Everyone Has a"Vale" Story

[billy the kid]

I am sure we have all had a "Elizabeth Vale" encounter and its good that this has now made it to the papers.

They have never been handled well and have continued to play a disgraceful brand of football supported by equally disgraceful supporters.

Enough said

[ball_girl]

Im sure we all do have a Vale story... but that doesnt mean that ALL their players, and ALL their spectators can be branded as disgraceful.

I remember playing against them in U17s i think it was, a few years back now, and there was always one player who had a bit of a temper, i pushed her off the ball, she got a free, and she still felt the need to push me as i was walking away. BUT because of this one player, i never thought any less of elizabeth vale. That, and the coach showed his disappointment in this players reaction by pulling her off the pitch for the remainder of the game.
They generally struggled for players, and more or less always put in a good game. I am aware that over the few years its been since i've played them that the standard of play, and sportsmanship may have deteriorated...

I personally dont think that this warranted an article in the paper, but thats just me. As i said, i dont know what they're like now, i havent played against them for several years, i just dont think we should condemn all vale players to being 'disgraceful'.

[on the side]

wasn't it the downs in the paper?? i didnt read the article only heard it on the radio....

[ball_girl]

quite right... i didnt even think about it, just went on from billys post about 'vale'.
but still.
same applies, that i think its unfair branding ALL players and ALL spectators as disgraceful.

[on the side]

Yes I agree it is definetly not all players and all supporters. Unfortunately i think the Downs have had a bit of a reputation in general over the years, which is shown in the other post (by people writing they are not surprised it is the downs in question) but i think a lot of people dislike the downs purely on jealousy because they have such a big club with so many supporters.

[billy the kid]

DISGRACEFUL

THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM

No place in the women's game

[ecky_8]

shut the f**k up
and block the thread
this is incredibly unnecessary and discriminatory

[Leppskiii]

What a joke. there are players and supporters in teams other than northern area ones that are worse

[SAD GAL]

Love the banter. Especially ppl trying to defend thugs.

[kenny]

silly billy next youll be blaming bart for killing mrs simpson, instead of o.j.... you lemmon

[billy the kid]

The question to ask is this: Would the competition be better off with or without them? Run a poll amongst civilised teams and I'll be interested to see the results. The compeition is nothing without the clubs and teams. Sometime you need to prune those bits that you could do without.

This is not the advertising or Image I want my game to have.

[ball_girl]

oh yeah cuz that would work...
you could cut the team, it just means the players would find another club to play at and then you'd have to cut other clubs because they have 'disgraceful' players in the teams, and the 'disgraceful spectators' would still be going out to games.

try thinking about it.

and sad gal, is that really the smartest thing you've got to say?
whose trying to defend thugs? we're merely saying that it couldnt possibly be every single player and every single spectator. we're defending the innocent players and spectators. you know, the ones that havent done anything to warrant this kind of attention at or against their club.

[OldRedback]

[quote="billy the kid"]Run a poll amongst civilised teams and I'll be interested to see the results. quote]


.........and how do you - oh wise one - determine who are the "civilised teams"? Does that mean clubs without clowns like you who make potentially incendiary comments from behind a keyboard?

Smarten up mate and use your loaf before you post stupid comments.

[on the side]

The question to ask is this: Would the competition be better off with or without them? Run a poll amongst civilised teams and I'll be interested to see the results. The compeition is nothing without the clubs and teams. Sometime you need to prune those bits that you could do without.

This is not the advertising or Image I want my game to have.

If that is your question, then the answer is the competition is better with.

[de uno]

Well we can all see how intelligent Billy The Kid is, he cant even get the team right that made the paper. LMAO

[Aero]

HAHA the vale dont even have a girls team any more! pretty sure they were one of the better teams once upon a time in the prem league.
Every team has there bad players as we dicovered last week! Cumby vs Fulham!

[sparts]

really didnt need to become public, just more bad publicity for our game. there are worse teams out there than the downs. would like to hear about the game itself to be honest

[white hart lane boy]

the game was gr8 for the downs it was 0/0 thay had 90% of the game but cld not score

[BillyBob]

the game was gr8 for the downs it was 0/0 thay had 90% of the game but cld not score

posession wise, agree wit hyou Downs had more of the ball, but Uni had a lot of chances on the break that weren't capitalised on, can think of 3-4 chances that should have been buried by uni, but instead were missed (one blasted over, others scuffed to the keeper). Was an entertaining game to watch.

[white hart lane boy]

yes gr8 game by both teams glad of that both coachs had hard work to keep the girls mind of the tv & press well done to them .

[Leppskiii]

if we are getting rid of teams there are plenty of teams that are 'civilised' that id like to not play ..

[ball_girl]

HAHA the vale dont even have a girls team any more! pretty sure they were one of the better teams once upon a time in the prem league.
Every team has there bad players as we dicovered last week! Cumby vs Fulham!

well, yes, all teams do have their bad players, but i dont think that one bad tackle... very bad tackle, even comes close to the kind of happenings they seem to be going on about.

[Angela Porcu]

I don't have a Vale story.

[ball_girl]

I don't have a Vale story.

and once again... billy the kid is proven wrong.