Guess what this match is? ................ Yep you've got it, it's a must win. (thought I'd save someone a post) What excitement this end of season is with all the drama. COYG
You've failed....this is definately a must win game.....If we win our last three games that would give us 49pts....it might be enough....that can't be denied.
Hopefully we can stay in the Championship .. I will be predicting whatever happens all the way from Canada.
Hazard, Mumba, Pleguezuelo, Szucs, Hardie, Bundu, Gyabi, Randell, Katic Tijani, Palsson. Subs Grimshaw, Ogbeta, Wright, Puchacz, Boateng, Al Hajj, Baidoo, Roberts, Issaka.
................................................Hazard .....................Szucs...................Katic.................Pleguezuelo ......Palsson.........Randell...................Gyabi.................Mumba ................Hardie....................Tijani....................Bundu
2-1...H/T Bundu....(40mins)..............Wright....(45mins) Hardie....(43mins) Flurry of goals before H/T. Cardiff & Luton drawing....but Derby winning. Our last day opponents Leeds thrashing Stoke 5-0 at H/T
3-1....FT Bundu.....(40mins)...(65mins)...............Wright...(45mins) Hardie...(43mins) Three good points for Argyle. BUT....Hull, Luton & Derby also win.
Another much better performance from Argyle, defensively especially, but with a decent goal threat too. We could all have done without the goal conceded just before half time which made the first part of the second half a bit tense but I think we deserved the victory against a play-off chasing team. As you say through, other results haven’t gone our way……
We do now have a Mirom Muslic song of sorts. You may have to fill parts of it in with “la la la” bits but basically it’s: We’re walking in a Muslic wonderland, we’re walking in a Muslic wonderland We used to be ****e but now we’re alright Walking in a Muslic wonderland Well deserved.
First up lets get the norm out of the way. The Ref was crap as per usual. Second we did deserve the win even if we were not Barcelona. The main thing I wanted to mention was the standard of the oposition. The last two games I have witnessed have been firstly a team looking for auto promotion who have been at the top of the league all season. The second team is one in supposed good form and looking to book a playoff place. Both in my opinion have been mediocre at best. Sheff U were just plain physical bullying types who never much looked like winning here even if they did take the lead. Coventry were just not interested for most of the time and seemed to be going through the motions. Neither were very good to be honest and I fail to see why either are at the top end of the table and we are at the botom. I watched the televised game today and Sheffield were the same as they were here. How they get away with fouling as they seem to is beyond me. We get a red card for a non foul and their man takes a player out deliberately by kicking his legs and gets a yellow. The Officials need to get a proper grip, do their job with fairness and punish properly what should be punished instead of favouring bigger clubs.
I agree with you on the standard of the officials. It’s pointless though: they’re useless and I think they judge the teams at bottom (us) as homicidal maniacs and those at the top as classical artists. I mean the lino on our side so obviously missed a touch by one of theirs in the first half down in the Lyndhurst/Deport corner from a distance of 2 feet as to make one vomit. Goals get conceded from corners and teams get relegated. Players lose their contracts and their wives. FFS get a pair of glasses. If I can see it at my age, you can. I’m coming around to your thoughts on the penalty in mid-week too. He has the choice of a shot at an angle or a pen…. Yeah. But we weren’t bad at all… not pretty but getting better. Last 12…. home and away… we’re 13th.
I sit almost directly above where that lino decision was made notdistant. He wasn't even 2 foot away unless you are taking his height into account. That was not the first lino decision of that callibre this season either. He was however quite decent on offsides. Coventry player on their left wing timed his runs very very well. He shoud have as he had loads of practice in the first half being left in acres of space. I said before in respoinse to something plymborn posted. Form is over the season not a selected section of it so it matters not where we would be in a section of a dozen games. At least we are having a say in the leagues season even if we are still favourites to take the fall.
Well it is significant when you’ve had a change of manager. There are usually calls for a manager to be sacked when a team Is relegated, so would it be justified in this case? We’re not so pretty to watch but we are collecting points. I don’t know if this is the type of football he likes or whether he’s looked at the players at his disposal and made the most of it, but it’s working. https://www.twtd.co.uk/league-tables/competition:championship/form/matches:12/type:home-and-away/ If we’re considerably higher over 12 than we are over 44 then something must be improving. Bearing in mind he’s had no influence over the players at the club and has to work with what he’s got. I think he’s done a good job in the circumstances.
When Miron Muslic took over we had 20pts from 25 games.....so Miron has accumulated 23pts in 19 games...which is approx 1.21 pts per game....or over a season works out to approx 55.68 pts.....enough to be beyond the drop of the bottom three......add into that equation well over a hundred lost playing days through injuries over the length of a season for the squad......which put it into perspective meant......that we would have been a lower Championship league team.....not a relegation fighting team.
My point exactly. Another thing Muslic has had to contend with is that he wasn't here for pre-season, so he's had to learn about the players and come up with a team and tactics in the heat of battle. On top of that, Rooney DID have a pre-season but still didn't seem to have a clue how to compete in this league, so Muslic inherited a bugger's muddle from him.
Wayne Rooney should have a neon flashing danger man badge stuck to his forehead when ever he gets within a 100 yards of a football clubs turnstiles ......plus having to drag around an old war2 air raid siren at full volume . It's a shame really because he was a likable character who had time for everyone and had no airs and graces about his past playing career......he just needs a few years sitting at the feet of an experienced manager to learn his managerial trade.....I could see him back at Everton learn from someone like David Moyes....who is 61 yrs old....he could do worse......he needs to stay away from the punditary because he is not the right calibre for a TV career. Moyes was unlucky to inherit the Man U job when Ferguson retired....after roughly a quarter of a century of incredible success....no following manager could take up such reins and continue seamlessly without hitting the buffers.....Moyes was lost for a few years after that failed.....but he did well at West Ham (another hard job) and is looking forward to next season in Everton's new stadium....having changed their poor showing of recent years......a difficult job when Liverpool our back at their best.
Funnily enough Mirom Muslic has said as much when asked specifically if he thought Argyle would be in this situation if he'd been manager from Day 1. https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/sport/football/miron-muslic-makes-plymouth-argyle-10122832 He doesn't lack belief in himself and his staff (who he mentions) and a manager has to believe in himself before he's going to able to convince a squad of players. I think he's absolutely right: we wouldn't be in this situation.
