League 2 General Chat Thread

[hellogregory]

Thought we played really well today, but Carlisle were woeful and never looked like they were really in the game. We made a lot of changes after midweek with quite a few key players missing so I wasn't feeling as confident when I saw the side, but as soon as we got the first you knew it should be comfortable.

We'd have scored five or six on another day and it wouldn't have been undeserved.

It’s just about a year to the day since we beat you 4-0 up here. How the tables have turned.

What you saw today was the result of letting Steven Pressley take over a team 4th in the league and allowing him to stay in the job for 10 months before sacking him.

 

[Sydney Posse]

Funny game yesterday. Being 3-0 down so early via some frankly pathetic defending is just weird. Most weeks our defence is pretty solid, but when it fails it fails big time. I do take great encouragement in getting back to 3-3. A few weeks back when we were hammered at home, our players appeared to lose all confidence when 2-0 down and we ended up losing 4-0, but yesterday they clearly took a different attitude, and amazingly, had the chance to snatch victory at the death. It's always been hard being an Exeter fan......

 

[Valeite]

It was great yesterday to see two honest sides playing football, such a contrast to a lot of games you see. Well done to Cheltenham best wishes for the rest of the season.

 

[darren gregory]

What I would say also in regards to Cheltenham and has been mentioned; nice to see them try and play the game and not do a Walsall/Oldham/Stevenage etc and chuck themselves to the floor and time waste at every opportunity. It made for a decent game between two decent improving sides.

Exactly well said. They came to win the game and play the game. A few yellows for each side but no histrionics or cheating .
Really enjoyable game .
Risky playing it around at the back in League 2 but certainly one of the better sides I've seen who play it how it should be played

 

[Casey]

There are already calls from Crawley fans for Yems to be "let go" and talk that he shouldn't have been appointed. Not sure what people want from a manager really.

From shipping roughly two goals a game to two in three games must mean he has tightened up the defence. So that's good ?

He can hardly be blamed for strikers missing good opportunities iE Lualaba falling over after rounding the keeper or not scoring from four one on ones in one match.

Heavily criticized for not playing an injured player yesterday. He would have been criticized if he had played him ?

I've never heard of a new manager given less time to turn things around. I fear he will not be allowed time by the fan base. It seems to stem from the fact he is not Pep Guardiola.

Casey

 

[GTFCfish]

If you’ve got a spare 2 minutes click on this for a laugh.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1208830230779047939

 

[F!RTHY]

What’s happened to James Hanson, I thought he was the best signing L2 has seen in recent history?

As I predicted in pre-season; he starts very well, goes missing for 4 months and will score a few nearing season end.

 

[GTFCfish]

What’s happened to James Hanson, I thought he was the best signing L2 has seen in recent history?

As I predicted in pre-season; he starts very well, goes missing for 4 months and will score a few nearing season end.

He’s injured.

 

[F!RTHY]

He’s injured.

Ah, yes - I forgot it was December.

 

[Boletus Edulis]

Our game with Macclesfield has been rearranged for Tuesday 18th February and that with Grimsby for Tuesday 3rd March.

 

[Agombar stool]

If you’ve got a spare 2 minutes click on this for a laugh.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1208830230779047939

A rip-off of MarleySTFC who has been doing that for us all season.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1208715638409175040

 

[loz]

A rip-off of MarleySTFC who has been doing that for us all season.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1208715638409175040

As a Bradford supporter, I preferred the Grimsby version.

 

[Agombar stool]

As a Bradford supporter, I preferred the Grimsby version.

As is your want

 

[Semi-skimmed Silk]

Big thanks to FGR who have offered to donate the proceeds from the raffle draw at their game vs us to our players/staff hardship fun. Cheers guys, the thought, and money, will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Semi-skimmed Silk]

Big thanks to FGR who have offered to donate the proceeds from the raffle draw at their game vs us to our players/staff hardship fun. Cheers guys, the thought, and money, will be greatly appreciated.

Over £1250 raised, amazing gesture, thanks again.

 

[The Jovial Forester]

Over £1250 raised, amazing gesture, thanks again.

Pleased it was a decent amount though surely just a drop in the bucket. Can't wait to hear some better news from your end.

 

[shoddycollins]

Random willy-waving argument-starting chart recently posted in Plymouth's forum (but not from there originally). If we were in the summer break this would get its own thread but I just thought I'd leave it here.

Must have been a Mansfield fan, thinking the Stags belong on the same level as CURRENT PREMIER LEAGUE TEAM Bournemouth and well established top end Championship teams like Reading and QPR. In fact looks like Mansfield were the first team that came to mind when they started to think, who goes in the level beneath the likes of Watford and Southampton.

Also, the difference between tiny and tinpot just seems to be that tinpot teams are tiny teams that the creator doesn't like.

 

[Trapdoor]

What a bag of shite. Plymouth are small at best. L2 is their natural level.

 

[valefan16]

According to that Mansfield are one of the biggest clubs in L2 on a par with QPR and Rotherham! Vale similar to Accrington, Morecambe and Macc despite around 3-4 times the support

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

I hate those tier things. Every club in the division this season really doesn't look out of place at this level at all with the exception of the bankrolled hobby clubs who obviously wouldn't be here without such riches.

 

[PaulHaddock]

Horrendous. So much wrong with that.

 

[Camborne Gills]

Wouldn't have Arsenal or Man Utd in elite any more. Man City should be in there, Bristol Rovers and City should swap over. Lincoln, Port Vale and Crewe should move up a tier as well.

 

[The Jovial Forester]

Got us right, at least.

 

[shoddycollins]

Wouldn't have Arsenal or Man Utd in elite any more. Man City should be in there, Bristol Rovers and City should swap over. Lincoln, Port Vale and Crewe should move up a tier as well.

Think the main problem with it is that it can't make its mind up whether the tiers are based on historic success, current level, fan base or wealth.

For example Man City not considered elite presumably because their success has only come with recent investment, yet Spurs are in elite because recent league finishes suggest they are.

Bournemouth meanwhile are still at a low level despite spending several seasons in the Premier league while Blackpool and Hull are in the level above presumably justified by their recent Premier league spells and even Millwall who have done fuck all for decades besides an fa cup final appearance and are only thought of as a big club because people tend to assign them some kind of spiritual ownership of the entire East end of London

 

[Camborne Gills]

What a bag of shite. Plymouth are small at best. L2 is their natural level.

You are not serious are you?

 

[Camborne Gills]

Think the main problem with it is that it can't make its mind up whether the tiers are based on historic success, current level, fan base or wealth.

For example Man City not considered elite presumably because their success has only come with recent investment, yet Spurs are in elite because recent league finishes suggest they are.

Bournemouth meanwhile are still at a low level despite spending several seasons in the Premier league while Blackpool and Hull are in the level above presumably justified by their recent Premier league spells and even Millwall who have done fuck all for decades besides an fa cup final appearance and are only thought of as a big club because people tend to assign them some kind of spiritual ownership of the entire East end of London

I realise it is all subjective, but i wouldn't class any team that has played in the PL as 'small' or even 'tiny' in your case

 

[Agombar stool]

You are not serious are you?

I hope not, but suspect he probably is. Don't forget he's an Exeter fan so clearly red and white bias is shining through.

Plymouth are clearly a bigger club than League 2, that's almost unarguable.

 

[Vanni]

Forget about Mansfield. I'd be insulted if I was a Vale fan seeing my club below Rochdale, Burton, Newport, Col U and Scunny.

and Lincoln in the same tier as Morecambe, Macc, Stanley and Stevenage. Hahahahaha.

 

[Agombar stool]

Don't forget folks, opinions are like arseholes. These kind of discussions don't really have a right or wrong answer to them.

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

I hope not, but suspect he probably is. Don't forget he's an Exeter fan so clearly red and white bias is shining through.

Plymouth are clearly a bigger club than League 2, that's almost unarguable.

12 seasons in League Two since 1995 though. Certainly one of the divisions bigger clubs I agree, but also not out of place in this division at all.

To put that into context, out of the current division's teams, only Carlisle, Exeter, Morecambe, Northampton, Leyton Orient and Cambridge have spent longer at this level than Plymouth have in the last 25 years.