page out now

[OakhillDave]

Seriously though??? Uwe rosler would be selling himself rather short to be coming to us. Let's just stick with page eh.

[OakhillDave]

Page in!

[TheSage]

Rosler failed with Wigan and got the sack. He's another one like Poyet. Spends millions but ultimately a failure.

 

He was bankrolled by Matthew Benham, a multi-millionaire, at Brentford who put about £16m in the club.

 

Port Vale is an entirely different kettle of fish.

 

It hasn't gone as well as we would have wanted of late but Page deserves a rolling 12 month contract to see what he can do and then we'll take it from there.

[tommytunstall]

What a meaningless thread. Rob Page is our manager, and deserves the chance to do a pre season and start us off next season, let's truly judge him at Christmas.

[Badboybubba]

The ridiculous obsession with former players is alive and well, obviously. It's stupid, has the Glover/ Grew/ Foyle lessons not been learnt?

Hopefully the lessons will have been learned come the end of the season, but I won't hold my breath! :(

[cheshirevaliant]

We may be bigger than Brentford (I'd suggest we are about the same size traditionally), but I bet there aren't many of their fans who would swap places with us.

[valeparklife]

I would argue we have played some decent football under Page, I certainly don't think it has got any worse.

 

Our obvious problem was addressed with Iniss, who got injured - but I accept that one loanee was not enough.

 

Signings-wise, only Campion has signed as far as I know - it's clear the loans have not all been RP's work.

 

I'm not sure what "typical Port Vale" means!

 

The style just seems the same to me, hoof it up to Pope? The only difference is that we mess about about the back with it more, passing from defender to defender a few times until someone launches it up field? We don't have any pattern to our play?

 

"Typical Port Vale" I mean is once we get within distance of the playoffs, we throw it all away with an abject performance. Teams that haven't won for weeks easily beat us. Poor teams you'd expect to beat at home beat us 1-0. Etc etc etc.

 

Sinnott was correct all those years ago.

 

Root to branch needed.

[Fosse69]

Why is that then? We're bigger than Brentford, he failed at Wigan who were non-league till the 1980's.

Money talks, both clubs had far more money than we have, when he went to them, history did not matter. I dont suppose he knew that the Bees had finished in the top 6 of what is now the Prem, for 3 seasons, in the 30s.

[cheshirevaliant]

Brentford seasons in the Championship : 11

PVFC : 46

 

Brentford capacity and record crowd : 12763, 38678

PVFC : 19400, 49768

 

Brentford average attendance since the 1980's - 8476

PVFC : 9174

 

Whilst I can't be arsed getting into an argument about it, there are plenty of holes in the "we've been in the Championship for a long time" argument. Most of those 46 years were spent when the Second Division was also the bottom division in the latter 19th and early 20th century. Brentford have also been in the top division, whereas obviously we never have.

[Rampant Zebra]

Seriously though, how many people who he was talking about are still at the club?

[billywhizz]

I'm told that Rosler was in the directors box at the blunts on the weekend 😉

[OakhillDave]

Brentford seasons in the Championship : 11

PVFC : 46

 

Brentford capacity and record crowd : 12763, 38678

PVFC : 19400, 49768

 

Brentford average attendance since the 1980's - 8476

PVFC : 9174

 

The past makes no ounce of difference to present day standings.

[Heatwave]

Page, with his own backroom staff, and his own signings.

 

Until then we don't know what we have.

[Burslem Academicals]

Seriously though, how many people who he was talking about are still at the club?

 

Lodey

Glover

Grew

[Fosse69]

Brentford seasons in the Championship : 11

PVFC : 46

 

Brentford capacity and record crowd : 12763, 38678

PVFC : 19400, 49768

 

Brentford average attendance since the 1980's - 8476

PVFC : 9174

Their new ground is 20k, but they are unlikely to finish as the top team in London again.