Did Tyler Walker getting sent off against Forest Green Rovers cost us 3 points today? If Tyler was playing then we would have won the game because he would have scored the penalty and goals change games. Vale heads would have gone down and the home crowd would have started to get on their backs. They had not won at home since they beat Bury 1-0 on 27th October. They have since been beaten at home by Swindon, Grimsby, Oldham, Colchester, Carlisle, Morecambe and Tranmere.
I was also a bit concerned about the fact that nobody seemed to know who should be taking the penalty. Nicky Ajose grabbed the ball but Jacob Mellis has scored a penalty for the Stags and Jorge Grant is good at set pieces. It looked like we had gone back to the old Rob Duffy days when he used to wrestle for the ball with Keegan Parker and Luke Medley. Mind you, Rob Duffy would have scored today. Ajose went and pinned a target to the goal and then pointed at it to give Scott Brown a clue where he was hitting it.
We need to go up in the top three because we will not be able to handle the pressure in the play offs.