Are we expecting too much ?

I'll be there tomorrow hoping to see a team full of effort and hopefully a win.

But what we have to remember is that MJ can only work with what he has got.  It's a good one for his first match fully in charge because it's definitely winnable.  But it's the same group of players we have had during our p1ss poor streak.  What is MJ expected to do with them?  Changing the way we have played all season surely must be a challenge to good footballers with footballing brains, so I don't expect too much change in our style in 1 go. I've missed a few, but a lot of folk seem to think that they are still trying. So to my mind, the only thing MJ could have really worked on is the lack of confidence.  If we do go 1 down, it won't be easy but I'll still be trying to rally behind them.  

I just pray that we don't go one down early doors.  The first goal tomorrow will be absolutely massive.  I'm expecting a good crowd and (at least at the beginning) a good atmosphere.
An early goal by us could get BP 'rocking', an early goal by them and the 'morgue' could easily return.

Good luck to you MJ and let's hope we can get some of the footballing fortune we surely deserve at last.  I'll take a scruffy 1-0 win, just to get the boys back on track and make sure we sell all our tickets for next week.    UTM

Port Vale are not Barcelona. On paper it's one of the games we should be winning  if we stand a chance of staying up.

Quoted from GrimRob

Port Vale are not Barcelona. On paper it's one of the games we should be winning  if we stand a chance of staying up.

think a vale fan might be saying 'Gy are not Barca.On paper it's 1 of those games we should be winning if we stand a chance of staying up'

suspect it might end up in an ugly, awful draw

This team can win games, they showed that early on in the season even though the wins weren't convincing.  A little bit of belief from the players will go a long way and hopefully, MJ can instill it in them.

Up to the players now to play for the manager, each other, the crowd and most important themselves

This was the team that beat Swindon, in what in my opinion, was the best home game this season, so the players ARE capable. Only Jones and Jamey Osbourne (Who played the last 4 minutes) from the team that night have left.

McKeown
Davies
Clarke
Collins
Mills
Dembele
Rose
Summerfield
Jaiyesimi (Substituted for J Osborne at  86' minutes)
Jones (Substituted for Vernon at 89' minutes)
Matt

Wasn't it Aspins first game as Port Vale boss when we won there?

Possibly only 3 or 4 of those that started will be in Towns starting line up 2moro

Quoted from Cloudy

Wasn't it Aspins first game as Port Vale boss when we won there?

Possibly only 3 or 4 of those that started will be in Towns starting line up 2moro

This was the line up that game.

    1 McKeown
    2 Davies
    5 Clarke
    6 Collins
    3 Dixon
    27 Dembele (Substituted fo rMills at 89' minutes)
    19 Summerfield
    10 Jones (Substituted for Matt at 80' minutes)
    25 Woolford
    21 Vernon (Substituted for Rose at 80' minutes)
    7 Berrett

Hopefully we can play to our strengths under Jolly. According to some he is tactically astute so may know what we need do to win games like this. I hope he has a plan to bring out the best in what we have, sometimes that is enough.  Well-organised and well-prepared teams often beat teams with supposedly more skilful players, The best we can hope for is he's either a tactical genius or a great motivator...or both.

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ieCUL0OFDw[/url]

Quoted from Les Brechin

This was the team that beat Swindon, in what in my opinion, was the best home game this season, so the players ARE capable. Only Jones and Jamey Osbourne (Who played the last 4 minutes) from the team that night have left.

McKeown
Davies
Clarke
Collins
Mills
Dembele
Rose
Summerfield
Jaiyesimi (Substituted for J Osborne at  86' minutes)
Jones (Substituted for Vernon at 89' minutes)
Matt

Problem there is that it was a bit of skill from Osborne which set up the winning goal. Not perhaps a chance that the current players would be able to create.