Stoke are abysmal. Load of big time Charlie's feeling sorry for themselves. Hopefully we beat them on Saturday. If not it's time to get the prayer mats out.
Starting to battle a bit more 2nd half. Saturday will be down to who wants it more I reckon. Won't be an attractive match to watch.Oh well at least we can sing you're just a **** Port Vale to alleviate the boredom!
Carter Vickers should have gone for that challenge. If that's not endangering an opponent i don't know what is.
Good result for us tonight. Points difference +1 and goal difference -1 for us. Beat them on Saturday and Middlesbrough to lose, would be the best way to go into the International Break.
I think they will try & bounce back. We can beat them, but will not be a walk in the park. We will need to eliminate errors & be more clinical. I expect Woodrow to be heavily marked, so we need others to step up.
We’ve had some encouraging performances recently cut out those silly mistakes is our biggest task I’m fancying us for this game got a feeling we’ll want it more on the day and the chances we’re creating will end up in the net COYR
Stoke are actually favourites to beat us, b365 have them 6/4, us at 15/8, the draw 11/5. I know we are sh!te but in the Clash of the Sh!te 'uns, surely they're worse!
We have to be ruthless. My tactic would be to pepper Butland with everything, crosses into the box and shoot on sight. He’s clearly shot of any confidence at the moment and we need to exploit that. He’s not the player we had here all those years ago, and I hope his horrendous form continues Saturday and beyond. Shame because he comes across a decent individual but it’s dog eat dog down the bottom.
We need to avoid giving away corners and free kicks as they are massive and we are p**s poor at defending set plays. If we do that and take the game to them we can beat them because they are utter sh**e. COYR