Port Vale v Swindon matchday thread

[tans]

In fact if at some point someone tugged at Kennedy’s face and pulled off a mask to reveal Spacey under there - I would not be surprised at this point…

[Bob's Orange]

Definitely did pre-season.   Obvious by the gap between the lines and the running track. 

Less pitch to look after which means you can delegate marketing tasks to him during the time saved. Anthony Hall, business legend!

[4D]

Less pitch to look after which means you can delegate marketing tasks to him during the time saved. Anthony Hall, business legend!

Surely you want a bigger pitch to sell more square sponsorship?

[Ginginho]

1:18pm
Mark Kennedy on away record:

I am big on stats and when I look home and away, I don't have an answer for that but we are missing a lot of physicality right now. Harry is a very technical player but by god is he effective on set pieces, the same with Ollie Clarke. We have been hindered there but we have to deal with it.


1:20pm
Mark Kennedy on stats:

My eyes tell me what I need to see with good performances and dominating games. We played Notts County flying high and we played really well and if we play that again then we win eight out of ten. It is nice to see it then stats back it up but I am not obsessed with stats. The things we are looking for in our game are things we work at and we are focused on the stats that are key for how we play. Attacking and defending has been high, we haven't come away from what we are looking at. Our transitional stats are low, Lincoln they were high, so that is something separate.

Make your fucking mind up

[Bob1978]

Make your fucking mind up

To be fair to Kennedy you can be a big fan of something at the same time as not being obsessed with something.

[4D]

Saturday's interview 

[Batch]

To be fair to Kennedy you can be a big fan of something at the same time as not being obsessed with something.

87% of him agrees with that

[Qunk]

87% of him agrees with that

60% of the time it works every time.

[Legends-Lounge]

60% of the time it works every time.

The other 50% is split 50/50.

[Tails]

He's big on stats eh? It's a shame he's not big on the "Win" stat.

To be fair if I was performing terribly for a terrible company I'd probably roll out the "didn't wanna do good anyway" line.

Sigh. As long as he keeps us up.

[Qunk]

The other 50% is split 50/50.

I completely agree 80%

[Legends-Lounge]

I completely agree 80%

The other 30% are undecided.

[Posh Red]

The other 30% are undecided.

Surely that should be 25%, based on another thread on this forum

[adje]

Think I just saw the second swallow of summer. 1-0 Town

[Wobbly Bob]

Pre match welcome to Mordor in The Wheatsheaf.

Good old Stoke-on-Trent, where the locals like to smile on the inside and the staple diet based on oatmeal has had no effect whatsoever on weight control.
Maybe the grim expressions are a just a case of trying to keep the resulting out of control farting at bay.

The grumbling about Kennedy will continue until he can put some wins together.
I would give him the 3 full transfer windows that he has asked for just to see what the end result is.
The last manager to survive 3 or more windows was Wellens then Williams, Cooper, PDC, Wilson & King the only other ones this century.
A mixed bag, 2 promotions & 3 play off campaigns but also relegation seasons.
No guarantee of success as there are a lot of other moving parts involved.

History over the last 24 years shows that managers who don't get 3 windows tend to end up doing bugger all, the Wise & Sturrock season & arguably Garner being the outliers.

So, on to today.
Don't doubt for a minute that much like ourselves the vast majority of Vale fans who go week in week out or follow their teams fortunes from afar are decent folk who just want the best for their club.
Would I put the footballing world to rights with a Vale fan over a pint or two? Absolutely.

However, football fans can be a strange and illogical bunch who can hold grudges for many reasons, from mainly the very trivial through to more significant.

For example, learning of a postponement just as the train was leaving the point of no return, takes two bus journeys to get from the station to the ground, the home network crashing when browsing a link to the opposition forum, attending an evening fixture where duck becomes a word of advice as opposed to a local term of respect.

Any typically irrational fan would therefore be well within their rights to view the opposition fans who are quite clearly responsible for the above calamities & more as a bunch of cunts. All of them.

Anyway, had a beetroot risotto yesterday evening so a glorious bright red stream when taking a piss this morning.
Has to be a good omen.
A clean escape and not losing would be a very good outcome.