Preferable to get linked to players like this than what we were linked to when Broughton was DOF.

No matter how badly they are off, we still have a defence and goalie that concedes at least 2 goals per game. And a CEO who decided to rectify it by signing two defenders at the ages of 33 (soon to be 34) and 37. So I'll be delighted if we win thanks to our new exciting frontline, but it won't be a surprise if we lose thanks to us being as leaky as a second hand rubber johnny.

Yep. They've took the piss out of us for Venkys for years. Fit and proper, it's happening to them now. Two previously well ran clubs ran into the ground by foreign owners who haven't a clue about English football.

And they still aren't as bad as Venkys... Yet.

I think yesterdays match showed us that if we're ever having to rely on Vale we're in the shit. It's a shame we have such terrible owners because Stansfield at 21 years old would have been brilliant investment.

They bought the club with its own money. Then they let Vincent Kompany buy a squad with someone else's money. Someone posted the itemised debt somewhere and the carelessness was shocking. They are now in a position of having to pay it back whilst also raising transfer monies for their new manager. 120m+ I think. And the players who got them into so much debt, and relegated, want to leave because they've been relegated and VK has gone and left his mess for someone else to clear up.

Cantwell should be good in the Championship and especially with the type of style we've been playing. I just hope Cantwell isn't in place of a pacey wide player.

Against Wolves they are losing because they are shit. Against Blackpool we lost because we couldn't be arsed - also massively missing our usual midfield. Let's hope Burnley are still shit at the weekend and ours put a shift in.

Kompany and money.

We should be doing both.

Have you seen how much they owe?

Doak would be amazing.

A lot disagreed when I said our defence is shite earlier in the window and that we could do with a CB. Someone said, but we've signed Batth and McFadz.

Sounds like Burnley have been terribly ran by Pace and Kompany and now they just need to claw money from anywhere to pay their huge debts off. So it's a mass exodus combined with being unable to bring much in. I was fully expecting their fans to be rubbing their hands at our cup defeat this morning but they seem pretty despondent.

It's the Bos!

No one holding the ball up when Gueye goes off. And without him bullying their defenders it gives them the confidence to come forward more.

Why are we even backpassing it to Pears so much when he's a liability? We even backpass it when we've got loads of options going forward.

Some players were trotting about like it was a friendly. All their manager needed to say at half-time is that most of this lot are half asleep, just have a go at them. An arrogant and lazy performance.

Big Maks hold up play, passing and general play is great, but we need another player who can get the ball in the net. Even if Ohashi is the man, he could get injured and I don't want to see Vale wearing the shirt again. He should go on a permanent somewhere and replacing as he's never going to make the grade here.

Well we've just had a glimpse of what would happen if we have a few injuries. A good CEO would know this without having to witness it, and prepare accordingly. I'll be surprised if ours does anything after he's witnessed it.

Strolling about isn't going to kill them off. Too many players thought they were too good for little old L1 Blackpool.

Buckley & JRC midfield pairing who struggle to compete with a lower league L1 side. Vale is an awful forward and would be lucky to be first choice in a L2 side. One of the oldest defenders in the football league and a bloke who is scared of his own shadow at CB. Pickering one of the slowest fullbacks in the Championship. And then there's Pears. Why did it go so wrong?

They deserved that, along with a massive bollocking. What a set of absolute shithouses. It’s the lack of effort that I can’t bear. Trotting round like they’d already won the game. Players like Vale aren’t good enough for L2. Get rid.

Another chance squandered.