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One other bit of port vale rumour at the crown today was that prematch a very unhappy Griffiths had Jim Gannon by the throat in the dressing room, after being told he was dropped in favour of last nights loan signing Dominic Blezzard.

I was also told the square up between Exodus Geohagen and the Vale fans at the final whistle was due to the baying mob crushing a young vale fan (child) against the barrier in their efforts to vent their fury at Gannon and the players. Exodus and another vale player did infact manage to pull the child over the barrier so that they were not crushed and injured further, so I believe.

Not a good advert for supporting your local club really!!

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That, my furry little friend, is FANtastic.... I expect to hear that bouncing around The Crown Ground when we play our next three home games on the bounce!!!!!!!:D :D :mosher:

:) :) :)

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Heres another one for you Val, seeing as Terry hasn't scored since the Ultras started singing his heartbeat themed song. How about setting the stand alight with a few adjusted lyrics and the name Terry Gornell inserted in this little track!!!

YouTube - Gives You Hell (Full Narrative Version)

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Who?

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Im just speechless ~ superb performance Stanley keep it up hard work is paying off :D

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Fantastic result dare we start to believe we can reach the play offs now. i certainly hope so. Well done.

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9 points off automatic and 2 games in hand, maybe you need to aim higher :)

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Shush Dave!! We do realistic optimism not lightheaded dreaming.:D

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Luke Joyce = Unsung Hero.

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Couldn't agree more. Last 4 or 5 games Joyce has played great. Must be due MOM soon

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You are - as usual - correct Yonmon!!!!

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Yes Craney scored 46 goals before he left, in 2008/09

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I don't normally post on here Wynonie for obvious reasons,but i was at the game yesterday and i thought accy gave a good workman like performance.I agree with you Craney had a great game,he was chasing everything,i honestly thought he should have got the man of the match.He had a hand in 2 goals and scored one,carry on like this and the play offs seem like a realistic vision now.Maybe there is a god after all......................

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Some more match reaction for you here. First, scorer of the first goal Sean McConville - ASFC News Story > 3940

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2 years ago I was doing realistic optimism, look what happened :D

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And here is Ian Craney talking about his landmark of 50 goals for the club - YouTube - 20-03 craney 50th goal.wmv

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Don't know what the "obvious reasons" are for you not posting on here, but no matter...I would hope that after yesterday, you'll be back on the Clayton End a lot more regularly! :)

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Another great performance,and another clean sheet.Make no mistake vale are a good team who can play football and are also very dangerous at corners and freekicks.
Thats why the keeper once again caught my eye,he came and caught everything even when under enormous pressure,also hes got a good kicking game and physical presence,
He looks more confident each game he plays.
Just a bit worried that after all the high tempo performances there putting in,it will catch up on them (niggling injuries,pulls,fatigue etc ),but theres no sign of it yet,so what do i know,
PS - I know people on here want sean macc to play like roy keane,but thats not his game,thought his touch and awareness today was first class,leave the tackling to others !!!

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I did not realise, until I looked at the stats on BBC website, that Port Vale did not have one shot on target throughout the game and only 4 off target! and it would appear that 3 is indeed a lucky number for us, here's hoping for 3 more on Tuesday and Saturday against Crewe and Aldershot respectively. From a personal point of view though, I thought Stanley were workmanlike throughout the game and when called for, Alex Cisak made some outstanding catches apart from one minor hiccough in the first half, the defence had a very solid game.

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I agree along with Joyce I think the inclusion of Cisak has had a massive difference.

Hes only a young lad but is getting better with every game he plays.

Great to have 2 decent keepers at the club, as well as some genuine quality on the bench, Barnett, Long etc.

The future looks good ( on the pitch that is)

:)

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The FITC matches at half-time must be great for the kids involved and it looks to be increasing numbers with Adults attending with their kids.

Superb initiative:)

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It is a strange one that Alex Cisak one???? In the games that I have seen him play, he has hardly had a save to make, is that because the defence are better?? - same defenders really - or is it just a coincidence????

Facts are, we have tightened up in the last 5/7 games, it may just be the teams that we have played against?? Either way, things are going in the right direction :)

Two very, very tough away games coming up, if we can come through them unbeaten........

:) :) :)

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Well played yesterday, fully deserved victory. We never really had a look-in, a bit of huffing and puffing just after half time and a few crosses with no one on the end of them and that was it. To be fair I also thought that you shaded the 2 games we played at our place too but at that time we were a decent, resilient team who could get a win from next to nothing.

Didn't help that Gannon seems to prefer to play only 1 up front and our better players on the bench or out of the squad completely. He's alienated everyone at the club since the 1st day he arrived culminating in the issues and protests after the game yesterday.

Good luck for the rest of the season, ours is over unless we can rid ourselves of Gannon and our board. You'll certainly be finishing above us .

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Thanks for that Nelly :) Also agree about the games at your place, I hope that you sort out the problems at your club, as we at Stanley, know all too well what it can lead to...

:)

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Agreed, and his positional play is very good too. If only he can add sharpness in front of goal we would have another Le Fondre on our hands and I would stop moaning. Ah well, he's only a young lad and I live in hope.:)

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Sounds to me that you are mellowing Redraine :eek: I would not be at all surprised to see you cheering Macca on at the Crewe game :D :D :D

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nelly looking on your forum the hatred to gannon and exodus is quite frankly frightening what have these 2 individuals done to evoke such extremities

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OK, through gritted teeth. Tell you what, I'll sing his song if you do, as you seem to be more of a clapper than a singer.:)

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Micky Adams had turned a bunch of avaerage players into world beaters, we were top or thereabouts when he left for Sheffield Utd. Gannon was appointed and on his 1st day alienated himself by coming out with some very strange comments about the players been useless, his assistants not been qualified etc.

He's fallen out with many of the players, his assistant (again) and many of the fans. The forward thinking football that we saw under MA has long since been forgetten. We're playing tedious dull, defensive stuff, not creating chances (as shown yesterday) and whenever we lose he's never his fault. He's just rubbing everyone up the wrong way.

Exodus sadly is a a symptom of the problem, he's one of Gannons 1st signings and he's been awful and I mean awful, we have far better players on the bench that are not getting a look in.

Yesterday was a bit of a watershed I feel in as much as everyone now knows where everyone else stands we don't like him and the feeling seems pretty much mutual.

There's meeting between him and the board tomorrow hopefully he'll be gone and we can then focus on getting the board out, knowing that the football may be slightly better whilst we're doing it.

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cheers nelly is that gannon will be gone and can x ever play for vale again (saw his vid answering questions and seemed a decent guy but prob not a great footballer but the ****** did score for rotherham against us and set up the winner with a long throw) apparently his girlfriend was in tears after yesterdays shenanigans

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Cant get my head around the port vale situation,There in a great position a few home games coming up and a decent squad of players.
Jim Gannon is renowned for getting his team to play and pass the ball,and if port vale want to promotion and stay in the first division,thats the way forward.
After watching Mickey Adams football ways,hes a more direct and get at them approach,that wont work at an higher level (as hes finding out at sheff utd).
Theres nothing wrong with playing one up front(acci are the leagues second top scorers at home),it seems that the players dont want change and want the manager out,
The players get paid to do a job,and can you imagine what would happen if razor grabbed the gaffer by the throat because he was dropped to the bench??,
The players seem to have too much influence at port vale,probably backed by the assistant manager.
The vale fans should read what Paul Jewell encountered when he joined Wigan in the div 2 days,The players and fans wanted him out after losing to canvey island,he did it his way and got them to the prem league,
The vale fans should get behind there team,win,lose or draw.
Can you imagine stanley ultras behaving that way???,dont think so

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Well, you got part one of your wish fulfilled, Nelly - Gannon's gone! :o

He doesn't stay anywhere very long, does he? :rolleyes:

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After Saturdays booing I was waiting for the sacking.

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Have to agree with Football 19's post - the behaviour of the Vale fans on Saturday was a disgrace, it's one thing to disagree with the manager's tactics/player selection etc., but to turn on their own players & subject them to the barrage of abuse they did was way over the top in my opinion. The Vale players had to wait in our clubhouse until is was deemed safe for them to get out & onto their coach - not what you ever want to see. And if it's true that one of the players had Jim Gannon by the throat in the dressing room prior to the game, if I was him I wouldn't have waited till Monday to be sacked - I would have walked there & then.

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Anyone been counting how many L2 managers have taken the long walk immediately after losing to us? It must be in double figures by now ....

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And how many managers this year reckon that their team played poorly against us; Port Vale, Burton and Crewe spring to mind. It must be the Coleman/Bell effect! ;)

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It would appear your gaffer is the bookies favourite for the job at our place

Port Vale Specials Next Permanent Manager Betting Odds | Football Specials Betting

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im not taking to much notice of that as phil the power taylor is 16/1, for the job

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To be honest, I doubt JC would touch our rocking ship with a 50ft bargepole- I wouldn't!

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Not sure what the players in the clubhouse said but most of the players were applauded by the Vale fans when they came out and got on the coach. I was on the car park at the time. Maybe they were playing the sympathy card for a free drink :D

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In our defence, we love our squad. Micky Adams turned them around and they were great until he left and there is no way that they have changed, Gannon has crushed them.

I do not though agree with booing the lads, I never have and never will. The abuse big Ex (who was a Gannon stooge & one of the owrst players I've ever seen in a Vale shirt) got was a disgrace, you're right. He has since left the club and returned to Posh but I think that is the best for everyone. We have more than our fair share of clowns who let the majority of us down. Most of us are a friendly bunch

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some rumours on your forum claim that Coleman applied for the job last time around. Someone 'in the know' also said that Alan Knill was interviewed for it as well but turned it down as he wouldn't have been able to bring his own back room staff. I dont know if that particular situation will change but Coleman would want to take Jimmy Bell at the very least. In addition to that I would imagine he got a first hand reality check of what leaving The Crown could be like.

Sure, he could do a fantastic job and deliver Vale (and Bradford, and Lincoln) back to the dizzy heights that they imagine they should be at, but he could also (and not necessarily through fault of his own) fall flat on his arse and have an angry mob making threats to kill him.

Paul Mullin was a fantastic player and was much loved here, but he sought pastures new for whatever reason and now can't get a game for a poor Morecambe team. Coley may well move on one day but I would hate to see him fall from such grace to having to be ushered out of back doors with a security escort.

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I doubt he would be as big a prat as Gannon though & wind everyone from the terraces to boardroom up to the extent giro Jim did

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Anyone want to look at some pic's Port Vale | Match | Gallery | Gallery | GALLERY:ACCRINGTON STANLEY taken from onevalefan forum :)

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Bit of live action BBC Sport - Football - Highlights - Accrington Stanley 3-0 Port Vale

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Thanks Mike..enjoyed those. Don't see many pics now there's no KIPAX gallery.

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:eek::confused::confused::)

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All the more reason why we nee to get our own ownership sorted,JC could be as fed up as we are with the situation,and it does seem to be going on.

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:o:o:o:o:o:o:o

friggan alzhiemers:o

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Port Vale's Exodus Geohaghon: Fans racially abused me - it made it worse that they were my own team's | Mail Online

Have a look at this from big Exodus in the Daily Mail. Disgusting behaviour from some of their fans. And for anyone who thinks he's just saying that it happened to excuse his actions, go on youtube and serach 'post match accrington vs vale' and you can watch and listen to the whole vile incident.