We are doomed before we start. Remember the Stockport game and the officials I drew attention to before the game. Well Sam Fudge is back as a lino again. He was terrible last time and lived up to his name. Will still say we can win this but I will whisper it quietly. COYG
Hazard...Ross...Wiredu...Edwards...Tolaj...Mumba...Mitchell...Oseni...Boateng...McCabe...Ibrahim. Subs. Ashby-Hammond...Paterson...Benarous...Galloway...Pepple...Sorinola...Finn. The return of Mitchell and Ibrahim.....plus Edwards back as captain. Reasonably strong starting eleven.
.................................................Hazard ................Wiredu.......................Ross.........................Mitchell ............Edwards.........McCabe...............Boateng..........Mumba ............................Ibrahim............................Oseni ................................................Tolaj
1-2.....F/T Tolaj...(6mins).....................Bugiel...(44mins) ...........................................Browne...(52mins) Another disappointing home game. 20th and one point above the relegation places.
This game started badly before a ball was kicked .Wimbledon won the toss and elected to make Argyle attack the Devonport End in the first half. That didn’t seem to matter when after only 4 minutes, Tolaj was put through the middle. Not for an instant did a single Argyle fan think he’d miss, I don’t suppose that he thought he’d miss it either. Calm strike to the bottom right corner. Keeper like.a rabbit in the headlights. 1-0. That’s pretty much the end of the good news. Fans criticise the referee at every game but this one was truly bizarre. If there was a common thread between his many strange decisions I think was cowardice rather than incompetence. Rather than give an awkward decision like a penalty, he’d prefer to say that a forward had deliberately fouled the defender even though the defender was behind him and a trip would have required not one but several double-jointed limbs. Theee were many strange decisions but I’m convinced Argyle should have had a penalty while at 1-0 when Oseni (?) was brought down Wimbledon made it hard for Argyle. They pressed as a unit and defended as a unit. I said that our problem was not scoring goals but keeping them out. I thought we defended poorly. I’m not going to point fingers but too many times we let unremarkable situations develop into real threats I appreciate we weee trying to win but attack v defence can’t be an either-or choice.
