Didn't go our way today but that's football. Dust ourselves down and get ready to go again. Long, long road ahead this season so there will be some bumps in the road and I would have gladly settled for winning four out of five to start the season. Onward and upwards HTL!!!!!!
Mundle is bloody brilliant, he won’t let anyone take a lend of him though. I see a red this season but I like his bite!
Score twice away from home and you usually take at least a point. They say you make your own luck and we did, just a shame that it was bad luck. Argyle had a couple of lucky breaks with the Ballard own goal and Patterson's parry, but I'm not going to blame any player, because they all tried to win the game, but came up short on this occasion. RLB will make sure that they learn from this game, so I expect we will see a positive reaction against Boro next week.
RLB will probably have learned more from this game than any of the others and I trust him to put things right. Roared on by a packed home crowd, I expect us to take the game to the team from the small town in Yorkshire like we did against the small town in Lancashire and emerge victorious. We can't play well every week and a full weeks preparation without the disruption of Internationals will make all the difference.# Still Top
Bet over the road is on meltdown! Some of the twitter comments man! 1 loss in 5 games and the world ends! Not seen any of it, but seems we helped them quite O the next one
Exactly. You can't just substitute players after ten or fifteen minutes if something isn't working ... ... this isn't a computer game. Some people are saying it's a reality check. It's all reality, just as the first four games were reality. Winning, losing and drawing are all real, they're just different.
Watched it back this morning. We were really poor. It wasnt bad luck or anything. Individual players were not doing their jobs and RLB didn't react to Plymouth changes at half time or in game, quick enough. A good side would have exploited us much more. We lacked a presence up front and the midfield got swamped. Ballard looked poor and is now out for a while with another injury. Regular occurrence these days. Needs to be more robust otherwise he would get the PL move. Browne needs to be in now I feel. Rigg to the bench. Looked all of the 17 years yday and lost his tactical discipline. Would start Wilson too.
Poor result, fully expected us to win, not too concerned just a bad day at the office, more than happy with our start to the season and fully expect us to get back on track next week. Thanks again RTB
We are really ringing the changes after that one! Intriguing to see what Le Bris does. I didn't see the game and I've just watched the highlights; Can't see the fault in Patta for the first. Ballard had a head loss it seemed. Fairplay to Mundle, really contributing. Patta not saving that follow up was poor. Sad sign with Ballard injured in my opinion. Thats now two arguable starters out for months, more than likely. Hopefully Mepham is robust. Gonna be a real funny one against boro, because I think Mepham and Samed might both make starts. It's a bold one, but I'm thinking Jobe, Browne and Samed.
Perhaps he should have been a little selfish and pulled out of the call up for the international matches to ease himself back in , playing these two matches close together won’t have been a help toward his recovery . Realise playing for your country is a honour but looking after your body for the long term is more important .
we have missed him much more than I thought we would. Back 4 looked much more balanced with him in, esp as he wins the foot race every time. Feels like Ballard has been trying too hard trying to impress, back from injury and we’re not as fluent. Let’s see what Mepham brings vs Boro
I think we also need give Plymouth some credit. They have been improving every week, we’d spoken on here about that pre game. They proper went for it and tried to win the game and you can’t fault them for that. We have to be better but if that’s a bad performance then it’s far better than the bad performances last season, if that means anything. You concede 3 you generally lose. We probably don’t concede 3 with Mepham. 12 from 15 remains a magnificent start.
Both goals Ballard looked out of control and not thinking clearly. Didn’t he have a run out with U21s and not look at his best either or I might be mis-remembering.
Each to their own, honestly don’t think it was that bad, more a case of the defence and keeper making individual mistakes. I thought Mayenda was lively all game, pinned their centre halves a number of times from throw ins and spun in behind, one resulted in a decent chance for Rigg and another he was unlucky from a tight angle when Roberts fed him in as well as he’d beaten his man for pace easily. If Browne is to come in I’d actually revert to the Pompey starting 11, don’t think Dan Neil is quite hitting the level yet and Jobe played that role well at Fratton Park.
