Port Vale 1 Rochdale 0 - Post Match Comments

[grebovale]

Most satisfying result this season against the best footballing team av seen this season

[CAVALIER]

Makes me wonder what planet Adams was on

[Conrad]

To be fair to Williamson, the "miss" was from a very tight angle.

[Howjy04]

Makes me wonder what planet Adams was on

 

The Lost Planet.

[Jay606]

Excellent result - great performances from Robertson, Veseli and Daniel. N'Guessan also played well.

Miss of the season from Williamson.

[Jacko51]

Under Rob Page, we've played 9, won 5, drawn 2, lost 2. That's 17 points from 9 games. Over a season that would give us 87 points. Whether we are able to continue this form is a moot point but to be honest, I don't think any other manager could have done any better.

[werstayinup]

Under Rob Page, we've played 9, won 5, drawn 2, lost 2. That's 17 points from 9 games. Over a season that would give us 87 points. Whether we are able to continue this form is a moot point but to be honest, I don't think any other manager could have done any better.

 

Jean,i think he has most certainly proved his doubters wrong

[Yukon]

What we've been crying out for but could you see Griff scoring that goal. Pure ability.

 

It was a very intelligent finish. Most players would have tried to hit it clean and blast it over, to hit it down and let the bounce out fox the 'keeper showed Brown's experience and quality

[Jinkin John Jeffers]

To be fair to Williamson, the "miss" was from a very tight angle.

 

No it wasn't it was a poor finish.

[Yukon]

Jean,i think he has most certainly proved his doubters wrong

 

As a experience of his appointment I'm converted. There was more guts in that second half than I've seen in a good while

[valiant_593]

Under Rob Page, we've played 9, won 5, drawn 2, lost 2. That's 17 points from 9 games. Over a season that would give us 87 points. Whether we are able to continue this form is a moot point but to be honest, I don't think any other manager could have done any better.

 

I agree, brilliant tactics today, I wasnt overly impressed with the apppointment of page, but so far hes doing fantastic

[TeenValiant]

Most satisfying result this season against the best footballing team av seen this season

 

You obviously weren't there last week then

[Hagrid]

I heard a lot of people complaining around me about how deep we were sitting but I thought the tactics were spot on from Page.

 

Credit to Rochdale and Keith Hill for trying to pass the ball but we were very positionally disciplined and they couldn't break down the 5 in midfield, all of their passing was sideways or backwards. They had no plan B and we hit them on the counter numerous times.

 

The centre halves were superb and Yates was quietly consistent. Brown shielded the back 4 excellently and looked calm in distribution. Colin Daniel got the ground on their feet every time he got the ball.

 

IMHO N'Guessan holds the ball up better than Pope and we looked very dangerous breaking today as we could play it into him safe in the knowledge he'd lay it off to someone.

 

Very, very pleased with today. Intelligent, efficient performance. :D

[TeenValiant]

There was a collective gasp when their number 9 was announced as Calvin Andrew, as he came off I was saying how good he played, why was he never like that for us ;)

[Biddulph_PV]

As good a result is this was, let's put a bit of context around it, namely they had their best attacking players out! The first half was some of the most turgid football I've ever seen - had Glover's and Grew's stamp all over it. Our sole tactic seemed to be Neal's persistently long kicks to the left hand side, completely mystifying as we never won a single ball from it. Ridiculous and so predictable that even the ref shuffled over to that side of the pitch every time we had a goal kick. Apart from Williamsons absolute howler, which came from their mistake, of the two times that we managed to get behind them, we scored and had one scrambled away. Too many sideways passes and long balls, and at times looked all very pedestrian. But, that's yet another time who have completely "out-footballer" us.