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We'll never know but the last time we saw a Crosby team was I think that 3-0 hammering at Fleetwood where we just looked completely unprepared to play. My feeling is it would have been just as bad though maybe we might have won the possession stats more often.

Ultimately we can analyse other things but point 1 is the key reason there. For a club like us and our budget if we get our recruitment wrong it's just too much to overcome. Obviously that's all Flitcrofts domain or was but really it needed someone to challenge him on how it was we had such an imbalanced squad which has come back to bite us.

I would want to see what he could do with a transfer window (and am sure that is what will happen) but have to admit what felt a great appointment for us at the time is looking increasingly shaky by the game especially some of his in game management. No disputing his record across two clubs this season is horrible.

I was one of them. What can I say I'd put it down to injuries at the time.

Stop the press we've scored a goal!!

That first touch from Uche is a pathetic sight.

It's a cruel joke by whoever it was that told Uche he was a professional footballer.

What the hell is that free kick 😂

Utterly pathetic.

Start as you mean to go on Vale. That is an awful pass and very lucky Vokes didn't score.

That’s astounding that all of the defence keep their places after that abortion on Saturday. Big call to not include our most effective attacker in Baylee unless they are now wrapping him up in cotton wool in case he gets injured ahead of any sale in the summer! Uche and Loft should provide some comedy between them anyway.

Prices are fair enough to me. Expect I’d have renewed even with a slight increase albeit through gritted teeth. Just want to see us more than anything show some intent in the transfer market once the window is open. I think the club should try and be a bit more imaginative with matchday pricing though. Going to be a lot more difficult to entice walk ups in L2 unless we are in a promotion battle next season.

While it’s fair to say Smith is not really captaincy material making Uche the captain is a really out there suggestion. Not sure what example you think he’s setting other than displaying some absolutely shocking conditioning to be blowing out of his arse after 50 minutes.

Be surprised if he did resign. I very much doubt there’d be a huge amount of clubs wanting him right now. Guess it comes down to what backing he’s going to get here for the rebuild.

You know what I’d be minded to give Ben Lomax a look on the right. Can’t be worse defensively than Sang was in the second half yesterday. Can put Sang in the middle then. Maybe give Brazier a spot in the squad too. We’re not going to survive now so may as well see what some of the others have ahead of next season.

Yeah for me let’s see what he can do with a transfer window and some of his own players. Even this isn’t going to be easy with so many under contract. There’ve been times I’ve been encouraged with how we’ve looked organised at the start of games but the in game management when teams make changes has been dismal / non-existent and needs to improve drastically for me.

Agree with all of that. Only thing I’d politely suggest to Carol is once the dust has settled on the season maybe revisit that open letter she wrote and just address that as that did leave a little bit of a sour taste. By next Saturday we’ll likely have an R next to our name so Moore needs to start having those conversations about who in this squad we go forward with.

I want to be charitable to DM as essentially he’s been asked to try and get something out of the <ovf censored> sandwich served up by Flitcroft. That said in a must win game today I think you can attribute a decent percentage of the blame on him for how that second half played out. We’ll see what happens when he has his own players.

One of the worst aspects is you knew within a couple of minutes of the second half starting how the pendulum was swinging and we did nothing to counter it. The moment they got one back you just knew the capitulation was coming. Pretty numb to it though at this point.

Wow this is an all timer of a collapse and that just wraps it up.

Anyone remember before the season start some of the boasts about how fit as a team they’d be etc? These ran out of steam around the 55th minute so wouldn’t say that aged well.

This half is an absolute disgrace. Hard to see us getting out of this now.

Big deflection there. Need to step it back up again now, we’ve been offering them a route back in since the half started.

That’s the most Uche thing have ever seen. Nice powerful run doing all the hard work then proceeds to hit it closer to the roof of the Hamil 😂

Not too fussed on Burton at the moment, we just need to focus on keeping doing what we are doing. The rest will take care of itself. Really impressive how many turnovers we’ve forced off them so far. Very good half Vale.