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Discussion in 'Plymouth' started by Plymborn, Nov 19, 2025.

  1. Plymborn

    Plymborn Well-Known Member
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    Rumours on pasoti that Cleverley has resigned....and an emergency board meeting is taking place.

    Must state that this is only a rumour about Cleverley...but those in the club have stated that a board meeting is happening.
     
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    Northampton a very average side....but they where organised and disciplined.....everything that Argyle are not.
     
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    No one seems to know if Cleverley is going or staying....typical of PAFC at the moment.
     
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    Watch game video.....and watched Tom Cleverley post match chat.....all a bit depressing.....I do feel sorry for Cleverley......the problems that the club is going through at the moment would be hard work for an experienced successful manager........Cleverley is still learning his trade and didn't need this job on his portfolio.....just too difficult for him.

    Rather chaotic after the match with reports of Cleverley resigning and of an emergency board meeting going on.......what a mess.....just need some good luck to come our way.
     
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    Absolute load of balony that anyone should feel sorry for Cleverley. You can see a mile off that the players have no confidence and that HAS to be down to the manager. That is his job above all things to instill confidence and Cleverley has no idea how or what to do. That is the basic task of amanager and if he can't do it then he has no business trying to immitate a football manager in the first place.
     
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    Tom Cleverley surely cannot last much longer......when the ill founded rumour that he had resigned was messaged on pasoti after the 0-3 humiliation result......a great hope started to spring up and so many people started to post with this hope in their hearts that the nightmare was ending.

    Then their hope was scotched as not true....and Cleverley did his post match interview that allowed the clouds to cover over all the hope that had sprung up.........the only result now can be his resigning or his sacking to save the day.

    When Tolaj reacted to his shirt being pulled....the frustration of the green army spilled over.....and as he walked around the ground he was actually being applauded.

    Watching the end of the match video was rather telling......the aisles where full of leaving greens who couldn't wait for the final whistle......the team had actually left the field when they went one nil down.
     
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    Many morons who don't have the wit to realise:
    1. Sacking a head coach right before a transfer window is likely to hinder rather than help.
    2. Sacking a head coach will mean a period without anyone at the helm which is unlikely to help results.
    3. Sacking a manager costs money which could otherwise be spent on players.
    4. The last transfer window (when we had no head coach) was largely to blame. We recruited players with promise but little experience and assumptions were made about playing style. We have a surfeit of centre backs and no conventional full backs other than Joe Edwards for example, so we cannot play a traditional Back 4.
     
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    Sacking a head coach before a transfer window is a sign of hope....and might attract new signings in January.....going into a transfer window with a failing head coach will not attract ANY decent signings......in fact Freda the tea trolley lady would be hard to replace at the moment....those that really care about Argyle would have hoped that this failing head coach would have been gone a month ago....it's all about the heavy anchor chain of a three year contract that we had handed out so easily to a inexperienced coach.......Simon Hallett has done some great things for the club in his 7 years.....but his lack of football experience is starting to show up badly.....and with him owning nearly all the shares in the club....there is no easy solution.
     
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