Vale ready for chaotic end to survival bid - Brady

Port Vale boss Jon Brady said he is preparing his squad as much as he can for the "chaotic" final phase of their survival bid in League One.

Vale's spirited 1-0 win against Rotherham on Tuesday kept their very slim chances of avoiding relegation alive but still left them 14 points adrift of safety at the bottom.

Their survival hopes depend on winning most, if not all, of their remaining seven games.

Despite securing just their eighth victory of the season, thanks to Ryan Croasdale's sixth-minute strike, Brady said he is not about to get carried away with setting targets.

"We are where we are because of consistency and obviously we haven't scored enough goals," he told BBC Radio Stoke.

"I'm not going to say we're going to go on a run now or anything like that - we've got some really really tough challenges ahead."

Vale's run to the quarter-final of the FA Cup has led to a fixture backlog of 12 games in 43 days to end the season.

Having just finished a run of five matches in 18 days, Vale now have a six-day break before hosting Barnsley on 14 April.

By then, the gap to safety could be 16 points, with other relegation-threatened rivals in action before Vale embark of a final push of seven games until the conclusion of the regular season on Saturday, 2 May.

"We're going to be competitive and work hard but seven games in 19 days is a game every 2.7 days so it's going to be chaotic," Brady said.

"Hopefully we can get a lot of the players through that especially when the games are coming around that thick and fast - you might have to play one team on the Tuesday and another team somehow on the Thursday.

"It's quite awkward. It's uncharted territory, no other team's done this."