On 20/03/2026 at 10:30, ValiantHan said:

Positives 1. They are without Blackett-Taylor who has really impressed since joining on loan from Derby in January and Cozier-Duberry who we couldn't cope with in the reverse fixture and 2. They have a tendency to struggle against teams away near the bottom as they drew at Blackpool, drew at Orient, lost at Northampton, lost at Burton, drew at Doncaster, won at Wigan and Exeter and drew at Rotherham despite being 2-0 down at half-time. 

Negatives 1. They still have good players who can make an impact, 2. They are in the playoffs, 3. Not lost in the league since January, 4. Have scored 12 goals in second-half stoppage time this season and 5. They have goalscorers in Burstow and Dalby.

I did say yesterday that Bolton have a tendency to struggle against teams near the bottom away from home and it's happened to them again this afternoon.

Just now, Alan Vit said:

Connor Hall my MOTM

He led the back line brilliantly 👍

Well thats a great win

Well done Vale 

What a tremendous goal 

 

Just now, ClintonBoulton said:

Why? Summat happened???

 

 

 

 

Get the F in.....why haven't we played like that all season? Nah, I know why. To answer your question Osh If I was any better I couldn't handle it...🤣

I know what ya mean brother 

The best thing about that win? We were much the better side. Seriously I don’t think they threatened to score once and the only real downside is we didn’t win by 3 or 4. Well done Vale a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon.

Possibly the best performance all season. 
To a man they were all 8 out of 10 minimum.

Connor Hall. 10 out of 10. 
His best game in a Vale shirt.

Immense.

 
We all would have taken a lucky 1-0 where we rode our luck, but this wasn’t that. We were the better team and in another day would have won by 2 or 3. They looked really poor but it’s a great win and performance. If only we could have held the lead and won at Blackpool a few days ago, who were there for the taking.

Can not fault any of them today, Fantastic front to back. 
Some stand out performances in there the effort was immense and if we keep this going as we move on there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Connor Hall though, what a man, absolutely outstanding, he has some haters but you can tell he loves the the club 10/10 for me today! UTFV

3 minutes ago, Valiiant said:

 
We all would have taken a lucky 1-0 where we rode our luck, but this wasn’t that. We were the better team and in another day would have won by 2 or 3. They looked really poor but it’s a great win and performance. If only we could have held the lead and won at Blackpool a few days ago, who were there for the taking.

Agreed.

But we can start to put that right by beating Doncaster on Tuesday.

I agree with others that C Hall was Motm, he was absolutely superb today. 

 

I don't think anyone had a bad game for us, brilliant team effort!

Excellent defending. Would have preferred to convert some of our later chances but this is all we needed to do. Well done lads.

I thought Ojo was really good again today as well. C hall man of the match but I do rate Ojo 

well, well, well this team does have a surprise in it. We made bolton look ordinary today.

 

I don't know if Im alone in this but I feel we could, and probably should, have beaten them by more.

 

Outstanding use of G Halls pace through the middle and conor put in yet another MOM performance in the defence today. Gabriel was also outstanding.

 

I know we are down but if we fight like that until the last day I will feel much better about it.

 

Breathing down Northamptons neck now.

The only thing that is a bit of a downer is if we had beaten Blackpool which we should have, the league would have looked so different. With a chance to stay up.
Still that should not detract from a great performance and brilliant result.
My head knows we are down, but my heart still hopes

1 minute ago, kevin_struggles said:

well, well, well this team does have a surprise in it. We made bolton look ordinary today.

 

I don't know if Im alone in this but I feel we could, and probably should, have beaten them by more.

 

Outstanding use of G Halls pace through the middle and conor put in yet another MOM performance in the defence today. Gabriel was also outstanding.

 

I know we are down but if we fight like that until the last day I will feel much better about it.

 

Breathing down Northamptons neck now.

Agree with the rest of your post.

But Vale are not already down.

It is still all to fight for.

And superb performances like today show that we can and will fight for it.

Here's the current table -



Beat Doncaster on Tuesday evening and we are right back in the mix, with everything still to fight for.

This is Port Vale.

Confounding expectations is what we do.