Freedman out!

[CrazyHorse]

did we`lose ?

No we didn't lose. So obviously everything is just fine and dandy, isn't it?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Crawley - not been there.
Brentford - not been there either
Port Vale - don't think I've been there
Colchester - somehow I've managed never to go there
Carlisle - passed through it, but never visited the football ground
Stevenage - not been there, to tell the truth I'm not even sure I know where there is.

Always look on the bri-i-ight side of life

[Bruce Rioja]

Vale Park was my first away game. Four of us pitched up at the ticket office at Mcr Piccadilly and asked for four return tickets to Port Vale please.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Vale Park was my first away game. Four of us pitched up at the ticket office at Mcr Piccadilly and asked for four return tickets to Port Vale please.

I've got a vague feeling it's somewhere near Stoke. Other than that, not a clue.

[Bruce Rioja]

Vale Park was my first away game. Four of us pitched up at the ticket office at Mcr Piccadilly and asked for four return tickets to Port Vale please.

I've got a vague feeling it's somewhere near Stoke. Other than that, not a clue.

It is. It's in Burslem. The nearest train station is Longport. You then have a 1.5 mile uphill walk.

[bobo the clown]

Vale Park was my first away game. Four of us pitched up at the ticket office at Mcr Piccadilly and asked for four return tickets to Port Vale please.

I've got a vague feeling it's somewhere near Stoke. Other than that, not a clue.

It is. It's in Burslem. The nearest train station is Longport. You then have a 1.5 mile uphill walk.

At least it's a 1.5m downward run when you get chased back post match.

That is one seriously rough area.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

I once worked through my lunch hour at t'factory in order to go watch us at Vale for a midweek League Cup game: the internet tells me it was August 1992, so one of Rioch's first games. Stubbs, Reeves and Philliskirk signed our flag, we all chuckled at Rob Palmer (Granada, pre-La Liga) wearing slip-on loafers without socks, and we won.

Brentford I've been round, but never in. Was supposed to meet my Chicagoan brother-in-law and nephew, both keen MLS-going football fans, and take them to a proper game. But we got mixed up and I couldn't find the buggers, despite walking right round Griffin Park in fruitless search (and, yes, counting the pubs). Turns out they were in the ground, having given up on me and gone in. Their verdict was one of mild disappointment in the quality of the game and frank astonishment at the facilities.

Crawley's where I lost all faith in Coyle. I have started to wonder where same might happen with Freedman, although I think it might not be one golden sum-it-up moment like bringing on a striker for a midfielder when you're losing control of the game.

[Wandering Willy]

I'm sure someone will be along shortly to tell us about looking forwards to "a season in the First Division"...All the new Clubs to go and see etc.etc. or was that just the cover for our previous relegation?

It's not the first time you've come out with this - not sure what or who you are getting at.

The buck stops firmly with Freeman, not the fans or posters on here.

Or Coyle.

[LeverEnd]

Vale Park was my first away game. Four of us pitched up at the ticket office at Mcr Piccadilly and asked for four return tickets to Port Vale please.

I've got a vague feeling it's somewhere near Stoke. Other than that, not a clue.

It is. It's in Burslem. The nearest train station is Longport. You then have a 1.5 mile uphill walk.

When I went in the Rioch days we got a bus from the station and then were kindly offered over the tannoy a bus back there from outside the ground for a 'nominal fee' which turned out to be more than the original bus fare. Instead of the 6-7 min ride it should have taken we were instead taken on laps of the ring road for half an hour with some nervous young copper who looked about 15 and who had his hat nicked and thrown around the bus in a non-threatening but humiliating way. As a couple of teenagers we were a bit miffed but just kept quiet til we finally got let off after home fans had dispersed.

Just thought I'd share.

[a1]

No we didn't lose. So obviously everything is just fine and dandy, isn't it?

so is a freedman draw worth more or less than an owen coyle 0-4 ?

four points from the last two. if it'd bin a home win and an away draw , it'd 'look' better..

boo , zat knight , boo....

[jaffka]

No we didn't lose. So obviously everything is just fine and dandy, isn't it?

so is a freedman draw worth more or less than an owen coyle 0-4 ?

four points from the last two. if it'd bin a home win and an away draw , it'd 'look' better..

boo , zat knight , boo....

You actually are totally weord

9 points from 12 games this season under Duggie is what people are concentrating on.

Feel free to try and put any spin you want on that and it will still equate to being shit.

[Lord Kangana]

so is a freedman draw worth more or less than an owen coyle 0-4 ?
.

I do know that a Dougie point is only valued at 3/4 of an Owen one at the moment.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

so is a freedman draw worth more or less than an owen coyle 0-4 ?

I do know that a Dougie point is only valued at 3/4 of an Owen one at the moment.

The exchange rate does fluctuate though. At one point the Dougger rallied but it has dipped again. I'm not going to sell out my Douggers just yet but I'm well aware that their value can go down as well as up and your home in the second division may be at risk.

[Harry Genshaw]

I'm so apathetic with it all, I thought I too would post my Port Vale memory

1983. My first away match with mates rather than the old man. We won 2-1 which in itself was remarkable, since we'd spent the previous 3 or 4 seasons barely competing away from home. Jeff Chandler & Tony Caldwell scored the goals and Dave Higson offered me a 'rub off' on the coach, which as a 15 year old, I nervously declined.

[Lord Kangana]

Good lord, what is it with Port Vale?

That was my and my mate's (My mate and I's?) first away game without any adult to cramp our style.

And John McGinley got us on the travel club coach by saying we went to his cricket club (we weren't members, my mates family all had been but had lapsed or something). Whilst he was in the middle of talking to all the fans on Burnden forecourt. Can you really see Jermaine Beckford doing that today, kids? Really?

Its not like it was in my day.

[Lord Kangana]

Is it McGinlay or McGinley?

I spent years thinking it was McGinley - computer says no.

[Harry Genshaw]

Is it McGinlay or McGinley?

I spent years thinking it was McGinley - computer says no.

Computer is right. Easy to remember the last 3 letters if even half the rumours about him at the time were true.

McGinlay

[Bruce Rioja]

I'm so apathetic with it all, I thought I too would post my Port Vale memory

1983. My first away match with mates rather than the old man. We won 2-1 which in itself was remarkable, since we'd spent the previous 3 or 4 seasons barely competing away from home. Jeff Chandler & Tony Caldwell scored the goals and Dave Higson offered me a 'rub off' on the coach, which as a 15 year old, I nervously declined.

That were it - My first away game with my mates, too. That's the very game I'm talking about - stood on the gravel behind the goal. A few things I remember from that day - (1) Seeing a long-haired lad (Wanderers fan) that unbelievably pissed that he'd collapsed at the top of the gravel hill, had thrown up and was lying with his hair in it (2) Mounted Police riding their horses into the stand to our left to calm down their baying ne'er do wells, and (3) Cadging a lift off of the Rozzers back to Longport Station in the back of a van..

[bobo the clown]

Good lord, what is it with Port Vale?

One of my first away games .... a decade or so earlier (and I KNOW Zulu was at this too).

Vale Park back then was huge. A massive bowl of a place. There were renovating/demolishing some part of it and there was an almost limitless supply of bricks and stones. For some reason the Stokies seemed to think WE wanted these bricks, so they threw them to us.

Anyway, the whites were climbing the league's and I think went on to promotion from Div. 3 that year, but this game was tighter than we expected. A late attack led to a throw-in and some scrote ball-boy held the ball out for Byrom and, as he approached, threw it the opposite direction and then laughed at the frustrated Johnny B. ... who then prompted floored him with a punch.

They were the days.

[Enoch]

I've only ever seen Port Vale once and that was at Kingstonian's ground season before last.

I have a soft spot for AFC Wimbledon.