OK I guess now it the right time to say "I told you so". Remember Plym and myself were the first on here to stick our neck's out and say "Fletcher out!!!" ...yes and I remember someone saying they were "surprised at me" being the first to diss our new rooky manager - no not you sensible, I think you were having doubts of your own. You have to wonder where we would be right now but for the manager switch, as late as it did come. What a difference a new manager can make, not just in league position but it the style of football being played and in the optimism of the green army, even the gates improved after Sheridan's arrival. Good move all round in my opinion but then again why was an unproved manger ever appointed in the first place given our dire position the previous season? Yeah I know MONEY! Proof that trying to save money often results in quite the opposite outcome.
Good comment Mrs LaLa.........in hindsight most people have eventually agreed that Fletcher should have gone earlier. It left me gobsmacked that he got the job at all.........Argyle in administration,...penniless,... with a rooky owner,... and no managerial experience anywhere in the club....then they give the job to a 32 year old with no idea of how to do the job. If Fletcher had been at another club that was NOT in administration and HAD reasonable finances and managerial BACK-UP to help him to do the job.....IT WOULD OF STILL BEEN A GAMBOL.......to get the job at Argyle in the state the club was in... was beyond belief and more luck than judgement that we survived that first season......to continue half way through the next season before Brent took action was an act of total stupidity. John Sheridan has brought a completely different feel to the club.......and importantly brought in some good players/loanees that helped to lift the mood and also the existing players started to grow in confidence and play to win instead of playing not to lose and failing. Optimism is now the buzz word and we all wait with anticipation for what the next day will bring forth......surely next season will not be a fight against relegation......and other clubs might find that we are not an easy knock-over anymore.
After just watching the Cup Final the better team won...Wigan.. I believe Wigan came from non league and worked it's way up to prem. i know Plymouth have a long way to go but i think with Sheridan we have a chance to move up and away from the bottom league. Let's hope so.
After just watching the Cup Final the better team won...Wigan.. I believe Wigan came from non league and worked it's way up to prem. i know Plymouth have a long way to go but i think with Sheridan we have a chance to move up and away from the bottom league. Let's hope so.
Bit of a stutter there BC? Damned machines eh!! Wigan were bankrolled though wherein lies the difference. Without that I don't think it is possible to do a Wigan these days. The rise if there is one has to be slow and continual consolidation rather than one after the other. You have to give Fletcher some credit for us staying up the first time. Call it luck if you like but you could just as easily say that Sheridan was lucky in the same way. The problem with Fletcher was that when it wasn't working, and everyone but the owner could see it wasn't, he was kept on for so long. Brent does admit to making mistakes and that he is learning. Big of him considering pretty much everyone could have told him he was at the time and did. If we go through this same old routine next season then I do think a lot of people will lose heart and give up. The support has been immense considering what has been happening. I just can't see it lasting if the struggle goes on. I have every confidence at the moment that next season at the very least will not be a relegation struggle to the end. Upper mid table is the very least. Playoff is not out of the question and outright promotion would be very nice indeed even if it is the least expected of the 3. I think Sheridan could do well here and especially if Brent actually listens to him and assists.
I'm afraid you lot are hopelessly naive when it comes to managers, forgiving anything in the first 6 months of each reign and like savages in the last 6. We had a good run in March but then slumped to 3 defeats in 4 in April and scraped to safety by one point, despite the opportunity to bring in several players. Let's see where we are in November before we start thinking about awarding the Freedom of the City. Thanks for the heads up on the Cup Final result, I won't have to watch the recording now........
You must be hopelessly naive notdistant not to realize that someone would mention that Man C had been beaten in the cup.... wouldn't be mentioned on here.. Some of us didn't wait for Fletchers first six months to pass either....we were unhappy that such a rooky could be given such an important task to do....how did he manage to get us through.....not by his experience that's for sure.
I don't think anyone is lauding Sheridan just yet. I have said I think he could do well here because, well I think he could do well. That is a long way from saying he will for sure and is the greatest thing on the planet. Considering the run in we had, which was incidentally the hardest of all of the bottom clubs, I think the results went better than should have been expected. We also had 52 points and to have gone down with that would have been almost unheard of. Hands up those who thought we even had a chance of getting that many because I didn't several times. The difference for next season is that it will be wholely Sheridan's squad with a number of new faces and loanees which are inevitable in this league. We will soon see what difference he makes then.
I hardly have to say that I'm hoping Sheridan succeeds beyond anyone's wildest dreams... but too early to say I think. I had studiously avoided the news so I could watch the Cup Final at leisure on Sunday. Never mind, I have to say the competition is so devalued that Cup Final Saturday is a shadow of what it used to be when it was played at 3 pm as the last domestic game of the season! What's all this 5 pm rubbish when I'm hard at work in the kitchen and there are still League games to play?
Television money rules.....and sets the TV schedules I'm afraid.......2-30pm Sky Sports 1 Premier Rugby Semi-Final.....12-00pm Sky Sports 2...Aston Villa v Chelsea.....2-15pm BBC 1 Rugby League... Huddersfield Giants v Leeds Rhinos. ......and the other big problem is......crappy ITV presentation will never do the same quality as BBC Sport.......it happened with the Boat Race. Also Cricket literally killed off by not being on BBC Test Match Special........all you get now is the wickets/sixs etc from other so-called TV coverage. On principal alone I will never have Sky in my home.
In regards to the FA cup I think the rot set in when the play-offs were introduced tbh. Always was the season finale but now with the play-off system season drags on longer that said chucking the FA cup in between a PL fixture day is disgraceful IMHO, totally devaluing it. As for Sheridan hope he is the answer but has not proved himself yet. To date he has managed to take a struggling team and avoid relegation..pretty sure the last manager did that as well. Only time will tell but looking at the current squad status a lot of work still to be done. Agree on the crowd too Sensible poor start and I think you take 1000 of the gate by Xmas, my eldest has told me not to bother with the season tickets this year for a start.
Tell him he has to go as a punishment for being born mexijan. Mine goes because he knows it's in the will and if he doesn't then he gets cut out. Money is power.....
All those gay abandon trips to Folkestone will soon burn the nest egg up.....plus your ferry trips to Spain sensible.....you certainly know how to have a good time.
