I CANNOT believe we havent brought a striker in. It is completely unacceptable. To having a glaringly obvious problem and not fix it within the 30 days is nothing short of a shambles . Same applied to the wing back situation. What a <ovf censored> joke . The way there going by the time the campus is built they will have lost half the fan base .

Just now, valiant_593 said:

I’m more interested in the football side than warm pies mate. 

Course you are, until they run out, then it's bobbins for everyone.  I'm most interested in the football too - you don't have a monopoly on that.  But I don't think it is the end of the world right now.  If I'm wrong, people will be queueing up to tell me on here at the end of the season.  Gotta have something to whinge about, gotta have someone to blame.  I'm off to set up the Ryan Loft Appreciation Society, since I think that lad needs all the help he can get between now and May.  Keep the faith, and keep shouting for the Vale, not at them.

This all reminds me of when we got relegated from this league under V2001.

It was as clear as day then that we were just one striker short of staying up.

Was it away at Fleetwood in last match where we dominated the game and did everything but score. We went down in the last relegation spot.

I stand to be corrected if my memory fails me.

2 minutes ago, darren1810 said:

The pies are warm. But they didn't provide me with a chisel for mine. 

This is why I prefer Oatcakes 😆

Maybe there's the equivalent of Chris Eagles or Andre Bikey bobbing around in the Sudanese 2nd division? 

12 minutes ago, andy jones said:

I was harbouring a forlorn hope that el presidento would have underwritten the cost of a quality loan striker till the end of the season. Just to remove any relegation worries.

I was also entertaining that dream too.  Never mind.

1 hour ago, Brian Johnson said:

Bill Bratt and Smurf nice people?

Thank you for making me laugh my head off & choking on my porridge first thing this morning

Come on, you were there cheering him on in his blue Smurf gear back in the day. 
 

Bratt, yes, on a personal level did do some decent things. When my father had some surgery back in 2006 he called him after the team signed a get well soon card. He was just a normal fan, a season ticket holder yes, but it was a fine gesture. 

2 minutes ago, andy jones said:

This all reminds me of when we got relegated from this league under V2001.

It was as clear as day then that we were just one striker short of staying up.

Was it away at Fleetwood in last match where we dominated the game and did everything but score. We went down in the last relegation spot.

I stand to be corrected if my memory fails me.

Hooper lay on pitch and didn't fancy it.  Went off early doors. Think Dan Turner nearly scored a lucky ricochet. But in reality we were relegated feebly.

Though bizarrely I then sang Eton Rifles on karaoke in The Lifeboat afterwards!  

3 minutes ago, Vale1995 said:

I CANNOT believe we havent brought a striker in.

I can. 

We haven't had a proper squad since promotion. An utter shambles. 

I genuinely think Flitcroft and Carol are making it up as they go along. "Trust the process"? What process? Where's the strategy, where's the long term thinking? How are they supposed to build the club and sell it to supporters when we're seeing such rank amateurism. Absolute <ovf censored>. 

A crumbling squad, a crumbling stadium, a crumbling fan base.

So disillusioned this morning.

An absolute shambles. 
 

Tried to be positive and see the long-term view, but really didn’t expect them to make such a mess of the short-term.

We might stay up - but can we really trust that things are going to get better?

 Disappointed. We have 2 strikers, one of whom is injury-prone and the other below standard. 

Edited February 2, 20242 yr by JoeB2

7 minutes ago, mr.hobblesworth said:

I can. 

We haven't had a proper squad since promotion. An utter shambles. 

I genuinely think Flitcroft and Carol are making it up as they go along. "Trust the process"? What process? Where's the strategy, where's the long term thinking? How are they supposed to build the club and sell it to supporters when we're seeing such rank amateurism. Absolute <ovf censored>. 

You've changed your tune haven't you 

9 minutes ago, Walka003 said:

A crumbling squad, a crumbling stadium, a crumbling fan base.

So disillusioned this morning.

I feel disheartened by it as well 

Edited February 2, 20242 yr by Nippy Naylor

Absolutely odds on that Wilson gets injured on Saturday 😬

5 minutes ago, JoeB2 said:

An absolute shambles. 

Or it's a bloody shambles as Alan sugar says most of the time on the Apprentice 👍