The other annoying thing is that like many clubs. Argyle had gone to the trouble of setting up its own streaming service. We need a bigger ground but obviously that’s a huge expense. Club streaming meant those that couldn’t get tickets could watch the home games and everyone could watch the away games. That was swept away by the new TV contract. Presumably the club got more TV money than they did for streaming but it meant fans got less coverage of their club not more.
So it’s was…. Another recently relegated short-stay Premier League club. I’m not quite in the 2025/26 season yet! And I didn’t watch it!
With my Hobbit-ish second breakfast complete (she went off to Somerset early this morning), it's time to summarise our predictions. Joe is AWOL but here are the rest: There's not a lot of correlation here: unusually (I think) more away wins than home, although that's coloured by none of us Argyle fans ever putting us down to lose, but roughly speaking a home, draw and away roughly taking a third each. There are only three games where there are strong group opinions: Huddersfield to win at Reading and Barnsley to win at home plus of course 5 out of 7 going for Cardiff to win at Port Vale on Thursday night, which ended up as 0-0. Let's hope we'll do better than that with the rest. AWAY IN BC IS STILL MISSING A JOKER: I'LL ACCEPT ONE FOR ANY GAME PROVIDED IT'S IN BEFORE KICK-OFF. SMH has cut off Plym's "Dominate The Second Half" strategy by going for 45 minutes against PLym's 44. I look forward to seeing how that scrap develops over the season. Early warning: the next round kicks off at 12:30 on Saturday 19th August followed by a mid-week round on the Tuesday.
I'm the 45mins poster notDistant. Lindy has chopped off anything before 45mins Shush Ron.....that's been my ploy for years.....and it's brouight me points at times.....although last season Argyle couldn't keep a clean sheet for the first ten minutes to save their lives.
You have a point: if a goal is scored at 45+10, being the last minute of the first half, after extra time, is that recorded as 45 or 55? As far as the ref is concerned, he never plays added time. When there is a stoppage, he'd stop his watch, so as he as he's concerned the first half always ends on 45 minutes and the game on 90. How do the media record the goal times? Don't know. Ultimately the ref's match report would be the authoritative source but we don't get to see that. I bet some make good reading...... Of course, the same applies to all goals: If there is an injury in the first minute at 0-0, delaying the game for 5 minutes, then the times are potentially askew from there on. I think we should ask Sensible. I inherited the rules from him! Me, I just take the goal time recorded on the BBC website and compare that with what we predicted!
Ashby-Hammond...Sorinola...Szucs...Palsson...Galloway...Boateng...Ibrahim...Amaechi...Watts...Mumba...Pepple. Subs Baker...Wiredu...Paterson...Benarous...oseni...Roberts...Finn. So Wiredu on the bench.....maybe wise to ease himself back in after last weeks meltdown......he has a lot to offer.... just needs to get his head together.
That's exactly what the ground clocks used to show when I was young. Why they started this 90+13 etc (especially when you are shown 10 added minutes, stated as the minimum) I will never know. Stupid in my opinion. Just stop the clock and the halves end on 45 and 90 mins. Everyone knows where they stand and all the whistling when it gets close to, or usually past, the added time can stop. It was great when you could see the clock on 89 mins knowing there was exactly 60 secs left before the final whistle. Get rid of this added time I say. Let's get a petition up
I suppose the problem is that nobody actually knows when the ref has stopped his watch and when he hasn't. In this web-enabled day and age though you'd think it was very possible. Do they want us to know though? You know what fans are like: if their team is 1-0 up they wouldn't want the watch stopped for anything, whereas if its 0-1 and he doesn't stop it for one of the other lot writing in agony after the smallest of contacts, there'd be hell to pay!
..........................................Ashby-Hammond ...Sorinola.................Szucs......................Palsson..........Galloway .........................Boateng................................Ibrahim ..........Amaechi......................Watts........................Mumba .............................................Pepple
In Rugby the clock stops as required.....and the match always finish on 90 mins....but not if the ball is still in play and waits till the ball goes dead.
If nobody predicts a goal in the second half then 45+10 has no real relevance except nearest or exact. I would say a compromise is needed. If somebody posts 46 mins and plymborn posts 45 mins and the goal is 45+ whatever then I would say that should be a shared nearest. If somebody posts 45 mins and it is 45+ whatever then that should be nearest result rather than exact thereby killing the advantage of multiple choice. Not a previous rule but heyho......
2-0.....F/T. Toal.....(20mins) Burstow.....(60mins) Shots at goal three,,,,,,Shots on target NIL. Joint bottom with Reading....P2...W0...D0...L2....GD minus four. Toothless and poor defending.
Well, that was what I think I can fairly describe as a pretty pathetic effort by us all. Only Plym broke double figures and then only with 10, followed by SMH and me on 7, with SMH at least having the excuse of having missed the first game. You could say Joe was the most efficient participant: he was only a few points behind the pack on zero but he didn't submit any forecasts at all and so kept up without actually expending any energy whatsoever. Smart plan. Still, it's that difficult time of year when teams' true form hasn't emerged. That's my story as regards Argyle and I'm sticking to it. For the time being. Lyndhurst got the goal time: 19 minutes forecast versus 20 actual, which, together with what this week passed as a respectable match total of 7, kept him ahead of Plym, albeit with his lead reduced to 2 points. Now, shock-horror, the next round doesn't start until Saturday 16th August, albeit at 12:30. Even more astoundingly, every single one of the games is played on that Saturday, with all games finished by 5pm. Why have the football authorities never thought of playing all the games on a Saturday afternoon before? It's so obvious, so convenient. The bad news is that we then go into another round of 12 games on the following Tuesday and Wednesday, but you can't have everything.
