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If we owe them say £10 million I imagine it will be paid out the sale? So if sold for 180 million Carol will have to pay 10 million of that to clear it or will be structured to pay X amount off a year.

Have to see what it means for us... is she going full in on the Vale... if so could be a wild ride and relegation wont feel so numb knowing we can financially power back up... questions remain... the money we owe to Synectics... where do we fit in as we are part of the group aren't we? May explain how we got Darren Moore in? and why even though we missed out we were prepared to offer decent money (based on what DF said in the Vale Pod) for players. Also maybe answers why Ian Donaldson was talking about wait and judge Carol in a few months on Twitter.

Pointless saying its must win as we say that most weeks but dont win here and its certainly all over. Could likely be 6 adrift + GD heading to Derby. Got low quality draw written all over it which will pretty much ensure this is a repeat fixture next season at a lower level.

I am not sure, but not all clubs use the ifollow as their base currently I believe so some may be off that, Accrington for example.

Its not about competing with Derby or Bolton for me but we should be competitive with sides like Wycombe, Stevenage and Lincoln so no reason we shouldn't be competing. We are a bigger club than the 3 in the drop zone with us for example, should be capable of finishing with or above Burton, Shrewsbury or Exeter.

iFollow will be gone wont it? Next season is the new Sky Deal so all midweek games on Sky and 5 out of 24 Saturday fixtures in L1 and L2 on TV (Saturday Lunch most likely). Around 16 games a season for each L1 and 2 club will be on sky in the league plus every Carabao Cup and BSM Trophy match.

Re-Arranged for Wednesday April 10th.

I love Carol and appreciate all both Carol and Kevin have done, and to a degree Flitcroft who turned us around hiring DC and the great window we had the summer of 2021. That doesnt mean they can't be questioned on the failings now however which are probably more likely than not going to put us back where we were in 2021 in L2 needing a summer to build a promotion side again. IF we go down it wont be your typical lack of spending in the club, £10 million, some on the purchase granted but we probably have more spending on the club than we ever have... it wont be down to being poorly owned or a basket case either so it feels a very needless situation to be in to be honest... thats the main frustration.

Lee Bradbury and Jamie Smith are in currently aren't they? Maybe just helping out or short term, or contract negotiations are ongoing?

To be fair I thought Mighten was equal to them but once he went off our threat was largely gone which meant their wingers were even more free to have a go at our full backs, DJ did alright but once it was Grant there it was messy, this is the problem with trying to change things in February, had Moore had a couple of weeks we may have been able to get a full back into the club, as it is we are waiting on Mitch Clarke really but dont have anyone whos really a full back. Cant get away with playing wingers there as easily as you can wing Back for example.

MK battered us that game on sky, we were terrible but got a penalty which we missed but got lucky with the rebound. Was such a frustrating one, what cost us was an injury time equaliser from Gillingham deep into injury time in the February time against us, we went down by a point on them and they'd have gone instead had we held on!

It all has the Bruno Ribeiro season feel about it now. Started really well, played some lovely football at times, home form was great, didn't concede at home the first few matches, replace the loss to Burton with the loss to Coventry at home that season which then started the wheels coming away from the axel, Loft - Martin Patterson, the loss of Arblaster and Devine to the loss of Grant and Alnwick and you could go on...

I felt more positive after that performance (But I was also positive after the Stevenage one and we didn't build on that!). We played some nice stuff and looked more comfortable, Loft should score and you can see confidence is at a low ebb throughout but something to work from with the 4 at the back. However we need Mitch Clark back and fast, once DJ went off Grant was torn to pieces so Clark at LB, Sang at RB might be the way to go, all be it Azeez is a very good winger at this level. Cracking Goal to break us, that said Wing scored an identical one last season against us at Wycombe! but our heads dropped after that. Defensively we did seem to panic every ball into the box as well so need to calm down.

Moore didn't really play him often at Wednesday from what I read.

Watched it, was quite good and a real insight into how much is involved in just a loan move. Harris said they'd missed a couple etc.

Yeah I was pretty depressed with a couple of minutes to go at the scores, Charlton missed a 1 on 1 on the 98th minute as well which would of been a huge blow. Shrews dropping two points is massive as their GD is terrible, Reading dropping points keeps them close ahead of a huge game. Big weekend, Charlton go to Bolton, Reading go to Portsmouth Shrews host Wigan, Burton go to Orient who are flying at the minute so an opportunity for us if we can find a way to beat Cheltenham. If we can get out the drop zone above Charlton with 3 games in hand and stretch the lead on Cheltenham back to 5 points that would be a huge boost.

Think there is another EFL hearing (dont quote me on that though) anytime soon but not sure what for and if that outcome could incur deductions.

Can't transfer though as still contacted at the close of the window. Just means he wont be able to play any first team games until August.

Crosby said 2-3 weeks after Fleetwood so possibly the weekend/Reading maybe?

Great appointment, good record and think he will fit well. Hopefully starts making us harder to beat and see how we set up under him.

Chuck £100k at him until the end of the season could save us from the drop and big losses from that.

Coming up to 2 years (April 2022) since our last Tuesday night league win which is bonkers, considering we've had plenty of cup wins in that time it is a strange one! We will get beat here I think and possibly heavily, they have goals throughout the team and we rarely do well against them, especially away.

When are Vale not skint? I cant see how we would be totally skint though yet building a gym and new office space.

What are the "rumours"

I did post something similar a few weeks back, the youth players would benefit possibly by relegation in getting game time and they have the ability at that level, plus we have many of our best players contracted so they either have to stay in L2 or we sell for decent money... However the events of the last couple of weeks have left me very worried now as we seem to have lost all control and direction, we need to ensure the management appointment is right enough that we can see them at worst not keeping us up but having the capability to have us back up next year.