Valiants can make it a 'high five' season after Moore's work in the transfer market

S it really only around three months since our successful 2024/25 season ended with an underwhelming home defeat at the hands of Gillingham?

- PORT Vale fan EDDIE JACKSON

For once our fans were not too upset as the main aim of automatic promotion had already been achieved.

More than 13,000 turned up for that game and the vast majority stayed behind afterwards to honour the Valiants.

So that was then but what does the new season hold for Vale?

I awaited the release of the new fixtures with interest. Very disappointed to have our high profile first home game against Cardiff moved from Saturday to the previous Thursday evening.

Having Stoke vs Derby on the Saturday always made a change likely.

Why do we get more of these clashes than happens in the case of the Bristol or Sheffield clubs?

I was also disappointed with the Christmas fixtures. As last year those who travel to away games will spend Boxing Day and the 29th parked outside big Yorkshire grounds before watching us play Huddersfield and Bradford City.