I've started this thread early because I've just read on the Beeb football site that Mansfield have today parted company with their Manager. I know we had a reputation of "play Plymouth and change your Manager straight after" but have we now started a trend of change them before the match? Is this good news for us or bad?
Have to report this one because I think this is quite a laugh..... Comment on pasoti regarding this parting of the ways. The question was posed much the same as mine regarding possible impact on tomorrows game. Funny response "Good. It is probably just as well in case the Mansfield fans started chanting "Cox out" at the match and some sections of the crowd took it literally". Ever wish there was a comment you'd thought of first?
Massively disappointing and I think the sacking of their manager did play a part in this. Argyle still flatter to deceive don't they. Listened to some of the match and it did sound as if Mansfield wanted it a lot more today.
According to pasoti there was a bit of crowd trouble today with some from the away end fighting with the Police. Anyone know what that was all about and has anyone seen or heard from Mrs Jools today?
O'er......I know she can get a bit on the stroppy side sometimes. You don't think she's...........in custardy.
Good morning gentlemen just to let you know it wasn't me I was at the theatre watching "The Full Monty" and they didn't leave their hats on .... was supposed to be a group of 50 year old men. Whether they were Argyle fans remains to be seen as there were Mansfield fans in the away end !
Apparently it was Argyle fighting the Police ..... they were trying to eject a pissed up fan (that's fair enough) but were rather heavy handed in doing it and were nearly breaking the man's neck !
A disappointing result at Mansfield yesterday.....but Sheridan was supportive of his teams efforts....although they didn't perform well. Of course sacking your manager the day before a match could have had an adverse effect on the players.....or rally the players to play out of their skins for a future manager to notice. Reading some of the reports it does seem that Mansfield wanted it more.....and won with a simple over the top and lobbing the goalkeeper moment just on half-time. Mid-field seems to be the weak link in Argyles set-up.....just not enough goals being generated from there. I see that Bobby Reid has managed only five minutes (since returning) off the subs bench, coming on yesterday in the 85th minute......Bristol City have gone from being undefeated this season to losing three on the trot.....but still top of Div1......losing to, "I'm only down here on a walking holiday boss man" who is in charge at Preston....they are now 3rd in that division. We definately miss Bobby Reid in our mid-field.....Sheridan needs to address the problem quickly....waiting till January might be too late..........with Bristol City losing, Bobby Reid will not be returning to Home Park that's for sure. Banton did seem to be a bit perkier yesterday when he came on.....maybe he could unlock defences from mid-field.....that would help to solve the problem.....of course it would need him to be far more consistant than he has shown second time around......all to do with confidence I expect and being injury free. Watched Championship football yesterday at the Valley.....in front of a 19000 crowd.....Millwall brought an away stand full of support....guessing maybe 3/4000 fans....hard to tell....and there was no obvious crowd problems......30/40yrs ago there would be a regular riot at Millwall matches....home or away.....my son took his 9yr old son and 6yr old.daughter....you wouldn't have done that back then....or taken a female at all. Comparing it with the only other game I've seen this season (Wimbledon) I couldn't say that the quality was any better to my view.....poor passing....no obvious forward threat from either side during the whole match......Charlton should have scored in the 94th minute....but Millwall did well to keep the ball out of the net. FREE Fans Trust magazines being offered to everyone.....they call their Trust......the Charlton Athletic Supporters Trust...."CAST"....in short.......magazine comes out four times a season....quite a good read....plenty of pictures and articles.....24 pages of glossy paper production......issue No7. Would have been nice for the AFT to offer exiles a magazine if they are trust members......I would have been willing to pay the postage.....by the way was the AFT magazine free our did they charge for it ?
I don't go along with this midfield thing Plym. Last weekend you would have been forgiven for thinking Argyle's team were playing several leagues below their own station and the midfield was not a problem at all. Infact we were all shouting how Bobby wasn't missed at all after we thought he would be. That performance just showed what the ones left were capable of and if they can produce it one week then they can replicate it every week. Simple fact is it's consistency that we need not a new midfield. I think Mansfield responded positively to the manager sacking rather than it killing them. We could have done with playing them last week and not this but it doesn't give our team an excuse to go missing.
Unlikely we'll get an eye-witness view but it seemed from the stats as though we steamrollered Mansfield for the first 25 minutes or so. I think 8 of our 10 recorded goal attempts were in that period and it didn't appear that Mansfield were getting a look in. Unlike the Portsmouth game though we didn't get the early goal and paid for it. Maybe there's something there for Sheridan to think about. Maybe a bit of caution to start with would pay off in away games. If we start at storm force 10 in every game perhaps there isn't the stamina, mental or physical, left for later on. We had to lose one eventually but it was a rather odd game to do it in. Given recent form, you'd have thought a point was the minimum to expect.
That's where I agree with bedoboy and say it isn't that odd a game to lose for Argyle at all. How many times have we won the impossible league wise and then lost the easy fixture. As long as I can remember that has happened with us. We played a load of teams from the top half of the table and won/didn't lose most of them. We start a bit of a sequence of lower teams fixtures and lose the first one. Classic Plymouth. We do have to remember that this is one match and it is by no means a trend at the moment. Where we are reminded not to get carried away with a win or two in the same vein we shouldn't get carried away in the opposite direction with one loss.
