Five-star Vale take another step towards completing their quest

PORT Vale turned on the style to sweep past Bromley at Vale Park. CLIVE YOULTON continues his review of the Valiants’ season...

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RYAN Croasdale valued his Port Vale Players’ Player of the Year title more than others but said, “to get all three awards was special.”

The experienced midfielder, a winner of League Two with Stockport County the previous season, also scooped the Player of the Season and Supporters’ Club Player of the Year at the club's awards.

“It means the world,” he said. “I’ve said at any club the Players’ Player is really important but to get all three was special.

“I have always given 110 per cent. And coming from the background the club is in, it’s a working class city [fans appreciate hard work] and things like that and I do add a little bit of quality on the ball as well which is good.”

Lorent Tolaj was awarded goalscorer of the year with five matches to play.

He didn’t need to hand it back as he stayed on top but it would have been fascinating to see Jayden Stockley overhaul him and then see them scrap it out for who was going to keep the trophy.

As the bigger man, Stockley might have had the edge.

A National League side the season before, Bromley will have arrived at Vale Park expecting little. They were not to be disappointed.

Vale had only scored 54 goals in their 41 games thus far. That's a low number for a team that were second in the table on goal difference.

The great entertainers they weren't.