Plymouth Argyle V Birmingham

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

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.

10 Men and The Ref? Argyle v Charlton

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!

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!

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.

Tickets, Tickets Have You Seen Them?

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

Reason's to be Cheerful - Not Today

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

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

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.

End of a Year - Beginning of the Transfer Period

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

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!

Ian Holloway on the Championship

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

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

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

Changes at Home Park

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.