out for the first 2-3 weeks of his time here.