mr.hobblesworth

Yes! He's back!

I can. We haven't had a proper squad since promotion. An utter shambles. I genuinely think Flitcroft and Carol are making it up as they go along. "Trust the process"? What process? Where's the strategy, where's the long term thinking? How are they supposed to build the club and sell it to supporters when we're seeing such rank amateurism. Absolute <ovf censored>.

"Other than a striker" lol. And left back. And central midfield. We can't score, we can't defend. We're continually betting the house on loan signings, overseen by a chump who loves the sound of his own voice and an owner who appears to be under his spell. We're one place off the relegation places and relying on a donkey, a child and an extremely injury prone player for goals, depending on kids in midfield and don't have a LWB.

That's what I meant.

It would be completely deserved.

They're just killing off any buzz, optimism or good feelings about the club. Far too many mistakes have been made, embarrassingly so in some cases, and the place just reeks of <ovf censored>. You can just pick at a thread of most stuff that Carol and df have said and it immediately unravels. Why on earth would anyone opt to pay on the door to see a team with Loft up front? Why would any kid look at Vale and Stoke and decide to follow us with our <ovf censored> squad of injured players, loans and donkeys?

What about the 2 Chelsea players that Flitcroft was talking to?

Just the blaster is highly annoying going to Barnsley Not sure he has. Only mention I've seen is what Doha posted, and that account has a grand total of 927 followers

Is that it?

How many loans is that now?

Feels weird knowing that we used to rely on ceefax and clubcall on deadline day.

No, but you'd think that a huge club like Liverpool would have a forensic knowledge of one of their promising young player's condition. They would know if it was suitable for him to go out and play, and know if he wasn't in any condition to go out on loan.

Not passing the buck but how could one of the biggest clubs in the world try to palm off an injured asset to a league club? Doesn't make sense, so am thinking that we either discovered something Liverpool weren't aware of (which is unlikely) or something has happened to him since he got here. Very strange whatever has happened.

Talking of Southampton, they've recalled Thierry Small from his loan at St Mirren as he'd only made 6 appearances since August. Doesn't seem to have a particularly auspicious career ahead of him.

Even when Clarke was fit, he wasn't being played.

I guess you have to gamble if you're going to try and land successful younger players but, yeah, you're right. I think Cass would be a much better player now if he'd been given the opportunities and second chances that Balmer had. I'm not party to rumours but I've never heard anything negative about the way Lewis conducts himself, it seems a shame for him to be discarded like this.

What's happened with Cass? Thought the reason we'd not been using him is that he had somewhere lined up, in which case I expected he'd be gone early doors. I feel incredibly sorry for him tbh. Not half as bad as some make out, especially considering how he's only used sporadically.

Manchester United fans are the biggest bunch of <ovf censored> going. Imagine choosing a team to gloryhunt and then them being as irrelevant as MU are these days.

That might not be true, his contract could stipulate that he can talk to other clubs and it could be his agent hawking him around.

Apparently, we might be getting Dan Gore on loan?

Not sure if anyone's posted this...

Huh? What's that about?

Maybe, but saying "Carol will cash in every opportunity she gets" is unfair. She's not Smurthwaite. I'm not necessarily blaming Flitcroft either, I clearly stated this might all be out of Vale's hands.

I don't think that's particularly true. Hope not anyway.

I agree, which is why it might be better not having someone announce our transfer philosophy and then having to bin it off later in the season.