Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: Away v Port Vale Sat 13th November @ 12.00pm

As did the moment of shear madness from Songo to give Vale their only goal, I posted early doors we shouldn't be frightened of this lot they looked average, you seem to be unable to give credit where it's due, was it only disjointed from Bradford City, today we stopped Port Vale playing their usual game, with their home record they have certainly bossed most home games this season.

@Alan Partridge started his post with this : Pretty crap overall from the Vale, the occasion clearly got to us. Adams had set up perfectly to stop us playing, little time and space for our central three to find the space they need, but on top of that excellent tactical set up we were uncharacteristically shit really. Almost played you in a few times! Nervy, timid, resorting to hoof ball, passing all over the place, including straight to you for the equaliser. Not what we've been used to seeing, really uncharacteristic, really frustrating.
I think that's a fair assessment of the game all round not a classic but we've taken point from the form team in the division at their place as well.

 

Good point at a difficult venue that has a huge pitch to cover, having said that we need goalscorers in the team, Players such as Gillead and to some extent Vernon who just cannot score the chances created need to be replaced in January.
Will be good to get Cook and Angol in the team together as well

 

one on one, shot from point blank range. FFS O'Donnell why didn't you catch it.

 

Generally speaking taking a point away against an in form side is a point gained.

 

Yes, August 93!!!!
18 in 4 games, of which 2 were Cup games.
1-5, 1-1, 6-0, 6-0.

 

I'm a Vale fan, your post isn't quite right.

Robinson took stick when he was playing as in all honesty he couldn't hit a barn door. Lazy was a word often used in post match criticism by some. It was the same for his first spell with us in 2015 and the same when he signed in 2020. You can imagine the let down when we had Maynard and Jamille Matt in the building negotiating deals and ending up with a player who'd already been a massive disappointment for us.

Clarke wanted to release him in the summer, but he still had a year left, so Theo was one of three players removed from the first team in training. There was nothing nasty about it, no singling out, no trying to force him out, it was strictly professional. In fact one of those other three Scott Burgess, who is still in that position at Vale, can be seen in the manager of the month press photo smiling behind Clarke so that should say something about how the situational was handled.

Theo wasn't really getting stick when training with the youth team as he would never actually come into contact with fans, we haven't seen him since the last game of the season.

I and I expect the rest of us have no issue with him personally, he was never a troublemaker or anything, no problems whatsoever, he was just a really ineffectual signing for us on two separate occasions who by all accounts was also on a very good contract the second time around which further compounded frustrations with him and John Askey who signed him.

I'm expecting a tough game tomorrow and let's hope no one has to notice the referee for once.

https://www.port-vale.co.uk/news/2021/november/darrell-clarke-named-skybet-league-two-manager-of-the-month-for-october/

 

fecks sake Gillead! Inept!

 

Oscar Threlkeld has the hair style of a 9 year old girl who has just had her hair platted by a looky-looky lady in Tenerife.

 

To use a fordy word or two, gillead is utter shite, how he gets in week in week out amazes me.
The less said about Threkald the better.
Port vale are nothing to write home about, this game is ther for the wining.

 

How bad does Gillead have to be, to get hooked?

 

Angol header get in that's how you do it lad

 

That’s a red for me.

 

About the same as Parky was for us around this time in 2011

And Ryan Lowe for Plymouth in his first dozen or so matches

We could sack Adams and get yet another manager in, as that's worked out well in the last four years (McCall, Grayson, Colins, Hopking, Bowyer, McCall (part 3!!), Truman & Co!!)

 

To say with our last three league games we have played three teams in the autos to take a win and two draws is really good going

 

You've soon sussed out our Fordy!.

Decent game, a draw a fair result. With some good business in the January window, both teams have a decent chance of promotion. Auto's for you, playoffs for us?

 

Feel for him, if he wasn’t so injury prone he’d be at a higher level. Hopefully we can manage him and get him through a decent amount of games. I wouldn’t try play him Saturday/Tuesday though.

 

More then happy with today’s result yes a win would have been great yes some sloppy play . Angol coming of the bench scoring with a cracking header really lifted me I thought today’s performance was okay R.O.D pulled off some good saves and we dealt with Vale well at times. I can’t really criticise the lads hopefully we’ll get a fit squad and “ Move on Up “

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