I woke up this morning and wondered why the nightmare hadn't gone away....and then it slowly dawned on me that it hadn't been a nightmare of my time asleep....but a real thing that happened to me and all other Argyle supporters last evening......that are club...which not so long ago were 12th in Div 1 and in the top half of the league.....had actually been relegated in the last moments of the season.....it all started to come back to me.....I had been sitting here...like I am now watching this very screen....Argyle had won and were tied on 50pts with Southend and Wimbledon but with an inferior goal difference....both their games were still playing in added on injury time....we just needed Bradford or promotion candidates Sunderland to score a goal.
My screen told me that the Bradford v Wimbledon game had finished....no joy for us there.....and believe it or not there was only one game not finished....the Southend v Sunderland match....I clicked on to that game....Southend had been the better team all match and in the dying moments they were still on top....and the damn play was down the Sunderland end...Southend also were given a free kick in the attacking half...it then dawned on me that there wasn't a chance in hell of Sunderland being in a position to even have a shot on goal let alone score.....and then it showed full time....we were down.
Sunderland I had down in my predictions for a win....rarely beaten all season....they looked a good banker for a win and at the worst a draw.....we only needed to win to stay up.....easy peasy or so it seemed....just needed Argyle to win....that was the only worry.....how wrong can you be.....all afternoon I had been willing Bradford and Sunderland to do the business and both let us down....that's the problem when you have to depend on others to get you out of an hole.
Derek Adams the messiah...or so it seemed....season one we reached the play-offs.....season two the play-offs again...disappointment at Wembley.....Season three and promotion...literally all season in a promotion slot and only lost the title at the last moment to Portsmouth....the only time they were ever top.
So Adams top man...had to make sure he wasn't poached....so give him a 5 year contract and let him run every aspect of PAFC's football set-up....if anyone wanted to take him away it would cost them.
In hindsight was that a good move, to give him a long contract and in control of everything....maybe that showed a lack of football know-how at Boardroom level....when things started unravelling should they have acted sooner....when our fate was still in our hands.....Adams transfer selections became obviously lacking especially in defence (80 goals conceded).
Adams post match comments at times didn't always ring true to what the majority of supporters saw on the pitch and he was so set in how he wanted his team to play and switching to a plan 2 was like getting blood out of a stone.
Were the Boardroom right to sack him with one game left....yes... we won.. although our fate was out of our own hands......in hindsight he should have been sacked weeks ago when our fate was still in our hands.....we should have easily been in mid-league.
Hindsight is a wonderful gift....looking back being the experts that we are we would have done ok.
So what is the future Manager wise....player wise etc, etc....so much to talk about....but more importantly so much for PAFC to sort out in the coming weeks.
My screen told me that the Bradford v Wimbledon game had finished....no joy for us there.....and believe it or not there was only one game not finished....the Southend v Sunderland match....I clicked on to that game....Southend had been the better team all match and in the dying moments they were still on top....and the damn play was down the Sunderland end...Southend also were given a free kick in the attacking half...it then dawned on me that there wasn't a chance in hell of Sunderland being in a position to even have a shot on goal let alone score.....and then it showed full time....we were down.
Sunderland I had down in my predictions for a win....rarely beaten all season....they looked a good banker for a win and at the worst a draw.....we only needed to win to stay up.....easy peasy or so it seemed....just needed Argyle to win....that was the only worry.....how wrong can you be.....all afternoon I had been willing Bradford and Sunderland to do the business and both let us down....that's the problem when you have to depend on others to get you out of an hole.
Derek Adams the messiah...or so it seemed....season one we reached the play-offs.....season two the play-offs again...disappointment at Wembley.....Season three and promotion...literally all season in a promotion slot and only lost the title at the last moment to Portsmouth....the only time they were ever top.
So Adams top man...had to make sure he wasn't poached....so give him a 5 year contract and let him run every aspect of PAFC's football set-up....if anyone wanted to take him away it would cost them.
In hindsight was that a good move, to give him a long contract and in control of everything....maybe that showed a lack of football know-how at Boardroom level....when things started unravelling should they have acted sooner....when our fate was still in our hands.....Adams transfer selections became obviously lacking especially in defence (80 goals conceded).
Adams post match comments at times didn't always ring true to what the majority of supporters saw on the pitch and he was so set in how he wanted his team to play and switching to a plan 2 was like getting blood out of a stone.
Were the Boardroom right to sack him with one game left....yes... we won.. although our fate was out of our own hands......in hindsight he should have been sacked weeks ago when our fate was still in our hands.....we should have easily been in mid-league.
Hindsight is a wonderful gift....looking back being the experts that we are we would have done ok.
So what is the future Manager wise....player wise etc, etc....so much to talk about....but more importantly so much for PAFC to sort out in the coming weeks.
