Match Thread - Port Vale v Tranmere

[CambridgeDon]

Askey P3, L3. How many more defeats until our genius owner has to sack him...and put Pugh in charge. You couldn't make it up.

[Biddulph_PV]

Yep no defending that' date=' Askey is a joke of a manager. Also Garlick and his ridiculous [b']exhaustive search[/b] needs to look at himself. First Michael Brown now this absolute clown, still the owner was complicit in appointing 5 clowns.

 

Ummmmm, I bet it was.

[Paul6754]

For those fans who wanted Aspin out you got your wish, Vale are worse now than before. Askey looked like a deer caught in headlights during his interviews after the Morecambe game, have little faith in him leading Vale out of this mess.

 

Desperate, desperate times at Vale Park.

[Upfromnowhere]

OMG, can it get any worse.Before people slate me, yes it was an improvement in the second half but only just, and more so because it couldn't be any worse, but blimey there are were some bloody awful performances out there again.

 

Top of the performance poo pile, yet again were messers Kay, can one person give the ball away any more than he did tonight?

Hannant who was so far beyond poor it's hard to accurately describe. Clarke who somehow has morphed from a really decent loanee with sights initially set so much higher than Div 2 into a player who looks like PV is the last place he wants to be, and Rawlinson who like Clarke is a shadow of the player he was in the first couple of months of the season.

 

Another two disastrous goals, especially the second one and one has to ask when will we learn,will we ever learn and more relevant I suppose, will we have the time to learn as that relegation zone is drawing us in like a magnet, and lastly how, when chasing the game, do we wait until the last five minutes to bring on another forward?

 

Was going to go at the weekend, but for the first time all season...sod that,because if the players cant be bothered then nor can I!

[valiant_593]

For those fans who wanted Aspin out you got your wish, Vale are worse now than before. Askey looked like a deer caught in headlights during his interviews after the Morecambe game, have little faith in him leading Vale out of this mess.

 

Desperate, desperate times at Vale Park.

 

We’re exactly the same as before. Useless. He’s not changed anything that hasn’t worked all season from aspin. He has been a literal carbon copy of aspin thus far.

[fuzzyvalefan]

Brown-could’ve done better with first goal

 

Gibbons- ok

 

Rawlinson- ****

 

Smith-****

 

Crookes- ****

 

Clarke- ****

 

Kay- extremely ****

 

Conlon- extremely ****

 

Hannant- extremely ****

 

Whitfield- only bright spark

 

Pope- tried his best but surrounded by ****

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

For those fans who wanted Aspin out you got your wish, Vale are worse now than before. Askey looked like a deer caught in headlights during his interviews after the Morecambe game, have little faith in him leading Vale out of this mess.

 

Desperate, desperate times at Vale Park.

 

Aspin needed to leave as the players let him down so badly.

 

Askey was NEVER the answer.

 

It’s like saying would you rather be punched in the right testicle or the left testicle.

[Valist]

Conlon was an embarrassment tonight. I'm at a loss to how he stayed on the pitch.

[MBE]

We need to stop dicking around and play our best team regardless of status and contract situation as this is really not working. The midfield has no legs which is why we are persisting with 5 in there Teams just break through our lines too easily which Tranmere did when we switched formation. This persistence of so many defenders is absolutely killing us we are asking two ******* fullbacks to provide the creativity for Pope -its never going to happen. I know Kaye is getting a battering on here but he is the only player in midfield who actually looks to want the ball and try play a pass. Conlon is non existent and Hannant is a headless chicken.

 

Only positive tonight has to be Worall who caused problems with his direct running and Whitefield managed to last 80 mins.

 

We need a radical change to the personnel and formation and need to try and attack teams more to stand a change of getting 5 wins. I'd rather go down fighting rather than keep things tight for draws.

 

I would look to go -:

 

Brown

Gibbons

Howkins

Legge

Crooks

Manny (if fit)

Joyce (if fit)

Monty

Worrall

Whitefield

Miller

 

We need to do something different than we have for the last 30 + games otherwise we will go down.

[MBE]

Worst Vale squad ever in my lifetime bar none but....

 

We need to stop dicking around and play our best team regardless of status and contract situation as this is really not working. The midfield has no legs which is why we are persisting with 5 in there Teams just break through our lines too easily which Tranmere did when we switched formation. This persistence of so many defenders is absolutely killing us.We are asking two ******* fullbacks to provide the creativity for Pope -its never going to happen. I know Kaye is getting a battering on here but he is the only player in midfield who actually looks to want the ball and try play a pass. Conlon is non existent and Hannant is a headless chicken.

 

Only positive tonight has to be Worall who caused problems with his direct running and Whitefield managed to last 80 mins.

 

We need a radical change to the personnel and formation and need to try and attack teams more to stand a change of getting 5 wins. I'd rather go down fighting rather than keep things tight for draws.

 

I would look to go -:

 

Brown

Gibbons

Howkins

Legge

Crooks

Manny (if fit)

Joyce (if fit)

Monty

Worrall

Whitefield

Miller

 

We need to do something different than we have for the last 30 + games otherwise we will go down.

[SuperHuman]

The reality is that we simply don’t have good enough players, even for the fourth division. I used to always think that there wasn’t much between league two teams except small margins. However, the last few months has proven how far we are behind some teams. How many of our players would get in Tranmere’s team? On that showing, none. They had a striker who put Pope to shame, their whole midfield was comfortable on the ball and their defence never look troubled.

 

In terms of us, the lack of quality is embarrassing.

Hannant - Terrible for the last few months. He offers nothing except from the ability to run around.

Rawlinson - It’s scary how a professional footballer can be so useless with the ball at his feet.

Conlon - Can’t dribble, can’t tackle, can’t head and gets knocked off the ball at every opportunity.

Pope - Let’s be honest, he’s either unfit or passed it. I could of marked him tonight.

 

I could go on and criticise the whole team but those were a few notable standouts tonight.

 

I think a lot of us are now accepting where we are heading. It’s gutting.

[Bald Eagle]

We might not score a goal under Askey before the summer. Not a great precursor to asking for the job full time.

 

Congratulations Askey. Following the Baldrick Brown blueprint, take over a failing team and make it worse!

[Paul6754]

We’re exactly the same as before. Useless. He’s not changed anything that hasn’t worked all season from aspin. He has been a literal carbon copy of aspin thus far.

 

Expected a new manager to change things, lost all three games since he took charge, players have no confidence, Askey has no confidence as judged from his interviews. Players will soon have no confidence in him if things don't change.

 

You got what you asked for 593.

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

We need to stop dicking around and play our best team regardless of status and contract situation as this is really not working. The midfield has no legs which is why we are persisting with 5 in there Teams just break through our lines too easily which Tranmere did when we switched formation. This persistence of so many defenders is absolutely killing us we are asking two ******* fullbacks to provide the creativity for Pope -its never going to happen. I know Kaye is getting a battering on here but he is the only player in midfield who actually looks to want the ball and try play a pass. Conlon is non existent and Hannant is a headless chicken.

 

Only positive tonight has to be Worall who caused problems with his direct running and Whitefield managed to last 80 mins.

 

We need a radical change to the personnel and formation and need to try and attack teams more to stand a change of getting 5 wins. I'd rather go down fighting rather than keep things tight for draws.

 

I would look to go -:

 

Brown

Gibbons

Howkins

Legge

Crooks

Manny (if fit)

Joyce (if fit)

Monty

Worrall

Whitefield

Miller

 

We need to do something different than we have for the last 30 + games otherwise we will go down.

 

Why is it you and I and probably thousands of others can see that would be a good side to play but that clown in the managers seat is too dumb or ignorant?

 

I saw someone joke that he was sent by Macc to ruin us and save them, now I know it was said tongue in cheek and the players are utter ***** but my god Askey is giving it a go. Wonder if he’s on a bonus if Macc stay up?

[vale on toower]

At what point did Arthur realise a 1-2 scoreline was of no use to us?

On 77mins,Miller is stripped off ready to go (way to late) only to be told to go back and sit down, yes Ben Whit' was a smidge lame but still more effective than the calamity sisters Kay n Conlon, either of whom should have come off instead and how very strange, once we reduced the number of defenders we had on the pitch we go and score a ruddy goal. How very odd indeed🤔