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Platt would be our player of the season I think. Other than a lack of pace he’s got everything you’d want from a centre back at this level, is very comfortable on the ball and chipped in with a couple of goals as well.

You’ve got a good chance in this one, we’re all over the place at the minute. Is king Aden back fit? I will be giving the great man a personal standing ovation.

PGMOL is anti Port Vale.

Turns out a couple of players back from injury wasn’t the only thing the worst manager in the league needed to sort things out.

Hopefully a little break might have done us some good and let us get some players back. If we’ve got Platt, Abbott, Crowley and Robertson available then that suddenly puts us in a miles better place. Know very little about what Salford are like this season but we could do really with stringing...

Terrible decision. Crewe have got to be due some serious bad luck.

Added it to our extensive injury list. I think a bit of it’s hanging off and could decapitate a goalkeeper or something.

Our game is off, scoreboard’s broken in the wind and might kill a player or something.

We just need to prise a win out from somewhere, but boy am I not looking forward to another 90 minutes of slowly passing it around the defence and midfield because everyone who can create something is injured and we refuse to try anything else. Another 0-0 wouldn’t particularly surprise me tbh...

Most of the goals were just awful from the defending team I thought. Three rubbish pieces of goalkeeping in there, an idiotic penalty concession from your guy, and your second which was a complete mishit that dribbled into the corner. Other than that no one really created anything for...

Go away Stuart, I beg. Properly bad league this, mind. Two rotten teams out there tonight, although the second half was fairly entertaining at least.

Trying to compare Williams’ ability to set up a defence to Maynard’s is sort of pointless considering the latter’s has only been any good with a completely new set of players bought for him. With the previous ones they were both as bad as each other.

We spent most of the time in the pub before Saturday discussing our dream draw and unanimously decided on Everton away. Properly gutted about that.

Oh yeah we definitely need a couple of different options. I think we really lack pace, both in terms of just a couple of quick players and how slowly we move the ball sometimes even when it looks like there’s a break on. But then Jatta’s really quick and we never use that, so maybe it’s a choice.

I don’t think we did a lot wrong against Port Vale tbh other than missing clear chances at 0-0. Once they got ahead they’re a really well organised side who defended brilliantly and we couldn’t quite break them down and didn’t get a little piece of luck from the many crosses, it happens. It’s...

Yep this is true. The one thing we still won’t compromise on us passing it out from the back, though, even if we look like conceding every single time we do it. We’re happy to cross it for the big man, but we don’t stick a ball over the top of the press and in behind anywhere near enough...

Yeah I don’t think we could be accused of not crossing the ball enough in that game, but the point about everything we do being veeeery slow is a fair one.

I had my criticisms of Ardley and Burchnall, but I always felt both were progressing us in a way that isn’t happening at the minute. NA pretty much built up a functioning side from scratch, and while Burchnall was never going to have the minerals to ever get a team promoted, he put in place the...

It feels a bit rock and a hard place because, rationally and cold light of day, he isn’t doing anywhere near badly enough for sacking him to be justified. But I also think the number of people who genuinely think he’s likely to be a success in the medium to long term is extremely small. So it...

I still think all the evidence suggests that he isn’t a very good manager and I wouldn’t be bothered in the slightest if he went tomorrow as it stands, I just think sacking managers mid-season isn’t generally successful unless you’re near the bottom and need to panic.