Plymouth post match

[dandannieldanok]

Just to emphasise how negative our tactics were today I think that will be the first game Sheehan has ever played for the first team where City have failed to score.

By my reckoning he's played in nine games, we've won 5, drawn 3 and lost just the one against Premiership Bolton in the Cup.

In that time we've scored 15 goals at nearly 2 a game over eight successive matches while conceding 8 at less than one a game. But today, while we might have taken a rare point, we failed to even have a shot on target. How far back did they send him for pity's sake?

Well we were one nil down to Crewe when Sheehan got sent off in the second half so thats not strictly true.

[Matt]

Made me laugh when RL were saying one them on the touchline (Not sure who) was asking the forth official how they go about making a substitute! lol

[Wooly]

Just to emphasise how negative our tactics were today I think that will be the first game Sheehan has ever played for the first team where City have failed to score.

By my reckoning he's played in nine games, we've won 5, drawn 3 and lost just the one against Premiership Bolton in the Cup.

In that time we've scored 15 goals at nearly 2 a game over eight successive matches while conceding 8 at less than one a game. But today, while we might have taken a rare point, we failed to even have a shot on target. How far back did they send him for pity's sake?

This post sums up why your views on football are an absolute joke Thracian.

[Bryn]

From a Plymouth fan.

Argyle vs Leicester The Referee Show starring Paul Taylor

Finished 0-0. On another day, we could have won 5-0. It wasn't that Leicester were that bad, we just player much better football all game long, yet we just weren't clinical enough. Akos ran the game, my god he was good today, must have drawn close to 10 fouls from the Leicester players. That said, the referee and the Lyndhurst linesman were fooking pathetic. Linesman didn't have a clue, and the ref wanted to be the centre of attention. When the ref wasn't getting decisions wrong, he was being a pedantic little **** and giving ridiculous fouls.

Ratings:

McCormick - Only made one save as far as I can remember, didn't have a lot to do.

Connolly - Quite good today, got forward well, and his defending was better than normal

Sawyer - Quite a let down today, looked dodgy on the ball, and Hume caused him a few problems

Timar - Dealt with De Vries quite well, solid performance

Seip - See Timar

Norris - Back to his energetic self, shame about his finishing

Halmosi - The bloke is top quality, his link up with Akos in the first half was class, they were exactly on the same wavelength

Nalis - Solid performance

Akos - Man on the match by far (although the sponsors gave it to Seip huh.gif). Was a class above everyone on the pitch. Was everywhere, constantly beating players with nifty footwork, had a few shots, forced one good save out of Fulop, and as I mentioned, won us about 7 or 8 free kicks when Leicester decided the only way to stop him was to take him out

Hayles - Not great today, we played too many long balls to him, and he wasn't winning a lot in the air, seemed pretty lazy too

SEB - Didn't feel he got into the game today. Had a couple of opportunities, but meh

Fulop - Made a couple of decent saves, and commanded his area quite well. Wish we had tested him a bit more though

N'Gotty - Was pretty solid, not amazing, but didn't really do anything wrong

Mattock - Didn't seem to do anything of note, at least I didn't notice anyway

Kisnorbo - Won loads in the air vs Hayles, as expected, but seemed to get away with a lot of holding etc. Pretty solid

McAuley - See Mattock

Hume - Very good player, great footwork, caused Sawyer a lot of problems, think he would have done more damage playing up front

Sheehan - Looked a pretty decent player, put some good crosses in

Clemence - See McAuley

Wesolowski - Again, looked a decent player, good footwork, but faded out of the game in the 2nd half

De Vries - Surprisingly good footwork for a man his size, but he's a thug. Got away with murder because the ref was wank too sleep.gif

Campbell - Caused a few problems for the defence, but no end product. Decent player, but not worth £2m or however much he cost

All the fans were pretty poor, Leicester pretty silent throughout. We really could have won it in the second half, we lay siege to the Leicester goal, although almost got caught out on the break once or twice. Disappointed we didn't win, but a point's a point

[Lillehamring]

OS say 2 shots on target....

don't forget for us RL listeners half the game was spent with idiots talking about fish and announcing goals for liverpool....

same as watford where staedtler and waldorf only mention weso twice, while most here gave him MOTM.

[Bert]

Just said on RL Jon Rudkin interview in a minute.

I want the manager MM to do it though!

If it's not been said already, we do get that you think MM is the manager.

[Thracian]

OS say 2 shots on target....

don't forget for us RL listeners half the game was spent with idiots talking about fish and announcing goals for liverpool....

same as watford where staedtler and waldorf only mention weso twice, while most here gave him MOTM.

That fish business was bizarre. I thought for a minute they were going to drop the commentary altogehter and spend the rest of the afternoon thinking up fish quips.

As it turns out we wouldn't have missed much.

[Lillehamring]

From a Plymouth fan.

he sounds like a reasonable bloke...

so confirms we had a shot, based on his single report, hume MOTM - sheehan, weso and kisa had good games...

[Thracian]

he sounds like a reasonable bloke...

so confirms we had a shot, based on his single report, hume MOTM - sheehan, weso and kisa had good games...

Seeing as we've got no other highlights to refer to do you think "the shot" will turn up on Youtube?

[sdb]

just got home from the game.

i thought we played ok, plymouth certainly didn't dominate imo. we looked solid but had very few ideas in the final 3rd. the kishishev for DJ move made sense to me. Campbell wasn't having a great game and it allowed Hume to move up front. what was strange was that weso went RM and Kish CM. 2 centre backs and Fulop were excellent. Clemence veery assured in the middle. De vries had some nice moments but didn't do much. everyone else was good, but not great.

[MC Prussian]

Sounds like I didn't miss out on anything exciting today...

[Guest seanfox778]

just got home from the game.

i thought we played ok, plymouth certainly didn't dominate imo. we looked solid but had very few ideas in the final 3rd. the kishishev for DJ move made sense to me. Campbell wasn't having a great game and it allowed Hume to move up front. what was strange was that weso went RM and Kish CM. 2 centre backs and Fulop were excellent. Clemence veery assured in the middle. De vries had some nice moments but didn't do much. everyone else was good, but not great.

Spot on, i was a bit dissapointed in DJ he seemed to get the ball go to run at the defender then just give it away

Kisnorbo was my MOTM he made an awesome last ditch tackle in the box to deny their striker a one on one.

Cort looked quite promising when he came on, because he can actually head the ball. Hume also had a decent game.

There was also a funny moment when the ref got hit in the face with ball. and i fell up the stairs and dropped my

pasty all over the floor.

[Smudge]

Week in week out I look forward to a game and apart from last weeks match with Watford, I come away disappointed with the performance and apoplectic about the Radio Leicester commentary. I'll give the team a break this week but to be honest, I just don't see how we are going to get much better.

I think the problem is still the midfield and until we have someone with vision who can field that ball into open space or get behind the defence, I think we are in for another year of mediocrity. That of course, is much better than out and out crap that we have been served up in the last two or three seasons.

From the 15 new signings only 4 plus Clarke have had a regular start Fulop, N'Gotty, Clemence and DJ. Fulop and Bruno have definitely strengthened our defence but mid-field creativity seems a rare commodity. I don't think that is something you can coach, I believe that is a natural talent and we don't have that player.

I'm far from surprised Milan is unhappy with this. Even if he and MA were getting on I can see why he is dissatisfied with the progress we have made. He obviously is somewhat to blame by what degree only time will tell.

[dandannieldanok]

Week in week out I look forward to a game and apart from last weeks match with Watford, I come away disappointed with the performance and apoplectic about the Radio Leicester commentary. I'll give the team a break this week but to be honest, I just don't see how we are going to get much better.

I think the problem is still the midfield and until we have someone with vision who can field that ball into open space or get behind the defence, I think we are in for another year of mediocrity. That of course, is much better than out and out crap that we have been served up in the last two or three seasons.

From the 15 new signings only 4 plus Clarke have had a regular start Fulop, N'Gotty, Clemence and DJ. Fulop and Bruno have definitely strengthened our defence but mid-field creativity seems a rare commodity. I don't think that is something you can coach, I believe that is a natural talent and we don't have that player.

I'm far from surprised Milan is unhappy with this. Even if he and MA were getting on I can see why he is dissatisfied with the progress we have made. He obviously is somewhat to blame by what degree only time will tell.

Spot on, I'd agree with all of that, there is no creativity in the midfield whatsoever, which is not a fault of the players particulary because the likes of Clem, Weso and Kish don't promise to be that missing link, IMO they are all holding midfielders.

[maddog]

Just listened to the match on radio today. Sounds like we played pretty poor apart from Fulop and the defence and struggled to create chances. I still think if we had MA as manager still for this match we would have won the game, and am still slightly annoyed he has gone but have moved on a bit with the thought of having Jewell in for the QPR game i hope. It was a key match today but we have got a point, and if we continue to draw away matches and win most of our home matches we will get promoted or reach the play offs. i did expect us to have more points from the first few games though, a draw at Plymouth, win against Blackpool and Watford and a loss to palace so 7 points. But we have 5 points, we have some great players, 2 points off the play offs in mid table and great hopes and prospects for the season ahead even with Allen gone. Last season at this stage we had 4 points, shit manager, mostly shit players, played awful in the first 2 games of season v luton n burnley and no Milan.

It's been a good start to the season in my view Jewell would be great, and all this Milan out talk is utter crap although i am on Allens side but i certainly dont want Milan gone. Without him we will be no where.

[Kent Fox]

just got home from the game.

i thought we played ok, plymouth certainly didn't dominate imo. we looked solid but had very few ideas in the final 3rd. the kishishev for DJ move made sense to me. Campbell wasn't having a great game and it allowed Hume to move up front. what was strange was that weso went RM and Kish CM. 2 centre backs and Fulop were excellent. Clemence veery assured in the middle. De vries had some nice moments but didn't do much. everyone else was good, but not great.

How d'you do that?

4:45 end, out of ground by 5:00

Back in Leicester by 7:00!!

You fly?

[boosmanana]

perhaps he doesn't live in leicester, just an idea

[lookwhaticando]

We could have come and sprayed it around with six or seven passes and finished it off with a volley but first and foremost was to defend.

Ouch! :pinch:

On the plus side for me there was some very positive defending. We have kept our second clean sheet of the week.

lol

Great, isn't it?

[Lord Nibblington]

Great, isn't it?

But to be fair, if you've served up a drab 0-0, you'll generally look for some kind of positives.

Not likely to come out and say our strikers were shite.

Actually, Holloway might now that I think about it.

[sdb]

How d'you do that?

4:45 end, out of ground by 5:00

Back in Leicester by 7:00!!

You fly?

nah i'm a really, really quick runner!! and i live in Somerset

forgot about the ref getting hit on the head! very funny. Cort looked pretty good yeh. We just lacked a midfielder to link up with the attackers. We also looked quite drained/exhausted for the final 10 mins - hardly suprising given their week, but we were on the back foot for almost the entire closing stages.

[Thracian]

Week in week out I look forward to a game and apart from last weeks match with Watford, I come away disappointed with the performance and apoplectic about the Radio Leicester commentary. I'll give the team a break this week but to be honest, I just don't see how we are going to get much better.

I think the problem is still the midfield and until we have someone with vision who can field that ball into open space or get behind the defence, I think we are in for another year of mediocrity. That of course, is much better than out and out crap that we have been served up in the last two or three seasons.

From the 15 new signings only 4 plus Clarke have had a regular start Fulop, N'Gotty, Clemence and DJ. Fulop and Bruno have definitely strengthened our defence but mid-field creativity seems a rare commodity. I don't think that is something you can coach, I believe that is a natural talent and we don't have that player.

I'm far from surprised Milan is unhappy with this. Even if he and MA were getting on I can see why he is dissatisfied with the progress we have made. He obviously is somewhat to blame by what degree only time will tell.

But MA apparently claims he was only responsible for four of those signings.

[l444ry]

Sounded like a good solid performance and a difficult point gained easily. After the week City have just had we should be pleased about that. Well done to those responsible for the team.

[Thracian]

Sounded like a good solid performance and a difficult point gained easily. After the week City have just had we should be pleased about that. Well done to those responsible for the team.

"Fantastic" result. Nil-nil for ever.

[l444ry]

"Fantastic" result. Nil-nil for ever.

For this week...............yes. Even the Academy didn't manage to win today. So both sides did the next best thing. Credit where it's due.

[sdb]

But MA apparently claims he was only responsible for four of those signings.

I thought Rudkin and co were the academy staff? Shouldn't you be going on about how todays performance ranks with the most heroic of all football history, whilst masturbating furiously over the combined age of todays left side?!!? Or has the ridiculous optimism of thinking everyone associated with the Leicester academy member is Gods gift to life finally been laid to rest?!!