Marc Richards - Restores faith

[brookersleftboot]

First of all my aplogies to Admins, but i really do feel Marc deserves a thread of appreciation of his own.

 

Those that know me know that im a big fan of Rico & have been since the day he signed, the one thing Foyley was good at was spotting a striker and Marc is no exception. I have always said if he gets a supply line then he will finish them off. However he is more than goals, & anyone who witnessed our collapse v Chesterfield a few seasons ago when he went off injured with us well on top will know his value overall.

 

There are some who in the past have labelled him greedy, however he has to my knowledge turned down bigger wages on three occassions:

 

Remember Luton away after our relegation season? he turned Cheltenham down. He has also turned down i believe Bradford twice and now Crawley! Some people question why he stays but i believe its down to a number of reasons, loyalty to Adams, a settled family, and the will on a professional level to see the club back up.

 

Hes not on twitter no more due to a few morons giving him grief, however i would like to say thank you Marc first of all for your loyalty, second of all for your goals & thirdly for restoring my faith in football loyalty, i thought the days of people doing a Steve Bull (turning down better money to stay at a club) were long gone.

 

Cheers Marc and i hope your loyalty is rewarded as a PVFC player when we have new owner(s) (hopefully Mo) in place.

[dixon_vale4eva]

First of all my aplogies to Admins, but i really do feel Marc deserves a thread of appreciation of his own.

 

Those that know me know that im a big fan of Rico & have been since the day he signed, the one thing Foyley was good at was spotting a striker and Marc is no exception. I have always said if he gets a supply line then he will finish them off. However he is more than goals, & anyone who witnessed our collapse v Chesterfield a few seasons ago when he went off injured with us well on top will know his value overall.

 

There are some who in the past have labelled him greedy, however he has to my knowledge turned down bigger wages on three occassions:

 

Remember Luton away after our relegation season? he turned Cheltenham down. He has also turned down i believe Bradford twice and now Crawley! Some people question why he stays but i believe its down to a number of reasons, loyalty to Adams, a settled family, and the will on a professional level to see the club back up.

 

Hes not on twitter no more due to a few morons giving him grief, however i would like to say thank you Marc first of all for your loyalty, second of all for your goals & thirdly for restoring my faith in football loyalty, i thought the days of people doing a Steve Bull (turning down better money to stay at a club) were long gone.

 

Cheers Marc and i hope your loyalty is rewarded as a PVFC player when we have new owner(s) (hopefully Mo) in place.

 

I fully agree he is a massive influence in the squad and those who I go the game with already know how good I think he is and how much he inspires the players. A great player and will become a Vale legend if he keeps it up.

[v2001 out!!!]

First of all my aplogies to Admins, but i really do feel Marc deserves a thread of appreciation of his own.

 

Those that know me know that im a big fan of Rico & have been since the day he signed, the one thing Foyley was good at was spotting a striker and Marc is no exception. I have always said if he gets a supply line then he will finish them off. However he is more than goals, & anyone who witnessed our collapse v Chesterfield a few seasons ago when he went off injured with us well on top will know his value overall.

 

There are some who in the past have labelled him greedy, however he has to my knowledge turned down bigger wages on three occassions:

 

Remember Luton away after our relegation season? he turned Cheltenham down. He has also turned down i believe Bradford twice and now Crawley! Some people question why he stays but i believe its down to a number of reasons, loyalty to Adams, a settled family, and the will on a professional level to see the club back up.

 

Hes not on twitter no more due to a few morons giving him grief, however i would like to say thank you Marc first of all for your loyalty, second of all for your goals & thirdly for restoring my faith in football loyalty, i thought the days of people doing a Steve Bull (turning down better money to stay at a club) were long gone.

 

Cheers Marc and i hope your loyalty is rewarded as a PVFC player when we have new owner(s) (hopefully Mo) in place.

 

couldnt agree more with this post. top man rico! I wish all these good wishes could be sent to rico and the rest of the players i dont know if robf could sort somthing out?

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

Superb post, he isn't given half the credit he deserves and his loyalty to Micky and the club is remarkable in this day and age and is a complete and utter credit to him and his family.

 

Marc you are a diamond!

[ashowellPV]

I watched his interview on Valiant Player earlier, he's a credit to Port Vale Football Club. He loves this club through and through, wears his heart on his sleeve and always stays loyal to us.

 

I've got a lot of respect for Marc Richards, I saw him out with Collins and Pope once and we got chatting about Vale - although he'd had a few drinks, he still told me he loves this football club to bits.

[Sch0tt]

Good thread, thank you for your loyalty Rico :D

 

Keep up the hard work and most importantly keep putting the goals away!

[Twitters]

What the op said!

[For Us All]

I have been critical of Rico in the past,especially after that daft sending off just before Christmas,a few years ago.However,he gets my full respect now and he is a great example and a credit to our football club.Well done Marc.

[Andyregs]

Absolutely. I can't believe people ever knocked him. He is a constant thorn in the side if defences, and centre halves know they have been in a g game afterwards. It's most notable when he doesn't play, as we miss his presence massively.

[Burslem native]

Its quite frightening to think where we would have been this past two seasons without his goals, shown amazing loyalty, no-one would have blamed him if he'd joined crawley, hopefully he will be rewarded with a new contract by our new owner... Get on it, Mo!

[Mcphee4Scotland]

Marc is a class act, both on and off the pitch.

 

I always knew his worth to the team despite some of the grief he used to get from some quarters on OVF. He's our top goalscorer, simple as. He's a very good League One striker, let alone at our level. His goalscoring record at Barnsley speaks for itself, aswell as with the Vale.

 

But it's not just that he's our top goalscorer (and has been for quite some time now). He brings others into the game really well with his build-up play by holding the ball up exceptionally well.

 

Rico, I salute you! You're a top Professional!

[nodge]

Our best player by a country mile IMHO

[Richard...]

Our best player by a country mile IMHO

 

That's why he 's our highest earner on £1900-a-week

 

Joking aside he's worth every penny we pay him. Rico deserves more credit than he gets and I pray that he stays with us for many more seasons.

[Vale Away]

absolutely spot on, think he knocked back Sheff Wed as well

[FRITTER]

Totally agree BLB,loved listening to his interview today.