Flitcroft appointed DOF at Port Vale

[bobbystagsfan]

Weren't there also rumours Anderson and Diamond tried to create a 'revolt' against DF? Again, I Iterate RUMOUR. But I bet it'd make a good chapter in a book somewhere!

[Tippy Tappy Football]

Paul Anderson has always said he acted professionally and did nothing wrong. He never played again after the 1-1 draw away at Notts County. Didn't DF switch from a 4-4-2 to a 4-3-3 at Forest Green Rovers after that game? We played poorly and lost 2-0. Did Paul Anderson and Zander Diamond voice their disagreement to the change of formation and say he should stick with 4-4-2?

There is a chapter in a book or a podcast in it.

[Rob]

Anderson was paid a lot of money by our club and delivered nothing, he left without any decency and then liked a post or something like that when DF was sacked. Whenever I saw him play for us he looked like he couldn't be bothered and barely a single fan thought he should have been in our team at any stage. His behaviour when he was sub for Northampton was very childish, whilst he was getting pelters from plenty, a better man would have risen above it. As I said, classless waster who cost JR an absolute fortune, in terms of how much he cost and what he delivered he is one of the worst players to have played for us in my lifetime.

I've missed a good old fashioned well reasoned and balanced Rob Rant

It's always better over a beer

[Big yella]

Paul Anderson has always said he acted professionally and did nothing wrong. He never played again after the 1-1 draw away at Notts County. Didn't DF switch from a 4-4-2 to a 4-4-3 at Forest Green Rovers after that game? We played poorly and lost 2-0. Did Paul Anderson and Zander Diamond voice their disagreement to the change of formation and say he should stick with 4-4-2?

There is a chapter in a book or a podcast in it.

Surprised we got away with that one.

[Sandy Pate Best Stag]

Paul Anderson has always said he acted professionally and did nothing wrong. He never played again after the 1-1 draw away at Notts County. Didn't DF switch from a 4-4-2 to a 4-4-3 at Forest Green Rovers after that game? We played poorly and lost 2-0. Did Paul Anderson and Zander Diamond voice their disagreement to the change of formation and say he should stick with 4-4-2?

There is a chapter in a book or a podcast in it.

Surprised we got away with that one.

It was easy, he just played without a keeper. I realise some say we did that often but we all know that wasn’t true

[Tippy Tappy Football]

Paul Anderson has always said he acted professionally and did nothing wrong. He never played again after the 1-1 draw away at Notts County. Didn't DF switch from a 4-4-2 to a 4-4-3 at Forest Green Rovers after that game? We played poorly and lost 2-0. Did Paul Anderson and Zander Diamond voice their disagreement to the change of formation and say he should stick with 4-4-2?

There is a chapter in a book or a podcast in it.

Surprised we got away with that one.

....and DF could still not get us promoted

[part time pete]

Paul Anderson has always said he acted professionally and did nothing wrong. He never played again after the 1-1 draw away at Notts County. Didn't DF switch from a 4-4-2 to a 4-3-3 at Forest Green Rovers after that game? We played poorly and lost 2-0. Did Paul Anderson and Zander Diamond voice their disagreement to the change of formation and say he should stick with 4-4-2?

There is a chapter in a book or a podcast in it.

Anderson came on as a sub at Luton in the 88th minute on Easter Monday after a couple on non appearance substitute bench warming games, but as you say never started again.

Martin's report in DF's fourth game after first three were draws says

Mansfield Town put in an atrocious performance at lowly Forest Green Rovers to be soundly beaten 2-0 in a game that the Stags needed to win to get back on the automatic promotion trail. Mansfield have played 4-4-2 all season to get themselves into a position where automatic promotion was a possibility, but new manager David Flitcroft has, unwisely in my opinion, tinkered with the formation and switched to 4-3-3. Today’s performance wasn’t helped by top scorer Danny Rose getting injured with less than 20 seconds on the clock. Rose was replaced by CJ Hamilton who was substituted into a striker role on the right. This made little sense to me when he has played all season on the left wing and created danger from there. Hamilton was later switched to the left but it was a baffling decision to play him on the right in the first place.

[Tippy Tappy Football]

....and DF was right to play CJ as a forward as demonstrated the following season.

His big mistake was to try and things too quickly. Changing the dressing rooms etc. He just needed to keep playing the same formation and picking the same team that had already done well to date. He should have then made at least the play offs.

[Dan]

Are you sure you’ve got the right man? I thought he was the messiah not a very naughty boy!

[Amber Andy]

Paul Anderson has always said he acted professionally and did nothing wrong. He never played again after the 1-1 draw away at Notts County. Didn't DF switch from a 4-4-2 to a 4-3-3 at Forest Green Rovers after that game? We played poorly and lost 2-0. Did Paul Anderson and Zander Diamond voice their disagreement to the change of formation and say he should stick with 4-4-2?

There is a chapter in a book or a podcast in it.

For any player to voice a disagreement against any managers change in formation isn't the brightest thing to do. It shows disrespect, undermines the manager's authority and breaks the teams bond.

[Tippy Tappy Football]

David Flitcroft will be using data and stats to recruit players at Port Vale. They need to be able to do lots of running. He's also talking in about bringing in recruitment experts to help.

"Port Vale director of football David Flitcroft says fitness records will be a major part of putting a squad together this summer. Flitcroft told BBC Radio Stoke he and manager Darrell Clarke will study the fitness stats of the current group and potential signings when the squad is rebuilt this summer. Asked about the criteria for contract renewals, he said: “Work ethic, running, wanting to run, being capable of running and working hard. We are looking at that all the time. We are looking at the stats, the figures and the numbers completed – distance running, decelerations, accelerations.

“We are studying all that at the minute to make sure who is capable, and that is an ongoing process. So, we are monitoring and assessing the squad. It is really important that we have that detail and that data around the players that we are potentially recruiting, but the players that are currently here – and giving them an opportunity to earn or win a contract at Port Vale FC.

Since Flitcroft was brought in on February 8, the club has recruited manager Clarke, fitness coach Daryl Taylor, first team coach Andy Crosby and head of coaching Nathan Rooney. Flitcroft said he is looking to bring more people in, he added: “There will be some strategic people coming in, consultants coming to advise us on certain things. Potentially a recruitment analyst that comes in to make sure that we have a really robust recruitment process. So, we have a panel of people that are gifted in what they do, they are knowledgeable in what they do, absolutely work crazy, great work ethic. I have a lot of people out to games at the minute to cover five or six games every time there is a programme of games on. So, yes, we are really driving forward with it behind the scenes. There has been a hell of a lot of work done, plus so much work to do.”

Flitcroft also said he is looking at the possibility of a college at Vale Park and he wants to give the club’s youth academy more support. He said: “We have had people in to assess the potential of getting a real football college and a university system going to generate money. The academy has not performed to the level that I believe it can perform. I think it is an underperforming academy and it has not been supported like an academy should be. But we are looking at the whole aspect of that."

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/f ... ew-5230912

[one f in mansfield]

David Flitcroft will be using data and stats to recruit players at Port Vale. They need to be able to do lots of running. He's also talking in about bringing in recruitment experts to help.

"Port Vale director of football David Flitcroft says fitness records will be a major part of putting a squad together this summer. Flitcroft told BBC Radio Stoke he and manager Darrell Clarke will study the fitness stats of the current group and potential signings when the squad is rebuilt this summer. Asked about the criteria for contract renewals, he said: “Work ethic, running, wanting to run, being capable of running and working hard. We are looking at that all the time. We are looking at the stats, the figures and the numbers completed – distance running, decelerations, accelerations.

“We are studying all that at the minute to make sure who is capable, and that is an ongoing process. So, we are monitoring and assessing the squad. It is really important that we have that detail and that data around the players that we are potentially recruiting, but the players that are currently here – and giving them an opportunity to earn or win a contract at Port Vale FC.

Since Flitcroft was brought in on February 8, the club has recruited manager Clarke, fitness coach Daryl Taylor, first team coach Andy Crosby and head of coaching Nathan Rooney. Flitcroft said he is looking to bring more people in, he added: “There will be some strategic people coming in, consultants coming to advise us on certain things. Potentially a recruitment analyst that comes in to make sure that we have a really robust recruitment process. So, we have a panel of people that are gifted in what they do, they are knowledgeable in what they do, absolutely work crazy, great work ethic. I have a lot of people out to games at the minute to cover five or six games every time there is a programme of games on. So, yes, we are really driving forward with it behind the scenes. There has been a hell of a lot of work done, plus so much work to do.”

Flitcroft also said he is looking at the possibility of a college at Vale Park and he wants to give the club’s youth academy more support. He said: “We have had people in to assess the potential of getting a real football college and a university system going to generate money. The academy has not performed to the level that I believe it can perform. I think it is an underperforming academy and it has not been supported like an academy should be. But we are looking at the whole aspect of that."

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/f ... ew-5230912

Can see Mo Farah playing Centre Half for them next season .

[MTFCMusings]

Interesting to note they've appointed our old fitness coach Daryl Taylor, assuming it's the same one.

[Amber Andy]

Interesting to note they've appointed our old fitness coach Daryl Taylor, assuming it's the same one.

If he's the guy Steve Evans brought to the club, I thought he was a good fitness coach.

[Martin Shaw]

Interesting to note they've appointed our old fitness coach Daryl Taylor, assuming it's the same one.

If he's the guy Steve Evans brought to the club, I thought he was a good fitness coach.

no, this is "DT" who Adam Murray often referred to. Muzza brought him in.

It was Lee Taylor who Steve Evans brought in. He is at Ebbsfleet viewtopic.php?p=882101#p882101