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By playing in a style to accommodate Gregory and making the entire squad play to his strengths, rather than dropping Gregory and playing to the strengths of the squad as a whole. There's a reason there was a massive disparity in results when he started v when he didn't over both seasons, because the team as a whole worked better without him, still does. Every 3 or more win streak over the 2 years bar last 3 games of last season coincided with him not starting. Every 2 loss streak had him playing.

No, he fucked our first season in League One and cost us promotion. Almost fucked the second too.

We recruited round pegs for round holes. DM couldn't fit our 2 square pegs, Bannan and Gregory in so he changed to the square board. Look at a 4231/433/3421 with the players from the 2 League One years minus those two players and it all makes sense.

Don't know, could see a couple going for top end L2 if the option is that or lower end L1. Most of them don't do well on the back foot.

How many of our out of contract players will be with him at PV next season?

He's going to keep us up, isn't he.

Just flicking through X and saw this from Port Vale:

Calm down, I'm not defending the bloke. Can't stand him and think he's caused more damage to this club than any manager I can remember. That's what I'm saying. He knew it was a shitshow and jumped, presumably thought he was going to WBA, hence asking for the Monday announcement, then it fell thorough that afternoon, so his agent had to come up with a story about why he left, as he now needed a job, which did the rounds and triggered the Palmer incident and the shitshow of a summer. The worst part of it was that Chansiri thought he'd done his penance for relegation by getting us back up despite DM, then the media and vocal fanbase sided with DM and finally broke whatever relationship he still had with the fans.

Love to know who the ones from other teams were and what the plan actually was. DM got us up by pandering to the senior players and still think he knew we were fucked and any plan was unworkable because of said players so jumped ship.

Don't believe a word that came out of his mouth, known too many like him. However, it was also said about Downes when he left that he'd finished his work and everything was ready to go for the new season before he left, so it has some corroboration.

The thing is, the work on player identification and targets was done to an extent that we let Downes go to Blackpool, job done, well before the end of the season. I fully expect it to be the same this season. Bernard is important to us in that if he gets a decent contract elsewhere, and if other loans like Ugbo or Poveda kick on to better things, this will only help us in the market this summer.

Cadamarteri, Gassama and Musaba pressing and running at L1 defenders after this season's opposition will be filthy. With Smith and Pato for a bit of physical shithousery v big park the bus teams, there's no reason that attack wouldn't get us straight back up. Not to mention whoever comes in.

All those bashing Chansiri for the summer, DM was on record talking about talking to new recruits before the playoff final, so there was obviously a recruitment plan in place and underway before the end of last season. It would be interesting to find out who they were and what happened to that plan. We have recruited for a 4231/433 for the last few years, we couldn't play it because we had to accommodate senior players. I expect that there's a plan in place and it will be actioned whether Röhl stays or goes, with someone like Pedersen or another Red Bull type manager brought in to carry it on.

We had 11 days from the Monday after Spain when we made our first signing to the first game v Southampton the following Friday. We'd already missed pretty much everyone by then. A few panic loans to make up the numbers and a few good, long term signings. Didn't help that in the 2 positions of need, LB and CF, DM had already signed Johnson, James and Gregory, possibly blocking better alternatives. In my head, Bernard has always been lumped in with the loans.

Him and Cads are probably better off going down, more minutes.

I'd rather have 1 young player, here for a year giving 100% for a season in the hope of a move to a better club than a squad of 30+ year old players half arsing it on 3 year contracts knowing that the only way is down after it runs out.

Mika Biereth, went to Sturm Graz in Austria. Scored 8 goals in 15 games in all competitions so far. .said in an interview after he signed there that it was where he was going to score more goals and win more games.

Not always. Younger players looking to move up would rather take a better opportunity than money. They're better off taking a L1 promotion challenger than a relegation favourite as they'll make it up on their next contract. Doesn't matter how much money you chuck at them if they're going to be getting battered every game and can't showcase their talents. The Arsenal lad who we were linked with said it, where he went was where he was going to score more goals.

On a different note, no current senior international is going to stay on in L1. Delgado may, but his age and hav8ng most of this year off has probably done for him anyway.

This club has been Bannan's own personal playground for him and his mates for a while now. Any manager who tries different gets screwed over. We'll see a different club once he's gone.

Seems to me like Bannan has been for the last few years.

Admire the honesty to be honest. Better than having badge kissing wasters staying for years because they can't get a better deal anywhere else and making out that it's loyalty.

Isn't that what Pep said to him though? You're a great player but if you want first team football this season you're going to have to do it somewhere else.

He inly wanted a 1 year deal. He's openly said that this is a stepping stone to a better club. Think the Kasey Palmer incident put the kibosh on him staying, he was proper pissed off about it and they play together for Jamaica.

Think Chansiri may have seen the light this season with regard to 'his' players, hence no new contracts yet.