No Micky, your move is political
OVF founder Rob Fielding tells Micky Adams to withdraw his bid to be a director in an open letter to the Port Vale manager.
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OVF founder Rob Fielding tells Micky Adams to withdraw his bid to be a director in an open letter to the Port Vale manager.
Board’s proposal crudely contradicts a democratic vote by shareholders argues Rob Fielding. Pecksniffian is an unusual word I like to occasionally use. It comes from Dickens’ novel Martin Chuzzlewit and relates to the character Sam Pecksniff. Based on the character’s traits, it is used to describe those who claim to be acting with the moral […]
Rob Fielding welcomes the post-EGM statement from the board in which they accept an “appetite for change” but he wants more than mere words – the board now have to deliver.
Regal Sports, the manufacturers of Port Vale’s matchday programme are threatening legal action after they claimed that Port Vale CEO Perry Deakin “grossly misrepresented” matchday sales of the programme. The Milton Keynes-based firm signed a two-year contract in July to design and produce the Vale programme until the end of the 2012/13 season and agreed […]
On the eve of the EGM, Rob Fielding pens an open letter to the Port Vale board.
Rob Fielding argues that the current tactics of the Port Vale FC board are ruining the reputation of the club.
Chairman Bill Bratt has been on local radio attacking “lies” posted on the Internet. Rob Fielding defends OVF’s honour…
Rob Fielding thinks the club was wrong to dismiss the Chaudry offer and here are his reasons why.
Robbie Williams, if you’ve taken the commitment (some may say responsibility) to buy shares, you’ve got to continue to honour that commitment and take a stand on club issues.
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but in my 31 years of supporting Port Vale, I cannot recall such a rollercoaster season.
After the turmoil of the last few days, Vale fans could be forgiven for wanting to take a break from the ups and downs of football.
It’s been another week of controversy at Vale Park and yet, once again, fans have been treated to complete silence from the Port Vale board.
Peter Miller Port Vale salary: a copy of a letter that was sent to Peter Miller detailing his chairman’s salary.
Port Vale columnist Martin Tideswell says that no-one believes a word the club says anymore, that “the directors continue to hide, squirm and delay” and that “nothing and no-one can redeem this current board in the eyes of the vast majority of Vale fans.”
Sentinel columnist and life-long Vale supporter Phil Sherwin believes some members of the board are “totally deluded” if they think their continued presence on the board is helping the club. Sherwin adds that he believes their continued presence is actually making things worse, not better.
Vale columnist Martin Tideswell is highly critical of the response of footballing authorities, the local MP and the city council to Vale’s current situation. He feels that these organisations could all intervene to help but they “have all been told what is going on and done nothing. They fiddle and talk in platitudes while Vale […]
The official Port Vale Supporters’ Club have hit out at the club’s board and accused them of “hiding behind spurious arguments to justify not talking to supporters and the media.” The Supporters’ Club adds that: “Mike Lloyd’s comments are thoroughly disingenuous given that the directors have not communicated with supporters and shareholders for some weeks […]
Port Vale’s £277,000 mortgage on Vale Park broke the terms of their agreement with the city council, the Sentinel has disclosed. The revelation means that had the club been forced to repay their £2.25 million loan agreement with Stoke-on-Trent council then the entire future of the club could well have been in severe doubt.
The official Port Vale Supporters’ Club has issued a statement urging fans to keep the pressure on the board by demonstrating at every forthcoming game – both home and away.
An anonymous Port Vale fan has produced a new Port Vale website www.getoutofportvale.co.uk
Rumours reaching OVF Towers suggest that the board are desperately trying to bring a new majority shareholder/chairman onboard.
Port Vale columnist Martin Tideswell says that the “men responsible for the current financial meltdown batten down the hatches and show utter contempt for the will of the people they are supposed to serve” and it is “little more than a cynical attempt by the Chief Executive and his fellow directors to paint Vale fans […]
Documents disclosed to OVF appear to confirm fears that Directors Peter Miller and Perry Deakin may not have signed personal guarantees when they joined the Port Vale boardroom. Miller and Deakin caused a storm when it was revealed that, despite club statements to the contrary, they had not paid for their shares when they sought […]
Outgoing CEO Perry Deakin has caused outrage with the revelation that he will remain in his post at least until March despite resigning in November. The news emerged on Wednesday after a group of fans visited Vale Park demanding the CEO’s immediate exit. After club officials met the group, Deakin was (somewhat bizarrely) given a […]
Almost 97% of over 2,000 Vale fans polled during Monday’s Port Vale versus Cheltenham Town game have backed the Supporters’ Club call for an EGM. The group polled 2,147 fans at the Cheltenham clash, with 2,074 – or 96.6 per cent – of them supporting the action.
Mike Lloyd has confirmed that Micky Adams was right when the manager claimed that the club has no funds for January transfers. After the Cheltenham defeat, Adams told the press that the board has stopped player recruitment, despite Adams previously being given assurances that he would be handed vital transfer funds by then Chairman Peter […]
Manager Micky Adams has launched an attack on the Port Vale board, accusing them of breaking their promises on January signings.