Plymouth post match reflections

[mellowmiller]

Let’s cut this “if only you knew” nonsense. If you have some knowledge share it, otherwise it’s wearing very thin.

Fact is, he’s had a lower budget than previous managers BUT he’s still had a fairly competitive budget for this level, and certainly higher that the league table position. He’s signed some pure rubbish with that budget and he has failed to sign anything up front.

The blame does not entirely rest with MH. TS is running this club into the floor. But the combination is damaging. I don’t know where we go from here. No point sacking the manager as anyone coming in would have the same support.

"If you have some knowledge share it" you said.
Would you like to share with us have the details you apparently have about the "fairly competitive budget for this level" because, as far as I'm aware, the club hasn't put them in the public domain?

[Andy1968]

There's not going to be many goals scored without a goal scorer for the offence to focus on. The hysterical reaction after Wednesday isn't as bad today thank goodness but we desperately need two strikers who know where the net is to replace Etete and Sherif who have never been consistently fit. Given those two strikers Wednesday and today we could have had all six points. Imagine the season with a fit threesome as above plus Nombe. It would look so so different. I bang the same drum and it seems like excuses but how can any team do anything with just Hugill up there and today young Josh Ayres who isn't going to do much for us yet. Hardly the dynamic duo.

[Back of the net]

There's not going to be many goals scored without a goal scorer for the offence to focus on. The hysterical reaction after Wednesday isn't as bad today thank goodness but we desperately need two strikers who know where the net is to replace Etete and Sherif who have never been consistently fit. Given those two strikers Wednesday and today we could have had all six points. Imagine the season with a fit threesome as above plus Nombe. It would look so so different. I bang the same drum and it seems like excuses but how can any team do anything with just Hugill up there and today young Josh Ayres who isn't going to do much for us yet. Hardly the dynamic duo.

Who signed the 2 forwards who are injured?
Who resigned Kyodie?
Who resigned J Holmes?
Who signed Benson who is injured again?
Who signed Yearwood who has been injured?
People talk like he’s inherited the injured players.
All his signings.
Why drop Douglas?
Why keep putting Powell on set pieces?
Why keep getting Dawson to hoof it?

[Andy1968]

Who signed the 2 forwards who are injured?
Who resigned Kyodie?
Who resigned J Holmes?
Who signed Benson who is injured again?
Who signed Yearwood who has been injured?
People talk like he’s inherited the injured players.
All his signings.
Why drop Douglas?
Why keep putting Powell on set pieces?
Why keep getting Dawson to hoof it?

Agreed. Set pieces not beating first man and the hoofing it points are outrageous problems and should have been sorted by now. There's plenty that ought to be better but the loss of the goal scorers leaving just Hugil has given us little chance to be any kind of force.

I maintain we have some good players and the team as a whole would play with greater tempo but there's no pace up top, no channels run etc. so a lot of our offence stalls and gets frustratingly recycled sideways and back. For all the forward department to be out at the same time for so long will be soul destroying for the manager too. We've got to try to support through gritted teeth as times as it's our club and hope that the Jan window gives us what Nombe Sherif Etete and JJ haven't. Consistent fitness and accompanying goals that would definitely have come from the brief times we've seen them. There'll still be plenty of points to play for Jan onwards and this division is so poor who knows where we'll finish with goal scorers available.

[Derbymiller]

I thought it only applied if he had been suspended in the Blackpool game.

Hope you are right, because we need him.

[caytonmiller]

I thought it only applied if he had been suspended in the Blackpool game.

It was. Reset after that

[CAMiller]

Hope you are right, because we need him.

Pippy is right. Once he survived Wednesday's game he bought time for another 18 games. He had lost his head late on againt Blackpool after their 3td goal and the captain had a word with him to remind him.

5 in 19 = 1 match ban
10 in 37 = 2 match ban
15 = 3 match ban

[RU66]

Only watched brief highlights from yesterday but everything looks same from the Blackpool game never look like scoring Kaleta cutting inside which isn't my idea of a wide player. Don't hold much hope out in the January window if we're only going to get a loan forward in won't have been playing so be daja vu from the summer.

[Jocksgloves1]

One of those games where you wonder why you actually watch the sport. Niggly, time-wasting, Ref giving random decisions. Keeper even went down twice!. One shot on goal each. Couldn't tell whether ours was over the line due to the camera behind the goal being at the far end of the High Street.
Ref ducked the penalty disicion probably because there was a lot of home fans. At least Dawson doesn't appear to have been blamed on here for the goal, but I suppose it's early doors yet.
Why is Footy mad making it harder and harder to view the site. Endless waiting for Robot checks. Massive, intrusive adverts, now a return to the 1990s format . At least it is on my device.

[NorthWestCorner]

"If you have some knowledge share it" you said.
Would you like to share with us have the details you apparently have about the "fairly competitive budget for this level" because, as far as I'm aware, the club hasn't put them in the public domain?

In posting this, I can predict your response, however both PD and MH said at the start of the season the following:

https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.u...udget-5198629#

It doesn?t specifically prove the point I made but it very much points to a competitive budget. Unless of course you think PW didn?t have one during his tenure.