Plymouth match thread

Hehe.. Duff didn't shake hands with any Barnsley player then when he walked on the field..
Big month ahead in the transfer window..need players out aswell as in..

 

Their reactions during the game told you what you wanted to know . Gutless

 

That was dire, 4-0 to Plymouth wouldn’t have flattered them today. More work needed and quickly by the powers that be. Can’t try and build goodwill with the fans at a board level and then have that served up on the pitch. I appreciate we might not be the best side but it would help if the players at least tried. The players will post the usual ******** on Twitter tonight

“we go again” “Wasn’t to be today, fans were first class though”

styles is kidding himself if he thinks that’s good enough. We’ve no danger of losing him when he plays like that who’d want him. I thought the managers last season had gotten to him but today he just looked lazy.

 

Next manager

 

If the transfer window is open I've just seen 6 players i would happily push out of it and off to somewhere else.

Make it 7 .

 

L2 next season.

 

Also can people stop walking/cycling etc to our games. We always lose when they do it. It’s like a badge of honour that we seem to want to never break.

 

Basics are key. At this stage I'm nor arsed if we're pretty to watch but having players that seem to struggle with the basics is a huge concern.

 

Styles won't be going anywhere unless the owners **** themselves and accept half a mill.

 

Players to go for me:-,
Kitching
Benson
Styles
Cole
Moon(loan).
Others I have reservations about cos it's early days.

 

They can’t even find a sponsor so I’m not that confident they’ll manage to find a hidden gem of a striker to save the day. The club certainly doesn’t have the cash to splash on one and the owners seemingly aren’t willing to roll the dice on a proven player at this level. I’m not sure being that risk averse is the best strategy in football.

The club is in a real mess and our ownership model relies on income from players that increase their value when playing for us with very little initial outlay, but for that to work they need to be part of a successful, confident team, and we’re nowhere near that at the minute - the longer it goes on the worse it will get. With no passionate owner willing to dig deep into their own pockets, there’s only one direction the club can go.

If they can steady the ship this season then things might get a bit better with a more settled team. My fear is that they’ve cut their cloth a little too much and us fans will be left pinning all our hopes on a squad that isn’t quite good enough.

I’m not advocating a spend, spend, spend culture, nor do I want the club to be laden with debt, but right now it feels like there’s more chance of us dropping to the fourth tier and that would be much more catastrophic. We’ll never be self-sufficient if we’re constantly bouncing between different leagues - the margins are too drastic, but if the owners are happy to take dividends from the club when we’re doing well, they should also be willing to put some money in when we aren’t.

 

Just got back and after 10 hours driving today I can't be arsed writing much. I said I'd not judge new players who I'd never seen play a competitive game in Reds colours until half a dozen games or so, so I won't.

In general though we lack all the things we knew we lacked and have done nothing about - leadership, combativity, strength, creativity, goal threat and PACE - and absolutely nobody on that pitch today is going to provide them.

I thought Ryan Hardie and Danny Mayor (who ran the first half) were excellent for them today and the lad Azaz scored. They replaced all 3 with guys who are better up front than ought we have!

And congratulations to Liam Kitching for putting in the performance of my lifetime that least looked like a footballer, just shading Cole and Benson.

 

He was probably as disappointed and peed off as the poor buggers that travelled all that way expecting better. Cole is not the answer up front, never delivered last season and never will. He makes Victor seem like a world beater.