Jermaine Easter

[ronnie21]

Leaving Plymouth "for personal reasons".  Another lucky escape for us?

[Rich Pullen]

The city of Plymouth was always going to bore him eventually. I know that feeling.

[Barry Scott]

I think so. I don't ever recall watching him and being in awe of his ability.

When Sturrock couldn't get him for us, i said at the time he had 1 lucky season. I stand by that comment as smarmily as KGB36 when ("Bang") talking about the youth team.

[Rich Pullen]

I stand by that comment as smarmily as KGB36 when ("Bang") talking about the youth team.

I missed that first time around - what thread was that on? The phrase has become a regular fixture on here since!

[Barry Scott]

I think this is the one, but may not be, because i remember it being funnier.

http://thetownend.com/index.php/topic,29278.msg561571.html#msg561571

[STFC_Gazzza]

The words incredibly and overrated come to mind when I think of Easter

[Spencer_White]

Sturrocks got big problems down there.

Plymouth to be relegated for me.

[Rich Pullen]

Sturrocks got big problems down there.

Plymouth to be relegated for me.

Their fans have less motivation than ours - and they haven't had the same woeful recent history as us.

My observation through living there is that after a spell where they went up twice they assembled a significantly new fanbase which was used to a level of success. You should have seen the amount of Plymouth merchandise wearing folk swaning around the city between 2003-2007.

Since Holloway left it's all gone down hill - dull football has emerged, their best players left and were replaced by the likes of Easter of Wycombe and Mackie of Exeter, hardly inspiring. They're not looking good, their goalkeeper had his contract terminated because of the car crash, and their manager seems totally down-and-out and those new fans I mentioned have rekindled their love affairs with Liverpool, Manchester United et al.

Big problems indeed.

[Spencer_White]

When they didnt play the pre season friendly their fans were saying that Sturrock was desperate and didnt want another morale sapping defeat pre season so chose not to play the game at all.

They only got 9,000 on saturday. 2,000 more than us in a league above. Think you are exactly right, their new age fans are deserting them fast. New stadium fans. Novelty wearing off fast. They were getting about 4,000 10-15 years ago.

Got upset when Blair Sturrock was waxing lyrical a while back in the Adver at how good the atmosphere was down there at Home Park. We went down there in the run in to 2003-04 season when they won the title and we outsung them. Blair played in that Mansfield game which was the second best atmosphere Ive seen anywhere home or away in the last 10 years. Dont rate them.

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

I wonder if Sturrock regrets going back now?

[STFC_Gazzza]

I wonder if Sturrock regrets going back now?

Not likely, bigger salary etc.. He will get another club when he gets sacked. Holloway to replace?

[Rich Pullen]

I've never heard, what I would consider, an adequate atmosphere at Home Park.

I have a feeling that this is Sturrock's last hurrah as a manager... He'll retire down there.

[Spencer_White]

It does stick in the throat that Sturrock is the manager that we accepted and got behind most in the last 10 years, but he still doesnt seem to have any sort of sentimentality for us at all.

We werent paying him at all when he left. But I think he might have another look at us in a years time after he has been relegated and his reputation at Plymouth is in ruins.

[Amir]

We went down there in the run in to 2003-04 season when they won the title and we outsung them.

Funny that, I thought we were quite poor that day and they did alright for a home team.

Agree about the crowds, I know a few plymouth and they're not happy at the moment.  According to a friend of a friend(always tenuous but there you go), Sturrock was moaning to them at a wedding the other day about not being able to compete when it came to wages.  Surely he'd of know the score on that before he went down there, or was he just hoping that the 'messiah' returning would be enough.  

Taking them over when they were 4th in the Championship was always going to be a slippery slope IMHO.

[Spencer_White]

Yeah, the atmosphere wasnt bad.

But it wasnt mental. Thats what it should have been for them. They were on their way to a second title in 3 years. That was a great league as well, because the top 4 teams (Plymouth, QPR, City and us) were all southern, all on the GWR.