Rampant Zebra

We have changed too much too quickly, even in the Bruno season we still kept a core of previous players. Evolution not revolution is the normal procedure for success in football. I expect it says that in Rudgies book. I don't think we should still have Luke Joyce in midfield but we now have a squad of players who mostly have no affinity to the club and it shows.

When I saw the thread title "League 1 relegation watch" I thought it was going to be an new item stocked in the shop to celebrate returning to League 2.

That is my point, clearly not fit.

He is not what we need right now though, he needs a preseason to get up to speed. He will be returning to his parent club by the time he has had a run in the team.

He looked exactly what he is, a technically gifted young player with zero experience of mens football.

History is littered with failures who had a plan...

Gore and Weir might have been OK with a preseason but they don't look ready to battle now.

We are part of the 92, we are part of the 72, lol

What do you mean "at the moment" we haven't been prolific for quite a while apart from the odd blip. Goal difference says it all.

Like Cristian Montano you mean?

I still don't think that Clarke was either decent or the right choice. He was backed to the hilt and decimated our squad by bringing in his yes men players. We are struggling now because the soul has been ripped out of the squad. None of the players other than Smith and the kids have any affinity to Port vale and it shows. Everyone reveres John Rudge, his skill was gradually evolving the squad by replacing the worst players with better players over time so that there was continuity. Everything bad that happens to a club managed by Clarke is someone elses fault and everything good is down to him, in his mind anyway. Look at Walsall after he spent all their money wrecking their squad and then bailed out. I have nothing personal against Darrell, he is just a dreamer like Flitcroft.

Didn't notice anything in the Lorne Street, not sure about outside the main entrance. I think the 5000 crowd said it all really.

Nothing to do with the fact that Flitcroft is involved in the construction industry of course...

We need players who can play now rather than at some unspecified point in the future if we don't sell them first. A number of development players in the squad is fine if you have a core of senior professional players to support them.

We don't need new facilities, we played a game on Tuesday night so the current facilities must meet the minimum requirements to stage a fixture. New facilities are a "nice to have" rather than a requirement.

It hasn't hindered Wilson

The former manager was part of the problem. I don't just keep saying it because I don't like him as a person, I haven't met him to judge. He has history of blaming everything else when results go wrong for him and trying to spend his way out of it sometimes with farcical suggestions such as switching ends for the home fans. What a waste of money that was. That is what happened at Bristol Rovers, he kept asking for more until there was nothing left, he was doing the same at Walsall and is now doing it at Cheltenham. He basically wants everyone around him to say how wonderful he is and gets rid of anyone who dares to challenge it. He has no ability to manage difficult players, unfortunately they are the passionate ones who sometimes have that wonderful ability to excite crowds and do unbelievably good things on the pitch.

Sounds better than "we are just winging it really" 🙂

No idea, I can't either... 😁

Some of us haven't voted yet, that will reduce the 17%

I think it is a shame that Carol obviously didn't do any due diligence before giving him a job that he didn't apply for. A 5 minute Google search would have told her all she needed to know. Flitcroft out for me!

Don't forget to take some tennis balls if you go 🙂

Lets hope our Barnsley hard man has recovered from his shoulder surgery.

He used to score goals, didn't do much for FGR.

No point in me doing that! 🙂