Football Swindon 5 Port Vale2 - Post Match Discussion

[George]

Admittedly we had a crap defence last season too

 

Errrr......the one that was the 3rd best in the league in terms of goals conceded.

[aspin for england]

didnt expect anything at swindon , it is a bogey ground with a capital B. Amazing reaction, no probs with same defence at Crawley , lose here and we should be shipping everybody out. . For a so called poor defence we havnt done too bad so far this season. Weve known all season that we need another CB.

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

Is Stoke's next game bogging off to the Sunday slot because this 3 o'clock KO followed by a Stoke-fest is as dull as ****?

 

Any chance of that in english?

[PortVale89]

didnt expect anything at swindon , it is a bogey ground with a capital B. Amazing reaction, no probs with same defence at Crawley , lose here and we should be shipping everybody out. . For a so called poor defence we havnt done too bad so far this season. Weve known all season that we need another CB.

 

Not sure I understand your post. You defend the defence, but then finish with saying we need new defenders. Strange.

[Lady_Vale]

Errrr......the one that was the 3rd best in the league in terms of goals conceded.

 

Christ, now that shows how **** league 2 is then

[Lady_Vale]

Any chance of that in english?

 

Take your time. I'm sure you can figure it out

[Jinkin John Jeffers]

Off day but not the end of the world. I would push dicko into the defensive midfield position and bring Jones back in to help with a bit of pace at the back.

[Portvalefc]

We,'ve lost yes players should feel hurt tonight but tomorrow let,s go again starting with shortstops.One game does,nt make a season.

[cheeky]

I didn't go. It sounds from Mickys interview the defence backed off, which has been a problem for the last few years, and that's because we haven't had a pacey centre back for the last few years.

 

Saying that, lack of pace alone doesn't make a centre back poor and I don't agree with singling out Chilvers. He was our best centre half, second half of last season and the defence has looked better in general, as a unit, with him in the side. One swallow doesn't make a summer; we'll win some, we'll lose some. I can live with that and if we carry one as we are, we'll finish mid table which will have to be classed as a good season.

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

Take your time. I'm sure you can figure it out

 

Not got a clue, something bizarre about Stoke on the match thread, we played Swindon you know? ;)

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

I didn't go. It sounds from Mickys interview the defence backed off, which has been a problem for the last few years, and that's because we haven't had a pacey centre back for the last few years.

 

Saying that, lack of pace alone doesn't make a centre back poor and I don't agree with singling out Chilvers. He was our best centre half, second half of last season and the defence has looked better in general, as a unit, with him in the side. One swallow doesn't make a summer; we'll win some, we'll lose some. I can live with that and if we carry one as we are, we'll finish mid table which will have to be classed as a good season.

 

Pretty much spot on for me, blaming one man when all of the back four were pretty awful is a little strange.

 

Anything between 12th and 14th will be fine with this squad.

[PortVale89]

I can tell you this much for free. Arthur will not be happy with that performance. He's paid 25 quid and no one looked interested. All Arthur wants is an honest performance. It wasn't there today. He will not be happy. I hope it doesn't ruin his Saturday night.

[southport vale]

Very good point. Griff offered nothing. Dodds put more tackles in than him.

 

Well you never went to the match or if you did you were watching a different match. Dodds ran around like a headless chicken didn't tackle anyone and had no idea where he was playing. If he plays 1 more game for the Vale it's one too many. He needs to find a new career because he is garbage at this one.

 

TBH we were embarrassing Loft put a shift in and the right side defensively second half were awful. Yates very poor as well and the triple substitutions were frankly bizarre what system we were playing and who where I couldn't tell you.

 

The referee was poor for both sides and it'll be interesting to see the Hughes incident.

[George]

I didn't go. It sounds from Mickys interview the defence backed off, which has been a problem for the last few years, and that's because we haven't had a pacey centre back for the last few years.

 

Saying that, lack of pace alone doesn't make a centre back poor and I don't agree with singling out Chilvers. He was our best centre half, second half of last season and the defence has looked better in general, as a unit, with him in the side. One swallow doesn't make a summer; we'll win some, we'll lose some. I can live with that and if we carry one as we are, we'll finish mid table which will have to be classed as a good season.

 

Are you feeling ok? If so, maybe it's me that's acting strange, but I can't disagree with a single word of that. In fact, I agree with it all.

 

Potentially your finest post ever made on OVF. Treat yourself to a beer.

[SourceOfTheTrent]

Swindon must want to play us every week. Our last three visits there have seen us concede 6, 5 & 5. However, it's getting better as at least we scored 2 today!

 

I thought we'd lose there today but I can't accept conceding 5 - again. I'm sure Micky isn't too impressed either. Our defending this season hasn't been too good and we need to clamp down on letting in soft goals, like the one against Gillingham or various others.

 

That said, I'm happy with our league position at this stage; we just need to be sure to at least maintain it.