Tom Scragg

Striker - Port Vale
28 Sep 2026
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Marked for Tom Scragg

7 Edition

The Port Vale Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Ben Garrity runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match12 Sep 2026

No end in sight to Port Vale's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Port Vale has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Joe Gauci in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Port Vale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words at Port Vale training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kyle John is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad14 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Jordan Gabriel

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

The afternoon belonged to Kyle John

7.48, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Port Vale had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Market14 Sep 2026

Talks stall between Port Vale and Kyle John

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Match12 Sep 2026

Port Vale draw a blank against AFC Wimbledon

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. AFC Wimbledon defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Robert Spencer dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Port Vale Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Onel Hernández, 33, rolls back the years — 8.01

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.01 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Ben Garrity

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Port Vale

Joe Gauci was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Rico Richards in the eights

A performance of 8.37 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Kyle John falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Too much change too quickly at Port Vale

5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Match22 Aug 2026

Honours even between Port Vale and Exeter City

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market24 Aug 2026

Tom Scragg is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Port Vale has been clear about where Tom Scragg stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Port Vale pick somebody else ahead of Tom Scragg

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief