Season ticket renewals

[pete vale]

55 minutes ago, valiant_593 said:

More looking to renew that i would have thought. Personally I won’t be, football has been dire, there’s a huge disconnect within the club and sadly my interest is really starting to go. No doubt this will be spun back on fans who don’t want to renew / have a season ticket next season with some arguments on budget but the club have brought this on themselves. Much better things to do on Saturdays that watch Ryan loft, Gavin Massey and Connor Grant attempt to play football. 

I moan but still renew our x2 ST's. However, this current situation is different. It feels as though as a fan base that we are being overlooked whilst DF has carte blanche to do as he sees fit. There are major concerns with the first team, recruitment has been abysmal but this appears to be insignificant to Carol and the board. There is an arrogance about the place where we as knowledgable fans go unheard to a large degree (we don't own the club and are not £12/ 15M light I guess?) It simply is not good enough, in the past we were fighting owners and were unified in that goal for the good of the club. Now, we have superb owners who we now begin to 'question'. The key is why do I and many others feel this way? We are still protective of the club and appreciate the Shanahan's - but what we see now is a threat to the club from a different direction. "It's all smoke and mirrors" with DF imo and will not end well for any of us, more so the owners financially. To be continually overlooked and ignored when pointing out obvious issues leads me to question my attendance.

[NellyTheValiant]

I'll be renewing in the Railway Paddock but am desperately hoping that it'll be in league 1 and not league 2.

[bomber]

Almost certain I will not renew my corporate season ticket! I have had this for a number of years even through covid. Probably just have a standard season ticket. The football since Christmas 23 has sucked all the life and enthusiasm out of me. The team just seems so mentally weak! I don't see the comitment I would like from the players. 

[rob1983]

Just get a half season ticket till Jan. That's when our season ends, right?

[Vale Ball]

I'm renewing, my support for the Vale is unconditional win or lose sickness and health for better or worse, you don't switch it on or off when it suits or you throw your toys out of the pram and have a tantrum when things don't go right...UTV

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[valiant_593]

1 hour ago, Guitar Ray said:

Anyone, yourself maybe, who’s been around for a few seasons has seen it all before and suffered all of the emotions.  Crap football, off field issues, relegation, we’ve got the badge.  It still doesn’t dim the hope.  The good times are just around the corner.

I agree, seen it all before. But for some reason feels worse this time around. It may be because of the huge potential that has been thrown down the pan by Carols insistence on backing DF. Just feels worse this time around. 

[bomber]

7 minutes ago, valiant_593 said:

I agree, seen it all before. But for some reason feels worse this time around. It may be because of the huge potential that has been thrown down the pan by Carols insistence on backing DF. Just feels worse this time around. 

Yes after sixty odd years of supporting Vale it feels so much worse this time maybe after the euphoria of Wembley! I don’t know ! There are quite a lot of people who feel the same. I think we have thrown away lots of potential with the extra support we gained. Sadly I can only see us with half the support of the last couple of seasons. We do have a fantastic hard core but we desperately need the more fickle fans to swell the coffers! Nobody wants to see us loose game after game .

[Smallthorne clampet]

15 hours ago, Old fort said:

For the first time in umpteen seasons, sadly I'm seriously considering NOT renewing mine and the wife's season tickets. Not because of the fact that we may be in L2 yet again, but because I find it totally demoralising we're parting with our hard earned brass, so that a stark failure of a DoF can squander it yet again, in exactly the same fashion that his last two years track record has demonstrated,

I know this isn't positively supporting the club and harms the club, but really I,like many others, can't afford to waste money for the reward of feeling utterly depressed and miserable, after watching defeat after defeat 

The hype, national coverage and massive over positivity  which was fanfared post promotion, had me and many others hooked, as we were sold a ridiculous notion that Port Vale were on an upward trajectory, backed by the prospect of a professional, business set up and the pledge of making new memories . Well that aged well, didn't it?  We now certainly have new memories, but not ones that we'll treasure. 

So I guess there's a part of me that feels a little embarrassed at been taken for a fool for buying in to all that, but  I'm also angry at the clubs failure to address the situation that has been allowed to fester while seemingly, being in total denial of it, as demonstrated as an example,  by that bizarre open letter, which was always going to back fire.

 

Anyway,that's it. 

 

 

I think a lot , and I mean a lot , are at breaking point .  

[Smallthorne clampet]

13 hours ago, Mellor! said:

I'll renew mine. Football is my release. Vale are my club. I've no interest in removing Carol from the club and she isn't monetarily profiting from the club, so withholding funds will only hurt the club and the team further.

I held money from Smurthwaite and MOLD, but this is a completely different battle imo.

She simply needs to see that winning football matches is the only thing that matters to 99 per cent of the fan base . Wasting thousands off the pitch only reduces the amount to be spent where it really matters , in creating a good football team . The clue is what we have been since 1876 - Port Vale FOOTALL CLUB .     

[Smallthorne clampet]

I will always renew my season ticket - this is my club and I take the rough with the smooth - thats what its all about really VTID .

 

[corbanlovesvale]

I will be renewing mine and so will my daughter Vale is in my blood but at times I do wish it wasn't.  Plus hoppers would miss my dulcet tones😇

[NorthwoodValiant]

2 hours ago, Vtid said:

Not sure its entirely down to what league we will be in or not. I’d say it’s more about what’s happening at the hierarchy of the club. Each to their own 

So you want the hierarchy to go every time we get relegated? Gotcha

[PVFC764]

3 hours ago, Guitar Ray said:

Do you didn’t watch us at all in league 2 then?

I have watched Vale, all around the world for 50 years.  I have had the misfortune of seeing them in Div 2.  Always hoping we would progress up the leagues. 

Each time I, like many others hope we would bounce straight back up.  Just when you thought great new owners, setting things up so the club progresses on and off the pitch.  Talk the talk about getting Championship ready and now we are well into a relegation battle.  

Can't see how we are going to get out of the relegation zone due to the rubbish transfer windows we have seen.  The squad seems to have got worse, rather than stronger.  Carol says Fraudcroft is responsible for everything on the pitch, yet seems to be teflon about taking the blame and doing something about it.

[Packmoor_vale]

Season ticket renewals thread has more comments than Saturdays massive match thread 🙈

[Vtid]

14 minutes ago, NorthwoodValiant said:

So you want the hierarchy to go every time we get relegated? Gotcha

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Edited February 22 by Vtid