RantingRon

Shanahans out. Robbie Williams in. When?

Flitcroft leaves. Club statement says the "decision has been made mutually". Anybody believe that?

Garlick, Clarke, Speed, Flitcroft, they've all gone. Wonder how she'll get on now. There's only Moore to jump ship / be pushed.

The Shanahans paid £5m for Vale and have never stopped moaning. “It was a ransom that had to be paid.” “We’ve spent more money in four years of ownership than we planned to do in five.” “We’ll pay for some infrastructure elements but day-to-day expenditure at the club has got to come from day-to-day earnings.” Robbie Williams is worth £222m - £300m, depending which source you look at. Buying Vale would be peanuts to him with enough pennies left over to make some real changes, both to the facilities and the team.

The Robbie Williams ‘Homecoming’ concert in June 2022 was fantastic. And he showed off the new kit for 2022-23. Great advertisement, must have attracted the fans, non-fans and the interest of the general public at large. Must have been a nice little earner, too. So why has a Vale Park Robbie Williams concert not become an annual event? Drainage works at the end of last season prevented it in 2023? Anything planned for Robbie at Vale Park, concert-wise, in 2024?

On 31 December 2022, Vale were 9th in League One. At the end of the season, they were 18th. So what happened in between? Well, the great 're-structuring' of the club took place. Colin Garlick, CEO, was sacked in March 2023, Darrell Clarke, team manager, was sacked in April 2023, and Steve Speed, head groundsman, had already 'agreed' to leave the club at the end of the season. All been downhill since then. Any link between the club's re-structuring and the team's continuing demise? Well . . . ?

SHANAHANS OUT! ROBBIE WILLIAMS IN!