Port Vale 2 Crawley 3 - Post Match Comments

[TheSage]

To be fair to Neal he made two good saves after half time and although he does stay on his line I wouldn't blame him for all the goals.

 

McGivern is no better than the other defenders. He's got two spoons for feet and is too lightweight. True, he made a couple of good interceptions but he's like Bambi on ice. The ONLY good defender we've got is Veseli and he's too good for the Vale. If Page can't see that we need a big strong centre half he should go to specsavers. The defence was garbage in the first part of the season and is back to the same standard tonight. Dreadful stuff. Out-muscled and beaten in the air every time.

 

Sadly, quite a few were below par tonight and only Dodds played well.

 

Why does Marshall play in the centre of the pitch and not on the wing? We didn't have ONE effort at goal in the second half. It was dire.

But if we could defend we would have won the game.

[For Us All]

I honestly can't see how he gets in the side. Same with birchall and to some extent pope. I get that yates is a local lad but come on, he gets beaten for headers constantly, is out of position tons and gives the ball away. Would be lucky get in a League 2 side imo

 

He got in the side because Dicko was injured,who would you have played?

[Bycarsbill]

If either side could defend, that game would have finished 0-0.

 

Inniss has gone back and we've started shipping soft goals left right and centre again. It's not rocket science.

 

I've been saying the same all season. If we can't get a decent central back (preferably Innis) we're stuffed!

[Volcano]

Page has to go now, to let someone else prepare for the clearout. He has been outthought by virtually every visiting manager. We are in deep ****.

 

If we had Page as manager since start of season, I'd guess we'd be in the play-offs now. When Micky lost those 5/6 however many games consecutively, if we had won 1 or 2 of those, then maybe. Also this team is still majority Micky's signings. Bring on clearout in summer and let Page get his own players in.

[For Us All]

The quality of the players is dependent on the budget, cheap prices only attract cheap players. The way to attract crowds is through the type of football and a winning team.

 

But our budget is £300,000 bigger than Swindon's and look where they are?

[gobbyash]

Neal 5

Yates 5

Robertson 5

Veseli 6

McGivern 7

Marshall 6

Oconnor 5

Brown 6

Daniel 6

Dodds 8

Pope 5

 

that's how I saw it !!

[werstayinup]

Okay Mr.Page, the season is effectively over, please use the rest of the season to try the younger lads, and fringe players, drop the dead wood and plan for next season.....

 

I was saying that after the game,no harm now giving O'Sullivan,Andoh,Deen-Conteh and Campion a run in the team

[CambridgeDon]

The posts about Grew and Glover on here tonight are truly worrying. It's not just that the both of them haven't a clue and that between them they have the worst record of virtually any manager we've ever had since 1876, it's the fact that Page can't see through them. Tonight had Glover's baleful influence written all over it. He should be nowhere near the club after his disastrous spells as manager. As I've said before, nothing good will come of his influence and so it is proving. Doesn't say much for Page's judgement, I'm afraid.

[valeblue]

We need defenders!!!!

[Jacko51]

Very disappointing result and performance. I should have taken me knitting.

[bertiepee]

The only good thing about tonights result is.......................................Crewe being back in trouble!

 

Why is that good news, would we sooner play Crewe next season with a potential 8000 crowd or Crawley with a sub 4000 crowd, and have a 30min trip or a 4 hour trip

[Fosse69]

But our budget is £300,000 bigger than Swindon's and look where they are?

 

But they also lost to Crawley at home. We could have some higher paid senior players, whereas their players are younger.They may make better use of the loan market, and at lower costs. But £300k is not a massive difference, no where near Bristol`s £16M deficit,

[Smugsy]

Poor performance against a poor team with Dodds the only one coming out with any credit and even he disappeared second half. The full backs were particularly bad with Dickinson doing his reputation a power of good because McGivern was shocking.

 

The problem with the clear out theory is that we are never going to offer enough wages to overhaul the team overnight. It has to be evolution rather than revolution. Two or three players out, two or three in. I honestly believe we are a better team than last year and overall we are on the right path. People have short memories. It was only a few years ago where we were staring the conference in the face and would have been delighted with 13th in League One.

[bookworm]

I was saying that after the game,no harm now giving O'Sullivan,Andoh,Deen-Conteh and Campion a run in the team

 

just got back in, dodds ,marshall,veseli,ok, the rest well off colour would be the kindest way of describing the game, terrible defending gave them two goals.If we fluked promotion we'd only do a derby and drop like a stone,crawley were no great shakes but they saw the openings and took them,by the way the bycars is so-so in the grey seats ,can't say if the shuffle made any difference.

[werstayinup]

It really wouldn't surprise me if Smurf didn't want the yes men Glover and Grew as his dream team