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The circus must be back on Clayton playing fields for half term,unless Barry the Ringmaster has cracked his whip.As well as no assistant manager no goalkeeping coach either. If it wasnt our club that is being wrecked it would be amusing.

You could see in the first 10 minutes that PV were nervous and tentative.We stood off them,let them pass it around a bit and then they thought hey we can win this.Exactly the same thing happened against Carlisle.Lets hope we can get in Cheltenham's faces early on and get them on the back foot.

Yesterday we had no appointed Director in the Directors' box,what must the PortVale Directors have thought ? We appeared to have Barry Owen and ALs brother. At half time ALs brother stood looking out of the window presumably Barry was trying to massage his ego with th PV Directors. If I was new to English football I would take every opportunity to engage with football people to learn how football works in this country. John Rudge a stalwart of football was there and must have gone away bemused at how this once great family club had descended into the mire. Rest assured it is not just HMRC that is on the club's case,the EFL and PFA who are monitoring the situation very closely.

It's actually Lemsagam against everyone employed at the club even if it is merely not paying the wages.I think Frankie is waking up to that reality,the honeymoon period is over there can only be one result. Shez couldn't accept the way he was being treated and reacted in a certain way, he knew that the way he was being treated was not sustainable.

Would need a special type of Manager with experience of an owner meddling in team affairs and one used to motivating staff who don't always get their wages on time

Over the last 5 years we must have one of the worst home win ratios in the football league. That is bound to have an effect and it amazes me how our fans remain relatively supportive after all of the crap that we have had to endure. Much of the atmosphere at away games is alcohol and drug fuelled.

The club is rudderless,sacking our manager would make no difference.Our owner was absent again,just Barry Owen and another guy in a cap in the Directors seats.Trust rep (supposed to be on the board,not yet appointed) not in Directors box. With our owner being absent who is running the club? If its Barry Owen thats double trouble.

Cant pay wages,even everyone not paid yet so where are loan fees in the pecking order ?

A lot has been said about mental health in the media recently. Let's just remember that it is likely with 1 in 4 people suffering from mental health problems that several of our players may be suffering. Bear that in mind when making personal insults on here,that doesn't help and is unnecessary.Let's face it our players aren't on premiership wages and have relatively short term contracts making it a precarious profession for most of them.Add this to the stress of getting paid late,let's cut them a bit of slack on here and let's not make any stress they may be feeling worse.

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Sacking Managers has just become a repetitive bore at OAFC. The same failures at Board level will choose the next one then sack him and so on.

Doesn't mattter what age he is, but for whatever reason he is struggling to achieve the fitness to perform at an acceptable level for 90 minutes in League 2

This result has been coming most of the season we have been spared it mostly because of Surridge's form. We can talk about sacking managers but until that owner is replaced things will not improve. The way he treats people has got to manifest itself in performances on the pitch.

I would hope that we don't contribute another penny to the club under AL's stewardship until he demonstrates proper engagement with the Trust.

Thats part of the problem with the structure of the Trust.The Trust representative as a Director are responsible as an employer and should know.

Leaving aside the financial hurdles,who in their right mind would put themselves forward to sit on the Board.The abuse and criticism that anyone that volunteers to help the club gets makes it unlikely that there would be any volunteers.

I Have asked questions about how staff have been treated and it seems that the Trust Directorship is a different type of Company Directorship to any that I am aware of. They don't have responsibility for how the club is run as all company directors do in law. They appear to have rewritten Company Law. I know it is difficult being a volunteer,but unfortunately their is only one class of Director and one set of responsibilities.No half way house and no non executive classification in law.

The Carlisle gate receipts will hardly cover the stewarding costs, that is if any of those turn up on a volunteer basis.

I wonder if we have paid the Surridge loan fee ? That may be a bigger problem than his hip.

So the honeymoon period is over for FB as happens with most of our managers.Without Surridge we are bang average in a terrible division. The same problems lack of money and supporter base still prevent us putting a viable product onto the pitch.

If Bunn had documented it,it would have been like writing his own P45,although I would suspect that there are no P45s left in the BP office.

Apart from Gardner I have never seen such a lack of hard working midfield in my life

It is all about an excuse to save money and Byrne has given him that opportunity. Any opportunity and AL will go for it.

Lemsagam only,he is running the sackings show.

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