Match Day Thread Versus Preston

Be interesting to see if the green army give that other scouser a hard time on Saturday or just ignore him. I think I might just choose the second option.

Funny ole team Preston and you never quite know what you will get. I mean Stoke even beat them at theirs last time out. Who'd have thought it. Which Argyle will turn up this week you wonder. They seem to play better away these days but if they do come to play then we can win this one.


COYG

 

Lowe left a Div One club and joined a Championship team.

Schumacher left a Championship team and joined a Championship team lower in the league.

One moved up and the other just moved.

 

Lowe left Plymouth because............(not to enhance his career but possibly because he had to). Or so the story goes. To be honest I don't actually care he left.

 

https://www.not606.com/threads/plymouth-argyle-home-park-16-3-2024.411757/

By the way Lowe is a bit marmite up here many including me are not overly convinced by him

 

I always cringed when Lowe waffled is usual rubbish at post match reports.

Interesting article themaclad.....two dates not mentioned are 1588 and 1620.

 

I think it’s fair to say that in leaving for what he perceived to be a better offer, Schumacher did no more than most managers would. We have to remember that when the boot’s on the other foot, most clubs have little or no loyalty to their managers.

Argyle are more trustworthy than that but if push came to shove, a manager would be sacked if it was felt he was not up to the job or exposing the owner to bad publicity.

Many in football still hanker after the reckless moneybags owner who splashes unsustainable amounts of cash in a rush for success. Often it works for a while and then ends in tears, although often not for the owner.

In fact, every Sunday I’m infuriated by the naïveté of Martín Samuel, sports columnist for the Times, who uses his column precisely to argue for that style of ownership and against Financial Fair Play regulation. Discredited old ideas die hard.

Perhaps the fact he ghost authored Harry Redknapp’s biography indicates the era he’s living in. Or perhaps it’s his background on several tabloids, who fawn over buccaneering businessmen who bring home the bacon until it all goes bust and they suddenly want a public lynching.

 

See what you mean forgotten all about the Mayflower

 

.....That's why we're called the Pilgrims and have a 17th century sailing boat on our badge.

And then the "myth",,..some think.... about the Spanish Armada and Drake finishing his game of bowls on the Hoe first.

 

I think you need to up our game on pre-match threads Sensible.

 

I will surrender the posting of matchday threads any time you feel the need to expand them notdistant. I couldn't be arsed to do all that typing but have to say had read the Preston thread and it was impressive. Not sure about the "myth" about Frannie Drake and bowls. The Bowls club wasn't formed on the Hoe before 1933 and PCC would never allow unauthorised games.

 

If he was playing bowls then he almost certainly did finish the game, not because of extreme confidence but because he had no choice.

Elizabethan ships couldn’t just start their engines and go. If the wind was in the wrong direction, ships of the age could be stuck in harbour for weeks. They could sail into the wind but only by tacking from to side and that wasn’t always possible inside a harbour.

What would help would be an outgoing tide so the likelihood Drake had to wait for the tide to turn, even if the fleet was otherwise ready to go.

 

The weather was in our favour at that time......ask any Spanish sailor who had been in that armada..... destroyed by the weather as they tried to escaped the English fleet ....as the remains of their fleet went back home the long way.

I'm sure we could check the BBC's weather charts for that period of time....but don't ask Michael Fish.

 

Contrary to the movie image of ships racing into battle with bones in their teeth, I believe the Battle of Trafalger was fought at a walking pace due to very light winds.

 

The weather forecast for June the 6th 1944 worked out ok didn't it.

 

Less important due to the invention of the steam turbine and internal combustion engine!

 

All you had to do was tie a rope to the ship and pull it out of harbour by rowing boat. It was the early Tug. Now enough of this nautical stuff and back to today's matter in hand.

 

Argyle...0-1...PNE......H/T.

Millar...43mins.

 

Big improvement required in second half.

 

77 minutes and still no shots on target for Argyle.

 

Argyle...0-1...PNE...F/T.

SHOTS ON TARGET......NIL.

IAN FOSTER HAS CRASHED PAFC.

WE HAVE GONE FROM THE TOP HOME SCORERS.......TO A TEAM THAT CANNOT SCORE AT ALL AT HOME.....AND TODAY NOT ONE SHOT ON TARGET......I'LL REPEAT THAT....SHOTS ON TARGET TODAY....NONE.....ZILTCH......NOTHING.....ZERO.

SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE.