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  1. On 2/26/2024 at 9:18 AM, Weasel said:

    Just a general observation but I feel like I've heard way more racist abuse from the stands this season than others, specifically in the south stand.

    Can think of at least 4 different matches this season I've heard racist comments being shouted

    Is there anything we as a fanbase or the club should be doing to tackle it?

    We definitely live in a world now where culture wars are stirred up by political parties to gain favour, which has made the racists emboldened but we need to take a stand and show its not acceptable. When kids are overhearing it, its especially worrying

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  2. I was speaking to a friend today who took her 5 year old to a game today and sat in the north stand but had to move seats as bloke in his 40's/50's was openly racist to black Plymouth players for doing nothing more than tackle one of our players.

    Added to the recent racist fan at Leicester, the abuse Yusuf has received and other previous incidents, is there a racism issue with a minority that the majority of us need to call out more often?

    I recommended the kick it out website where you can report incidents like this but it's pretty sad that this bloke felt comfortable enough to say it with people all around him

  3. 4 minutes ago, LinoJo3 said:

    How exactly are we supposed to see last season? 
     

    “A decent 6 month spell”. A season is only 9 months long lol, 2 months of it were wasted under wilder. We were excellent last season and there’s no reason that should be ignored just because it doesn’t fit a current bias of Carrick being ***.

    Because it was still just a good spell of 6 months no matter how you paint it and we still got beat off Coventry regardless. We were then left with essentially half of our side that we had success with.

    I certainly don't think Carrick is *** either, I just think we have an average squad with no game changers, we've had bad injuries and he's made mistakes which are normal for a new manager.

    Likewise we had overall an average squad last season but with the best player in the league and some very good loans that all came together. It was a gamble though and one that Hull will probably have this season too, as they'll likely lose their best player and the loan players if they don't go up. It's just the nature of the league, Huddersfield also had a similar downfall after being one of the best sides in the league 

  4. 10 minutes ago, TheJew said:

    This theory that we may have a "big push" next season and the unicorn striker will be available in the summer has me somewhat in disbelief.

    The January signings last year were primarily due to Danks, were they not? Not a Scott wonder search.

    We are on a downward trajectory, which if continues ultimately only ends one way.

    Behave, we are on the same up and down trajectory we have been for the last decade. Lots not pretend it's anything different or new

  5. I do wish people would stop harping on about last season, we had a decent 6 month spell propelled by having a player who guaranteed you a goal a game. There was no great foundation and even with that team it fell apart with a few injuries, it was an opportunity lost at the time but only highlighted our systemic issue never building anything.

    The 2 other playoff sides have had similar seasons too and even after Coventry's recent good spell they are still 4 points off the top 6 and getting beat off fairly average sides. We need to stick with Carrick and just hope he can get it right but we may have a few more up and down seasons before getting anywhere close again

  6. 5 minutes ago, Bruce said:

    It's too early to right off Carrick. I see no signs of him losing the dressing room and no signs of the club losing confidence in him. Any manager would struggle with the injuries this season and overseeing a wholesale replacement of players with poorer quality.

    Last season at WBA, Corberan started really well but then tailed off. Last 15 games of the season for WBA were won 5, draw 3, lost 7: bottom 6 form. Despite that, despite literally spending nothing on transfers (just Maja on a free) and despite horrendous injuries, Corberan has them sitting pretty in the playoffs. Keeping faith with a manager is usually the best answer though Corberan has something Carrick doesn't: a track record.

    That's the issue with Carrick: he has no track record to judge him against. He hasn't proved anything anywhere else so we're flying in the dark. 

    Although he was never the choice I wanted, I think you have to stay all-in with Carrick & Scott. This season is looking like a failure. Not reaching the playoffs isn't the problem. It's getting to the end of the season and thinking that you don't know if any player has improved during it that's the real problem. This season was patently about laying the foundations for a real push next season. Right now, the foundations are looking like quicksand.

    Great post

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  7. 6 minutes ago, diggerlad07 said:

    24th February and we are talking about wiping the season off...that sums up exactly what has gone wrong over the course of the season and in the transfer windows

    Absolutely disgraceful after last season

    Fans been massively let down

    We failed last season too to be fair. It just showed we need consistent improvements year on year, not relying on one stand out player and the best loans available. I don't let last season lull me into a false sense that we should be competing again, it was just another example of our inconsistency if anything 

  8. 1 minute ago, Neverbefore said:

    We went long far far more today than we have in previous games and it still just went right back to Plymouth players. It's not the style of passing that's the problem, it's the execution. And tbh I'd rather take it as it is atm than see us revert to pulis warnock percentage balls into areas.

    I'm certainly not asking for Carrick to leave but I am asking for him to learn and I am glad he is starting to accept his faults. The weeks of him gaslighting the fans that we played well as we lose again in the same way, helped no one

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  9. Just now, Skinemrippers said:

    That’s kind of what I was saying. I get it now although I don’t think it’s helpful for the players - so carrick needs to change it. He’s putting so much pressure on his own players. 

    It's definitely not helpful but it's understandable, especially as the manager keeps doing the same things and expecting a different outcome. It used to be just an issue of missing chances but we don't even create chances any more and every side who has came here looks like scoring 2 or 3, it's got very bad at an alarming pace. Which is ironic as he play with zero pace or energy 

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  10. 11 minutes ago, Skinemrippers said:

    Was trying to work out if that was worse than the home matches against Hull, Rotherham, Bristol City etc and have decided it was. Absolutely abject. So many issues I don’t know where to start. 
     
    The impatience from the  crowd when we try to play out from the back winds me up and has all season, but we’re getting much much worse at it and the crowd more and more frustrated. Carrick is putting too much pressure on the keeper and defense by asking them to do it. It’s getting toxic. He needs to be able to adapt. 

    Similarly with the slow passing and moving forward. Teams win when they play with pace. We are soooo slow and it’s just dull to watch. We’ve not won at home in the league since Dec. Again. Carrick needs to adapt. 

    Managers are famously stubborn but this ridiculous situation where we have Forss on the right and Mcgree up front (I think!) today is just insane. Silvera on the left as well. It’s just stupid. 

    Too many players today looked lost and simply gave up at times. At one point Ayljng was beaten by his man and literally gave up and put his hands in the air moaning. Rav did the same a a couple of times then looked  upset as he trudged off at half time. Nobody put an arm round him. He’s still a young kid. 

    Finally Barlaser.  He wasn’t the worst player today. He hasn’t been our worst midfielder this season (I’m not saying he’s been outstanding mind you) but the hate he gets is ridiculous. He was being openly mocked as well as booed by our own fans today. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to do for his confidence. 

    Honestly I just don’t know. I’d like to think Carrick will come good but all around me were angry with him today. He shows no emotion or passion, sometimes the players need a kick up their backsides, a bollocking. You just get the feeling he smiles and tells them it will be better next week. The lack of intensity from the players reflects the manager  at the moment. 

    We haven't won since December, so I kind of get the impatience in playing out from the back especially as our passing is terrible 

    I get the impatience with Barlaser too as frankly he just doesn't fit our style of play, he's too slow, too deep and he makes little or no impact. Whatever he had at Rotherham, he simply doesn't show here

  11. 7 minutes ago, Changing Times said:

    I don't think it's harsh.  Leicester had some really good chances today and messed them up.  I'm happy about that but I don't see that particular aspect of the game as a success for us.  If our players had missed those chances then people would have been going mental on here about it, and the way I know that's true is because we have missed chances like those, and people have gone mental about it on here.  The quality of the chance shouldn't be dependent on which team gets them.  They were really good chances, and we'd have been gutted if our players had missed them.

    We obviously took our goals well, solid I'm not as sure about but we definitely worked hard without the ball and frustrated them. However, we also had about 30% of the ball, and Leicester had 24 shots to our 5 so I think smash and grab is exactly what today was.  We couldn't keep the ball enough for it not to be.  I'd be willing to bet that today was one of our worst xG's against of the season.  Now, I don't know how useful that stat is other than it will tend to show the general pattern of the game I suppose, but if we'd lost 4-2 today I don't think we could have complained, we certainly wouldn't have been unlucky.

    I don't think McNair or Clarke made a difference as such.  Clarke played during the week anyway so it was only McNair who came into the side.  I would say having everyone sat behind the ball all game long, and us not having much of the ball to shoot ourselves in the foot with, probably made a bigger difference.  But even then, we could easily have conceded a number of goals so it's not like we suddenly looked impregnable.  So, again, going back to what I said earlier, and the conversation that was taking place, I don't think I would change anything based on today's game.  I don't believe we've suddenly cracked how to solve our issues is my point.  I mentioned the Rotherham comparison earlier on, we set up exactly the same way today as they did against us, and Leicester set up in the their usual way, which is similar to what we usually do. Rotherham got lucky against us but usually they don't, and Leicester were unlucky against us but usually they aren't.  That's why Rotherham are bottom, and Leicester are top.  I really don't feel like trying to play more like Rotherham, and less like Leicester, is the right move to make, and that's what people are suggesting, whether they realise it or not.

    It's funny one because I do get your point but even the Leicester commentators were complimentary of us and spoke of how until the final 10 they hadn't really created anything. It's a game of opinions though and it obviously could have gone another way but genuinely I thought we looked largely solid and arguably had the bigger threat on the break

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  12. 52 minutes ago, Changing Times said:

    I don't know if I'd be changing everything on the back of what was a lucky win at the end of the day.  It's not like we were defensively rock solid.  Leicester should have been a couple of goals up before we scored our first.  That they missed good chances isn't down to our play, it's down to their poor play, just as when we miss good chances it's not because the opposition have somehow done a number on us, it's because we messed them up.  This today was basically us v Rotherham but Leicester had the part of us, and we took the part of Rotherham.  Sometimes it ends up working out but usually it doesn't, and people would do well to remember that.  If you need another example then look at the two games we played against Chelsea where we defended really well in one game but even then should have lost by a couple but then in the second game we got obliterated, and the same players, and system, which looked the part in the first game, couldn't cope at all.  I hope all of that doesn't appear to be too negative as it's meant to be no worse than a dash of realism.

     

    I genuinely think it's harsh to call it a lucky win. There is definitely an argument for taking too much from one performance but it's not like we were battered and it was a smash and grab. The win against Chelsea was much more like that for me but Vestergaard and Daka missing headers isn't exactly a big surprise and we took our goals well and were solid for long periods

    I do agree with the general point about our defence though, we are still defensively poor in the main and for all the positives Engel was still pretty poor and Glover was a mistake waiting to happen. I did think McNair and Clarke improved us though 

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  13. 1 minute ago, diggerlad07 said:

    Seasons over but I do feel we will go on a run after the international break once everyone's back fit. We will dall short by about 8 to 10pts imo and lack of goals will cost us which we all knew at the start of tge season.

    I was concerned straight after 31st August when the window shut.

    Can't understand the frustration towards Scott when he's just made us significant profit on a 6month signing

    On paper next season

                     Dieng

    New rb  vdb  fry/lenihhan  bangura

        New Defensive cm   hackeney

    Jones/forss   azaz    new attacker

          Lath/New striker

    I don't think a massive rebuild is but we just need at least 4 quality signings in the above positions.

     

     

     

    The truth is you don't need world beaters in this league but we simply have too many players who can't defend and no goalscorer, two issues which highlight each other 

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  14. 1 minute ago, thatoldchestnut said:

    Well you just  need to look and decide how many of this current squad would get us promoted.  Not many in my opinion. 

    We have some decent attacking players, a good keeper and then that's where we start struggling. Awful defensively, weak midfield and no striker

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  15. 43 minutes ago, Changing Times said:

    They should cut costs in other areas in that case then.  Take half a million from the playing budget.  I'd be quite happy to lose out on some of the signings we've made recently, and not pay an increase in ticket prices.  Gibson might want to act like they are separate areas of the business but the reality is that they are all part of the same one, and our highest costs (and waste) are in the football side of things.  Would anyone be that bothered if for example we hadn't signed Silvera and used one of the young lads when necessary instead?  That's not a dig at him, just I'd imagine he'd have been close to this half million we apparently need to find.

    We have 3 senior goalkeepers when we easily could have given Sol Brynn a chance, there is loads of ways we could have saved the money by pragmatic recruitment choices. I dont even mind the signing of Silvera because he has played games for us but Jamie Jones has still yet to make an appearance, Gilbert has made 4 appearances, Coulsen should have been let go in the summer. There are loads of example that strengthen your point

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  16. 1 hour ago, TLF10 said:

    @TeaCider24he is getting the perfect send off because the club have agreed to let him go as he asked us can he leave as this is a once on a lifetime opportunity for him that might not present itself. 

    And the whole they announced his sale on same day fans are upset is not a serious point is it? What are you wanting the club to do? Ring Salt Lake and ask “can you delay you announcing your new signing as some of our fans are currently having a melt down over next seasons ticket priced and we don't want to upset them any further?”. Come on please. Get real

    It's weird to somehow think the fact he left on the day the early bird tickets were announced somehow diminishes his career or send off.

    It's not like we could have held out and played him in any other game, it is what it is with the timing. The fact one of his last games was the home win against Chelsea and he then had a chance to play at Stamford Bridge is pretty decent I'd say 

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