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Get in. Not sure it’s a deserved lead but we are usually much better in the second halves of games.

Think I’d been bringing Lee off, stick shoretire at 10 and bring on Nlundulu or Adeboyejo.

K-Win that was a strange first half. Masters of our own downfall for a lot of that half. Don’t think you’ve offered that much other than a few dangerous set pieces but we keep giving the ball away in stupid areas. When we get on the ball in your half we’ve been quite tidy without the end product...

Don’t know if it’s the pitch or what but never seen us misplace so many passes in the opening 15 mins of a game. And Trafford's mishit 3/4 kicks already. Seems to be bobbling a lot

Usually I’d take a draw but with the position we are in we need to keep winning to keep pressure on those above us and maintain the gap to those chasing playoffs as the others have games in hand. We are in a much better position than we were this time last season though. From the outside...

Very similar to the set up we had away at Charlton and Peterborough. Just hope we have the legs.

I completely agree. I think there’s a good chance we lose tonight… we looked tired against you and as you say that long journey really won’t help. We will have to rotate and we are only really consistent when we pick a settled side. We also still have quite a few missing through injury. Will be...

I do love your agenda… did you even watch the game? He committed 1 foul… 2 interceptions and 8 clearances. Not at his best but certainly didn’t have a bad game.

Yeah he made the save at your place too right at the end. Can’t believe you’ve only taken 1 point from us over the 2 games. I think a few did look tired but don’t want to make excuses. You were the better side today. We’d have lost that game last season 100%.

Yeah I can’t believe we’ve won that actually. Normally when we get done at home it’s a team that sits deep and counters but you actually outplayed us for large periods then. A decent summer window and I think you can really kick on next season.

I agree. I think you’ve been the better team today. We have been way off the pace. We rotated a bit and have a few injuries but this is as good an away performance as I’ve seen at our place in ages.

You don’t deserve to be losing for sure but I’m fully expecting Evatt to dish out a bollocking at half time. I think we’ll come out firing in the second half

No way you can complain about the ref so far today. Given you absolutely everything. We’ve been poor other than for about 15 minutes in the middle of the half. This is as bad as we’ve been since the turn of the year. We always play crap against you.

There we go. Vale really could and should have been 2/3 up after 8 mins. We started so slowly. But starting to knock it around nicely now. I can see why Vale fans are so frustrated generally. They looked like world beaters for 10 minutes. All over us.

We are starting to get into this now after a slow start

We’ve started so slack here. Could be 2/3 down not just 1.

We’ve rested Dion Charles, Declan John and Kieran Lee today. Our bench looks really strong though. Dion Charles is probably the most important player for our pressing so will be interesting to see how that goes. I can’t remember the last league game he didn’t start?

What do you think your starting xi will be tomorrow then? Do you at least have some strikers fit now? I think on recent form you’d maybe rather go to the Etihad… we haven’t conceded at home for 9 games I believe now.

The thing is we are as good as anyone between both boxes and we don’t really concede many clear cut chances at all. We press so well now and we’ve become very good at keeping the ball out of our box. A lot of opposition have to resort to long shots and set pieces. It’s the other end that we...

Yeah we were shocking that day. Fans were calling for Evatt to go but thankfully the board stuck to their guns and got rid of the director of football instead… and let Evatt be responsible for his own recruitment. Since then we haven’t looked back. I always think a manager has a much better...