Only Team in Devon v Clown College Youth

[Pilgrim Meister]

These are the type of games where we may struggle. We could underestimate Orient and lose 1-0 or go on a rampage and win 5-0

 

[The Terminator]

If we win this I will eat my own excrement.

 

[LeonTheGreen]

I think we'll win. 2-0. Kennedy and Sarcevic.

 

[Boletus Edulis]

This has banana skin written all over it. This is the sort of fixture we lost year. I am much more confident this season, but all the same.

i agree with PM either a close victory to Orient or we'll walk away with it. In many ways this is more of a test of whether we are the real deal than Exeter which as a derby is always a one-off. We should win this, but will we?

Its half term, so taking my boys to their first midweek league fixture. If it is anything like yesterday it will be taters, so bring your thermals.

 

[E10rifle]

This match is a forgone conclusion.

Plymouth will get four and we'll soon be gone (from the League).

 

[Boletus Edulis]

This match is a forgone conclusion.

Plymouth will get four and we'll soon be gone (from the League).

I, and I suspect a lot of our fans, disagree with you. I am actually more nervous about this game than I was yesterday's.

The best games I have seen us play this year at home have been against opponents looking to go for it and be positive. I cannot believe that this will, or should, be your style. You will want us to do all the work and then nick one against the run of play. Yes if we play like the team yesterday you will struggle, but we are not playing the same type of opponents as yesterday. That said I am excited at the potential of this team - Carey now seems to have people who can take the load off him.

Where do you see your strengths and weaknesses to be?

 

[Pilgrim Meister]

This match is a forgone conclusion.

Plymouth will get four and we'll soon be gone (from the League).

If Orient park the bus and put 10 men behind the ball it will be difficult for us

 

[Boletus Edulis]

If Orient park the bus and put 10 men behind the ball it will be difficult for us

And there is the rub. We have proved very good on the counter, but can we break down a determined defense?

 

[The Terminator]

I, and I suspect a lot of our fans, disagree with you. I am actually more nervous about this game than I was yesterday's.

The best games I have seen us play this year at home have been against opponents looking to go for it and be positive. I cannot believe that this will, or should, be your style. You will want us to do all the work and then nick one against the run of play. Yes if we play like the team yesterday you will struggle, but we are not playing the same type of opponents as yesterday. That said I am excited at the potential of this team - Carey now seems to have people who can take the load off him.

Where do you see your strengths and weaknesses to be?

Strengths?! Gavin Massey and thats about it.

Weaknesses - Everything else. The main weakness being our c*** of an owner.

Webb has got the team playing good football for this level, he has managed to forge some sort of a team spirit amongst our team. We're playing the ball on the floor and getting in behind teams with our wingers Semedo and Massey. The problem is our strike force is poor, Massey is a natural winger and Semedo's decision making is not good enough. We do have Liam Kelly back which is a big bonus, he's not a League Two central midfielder.

We also have a very young side, our right back is only 17 years old and our keeper is only 19. Our strikeforce last Tuesday against Morecambe consisted of two players from our youth team - One is 17, the other 20. We don't punish teams for their mistakes.

We will probably stick with the 4-5-1 from Saturday, we will either battle hard and lose 2-0 or get battered 4 or 5-0.

I am looking forward to my 3rd straight season of a Tuesday night in Plymouth on Valentines Day

 

[Boletus Edulis]

Strengths?! Gavin Massey and thats about it.

Weaknesses - Everything else. The main weakness being our c*** of an owner.

Webb has got the team playing good football for this level, he has managed to forge some sort of a team spirit amongst our team. We're playing the ball on the floor and getting in behind teams with our wingers Semedo and Massey. The problem is our strike force is poor, Massey is a natural winger and Semedo's decision making is not good enough. We do have Liam Kelly back which is a big bonus, he's not a League Two central midfielder.

We also have a very young side, our right back is only 17 years old and our keeper is only 19. Our strikeforce last Tuesday against Morecambe consisted of two players from our youth team - One is 17, the other 20. We don't punish teams for their mistakes.

We will probably stick with the 4-5-1 from Saturday, we will either battle hard and lose 2-0 or get battered 4 or 5-0.

I am looking forward to my 3rd straight season of a Tuesday night in Plymouth on Valentines Day

Your last paragraph made I laugh. My wife seemed all too happy for me to take the kids out!

Thanks for the insight, it is good to understand how the oppo work.

Your seventeen year old could be in for a tough time with Kennedy. Colin definately came up trumps when he lent him to us.

Do you stay overnight or go back to the big smoke straight after the game?

 

[The Terminator]

Your last paragraph made I laugh. My wife seemed all too happy for me to take the kids out!

Thanks for the insight, it is good to understand how the oppo work.

Your seventeen year old could be in for a tough time with Kennedy. Colin definately came up trumps when he lent him to us.

Do you stay overnight or go back to the big smoke straight after the game?

Stay overnight. The League Cup game in 2014 which we won on penalties cost me and my mate £80 (split between £160) due to that fireworks festival you seem to have. The Jury Inn receptionists seemed in shock someone was there to Watch Plymouth Argyle...........!

 

[Boletus Edulis]

Stay overnight. The League Cup game in 2014 which we won on penalties cost me and my mate £80 (split between £160) due to that fireworks festival you seem to have. The Jury Inn receptionists seemed in shock someone was there to Watch Plymouth Argyle...........!

The fireworks is in August!
There is a premier inn about five minutes away from Jury's that is probably cheaper, and near the Barbican.

Did your players stay in south west after yesterday, or will they be coming down from Londinium?

 

[E10rifle]

If Orient park the bus and put 10 men behind the ball it will be difficult for us

We won't.

And there is the rub. We have proved very good on the counter, but can we break down a determined defense?

We don't have a determined defence.

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

Where do you see your strengths and weaknesses to be?

Strengths: Liam Kelly. Gavin Massey. Fucking up.
Weaknesses: Playing football. Avoiding being in debt. Lack of senior footballers not banned by the chairman.

I mean, the Mansfield game is a perfect example on here. The Mansfield fans were like hmmm, not confident, I dunno; then full time they're like, well, you weren't lying...

 

[Boletus Edulis]

We won't.



We don't have a determined defence.

If you don't park the bus I would suggest that is plain stupid, it plays into our hands if you play: that is precisely what we want as we are a counter attacking team.

However, it is blowing a hooley down here at the moment, that might equalise things a bit, especially with Luke's occasional comedy kicking.

 

[E10rifle]

If you don't park the bus I would suggest that is plain stupid, it plays into our hands if you play: that is precisely what we want as we are a counter attacking team.

However, it is blowing a hooley down here at the moment, that might equalise things a bit, especially with Luke's occasional comedy kicking.

We'll play 4-5-1. It sounds defensive, but with a striker who can't hold the ball up (doesn't matter which one it is, none of them can) a midfield which doesn't track runners properly (especially out wide) and a slow, mistake-riddled defence which enjoys repeatedly hoofing the ball straight to the opposition, it really isn't. It isn't anything. Gavin Massey is quite good, though. So yay.

 

[NolansOrient]

I'm beginning to find that nearly all opposition fans' view regarding playing the Orient are the same.

Before the game it's a big show of non-confidence, about how they fully expect to lose 0-1 to the Orient, and how these are always 'the kinds of games we lose'.

Considering we have just 1 point from 7 games this calendar year, it's becoming rather clear that these are actually the kinds of games that 'you' win.

The habit of underestimating your team seems extremely popular across the 24 League 2 teams from what I have seen, but make no mistake; we are in the drop zone for a reason (well, several reasons).

Orient fans have been shouting on here all season about how bad we really are, and it seems to have gotten lost against the background noise of everyone under-valuing their own side, it what I can only assume is some kind of reverse-jinx attempt.

The point is, we really, truly are that bad. Not for lack of trying, but just genuine, unadulterated lack of quality.

So sorry, Plymouth fans, if I take your calls of nervousness, and banana skin claims with more than a pinch of salt - but this is a home win. Simple as that.

Plymouth 3 - 0 Orient Youth.

 

[Boletus Edulis]

I'm beginning to find that nearly all opposition fans' view regarding playing the Orient are the same.

Before the game it's a big show of non-confidence, about how they fully expect to lose 0-1 to the Orient, and how these are always 'the kinds of games we lose'.

Considering we have just 1 point from 7 games this calendar year, it's becoming rather clear that these are actually the kinds of games that 'you' win.

The habit of underestimating your team seems extremely popular across the 24 League 2 teams from what I have seen, but make no mistake; we are in the drop zone for a reason (well, several reasons).

Orient fans have been shouting on here all season about how bad we really are, and it seems to have gotten lost against the background noise of everyone under-valuing their own side, it what I can only assume is some kind of reverse-jinx attempt.

The point is, we really, truly are that bad. Not for lack of trying, but just genuine, unadulterated lack of quality.

So sorry, Plymouth fans, if I take your calls of nervousness, and banana skin claims with more than a pinch of salt - but this is a home win. Simple as that.

Plymouth 3 - 0 Orient Youth.

I know what you say is logical and rational. But we don't forget Dagenham & Redbridge from last year (and Yeovil much more recently), and where are they now? So we have previous. Yes we should win, and convincingly (we were blooming impressive on Saturday - if that team turns ), but there is that nagging doubt.

 

[Rob_of_the_green]

I've got to admit I watched a fair bit of footage from Exeter vs Orient recently and what really came across is that although Orient arguably had some reasonably useful individuals compared to some of the, I guess, less affluent clubs, they were basically a disorganised shambles (sorry) where no-one seemed to really know their positions and they just didn't look like a 'team' that plays or defends cohesively and that just doesn't lend itself to success at any level in football.

I think Adams has always had us playing collectively really well and perhaps overachieving at times even without the strongest/best players, but now I think we've got both a team spirit and some serious quality beyond Carey in abundance throughout, which I'm afraid makes me far too confident coming into this.

 

[Green 75]

Exactly the sort of game that we have form for cocking up in.

 

[The Terminator]

The fireworks is in August!
There is a premier inn about five minutes away from Jury's that is probably cheaper, and near the Barbican.

Did your players stay in south west after yesterday, or will they be coming down from Londinium?

The thing is, that £160 was the only one in town left I could find when I got round to booking it. I was in Brazil for the World Cup when the draw was made, so had to organise the trip about ten days later after I flew home - The Jury Inn was literally the ONLY room left in the town centre.

I'd imagine our team came back and went back down today.

I hope Mezeague plays at CB, but we all know if will be Hunt and Parkes. Not a fan of Hunt at CB myself, he isn't the quickest either. Much steadier at full back.

We'll go 4-5-1 again, but I'd rather play 17 year old Dalby instead of the hopeless Liburd up front, at least Dalby has some future with us. Paul McCallum I don't think is fit.

 

[ProfessorGreen]

Thread title is a bit harsh. What about Torquay?!

2-0 Argyle.

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

Thread title is a bit harsh. What about Torquay?!

2-0 Argyle.

They have the munchies.

 

[pafc_sam]

I'm really confident for this game and I think we will win 4-1.

Although that usually means we will play disastrously and lose 1-0 to a really scrappy goal.

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

Dat line up.

 

[Pilgrim Meister]

GOAL: Argyle 1-0 Orient

Sarcevic '10

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

Thanks.

 

[Pilgrim Meister]

GOAL: Argyle 1-1 Orient

Massey '43

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

*Massey

 

[Pilgrim Meister]

Two of our players off injured. Orient's tactics of knocking chunks out of our players when the ref isn't looking forcing two early Argyle substitutions is working.