Match Thread: Port Vale v Swindon Town

[Rampant Zebra]

They were wearing different boots today!

[Bald Eagle]

3 minutes ago, Rampant Zebra said:

They were wearing different boots today!

Shooting boots 😉

[Jacko51]

43 minutes ago, Iron Curtain said:

Their forum makes interesting reading

In summary:

- Vale were well organised and difficult to break down 

- Pope was excellent at holding the ball... they say “one of the positives is that everyone in this league has a Pope”

- Vale did their homework and realised Zakuani is no good on the ball and dropped off and marked the midfield when he got it nullifying the threat of them playing through

- Legge tackle was firm but fair

 

 

One of them says, "  Very few teams have a Pope "

[Walka003]

The twins compliment each other really well and seem to have a real understanding of each others game, and with Joyce marshaling they have the freedom of the park.

 

 

[toyahw]

Last comment, Monty was great today. And lovely to hear the crowd getting right behind him.(and Amoo was not lazy).

[jockyboy]

6 hours ago, darren1810 said:

Bossed the game

Number 10 beardy is quality

Pope's miss truly hideous 

But set up for 1st goal sublime

[Guitar Ray]

The BBC website shows Swindles as having 66% possession.  Half of that must have been Zakuani, who didn’t appear to know what to to when he had the ball at his feet. We were just happy to let him trundle round with it before he decided to smash it long and out for a throw. 😂

[pvfc_loyal]

huge win today important to build on that now as the top half is getting pretty bunched up

 

we play the 3 worst teams in the league next 3 games so should be able to bridge the gap a bit to Crewe etc. 

[Valist]

They had different boots on today!

I big mention for Burgess for me, often does stuff and his twin Taylor gets the credit, including my first assessment of who scored the first goal! If he gets himself a different pair of boots to Taylor he’ll start getting noticed more.

[jockyboy]

5 hours ago, Iron Curtain said:

Absolutely brilliant today!

watching Pope bully Grant all afternoon was sheer bliss! 

Shows that we play well against team who come to play due to the space created.

Burgess was brilliant today... I hope those that called him a Macc reject feel as stupid as they look.

Askey is building a squad capable of beating anyone... find the key to unlocking teams that sit back against us and we would be flying!

UTV!!

He was also brilliant against Mansfield

[Santa]

We've played everyone once except for Mansfield who we've played twice.

Out of the other 11 teams in the top half, our record is W6 D4 L1

Our record against the bottom half teams is W2 D6 L5.

I hope that's right.

[darren1810]

4 hours ago, Jacko51 said:

Or our former owner whose signings were generally poor.

Though from February onwards Askey had the same players and somehow kept us up comfortably , by the way has Aspins daughter given birth to Worralls kid yet ? No other explanation for his continual omission from the 16 

[toyahw]

6 minutes ago, darren1810 said:

Though from February onwards Askey had the same players and somehow kept us up comfortably , by the way has Aspins daughter given birth to Worralls kid yet ? No other explanation for his continual omission from the 16 

Give it a break man. Tasteless comment. 

[Iron Curtain]

1 hour ago, Jacko51 said:

One of them says, "  Very few teams have a Pope "

Haha... I missed the word “not” out of my quote! 

I said the exact opposite of what I was trying to say!! Should have been not everyone has a pope! Oops!

[darren1810]

33 minutes ago, toyahw said:

Give it a break man. Tasteless comment. 

It was said tongue in cheek/ sarcastically.  

Can you offer an actual explanation as to why Worrall wasn't even in the 16 ? 

I can't, apart from the fact Aspin didn't know his arse from his elbow. 

Still a Vale legend but never a manager