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Re: Match Day Thread: Peterborough
Final stat before my bedtime….it’s 21 years since Peterborough won a league game at Adams Park and on that happy note I’ll say good night.
Re: Oxford to share AP ?
£1.2m for three sides of a stadium - I make that £1.6m for a proper stadium.
Re: Saxon Earley just signed
Just thought I'd pop in to offer a Plymouth perspective on Saxon.
We signed him this time last year from Norwich, though he'd been on loan at Stevenage where he'd been playing left-back. Their fans were gutted to lose him and so was their manager. We played a back three at the time but he seemed to adapt pretty well to wing-back. He doesn't have electric pace or fancy footwork but he is a natural defender - aggressive in the tackle and positionally sound. He even managed to grab a couple of goals for us by being in the right place at the right time.
We started this season playing a back four and it looked like Saxon would be a semi-regular member of the team. He played really well in a 0-0 draw at Watford in August but we haven't seen him since. If he can rediscover his fitness then you've got a very good player.
Nigel Lonwijk is another promising talent. He's very comfortable on the ball but he does occasionally lack focus and he made a few costly errors for us last season. That said, he was playing his first proper season of senior football and in a team who played high-risk football from the back. I liked him and think he'll do well for you.
Butch, meanwhile, is a solid pro who won't let you down. He's one of those steady eddie players who won't necessarily catch the eye but will do all the basics well. He also has a handy knack of popping up with the odd goal from outside the box, including one against our friends up the A38 that will go down in Argyle folklore.
You've basically got three League One title winners in your squad now and I think you'll have no problem staying up.
Pete Couhig January Window Review
Highly advise watching the latest pre-match drills interview with Matt & Pete.
Talks about us being right on the line of SCMP and how the AAH2.0 move gave us extra headroom this window, which allowed us to make the final few deadline day signings. Also gives us more headroom next transfer window.
Explains how the Brighton staff supposedly ran some analytics to suggest that our team should be in the top 8 this season based on their data - obviously take that with a large pinch of salt.
Very enthusiastic about the importance of the development squad, which holds the keys to sustainability.
"We have a distinctly different view of management - it doesn't involve firing a young manager when they go through a rough patch. We're better than our results right now."
It's generally quite an infectious interview which gives hope and positivity for the future, even when sprinkled with a portion of delusion.
Re: Butcher signs
Hi guys - Argyle fan in peace! You’ve got a great pick up in Matt Butcher - sorry to see him go. What you can expect is a real team player, who always gives 100%. He came to us as sort of a back up midfielder, to give a bit of experience to a young midfield. He ended up being a great contributor last season and this: not flashy, but certainly very tidy. Seems to be a ripping bloke off the field as well.
Good luck for the rest of the season, I’m sure you’ll be fine 👍🏼
Re: Killian Phillips gone?
I've just come back from the future and we still haven't won a game.
Re: Bloomfield Out?
Obviously I was planning to post the results over to Mr Couhig and claim that democracy will out.
This is a forum for discussions, and a poll is a way of spurring discussions, I'm not sure why you're so upset by the use of a pretty standard feature of any online forum. If the purpose of The Gasroom was to change situations at the club, then we'd have had Keith Scott as manager a few years back, Dave Tarpey up front and free crisps for everyone.
Re: Bloomfield Out?
How else are we, as fans, permitted to release our frustration at such a poor run of results?
Your repeated insistence that we can't talk about it, as it doesn't help is very irritating and doesn't help either.
Re: Match Day Thread: Wigan
Okay these last 11 months have been absolute hell. When will this nightmare end? It doesn't even feel real anymore. I really want/ed Blooms to succeed but I fear this is only going to get worse. If we somehow manage to win against Fleetwood it will only paper over the cracks. The last time I missed a league game home or away was the first game of last season (Bolton away). I just go now out of blind loyalty and if it wasn't for the social aspect of 'going to the game' I would have given up months ago as many already have done. I don't go expecting to win every game, I don't even expect playoffs. I just want to watch us fight and dare I say it, entertain. Neither of those are evident at the moment and we look a team just going through the motions. From the day Ainsworth left I had a terrible gut feeling that this is what would happen and in this case I hate to be proven right. I am not saying we should go back to Ainsworth but the reality is we now know how good he truly was. I have always said we are a League 2 club in terms of size/budget/fanbase and I have always enjoyed punching above our weight and playing against the 'big boys' but now I think is the time we have to face reality. I hope I am wrong and this is only my opinion. I have never posted in a match day thread before but I just needed somewhere to express the sadness I am feeling right now.
Re: Match Day Thread: Wigan
Superb to hear this @ryan_w_kirkby2 !
Matt Cecil is truly one of life's good guys. I'm absolutely certain he could've moved on in his career to work for bigger and better clubs, but has stuck around "his" club. He's a credit to WWFC.