Congrats Vale and commiserations Stags. Have to say I expected more from Mansfield but that could be down to Vale's game plan. Good luck in L1 next season.
Vale just destroyed them to be honest. Should have gone up automatically but bottled it at the end. But ultimately they've done the business in the playoffs. Knew they were up once they won that penalty shoot out when it looked like they were out. Written in the stars.
Us the last hope for Nottinghamshire football then... Very disappointing from the Stags, even worse losing to that vile team
Well done Port Vale. Mansfield shoot themselves in the foot at times but Vale took their chances and played out the 2nd half easily adding a decent 3rd goal.
LOL because you ****ed us about so we did it back. plain and simple. how has your season been? LOL Don't listen to Swindon players/Management. They're cheats and spent the whole two ties pretending they'd been fouled. There's no reason to believe that they didn't feign being attacked as part of their weird head loss over Vale smashing them to pieces in the second leg. No, Swindon are scum. League two scum. We got what we deserved. We did get what was coming to us too. For all the Swindon slander. Couldn't beat us on the pitch, can't beat us off it. Enjoy watching your team roll round on the floor to try and win a game of football in league two next season. How did that go for you Chris? Funny as **** if Huddersfield do a vale on your lot today. Any more of your fans getting jailed for actually attacking players? Just stop selling bottles to Swindon Town fans and jail anyone who throws a coin or a chair at Vale fans. That will sort it out. But yeah might be a few years before you play us again with the usual Swindon off field implosion in coming. Images of swindon fans throwing bottles. Images of Swindon players running onto the pitch not off it. Images of Swindon players pushing Vale fans. You should be ashamed. Our player got a scratch on his nose yesterday. Do you know what he did? Laughed. That's very telling when it comes to the mentality of our players and yours. It's why we beat you when you all thought you'd won it in the first leg. You have players like McKirdy, Williams and Baudry, we have players like Gibbons, Smith and Garrity. They ignore the bullshit and then rub it in your face when you inevitably lose. By the way, the home tie and the final are the best two days I've had following Vale and are probably top 5 memories in my life. So thanks for making it so special and thanks for the laughs provided afterwards. PROPA WALLOP
Really disappointing from Mansfield. Wife’s family is all Mansfield so I hoped they’d go up. Hawkins, what an idiot.
Vale have gone up and they beat us. Fine, that’s done and dusted. Some of the continued comments about Vales attendance from our fans on social have been petty, tinpot and jealously. However, there is no need to make stuff up to dig at us. Tickets, we offered you more than you could sell. You deliberately left seats empty rather than allow us to sell more. That’s a fact - no baring on the result at all (attendances never are) The scenes are the end of the second leg - were disgusting and completely started and continued from the home stands. That happened, loads saw that on TV - your account of us being the antagonists is completely inaccurate. On that note, I’ve said it came from the home stands (rather than fans) because it would be wrong to tar all fans with one brush on one incident - we all know the bigger games bring out the casual fans who are less likely to care about how their actions may reflect on the club. If the roles were reversed I have no doubt our fans would be very quick to denounce the fans who caused the trouble as plastic/casual fans who should not be used as a barometer for our fans base. However. I will say I’ve seen none of that from Port Vale the club or even any of the fans. All I’ve seen is continued gloating (ok fair enough the result when in their favour) and antagonist comments on social media (our fans are no angels on that point either) but will admit it’s not something I’ve specifically gone looking for on the internet either, so it might be out there. The fact that Clarke was allowed to take his place in the dugout was pathetic. I’m not going to go as far some people and claimed he assaulted our player but he did get physically involved in an area of the pitch he shouldn’t have been in. He was not punished at all - so that sets bad example EFL should be held accountable for that. Ultimately to me as a Swindon fan, Port Vale are a nothing club (not meant as a dig - no different to teams like Colchester or Rochdale ect) that we’ve bounced around the bottom 2 divisions with for 20 odd years. They are in L1 next season and how they do there is immaterial to me personally. I’m over it and wish the rest of our fanbase would get over it too. We need to focus on ourselves and going one step further and getting out of this league. Whether that’s to pass Port Vale or join them - I really don’t care to be honest. That post of lies though….
I'm not even going to bother replying to that drivel The EFL have set a precedent for red cards now, pay a fine avoid a ban.
Firstly, I've not lied once. Secondly, your post is so wrong, I'm not sure if you know it though so I'll stop short of calling you a liar. You lot do have form for making unevidenced assertions and expect to be able to control a narrative however. The ALLEGATIONS of assaults on your players are being investigated by the police. There's no evidence of the ALLEGED assaults publicly available, that I'm aware of. There's video of your players remaining on the pitch, your subs running onto the pitch and then some pushing and shoving between your players and some of our fans. So your assertions are baseless, apart from tkaing the word of a team who professionally feign injuries to try and win football matches and were already delusional with their comments from the first leg. They've also been abusing PVFC fans on twitter before and after the tie, including this morning. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, or bottles and broken chairs. As for the fan on fan stuff. Go and check out any video from that night on youtube, there's 5-6 that clearly show who started throwing things first, it was Swindon Town fans. I'm not bitter or deluded enough to claim that our fans were innocent. In my view anyone who chucked anything should be banned. But although it means very little outside of a playground the whole "but they started it miss" thing that you victims have got going is a complete and utter lie. Simply not true, we have the evidence for that so it is something we can put to bed. Your fans started it, our fans joined in, both as bad as each other. As for Clarke facing no punishment. Another error on your part (or was it a lie?) He was sent off and then fined. That's two punishments. Why do you think he should have been banned from the dugout? Next you'll be wanting our groundsman jailed for not watering the pitch to your managers satisfaction. You lost, we won, and then we won at Wembley which is nothing less than we deserve. If the sport was rolling around on the floor pretending to be injured then counting up how many fans you have, you'd be a lot better at it. Unfortunately it's about putting a football into a net more than the other team and we were better at it than you this season.
As opposed to listen to Swindon fans who are bitter and twisted who are that desperate for a win that they make up that our manager attacked your player, that he headbutted him and assaulted a ball boy when in fact again, the video is there for anyone to go and watch, your player grabbed Clarke first. Don't get me wrong here, Clarke was outside of his technical area and had absolutely no reason to be trying to get the ball for what was actually a Vale throw in (how about some accountability from the EFL for the two Swindon refs they appointed). The red card was justified and if the rules say he should have been banned then he should have been banned. Swindon fans don't get to be judge jury and executioner just because you feel really sad that your team lost.
The game was live on TV. Anyone watching saw what happened and plenty of neutrals have commented on it. It wasn’t our fans that ran onto the pitch, was it? To me assault is a strong word. I personally wouldn’t consider a bit of pushing and shoving assault. I wouldn’t even call a few things being thrown assault. I haven’t claimed our players or fans were assaulted but they were attacked, people ran from the Vale home ends onto the pitch to attack. Again, all this on live TV. Red Cards included a ban. Players who get sent off don’t get to just pay a fine and carry on. Many managers in the past have been sent off and had a touch line ban. Clarke didn’t get a ban, why? We all know why. Even if he’d appealed against it and the appeal had taken place after the final and thus any ban wouldn’t kick in till next season - I’d get it, that’s a loophole that’s been used plenty of times before…but…no ban? Find me any other example of someone getting sent off and being allowed to just pay a fine and receive no ban?
…and there was definitely no headbutt or assault by Daryl Clarke - that is a huge stretch some of our fans are making. He got physically involved in an area of the pitch he shouldn’t have been but that is really it.
…and even if both refs were Swindon (they weren’t) it’s a good job all the linesman were Port Vale (probably not true either) Imaging not seeing that handball right in front of you…
