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Relegation was nailed on after 1st February. The squad of players at his disposal are the problem. I'd give him until January.
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I like football too much to waste my time getting a season ticket to watch this bunch of losers next season. Carol seems to have spent too much time trying to change the identity of PVFC. We've got 150 years of history that has shaped our identity. I don't recognise my club anymore. Port Vale have none of the none negotiable qualities I expect from the club I've supported for 35 years.
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1 hour ago, philmpv said:
So sick of all the name calling, abuse, etc being directed at all and sundry on social media and at games. Most of you are grown men FFS.
Surely the most effective way for those who want to protest is to vote with your feet and your wallets. Don't go to games, don't buy a ST, and basically don't put any money into the club at all. This will give Carol only 3 options:
1. Increase her subsidy of the club to keep it going and DF in place;
2. Sell the club, which would mean DF goes too;
3. Get rid of DF and hope the missing fans return.
Hitting someone in their pocket is usually the most guaranteed way to effect the change that some of you crave
Absolutely. Start a campaign suggesting that supporters don't renew their season tickets, buy the new shirt, buy event tickets etc until Flickers is gone. Set up a picket line around the club shop and ticket office to put off potential scabs. This is OUR club Carol. We'll get our way because Port Vale is the fans. No fans, no club. Listen to the room and do the right thing.
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Some players are beyond my support right now. Minimum expectations are not being met. Certain players need to step up and be leaders on the pitch. I see no encouragement or support within between the players on the pitch at the moment, just petulance and a complete disregard for what makes a team. How can they expect the fans to go above a beyond? Every match recently the fans have started the game by offering the benefit of the doubt and get behind the lads. By the end the abject failings on the pitch result in disgruntled reactions from the stands. Give us some something to shout positively about!
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This has a 0-0 written all over it, however the fact that we concede so easily against the long straight ball I would not put it past Shrewsbury nicking it if our game at their place earlier in the season is anything to go by.
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3 minutes ago, JoeB2 said:
I think Big Exodus would do a better job in the middle than Lowe.
We signed a released centre half from the team currently battling relegation to the national league and play him midfield.
I can't understand how he's been brought back in as a centre midfielder. It was obvious after 10 minutes of the game against Fleetwood in the League Cup in August that he can't play that position anymore. If we're not playing out from the centrebacks anymore then he hasn't got a place in the matchday squad, let alone as a replacement for Ojo. That's on Moore for me. I'd rather see Sang in centre mid than Lowe.
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4 minutes ago, JoeB2 said:
Ojo’s disinterest since Crosby’s departure is an disgrace. Dedicating goals to like him he’s died and then swanning about.
He got a 2.5 year extension in his 30s after 5 good games flanked by future England internationals. I’d look reasonable next to Blaster. Banging on about ‘educating’ the fans who presciently pointed out that we were crap.
A fraud who coincidentally bottled it away at Accrington last year with a silly red with the pressure on.
I'd agree with that. Arblaster will play in the Prem this season. He was a smokescreen to quite how bad the majority of the rest of the squad are. Arblaster was unreplaceable but we didn't even try.
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Hopeless. That is all.
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Imagine if they got another 3 points due to a mass pitch invasion before the end of the season? Might be worth Carol putting on 10 free coaches from VP to one of their home games in March....
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Didn't he score a goal the other day? That's more than can be said for our so called forwards. No point making Smith the scapegoat. I think the direction the club have gone in terms of our "club DNA" the past 12 months has not helped his game. Playing with a different set of defenders every game probably doesn't help either. Continuity helps defenders. We've had none of that this season.
His performances have been poor more often than not this season, but he's not been helped by the players around him.
I think that he could prove a valuable asset in avoiding relegation out of the football league next season.
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We're doomed. No man could turn this ship around with the resources that have been left. Relegation was assured on the 1st February. Has any other football club got so few strikers as us? The FIRST job, yes the VERY FIRST JOB of any owner of a sports club is to ensure you have the personnel to play the sport you're supposed to be playing. We can't say as a football club that we have that at the moment. 3 transfer windows without bolstering the squad with attackers is nothing less than pathetic.
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Bed time I think. Going to be really frustrating to watch Mighten beating 2 players then crossing it in to where a striker would be if we had any.
I suppose we could put Massey up front.
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10 minutes ago, rayzer said:
We have two analyst coaches at the club who I am sure measure the individual statistics of our players during games and possibly training, but do they check all the statistics of clubs in our division?
We do not score many goals and we all know that without goals we need the defenders to do their job in stopping goals going into our own goal to try to eke out results to get us over the line.
Our director of football said last Thursday at the forum "we are not thinking about relegation and we have three games in hand and we got ten points in December so we will be alright" or words of that effect.
I wish I was as confident as he is, because although we did well points wise in December we did by changing the way we had been playing by going more direct by kicking long to Uche, who held the ball up and brought other players the room to score. Now no Uche (probably out for the season) and I cannot see Loft being able to do the same job.
So back to our need to stop the opposition scoring, our statistics do not look good.
Our goalkeeper save percentage is 67.3%
Only clubs with worse save percentage are :- Carlisle 67.2% / Fleetwood 64.9% / Reading 64.6% / Wycombe 62,5%
Tackles won 216
Team with the next lowest tackles won is Peterborough with 246
Interceptions 172
Only teams with lower interceptions are Bolton with 160 and Cambridge with 166
What these statistics show to me is that we are not strong enough in stopping the opposition in getting chances on our goal. So unless we gets a goalscorer in before the window closes and I can only see us going down.
I am praying I am wrong because Carol does not deserve
No surprise on the tackles won or interception statistics. We don't tackle, don't intercept therefore don't have possession at points in the game when the opposition isn't set. Our goals during our winning run were almost all a result of winning the ball and punishing an out of shape opposition. Unfortunately this element of the game does not seem to be part of our "DNA" unless this changes we will continue to sleepwalk towards league 2. Top teams put in maximum effort when they haven't got the ball regardless of territory. We seem completely content to play zonally out of possession which is getting us nowhere when it comes to the final result.
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17 minutes ago, Diego Maradona said:
What players are contracted to be with us next season, possibly in League 2?
Also, what do people think about Grant as a CM? For me, he's not a LWB. But can we keep him as a CM?
I hope not. He's simply too slow following his nasty injury. Rather see Sang in there currently, until Ojo is fit whilst the likes of Gore gets upto speed playing mens football.
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6 hours ago, Mellor! said:
I hope this doesn't upset Carol too much, but it's pointless sacking Crosby to make better signings. It's Flitcroft making the signings. They both need sacking if we want any real change. Sacking Crosby will just bring another scapegoat in for Flitcroft's constant failures.
Sorry for being mean.
I stand by my opinion that Crosby's lack of touchline nous has cost us about 10 points this season. In game decision making has been appalling at times from what I've seen. It's the side of management I feel he has to work on the most, as a coach in his first full season as the top dog between 3pm and 5pm.
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Out of the relegation zone on "points deducted. Carlisle have won 4 games this season. One was against us. Cheltenham 6, one against us. We've got 14 points in 19 games. Absolutely sleepwalking towards league 2 as it stands. Lose next Saturday and Crosby has to go. He should have been sacked after Boxing Day to give us a chance during January.
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I'm not expecting much. Apparently the last thing that Crosby is prepared to do is put one of his players at risk. Hardly the mentality to get results in the Theatre of War which is Vale Park. Get him gone. Get him gone now. He'd be better suited in SAGE than working as a football manager.
One pal of mine has suggested that they should publicise what time the scientists say that the subs need to be made in advance. That way people can decide whether it's worth going to the game or not.
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5 hours and 30 minutes. That's the total amount of extra time in our players legs as a squad. Time that may have been avoided by adding 15 minutes to the playing time of Arblaster and Devine. A macro approach would be a far better metric in an FA Cup replay than micro metrics. Does "The Science" take into account financial gains to swell the squad in January, increasing options on individual playing times? The science (as usual) was flawed.
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On 11/12/2023 at 16:27, ollyandpatch said:
Sorry to say this doesn't add up. There are loads left if you go on the website. The Hamil looks like the Bycars used to look on a matchday with seats everywhere unsold. The Lorne St looks just over half full.
Still time but I can see an 8k gate on the cards !
I don't know what you were looking at. There's 250 left in the Lorne Street so that's over 1,300 sold without the club guest seats on the tunnel side of the press seats and all of corporate. 3,000+ definitely sold in the Hamil so 1,200 left of the blocks released. It's 2,300 in the Railway Stand now and at least 1,150 in the Paddock so that adds up to 8,450 without away tickets and corporate. I've calmed down after Tuesday and got the intense sense of occasion for this fixture this morning in way way into work like I used to as a kid before a Stoke game. I think we'll sell several hundred more by kick off.
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4 minutes ago, RayWalkers40yarder said:you know its not just crosby. flitcroft should take a LOT of the blame. after all he makes the signings doesnt he? i hate being proved right. the pair of them shouldve gone a month ago. stealing a wage . but weve been down the cheap option road so many times and not once has it worked out.
Flitcroft had nothing to do with the tactical decisions that sabotaged our chances at Shrewsbury and last night. The decisions around substitutions, both timings and personnel have been absolutely appalling in both games. That's all on Crosby.
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After 55 minutes last night, I turned to my pal and asked "how are we towards the bottom of the league?". Then the Crosby affect kicked in. Sack him. Sack him now.
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34 minutes ago, darren1810 said:
Stafford Rangers game !
When the cup actually seemed to be the main attraction of the season.
The proper cups should be now! I don't understand fans mentalities these days. I'm sure people will be clamouring for tickets if we draw a big boy in the FA Cup 4th round or sneak through to the semis of the League cup.
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50 minutes ago, Bimbleabout said:
Exactly mate.When you consider 25k people live in Burslem nowadays we don't do to bad
There's more Vale fans in Kidgrove and Biddulph than Burslem!
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On 06/12/2023 at 16:39, jjvale_03 said:
Looks like Hamil has sold well but Railway looks a shambles (particularly the Paddock).
We can't ever call ourselves anything other than a small club if we can't sell 10000 tickets for a quarter final of a domestic cup competition.
I think we're about 1,200 home fans short of what we got for the Swindon playoff final as it stands with 12 days to go. With corporate and away tickets I reckon about 11,400/11,500 have been sold so far. Still the potential for another 1,500 home tickets to be sold to push it towards 10,000 once full focus is on the fixture in the press etc...
Moore out
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I'm sick of the instability and drama. Now isn't the time for another managerial change. Back the man we have in now. Work hard but quietly without fanfare over the summer and deliver a team the fans can get behind and be proud of. The only reason we're not a complete laughing stock in this city is because the fans of that lot up the road are still nervously looking over their shoulders.