Vale suffered another defeat away at Chesterfield this weekend. Two goals from Jack Lester sealed their victory, while Vale pulled a goal back from on-loan Man City youngster Paul Marshall.
The talking point of the game however, will be the injury to Vale goalkeeper Joe Anyon who was stretchered from the field clasping a oxygen mask.
The 21 year-old has been thrust into the limelight since an injury to former keeper Mark Goodlad meant he had to retire.
Fans will be hoping the same thing doesn't happen to Joe as he looks to have a promising career ahead of him.
Sunday 29 March 2009
Saturday 28 March 2009
Money, Money, Money
While today's game is under when I thought I'd take this oppurtuinity to talk about one of the major events to come out of Vale Park this week.
There has been lots of speculation surrounding investors, three of which are said to be interested in the club and has prompted this article from the local paper.
With dwindling crowds already and the season isn't yet over, the club need to provide some sort of incentive to attract the crowds backnext season as I'm sure this is one both the fans and club will want to forget in a hurry.
If season ticket prices don't match that of the fans then don't be surprised if more protests are organised and a scalding interview is released by some big shot at the club.
Glad all over
There has been lots of speculation surrounding investors, three of which are said to be interested in the club and has prompted this article from the local paper.
With dwindling crowds already and the season isn't yet over, the club need to provide some sort of incentive to attract the crowds backnext season as I'm sure this is one both the fans and club will want to forget in a hurry.
If season ticket prices don't match that of the fans then don't be surprised if more protests are organised and a scalding interview is released by some big shot at the club.
Glad all over
Friday 27 March 2009
Well who'd have thought
We'd have managed a win over Bradford last week. That was a shock one I can tell you, wish I'd made the effort to go now but thought against it after the Accrington game.
Kevin Gall has gone back to Carlisle not sure why to be quite honest, maybe somebody can fill me in. But there is talk of having a former old boy back in Paul Harsley, maybe we can have a word when we go to play Chesterfield on Saturday.
What is it about all these former players? We know Peter Jackson likes getting the old boys in, but it doesn't work Peter, just look at the situation we are in now with old players as managers, hardly up for promotion are we.
I seem to have set the trend with my exclusive the fans sites are now rife with rumours and people meeting up with more privileged ones for all the goss. Form a queue I was first.
Chesterfield this weekend, started well but have fallen by the wayside just lately. Similar to us, but we didn't have the successful start to be honest.
Kevin Gall has gone back to Carlisle not sure why to be quite honest, maybe somebody can fill me in. But there is talk of having a former old boy back in Paul Harsley, maybe we can have a word when we go to play Chesterfield on Saturday.
What is it about all these former players? We know Peter Jackson likes getting the old boys in, but it doesn't work Peter, just look at the situation we are in now with old players as managers, hardly up for promotion are we.
I seem to have set the trend with my exclusive the fans sites are now rife with rumours and people meeting up with more privileged ones for all the goss. Form a queue I was first.
Chesterfield this weekend, started well but have fallen by the wayside just lately. Similar to us, but we didn't have the successful start to be honest.
Thursday 19 March 2009
Normal service has been resumed
Just as we were all looking slightly hopeful. Rob Taylor's back in the side, we have a good win where we score than one or two gaols adn then we go and stuff it all up at Accrington. Must have been that sloping pitch eh?
Thankfully I didn't make the trip this time, learnt the lessons when we were thinking about going and it got called off at 7 due to a water-logged pitch.
It was described as one of the worst performances in 30 years. There's been a few of them just lately, we could make a DVD and get the club shop to sell it. It'll be a collectors item.
We need points on the board as quick as possible over the next few weeks, we can't keep relyig on Chester and Grimsby to stuff it all up. We need pull our own fingers out.
Glad all over
Thankfully I didn't make the trip this time, learnt the lessons when we were thinking about going and it got called off at 7 due to a water-logged pitch.
It was described as one of the worst performances in 30 years. There's been a few of them just lately, we could make a DVD and get the club shop to sell it. It'll be a collectors item.
We need points on the board as quick as possible over the next few weeks, we can't keep relyig on Chester and Grimsby to stuff it all up. We need pull our own fingers out.
Glad all over
Tuesday 17 March 2009
Back again
Well there have been a few developements on here over the last week.
I couldn't have predicted the response I had after publishing the first two parts of an interview with former employee Steve Joesbury, if you can call him an employee, they weren't paying him for a lot of the time.
Anyway, I've been relieved of my official duties at the club, because apparently they can't have people working for them writing that sort of thing.
Well 1. I don't work for them 2.I never got paid for anything I did it was all voluntary 3. Should they have people at the club sending me messages saying i'm a nasty and destructive person. No I think not.
But have had a number of people offering me other projects for which I am truly thankful - just to keep my writing ticking over at this crucial time.
Amazingly we managed to pick up a win over Darlington on Saturday, don't ask me how. I actually wanted us to lose so we could have a protest with me at the fore front after the last week, which seems to have felt like a year.
See what happens when you put Rob Taylor in, we win convincingly, he scores, gets Man of the Match what more could Deano want?
Rob Taylor player of the year everybody
Glad all over
I couldn't have predicted the response I had after publishing the first two parts of an interview with former employee Steve Joesbury, if you can call him an employee, they weren't paying him for a lot of the time.
Anyway, I've been relieved of my official duties at the club, because apparently they can't have people working for them writing that sort of thing.
Well 1. I don't work for them 2.I never got paid for anything I did it was all voluntary 3. Should they have people at the club sending me messages saying i'm a nasty and destructive person. No I think not.
But have had a number of people offering me other projects for which I am truly thankful - just to keep my writing ticking over at this crucial time.
Amazingly we managed to pick up a win over Darlington on Saturday, don't ask me how. I actually wanted us to lose so we could have a protest with me at the fore front after the last week, which seems to have felt like a year.
See what happens when you put Rob Taylor in, we win convincingly, he scores, gets Man of the Match what more could Deano want?
Rob Taylor player of the year everybody
Glad all over
Monday 9 March 2009
Exclusive - Part 2
In the latest extract, of the diary of a football club consultant, Steve Joesbury reveals about Lee Sinnott’s first few days in charge and what life was like behind the scenes
He said: "You can’t blame Lee. He wanted his chance. He didn’t think they would stab him in the back. I don’t mind using the word stab, because it got to the point where it was horrible. It really was horrible."
"Lee is an honest guy and Lee is a very good person at reading people. The only reason I stayed, I would have gone, but that would have isolated Lee. It wasn’t for the money that’s for sure, because it was costing me money initially working for the club, which was stupid."
"Lee was told by a lot of people, a lot of respected managers to watch his back. He was also told by a respected manager who is also a friend of Glover’s who told me to tell Lee to watch his back."
"Lee wanted to find out for himself. There was a meeting; Lee was asked if everything was ok. Lee was in the position to give Glover the opportunity. The players had a great deal of respect for Andy Porter and his coaching methods but Lee was reminded under no uncertain terms that on Dean Glover’s contract it said assistant manager.
We wanted Williams away from the coaching area. We found out that he was telling Jackson everything."
"The discipline at that football club when we got there was awful. I never forgot, I was in the coaches’ room. The phone rings, somebody answers the phone and it’s the chairman, someone turns round and says “Oh hello Bratty”
Now I’ve worked under Doug Ellis and Jeff Bonsar. You don’t treat Chairmen like that; you don’t speak to Chairmen like that. I don’t care who you are its Mr Chairman or its Bill. "
"We had apprentices sitting down in the coaching room. We had players on web-sites looking at stuff. It was an open house. We stopped all that. We moved the television into Lee’s room. We took everything so that it couldn’t get outside. "
If anything happened at that football club it was on the internet straight away, there was stuff being leaked everywhere. We know who was doing it and we know who some of the people are on web-sites.
"A former player said that under Lee Sinnott that if training was compared to being at school Sinnott was like a head teacher, while Dean Glover was like a student teacher."
Stay tuned for more on players.........
He said: "You can’t blame Lee. He wanted his chance. He didn’t think they would stab him in the back. I don’t mind using the word stab, because it got to the point where it was horrible. It really was horrible."
"Lee is an honest guy and Lee is a very good person at reading people. The only reason I stayed, I would have gone, but that would have isolated Lee. It wasn’t for the money that’s for sure, because it was costing me money initially working for the club, which was stupid."
"Lee was told by a lot of people, a lot of respected managers to watch his back. He was also told by a respected manager who is also a friend of Glover’s who told me to tell Lee to watch his back."
"Lee wanted to find out for himself. There was a meeting; Lee was asked if everything was ok. Lee was in the position to give Glover the opportunity. The players had a great deal of respect for Andy Porter and his coaching methods but Lee was reminded under no uncertain terms that on Dean Glover’s contract it said assistant manager.
We wanted Williams away from the coaching area. We found out that he was telling Jackson everything."
"The discipline at that football club when we got there was awful. I never forgot, I was in the coaches’ room. The phone rings, somebody answers the phone and it’s the chairman, someone turns round and says “Oh hello Bratty”
Now I’ve worked under Doug Ellis and Jeff Bonsar. You don’t treat Chairmen like that; you don’t speak to Chairmen like that. I don’t care who you are its Mr Chairman or its Bill. "
"We had apprentices sitting down in the coaching room. We had players on web-sites looking at stuff. It was an open house. We stopped all that. We moved the television into Lee’s room. We took everything so that it couldn’t get outside. "
If anything happened at that football club it was on the internet straight away, there was stuff being leaked everywhere. We know who was doing it and we know who some of the people are on web-sites.
"A former player said that under Lee Sinnott that if training was compared to being at school Sinnott was like a head teacher, while Dean Glover was like a student teacher."
Stay tuned for more on players.........
Sunday 8 March 2009
Exclusive
In the first of a series of extracts. Former Vale consultant Steve Joesbury opens up in a frank and honest interview of what really went on behind the scenes during his time at Vale Park.
Lee Sinnott’s trusted advisor speaks out about events following their arrival in Burslem and the factors that let to Sinnott’s demise.
Steve’s revelations will shock fans as they finally learn the truth.
Steve’s first experience of what life at the club was going to be like came at a meeting on football matters. Steve takes up the story
“ At that meeting Peter Jackson didn’t want me there. At no time did Peter Jackson ever acknowledge me. All the time I was at Port Vale Football Club, he shut me out, he never did anything. So I didn’t exist as far as Peter Jackson was concerned.
Lee insisted the meeting wouldn’t go ahead unless I sat in on it. “
“After we had the meeting, which were supposed to be every two weeks, Jackson said any players that were signed, we hadn’t signed any at this stage, would first have to be sanctioned by Williams and Glover.
His words were “Any players that are signed have got to go through these guys first.”
Lee never said a word. I never said a word. It came completely out of the blue to me and Lee, Lee said jut go with it. We’ll go another one, after that we didn’t’ have another one because Lee then put him in his place.
He said to Jackson I’m the manager I’ll sign the players. But you could see straight away that Jackson wanted Williams and Glover to virtually over see our players.
So that was where we started, that was the beginning. “
“Lee was asked what Steve Joesbury would bring to the table. I said what I want to do is make sure that Port Vale know the West Midlands.
Jackson turned round and said at the meeting “It’s not our patch. That’s not our patch.”
Look and think about it Man United, Man City, Blackburn, Liverpool that’s the area. They don’t want to know Villa, Birmingham, and Wolves. Glover was a Villa player, but they weren’t interested. It wasn’t their patch, they’d never gone there.
My idea was to widen the area up, and then you get wider. “
“I came out and said to Lee what are we doing here, because we are knocking our head against a brick wall.
Another manager was interviewed at the same time as Lee and he wanted a clear out of everybody. The two managers interviewed wanted a clear out. The only one who would work with the existing staff was Lee.”
Keep your eyes peeled for Part Two
Interview copyright Lauren Watson 2009. No parts of this interview can be used or copied without owners permission.
Lee Sinnott’s trusted advisor speaks out about events following their arrival in Burslem and the factors that let to Sinnott’s demise.
Steve’s revelations will shock fans as they finally learn the truth.
Steve’s first experience of what life at the club was going to be like came at a meeting on football matters. Steve takes up the story
“ At that meeting Peter Jackson didn’t want me there. At no time did Peter Jackson ever acknowledge me. All the time I was at Port Vale Football Club, he shut me out, he never did anything. So I didn’t exist as far as Peter Jackson was concerned.
Lee insisted the meeting wouldn’t go ahead unless I sat in on it. “
“After we had the meeting, which were supposed to be every two weeks, Jackson said any players that were signed, we hadn’t signed any at this stage, would first have to be sanctioned by Williams and Glover.
His words were “Any players that are signed have got to go through these guys first.”
Lee never said a word. I never said a word. It came completely out of the blue to me and Lee, Lee said jut go with it. We’ll go another one, after that we didn’t’ have another one because Lee then put him in his place.
He said to Jackson I’m the manager I’ll sign the players. But you could see straight away that Jackson wanted Williams and Glover to virtually over see our players.
So that was where we started, that was the beginning. “
“Lee was asked what Steve Joesbury would bring to the table. I said what I want to do is make sure that Port Vale know the West Midlands.
Jackson turned round and said at the meeting “It’s not our patch. That’s not our patch.”
Look and think about it Man United, Man City, Blackburn, Liverpool that’s the area. They don’t want to know Villa, Birmingham, and Wolves. Glover was a Villa player, but they weren’t interested. It wasn’t their patch, they’d never gone there.
My idea was to widen the area up, and then you get wider. “
“I came out and said to Lee what are we doing here, because we are knocking our head against a brick wall.
Another manager was interviewed at the same time as Lee and he wanted a clear out of everybody. The two managers interviewed wanted a clear out. The only one who would work with the existing staff was Lee.”
Keep your eyes peeled for Part Two
Interview copyright Lauren Watson 2009. No parts of this interview can be used or copied without owners permission.
Friday 6 March 2009
Crucial game
This weekend's game against Bournemouth, could be our test of the season.
They've just sneaked out of the bottom two in League Two, and another team that had a points deduction slammed on it at the start of the season due to financial problems. How we've staved them off for so long is beyond me.
Tuesday's postponement at Accrington due to the bloody weather, that's the five time this season, will probably leave us flagging a bit, come on we need an excuse before the whistle even goes.
It's a must win game if we don't want to be dragged into a relegation dog fight once again. To be honest i don't fancy conference football on a wet Tuesday night.
Talks of a protest have been put to bed until Tuesday's home game against Dagenham, lose on Saturday and the whole ground might be outside the min entrance calling for somebody's head.
Marc Richards needs to get to the form he had before Christmas or risk a repeat of being booed off last weekend, for doing, quite frankly sweet fa.
John McCombe found the net last week, and earning my other half a nice £10 return to boos the holiday fund. At the this rate we certainly won't be saving for season tickets ready for summer.
Glad All Over, for now.
They've just sneaked out of the bottom two in League Two, and another team that had a points deduction slammed on it at the start of the season due to financial problems. How we've staved them off for so long is beyond me.
Tuesday's postponement at Accrington due to the bloody weather, that's the five time this season, will probably leave us flagging a bit, come on we need an excuse before the whistle even goes.
It's a must win game if we don't want to be dragged into a relegation dog fight once again. To be honest i don't fancy conference football on a wet Tuesday night.
Talks of a protest have been put to bed until Tuesday's home game against Dagenham, lose on Saturday and the whole ground might be outside the min entrance calling for somebody's head.
Marc Richards needs to get to the form he had before Christmas or risk a repeat of being booed off last weekend, for doing, quite frankly sweet fa.
John McCombe found the net last week, and earning my other half a nice £10 return to boos the holiday fund. At the this rate we certainly won't be saving for season tickets ready for summer.
Glad All Over, for now.
Wednesday 4 March 2009
Rained off
Rather glad I didn't make the short trip to Accrington last night. It would have been somewhat of a wasted trip as the game was called off at 7 due to a water logged pitch.
I would have been even less hapier had I had to fork out £13 for my ticket for stanidng on an open terrace being battered by the rain. While it was only £4 for home fans, and they had a nice wooden seat to sit on.
Now I thought they weren't allowed to do that and had to apply the same offers to home fans, obviously I was very wrong.!!!!
Unahppy Vale fan.
I would have been even less hapier had I had to fork out £13 for my ticket for stanidng on an open terrace being battered by the rain. While it was only £4 for home fans, and they had a nice wooden seat to sit on.
Now I thought they weren't allowed to do that and had to apply the same offers to home fans, obviously I was very wrong.!!!!
Unahppy Vale fan.
Tuesday 3 March 2009
Who are they? Exactly!!!
We've all seen the famous milk advert.
Well Accrington Stanley is where Vale are travelling tonight in another League Two clash.
I can't see it going to well in all honesty. They are two places and four points behind us. We don't favour little teams and the manager and players are moaning that Saturday's protest has affected them. Oh and they haven't won at home for a bit which means they are a shoe in for a result against us.
How? You were rubbish before we had a protest, you were rubbish in the Luton game why was it our fault? Who pays your wages??? Let me guess - me.
I'm on a bit of a rant today, must be a bit more of my hooligan element coming out.
Let's hope the players have drunk gallons of the white stuff before the game, might make them a bit stronger.
Glad all over
Well Accrington Stanley is where Vale are travelling tonight in another League Two clash.
I can't see it going to well in all honesty. They are two places and four points behind us. We don't favour little teams and the manager and players are moaning that Saturday's protest has affected them. Oh and they haven't won at home for a bit which means they are a shoe in for a result against us.
How? You were rubbish before we had a protest, you were rubbish in the Luton game why was it our fault? Who pays your wages??? Let me guess - me.
I'm on a bit of a rant today, must be a bit more of my hooligan element coming out.
Let's hope the players have drunk gallons of the white stuff before the game, might make them a bit stronger.
Glad all over
Monday 2 March 2009
Protest success
I think I'm turning into a footbll hooligan.
I was at the fore-front of both protests before and after the game. So much so my grandad spotted me in the local paper!!!
I wasn't calling for the manager's head, that would be unprofessional as he's been a close friend and source in the past, but for a change in the board room.
A 3-1 defeat at home to Luton, a team that hadn't won away from home since October as well as being bottom of the table having points deducted due to financial irregularities was always going to swell the crowd after the game
It took some huge balls for Glover to come and face the fans on his own as he did, especially when he was shot down trying to answer questions.
So where do we go from here..........................
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