Loyalty to the vale

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

Can any one remember a player who has shown such commitment to the vale in the last forty years as demonstrated by Tom pope he has not signed yet but he will.

My memories of let's grab the cash thanks for the memories port vale. Players in popes situation.

 

Andy jones

Robbie Earle

Leone constant swine

Anthony Gardner

Tony rougher

Steve guppy

 

The list goes on and on and on. Pope could at least double his money now. He is a very very rare breed in football All of our legends will not turn out to have his loyalty. Every one at the end of the day went for the cash, don't blame them in a way but thank god.

Tom Pope really is a vale fan feed him the best contract you can possibly ovfer

 

Absolutely rediculous to put Andy Jones and Robbie Earle on that list. With the exception of Leon and Rougier all are better players and have contributed more over longer periods to the Vale than Tom.

 

His half a season has been phenominal so far however lets not lose sight of what other players offered and provided the Vale. I also doubt Tom would or anyone would begrudge him leaving in the summer if a big wages offer came in.

[cheshirevaliant]

Absolutely rediculous to put Andy Jones and Robbie Earle on that list. With the exception of Leon and Rougier all are better players and have contributed more over longer periods to the Vale than Tom.

 

His half a season has been phenominal so far however lets not lose sight of what other players offered and provided the Vale. I also doubt Tom would or anyone would begrudge him leaving in the summer if a big wages offer came in.

 

Leon and Rougier were also better players than Pope, bearing in mind the relative leagues we were in and the quality of players in the team at the time.

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

Leon and Rougier were also better players than Pope, bearing in mind the relative leagues we were in and the quality of players in the team at the time.

 

Probably agree with you on Rougier but both Tom and Leon have been one season wonders to date so its hard to separate them.

[bookworm]

sounds like some of you buggers would like to se pope leave so that you could trumpet,,,I TOLD YOU SO,, does my head in some of the comments on here, never bluddy happy some people unless they're ***** stirring.

[burslems finest]

Old sage, great post

[old sage]

Old sage, great post

Thanks boslem's Finest. I do feel though some of the posters on here are on another planet.

As Graham McGarry stated last night Popey scored a fair few goals for 'The Railway Children' in the Championship before his transfer to Rovverham.

How many noticed how many goals scored with either foot.... the true mark of a goal poacher.

[Bluedevil]

Pope will stay IMHO.

 

What he gets from Vale in his next deal is likely to set him up for life if he is careful with it.

 

What he gets from Rangers WILL set him up for life.

[boomer's vet]

When Tom Pope has played 350 games for the Vale including 140 odd consecutive games, then he can be mentioned in the same breath as Robbie Earle, in terms of commitment and loyalty.

 

Oh, and by the way, what about that Sproson fella and his nephew. Is Tom Pope, whose played a season and a half, with no offers from other clubs, really more loyal than these.

 

I like Pope, and think he genuinely wants to stay, but let's not go over the top.

 

Clubs will have been in touch with Pope's agent to see it is worth putting an offer in for him. Pope will have told his agent to tell these clubs exactly where to go.that is the reason we have had no official offers.

 

Just because Man utd don't get offers for Rooney doesn't mean that no clubs would like to take him

[Wereskintandweknowweare]

Clubs will have been in touch with Pope's agent to see it is worth putting an offer in for him. Pope will have told his agent to tell these clubs exactly where to go.that is the reason we have had no official offers.

 

Just because Man utd don't get offers for Rooney doesn't mean that no clubs would like to take him

 

Absolutely right also in the times gone by of the sponsons andy jones Earle etc agents did not play as big a part as now. Players are always getting tapped up to join a club for more money. To rate pope not as good as rougier and Constantine beggars belief.

[Wereskintandweknowweare]

Tremendously impressed with Tom - Wouldn't it be fantastic to get two successive promotions with him leading the charge.

 

In general though locally born players are not idolised by fans in the way they used to be - its now got to the stage where all that fans respond to is how much money they have paid for a player.

Agreed one word probbably spelt wrong ............. Odemwinge

If households were run in the same way fans look at their team the whole structure of society as we know it would impload.