The Future

[RantingRon]

SHANAHANS OUT! ROBBIE WILLIAMS IN!

[rob1983]

Behave he's only interested in what he can get out of vale.

[JS Valiant]

Hope that Somebody with Money and Some Football Knowledge with a Winning Mentality and who won’t suffer fools will buy the club.

Rid out the whole rotten to the core, cowardly ******** and start again.

I won’t hold my Breath.

The Best in my Lifetime were Bell and Rudge !

Oh for a few of them days again !

[hamilboy]

10 hours ago, RantingRon said:

SHANAHANS OUT! ROBBIE WILLIAMS IN!

What a statement that is all that is needed is carol to get her head in the right place and get rid of the man who is sending us up the river without a paddle.As for EL PRESIDENTE through all the years of my family we have spent more money on the vale than him so do not hold your breath about Robbie Williams. I am proud to be a supporter of the vale family my father for 83 years myself for 75 years my son and daughter for 44 and 51 years my two grandchildren 14 and 22 years .Being a vale in stoke on trent has been hard to swallow at times we are loyal till the end that is DNA that sticks to us all for life.Good and bad times there have been some shocking decisions made i will give you just two sacking the the icon of port vale which is and always will be for me that is Roy Sproson,and doing the same to John Rudge the two men who gave us great pleasure watching the vale play.Now what have we got today THE PROCESS trying to make Smith play like Beckenbaur it will never happen playing people out of positions buying players who are gutless and totally short of abilty to play pro football.

[philpvfc]

23 minutes ago, JS Valiant said:

Hope that Somebody with Money and Some Football Knowledge with a Winning Mentality and who won’t suffer fools will buy the club.

Rid out the whole rotten to the core, cowardly ******** and start again.

I won’t hold my Breath.

The Best in my Lifetime were Bell and Rudge !

Oh for a few of them days again !

Best in my lifetime was Rudge despite Bell.

[RantingRon]

The Shanahans paid £5m for Vale and have never stopped moaning. “It was a ransom that had to be paid.” “We’ve spent more money in four years of ownership than we planned to do in five.” “We’ll pay for some infrastructure elements but day-to-day expenditure at the club has got to come from day-to-day earnings.” Robbie Williams is worth £222m - £300m, depending which source you look at. Buying Vale would be peanuts to him with enough pennies left over to make some real changes, both to the facilities and the team.

[Granville]

21 minutes ago, RantingRon said:

The Shanahans paid £5m for Vale and have never stopped moaning. “It was a ransom that had to be paid.” “We’ve spent more money in four years of ownership than we planned to do in five.” “We’ll pay for some infrastructure elements but day-to-day expenditure at the club has got to come from day-to-day earnings.” Robbie Williams is worth £222m - £300m, depending which source you look at. Buying Vale would be peanuts to him with enough pennies left over to make some real changes, both to the facilities and the team.

What makes you think he WANTS to buy it?

[For Us All]

19 minutes ago, philpvfc said:

Best in my lifetime was Rudge despite Bell.

Rudge was great but even he went on a run of 18 games without a win?However,he made up for that by signing some great players such as Osher Williams,Alan Webb,Andy Jones,Mark Grew,Ray Walker,Bob Hazell,Darren Beckford,Simon Mills,Darren Hughes,Gary Ford,Dean Glover,John Jeffers,Neil Aspin,Nick Cross,Kevin Kent,Robin van der Laan,Martin Foyle,Keith Houchen, Peter Swan,Ian Taylor,Paul Musselwhite,Steve Guppy,Tony Naylor,Jon McCarthy,Lee Mills,Ian Bogie,Gareth Ainsworth,Peter Beadle,Michael Walsh and Marcus Bent.Sorry if I've missed anybody.

Recruitment is critical and sadly we have gone downbank?

[philpvfc]

2 minutes ago, For Us All said:

Rudge was great but even he went on a run of 18 games without a win?However,he made up for that by signing some great players such as Osher Williams,Alan Webb,Andy Jones,Mark Grew,Ray Walker,Bob Hazell,Darren Beckford,Simon Mills,Darren Hughes,Gary Ford,Dean Glover,John Jeffers,Neil Aspin,Nick Cross,Kevin Kent,Robin van der Laan,Martin Foyle,Keith Houchen, Peter Swan,Ian Taylor,Paul Musselwhite,Steve Guppy,Tony Naylor,Jon McCarthy,Lee Mills,Ian Bogie,Gareth Ainsworth,Peter Beadle,Michael Walsh and Marcus Bent.Sorry if I've missed anybody.

Recruitment is critical and sadly we have gone downbank?

True…..IMO, we have an owner who has given managers and the recruitment team more support than previous owners, it is those who have let us down.

[Dr Delgado]

1 minute ago, For Us All said:

Rudge was great but even he went on a run of 18 games without a win?However,he made up for that by signing some great players such as Osher Williams,Alan Webb,Andy Jones,Mark Grew,Ray Walker,Bob Hazell,Darren Beckford,Simon Mills,Darren Hughes,Gary Ford,Dean Glover,John Jeffers,Neil Aspin,Nick Cross,Kevin Kent,Robin van der Laan,Martin Foyle,Keith Houchen, Peter Swan,Ian Taylor,Paul Musselwhite,Steve Guppy,Tony Naylor,Jon McCarthy,Lee Mills,Ian Bogie,Gareth Ainsworth,Peter Beadle,Michael Walsh and Marcus Bent.Sorry if I've missed anybody.

Recruitment is critical and sadly we have gone downbank?

Other than getting a fee for Bent, I can’t remember him doing much for Vale, likewise Peter Beadle  doesn’t really stick in the memory especially seeing as he was a striker. Rudge was a good manager in an era that suited both him and the chairman, there was far more wheeling and dealing for clubs back then, I suspect Belly made a reasonable amount of money off the back of some of those transfer fees we received. Unfortunately nostalgia doesn’t change where we are today. 
I do have some sympathy for our chairwoman, we bemoan a lack of communication from the club but then when she does speak it gets analysed and derided to the point of ridicule. I disagree with one or two decisions she has made however there is nothing to suggest that she is out to fleece the club. If only she could see that by keeping Flitcroft in post, is like allowing a pantomime baddie to remain on stage way beyond their welcome. It will 100,000,000% end in tears. Whether she likes it or not, eventually the fans will get what they want, it really depends on how much suffering she would want to witness our DOF endure. I’ve said it before, this is going to get really messy.

[philpvfc]

 Missed Anthony Gardner off the list who we sold for a million. Best defender I’ve seen at the club and was the nail in the coffin for Rudge going, we leaked goals after he left and got relegated shortly after. 

[Brian Johnson]

2 minutes ago, philpvfc said:

 Missed Anthony Gardner off the list who we sold for a million. Best defender I’ve seen at the club and was the nail in the coffin for Rudge going, we leaked goals after he left and got relegated shortly after. 

Rudge gave him his debut but he played most of his games under Brian Horton

[Bede]

1 hour ago, Dr Delgado said:

I do have some sympathy for our chairwoman, we bemoan a lack of communication from the club but then when she does speak it gets analysed and derided to the point of ridicule. I disagree with one or two decisions she has made however there is nothing to suggest that she is out to fleece the club. If only she could see that by keeping Flitcroft in post, is like allowing a pantomime baddie to remain on stage way beyond their welcome. It will 100,000,000% end in tears. Whether she likes it or not, eventually the fans will get what they want, it really depends on how much suffering she would want to witness our DOF endure. I’ve said it before, this is going to get really messy.

This is frighteningly accurate.  The unfortunate fact is that she won't listen to anybody, and she is going to suffer unneccessarily because of it, despite people's best efforts.  The ultimate loser, of course, is the club.  It always is.

[For Us All]

2 hours ago, philpvfc said:

 Missed Anthony Gardner off the list who we sold for a million. Best defender I’ve seen at the club and was the nail in the coffin for Rudge going, we leaked goals after he left and got relegated shortly after. 

I didn't include Gardner because he joined Vale straight from school when he was sixteen.

[TJHValiant]

3 hours ago, RantingRon said:

The Shanahans paid £5m for Vale and have never stopped moaning. “It was a ransom that had to be paid.” “We’ve spent more money in four years of ownership than we planned to do in five.” “We’ll pay for some infrastructure elements but day-to-day expenditure at the club has got to come from day-to-day earnings.” Robbie Williams is worth £222m - £300m, depending which source you look at. Buying Vale would be peanuts to him with enough pennies left over to make some real changes, both to the facilities and the team.

Carol is worth £180m after selling Synectics. If she wants to spend, she certainly could. Robbie loves Robbie and has enough adoration from his fans. When he is about 70 and he wants a bit of glory again or a legacy before he dies off, he might fancy a go. Can’t see it myself .