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Be interesting to see how Luggy is greeted back, particularly after the massive snub he gave us last year.

Be a really good test of the strength of our defence, against a very direct side.

He shouldn't have sent out a youth team and it would have been nice if he'd been there but to be fair wasn't that pretty soon after it all came out about his health problems?

He deserves a decent reception,after all he did get us out of the horrid basement division,as for fielding a youth side last time,who can really blame him when the start of the season was a week or so away.

I hope he gets a good reception.

Apparently Luggy has promised to send a full strength team as a "kiss and make up" jesture to Swindon.

I think we could do well, but I also think we could do shit, either way I cant get there.

Would have loved to have gone but funds not allowing me, hope we play well with some style against a good team.

I am going for a 0-0 draw with 4,234 fans there.

I think attendance will be lower than that.

The weather is very shit, so I reckon no more than 2500 today.

Last year Plymouth brought fuck all fans too. Although tbf that was midweek.

The weather is pretty shit here but I was hoping because of it being a first team game for the Muff that they will bring a few hundred up, ah well, could be very wrong :)

I hope we stuff them because of last pre-season's game. Lost a bit of respect for Luggy after he didn't show up at all.

the bloke it the ticket office said it would be round about the same crowd as cardiff

They won't send a youth team this year - they'd be scared we'd poach their best ones by half time!

Personally I've still got love for Sturrock. That bloke knows his football.

He did a job for us, and left us in a better state than when he arrived. He also had to work in the loony days of Diamandis/Mr Whippy/Best Holdings....he was always going to bale out of that for a decent offer.

no hard feelings towards luggy.

i hope it's a decent game today, last match i'll see until sarfend at home...

Fuck him. Lost most of the respect I had for him, but am thankful he got us promoted.

On a different subject peeps,anyone know if the early bird train tiks are still knocking about for next week....got quoted 10.50P there and 15 quid back...think Herthab was on about them months ago,,,was going by car but the driver cant go now.

I'm well out of pocket cos I had to fucking reboot my train ticket and they say it can take up to 4 weeks to get the money refunded and looks like theres a £10 cancellation fee!!  >:(



I think you can still get reduced price advance tickets.

How mant tiks did you buy Spy?

A £10 cancellation fee is fucking awful.

I got them fairly cheap earlier this week. www.nationalrail.co.uk will give you all the info you need

Cheers...

Team.....

1 Phil Smith

2 Kevin Amankwaah
3 Callum Kennedy
5 Jerel Ifil
6 Sean Morrison

4 Jonathan Douglas (Capt)
7 Jon-Paul McGovern
8 Lecsinel Jean-Francois
10 Michael Timlin

9 Billy Paynter
11 Lloyd Macklin

Subs-
12 David Lucas
14 Gordon Greer
15 Alan O'Brien
16 Anthony McNamee
17 Craig Easton
18 Mark Marshall
19 Scott Cuthbert
20 Nathan Thompson

Only one train ticket for £24 then they rearranged kick off so I had to buy another for £27 (the price had gone up slightly). So I am now £27 worse off due to the rearranged kick off and I might have to wait weeks before I get just £14 of the original ticket money refunded.

A bit shit really.

Is that going to be Lescinal at left wing or is it a 3-5-2?

I'm guessing those spaces are your own? Looks more like wing backs to me:

Smith

Ifil
Morrison
Jean Francois

Kennedy
Amankwaah

Timin
Douglas
McGovern

Paynter
Macklin

Yeah the spaces mean nothing really i just cut and pasted in a wierd way...it is playing 3 at the back with wing backs.

And 2 up front.

is this on the old wireless?

Seems to be a Cox interview on at the moment so perhaps.

They are broadcasting from the CG, so looks like it.

FOOTBALL IS BACK.

New man Jakob on the radio talking to Hadwin.

I hope it doesn't cut off at 3pm :-s

Are we winning yet?

What the fuck?

"We're about to get underway"

*Cuts to song*

They're not doing live commentary are they?

 :cry:

how gay - they've got the build up but not the actual game?

Is there live commentary?? Link anyone please?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_radio_wiltshire/

Is playing music

What a boring song

Fully agree mate.

In related news I wish I had a fresh pasty in my hands right now.

What a Plymouth fan?

Can't we have some more m people? Gotta love a bit of Heather.

"you've got to search for the hero inside yourself"


shit band  :blowup:


although not quite as bad as the lighthouse family who they remind me of

I was taking the piss Spy.

She always sounds like shes belching into an exhaust pipe to me! :D

:D

No I did think it was tongue in cheek but as you mentioned them I just felt like commenting.

HRK playing for Reading against Chelsea and set up a goal.

Where did you get this update?

Does anyone know where i can get live friendly scores?

Talksport radio

just said we wont be signing seye

Did he also just say that Paynter is injuired?

Dull game, posession has mostly belong to Plymuff. Some hard tackles flying in, Paynter went off for treatment but looks fine.  

Kingy back on Radio Swindon!  :notworthy:

The ref is a spastic

Five Live, 2-0 now, Mr. Chelsea just gave away a silly free kick and Reading scored.

where are you getting this info from?

Good to see Kingy back and about after his heart problems. Noticed he mentioned signing "Cureton and ermm what was his name? Thorpe" as well. Ha ha.

80 cheese-tastic.

Just seen that Chelsea have a full strength team out as well!

Seat 24, row N (or something) where I'm sat. No subs at HT.

The power of modern technology.

At least the Music's getting better.

Plymouth goal set up by Fallon.

lets sign fallon!

Booo Wilson out.

Lucas scores own goal

oh god, dodgy keeper as well......

apparently it came off the bar and hit him and went in.

 :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

we ended the game with Marshall and Amankwaah upfront.

i think kingy put on a town jacket and went into our dug out

Nah, if it was Kingy he would have signed a striker.

7 years ago today we paid 50k for a certain Sam Parkin.

i think you're underestimating potentially how difficult these transfers could be Dan. if he's only in the dug out for a minute of two i think you're being a little unfair

you know what i mean. the fact Wilson indicates he knows his starting 11 for Gillingham tells you everything you need to know.

plus, I'm sure Kingy had a mobile phone!

i'm sure DW has a mobile phone, he said he did when he said he'd turn it off so he couldn't answer it about cox.

i think the 11 may include a question mark

:) Thought the same thing. Only Amankwha and Marshall combined were less effective than Heywood was!

Sometimes firendlies are fun to watch and give you false hope for the future. Sometimes they are shitty dull reality checks. This was the latter. You never can tell, but we still look short of creativity along with the obvious strkers.

agreed batch- we didn't give paynter or macklin the ball in any positions to be positive.

on the plus side though we're not a bunch of cocks like half the plymouth team. if it were a proper league game and there wasn't have a cunt for a ref mincing about the pitch i think they could've been in some trouble

Change the fucking record. Its getting boring now.

so are you but i dont tell you to change the fucking record you miserable bastard!

He he.

Last season Malice Maurpas, missed targets and bought what was available.  We had a large squad of players of not quite good enough quality, barring some exceptions.  

This season, a team is being crafted from back to front, but so far signing strikers has obviously been a problem.  So we lose a friendly to a Championship side while playing with only one recognized striker.  I don't think that D.W. would have been showing the world his plans for a make-shift striker the week before season opening.  I expect McGovern will play up front against Gillingham with Paynter.  Gillingham are not Plymouth Argyle.  

D.W. will get a loan player or two when players are available, and will sign a permanent striker to compliment Paynter.

We were shocking today, half the players didn't look interested. You'd have thought players like JPM and Easton would have gone out there to prove a point but we created very little going forward until Wilson brought on Macca and O'Brien. I'm not worried about the result - we lost out to two fortuitous goals against a team from a higher division - but I would have liked to have seen a bit more cutting edge and some kind of effort to get the ball to the front pair on the deck.

plymouths defenders could take a touch and zip it up to their strikers feet bypassing our midfield. it was all very nice to watch and i hope the town lads learn from it

Everyone sees it differently. I thought JPM  looked our most creative option today. O'Brien got into some good positions, granted. Macca was garbage.

thought we was poor today, not too concerned with the performance, with the new season only being a week away no one wants to get injured

that was quite dull.

lescinel looked like a different player from tues night and nobody particularly impressed. wasn't too keen on the formation either.

still, friendlies mean fuck all..... right?

i'm not sure if their keeper had to make a single save

He did, but just leaving it like that is slightly harsh. It was a very good strike which hit the bar and cannoned into the back of his head and went in. It wasn't like he dropped the ball over the line and threw it into his own net or anything.

Those barks he does sound more than ever like a seal or a walrus or something - I kept wanted to throw him some fish

I was more bemused as to why Rory Fallon got a such good reception

the brace at Luton, the over head kick against City, the play off goal at Brighton.

being one of the only players who looked like he gave a shit in our relegation season before he fucked off to Swansea

the winner against City on TV :)

demanding a move when we were fighting relegation cancels that out imo

Agreed.....even though I would welcome him back, hes no hero...quit ethe opposite IMO

Was there a minutes silence or applause today out of interest?

Minutes applause bob

Cheers.

I'm not sure I like the minute of applause thing. Maybe I'm just being sentimental, but a minute's silence always seemed more fitting to me. Obviously tehre's a chance some twat will ruin it, but in the cas eof somebody like Sir Bobby I doubt that would happen

I think there's a minutes silence in the first league game though, so I suppose it was to avoid doing the same thing twice or something like that.

Boring and negative for the most part, big boot to nowhere, and too many offsides.  I thought McGovern made a few clever passes which could have led to something, but otherwise we mostly wasted possession.

The most entertaining part of the afternoon was Fred having a go with the 5 or so chavs sat next to him. :D

I had to walk through a lake of gob !


No need for it ......................... If I had had more beers I would have made them lick each others up off of the floor