Plymouth's Pilgrims

Plymouth Argyle V Birmingham

2008-12-10T12:25:00.002Z

I must admit this is the first home game I have been to this season and what a game it was.
Living in Bristol and supporting Plymouth it sometimes isn't easy to plan time to get to the matches. I will be going to the Boxing Day match against Southampton which I am really looking forward to. Let's hope I see a win.

I not sure who completes the sats of football games but whoever did this one must have been watching a different one to the one I saw last night.
Plymouth dominated the first half and the second half was more 50/50.
You can see from the shots on and off target and the number of corners, Plymouth were all over them.
The number of fouls in the chart doesn't reflect the decisions the ref did not give because if it did Birmingham would have been into double figures.

All that said, it was a good game and Plymouth were very unlucky not to have won by at least two goals.

Slow Start As Usual

2008-09-03T23:14:00.003+01:00

Well Plymouth Argyle have got off to their usual slow start to the new season but are things about to change?

I've just seen this poster on a web site and just wish I could have gone to the match instead of on holiday to Turkey. Well maybe not. I can always see them when I'm back.

Good Luck Bristol City

2008-05-21T00:27:00.004+01:00

Seems a long time to wait untill I can watch Plymouth playing footy again so I have to be content with watching other teams.

Tomorrow we have Man U and Chelsea and then on Saturday we have Hull and Bristol City.

Plymouth have beaten both Hull and Bristol in the last season so I can't help wonder why we're not there, playing at Wembley.

The last day of the Championship games was quite a thriller and I expect the next season will be no different.

As I live in Bristol and must admit to going to watch city on more than one occaions, I'll be with friends in London watching the match in a pub near Wembley. I won't be wearing a red shirt but I'll be singing along with them and cheering if they score.

Good Luck to all my Bristol City friends. Just think, if you win you won't have to worry about being beaten by Plymouth Argyle for at least one season!

10 Men and The Ref? Argyle v Charlton

2008-04-06T16:18:00.003+01:00

There's no way we can lose this now, was my thoughts as I saw the Charlton goal keeper handle the ball outside the area only 3 minutes after kick off. How wrong was I?

I felt for the Charlton fans, knowing how I would have been feeling if it was our keeper that had been sent off, but my feelings of excitement at a possible 3 or even 4 goals soon took over.

Although we had most of the play in the first half the teams went in without scoring.

Charlton decided the way forward for them was to waste time and at every opportunity this is what they did. When the fourth official's board only said 4 added minutes I couldn't believe it. Obviously he had been napping for most of the half.

Easter was the first to break the dead lock between the teams with a goal for Argyle in the 60th minute. Outwardly I was ecstatic but inwardly I was worried. Plymouth have this horrible habit of falling asleep just after they score and my worries were justified as Charlton got hold of the ball and put it past our keeper, who had gone out to collect the ball but had missed it, just 5 minutes later.

Charlton were now looking the better team and with just 10 men (and the ref the crowd sung) they scored again in the 76th minute all due to a mistake by our keeper who let the ball slip out of his hands for Lita to tap in into the back of the net.

All in all a disappointing game and one we should have won and in fact needed to win if we were going to be in any hope of reaching the play-offs.

Plymouth's next game isn't until the 14th when we play Sheffield Wednesday. Let's hope we can do better then as the whole nation will be able to watch the game live on Sky.

COME ON YOU GREENS!

2008-03-30T11:55:00.006+01:00

Yesterday's result was very disappointing.

We can beat Bristol city.

We can draw with Watford.

But we lose to Coventry. It doesn't make sense.

We are now down to 8th place, out of the play offs, and the 4 teams directly above us all have at least one game in hand. Is this the end of our hopes for at least a chance to go up into the premiership?

Bristol City have moved back to the top but will they be able to stay there since WBA have 2 games in hand and are 4 points behind them.

Hull seem to have come up on the quiet and are only 2 points off the top with Stoke just 1 point off.

There are only 12 points between 10th place and the top so it's still anyone's for the taking. Lets just hope Argyle can get their act together in time for next weeks match against Charlton and take us back up there again.

I'll be there with my daughter, cheering them on with the rest of the Green Army in block 19.

COME ON YOU GREENS!

2008-03-20T12:29:00.004Z

I can't wait for this match.

I'll never forget the last time I saw the two teams playing. Although Watford won, even their fans said they were boring to watch! Once they had scored the match was over, 10 men behind the ball doesn't make a very interesting watch.

Bristol City V Plymouth Argyle In Pictures

2008-03-16T10:36:00.016Z

I was just reading the posts on 606 and found a good link to the highlights of the match and most of the Championship matches. I don't know how long the link will work so sorry if you are already too late.

On the same site they feature Championship Golden Moment 19th March This is Plymouth Argyle!

What's Up In The Camp?

2008-03-12T01:10:00.003Z

Well that's the second match we've lost to teams near the bottom of the league and to think we have the top team next!

They do say the bigger they are, the harder they fall and I'm sure that will be the case this Saturday when Plymouth Argyle meet Bristol City at Ashton Gate.

I know the ground well as I used to go and watch them last season when we weren't in the same league. They were a good team then and an even better one now, but not a match for our boys. We will come out confident and ready to take the 3 points back with us, down the M5, to sunny Devon.

I'll be going for a drink with my friends, City supporters, where we used to meet up last season before the games. The Robins pub, I think it may have changed it's name now, is friendly and I often saw supports from the away team in there without any trouble at all.

Lets hope it's still the same now.

At last

2008-03-04T20:18:00.006Z

Angekommen, arrivato, arrive,, 着かれる, 도착하는, chegado, llegado, وصل, 到达, aangekomen, προσεγγισμένος, приезжано,

They have ARRIVED.

My tickets for the Bristol City v Plymouth match have, at last, popped through the door!

Not a Good Day For The Pilgrims

2008-03-02T13:13:00.004Z

Well that wasn't too good was it? A 3-0 defeat to WBA and back down to 7th place in the league.

The night before the match I was talking to someone up the pub, who is a Bristol City supporter, and he told me we should be happy with a point each from the next day’s games.

I, being always the optimist, said 'No. We will both get 3 points. Both teams have a good chance of winning'. Well I was 50% right. Bristol City have gone top with a 2-1 win over Hull. They need Stoke to lose today to keep their place. They have QPR, whose manager; Tony Pulis has just been named Championship manager of the month.

Fingers crossed for City.

Well they've just kicked off so I'm off to watch the match.

Before I had a chance to post this QPR have scored. Looking good for City to keep their place.

All I did was went to find a picture to post on here and they've scored again!

2-0 to QPR now.

2008-02-29T19:49:00.001Z

The Watford ones have arrived but no sign of the Bristol City ones. Looks like we have to wait until the day of the match to find out where we will be sitting.

Tickets, Tickets Have You Seen Them?

2008-02-28T19:35:00.007Z

I must have spoken too soon about my tickets, they haven't arrived!

Telephoned the booking line today and they told me they have been posted so where are they?

The lady, who must be new because she had no clue what would happen if they didn't arrive, went off to ask someone. She came back on the line to tell me to phone the day before the match if they still hadn't arrived then they would issue me with duplicates. I told her that would be no good to me as I lived in Bristol and didn't want to chance not receiving them. She went off to ask advice again. She then said it would be Bristol City that would issue the tickets and I would be able to collect them from Ashton Gate on the day of the match. All well and good as long as the ticket office isn't in the home end!

I'll have to keep a look out for both sets of tickets. I have this strange feeling that if they don't arrive someone else could be sat in our seats.

I also took the opportunity to buy 2 tickets for the Watford game which is a home game for us. It's on the 22nd March, the Saturday in-between the two Easter bank holidays.

I saw Watford at Home Park last season in a cup match but we lost that 1-0 and Watford played a very boring game. I hope this one will be more exciting

I've Got Mine!

2008-02-26T10:46:00.003Z

Were you thinking of going to the Bristol City match?
Do you already have your ticket?
No?

Never mind I'll tell you all about it.

Yes, tickets for away fans, that's us, are already sold out nearly 3 weeks before the game.

It's going to be a good game me thinks!

2008-02-26T02:34:00.001Z

Plymouth Argyle Team Photo 2008

Reason's to be Cheerful - Not Today

2008-02-25T23:29:00.004Z

I've just noticed the below on the BBC website HERE

Argyle make record financial loss

Plymouth Argyle made a record financial loss of £714,522 in the year to May 2007, almost double last year's losses.

Chairman Paul Stapleton says the high wages demanded by players in the Championship has increased expenditure.

"While turnover has increased by almost £1m there has been a significant increase in the wages paid for players," he said.

Falling gates have also contributed, with Argyle's average attendance 13,012, 3,500 less than four years ago.

The accounts show that Argyle made a loss of £311,720 for the year to May 2007, with transfer fees adding another £402,802 on top of that.

"It is essential that we do our best to encourage supporters to come to our games and also look to increase our non-match day revenue," Stapleton added.

But the club did purchase the freehold to Home Park during the accounting period and Stapleton is hopeful it will enable the club to increase future profits as the club are now in control of the stadium.

"This major transaction for the football club has now enabled us to push forward with our plans for the redevelopment of the South Stand," he said.

Come on people get down there and watch us head for the top!

Thank You Blackpool

2008-02-23T17:06:00.004Z

We're up in 5th place at the end of the game today thanks to Blackpool who scored 5 past Charlton.

Plymouth Argyle 3, Burnley 1

The results for the day were:

Southampton managed to pull one back against Scunthorpe ending in a 1 all draw.
Stoke held Ipswich to a 1-0 win.
Coventry scored another in the second half, beating Leicester 2-0.

The top of the table as it stand at 5pm on 23/02/08

We're On Our Way

2008-02-23T15:50:00.007Z

Well we're up against Burnley today and at one time we were 1-0 up which took us up to 5th place in the league.

Half time score is 2-1 to Plymouth Argyle.

Other half time scores include:

Scunthorpe 1 Southampton 0

Conventry 1 Leicester 0

Stoke 1 Ipswich 0

Table as it stands at half time:

Fingers crossed we'll still be in a play-off position at the end of the day.

On the up

2008-02-20T13:21:00.005Z

Plymouth Argyle have had a good run over the last few games with amongst them a 1-0 win over Leicester and 2-0 over Southampton.

We are now 7th in the Championship with Burnley and Hull, who both have a game in hand, able to over take us before our next match and that will be only if they both win.

We have the 2nd best defence in the Championship, only letting in 32 goals this season and the best defended team has only one less than us.

We are only 10 points off top place and only 2 points off the play-offs.

COME ON THE GREENS

Soccer Saturday - Funny bits 2007

2008-02-13T23:10:00.001Z

I love this program

End of a Year - Beginning of the Transfer Period

2007-12-31T16:07:00.000Z

I'm always worried at this time of year with the transfer window opening soon. Plymouth Argyle are doing really well at the moment and I don't want any team who think they are bigger and can buy any player off smaller teams to come and rob us of our top players. There have been rumours that Holloway is after some of our players but he has denied this. Is this another one of his lies? Only time will tell, God knows he needs some help with the team he has now.

We had a good result against Stoke this week, coming back twice to come out of the game with a point and keeping us in 6th place on the table. Well done lads.

I'm sure this will be the headlines in the Hearld again at the end of the season!

Plymouth Argyle against Bristol City

2007-12-10T02:01:00.000Z

My daughter came home from uni this weekend so we could go and see the Plymouth Argyle, Bristol City match. The kick off was at 12.30 and we set off from home at about 9.15 so we had plenty of time to park up and get to our seats.
On the way down the A38 there were a couple of police cars parked on slip roads leading on to the motor way which slowed up the traffic causing us to worry that we would miss the start of the match. As we past the second police car we spotted lots of coaches parked in a lay-by with lots of police bikes. The coaches were full of Bristol City supporters who were going to get an escort to the match. We wondered why the police were taking such precautions when we've never seen this before with any other match we've been to.
While looking on UTube tonight I came across the video below and now I know why there were worries about the City supports.
The match was a good one although a bit disappointing as, with Plymouth with a one nil lead we then gave them an own goal ending in a result of a one all draw
Was it worth sitting in the cold and wet for one point? It sure was!

Plymouth Argyle Players at Their Best

2007-08-11T14:49:00.000+01:00

Looks like Plymouth Argyle have decided to catch up with the rest of the country and write a blog during every match. They have also just added some very interesting photos of the players training in Austria to their site. I thought I would just add one to show the lads at their best.

Makes a nice change from only seeing their legs!

Ian Holloway on the Championship

2007-08-09T23:17:00.001+01:00

Well he's back again this season and to wet your appeite he has written his views on the Championship. Yes, Ian Holloway will be writing his Column every Friday for the BBC Sports online page. You can see his thoughts here

The Mighty Greens

2007-08-04T20:38:00.000+01:00

Plymouth Argyle showed Bristol Rovers what football is all about this afternoon. As mentioned in the last post, when the two met last, Rovers beat Argyle 1-0. Todays match showed just how far Ian Holloway has brought the team forward in just one season. By half time Argyle were leading 5-1 with Rovers scoring just before half time.

The end result, with both teams scoring another 2 goals each, was 7-3. It was great training for the fans who seemed to be out of their seats more than in them. And the team were able to put into practice what they had been working hard on since the end of the season.

Now we have the season to look forward to and a lot more victories for the Green Army.

In Training

2007-08-04T11:12:00.000+01:00

As players do, we fans need some training before the start of the season. Maybe not as much as the players do as we don't have to run around after the ball for 90 minutes, but we do need to get our singing voices into tune and practice waving our arms.

My training starts today, one week before our game with Hull, at Home park to watch the friendly between Argyle and Bristol Rovers. This was also the match which acted as my training for last season. Rovers played in PINK and it must have dazzled our players as we lost 1-0.

This time around I don't think they will have the pleasure of going home with a win. We will be showing the tack tics and skills we have learnt since the end of the season and running rings around The Rovers.

Come On You Greens

Holloway after a freebie

2007-07-25T02:45:00.000+01:00

Ian Holloway is thinking of going to France to pick up a freebie. Well, he's thinking of going on a scouting mission to find us some new players.
As Ian puts it,

"There is a lot happening over there. I would be able to see 16 games in three days and nearly everybody involved is free. So, I may just have to go."

Lets hope he finds someone to replace striker Cherno Samba, who Ian has place on the transfer list, on a free deal. Ian was his usual self when talking to the clubs website regarding the decision:

"He's got another year with us but I can't see him progressing.

"I have got some young lads who he is in the way of. I need to make room for them. If he can't progress I would like him to go somewhere else."

Blog for the man of Football

2007-07-21T00:31:00.000+01:00

David Beckham has decided its time he had his own web site and he has decided to write a blog within the site.

At the moment he only has one post on it but he is intending to keep it updated. Only time will tell.

David Beckham's Offical Blog

Football Glory for The City of Bristol

2007-05-29T13:34:00.000+01:00

All the play-off matches are over and the season is complete.

City Fans Celebrate

The city of Bristol have done really well this season with their two teams, both moving up a league. Bristol City were the runners up of league One and will now be playing in the Championship, along with Plymouth Argyle. Bristol Rovers won the play-offs in league two and will now be playing in league one.

Rovers Take the Cup

Unfortunately Yeovil lost to Blackpool and so will stay in League one. I was hoping they would go up so I wouldn't have so far to go to watch Plymouth Argyle but instead Yeovil will be playing Bristol Rovers.

Derby will be back up in the premiership playing the likes of Man United and Chelsea. They will receive £60m for the move from the Championship but their manager, Billy Davies, was said to be unconcerned about the money he insisted: "It's not about the money but the success of this club - we are delighted''.

Changes at Home Park

2007-05-26T13:58:00.000+01:00

What is happening at Home Park?

Well it's getting ready for the Elton John gig there later today. Lets hope the rain keeps off.

Full Moon?

2007-05-17T20:46:00.000+01:00

Not too sure what's happening tonight.

Rovers are playing Lincon in the second leg of their play off matches, it's only half time and already there have been 5 goals.

Also, I have just noticed, well over the last week or so, there are lots of teams which have yellow for their away kit. Whats going on? Are they all taking the piss out of Norwich?

And to top it all, my blog wouldn't open, so I could write this, but did give me a pretty picture to look at while I waited and waited and waited.

Oh no, wait, that's not a nice picture. it's my screen frozen

I think I forgot to say that Rovers were winning at half time 3-2

Naughty, Naughty

2007-05-15T13:55:00.000+01:00

I know I shouldn't really, but I have. I pinched this off This Site written by an Aston Villa fan.

What have The Premiership, The Championship and a cordless drill got in common?

No Leeds.

Play Off Time = Excitement

2007-05-13T23:58:00.000+01:00

This weekend was the start of the play off matches, with Southampton taking on Derby on Saturday and Wolves playing WBA on Sunday in the Championship league for a place in the Premiership next season.

Who will be kicking a ball like this next season?

Southampton played a good game but were beaten by Derby 2-1. After going in front in the 7th minute, I was hoping that would be the first of many for Southampton but Derby managed to equalise in the 36th minute and a penalty, awarded for Pele's rash shirt tug on Pearson, saw Howard place the second of his two goals past Bialkowski, the Southampton keeper. The return match is on Tuesday, 15 May 2007 with kick off at 19.45. I know who I'll be shouting for.

Saints' Andrew Surman scores after six minutes

Wolves lost to WBA 2-3. the teams will play again on Wednesday, 16 May 2007, kick off 19.45

The league one play off matches were: Yeovil 0-2 Nott'm Forest which was played on Saturday and Oldham 1-2 Blacpool played on Sunday

Richard Walker scores for Rovers

League two saw Bristol Rovers 2-1 Lincon City on Saturday with Shrewsbury v Milton Keynes Dons tomorrow (Monday)

Holloway's BBC Column

2007-05-11T23:11:00.000+01:00

With the end of the season comes Ian Holloway's last column on the BBC's web site . I have enjoyed reading this every week and have found it both amusing and informative.

Ian is so down to earth it's a breath of fresh air to read a manager's views that tell it how it is.

The BBC are asking if we would like Ian to continue the column next season and I would urge you all to go and place a comment HERE so we can all enjoy another season of wit and wisdom from the manager of Plymouth Argyle Football Club

And Now, The Time Has Come........

2007-05-08T15:17:00.000+01:00

Yep. It's here for Plymouth. The end of the season. Sunday saw their last game played at Hull's home ground, Kingston Communications Stadium. A 2-1 win to Argyle placed them 11th in the Championship league, 3 places higher than last season and 11 points richer, with 67 points.

Plymouth Score The Goals Needed

Next season will see Plymouth taking on newly promoted Bristol City, who, from my experience of watching some of their games this season, are a team to be reckoned with. I'll be looking forward to wearing my Plymouth shirt when I go down to The Robins pub for a pre-match drink!

Last One For Now

2007-05-04T17:10:00.000+01:00

Not long until our last game of the season and I'm not looking forward to a summer without football. Lets hope that Plymouth go out with a bang and manage a good win against Hull this Sunday

Referee Vision

2007-05-01T02:52:00.000+01:00

I know that I sometimes think that the referee needs glasses and I think I have found evidence that they do. Read this article and see what you think!

Kingsley

How They Did It

2007-04-30T13:50:00.000+01:00

This is how Southampton did it:

This is how Plymouth did it:

Football Glory

2007-04-28T22:50:00.000+01:00

They both did it.

Plymouth and Southampton both beat their opponents today. This means Southampton moved up into a play off position with Plymouth helping them on their way by keeping Preston out of the top 6.

Only one game left now for each of the teams, with the exception of Derby and Crystal Palace who play tomorrow, and it is still very tight at the top. Southampton will need to win their next match or hope that Stoke City and Preston don't to keep their place. Even a draw will not be good enough to keep Southampton there if Stoke or Preston win.

Plymouth have played their last game at Home Park for the 06/07 season and managed to find the form they had in the earlier part of the year. A 2-0 victory over Preston was an excellent result to end on.

The Green Army Celebrate The Win at Home Park

Only Two Left

2007-04-25T16:40:00.000+01:00

With only two games left this season there is still a fight for 3 of the 4 play off places of the Championship. Unfortunately Plymouth aren't a part of the fight but the team a friend of mine supports is. Southampton is currently 7th in the table with only 3 points separating the 3 teams above them.

The teams are; Wolves, WBA and Preston.

Wolves have only won one of there last 7 games, they still have QPR and Leicester City to play.

WBA have won 2 and lost 4 of their last 7 games. This week they take on Coventry City away and their last league match is against Barnsley at home on Sunday 6th May.

Preston meet my team, Plymouth Argyle at Home Park this Saturday and Birmingham on the 6th May. Like WBA, Preston have won 2 of their last 7 matches but have lost the other 5.

This weekend sees Southampton taking on Norwich in an away match. Southend, who are 2nd from bottom of the league, will be Southampton's last league game of the season. Out of the 4 teams mentioned here fighting for a place in the play offs, Southampton seem to be the team on better form at the moment with 3 wins and 3 loses in their last 7 games.

Both me and my Southampton fan friend will be wanting Plymouth Argyle to win this week. Me because they are my team and my friend because it will mean Southampton go above Preston and possibly into a play off position.

Good luck to Southampton.

To Argyle I only have one thing to say:

COME ON YOU GREENS

2007-04-24T23:15:00.000+01:00

This is Ian Holloway from the Watford match on 11/03/07. I don't think he agreed with the 4th Official. Ummm neither did I!!

Come on You Greens

Plymouth Argyle's own Space

2007-04-22T23:35:00.000+01:00

I've decided that instead of posting about Argyle on my other blog it deserved it's own blog so here is the first of many posts I hope to bring you.

Barry Hayles

Saturday saw Southend visiting Home Park for the last time this season and maybe for a long time. Southend are currently 2nd from bottom in the Championship and are in real danger of being relegated down to league 1. Plymouth, on the other hand, moved up a place to 12th ensuring their place for the next season in the Championship.

Saturday's match ended in a 2-1 win for Plymouth. Ebanks-Blake scored for Argyle in the 6th minute and Southend managed to equalize with Clarke in the 25th. But Plymouth hadn't finished and Hayles went on to get the winner in the 90th minute.

Argyle v Southend 2007-04-21. The goals