Just a quick yes or no answer on whether Argyle will finish in the Play-Off places.

Fail to win today and its unlikely

Win the game in hand yes, lose or draw then I think no.

No. The Taylor injury will put paid to our chances.

Just a quick yes or no but who's going to Wembley if Taylor's out for the final?

Most definitely not.

Changing my vote to no after today...and examining the rest of Scunny’s run-in. Can see Charlton winning their last two for 74 and Scunny can afford to lose to us but still get 73 by winning the other two. Would leave us needing 10 from 12 in the last 4.

This is no banana republic inny, once your vote is cast the ballot box is a stranger to you.

Les Miserable wrote:

This is no banana republic inny, once your vote is cast the ballot box is a stranger to you.

Ha, ha - OK, i’ll stick with yes then....though I note more people than not spoilt their ballot papers by failing to provide a ‘yes/no’ answer...

Shit day for Devon football, our playoff chance taken a big blow, Gulls relegated, Shitty denting their chances of the automatics.

Innocent Egbunike wrote:

Les Miserable wrote:

This is no banana republic inny, once your vote is cast the ballot box is a stranger to you.

Ha, ha - OK, i’ll stick with yes then....though I note more people than not spoilt their ballot papers by failing to provide a ‘yes/no’ answer...

It's not a spoilt paper. "None of the above", AWOL or ambivalence is a valid vote as a personal choice.
I'm on record saying it's a win win situation. In other words real change at the control room is what will get my juices flowing.

beesrus wrote:

Innocent Egbunike wrote:

Les Miserable wrote:

This is no banana republic inny, once your vote is cast the ballot box is a stranger to you.

Ha, ha - OK, i’ll stick with yes then....though I note more people than not spoilt their ballot papers by failing to provide a ‘yes/no’ answer...

It's not a spoilt paper. "None of the above", AWOL or ambivalence is a valid vote as a personal choice.
I'm on record saying it's a win win situation. In other words real change at the control room is what will get my juices flowing.

But the question was ‘will Argyle make the play-offs - yes/no?’ Bees. Like an election, it’s a binary choice (well, not quite with more than 2 candidates but you get the point). If you didn’t tick one of the boxes, the vote doesn’t count.

no taylor no party

I know my boolean logic. Once you travel down a few binary gates, you soon end up with a valid third way or tenth choice, and that counts in the brave new AI world.
Ten years ahead of my time. Martin Peters.

I’m not questioning your right to your opinion - it may well be correct - but the fact remains it doesn’t count in the narrow frame of a yes-no question, to which there are only 2 valid answers.

It may be a terrible question (though I thought a decent attempt at a straw poll) but so was the in/out debacle.

I guess we agree to disagree.

I guess so.
So who thinks Taylor will miss Tuesday's game at Rochdale ?  
I do.

No
Lose at resurgent Rochdale without Taylor,
Draw at home against a decent Rotherham team even with Taylor back,
Lose at Scunthorpe who want it more in the last play-off place decider,
Lose at Gillingham because we have given up and half the team are leaving the club tomorrow anyway

beesrus wrote:

I guess so.
So who thinks Taylor will miss Tuesday's game at Rochdale ?  
I do.

He might do but it won’t be for the reasons that you think he will.

There was supposed to be a smiley there, btw

I thought you were doing a Rickler for a moment.
I reckon Taylor will be out on Tuesday as well. His worries of doing further damage aren't going to improve much over a couple of days, I would have thought. Good to see an employee standing up for himself. I seem to recall reuben reid had a similar gripe about being egged on to play by management when he shouldn't have done. For his troubles, he then got what was apparently a paltry new contract offer and ended up unemployed. Football is still in the dark ages sometimes when push comes to shove.
Looking like the austere January is reaping it's rewards.

beesrus wrote:

I thought you were doing a Rickler for a moment.

He was... Once again someone making you look like the idiot you are.

Nice day for trolling, eh Beezy?

" I seem to recall reuben reid had a similar gripe about being egged on to play by management when he shouldn't have done. For his troubles, he then got what was apparently a paltry new contract offer and ended up unemployed. Football is still in the dark ages sometimes when push comes to shove."

Oh perleese, football is just another form of self employed work, if it's manual work then you get what you can for as long as the body stands up to it. When the body has had enough you look for another job that's less taxing, your previous employers and wage players look for people with fitness. At least footballers are at the top of the pile as for as earners are concerned and they have the chance to say no or take a chance on a niggle and gain a better contract, life's a gamble. Its a tough world out there Bees I talk as a an ageing lifelong self employed fella.

Well, I've also run my own businesses most of my life in different areas of work, as have all my siblings and generations of my family. So, I think we know a thing or two about the judgement calls involved. In fact, I would suggest, with no sick pay etc, it's even more imperative the worker takes charge of his/her own safety.
I take issue with you, Earwig. Football is a contract of employment, and comes under the same laws of human care as any other "job" Far too many "jobs" are going down this deregulated route these days. it's a disgrace.
Did you see that guy who died recently in Devon, just about "burried alive" working for some UKIP nightmare who wouldn't pay for shoring up the trench he was working in ?
If you're the sort that take that sort of risk, that's up to you. In my family, we take care of ourselves, if the customers weren't up for it, they could go whistle. All about who you mix with, your culture, and what sort of line of work you're in.

beesrus wrote:

Well, I've also run my own businesses most of my life in different areas of work, as have all my siblings and generations of my family. So, I think we know a thing or two about the judgement calls involved. In fact, I would suggest, with no sick pay etc, it's even more imperative the worker takes charge of his/her own safety.
I take issue with you, Earwig. Football is a contract of employment, and comes under the same laws of human care as any other "job" Far too many "jobs" are going down this deregulated route these days. it's a disgrace.
Did you see that guy who died recently in Devon, just about "burried alive" working for some UKIP nightmare who wouldn't pay for shoring up the trench he was working in ?
If you're the sort that take that sort of risk, that's up to you. In my family, we take care of ourselves, if the customers weren't up for it, they could go whistle. All about who you mix with, your culture, and what sort of line of work you're in.

Zackly what I was saying. If you can't take care of yourself go work for the man innit.

beesrus wrote:

I know my boolean logic. Once you travel down a few binary gates, you soon end up with a valid third way or tenth choice, and that counts in the brave new AI world.
Ten years ahead of my time. Martin Peters.

Ah, boolean logic. Terminology I've not used or heard of since my giddy days of writing algorithms for automatic CMOS KLA wafer probers.

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This "promotion push" was never planned, supported or invested in by Brent and his cronies or by a large prercentage of the diehard fanbase. At the start of the season it was all about the 'C' word - consolidation.
It was pushed by the board about consolidating in L1 and having stability, the daily rag pushed the whole idea of just staying in L1, fans were talking about "just staying in the league".
Whereas a few of us who weren't held back by the 'punching above are weight' delusion could see on the back of a play off final, then automatic promotion that with ambition from the board and belief from the fans and financial INVESTMENT in the playing squad Argo could have definitely had a real chance of automatic promotion again this season.
So if we don't make it into the playoffs (unlikely) then people shouldn't be too disappointed because it was never planned for or believed in, in the first place.
But hey ho, if Argo are still in L1 just weight for the blame on Adams and the players from the braindeads.
This season will have been a massive opportunity lost if Argo don't go up.