No Joe we had already qualified before tonight for the knock-out stage. A win tonight would have given us a home tie.
The first link is Argyle's 2 minute highlights and the second, Bristol Rovers' 10 minute highlights. I've watched the Argyle 10 minute version with a Green commentary but that's behind the ArgyleTV subscription. No doubt you'd get a quite different impression from listening the Rovers' audio so I'd turn the volume down and form your own conclusion. From text commentary last night, it seemed that Argyle had taken a bit of a beating, with constant references to shots and saves at the Argyle defensive end. Looking at the video is a bit different: yes there are shots but often the corner flag is more at risk than the goal net. Yes, Ashby-Hammond made some saves but they are very routine. In the 10 minute version, you can see that Ashby-Hammond made a terrible mistake to give Rovers their goal, but right before that, the Rovers' keeper very nearly scored an almost comical own-goal. That's been the story of recent games. The event that turned it though was the sending off. The Argyle commentary made the point that the lino, who'd have been very close to the incident on the offside line didn't flag. The ref who was some distance away and potentially behind other players did. Cleverley said it was naïve and so it was. Was it a red card though? Not for me. The attacker has hold of Szucs' arm and twists him away from the ball, without which he might well have cleared it. Szucs then does the same and gets sent off. Six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. That's been the story of recent games.
