Really poor.  We offer nothing going forward, and it ends up being an aimless cross which their keeper collects all day long. Play a winger - get some pace out wide and cause them problems.  This is yet another painful watch. Midfield not really creating anything for the front players, and so our goal threat is zero. Again.

 

37 minutes ago, Playa Amodores said:

Dreadful tactics, same old same old every week that never works. Stockley has my complete sympathy. Give him the player of the season award, NOW

Yep , rinse ,wash and repeat 

1 minute ago, Osh said:

Yes. We're not good. We've got our entire midfield out and have done for weeks. 

BUT what drives me mad is people saying that Cook was going to destroy us today - after 2 bloody minutes. Other than that great but spontaneous goal he's done little. 

These look quite average. As do we. 

However, "IF" Moore brings on Curtis/Paton/Tolaj/Richards and we score in the second half then we get a point. If they score more than that we take al three. 

It's the negativity on here that truly stuns me sometimes. It's simply astonishing. 

Anyway. I've said enough. I'll leave you lads to cry in your beer 

Even I can’t keep defending this Osh. I said he would destroy us & so far without doing an awful lot he is. Only takes one goal to win a game as we know full well ourselves this season. Completely ruined my Boxing Day this has 

7 minutes ago, OtterVale said:

We need to drop the two sitting midfielders, take Lowe off move Sang into the middle pushing hime further up and Curtis on the left.

Are you suggesting we try and attack? ... let's not get silly now.

4 minutes ago, MBE said:

We are dreadful. 

L2 is dreadful.

Sorry Carol you are wasting your money on Darren, his tactics are fit for PDSL.

Darren has wasted the budget.

 

Yes. Carol you have completely wasted Hundreds of thousands of £££££££££

Barnsley losing 1-0

Wonder if they fancy swapping managers ?

 

More chance of Carol sacking me than Darren Moore and I don't work for the club.

We've just gotta hope we get some key players back and on the pitch asap and/or Moore stumbles on a new formation or tactic and gets lucky.

Edited December 26, 20241 yr by Valiiant

3 minutes ago, Osh said:

Yes. We're not good. We've got our entire midfield out and have done for weeks. 

BUT what drives me mad is people saying that Cook was going to destroy us today - after 2 bloody minutes. Other than that great but spontaneous goal he's done little. 

These look quite average. As do we. 

However, "IF" Moore brings on Curtis/Paton/Tolaj/Richards and we score in the second half then we get a point. If they score more than that we take al three. 

It's the negativity on here that truly stuns me sometimes. It's simply astonishing. 

Anyway. I've said enough. I'll leave you lads to cry in your beer 

Not sure what there is to be positive about. We’ve been <ovf censored> since Harrogate. Nevermind scoring we don’t have any bloody shots. Horrible turgid football 

We have two strikers sat on the bench who scored 40 plus goals between them last season, albeit in a lower league to vale. Hoof ball to Stockley who has no mobility now alongside Hackford who looks like he won a competition to play ain’t going to work. Fair enough, Bradford scored a great goal to be leading but they are also a poor side. We should have got Ainsworth in when we had the chance.  

22 minutes ago, Powerline said:

Chislett a disgrace also for me. Meant to be a creative player and instead just fobbing it off to Lowe or Heneghan. Step up to the plate or <ovf censored> off.

Can’t agree. Only one trying to get on the ball. Not his fault he’s surrounded by utter <ovf censored>

1 minute ago, VTID-New said:

Even I can’t keep defending this Osh. I said he would destroy us & so far without doing an awful lot he is. Only takes one goal to win a game as we know full well ourselves this season. Completely ruined my Boxing Day this has 

Then you are watching a different game than me m8.  He's had one good shot that went in - other than that I haven't seen him do a great deal and he's certain not "destroyed" us.

Difficult post to write but…

I don’t think Moore is the manager for us. I’m not calling for his head, and he certainly won’t be going anywhere.

But for me he is the Gareth Southgate of league 2. We are overly defensive and now, even worse, we seem to have no plan going forward other than lump it to Stockley or hope one of our wide men does something good (which is baffling when Hackford is selected to play).

We have 2 of the biggest investments in our recent history wasting away on the bench … why invest that amount of money on players that clearly dont fit naturally into his system.

Yes we had a brilliant couple of months early on in the season… but that seems to have been driven by the quality of our recruitment RATHER than the tactics and acumen of our management team.

As other teams have played together more and more our chopping and changing to try and counter teams no matter who they are (including those at the bottom or woefully out of form) has fallen very flat.

Even when we were winning we all felt like the squad had the handbrake on. That’s on DM.

Carol promised us a manager and a team that reflected the area and the people… Gung ho, attacking, into them.

I feel desperately sorry for her because that’s not what we have and it’s a VERY expensive experiment (mistake?)

Issue is he is going no where… so we have to hope he can attract the right talent in January defend our way to a decent league position. It won’t be exciting and IF we get promotion (which we won’t at this rate) I fear for us with this set up in league 1.

It feels a waste of the biggest budget we will have had for a very long time.

Rant over. Merry Christmas.

Sang can you put a cross in quicker so we can score 

Crikey move him to back 3 move chislett back for Lowe bring on Paton and take off cover and bring tolaj on .

Wake up Vale 

38 minutes ago, valiant_593 said:

I’d given up before we kicked off 

Give up weeks ago 

This manager ain't gonna change his ways and clearly isn't learning from his mistakes and he keeps stubbornly persevering with tactics that fail week in week out - mid table is where we'll end up come the end of season 

Edited December 26, 20241 yr by Nippy Naylor

1 minute ago, valiant_593 said:

Not sure what there is to be positive about. We’ve been <ovf censored> since Harrogate. Nevermind scoring we don’t have any bloody shots. Horrible turgid football 

And I understand that. BUT for people to say that we've done nothing all game/were getting destroyed/not played a single ball forward is simply not true. 

I'd hate to be in the trenches with some of you guys. 

Some of the things written on here are just awful.