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Port Vale (A) League 1 Boxing Day 26/12/07.

Reports and reaction from the 2007-08 season as Walsall finished 12th in League 1
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Re: Port Vale (A) League 1 Boxing Day 26/12/07.

Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:15 am

booster cogburn wrote: not at all happy with the way we dished it out.




It's allowed against Port Vale.

See Football League Rules and Laws of the Game. Section 4 . Sub- section 3 (2a).

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Re: Port Vale (A) League 1 Boxing Day 26/12/07.

Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:59 am

not a good performance by all accounts , but pleased with point and once again the spirit and determination shone through .
disappointed to lose Gerrard and Fox for the tough trip to Oldham , welcome back Ropes .

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Re: Port Vale (A) League 1 Boxing Day 26/12/07.

Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:10 am

Had a lovely policeman escort us from the motorway to the ground. The away pub had lots of familiar faces. My Christmas jumper kept me lovely and warm.... oh the game? Well the minute Mooney went off it was obvious we were going to struggle and to be honest I couldn't see where a goal was going to come from. The ref was a joke, how many of their players were booked? despite at least 2 sliding tackles and and elbow!.

I'm not going to criticise anyone the lads never gave up even when we were down to 10 men. justice was done for those of us that didn't leave early and got to celebrate the goal

And to top off a miserable day when I got home I realised I'd lost £20!!! :(

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Re: Port Vale (A) League 1 Boxing Day 26/12/07.

Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:44 am

SaigonSaddler wrote:Ho-Ho-Ho!

Merry Christmas Port Failures......anyone else listen to Sinnot on Radio Stoke 94.6 on the way home......90 seconds.......kick the cat........if only........90 seconds.........professional.........annoyed........90 seconds.

Actually, more like 20 seconds!!! :lol:

Eat my late, late goal!


It was just like the good old days - Your flat cap thrown in the air, then running down the aisle to retrieve it :lol:

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Re: Port Vale (A) League 1 Boxing Day 26/12/07.

Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:02 am

Asps wrote:
SaigonSaddler wrote:Ho-Ho-Ho!

Merry Christmas Port Failures......anyone else listen to Sinnot on Radio Stoke 94.6 on the way home......90 seconds.......kick the cat........if only........90 seconds.........professional.........annoyed........90 seconds.

Actually, more like 20 seconds!!! :lol:

Eat my late, late goal!


It was just like the good old days - Your flat cap thrown in the air, then running down the aisle to retrieve it :lol:


I was hoping nobody noticed... :oops: ...I also turned my ankle jumping up and down on the steps. Worth the outrageous 19 quid in the end just to hear the manager on radio stoke and listen to the whining Fail fans on the way back to the car.

I can still picture Ricketts lurking at the far post and just knowing it was going in! :D The excellent Chrimbo continues!!!

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Re: Port Vale (A) League 1 Boxing Day 26/12/07.

Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:05 am

Pedagogue wrote:
yoda wrote:According to Vale we took 1,800 fans. Rubbish. Absolute rubbish. I'm sure clubs are playing with the figures (Notts County also springs to mind), to make their home crowd seem bigger.

That stand held 4,500 and there weren't many gaps


Actually, yoda, there were a LOT of empty seats - apart from the sizeable block, cordoned off, as a barrier to keep our lot well away from their lot! 1800 seems about reasonable to me - only Leeds (and, possibly, Forest) are likely to beat that, at Fail Park, this season.


Assuming 2000 Walsall fans, that still leaves 4000 Failiants to account for, so where were they?

I'd suggest 3000 Valiants MAX.

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Re: Port Vale (A) League 1 Boxing Day 26/12/07.

Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:13 am

WFC_Rob wrote:Win when playing poorly - the sign of a good side?

We certainly weren't at our best today and proved how important Mooney is to us because when he went off, the ball simply wouldn't stick in the final third.
Ricketts proved again that he is in a class of his own. Controlled the ball on the edge of the box, turned, picked out Weston in the clear when no-one else seemed to have even noticed he was there, made his move to the back post and converted the type of crosses strikers dream of. Brilliant.

I actually thoight Weston was man of the match today. He was good defensively considering he had to cope with Sonko's defensive ineptitude in front of him and put a few decent crosses over. In truth, the rest of the back four played alright again but Weston was my pick of the bunch.
Sweeney also looked excellent until he was taken off (couldn't see why). He ran at defenders and generally looked to keep hold of the ball which we were having trouble doing generally.
Sonko needs taking out of the side and out of the 16 immediately. I think he's a good player when he performs to his best, but we haven't seen that from him for a good couple of months now and the stick he gets is doing his confidence no good at all. Give him a spell in the reserves to prove to himself as much as anyone that he has what it takes to make it as a Walsall player.
Wrack was good again. In the first half, the number of loose balls he was picking up was unbelievable. He's playing like a 22 year old rather than a 32 year old at the moment and long may it continue.
I thought Bradley had another one of his 'in and out' games today. In general, I thought he was quiet but he did show glimpses of quality and sharpness around the ball.

A word on the referee. That bloke was an absloute joke. Referees like him are the reason why players lose control. To use an example, as Bradley tracks the Vale player on the ball, he swings an arm and elbows Bradley in the face. Bradley turns to the ref who blows his whistle and calls the player in question over. A quiet word in the ear and he's back on his way. If the ref has seen an elbow to the face, as he must have done, how has he let the player continue without a card? Fortunately, Bradley isn't a dirty player because on another day, he could have sought his revenge.
The ref then went about booking any player who caused his opponent to fall to the ground.
I have no complaints about the Fox red card. I just hope a couple of his team-mates have apologised to him for putting him in a position where he had little choice. The absentees in midfield who allowed them to catch us on the break put him in a position where only an immaculate challenge would have resulted in anything less.

Port Vale were poor, let's not forget it. They'll struggle because main striker Luke 'Firework' Rodgers plays like a headless chicken and doesn't look like he could hit a barn door with a banjo. When we went down to 10 men, we left the back door slightly ajar, so to speak, and let them play a bit of football. They'll come away thinking that if they play like that every week, they'll be alright. The reality was that they had fewer clear cut chances in the game than we had after we went down to 10 men.

All in all, a good day. Miles going off on a stretcher was satisfying to say the least. I was just glad we came away with a point despite not playing anywhere near our best and having to cope with a completely stupid referee.



An excellent summing up by WFC_Rob, stick it on the front page.

Just to add my thoughts.... In my opinion, the only players who did themselves any kind of justice were Weston, Wrack and Sweeney.
That said, the spirit and togetherness of this squad is absolutely tremendous. They should be really proud of the fact that even though they didn't play well, they still ground out what is now a fantastic away point.

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Re: Port Vale (A) League 1 Boxing Day 26/12/07.

Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:24 pm

Mozza_saddler wrote:
Brum wrote:couple of points..


lost our heads a bit at the end, foxy needs to learn to tackle without jumping into players. ricketts needs to learn not to lean back when shooting.


to be fair to fox, he is one of the stronger tacklers we have, and the vale attacker was through on goal and would have probably buried it if fox didnt do something, so i disagree with you on that one..


i meant his first booking, second one he maybe sacrificed himself to stop a goal so thats acceptable. his first one was silly tho

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Re: Port Vale (A) League 1 Boxing Day 26/12/07.

Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:37 pm

port vale are trying to rip our stand and staduim etc.
anybody fancy helping me putting these knobs in there place.



link: http://www.onevalefan.co.uk/forums/show ... 86&page=10


we hate vale!!

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Re: Port Vale (A) League 1 Boxing Day 26/12/07.

Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:38 pm

page 13 though

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Re: Port Vale (A) League 1 Boxing Day 26/12/07.

Thu Dec 27, 2007 4:41 pm

Walsall11 wrote:port vale are trying to rip our stand and staduim etc.
anybody fancy helping me putting these knobs in there place.



link: http://www.onevalefan.co.uk/forums/show ... 86&page=10


we hate vale!!


Having taken a look, it's hardly worth it. Their board is awful and it seems mainly, with the odd exception, full of very poor posts that say nothing of any worth. One or two recognise their own team's shortcomings and realise that they should have beaten us on (for us) a bad day and (for them) their best performance of the season.

No doubt they were a bit inspired by our fans' tauntings over the Chasetown cup tie. Nothing like hitting a nerve to coax a performance out of the opposition is there - will we never learn?

A certain poster from Bilston was just on there causing mischief with a heap of no-brain one-liner trash that only served to rile them even more.

What is the point exactly? :?

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Re: Port Vale (A) League 1 Boxing Day 26/12/07.

Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:05 pm

Sonko was wack.

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Re: Port Vale (A) League 1 Boxing Day 26/12/07.

Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:24 pm

Getting a ponit when we played that poorly shows that we now have a very decent side. Dont think Sonko will ever be able to play at a league 1 level. Mayb just about league 2. Sweeny played very well didnt think he deserved to be subed but oh well. Wrack and Weston play very well aswell with Weston making good burst forwards that Sonko should have been doing. Saturdays game is now going to be very difficult as now fox and gerrard can not play :(
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Re: Port Vale (A) League 1 Boxing Day 26/12/07.

Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:52 pm

big baz 1 wrote:Sonko was wack.


I was ready to blame u for the defeat! :lol: :wink:

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