andy jones

Frightening isn't it.

It's been a very quiet window at top level so maybe that has stopped many moves cascading down.

Arblaster isn't a striker anyway is he!

Looks like we will all be praying you are wrong lads.

We haven't seen Lofty fully fit and playing 90 mins alongside Wilson. OK 60 minutes alongside Wilson.

Beginning to think that we might be relying on Lofty to find some goals once he has been given an extended run with Wilson.

<ovf censored> signed winger for £3M from Europe

Nippy how do you know 'the backroom staff needs scaling back considerably'? Or is it just your opinion? Similarly perhaps the 'rush into the abyss' that worries you is down to the fact the only way we can head up the league is by gaining points and that requires positive results in matches. We have only played two matches this month. One a high scoring draw and the other a very narrow defeat against the league leaders.

Rob can you start a new thread relating to the pitch incursion and ship all the comments above to it. Perhaps then we can, finally, get back on topic please.

Nippy, I dont think any of us are 'happy and positive' at the minute but your posts seem to show 'Desperation' with a capital D, and no loyalty to the person who without doubt saved Vale, put us on the road to recovery via promotion, and invested huge sums of money into 'ground improvements'. Yet you seem intent on throwing all that loyalty and commitment into a bin and take a gamble on any 'consortium' who has money. One thing in life is very true. People with money smell opportunities to make more money. Personally, and I think I am not alone in saying this, I think we have one of the best Club Owners in football at any level. We are currently in our second season in this league, second season syndrome, and struggling with long term injuries. Keep the faith, mate.

As I interpreted it, Robbie seemed to state in his interview with our media team the reason he has not attempted to get involved before was because a certain type of character, that he didn't want to associate with, became Football Club Directors. However, now Carol has ownership he is happy to get more involved. Perhaps, those being critical of Carol and wanting her to sell up might like to take Rob's comments on board.

I thought today's team was probably the best we have. However, we were outclassed.

Yeah but our players aren't Man City quality are they? So when they get it from the keeper and cock it up, and gift goals, and we are all supposed to be happy? You stay happy with the possession stats whilst i look at a scoreline that sees us passing it back into league 2.

Too right Brian. They had got to the semi finals of a national competition. Their fans, like ours against them, knew that if they tried to beat them at their own game it would be lambs to the slaughter.

Will be happier when games played are level and we have won at least 1 drawn 1.

Surely there's a Wetherspoons nearby? Thank God for Sir Tim

Strangely Tony I regularly watch football. In addition to Vale (ST holder) Leek Town (ST holder), Kidsgrove Athletic, Hanley Town and even Abbey Hulton United I do. All the above enable me to watch a football match without VAR taking the piss out of the spectators who have turned up to watch a football match. Only at the Vale do I see the player taking the kick off passing it directly back to the goal keeper. I have no desire to see other aspects of modern football such as deliberate outright cheating by players to 'win' penalties, get opponents sent off by simulating / exaggerating injury. Etc etc The fact that a player can commit over 200 betting offences and managing to be back playing the game within 8 months instead of being banned 'sine die' from professional football within the jurisdiction of the FA is an indictment of how low the professional game has sunk. Modern day football is, in many cases, corrupt and a total embarrassment in educating children. It is the antithesis of the definition of what sport used to stand for. So my friend I do watch football, but at a level where the match is a sporting occasion to entertain and excite by scoring more goals than the opposition. Back passing to the keeper from the kick off followed by passing across the back line, followed by passing back to the keeper again, does nor meet any of the above criteria of a football match. IMHO. Tell me, Tony, do you actually watch football or just a sad parody of ... the once beautiful game?

Mmm lifestyle in Barcelona or Boslem? and too young to drink in the Bulls ! Tough one. 😆

If we are good at playing football and lose surely it means the opposition are better than us at playing football. If a Manager comes on and says we are an awful team to have to play against (Evans's Stevenage style) surely that means we have played ugly and won? I know which I prefer. Surely we have to have a Plan B where we have the players capable of switching to 'ugly' when tippy tappy ain't working!

Same behind me. The shouting keeps waking me up!! 😆

Can you or anyone else posting on here name me one match where you have seen the opposition player at kick off pass it pack to his keeper. How can you possibly say many other teams do it! Maybe I was already 😴.

Recently our keeper has aimed goal kicks directly at Uche which even if we don't win the first ball sees the next phase of the game in the opposition half rather than our keeper retrieving the ball from our net due to yet another catastrophic loss of possession by our back line.

All that is very true and it's also very worrying. Since AC has 'stumbled' onto a system, that Uche is an integral part of, I have seen our supporters, after the match, coming out of the ground with smiles on their faces even though we may not have won (Charlton). If AC loses Uche and reverts back to the the 'Vale Way' of playing then we will be back to glum, unhappy fans who may well not renew STs (particularly if reverting back to the boring, catastrophic, system sees us relegated). The new 'Vale Way' of playing may be what the coaches want, but i am pretty damn sure its not what the majority of supporters want. It's the proverbial watching paint dry scenario. I, for one, will never forgive the lead up to the Middelsborough second goal that killed the match as a contest. BTW what message does it send to the opposition and our supporters when at our kick off the ball is immediately passed back to the keeper without any other player touching it. Total negativity.

When he is 100% fit. The Uche now is twice the player he was when he arrived. Plus he isn't at peak fitness even now. There is still more to come and clearly he terrifies defenders now. Add that third division (not Championship) goal sharpness and he will be one of the best in this league. IMHO