Southamton v Argyle

Team News

Ryan Hardie is raring to go but will have to pass all the necessary return to play concussion protocols to be included in Plymouth Argyle's squad against Southampton at St Mary's Stadium tomorrow.

Mustapha Bundu, He is still very sore, but getting better day by day. He has an outside chance of being in the squad  

Jordan Houghton should be available he missed the 2-2 draw away to Cardiff due to sickness.

Macaulay Gillepshey, who played for the first 70 minutes against Cardiff before being taken off due to cramp.

Dan Scarr, is available for Argyle after serving a three-match suspension

The rest of the squad to pick from

21 Conor Hazard, 3 Macaulay Gillesphey, 5 Julio Pleguezuelo, 7 Matt Butcher, 10 Morgan Whittaker, 11 Callum Wright, 14 Mickel Miller, 17 Lewis Gibson (capt), 20 Adam Randell, 23 Ben Waine, 29 Kaine Kesler-Hayden.
25 Callum Burton (gk), 2 Bali Mumba, 8 Joe Edwards, 18 Finn Azaz, 19 Tyreik Wright, 22 Brendan Galloway, 28 Luke Cundle, 34 Caleb Roberts, 35 Freddie Issaka.

A valiant effort from Argo but Saints just way too good.

Saints 3-0 Argo

Next!

Southamton Manager

Russell Martin: "They'll be disappointed to lose Steven [Schumacher] but they have a group of players that have been together for quite a while and they will rally around, and they are rallying around, each other.

"They work extremely hard, they're very good as we saw earlier on in the season, so it'll be a tough game and we have to make sure we bring the energy and aggression we did in the second half [against Swansea].

"We need to follow that performance up now if we're really serious about what we want to do, we need to back this up. It's going to be good, I'm excited."

The Capacity is 32,384 at St Mary's and the tickets is sold out for home and away supporters.

No point even turning up for this one, uncle si could save himself 10k in travel and hotel bills and plough it into the new wimins powder room down brickfields. Saints 7 sinners 0

Les Miserable wrote:

No point even turning up for this one, uncle si could save himself 10k in travel and hotel bills and plough it into the new wimins powder room down brickfields. Saints 7 sinners 0

Generously optimistic. Club record defeat tonight, Dewsnip picks up towel from physio and throws it onto the pitch after 80 minutes to save further punishment.


Martins Maulers 10 Nances Nonentities 0

Argyle have made five changes to their side as they meet third-placed Southampton this evening, in a game that kicks off at 6pm.

Argyle:

21 Conor Hazard, 2 Bali Mumba, 4 Jordan Houghton, 5 Julio Pleguezuelo, 8 Joe Edwards (capt), 10 Morgan Whittaker, 17 Lewis Gibson, 18 Finn Azaz, 20 Adam Randell, 22 Brendan Galloway, 23 Ben Waine.

Substitutes:

25 Callum Burton (gk), 3 Macaulay Gillesphey, 6 Dan Scarr, 7 Matt Butcher, 9 Ryan Hardie, 11 Callum Wright, 14 Mickel Miller, 15 Mustapha Bundu, 28 Luke Cundle, 29 Kaine Kesler-Hayden.

Bundu 90th minute winner

At least a draw tonight, it’s written in the stars

Saints all over us like a rash!
They have come very close a few times so far.

mouldyoldgoat wrote:

Saints all over us like a rash!

Was going to post the same thing (but with 'cheap suit' rather than 'rash')!

Got get a hold of the game, could be a cricket score if they get one soon.

feck we look like a L2 side away to a prem team in the cup

Are we really THAT crap or are Saints really THAT good?

Saints 82% possession FFS! Must be a Championship record. We don't really belong in this division.

can we all agree now that Ben Waine is not good enough to be a striker in the championship.... Maybe one day he maybe if he hits the gym somewhat and stops falling over when a defender is near him but until then Hardie is fit, Bundu is on the bench we should be starting with one of them now and making it a priority to sign a striker next month.

As for the game we are getting anihilated all over the place by Southampton how are they not in the lead!!!! with we take a point let alone a clean sheet away from St Mary's tonight that would be as good as a win in my eyes and the defenders deserve a new years eve drink or 3 for their efforts.

Angry wrote:

can we all agree now that Ben Waine is not good enough to be a striker in the championship.... Maybe one day he maybe if he hits the gym somewhat and stops falling over when a defender is near him but until then Hardie is fit, Bundu is on the bench we should be starting with one of them now and making it a priority to sign a striker next month.

As for the game we are getting anihilated all over the place by Southampton how are they not in the lead!!!! with we take a point let alone a clean sheet away from St Mary's tonight that would be as good as a win in my eyes and the defenders deserve a new years eve drink or 3 for their efforts.

Agreed. We need a striker in January and Waine needs to go out on loan

Greenskin wrote:

Les Miserable wrote:

No point even turning up for this one, uncle si could save himself 10k in travel and hotel bills and plough it into the new wimins powder room down brickfields. Saints 7 sinners 0

Generously optimistic. Club record defeat tonight, Dewsnip picks up towel from physio and throws it onto the pitch after 80 minutes to save further punishment.


Martins Maulers 10 Nances Nonentities 0

Mook wrote:

feck we look like a L2 side away to a prem team in the cup

Can't disagree with that ... but in reality it is men against boys club wise, didn't they receive close to 200 mill in transfer fees during the summer on top of all their prem money, we truly are punching above our weight against most of these clubs.

0 - 0 H/T.

Sky commentators having a hard on over how good the saints are.

Waine is off Hardie is on

not expecting him to do much better to be fair but i think he would be more useful up front than waine is.

Cannot possibly hold out against an onslaught of this magnitude for another 45.

Fecking officials are crap, no way offside

that was a long time coming unfortunately good goal to be fair... Not sure what that linesman saw but mumba was onside clear as day.

WHAT THE feckin HELL WAS THAT DEFENDING FROM GIBSON!!!!!

add sign a defender to the must sign a striker list for the new manager in january.

oh and drop this 433 IT DOES NOT WORK away from home.


im postitive some janners will say iF mUmBa'S gOaL wAsN't RuLe OfFsIdE we wouldnt be 2-0 nil down and go on to loose this game well even if it did count we would have still lost this game sadly.

That's what we have to expect when playing the 'big' teams.  Tight calls will always go their way.  But this won't affect the result.  Even it was given Saints are still going to win regardless.

Blow up now ref and award the points to Saints no point carrying on with this massacre