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Match Thread: Port Vale v Stevenage


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18 minutes ago, darren1810 said:

Have I actually read that Pope isn't the player he was in the promotion season ?

You do know we went up in 12/13 now 7 years ago ? 

Strange statement to make

Exactly...the club should be moving on with the players they play and build for the next five years. The 2 year contract for a spent Tom Pope was a ridiculous decision

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9 hours ago, whotobeakiller said:

Exactly...the club should be moving on with the players they play and build for the next five years. The 2 year contract for a spent Tom Pope was a ridiculous decision

Post Bosman no club at this level can plan 5 years out. 2 years is the absolute maximum.

Pope is clearly still good enough to play at this level, if we offered him out on loan in January 9 or 10 other clubs would snap him up. The areas of legitimate debate are;

Is he currently better than our other strikers - I not sure how I would rate the 4 options at the moment

Does his current wage represent value for money. Without knowing what he's on impossible to answer. At 500 a week he would be a bargain, at 3000 a week I'd say he wasn't. The truth is he's probably somewhere in the middle. All we know is he's on less than when he was at Bury. I suspect he's on a higher wage than most of our squad and will probably be offered a reduced wage when his contract runs out.

The truth is he isn't as good as 7 years ago, which is hardly surprising. He is more one dimensional but he is good as an old fashioned target man.

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1 minute ago, valiant steve said:

Any win today. Pope to score. He is our best striker by a mile. Should be playing the full 90 minutes in my opinion.

JA reckons Stevenage have changed their horrible, cheating tactics. I hope he's right for the sake of the entertainment factor. 

Teams struggle to kill games if the don't score first.

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