Plymouth Argyle Post Match Thread

[liamsm]

Just got back....

We were impressive going forward, solid at the back... but plymouth were absolutely woeful... they looked a defeated team after only 5 minutes!!!

Yet at the same time it was alarming that we took so long to score... final ball was a bit poor but to be fair plymouth stuck everyone behin the ball and a point seemed like it would of been a victory for them

Its amazing how Neilsen can look out f his depth even against Plymouth... worrying signs...

Waghhorn... i love him.... Fryatt... hustled a bit but offered nothing in comparison to Waghorn... he was imense...

Was impressed with Yann... he got stuck in and threw himself about but ultimately played just behind the front two and made the most of the limited opportunities to use his strengths...

Gallager did nothing all game... i mean... left wing? poor chap...

Howard looked disintrested and couldnt be bothered when he came on around the 80th minute mark.. looked worrying.... i would be very suprised if he isnt sold in January...

Enjoyed the game but would really like to see more of a cutting edge up front.

MPH were you at the Leicester v Plymouth game? Waghorn had his worse game for city and if he dont improve he might as well go back to sunderland, i'm not a Howard fan but he wont go in January, Neilsen was no worse than any other city player on the pitch, i'm surprised you didn't slag brown he got beat in the air once. ARE YOU A CITY FAN OR A DERBY FAN IN DISCUISE?

[Kilworthfox]

A CRISP FINISH

Posted on: Sat 21 Nov 2009

AH, the Walkers: scene of more than a few happy memories on our last visit. Definitely a melt-in-the-mouth Prawn Cocktail moment, rather than stale Cheese and Onion game.

A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then, though. Péter Halmosi is rotting expensively in Hull's reserves and Ian Holloway has, indeed, bowed to the expressed wishes of the Argyle fans (and more than a few home supporters, truth be told) on that evening and... ahem, gone off. Will he ever be able to listen to KC and the Sunshine Band's 'Give It Up' again?

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He did not depart, though, before overseeing Leicester's relegation into the third tier of English football for the first time in their history - well, as the old joke goes, he did promise to take them out of the Championship.

To be fair to Ollie, he has since admitted that his somewhat theatrical flounce out of Home Park a little more than two years ago did not work out for anyone - himself, Leicester or Argyle - and that is an argument certainly well worth having on another day.

Talking of history, at the Walkers, it is difficult to escape the fact that this is Leicester's 125th anniversary season. In fact, this game was 'The 125 Fixture', a fact which, one suspects, owes more to the City marketing department's attempts to ramp up a less than attractive home fixture, than to any historical significance.

One of the ways Leicester have chosen to mark(et) their anniversary is to play away matches wearing their very first strip - a utilitarian black model with a fetching turquoise sash.

The home shirt remains the distinctive blue that is more readily associated with the likes of greats such as, Worthington, Lineker and...um, Akinbiyi, although there is no sponsor's logo.

At least, not on the front. The seemingly altruistic decision not to sully the jersey with something as undignified as the name of a deeply financially-committed supporter (even though the shirt itself is a modern, branded, design) was somewhat tainted a couple of days before the season, when the name of a photographic company suddenly appeared above the shoulder-blades.

The shirt-front had, at one point, been supposed to carry a message voted on by supporters, such as 'Super Foxes'. However, this idea was abandoned when Nottingham Forest fans hijacked the on-line poll and suggested a variety of slogans that made the Green Army's abuse of Ollie up here last time seem like a birthday greeting to a Mother Superior.

The team-sheets revealed that (a) David Gray had failed to recover from his hip injury (that's 'hip' as in body-part, rather than implying a trendiness to his agony); (b) that New Zealand national hero Rory Fallon might be a future World Cup star, but he is behind Alan Gow and Jamie Mackie in the Argyle pecking-order; and © that Paul Gallagher had been recalled by Leicester City after a couple of games warming the bench.

Gallagher, of course, was our leading scorer last season, and had only nice things to say about us in the match-day programme for The 125 Fixture.

Rather a shame, then, that the folks up here have seen fit to bestow upon him a new nickname: 'Jedward', after his apparent similarity to the uber talentless Irish twins currently doing rather well in ITV's flagship talent contest, the X Factor. Personally, I'd sue.

Actually, I'd sue for defamation anyone calling me 'Jedward' and I'd sue Simon Cowell because I'm still not happy for him failing to live up to the 'judge' part of title as an 'X-Factor Judge' and refusing to bin the twins when he had the chance. By the way, I will never watch another Cowell programme again. (Yes, I admit it - I probably shouldn't have watched one in the first place).

While in a litigious mood, I'd call for a stewards' enquiry into the form of Yoann Folly, too. Recalled form Outer Siberia at Middlesbrough (different country, same scenery) three weeks ago, the Pilgrims' midfielder has seemingly undergone a complete body transplant. Either that, or the aliens that Luggy blames for some of his transfer dealings last summer have visited and replaced the Frenchman with a body-double.

Anyone who, in the wake of our recent 1-1 draw with Ipswich, had suggested that Yo would have been the man of the match in the subsequent home game would have been ridiculed beyond measure. Possibly even by Yo himself.

The man who was so far out of Paul Sturrock's planning that he did not even merit a place on the Pilgrims' pre-season training-camp at Stirling University was awesome at the Riverside (which doesn't quite have the same ring as 'awesome at Ayresome', but that's progress for you), too.

Like most of his team-mates, Yo (or Alien Yo) was more on defensive duty, than offensive in the first half of The 125 Match. Apart from a ten-minute spell midway through the half, Argyle were on the back foot and behind the eight-ball, not to say against the ropes, to mash-up a few metaphors.

Jedward was at the centre of the Foxes' probing, most of which consisted of trying to slip in strikers Matty Fryatt and Martyn Waghorn with delicate through-balls along the ground. Argyle's own prime attacking option of trying to get Jamie to run in on goal off the shoulder of his marker was equally ineffective. Someone had done their homework.

The Foxes maintained their admirably high-octane approach at the start of the second half, during which Captain Fletch resorted to handling the ball in an attempt to quell their endeavours.

In an instance, a lifetime's reputation as a trustworthy bastion of the game's integrity disappeared...when my colleague Chris Parsons covered himself with embarrassment by making a weak joke about having the game replayed. Fletcher's misdemeanour, on the other hand, was clearly observed by the match officials,

It looked unlikely at that stage that we'd be able to nick all three points, or even hold out for a draw, but, as the half progressed, one or the other began to look more and more possible.

Luggy clearly had his beady browns on the former when, with ten minutes of the 90 left, he sent on the Hero of Wellington. Rory's entrance was greeted by the Green Army with a chorus of his name - just a few weeks earlier, he had entered the fray as a substitute at Home Park to jeers. Good job he believes in forgiving trespasses.

Maybe Luggy changed his mind as 10 minutes became two, because the next sub out of the blocks was central defender Réda Johnson for the injured Doogie, who had earlier made two fantastic last-ditch interventions to snuff out serious trouble.

Then heartbreak.

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

Yeah, probably because you're a tedious ****. The best teams will all have their off days and scramble a 1-0 win. I was delighted to see the boys playing right up to the final whistle - that's more encouraging than anything we saw yesterday. We know our lads can pass a football, we know we can score goals and we know we can play either a fast pacey game, or a long hoof game if necessary. What we didn't know until yesterday is that after 5 years of turmoil, we finally got another Leicester City team that will bust a gut for their manager and keep trying to get that goal until the whistle goes. You can see if you were down the match (guessing you weren't...) how much it meant to all the lads when we scored.

Now piss off.

I did actually attend., thank you, kind cur.

[Corky]

http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/sport/Lowr...il/article.html?

What a twat! You came here and didnt even play to win then bitch about one decision and make out the ref gave you nothing all game which is total bollocks!

Ermmm handball, penalty?? Not given!? Shut up you bitter little man and accept that you just werent good enough.

Exactly, I thought it might have come off Brown but I wasn't sure, 50/50 decision, of which both sides benefitted from during the game.

[The Doctor]

Genuine question - if we did go up, how many of Saturday's starting line-up would be able to cut it in the top flight?

Weale, Waghorn, maybe Hobbs, and, er, that's it..

brown & berner are certainties.

gallagher's played well there for blackburn, kermorgant and king could make it as well.

[Vlad The Impaler]

brown & berner are certainties.

gallagher's played well there for blackburn, kermorgant and king could make it as well.

Not forgetting Wellens and Tunchev.

I also think N'Guessan, Morrison, Fryatt and Adams could all potentially be able to play there one day.

We have a good squad

[Tilley]

Neilson, Howard and Fryatt would prove themselves to be great I reckon.

I have always thought Logan had potential too.

I also think N'Guessan, Morrison, Fryatt and Adams

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[Unabomber]

:laugh:

I really hope my sarcasm came across in that post.

[Babylon]

I really hope my sarcasm came across in that post.

Nope!!