Spring News

The snows gone....temperature soaring to just about 50F...time to look to the final run in....play-offs or not we must be pleased with how we have confirmed our Div1 status.....who would have thought that in December.
Looking forward to the Charlton game....with divided family loyalties the outcome will be crucial.

 

Sensible has already started a "Spring News" post.

 

Oh has he....where ?

 

Wind up (failed).

 

Watching you................................that's all I'm saying.

 

Perhaps not failed then.........

 

Next two games could be iffy.....Southend beat high flying Rotherham 2-0 yesterday and 5th placed Scunthorpe sack their manager after drawing at home to Rochdale....their next home game will be Argyle with possibly a new manager installed.....shades of Charlton all over again......what could possibly go wrong.

 

It has been announced that Craig Brewster will be leaving the club at the end of the season when his contract runs out.
Craig who is Assistant Manager is on sick leave at present recovering from a hip replacement that he had in January.....he will not be coming back before his contract runs out.
It was revealed at todays press conference with the manager that Luke McCormick besides having an ankle operation also had a shoulder op (not at the same time) during his time out injured....he is starting to do training and eventually will get time playing for the reserves etc.
Antoni Sarcevic is starting to do light training after an op.
Ryan Edwards will be seeing his specialist in mid-april.....at present he is regaining his strength after chemo.....plus a little light training.
Sonny Bradley will hopefully hear from his specialist this week and hopefully start light training and some ball work.
Gary Millar is also back training.
Simon Church is still out with a thigh problem.
Robbert te Loeke is still out ?

That is the end of the Argyle NHS report.

 

Been busy up there this week!

 

How could it be busy up there this week? Sounds like most of the staff have been at Derriford...........

 

Chance to go to Wembley in May.....no not Argyle (yet)....but Bromley....who have reached the final of the FA Trophy....they will be playing Brackley of the National League North....one league lower than Bromley.

 

Save your money plym. Last time I was at Wembley it cost an arm and a leg and one of the teams was missing.

 

Northampton sack their manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

 

Damning comments on the NTFC Twitter feed on Saturday even before the game started. Team selection was apparently similar to Derek Adams leaving out Sonny Bradley, Graham Carey and Reuben Lamerias.

 

Last matches towards play-offs....some big matches for others could help us.

ROTHERHAM...4th...Fleetwood (h)...WIGAN (a)...Gillingham (a)...Bristol R (h)...PLYMOUTH A (a)...Blackpool (h)

PETERBOROUGH...5th...PLYMOUTH A (a)...Rochdale (h)...BLACKBURN (a)...SHREWSBURY (a)...Fleetwood (h)...PORTSMOUTH (a)

CHARLTON...6th...Bristol R (a)...Wimbledon (a)...SCUNTHORPE (h)...SHREWSBURY (a)...PORTSMOUTH (a)...BLACKBURN (h)...Rochdale (a)

PORTSMOUTH...7th...Rochdale (a)...PLYMOUTH A (a)...Bradford (a)...CHARLTON (h)...Bury (a)...PETERBOROUGH (h)

SCUNTHORPE...8th...Wimbledon (a)...CHARLTON (a)...Walsall (h)...MK Dons (a)...Bradford ((h)....plus...PLYMOUTH A

PLYMOUTH A...9th...PETERBOROUGH (h)...PORTSMOUTH (h)...Northampton (a)...Rochdale (a)...ROTHERHAM (h)...Gillingham (a)...plus...SCUNTHORPE (a)

Some real tasty games there that could help us get over the line..

 

Agent and intermediaries fee paid by Argyle during the period Feb 2017 and Jan 2018 was £52,032....meaning we were 17th in Div1 for payments.....the average was £149,972 per club

 

Let me guess who was top..............Wigan, Blackburn, Charlton.

 

Not far off sensible.

1.....Blackburn.....£764,024
2.....Wigan...........£557,333
3.....Charlton.......£425,466
4.....Southend.....£226,258.....surprising.
5.....Scunthorpe..£163,160
6.....Portsmouth..£146,864
7.....Oxford..........£142,551
8.....Rotherham...£136,046
9.....Fleetwood....£135,373
10...Bradford.......£100,980

17...Plymouth......£52,032

22...Bury..............£25,169
23...Oldham.........£20,445
24...Gillingham.....£17,030.....done well, haven't they.

 

Surprise, surprise.....Lee Bowyer has been given the temporary managers job at Charlton until the end of the season.

 

Pretty good work by us I would say.

 

Sonny Bradley has revealed that his time in Derriford Hospital was because of a kidney problem....tests were done plus a biopsy to discover why there was a problem, this small op was the reason he wasn't able to play for awhile....still waiting for the final result of why there was a problem....but he is back in training and played against Southend successfully.....Sonny says he is not 100% fit yet but is working on it.

 

Derek Adams is quoted at 33-1 for the WBA job....favourite is Mick McCarthy at 7-4....who is leaving Ipswich in the summer.