[Archived] Plymouth Away - 3rd February 2018

[Husky]

On the evidence of that game we're back to the early season form and sack Mowbray phase. Spineless!

[Bigdoggsteel]

Ouch,that shrewsbury result is a hammer blow. Oh well,we go again. Lots of prayers to come back in

Mowbray got it wrong today. His set up gave plymouth the initiative 

[LewisF]

Just now, bluefred said:

Shrews winning 2-1 we’re down to third 

and they’ve got a game in hand! No doubt we’ll be 5 points behind them after that game gets played

[davulsukur]

Oh, sweet dark mother, once again I suckle at your losing teat. 

[bluefred]

Charlton loseing now

[dallydally]

Shrewsbury have game in hand too so could be 5 points ahead of Rovers. ??

[DE.]

Just now, Roboftherovers82 said:

typical shrewsbury  outplayed most their games they always seem to find a winner rovers are a joke

They are just very good defensively. Rarely concede more than one goal. We make life much harder for ourselves by being so weak at the back. Mowbray should be asked directly by reporters why Shrewsbury and Wigan are so much better at defending than us, but as Gavlar said, not holding my breath on that. 

[Pedro]

Ffs

[K-Hod]

So, if Shrewsbury win their game in hand on us, they’re 5 points ahead again.

Back to square one again. Fantastic. 

We’ve out Roversed ourselves!

[Waggy76]

Just now, dallydally said:

Shrewsbury have game in hand too so could be 5 points ahead of Rovers. ??

Games in hand are only any good if they are won !!!

Long way to go !

[Tugay's Right Foot]

Just now, LDRover said:

A couple of predictions - Parson saying Home Park has always been a bogey ground and chaddy saying it's not Mowbray's fault if the players show no effort.

It’s the ground that zaps the energy off the players and causes TM’s brains to be left behind at Ewood

[G Somerset Rover]

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

Ouch,that shrewsbury result is a hammer blow. Oh well,we go again. Lots of prayers to come back in

Mowbray got it wrong today. His set up gave plymouth the initiative 

He got it wrong all bloody day. He’s deserved to be awarded an off day, but he needs dragging over the coals for those subs. They didn’t give us a chance of getting back into it.

[LewisF]

It’s results like conceding late at Oldham, surrendering the lead twice to both Scunthorpe and Fleetwood at home, conceding late at Rotherham that have gotten us into this position. Fair enough every team will have their bad days but ours are far too many for an automatic promotion hopeful

[USABlue]

Shrews go ahead late, winning mentality not overly cautious that's how you get it done.

[Tugay's Right Foot]

Just now, K-Hod said:

So, if Shrewsbury win their game in hand on us, they’re 5 points ahead again.

Back to square one again. Fantastic. 

We’ve out Roversed ourselves!

We certainly don’t make things easy for ourselves ?

[booth]

Well you cocked that one up Mowbray.

[davefarnworth]

Shrewsbury will give us the playoff blues. Happy times ahead with Tinkerman. Hope he knows his best team by then (and his true defenders are back). Not good 

[Tom]

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

Ouch,that shrewsbury result is a hammer blow. Oh well,we go again. Lots of prayers to come back in

Mowbray got it wrong today. His set up gave plymouth the initiative 

We need every one of those prayers and more.

Massively disappointing, we only have ourselves to blame, up to second and then take four points from Northampton, Walsall and Plymouth - abysmal return 

[USABlue]

Just now, K-Hod said:

So, if Shrewsbury win their game in hand on us, they’re 5 points ahead again.

Back to square one again. Fantastic. 

We’ve out Roversed ourselves!

Would square on not be back to 15 points behind?  Don't be surprised if that's where we go.  Bowyeresque.  We touch the top 2 and think the jobs done.

[Roboftherovers82]

we get  play offs  at best even then i dnt  fancy  our chances with the defence we got  and tm with  his tactics with the squad we have we are  totally under  performing  look like we soon be back to  5 points at shrewsbury due to all our  massive @#/? ups pissed off is not the word to use 

[Bigdoggsteel]

We could slip right out of it very easily. Need a win next game. 

[GreenRover]

Potentially 5 points of Shrewsbury now. I felt after we got ahead of Shrewsbury on the table that we thought they would fade off. Doesn't look like that. We seem to be struggling to put teams to bed. Defence needs to be sorted. Can't keep clean sheets. Thought we were getting carried away with trying to catch Wigan and presume Shrewsbury would fall away. Forget about winning the league Wigan too good to slip up. We will have to scrap and scratch to get to second. All to do now to get automatic promotion. Disappointing day. No fight in the lads today for some reason. 

[Bigdoggsteel]

Just now, Roboftherovers82 said:

we get  play offs  at best even then i dnt  fancy  our chances with the defence we got  and tm with  his tactics with the squad we have we are  totally under  performing  look like we soon be back to  5 points at shrewsbury due to all our  massive @#/? ups pissed off is not the word to use 

Not a hope we will go up through the play offs. We wouldn't handle the pressure.

[Stuart]

That long diagonal ball from Downing DOES NOT WORK. He needs to stop doing that, pronto.

Samuel just cannot finish or look like finishing.

We are abysmal without Mulgrew. For all the “great” recruitment this season, we have no depth in defence. Sending Wharton out on loan was unbelievably short-sighted and sending Ward out without replacing him is just trying to hide him under the rug - and failing given the Ward-shaped rug space that has been left behind.

At 2-0 down we bring on Evans! That just about sums up Mowbray. I’m starting to think that this team plays well simply because of motivation from the captain and has nothing to do with Mowbray’s tactics! He is too busy trying to keep everyone happy rather than being one-eyed about promotion. And he is overly reliant on a converted midfielder with an injury record. The wheels fell off at the end of last season when we lost Mulgrew and Lenihan. This needs to NOT happen again this season. Against shitter opposition.

[tomphil]

Sadly we've seen todays approach to a game all too often but normally the big players step up to the plate and turn it around and also usually there is a positive reaction to going behind from team and manager, that's why we've been unbeaten for so long. If we approached every game like Shrews or Wigan we'd surely be comfortably second.

Non of that today but the run had to end sometime I suppose so the onus is back on him and them to start positive again so they'll get back on it i'm sure.

Shouldn't have to take something like this though to shake up such an experienced manager. It's not the defeat it was going to happen sooner or later it's the poor manner of it when so much rests on each game !!!