Match Thread: Port Vale v Cambridge United

[TJHValiant]

Dreadful game of football. This isn’t a league 1 team that I have seen today. Not seen much evidence of any improvements at all over the season really. Massey as bad as ever, Wilson looks disinterested and unfortunately this isn’t about individuals because collectively utterly scrappy. Clarke is running out of ideas and it looks like a manager who can’t be bothered anymore. 
 

I reckon it is possible he had ideas in January maybe even Garlick did but there were no funds  and now Garlick is off and everything just looks so unstable and unsettled. 
 

Either way, anyone who values entertaining football won’t easily want to come back to watch that. I’d love to ask Carol where has the money gone but seeing the debt Peterborough are reportedly in, the dangers of just throwing money at problems is clear to see. 

[PVFC764]

Sums it up.  3 wins in 2023.  Total rubbish Vale.

Sorry don't blame the fans booing the team and staff today.  They are poor and have been for a while.

Just gone through the motions today so they can claim their wages.

[osprey]

Well that really was rubbish 

you have to be honest- any other team on the run we have been on and the manager would be looking over their shoulder 

[Davo666]

I thought certain players were playing for their contracts..... doesn't look like it !!

[Conrad]

That’s 99 minutes I won’t get back 

[Conrad]

2 minutes ago, osprey said:

Well that really was rubbish 

you have to be honest- any other team on the run we have been on and the manager would be looking over their shoulder 

Not with a 5 year contract 

[philpvfc]

2nd half was the worst we have played all season and that is with 2 strikers on the pitch and not too many injuries. Players don’t care, management clueless, lots of staff from promotion left the club. The club is in a very poor position and there has to be serious changes at the end of the season or it’s back to playing Sutton, FGR, Crawley, Hartlepool in 2024/25.

[osprey]

Big weekend over Easter - Accrington and Oxford- lose those 2 and we are really in it 

[PVFC764]

1 minute ago, Davo666 said:

I thought certain players were playing for their contracts..... doesn't look like it !!

They have given up and want out - if that's how they play to try and get contacts. 

DC will come out and give his usual crap after match speech.  The players are gutted and I apologise for picking that side.  They are tired after all their efforts trying to win match ...........

[Boslem's Brazil]

I’m usually pretty positive, but that was <ovf censored> disgusting!! Proper put a downer on my Saturday night, cheers Vale. 

[Guppys left peg]

I like to think I don’t overreact win or lose but that was just completely unacceptable on every level today. Made a team who should have been there for the taking look like Real Madrid.

[Valiiant]

 

Abysmal. Taxi for Clarke and also the numpty DoF that's stealing his wages.

[Warren]

Truly diabolical. 

[Bycarsbill]

11 minutes ago, CambridgeDon said:

By the look of today\s performance, we're already there

Thankfully, with only a few fixtures still to go, the bottom five teams do not appear capable of putting a run-in that could present us with too many  sleepless nights!

[eh up nah]

I wish someone would do something, anything in fact, to dispell a rumour or two and look like they're remotely arsed about being here next season.

You know, considering we're such a wonderful place to be, full of magical people.