Waine happy hard work on training ground has paid off

BEN Waine has been happy to emerge from the shadows at Port Vale in the last two cup matches with a couple of goals.

- Clive Youlton PORT VALE

Whether that will earn him a place in tonight's team to face Bradford City in League One at Vale Park is unclear.

But all the forward can do is play well when called upon and he has done exactly that, having scored against Barnsley in the Vertu Trophy and then the winner against Bristol Rovers in the FA Cup second round on Saturday.

On the 1-0 FA Cup victory he told the club: “The game was really physical but I think we dealt with it well.

“It kind of maybe got away from us in the first half and it was a bit of a scrap, whatever you want to call it, but we reset well and got back into the game and dealt with it. I was a little bit frustrated in the first half because I probably had a better chance, an easier chance, to take so that’s always going to play on your mind but it was nice to put that out of my mind.