3,100 full allocation, on sale Thursday. Out as I am in Poland that weekend but kids going with the Mrs. 

Ticket Prices

Adults - £25.00

Over 62s - £19.00

Student (with valid ID) - £17.00

Under 22s - £17.00

Under 18s - £12.00

Under 13s – Free of charge (with a paying person over the age of 18)

 

Anyone driving tomorrow it is sensible to go on the Vale website and book your parking. 

11 hours ago, Zog1 said:

Would love us to try something like this, SS won League 1 playing this formation. 

especially at smaller away grounds where the pitch is narrower.

13 hours ago, Zog1 said:

Would love us to try something like this, SS won League 1 playing this formation. 

Agreed - just can’t see it though with all the wingers Schuey has collected this season. He must still fancy us as 442.

34 minutes ago, Bertie said:

Agreed - just can’t see it though with all the wingers Schuey has collected this season. He must still fancy us as 442.

We are left with Gale, Cissoko, Apter and Burstow (who is NOT a winger). I wouldn’t start any of them 

2850 sold and upto 2pm to buy one

3 hours ago, fester58 said:

especially at smaller away grounds where the pitch is narrower.

Port Vale's Vale Park ground has a capacity of almost 20,000 and has the 3rd largest pitch in the EFL behind Hull and Ipswich

2 hours ago, RUREADY2ROLL said:

We are left with Gale, Cissoko, Apter and Burstow (who is NOT a winger). I wouldn’t start any of them 

Spoke to a mate who is Vale fan this morning. Says they are shit and vulnerable to pace at the back. 
On the pitch he says one side is just sand (in front of the dug outs) where the drainage they had put in last year has failed, but been dry for a few days so should be not too bad but is a mess. Assume Schuey will know this and it would seem to make playing a winger on that side pointless. 
I would go with Dalby up front with Kenny and Gale to exploit this lack of pace. This leaves 3 in midfield so Dempsey, Ethan and Simons for me - do not think a ploughed field is one for Sheehan. 
 

He also said the fans feel the players have given up on the league and keeping themselves fit for the Chelsea cup game. So let’s get at them and run them off the pitch. 

18 hours ago, Stig said:

How far away are we from this? Can't be much

Barnet, Bromley, ..?

 

4 hours ago, boltonboris said:

Port Vale's Vale Park ground has a capacity of almost 20,000 and has the 3rd largest pitch in the EFL behind Hull and Ipswich

Potentially a biggish club but can’t understand why they constantly struggle. Need to find a good owner to invest in a decent squad. I thought they push on when promoted but they’ve just gone backwards again.

9 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

Potentially a biggish club but can’t understand why they constantly struggle. Need to find a good owner to invest in a decent squad. I thought they push on when promoted but they’ve just gone backwards again.

The City of Stoke has a smaller population than the Borough of Bolton. It’s the smallest settlement in England with two league clubs. Can it really support two big professional teams?

31 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:

Potentially a biggish club but can’t understand why they constantly struggle. Need to find a good owner to invest in a decent squad. I thought they push on when promoted but they’ve just gone backwards again.

Not sure why you think they could be a big club? Their highest average attendance in history was just over 20,000 in 1955. Never played in the top tier either.

13 minutes ago, woolli said:

Not sure why you think they could be a big club? Their highest average attendance in history was just over 20,000 in 1955. Never played in the top tier either.

I worked from Stoke for many years and they have a very committed fan base covering a much bigger area then you might think. I’m not comparing them to mega clubs but they’re just one of those clubs that you think should be bigger than they are. I may be wrong and it might be because I worked there, just my thoughts on it.

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21 hours ago, Zog1 said:

Would love us to try something like this, SS won League 1 playing this formation. 

We can take this 2 ways.

Like me and others, you can speculate as fans do, as to what the team might be.

Fine, it’s what we do as fans.

But I have a feeling you believe, steadfastly, that this is what should happen. You believe you are right. Schumacher is wrong?

 

 

Nothing wrong with both the team and formationZog1 has picked it would be more solid than SS formation.

I think like a growing number that SS sticking with two wingers and having only two in midfield is indeed holding us back

We are ponderous and slow and SS has for me certainly got it wrong, but it matters not only SS can change that or this time next season he will go the same way as Evatt. I think sooner or later he will change it.

12 minutes ago, masi 51 said:

Nothing wrong with both the team and formationZog1 has picked it would be more solid than SS formation.

I think like a growing number that SS sticking with two wingers and having only two in midfield is indeed holding us back

We are ponderous and slow and SS has for me certainly got it wrong, but it matters not only SS can change that or this time next season he will go the same way as Evatt. I think sooner or later he will change it.

Nothing wrong at all, it’s a fan opinion.

I like the to and fro banter we have. And I respect your opinion. But I’ll repeatedly say, you, zog, and a few others come across, (to me at least) as posters who believe their opinion is on a level of that as professional manager, which should be listened to above our current manager.

Might i just add that the formation i selected above is the formation SS has ALREADY used to get promoted from this league before. 

I might also add that in Plymouth's season in the Championship he started by playing 433 but due to being inconsistent away from home and defensive leaks (sound familiar)? he switched back to 3421 in most games. 

So it isn't that "believe their opinion is on a level of that as professional manager" I'm using THEIR own tactical decisions and analysis as a template for my own analysis. Does this make sense? hope that helped. 

If a doctor comes upto you and says i'm going to chop your head off to make your knee feel better, you wouldn't just keep quiet because he's a doctor he must know more.

You have played that card in the past......The one saying everything a professional manager does is correct.

It is clearly not or they would not get sacked so much. Only SS opinion counts and i am certainly in his camp. I t does not say i agree with everything he does. At the moment he is doing more right than wrong. Though some bad habits are repeated week in, week out

 

44 minutes ago, Zog1 said:

If a doctor comes upto you and says i'm going to chop your head off to make your knee feel better, you wouldn't just keep quiet because he's a doctor he must know more.

It was making “a little bit” of sense before this nonsense 

49 minutes ago, masi 51 said:

You have played that card in the past......The one saying everything a professional manager does is correct.

It is clearly not or they would not get sacked so much. Only SS opinion counts and i am certainly in his camp. I t does not say i agree with everything he does. At the moment he is doing more right than wrong. Though some bad habits are repeated week in, week out

 

You are talking without listening.

I don’t always agree with professional managers.….

….what they do isn’t always correct

… what SS does isn’t always correct

But we as fans can’t possibly pretend to know the answers 

And that’s different to having an opinion 

 

 

Edited March 20Mar 20 by desperado

16 minutes ago, desperado said:

It was making “a little bit” of sense before this nonsense 

The doctor knows better than you he's a professional in that field, who are you to disagree?

You see how stupid you sound when you apply it to anything but football managers... they're not Infallible look at Evatt.

"But we as fans can’t possibly pretend to know the answers" are you broken? 

 

 

Edited March 20Mar 20 by Zog1

17 minutes ago, Zog1 said:

The doctor knows better than you he's a professional in that field, who are you to disagree?

You see how stupid you sound when you apply it to anything but football managers... they're not Infallible look at Evatt.

"But we as fans can’t possibly pretend to know the answers" are you broken? 

 

 

WTF

If it was up to me anyone with a slight niggle would not be playing. Barring a spectacular collapse from the top 2 we ain't catching them.

Keep everyone fit for the play offs 

On 19/03/2026 at 21:32, Zog1 said:

Would love us to try something like this, SS won League 1 playing this formation. 

Thats a solid shout . My fear would be that the middle two drop too deep , Kenny joins Dalby up top leaving us with a     3-4-0-1-2 . 

If Vales pitch is as bad as everyone says then sacrifice the wingers for battlers . Bring Dempsey into a midfield 3 , play burstow and Kenny up top with Dalby behind for the flick ons . Drop Desmond with Simons covering the right flank/sand box . 

 

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