Disappointed to see Plant leave.

He would have been better than any of those 3 in midfield on Saturday as he least give 100% all of the time and never stops running.

17 minutes ago, Paul6754 said:

Rob, A rational post and one I don't disagree with.

However, what about a scenario where Devante may want to stay for whatever reason and fancies the thought of playing in Lge 2. If the club he goes to does get promo to the Championship he could well end up benched and not happy, wages/signing on fee etc excepted.

We're more than likely down but there's next season to consider which IMHO is a huge deal.

The last thing Vale want is scrapping against relegation to the National League next season with a completely new squad of players.

I'd argue that most of the current squad have shown they're good enough to get promo from Lge 2 so I'd be looking to keep as many current players as possible (With some additions), as long as they want to stay and are motivated to play for Vale in Lge 2, Devante Cole would be top of my list.

It's tough to recruit goal scorers at any level and when you can't score goals you can't win games and the club ends up at the wrong end of the table.

Also, I'm guessing a promo season from Lge 2 would net income not much short of an average season in Lg 1.

I don't think he'd be bothered about being benched in the Championship, with the odd run out.  The money would be that good he'd suffer it 😉.

3 minutes ago, boslemportvale91 said:

I wonder if shorrock will be next ? 

Or another young player

1 minute ago, PortVale4Life said:

Or another young player

John ? I rate him a lot but he's been hampered with a few bad injuries since he's been here sadly 

Just now, boslemportvale91 said:

John ? I rate him a lot but he's been hampered with a few bad injuries since he's been here sadly 

If I were to say a young player I would go with Walters.

1 minute ago, boslemportvale91 said:

John ? I rate him a lot but he's been hampered with a few bad injuries since he's been here sadly 

The silence is deafning!!!!!🤐

1 minute ago, ValiantHan said:

If I were to say a young player I would go with Walters.

I was convinced after least season that championship clubs would interesting in signing him. Definitely has the talent 

A lot of these decisions are going the bad way or the worse way. Not a lot of forward-thinking, league-saving moves out there, just survival tactics.

Well we all now know our club. We'll keep Cole sign no strikers in the summer and let him go either a week before the season starts or a couple of weeks after we've kicked off.

12 minutes ago, valiant_593 said:

Another player leaving? 
We will be in league 2 next season he will have been worth having part of the squad imo 

Isn’t that a good thing? Our squad is far too big, the last thing we need is to hold onto players who aren’t good enough to get into our side. 

I wish him all the best, but if Plant was a meaningful part of our squad next season with plans push for promotion back to League 1, then I would be severely worried.

13 minutes ago, PortVale4Life said:

More will leave yet…..

I dont think that's any secret

4 minutes ago, MBE said:

Disappointed to see Plant leave.

He would have been better than any of those 3 in midfield on Saturday as he least give 100% all of the time and never stops running.

I agree he might not be quite there technically but he would always give 100%. I can see why Crosby would want him, he was a player who would always try to do whatever was asked by his manager. There's still a need for players like that in football.  Hope he goes on to have a good career, a little sad it won't be with us. For me he was worth a look in a competitive game to see how far his game had developed at Yeovil.

30 minutes ago, Paul6754 said:

Rob, A rational post and one I don't disagree with.

However, what about a scenario where Devante may want to stay for whatever reason and fancies the thought of playing in Lge 2. If the club he goes to does get promo to the Championship he could well end up benched and not happy, wages/signing on fee etc excepted.

We're more than likely down but there's next season to consider which IMHO is a huge deal.

The last thing Vale want is scrapping against relegation to the National League next season with a completely new squad of players.

I'd argue that most of the current squad have shown they're good enough to get promo from Lge 2 so I'd be looking to keep as many current players as possible (With some additions), as long as they want to stay and are motivated to play for Vale in Lge 2, Devante Cole would be top of my list.

It's tough to recruit goal scorers at any level and when you can't score goals you can't win games and the club ends up at the wrong end of the table.

Also, I'm guessing a promo season from Lge 2 would net income not much short of an average season in Lg 1.

There's a simple answer to that. He's under contract so if he doesn't want to move, he doesn't have to. The club can't force anyone under contract to leave if they don't want to.

Even if he stays there needs to be some forward thinking here by the club and getting in a younger one to develop even if (and frankly I think it's unlikely) Cole fancies a relegation fight and L2 over say a play-off push with another L1 side. 

The problem with this "get them off the wage bill and rebuild for next season" attitude is that if that is where we are why would anyone continue to attend games this season or tbh next season either what's the point if promotion is just going to be followed by another relegation?

Throwing in the towel at the half way mark sends entirely the wrong message if we genuinely want to build our supporter base. Who wants to support a team that chucks the towel in half way through a season? Going down fighting is one thing but waving the white flag and meekly accepting our fate is unacceptable. I can find plenty of other things to do with my money if Vale don't want it.

1 minute ago, kevin_struggles said:

The problem with this "get them off the wage bill and rebuild for next season" attitude is that if that is where we are why would anyone continue to attend games this season or tbh next season either what's the point if promotion is just going to be followed by another relegation?

Throwing in the towel at the half way mark sends entirely the wrong message if we genuinely want to build our supporter base. Who wants to support a team that chucks the towel in half way through a season? Going down fighting is one thing but waving the white flag and meekly accepting our fate is unacceptable. I can find plenty of other things to do with my money if Vale don't want it.

They'll mitigate it through some signings (at some point) and push them quite hard. The buzz generated by this year's intake was not too bad (and was actually done very well in our promotion season). 

But remains to be seen if we do go through all that again or whether the writing is on the wall with bringing in players for money like we had been doing. 

It sucks right now obviously but memories are short when the new season is rearing its head.