Port Vale v Swindon matchday thread

[adje]

Well, I said I'd give him 10 games. He's had 9 but, today,all 4 substitutions were completely baffling. All 4 should have stayed on. I maintain we've got a squad here that's capable of much better.

[Bob1978]

Oforborh and Glatz are good. Kennedy has just made them crap

[Cowley38]

There is no way this season can be defended..

[Nomoreheroes]

No more than was expected🤣

Expected to lose, but the manner of defeat is hard to take.

I don’t care that Freckleton is in tears. I think the grief that some of the away fans were giving at the end was justified.

Couldn’t string passes together. No movement. Slow. Plodding. Weak in midfield. Soft in defence and no attacking threat.

Utter rubbish.

[Nemo]

The stomach churning thing is if he goes, we are stuck with Gunning.

I think Bignot might have jumped that queue, but I'm fairly sure we'll find out soon enough.

[Steak supper]

There is no way this season can be defended..

By our defence?

[Frigby Daser]

Kennedy bingo.

He’ll talk about our bad luck. That he doesn’t believe in stats (like shots on goal) apart from the fact he believes in stats (when they’re utterly fucking irrelevant to the result, but suggest we’ve won on throw ins taken between 15 and 34 yards out from goal.


He’ll say how good Port Vale are and how George Byers should be playing a level above (note to Kennedy, if you mentally place every other side as a good side, how the fuck do you rate your own team? It’s league bloody two).

He’ll hang a player out to dry and then say how he’s not criticising him, but then criticise him to be clear that it’s their fault and not his.

He’ll tell Andrew Hawes how he “understands the question” and then be mildly passive aggressive in his response, to a perfectly reasonable question. If Kennedy was half as good a manager as Hawes is a journalist, things would be far better.

Mark, your football is atrocious. Genuinely atrocious. Lacking in any merit. And we’ve had Gunning here, and thought it couldn’t get worse.  

Clear the decks and start again. Rotten to the core.

[Bob1978]

Well, I said I'd give him 10 games. He's had 9 but, today,all 4 substitutions were completely baffling. All 4 should have stayed on. I maintain we've got a squad here that's capable of much better.

Baffling subs this is the sign of a manager who won’t be in a job soon. I hope the club have some options lined up - caddis please or Gladwin?

[Ides of March]

The same Carlisle who we made look like the best defensive side in the league shipped another three today. This team has absolutely no creativity. It was so obvious to everyone. The recruitment has gone from one extreme to another. Either recruit technical players with no physicality, or do the complete opposite. Where’s the balance?

[Matchworn Shirts]

I think Bignot might have jumped that queue, but I'm fairly sure we'll find out soon enough.

Perhaps he has also washed Clementes' car

[Steak supper]

Baffling subs this is the sign of a manager who won’t be in a job soon. I hope the club have some options lined up - caddis please or Gladwin?

Please, no

[4D]

  nice one Morfuni, I don't think I have witnessed such a decline in this football club as you have managed. Should be a big gate against Harrogate 

[swindonmaniac]

The stomach churning thing is if he goes, we are stuck with Gunning.

Couldnt be any worse surely ?. 

[Frigby Daser]

I was against Caddis, but I’d have him back in a heartbeat and back him to be grown up enough to take the job on “eyes open” to the fuckers he would have to work with.

The Bignot point above is relevant. He has managed, albeit in the Conference. He hardly knew Kennedy before taking this job. They’d done a course together. So if Kennedy went, it doesn’t follow that Bignot would go too.

It would be a standard Swindon appointment. Don’t go for who’s best, go for whoever is nearest and cheapest.

[Bob1978]

Please, no

Better options who would actually want the job? Don’t say gunning