Plymouth Match Thread

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Don't know about Dixon but WTF was Berret? (no.7) doing just stood there and let him waltz into the box ffs he should have at least made a challenge even a foul from outside the box at that angle they would have to do something special to score.

No.7 to blame all day long for me.  

Quoted from TAGG

Im to old to be in the FIFA generation.
Our left side is as bad as we have had in the last 10 seasons.
Dixon is a bad defender and hopeless going forward.
Woolford has a good football brain but not the body to go with it thats why I call him the slug.
These two get in the side because they drop into the manager negative footballing ethos.
Im not scapegoating them its just that they are not good enough, we seem to be getting hammed defensively and have no threat offensively down that side.

Whilst I agree with the comments about our left side, you aren't going to win many games if you fail to score on such a regular basis. When you look at Slade's 5 attacking signings (Hooper, Matt, DJ, Dembele and Cardwell), the latter three have not played in the league before coming here and the other 2 have got a scoring record of approximately 1 goal in every 5 games. I'm not saying we should break the bank but it's no good making a million quid and then losing it again because no-one wants to watch 'Grimsby nil' every week.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Whilst I agree with the comments about our left side, you aren't going to win many games if you fail to score on such a regular basis. When you look at Slade's 5 attacking signings (Hooper, Matt, DJ, Dembele and Cardwell), the latter three have not played in the league before coming here and the other 2 have got a scoring record of approximately 1 goal in every 5 games. I'm not saying we should break the bank but it's no good making a million quid and then losing it again because no-one wants to watch 'Grimsby nil' every week.

Its like im always saying on here that if the front men dont get any service or support the strikers will never never have a chance to prove themselves.
As for not playing before Dembelis doing okay👍

Quoted from TAGG

Its like im always saying on here that if the front men dont get any service or support the strikers will never never have a chance to prove themselves.
As for not playing before Dembelis doing okay👍

I know Dembele is doing OK but how much better would he be doing with a decent striker who moves into threatening areas to play with?

Quoted from TAGG

Im to old to be in the FIFA generation.
Our left side is as bad as we have had in the last 10 seasons.
Dixon is a bad defender and hopeless going forward.
Woolford has a good football brain but not the body to go with it thats why I call him the slug.
These two get in the side because they drop into the manager negative footballing ethos.
Im not scapegoating them its just that they are not good enough, we seem to be getting hammed defensively and have no threat offensively down that side.

Do we? 3 goals conceded in the last 6 league games and they were in away victories.

Not scoring is the problem but somehow that seems to be Dixon's fault. He's not nearly as bad as people are claiming.

Quoted from ginnywings

Do we? 3 goals conceded in the last 6 league games and they were in away victories.

Not scoring is the problem but somehow that seems to be Dixon's fault. He's not nearly as bad as people are claiming.

Problem is that he's not Danny Andrew.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Problem is that he's not Danny Andrew.

'Tis true, but i seem to recall Andrew got better as the season wore on, after he had been out of the game for a while.

If we got the ball down and worked harder at moving into space to receive it I reckon that most of our players would look better.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

If we got the ball down and worked harder at moving into space to receive it I reckon that most of our players would look better.

Very true - it's hard to make passes to players who are marked and don't try to lose their markers.

Quoted from Civvy at last

Yup. Purely Grimsby. No other player at any other team has had stick.  Fans of every other team in the country are always 100% behind all their players and management whatever happens !!


Whether or not the criticism is justified (personally I think he is the weak link) is one thing.  But calling it a ‘Grimsby’ or a ‘fishy’ trait is total bollox.  It happens at nearly every team worldwide.

That's a bit like saying celebrating Christmas isn't a British tradition because they do it worldwide.

I don't know if fans of other clubs do it (I tend not to be that interested) but we do have a habit of over-criticising one individual at a time. Bit of a mob mentality.