Turnips v Vegetables

Will there be a massive reaction to the Norwich game from Wayne and the boys in front of a rabidly excited 3200 Janners?

Nah

2-0

After the Norwich tonking your hope there be some kind of reaction my heart says 1-1 ..but my head says 2-0 Bristol
The away nightmare to continue unfortunately

More of the same. We'll start terribly conceding within the first 5 mins and it will go downhill rapidly from there. Away sell-out today for the GA apparently. There must be 3000 plus Janners who have no sense of embarrassment whatsoever.

Now Whittaker out with a long term injury. Joke club with a joke set up.

I would like to think Wazzer could inspire them a wee bit, FFS!

Brizzle 2 Argyle 1

Well this can't go on, never known consistent hammerings like this even under the dark days of Fletcher. Tried to support Rooney as much as possible and for sure managing Argyle in this division is no sinecure especially with a lot of injuries but feck me, this is atrocious. Some of the pre season signings are utterly out of their depth-can you imagine Pulis or Holloway tolerating people like Paulsson, Ogbeta etc in their team? Don't know if there is a manager out there [Rowett?] who can organise the players in the squad into some sort of hard to beat outfit and then strengthen sufficiently in January to keep the club up but something has to change and not only in the managerial seat. Two duff managerial appointments in a row and, for the most part, appalling signings would suggest that something is seriously amiss in the much vaunted recruitment methods-time for an honest and deep rooted reappraisal to be undertaken.

Paul Cook has been at Sid James Park today managing Chesterfield.

Can someone please stop him leaving Devon until he's offered the Argyle job?

Yep, never known it as bad as this before. Being totally outplayed and hammered every game. Player after player going down with long term injuries. Hallett, Dewsnip and Rooney all equally culpable for this disastrous season. Unfortunately, hallett won't be making way for a proper owner anytime soon but something has to change and fast. So would love to see Rooney and Dewsnip shown the door tonight and someone else, anyone else, brought in. What's Stephen Schumacher up to these days?

I think everyone including Rooney is starting to accept he's not up to the job, but I can't see SH sacking him as it would mean admitting it was a huge mistake to appoint him in the first place.

Weirdly, it may be events on the other side of the world that decide if/when Rooney decides to resign as I don't think he will go without discussing it with Colleen first.

Hopefully he will resign at some point and SH and Dewsnip will have learnt their lesson and appoint an experienced manager who's been around the block a few times.

I can remember when Dave Smith joined-he had been out of management for over a year-he knew a couple of good players who he could sign on the cheap (Matthewa & Summerfield) and not only got us out of the Third Division (as it was then) but had us in with a shout in the top half of the second Division /Championship

Grovehill wrote:

I think everyone including Rooney is starting to accept he's not up to the job, but I can't see SH sacking him as it would mean admitting it was a huge mistake to appoint him in the first place.

Weirdly, it may be events on the other side of the world that decide if/when Rooney decides to resign as I don't think he will go without discussing it with Colleen first.

Hopefully he will resign at some point and SH and Dewsnip will have learnt their lesson and appoint an experienced manager who's been around the block a few times.

I can remember when Dave Smith joined-he had been out of management for over a year-he knew a couple of good players who he could sign on the cheap (Matthewa & Summerfield) and not only got us out of the Third Division (as it was then) but had us in with a shout in the top half of the second Division /Championship

Different times though, the gap between the haves and have nots in the division has grown a lot since then. In ground size and gates Argyle could compete reasonably with all but the top half dozen clubs and parachute payments and staggering levels of debt were not an issue. Even then Smithy got pissed off because the board didn't back him enough in the season when Argyle nearly reached the play offs and went back to jockoland. If Rooney does go then Rowett has to be favourite for me but that may not fit in with the attacking football at all costs mantra. Difficult times indeed.

Mark Robbins is not doing much at the moment

Went yesterday, don't want to talk about it.

If anything is happening on the manager front it has to happen now. No good sacking a manager just as the transfer window opens. Need someone in and looking at new players way before 1 January. Seems hallett prefers to do a disappearing act though.

Hallett out
Rooney out
Dewsnip out