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[Jacko51]

19 minutes ago, NorthwoodValiant said:

Some fans are not going to be content until they are watching AFC Port Vale playing in Burslem park on a Sunday morning against the Jolly Carter

Good side that Jolly Carter. I’d be happy with a draw!

[JoeB2]

Yesssss

A fan e-kicking. 

It's been a week. Get your pitchforks. Quick! The fanbase with the best % of home fans going to away games in League 1 and have been through the mill for 2 decades are absolutely awful and want a good hiding on the forums.

[mr.hobblesworth]

1 hour ago, Jacko51 said:

If you saw the reaction of the fans on the night to Clarke I think you would have to accept there was nothing wrong with the decision to invite him. 

Did Darrell say anything of note or was it just a 'thanks for your support' + standing ovation kind of thing? Did Colin say anything? Was the Darrell stuff kept separate from the Rudgie/ Autoglass stuff?

 

Sorry for all the questions, btw.  Wish there was some footage or a write-up somewhere.

[Guitar Ray]

6 hours ago, JoeB2 said:

I too think that fans simply want to know too much about the club these days. The entitlement stinks. What right do we have to know, really?

It's completely wrong for any of us to ever point out things that could do with improving for the overall benefit of the football club.

Our job is to pay our £330, be quiet, and let Carol crack on, in my opinion. We must remember that we are merely paying customers and not vital stakeholders with a vested interest in the club often going back 3-4 generations. We are not an invaluable resource of people who have seen it all, having been here long before the current owners and will be here long after, and can often point out when things don't look right, even if that could be construed as 'criticism'. Offering criticism of things which are bad is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions of 1949. If thing have gone well in the past, you are not allowed to identify things going less well in the present.

We are merely the basic biscuits, the rich teas, and we must remember who the Garibaldis are in this biscuit tin.

The best thing we can all do is make positive noises on here, and then 10 people can reply 'you can't be positive in here! Admins, arrest this man!' and get 74 likes.

Far too simplistic, it’s not all or nothing, you need to take a more balanced view.  If you wished to dunk your biscuits then the Garibaldi is bottom of the heap, the Rich Tea a far better choice…..if dunked with a bit of common sense.  Your so called “basic biscuits”, the Plain Digestive, the humble Malted Milk and the like, rise up the league table leaving the Garibaldi and its ugly cousin the Custard Cream, to fight it out for the relegation places. 👍🏻

[JoeB2]

1 minute ago, Guitar Ray said:

Far too simplistic, it’s not all or nothing, you need to take a more balanced view.  If you wished to dunk your biscuits then the Garibaldi is bottom of the heap, the Rich Tea a far better choice…..if dunked with a bit of common sense.  Your so called “basic biscuits”, the Plain Digestive, the humble Malted Milk and the like, rise up the league table leaving the Garibaldi and its ugly cousin the Custard Cream, to fight it out for the relegation places. 👍🏻

You make a superb argument.

I heavily advise those who compare the fans to biscuits to be more nuanced in the future.

[Granville]

14 minutes ago, JoeB2 said:

Yesssss

A fan e-kicking. 

It's been a week. Get your pitchforks. Quick! The fanbase with the best % of home fans going to away games in League 1 and have been through the mill for 2 decades are absolutely awful and want a good hiding on the forums.

Yesssss the return of Joe who deserves a personal audience with Flitcroft and Carol to tell them exactly why he deserves a daily message informing him of everything going on that the club and he should be consulted on every decision and even then, will be completely wrong because we're not ten points clear at the top of the Premier League!

[Bimbleabout]

Tim's posts on Facebook have had minimal engagement. A few likes and comments. Some of the comments are challanging him,which he challange back.
However he comes across as arrogant, stubborn, petulant and self entitled, with a fair dose of sxxx stirring in there aswell
I don't know the guy personally but I'm sure he isn't like this at all in 'real life'.
My point is, it's obviously just a minority, a tiny minority that feel the same as him because of the lack of engagement with it within a page of thousands of Valiants.
So even tho it's relevant and the pov is valid, it holds no kudos because of the lack of support to his views.
What is more relevant is the pics of DC and Colin doing the rounds at the sc bash on Thursday. This is a blatent 2 fingers to Carol and the club and all that view things, or at least try too, with a balanced and informed opinion. It stinks of arrogance and is decisive and really not needed.
None of us know why DC and CG had to leave but if everything was Rosie and sorted no doubt it wouldn't of happened. They were also decisions that would have been extremely difficult and upsetting for our club to have made, but they should be decisions that should be respected imo

[NorthwoodValiant]

18 minutes ago, JoeB2 said:

You make a superb argument.

I heavily advise those who compare the fans to biscuits to be more nuanced in the future.

Perhaps you should be more nuanced yourself instead of taking such a sarcastic tone towards everything

[NorthwoodValiant]

1 minute ago, Bimbleabout said:

Tim's posts on Facebook have had minimal engagement. A few likes and comments. Some of the comments are challanging him,which he challange back.
However he comes across as arrogant, stubborn, petulant and self entitled, with a fair dose of sxxx stirring in there aswell
I don't know the guy personally but I'm sure he isn't like this at all in 'real life'.
My point is, it's obviously just a minority, a tiny minority that feel the same as him because of the lack of engagement with it within a page of thousands of Valiants.
So even tho it's relevant and the pov is valid, it holds no kudos because of the lack of support to his views.
What is more relevant is the pics of DC and Colin doing the rounds at the sc bash on Thursday. This is a blatent 2 fingers to Carol and the club and all that view things, or at least try too, with a balanced and informed opinion. It stinks of arrogance and is decisive and really not needed.
None of us know why DC and CG had to leave but if everything was Rosie and sorted no doubt it wouldn't of happened. They were also decisions that would have been extremely difficult and upsetting for our club to have made, but they should be decisions that should be respected imo

Thomas Shipley is another one, does nothing but moan on the official Vale page as well as the Wonder of Port Vale constantly, about EVERYTHING.

He's blocked me now after I replied to his post about how stupid the club was for sacking Clarke with a screenshot of a post he made on Facebook saying that Clarke needed to go.

Obviously he's just a Narcissistic bastard but he's an example of a tiny minority making a lot of noise on the internet

[Bimbleabout]

Thomas Shipley is another one, does nothing but moan on the official Vale page as well as the Wonder of Port Vale constantly, about EVERYTHING.
He's blocked me now after I replied to his post about how stupid the club was for sacking Clarke with a screenshot of a post he made on Facebook saying that Clarke needed to go.
Obviously he's just a Narcissistic bastard but he's an example of a tiny minority making a lot of noise on the internet

Absolutely.
The DC is tiresome aswell imo. He's left three clubs in a cloud of controversy, sacked from two.
The bottom line is he has performed and drastically under performed. However he makes sure the fans idolise him before and after he's left ( Vale and the Gas).
The simple fact is we were heading for relegation under him so that and other factor's we don't know about ended his tenure.
I don't hold him in the hero light of others. I'm greatful obviously for certain things but ultimately it was the right decision to let him go, just like Walsall, just like the gas.

[Packmoor_vale]

What’s this post from Tim 

Its been a few years since I’ve been on that Facebook site and I remember a bloke named Tim barber who always was having a dig at whatever owner was there at that time 

 

[NorthwoodValiant]

2 minutes ago, Packmoor_vale said:

What’s this post from Tim 

Its been a few years since I’ve been on that Facebook site and I remember a bloke named Tim barber who always was having a dig at whatever owner was there at that time 

 

Here you go mate, it's from Brian Johnson on Page 5:

[Packmoor_vale]

8 minutes ago, NorthwoodValiant said:

Here you go mate, it's from Brian Johnson on Page 5:

Thanks for posting 

But Wow just let them do there jobs 

I’m not even commenting again on it mate them days are gone for me 

The club is in good hands 

 

[Budgie_2260]

Can I get some clarification please, because the dark cloud that’s beginning to gather over the club is starting to worry me.

It’s very clear there is a group of fans who are unhappy about something?

The ‘subtle propaganda’ started off towards Flitcroft, it now appears to be directed towards Carol.

It’s been passed off as “I’m just pointing out things that could be improved” but the people posting are intelligent and respected enough to know it’s gone past that.

So what’s the desired outcome?

Remove Flitcroft? Remove Carol? Fans owned club? 

What’s the plan? March down there? Protest?

If there’s something brewing similar to V2001 or Smurthwaite then come out and communicate it.

If it’s really that you’re simply not happy because you have to pre-submit questions to Flitcroft at the next forum, then you all need to have a look at yourselves.

By the way, if I was a biscuit, I’d be a chocolate hobnob

[Bimbleabout]

Heheh love it Budgie (dark chocolate digestive )