Fri 26th Feb 2016, Port Vale v Southend U, pre-match comments and the match itself.

[valiant_593]

My team too' date=' more chance of hell freezing over than Page playing it though.[/quote']

 

Mine also

[Bucknall Rob]

Not the desperate annual, let's give Campion a go suggestions. The guy is a proven duffer. He has never looked at any moment like a player who can cut it in any English professional division and makes Kyle Perry look like Jamie Vardy.

 

I am not saying we should be playing Campion, he probably needs releasing at the end of the season and sure he will but not sure he is as bad as one of the worst players I have seen to pull on a Vale shirt, Kyle Perry's record of 0 goals in 31 games as a striker will take some beating.

[TheSage]

I don't think Perry played all those games as a centre forward. Didn't he play a lot on the left wing?

 

Our best bet this weekend is probably to re-unite AJ and Dodds. I'd also recall O'Connor.

Southend are a very big team and Inniss might also get a game if he's fit.

 

It's very hard to see where the goals will come from.

[Bucknall Rob]

Neal

 

Purkiss

Streete

Duffy

Dickinson

 

Grant

 

O'connor

Foley

 

Kennedy

AJ

Kelly

 

My team as well but knowing our manager it will probably be something like;

 

Neal

Purkiss

Duffy

McGivern

Dicko

Dodds

Foley

Grant

Kennedy

Theo

Aj

[Tenement Funster]

Neal

 

Purkiss

Streete

Duffy

Dickinson

 

Grant

 

O'connor

Foley

 

Kennedy

AJ

Kelly

 

I was just about to post this. It fits perfectly as long as Kennedy and Kelly don't completely forget some defensive responsbility. It allows you to get both Foley and O'Connor in the side whilst also letting Kelly have a little more freedom as we've seen how bad he can be in a fixed 4-4-2 at places like Walsall. Finally it should allow us to play through teams rather than just lump balls into the box for no one to get on the end of.

[smithie]

Finally it should allow us to play through teams rather than just lump balls into the box for no one to get on the end of.

 

This is the maddening thing about the CB's continually lumping it to AJLS, and the ineffectiveness (so far) of Robinson in the air.

 

This is where we miss (a) Pope.

[butt lane vale fan]

I was just about to post this. It fits perfectly as long as Kennedy and Kelly don't completely forget some defensive responsbility. It allows you to get both Foley and O'Connor in the side whilst also letting Kelly have a little more freedom as we've seen how bad he can be in a fixed 4-4-2 at places like Walsall. Finally it should allow us to play through teams rather than just lump balls into the box for no one to get on the end of.

 

But then all the football managers on here and Faceache will moan how negative the manager is for not playing 4-4-2

[jospvfc]

I was just about to post this. It fits perfectly as long as Kennedy and Kelly don't completely forget some defensive responsbility. It allows you to get both Foley and O'Connor in the side whilst also letting Kelly have a little more freedom as we've seen how bad he can be in a fixed 4-4-2 at places like Walsall. Finally it should allow us to play through teams rather than just lump balls into the box for no one to get on the end of.

 

My team selection this would also

[ELDERBEZZA]

I don't think Perry played all those games as a centre forward. Didn't he play a lot on the left wing?

 

Our best bet this weekend is probably to re-unite AJ and Dodds. I'd also recall O'Connor.

Southend are a very big team and Inniss might also get a game if he's fit.

 

It's very hard to see where the goals will come from.

After speaking to him last week don't think he will feature on Friday.Maybe next week he'll be back.

[davidatpreston]

It would be a start if we made sure Robinson' date=' Moore and Dodds were nowhere near the starting 11 or subs bench![/quote']

 

Guaranteed that our fans will find new scapegoats every time - not long ago it was Dickinson and Duffy and others - but rather than have a go at you, I'll remind you that when Fairport Nick posted Dicko as his scapegoat, I predicted in a post 3 hours before kick off that Dicko would score and he got the winning goal - his first opf the season but not the last.

 

This time it will happen again, one of your 'goats' will provide us with a horny winner against Southend.

 

Port Vale 2 Southend United 1 - just over 4,000 will see us win.

[Regal Beagle]

I think we need to start with JJ + AJ. They are the only two strikers we have that can actually pass to each other.

[fuzzyvalefan]

Hooper and AJ were beginning to form a partnership before Robinson came in and has offered the square root of sod all and taken Aj's game down with it. My team:

 

......................Neal......................

 

Purkiss.....Duffy......Streete.....Dickinson

 

Kennedy....Grant.......O'Connor.....Foley

 

..................JJ.........AJ.....................

[Like Vale I Do]

Southend comfortably beating league leaders Burton at the moment and looking very decent.

We'll have to be well up for it Friday night.

[For Us All]

Southend comfortably beating league leaders Burton at the moment and looking very decent.

We'll have to be well up for it Friday night.

 

Full Time - Southend 3 Burton 1.

[Santa]

What's the question again?