Will Ryder, the joint interim manager of Port Vale, says the squad needs to try to turn around the season’s momentum after falling into the relegation zone.
After Andy Crosby was fired on Monday, Ryder was placed in charge alongside Matt Done and Danny Lloyd.
However, Vale dropped to 21st place in the League One standings after losing 1-0 to Leyton Orient at home on Tuesday.
Ryder said to BBC Radio Stoke, “We’ll commit to it the best we can and fight to try and get some points on the board.”
It’s now up to us to try and galvanise (the team), to try and put game plans in place for the players to go out and attempt to execute (them). It’s been an emotional 24 hours for everyone at the football club, the players, and the staff that are still here.
We’ve made some changes, but we haven’t had much time to try to accomplish
Only one of Vale’s nine league games have ended in a victory, and their next two are away to Peterborough United and at home to Stevenage, two teams that are in the play-off spots.
“The entire team will be required. Everyone will need to work together when I return to my position at the academy and the new management team takes over,” Ryder remarked.
“We must remain united as a team and exhibit courage, determination, and perseverance in all that we do. We need to get back to the fundamentals and put in a lot of hard effort. We must make an effort to shift the momentum.”
Some Vale fans were chanting for the dismissal of David Flitcroft, the director of football. Flitcroft was hired three years ago, but he has come under fire for the way the team recruits players.
Chair Carol Shanahan, however, stated that “personal attacks have to stop” and that she “didn’t want anyone else to be in this role and still doesn’t” in an open letter that was posted on the club website on Wednesday.
She continued by saying that Flitcroft had completed all of the primary responsibilities assigned to him, including gaining the team’s promotion to League One, securing the club’s EFL status, “creating a player trading model where we bring players in and sell them on for profit later,” and improving their academy from “one of the worst in the country” to a
