The build up to the Rotherham United v Plymouth Argyle

Grovehill wrote:

Tgwu wrote:

The build up continual to Saturday game difference opinion rages though the ATD  fans base.

Here Rotherham manager views

Warne on Plymouth Argyle…

“They are really well coached. They have an attacking system and create plenty of chances. We’ve watched a few of their pre-season games and they are very comfortable on the ball, so I’m expecting them to have plenty of possession.

“Like always, we’ve just got to turn up and be at our very best and If we are I’m confident we can give anyone a game.

“We want to give ourselves a right chance to win, it would be great to start off at home with a good performance which hopefully brings three points.

“It will be a tough game, they’ll be right up for it as well, let’s hope we come out on top.”

What does anyone expect the opposition manager to say?

"Well they got a few heavy beatings last season and some of their signings leave a bit to be desired IMO. If they keep giving the ball away at the back like they used to, we could nick a couple of soft goals and with their lightweight attack, I'd be disappointed if they score against us"

The last paragraph

Elias wrote:

Grovehill wrote:

Tgwu wrote:

The build up continual to Saturday game difference opinion rages though the ATD  fans base.

Here Rotherham manager views

Warne on Plymouth Argyle…

“They are really well coached. They have an attacking system and create plenty of chances. We’ve watched a few of their pre-season games and they are very comfortable on the ball, so I’m expecting them to have plenty of possession.

“Like always, we’ve just got to turn up and be at our very best and If we are I’m confident we can give anyone a game.

“We want to give ourselves a right chance to win, it would be great to start off at home with a good performance which hopefully brings three points.

“It will be a tough game, they’ll be right up for it as well, let’s hope we come out on top.”

What does anyone expect the opposition manager to say?

"Well they got a few heavy beatings last season and some of their signings leave a bit to be desired IMO. If they keep giving the ball away at the back like they used to, we could nick a couple of soft goals and with their lightweight attack, I'd be disappointed if they score against us"

The last paragraph

And yet we play as if we got creative flair through out the team and a prolific strike force to feed off it to make up for having a poor defence out score the other team.... Obviously this isnt the case and teams know how we are going to play each and every week cause we dont do anything different.

I don't think we need a new defensive coach, it's Lowes team, Lowes tactics and Lowes lack of goal scorers signed. Go figure.

Oh well on to the next game.

Earwegoagain wrote:

I don't think we need a new defensive coach, it's Lowes team, Lowes tactics and Lowes lack of goal scorers signed. Go figure.

i agree with that but as he isnt going anywhere anytime soon due to his contract extension making it pricey to fire him and his crew and i truly cant see another club making a move for him atm due to our fortunes a defensive coach is probably the only thing we can do on the cheap and make a difference.

Hallett has probably weighed up the costs of relegation or sacking Lowe and decided relegation is the least costly option. By that decision Hallett is condemning Argo to possibly many years in the basement as from 22/23.

First-half goals from Freddie Ladapo, against his former club, and Ben Wiles set Rotherham on their way to a fairly routine three points.
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Freathy wrote:

Hallett has probably weighed up the costs of relegation or sacking Lowe and decided relegation is the least costly option.  By that decision Hallett is condemning Argo to possibly many years in the basement as from 22/23.

I didn't really need to wait for Youtube highlights but perhaps before the next game Lowe can inform Cooper that he doesn't need permission to move
Utterly static for their second. Go watch.

Same as always....

Second goal comes about because LWB is caught out of position. Argyle have conceded numerous goals like this so I assume every team we play knows this is a weakness they can exploit

Time for Lowe to be brave if he wants to keep his job we have been on a massive losing streak since christmas, nows the time for the new keeper to be given a run.

harvetheslayer wrote:

Freathy wrote:

Hallett has probably weighed up the costs of relegation or sacking Lowe and decided relegation is the least costly option.  By that decision Hallett is condemning Argo to possibly many years in the basement as from 22/23.

I didn't really need to wait for Youtube highlights but perhaps before the next game Lowe can inform Cooper that he doesn't need permission to move
Utterly static for their second. Go watch.

Same as always....

There's predictable, another season of this fixated nonsense on the way. Anyone with a smidgen of knowledge about football or wasn't totally obsessive about trying to "prove" that an original judgement was right could see that there was absolutely no point in diving for a bullet shot from 8 yards which fizzed into the opposite top corner about half a second after it was struck. Why don't you try thinking about why a Rotherham player got behind a non covering Argyle defence without difficulty to make the cross in the first place and then why the scorer was in acres of room at the far post, may prove to be a far more relevant way of analysing defensive deficiencies.

Awaits reply with bated breath.

Maybe Lowe should have gone boating with Hallett?

on the upside, I like the away kit

do you think Ryan could spare us the bullshit for one minute and look at himself and how hes setting the team up.

What annoys me is, yes we have a lot of the ball but only cause its
cooper to Edwards to camara, back to edwards , back to the back 3 then back to cooper.

Hardly attacking is it

Jethro wrote:

What annoys me is, yes we have a lot of the ball but only cause its
cooper to Edwards to camara, back to edwards , back to the back 3 then back to cooper.

Hardly attacking is it

Last game I went to was Macclesfield away, are we still doing this????? Jesus

Jethro wrote:

What annoys me is, yes we have a lot of the ball but only cause its
cooper to Edwards to camara, back to edwards , back to the back 3 then back to cooper.

Hardly attacking is it

nope its trying to play a high pressing possession based game despite it not working and still dont have the players to play it.

Angry wrote:

Jethro wrote:

What annoys me is, yes we have a lot of the ball but only cause its
cooper to Edwards to camara, back to edwards , back to the back 3 then back to cooper.

Hardly attacking is it

nope its trying to play a high pressing possession based game despite it not working and still dont have the players to play it.

Tbh I wouldn't care if we just booted it forward from a goal kick and at least tried to score that way.


but that looks unlikely Jephcott looks slow, uninterested like those figures of 2 million etc have gone to his head.
We should have taken the money.
He's a one season wonder.

Jephcott is our only hope. He could save our season if he doesn't start firing I fear the worst. Hopefully we won't be so outclassed by the lesser teams but there are some very well funded teams in this league who like Rotherham are going to be very hard work. Never mind the CCC we need a much bigger budget to compete in League 1 these days.

Rotherham certainly targeted the Argyle Wing back positions as a weakness

Difficult to see much from the highlights, but certainly looked very similar to last season, lots of possession, getting into good areas but no end product, scrappy first goal, and a blast for the second, neither of which could be blamed on Cooper, but worryingly both came from crosses into the box.

Early days and all that, but we really need a striker. Danny Hilton being mentioned in despatches but don't know how accurate that may be.

Piss poor defending for the corner and first goal, missed the cross, end of, whilst not a fan of Cooper no way was he to blame for either, only silver lining is that we could have lost by five goals.