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Missing the game today as am in New York.  I still however have a good feeling and am going for a 2-1 win!  COYR

I was hoping you might have mentioned the Valiants chairman....Norman Smurthwaite....proper norvern name there.

Norm I believe has recently banned The Sentinel from covering PV matches....the equivaliant (I miss Nev) of Jed banning the Adver.  OK some might argue not a bad thing...

Think Norm has suggested that the Sentinel should give him PV, 10K for the privelege

I was hoping you might have mentioned the Valiants chairman....Norman Smurthwaite....proper norvern name there.

Norm I believe has recently banned The Sentinel from covering PV matches....the equivaliant (I miss Nev) of Jed banning the Adver.  OK some might argue not a bad thing...

Think Norm has suggested that the Sentinel should give him PV, 10K for the privelege

I really like being able to order my ticket online on the morning of the game, pick my seat and then add it to my card. I just wanted to say that.

I'm at work, last time I worked a home game was the Mason hatrick game and we won 4-0...so we'll piss it today and people will be talking about the best they've ever seen us again.

Privilege, it's privilege.

5-0  :nod:

fuck off soapy tit wank

Begovic has always had that in his locker.  :nod:

N'Guessan you should try the Vale commentary, it's working a bit better for me.

N'Guessan you should try the Vale commentary, it's working a bit better for me.

This commentary is so northern. Burslem's not even that far north...

As least it works ... not like STFC commentary. After 25 minutes I got a "cleared" message. So Player has now received my pissed  off message. No reaction ....

These PV commentators are fantastic to listen to, comedy gold

'Swindon perhaps shouldn't be ahead, they've had one real chance.'

Swindon Shots 5 On Target 5

Port Vale Shots 3 On Target 0

'Swindon perhaps shouldn't be ahead, they've had one real chance.'

Swindon Shots 5 On Target 5

Port Vale Shots 3 On Target 0

JET scores again for Shitty.  He will be gone in January.

PV Commentators:
'They pass the ball around lovely like but with no threat. They float like a butterfly and sting like one too!'

PV Commentators:
'They pass the ball around lovely like but with no threat. They float like a butterfly and sting like one too!'

Coventry are now only 3 points off the playoffs.

Sam Morshead ‏@SamMorshead_SA 2m
GOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!! 2-0 (Ranger 50) N'Guessan does all hard work, takes on defender, drills across and ball hits Ranger, goes in

Ha !Vale have just brought on the only player more unpopular than Ranger!

PV Commentators:
'They pass the ball around lovely like but with no threat. They float like a butterfly and sting like one too!'


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Ha !Vale have just brought on the only player more unpopular than Ranger!

:beers: Why do we always hammer Vale at home? This will be 5-0.

Don't blame me, I'm not playing.

You all know what's gonna happen.

Steve White: Banged on managers door once when he was 23. Colin Murphy at Lincoln where he was on loan. Didn't want to go on loan, but was out of the Charlton team and Lenny Lawrence persuaded him to go. Chalky was benched after 2 games with no goals. He phoned up the manager and said 'Mr Murphy, I didn't come here to sit on the bench. I'm on my way down the A1. I'll leave you to sort it out with Mr Lawrence.'

I hoped it would be better - I was dictating and thought I wouldn't let my efforts go to waste!

Was a bit worried at 3-2, sounded like we dug in well to finish the game off. It's nice to be winning again  :)

Well my Accy came in for £66, and I have got Arsenal to win 2-1 with Corzola first scorer at 70-1.  Fingers crossed it could be a very good day.

The referee was one of the worst I've seen for a while due to his inconsistency today. Vale's number 7 got away with countless fouls yet Pritchard is harshly booked for diving. Worst of all was his failure in sending off Lee Hughes for being Lee Hughes and then running half the length of the pitch to shake hands with Hughes at full-time. What the fuck was that all about?

Behave, Pritchard was not harshly booked. He could have gone in the book a few minutes earlier for throwing himself to the floor in front of the Arkells. He is a great player but a gobby cheat who is no fucking good to us if he's constantly getting yellows for lets call it simulation and gobbing off to the ref about how hard done by he is. 

I'd probably be less forgiving if he didn't play for us. Not going to deny that I'm biased.

Agree with Batch that Ranger didn't have one of his best games, but him and N'guessan work well together.  Also agree with the comments about El Gabbas and I'd also likened him to Dossevi.  Saying that he was heavily involved in the build up to the third goal.

I think some of the criticism of El Gabbas is a bit harsh. He looked lively, had plenty of energy, worked hard to close opposition players down and he set up the fifth. He does, however, need to think quicker when he has a chance to shoot. Hopefully he'll get more of a chance in the paint pot.

Shame about the lack of atmosphere though. The few chants that were started tend to just fizzle out :/

He looked lively alright and had energy but also looked like a headless chicken at times.
Maybe he will take some time adjusting to the English game/league 1.
I have no doubt he will feature at some point in both the FA and JPT
Cooper obv sees something in him as he has had a a few sub appearances

Bugbear of mine but after each goal we scored a chant started only to be drowned out by that awful glad all over. Other than that was a flat atmosphere from the off

El Gabbas didnt come on until after the 4th goal  :hmmm:

Others have mentioned it was an odd game. Fair play to Mickey Adams, took a gamble at 3-0 down and it nearly paid off. Certainly thought 3-3 was more likely than us scoring again!

I am slumming it by the pool in Tenerife at the moment, anything happening yet?

Well my Accy came in for £66, and I have got Arsenal to win 2-1 with Corzola first scorer at 70-1.  Fingers crossed it could be a very good day.

First of all, let's get a few things straight, shall we? Vale, for 85% of yesterday's match were appalling. Swindon were better in every aspect. Their passing was, on the whole, accurate, precise and unlike us, they didn't lump the ball 40 yards up the field hoping for Pope to feed off the scraps. It was one of the worst first halves of football that I've ever had the misfortune of witnessing. There were zero positives to take. I don't think we deserved to be losing at the break as it was such a drab and uninspiring 45 minutes where it seemed like two poor sides didn't have any sort of gameplan and neither looked good.

However, once the second half began, Swindon took the **** out of us - literally. They won every tackle, they won every second ball, their players' movement was head and shoulders above ours - we simply couldn't cope. N'Guessan and Ranger - credit where credit is due. They were a real handful, and none of our defenders could cope with them at all. The first two goals were comical to concede, in my eyes. Poor marking, poor organisation. The third goal was quite difficult to explain. A poor goal to concede, but a wicked deflection which took Neal by complete surprise. The fourth was absolutely wonderful, and I knew as soon as it left his foot that it was heading for the top corner - a brilliant goal by my Man of the Match. The fifth was again, poor, and should've been dealt with, but the game was dead and buried after the fourth, so the fifth just added the gloss to a completely deserved win for Swindon.

Am I surprised we conceded 5 again at The County Ground? Not at all. We are dreadful down there, and have been for as long as I can remember. However, some of the comments I've read on this thread this morning have shown a select few Vale fans to be very bitter and full of excuses. Yes, we were dreadful. Yes, Swindon's 'antics' were indeed disgraceful at times. I have to admit, they did play the referee very, very well for the duration of the game, but you can't take away the fact that their passing football was some of the best I've seen this season. Byrne, N'Guessan, Ranger and Luongo were just a class above our 11, and we couldn't deal with them. The better team by a country mile won - they weren't the best, but they were clinical, composed and assured. Something I think we should try to adopt, because what I saw yesterday was a complete laughing stock. No desire until we were 3-0 down and Adams introduced three substitutions. No passion from at least 6-7 of the players. No composure on the ball. No shape. No cohesion. It was embarassing at times how much space Swindon had to operate in, and with consumate ease they threw bodies forward and made it look so easy.

I don't like to criticise the referee or the opposition for their style of play, but I had to on this occasion. Swindon, although they played well, have great passing and organisation, as I alluded to above, did play the referee and it was incredibly frustrating to watch. Some of the decisions he gave were extraordinary! I was infuriated on occasions as he completely killed the flow to the game with some strange decisions. My main gripe with the man in the middle though, was his apparent lack of understanding when it comes to the advantage rule. There was one particular occasion where Dodds made a challenge for us in the middle of the park, and if the referee deemed it was a foul (baring in mind that Swindon broke away with the ball), then he should've signalled for advantage. However, he allowed play to continue and said 'no' to the calls for a foul from the Swindon fans, yet as soon as Vale managed to win the ball back, he calls it back for the free kick!? How does that even make sense? You can only call it back for a 'foul' if you've originally signalled for play to continue with advantage. Bizarre.

A few other things to touch on - our away following of 327, however anybody dresses it up, is very, very poor. We were 9th in the league following two very good wins (which, as it happens, was the highest we'd been in the league standings for 8 years). We were confident. We'd taken more (400+) to Colchester United, Carlisle United and Leyton Orient, and a respectable 200-odd to Crawley Town on a Tuesday night. Yes, it was £25 to get in for Adults, which, for this level of football is shocking, but don't you think Swindon fans have to pay exactly the same price as well?? How do you think they feel? We only pay it once a season, whereas they're stuck with those inflated prices a minimum of 23 times a season. The facilities aren't the best? Well, are they really that much better or worse than the vast majority of stadiums in this division and the one below? I could name at least 20 of the 46 other teams in League One and League Two who have facilities on an equal footing, or even worse than Swindon do. I can sympathise with Vale fans in regards to the fact that we have got Shrewsbury Town (H), Crewe Alexandra (A), Preston North End (H) and Walsall (A) coming up within the next few weeks, so they may have prioritised. However, we still could've had at least 450 down in Wiltshire as it would've seen us as very consistent on the road with our 400+ followings to the other 'non-local' away games.

I enjoyed my day though. Met a Vale fan in one of the pubs before the game who lives in Cirencester and shared a pint. On meeting this Vale fan, I was also introduced to a couple of Swindon fans who were very pleasant. I had to express my dislike of Oxford United to them, to which I was granted freedom of Swindon, aha! The food inside the stadium was over-priced and quite frankly, disgusting, but I was hungry and shovelled it down anyway as I don't waste food. Was a bit disappointed to only see just over 7,000 Swindon fans though - haven't you guys been getting close to 8k attendances in your last few games? Quite poor vocally as well given the scoreline, but our numbers were poor, and vocally, we were even worse. The only chant I actually appreciated and bothered to join in towards the end of the game was '£25, you're having a laugh' as it pretty much summed up the entire afternoon (even though I didn't pay £25, thankfully!).

After seeing the highlights, Byrne's goal looks even better. It's a shame he selfishly squandered an opportunity at 3-0 to kill it off by taking a pathetic shot at an impossible angle instead of passing it.

I honestly think he just fucked up his cross. Everyone else thinks it was a shot!

After seeing the highlights, Byrne's goal looks even better. It's a shame he selfishly squandered an opportunity at 3-0 to kill it off by taking a pathetic shot at an impossible angle instead of passing it.

Norman Smurthwaite....proper norvern name there.

That Suarez chance :cry:

Poxy Shitty let me down for my accy

Fuck that. Oxford to lose every time - piss-filled nob jockeys

Fuck that. Oxford to lose every time - piss-filled nob jockeys

Fuck that. Oxford to lose every time - piss-filled nob jockeys

We were the match sponsors yesterday and had a fantastic day.
Just for the record on the MOM stakes.
First half Mason was just in the lead, with close calls from N'Guessen, Ranger and Jay Mac.
Second half with Mason going off, two conversions from Jay Mac, N'Guessen was definitely getting the majority vote from the lads.

Damn right. The only fixture of the season that I don't want Rovers to lose.

except if they happen to have to play franchise surely?

Bugbear of mine but after each goal we scored a chant started only to be drowned out by that awful glad all over. Other than that was a flat atmosphere from the off

Someone complains about this every week it seems but still it's played :-(