I keep trying to think up things that have happened historically which means we owe the opposition a kicking or a hiding. This one always sticks in my mind. The last Saturday of the season in League 2 (second tier in those days) May 1992. I missed the game because we had booked a holiday to Butlins with the kids which meant getting there that day. All afternoon whilst doing the travel bit and check in I wondered what the result was or how the game was going because defeat would leave us in the mire for the drop. Blackburn on the other hand would go the other way. Eventually having got a bag of chips for the kids and into the Challet I wangled 15 minutes to go to the Bookies on the camp to see if I could find the result. It was about 5 15pm by then. I couldn't see any results anywhere so asked the bloke behind the counter. He duly pulled out a big sheet of paper and asked which result I wanted. Argyle I said eagerly. They lost, Speedie got a hattrick and they have been relegated he cheerfully told me. Great start to the week that was. So for the only reason that they ruined my week at Butlins in 1992 I think they deserve a kicking and a beating soundly. Don't care if they did score 8 tonight. That was against the Yorkshire 9th tier 11. We can do this an avenge me. COYG
This is an easy one....26th April 1975...away to Peterborough. Our last game of the season....a win would give us the Div 3 title. Thousands of greens had taken over Peterborough causing chaos in the town....and then we lost the game 1-0. This allowed Blackburn to pip us for the title. I drove up for this match...Mariners 100th game......green and white everywhere....lots of missed chances to win this one. Miserable drive back to NW Kent. Blackburn had a game in hand....which they played mid-week to pip us for the title which of course they won.
Argyle...3-0...Blackburn.......F/T. Azaz...27mins Hardie...77mins Cundle...80mins. Excellent result and a clean sheet......with Whittaker and Hardie both getting yellow cards early on it didn't upset their confidence.
The stars tell the tale here. They had more possession, including a worrying 20 minutes, but we had more shots and more of those were on target To me, this was a lot closer than 3-0 suggests and there were times when I was very nervous, especially when they brought on their No 10 late on. but we deserved the 3 points.
Great game again . end to end at times a good watch and the score in the end looked easy, far from it as they had a few really good opportunities prior to us scoring, then second half they made some changes and as not distant said their no 10/ good 3 points.. Mr lowe next they are top of the pile .. hopefully i will be able to attend
What a strange game this was. We scored 3 and they scored none. How? I ask because I am nowhere near to understanding the answer. First thing to say is that on the run of play there is not a chance in hell we were 3 goals better than them. However, there is another side to it. When we got to the Club House having done a Safari treck around Central Park to get there, my son switched on his phone to look at the stats. His question to me was "how many shots do you think they had". My answer was over 20 at least. His next one was "how many shots do you think we had". My answer was about a dozen or so. He then shokced me with the beeb stats being they infact did have 20 but we had 23. They had 5 on target and we had 8. I have got to say it did not look like that live. They squandered so many chances, and not just decent ones but gilt edged chances at that. How they didn;';t score will remain a mystery to most in the ground. Joe is right. It was end to end for most of the game and even when leading by two Argyle did not sit back and try to defend it. If they did they didn't do it very well. It was a bloody good watch and would have been even better for the neutral. I honestly don't know what to make of it today but am overjoyed with the actual result.
It was full blooded 100mph stuff from start to finish. They were bigger & stronger and we were faster and more agile. I suppose last season made me complacent. We breezed past some teams without breaking sweat. This bore no comparison whatsoever. They’ll feel hard done by and rightly so. On the other hand, we deserved more than 4 points from our previous games, I’d find it impossible to pick a MotM except for one 3.second long incident in the first half. Pleggy is pinned down by their striker in the RH corner. Panic is rising. But Pleggy drops a shoulder, turns him inside out and calmly plays the ball away. Suddenly you understand why he was at Barcelona.
I don't agree we were faster and more agile notdistant. I thought they were fast enough and in a lot of cases a fraction of a yard faster than we were. They were agile in that they found space all the time and mostly it was acres of it. Their No.10 looked like he had a rocket inserted in his nether regions the pace he got to. I do agree though that to pick a MOM out of today would be really difficult.
Just watched the match video....how did Blackburn managed to score nowt ? If the next 41 games go like that we'll win the league by Easter.
A sort of non-football related question, has anyone ever seen at a player bring his kids out onto the pitch after a game, except at the end of a season? Pleggy brought his two tiny little ones out and presented them to the Devonport End on Saturday. They waved and the Devonport End waved back. I’ve never seen such a thing before and, if I was that sort of a man, I’d might have been forced to surreptitiously wipe away a tear. He did say being close to his family was a big part of his decision to come to Argyle (or the UK anyway) and he obviously meant it. Definitely one of my favourites already. Just because of a Man of the Match performance of course.
That is quite cute isn't it. The man clearly embrasses where he is living and working which shows a happy bunny. He was quite good on Saturday as well.
