Port Vale v Swindon matchday thread

[Nemo]

Just seen the highlights of the second goal. Christ on a bike, that was Sheridan season bad.

[ronnie21]

Fair bit of unhappiness around again!  Problem starts at the very top, there is a cancer in the club that needs eliminating - we were doing ok until Rob Angus "resigned", gone down hill very quickly since then.  So very sad to see

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

Fair bit of unhappiness around again!  Problem starts at the very top, there is a cancer in the club that needs eliminating - we were doing ok until Rob Angus "resigned", gone down hill very quickly since then.  So very sad to see

Your last line sums it up perfectly.
So very sad to see where this Football club are and where it is heading.

Decent support yesterday considering and feel for those that travel to every home and away game because this is not enjoyable no matter how you look at it.

Just keep on telling myself it won’t be like this forever but seriously questioning the sanity of why do I bother. Trying desperately hard not to allow it to impact my life but it does.
Defeats can be shook off relatively quickly but the Club and the whole atmosphere around it is like a disease.

Why can’t we just be a well run decent club, is that too much to ask and expect?

[Pookemon]

Your last line sums it up perfectly.
So very sad to see where this Football club are and where it is heading.

Decent support yesterday considering and feel for those that travel to every home and away game because this is not enjoyable no matter how you look at it.

Just keep on telling myself it won’t be like this forever but seriously questioning the sanity of why do I bother. Trying desperately hard not to allow it to impact my life but it does.
Defeats can be shook off relatively quickly but the Club and the whole atmosphere around it is like a disease.

Why can’t we just be a well run decent club, is that too much to ask and expect?

Competently run would do tbh.

First time I've not gone to Burslem in a long time.  Up until January I used to go to pretty much every away game but now pick and choose.  There has to be another reason to go, as the football is so shit that there is no anticipation before the game, or excitement after it.  Just cannot justify spending the time and money to watch it.

[Batch]

This week we were unlucky not to get a draw.

Last week I can sort of see where they are coming from. Not taking over that again.

This week though, are you sure they aren't just humouring you?

[Steak supper]

 we lost .  We are bouncing around the bottom of the football league. That's it really

[Peter Venkman]

For me that was a terrible performance yesterday.

Last week we showed some fight and were very unlucky to lose how we did IMO.

Vs Vale I thought we didnt look like a team and were laboured in our attacking approach and very poor at the back, again.

We need a new tactical direction IMO as its just not working, is Russell going to allow Kennedy to change it? its absolutely blatant our tactics (what we have of them) just arent working, we arent creating anything decent in many games.

Yes with better finishing Drinan "could" have scored a couple of goals but hes here for a reason, he wasnt good enough for Orient and I am not entirely convinced hes good enough for L2 either.

But also on a different day Stockley if he didnt have a 50p head could easily have scored 5 on his own with the amount of times he outjumped our CB's and won almost everything put into the box, certainly 1st half.

I don't like keep chopping and changing the manager but my patience is wearing thin with Kennedy, some tactics and subs seem odd at best and baffling at worst.

Are the tactics entirely down to Kennedy? I dont think so, as Morris said previously he couldnt work without having full control and his hands being tied.

Also FWIW I dont want Caddis here, I dont get the obsession with ex players, let him grind out a career at Hereford and actually achieve something there before we get a chance to ruin him by not giving him full control over the team tactics and signings.

Yes I am angry with that yesterday, it was utter dross and not for the first time this season.

Condolances to Keff King for the loss of his mother.

[Batch]

We need a new tactical direction IMO as its just not working, is Russell going to allow Kennedy to change it?

Just had an interesting civilised discussion about Russell on twitter.

Is he 'performing well under impossible circumstances' (budget, direction from ' above')  v 'part of the problem as head of football' is the essence.

Either could be true, because I don't know how much the likes of kiely and Hart interfere with Russell's direction and Kennedy's wishes- and they may not.

At the end of the day he's 'head of football'. The buck stops there for me.

But would it be worse if he became Clem's next fall guy. Could it be worse?

[Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG]

I genuinely don't think anyone can be successful under this mob. As a director of football or a head coach or overall manager, whatever. They're all on a fucking hiding to nothing.

Downward spiral irrespective.

[UTR]

Looking onwards to Tuesday night at Tranmere, will need to wait until Kennedys pre match presser for whether or not we can expect to go to this powerhouse of football and compete or not. I imagine they’re another team who “will be up there” at the end of this season and we should be happy to leave there with anything more than a hiding.

[tans]

Mark Kennedy on goalscoring: "Although we are low on goals, I dont worry about us on scoring goals or creating goals. I know actually we are very, very good at that so that dosen't concern me going forward."

[Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG]

He's big on scoring goals but he isn't obsessed with it. He's not worried about not scoring.

[4D]

Tuesday night 11pm.....

[Batch]

Mark Kennedy on goalscoring: "Although we are low on goals, I dont worry about us on scoring goals or creating goals. I know actually we are very, very good at that so that dosen't concern me going forward."

According to this before yesterday:
https://footystats.org/england/efl-league-two/xg

We were 9th on XG , 20th XG v actual

So are we really terrible at that

[Pookemon]

Mark Kennedy on goalscoring: "Although we are low on goals, I dont worry about us on scoring goals or creating goals. I know actually we are very, very good at that so that dosen't concern me going forward."

Every time he opens his mouth he reminds me more and more of Trump.   He's an ideologist who believes he, his methods and the people he has hired are just better than anyone else, totally ignoring the facts and reality.

I just want a pragmatic manager who is willing to make decisions to get as many points as possible from the shit hand he's been dealt and Kennedy is just so far from that.